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@AardWolfOh, I see where you're going now. I'd say that if they're genuine about their current emotion, they'd still be painted in the relevant color, but she simply won't be able to interact with that color the way she can do so for more duplicitous individuals. So she doesn't get rekt when she walks into a room and everyone just happens to be wearing their heart on their sleeves.


I was worried I wasn't getting the concept across well enough, so I'm glad you got it, and that actually makes sense, I'll keep that in mind. Also finally finished filling this out:



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I'm still working out everything for his backstory and how he met the Lostman (I was thinking that it might happen during the roleplay, not before it), but this is a rough outline for what I have down so far for this character. If there's anything I need to change to fit with the game, I am more than willing to edit it ^^.

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@AardWolf As a general note, the average height of a Japanese woman (full grown adult) is something like 5'2. Emu is well above average, in that case. To confirm, she didn't start working at a convenience store when she was 10, right? Outside of that though, there's a whole buncha stuff I can use there, so that's good. If you could touch up on the run-on sentences you have in the CS, that'd improve readability as well. Also, I'll be making the landlord a character as well, just so you're aware. Dude seems prominent enough to at least be named and all.

Can't wait to start figuring out how to build a reconciliation between Emu and her hot mom. ;3

@AsurasMotherfuckers with their missing dads and their dead moms. Did she ever do any hard drugs, by the way? Or did she distance herself from her group before things got too wild and edgy? Anyways, her life's inoffensive enough that I'm basically fine with it. Can't go without a convenience store in town, after all. When's she gonna see the light and start vaping?

@CanidaeIf you have trouble with getting pictures posted up, just upload the picture to imgur and use the link from there. I know that a buncha sites don't allow for hotlinking and all, so that's probably what the problem is. Drama with the old friends group's always useful though, and its definitely nice that Damien is both a guy AND a relatively social person. Sets up the contrast n all. Anyways, I'll wait till you finish up your backstory before thinking more about it. In regards to the final NPC, it's always fine to come up with enemies rather than family or friends.

And really, for locations, it doesn't need to be like, the top 3 places they frequent the most. I'd be pretty worried if the only place that a socialite punk biker goes to is a park, a street, and the parking lot of a restaurant. Where's his edgeeeeeeee.
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Yeesh, I need to be quicker on the cuff here; someones already nabbed a convenience store and a nice place to view the city... granted, it was him clambering up to the roof of some random apartments without getting caught, but still... at least no one has taken a library yet, that's for sure.

In other news, I'm struggling a bit to figure out who I might have for a third person with relationships. I did want to roll with a student who conditional hangs out with Marc when it benefits him, but I felt like I would of probably made him a bit one dimensional... plus I don't think I could of a proper, tangible personality. Another was a strange, stray Shiba Inu that he decide to show a bit of kindness to and over time, became acquainted with... all while have an impeccable ability to appear in the most bizarre of places at times.

Regardless, I do understand that I can just make an enemy or adversary to him, but I might have the same issue as the prior. Maybe I could brainstorm with you or someone else to help me come up with a tangible idea to get the the last person down before setting Marc in? Also, funny coincidence, namely for Burgers chary since this the guy they listed won't be the only Kurosawa they run into.

If I get this up on time anyways.
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@AsurasMotherfuckers with their missing dads and their dead moms. Did she ever do any hard drugs, by the way? Or did she distance herself from her group before things got too wild and edgy? Anyways, her life's inoffensive enough that I'm basically fine with it. Can't go without a convenience store in town, after all. When's she gonna see the light and start vaping?


She's done a couple, but she can count on one hand how many times. The experience was too upsetting for her to stick with them. Her group during high school had only one or two individuals who were really invested in hard drugs, so the peer pressure to try them were minimal, if nonexistent. She tried them out of curiosity only. She would probably try them again, if the conditions were right.

Mana definitely sees smoking as a mature thing. Vaping would take away the magic to her.
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Also, as much as I hate posting a WIP, might as well throw it up to show what I've got. Will probably help with critiques and anything I might have to change to improve Marc.

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Holy smokes, I just realized that almost everyone has a missing dad, haha. That was unintentional on my part. I can see about thinking of something different in regards to my character's family situation, lol.

And I'll be taking those location and npc suggestions ^^
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Mana definitely sees smoking as a mature thing. Vaping would take away the magic to her.


she requires the all mighty JUUL
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I've always been interested in this, but I wasn't confident that I could fit it into my schedule before now.

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I'll start working on the CS.
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@AsurasTime to turn her into a mutant with twenty fingers per hand then.

@SavoI'm always available for brainstorming. Just busy till late-Thursday/early-Friday because loltermpaper. Anyways, CS seems basically fine so far. As for the whole locations/NPC help stuff...I'll tag @Canidae for this as well.

If your characters are into music, there could be something like a music artist (preferrably independent/self-produced) that they follow, or a live house that they go to concerts in often. A rival on the streets that butts heads or fists with could pan out fairly well too, just someone who doesn't like how they look or formed a grudge with them in a previous incident. With both of them missing fathers, perhaps they've found themselves a father figure in something else, whether it be a teacher, a boss, an older student, or literally just some old, jobless fart who smokes cigarettes and reads the news in a dingy part of town? I get the feeling that literally no one makes their characters flat-out ugly, so maybe they somehow found themselves in a relationship, or a friend with benefits? If punk biker dude does actual biking, surely there's a stretch of the road somewhere that he likes to ride hard down upon? And parkour's a fun hobby that can be pretty social, so maybe there's a parkour gym that Marc goes to?

