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Alright, still kinda sick, but I'm alive enough to get this outta the way at leasttttt.

@Taka@Psyker Landshark@Crowvette@Digmata@PapiTan@Yu Narukami

Y'all are in.

There will be some changes and clarifications that I'll have y'all make once I've more time to go over them, but for now, put your CSes into the Characters tab, and also, in this OOC section, give me the names of three NPCs, as well as a one-line description of how they're related to your own character. These NPCs don't need to all be Talents, nor do they need to be super deeply connected; I'll be basically adopting and fleshing them out for my future plotting needs.

IC itself is likely to be started by the end of this week, at the latest. Maybe I set up a Discord, maybe I don't.
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Henry Lunette
-Awesome older brother and currently a government accountant, manages his and her sister's finances and was a good source of advice for Phoebe.

Mr. Orwell
-The owner and founder of Asperia Agency, a former hero who had seen the beginning of the current agencies, now concentrated at making sure his talents are doing their best.

Fallen Maiden Pandora
-A former maiden, tainted by the darkness and now only bitterness and nihilism. She is an enemy and a warning for the stars if they burn too brightly.

Theorist
-An ‘internet’ hero, only known for their social media videos making outlandish theories that are somehow supported by facts and the wild occasional conjecture. Has been known to sometimes get things right regardless.
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I don't know how specific you need the one-liners but ofc I'm down to DM the less vague version of the one-liners. Because mother has to be a little sneaky ehe.

Remington Beauford - Amaris's childhood bestie, her brother from another mother, and probably her only real friend.

Michelle Ramos - An AGC Rising staff member who is Amaris's emergency contact on paper for some odd reason.

Od the Ashborn - Greatest no-name retired Hero this side of Neo-Astraea--wait, why does Amaris have a protective order against this old man?
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David S. Rhodes - Founder of TEAM Respawn and target of many rumors that he is the supervillain The UNKNOWN King, leader of UNKNOWN.

Dr. Rohan Caine - Head Engineer and Scientist that helps Armada create his gear.

Jimmy Casanova - A Supermodel Hero and Justin's best friend.
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Isabela Ruiz: Head of Carmine Corp's hero division, second-line supervisor to Sheena.

Wen Chou: Marketing rep, liason to the Ministry of Self-Actualization.

Blake Boivin: Fellow graduate of the cyborg assassin program.
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@Crowvette
I will choose to pretend that Kirara is just a sound, rather than a specifically Japanese onomatopoeia. But it'll be kinda a landmine, so long as you're good with bearing possible consequences.

Anyways, I'll say that 72ka Productions is still an up-and-coming agency despite Kirara's relative success. The most popular idol produced by them being only known by 150,000 people in Neo-Astraea speaks volumes kekeke. Out of curiousity, why did she personally decide to get into the Talent business? She could have continued just being a regular idol, increasing her Fame without having to like, throw hands with people for real and putting on an even thicker stage persona than regular celebrities.

It'd probably be the case that Kirara would be playing in a sidekick/support/background noise role for larger Heroes, unless 72ka would push her into dealing with 'real' emergencies and incidents in the way that AGC Rising would.

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I would say that in this case, if she was actually out there with a cybernetically enhanced body, Sheena's existence would be a kinda gray area with the Ministries that administrate Neo-Astraea. This kind of technology doesn't actually 'naturally' exist in Neo-Astraea, where all technologies that don't exist in, say, the late 20th century would actually find its roots as a byproduct of a particular Talent's own ability. So I'll probably make a progenitor-Talent who has 'produced' such cyborg-body-replacements that Carmine Corp utilizes for their assets.

With regards to the defense companies and military hijinks in general, Neo-Astraea is more or less a closed off city-state. Officially, there is no military, only law enforcement, and with Talents being fairly present, they don't really need to actually manufacture or sell personal firearms or military aircraft or stuff like that. So you'll have to find a public 'cover' for what Carmine Corp is. Airsoft and paintball hijinks are still a thing, so you could have them be like that, alongside with producing figurines and shit.

Their main trade would be in technology and proof-of-concept weapons/vehicles, which they compete with other militech companies to secure contracts from the Ministry of Private Infrastructure to develop. While the Ministries are willing to turn a blind eye to more illicit activities such as corporate espionage and assassination, it's also readily understood that if any of this reached the public eye, that company would become a 'villain' to be used as fodder by the Agencies for whatever storyline they'd like. And, of course, there's probably more than just a couple competitors of Carmine Corp who have vanished over the night after increasing their manufacturing capabilities too much.

What weapons make it to the criminal underworld of Neo-Astraea, as such, are generally fair below the technological level actually accomplished by the militech industry.

Also, what's Sheena gonna do once the original Talent's leg heals up in like, three months?

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Right, so is his name Justin or Armada?

Anyways, there's no truly scientific method of getting to the giga-techno-wizardry that a Talent can accomplish. Rather than collaborating with scientists and engineers to create gear, he'd have actually be collaborating with artists and people from marketing to design props that look like sci-fi gadgets. After that, they'd basically be working overtime to make sure that the public believes those props to be worthwhile, before they become functional as actual gadgets.

Also.

There are no terrorists. Do not use any word that contains 'terror', because those words do not exist in the dictionary.

In a similar vein, what is an Esports World Champion, if there is only the City? Cybernetics, like I explained for Psykers, also don't actually exist at a functional level yet, unless they are associated with an existing Talent.
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I'm thinking on NPCs atm.
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Some NPCs:

Lily Herstal - Childhood friend of Faye who entered 72kaPro as a songwriter at the same time Faye signed as an idol.