Outside of that, you could consider stuff like restaurants that they really like to frequent, nightclubs that they sneak into, cram schools that they skip out on, coffeeshops they stop by occasionally for a change of pace, a cemetary that they frequent for spooky reasons, a local shrine they have pleasant memories in, a shopping mall that they do all their shopping in, or some public art piece that speaks to them on some level?

Hell, you could make their third NPC into a virtual idol that they're secretly a fan of, if you want to create some embarrassing relationships that never see the light of day.

@AdmrlStalfos19@Malice@banjoanjo@pr3acher@Cole@Headless I'll be closing sign ups by the end of Sunday. Get your CSes complete by then. I might be increasing the player cap slightly due to higher than expected interest, but I'll see what turns up on Judgment Day.
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I was thinking of some sort of gym, but decided against it due to Burger's chary having one, but now I think I can justify having one, especially to explain certain abilities; I think I'll replace the Tenoroshi Library with what I originally had, Teru Teru Tiger Gym... maybe I could go with changing the name to Teru Tiger Traceur Gym, as alliteration is always fun.

I also could probably give him a father figure, or lump on some daddy issues instead... maybe that could play a role into the way he is as a person.

But I will say the virtual idol thing did give me an idea. Due to the fact that Marc explores town a lot and can cover a lot of ground, maybe he found a forum that ended up talking about myths, folklore, and urban legends, and ended up finding a user that specifically talked about rumors and events going on that were talked about in horrible detail. Probably started out with him trying to research these events, as well as any popular urban myth or rumor surrounding Tenoroshi before discovering this forum, as well as user, and utilizing it to his advantage.

Though, one main issue I see with this is the fact that Rin exists... so I still might need to brainstorm another npc, but I'll keep this forum user as a backup. Regardless, good luck on your paper.
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No need to worry about redundant location ideas all that much. Tenoroshi's big enough to sustain multiple gyms and weirdos. And the equipment in a dojo and a Parkour gym are pretty different, so there's surprisingly little overlap outside of all the buff people inside it.
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Speaking of NPC's, I've got a total of 5 possible ones to choose from for my character, Ishiyama Tsurushi, but I'm having trouble deciding which three to use. The five NPC possibilities are...

  • A grade school student from the class that Tsurushi teaches
  • The principal of said grade school
  • A therapist that Tsurushi regularly sees
  • Tsurushi's current girlfriend, who coincidentally shares the same room in an apartment complex she's staying at
  • Tsurushi's former boss, who owns a gentleman's club/night club


EDIT: On top of asking which three NPC's I should go with, I'd like to ascertain some more info on the Lostman before I try and do anything with Tsuruchi's background. How exactly are we supposed to go about our characters' encounters with him? Would he vanish the second we laid eyes on him? Would he respond to our attempts to converse with him?
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@AdmrlStalfos19I don't have any particular opinion on which three NPCs you go with, so if they're really all equal to you, just roll dice or something. Try to go at an angle of 'which relationships are most important to your character' and 'which relationships have the most dramatic value'.

As for encounters with the Lostman...for your character, it would be an encounter along the lines of either a mysterious phone call or the possession of someone in the same area as you. No one amongst the player cast would have laid eyes upon anything that one might think of as the 'actual form' of the Lostman. They would initiate the conversation with their question. Once you answer it, they will disappear. If you try to segue into a different topic, such as the patented 'answer a question with a question', they will remain silent. If you continue to do so, they will disappear.
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Welp, decided to go with the forum user goer grill. Could of made a better backstory, but I think it generally gives you an idea of Marc's life, so here's the finished product.

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Looks fine with me. Guess the Lostman's attracted to people with shitty dads and hot moms. Makes one think, eh?
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@ERode

Hi. I haven't proof-read this.

Her Lostman power. Miyane's biggest and most present wish is to be forgotten by the general public and to have her name vanish from the public eye. She has skewed views about how society receives popular media so her power grants her the ability to detect and manipulate people's sightlines. Because clearly, the only way to stop being invested in something is to develop a fixation on something else.

She views the sightlines as similar to cones of visions in video games. Miyane can force beings to 'fixate' on entities of her choosing, focusing their visual acuity. Trying to look away results in rapidly blurred vision or a sudden migraine until they return their gaze to the entity. It is merely a sight-based fixation, their thoughts are still free to roam. Basically a variation of Momo's power from KagePro.

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Oh man, these NPCs will be challenging to play...Anyways, banjo, do you have a particular scandal in mind and are just keeping it under the wraps for IC reveals, or do you have no particular idea and are willing to hand the work over to me?
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I did have one in mind, but I think it'll be more fun to have you make it up to see what I can improv around it.

Cos I based it around the Korean idol industry and the wacky real-life scandal stuff that comes out of it ranges from "slept/smoked pot with an underage trainee" to "bought real estate one time" to "is an actual pimp, also evaded a shit ton of taxes" to "accidentally used the Imperial Japan Snapchat filter on Korean Independence Day" to "was exposed using legally prescripted anti-depressants for professionally diagnosed mental health issues, how immoral" to "straight up sexually assulted someone" to "stared too long at another idol".

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