Mr. Schuler - Faye's producer, who always seems a bit overworked yet gets the job done somehow.

Emma Gepard- Faye's personal trainer who was appointed recently to help her with the move to Talents. As a result she's not really much of an idol person.

@Crowvette
I will choose to pretend that Kirara is just a sound, rather than a specifically Japanese onomatopoeia. But it'll be kinda a landmine, so long as you're good with bearing possible consequences.

Anyways, I'll say that 72ka Productions is still an up-and-coming agency despite Kirara's relative success. The most popular idol produced by them being only known by 150,000 people in Neo-Astraea speaks volumes kekeke. Out of curiousity, why did she personally decide to get into the Talent business? She could have continued just being a regular idol, increasing her Fame without having to like, throw hands with people for real and putting on an even thicker stage persona than regular celebrities.

It'd probably be the case that Kirara would be playing in a sidekick/support/background noise role for larger Heroes, unless 72ka would push her into dealing with 'real' emergencies and incidents in the way that AGC Rising would.


I'm not married to that particular stage name tbh, perhaps I was off base with that particular choice. There are other sparkly onomatopoeia names I could pick without any issue.

Perhaps a little bit that I should've included in the original sheet was that I kind of have a bit of a mental image of 72ka being a company that has some hidden expertise (perhaps started up by someone who broke off from a successful entertainment company to forge their own path?), though I'm not exactly sure how that might factor into the plot or events. If you think it might be a good tidbit for story, then cool, otherwise meh it's not super important.

As for why she's went towards Talents, I think it's best to just say that she's interested in pushing her performance into a completely new dimension. It's not necessarily that she wanted this in particular, but it was just the kind of wild move that appeals to her so she went with it.

I'm fine with her playing support, I think having such a blindingly positive character would be a fun foil to several existing characters and I'm no stranger to playing characters on the weaker side anyway.
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Gepard eh...

And alright, so she kinda got into it in the heat-of-the-moment, rather than as any particularly calculated decision, eh? I don't mind 72ka having some industry cred via a talented start-up CEO either. Could make for fun drama involving the 'parent' company trying to re-absorb the off-shoot.
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Kk, noted on everything else, that's fine. Public cover would be sports gear stuff like airsoft, yeah.

Also, what's Sheena gonna do once the original Talent's leg heals up in like, three months?


Too late for a redebut now, they have pretty different voices and management isn't gonna go to the trouble of another swapout when they had to edit half the debut material last minute as it was already.
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@Taka
Right, so is his name Justin or Armada?

Anyways, there's no truly scientific method of getting to the giga-techno-wizardry that a Talent can accomplish. Rather than collaborating with scientists and engineers to create gear, he'd have actually be collaborating with artists and people from marketing to design props that look like sci-fi gadgets. After that, they'd basically be working overtime to make sure that the public believes those props to be worthwhile, before they become functional as actual gadgets.

Also.

There are no terrorists. Do not use any word that contains 'terror', because those words do not exist in the dictionary.

In a similar vein, what is an Esports World Champion, if there is only the City? Cybernetics, like I explained for Psykers, also don't actually exist at a functional level yet, unless they are associated with an existing Talent.

Justin is real name but Armada would be the public facing identity.

I can change the NPC to the marketing Lead Designer or something.

Well not terrorists then but still a group of baddies if that's fine? Id assume supervillains would be a prevalent thing if we got heroes.

As long as people compete, world champion will be the title even if its not encompassing the world.

So I guess cybernetics would just be associated with him then? In the "public believes I have powers so I have powers" kind of way.

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Just so it doesn't seem like I threw the boy into the char tab out of the blue, I was chatting with ERode in PMs. Also obviously ended up going with a completely different concept lol.

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Samandra Maguire — Lady's PR, she comes up with the sanest speeches, things for her to say so ashes don't make more fire than as worse things as already is, she studied public speaking & law. /Redhead Ginger — if you want RPer reference, she's like our @Sho Minazuki

Cloverleaf Garfield — Lady's Beautician, in charge of her fashion drip, she's a menace like that mean bitchy girl with a valley girl accent, she's on board with Lady's unhinged side & don't like it when Samandra tries to damage control. /Zany blonde, among RPers, she'd be like @Gowi xD

Alecia "Alex" Holland — Lady's inmate girl, who does the spywork & network of influence, she's the web designer & admin of Lady's websites & chat/servers. /Cool Asian, personality wise, if I'm likening this to RPer equivalents, @Izurich maybe?

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@Crowvette Don't forget to put your CS in the Characters tab.

Otherwise, IC will hopefully be up tonight.
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IC up.

Kinda wanted to update the Character tab first, but it is what it issssss.

For the Expo gang, feel free to describe the specifics of your corpo booth and, idk, introduce yourselves to each other for networking purposes. You can make up NPCs as well, so long as they're not there to sandbag for your characters.

For the patrol duo, feel free to make up small-scale incidents to respond to. Think more misdemeanors than violent crime. Feel each other out n all; iz early in on the patrol.

Crowvette, you can make up the scale of this particular concert that Cas will be attending. Could kick things off at the start of the concert, the middle, or the end; just make sure there's a handshake event after it ends. And Yankee, have fun on your (IC) day off!
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I assume it's fine to still write for NPCs you wanted to 'adopt' but just wanted to double check ('cause the other option would be jump straight to collab which would be fine).
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Yah, you can still control em yourself. Probably less so once I do assume direct control though.
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I'll have a post up tomorrow night or Saturday
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Posting some time this weekend
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@Psyker Landshark Rivalry accepted 😁
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