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Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

Alright, well.

I think that's too little people to properly RP with.

Cosmos doesn't seem to be around anymore and Grey's been caught up with schoolwork. I'd have accepted Kaggs if he signed up, but with only him, Lunar and Adamaranthine I don't think we can carry this.

I'll still give this a shot if you three want to vouch for it, or if someone else shows interest, but otherwise this probably won't go anywhere.

Apologies for how sloppily I ran this, everyone. I'm sorry I drained all of you guys' excitement.

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

So I got banned for 24 hours yesterday, if anyone was curious.

I'm going to assume the three players that remain, still want to play. That means we're locked in. Kaggs is working on his CS as far as I'm aware, since I had a PM exchange with him, so with him we'll have 4 players. I think that's playable enough.

One final round of tagging, though. I want to make sure that I've got this right before I do the first post.

-Keita (@PKMNB0Y) and Akane (@LunarStandard) formed the gang with Takuma. Possible Kaggs' character too.
-For the first post, the Doomraisers remnants bust open the door like how Takuma and his crew did before.
-Shimizu @Amaranthine shows up because the Doomraisers dragged her there, but isn't actually intent on getting involved.

Did I get all that right? If yes and nobody says otherwise, I'll have a post up within 2 days at the most.

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

I'll be honest... I'm just not here for this anymore. The changing ideas and concepts and intense delays, mixed with personal shit in my life right now, just leaves me... Well, lost. I'm bowing out of this, but wish you all the best.

@webboysurf

Understandable.

This RP seems to be imploding in on itself, which I don't really blame anyone for.

Does anyone else feel this way? 'cause I'll chalk it up to a failure for me if all your hearts aren't in it anymore.

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

Duel Monsters.

An ancient rite to summon spirits from another world, called into this one to do battle. The summoner's own life was shortened for the prospect of a glorious victory. Man grew ever more destructive in its pursuit of power. The spirits and their magic were sealed away from the realm of man, never to be used again. One day, technology advanced, and Duel Monsters came back into the world in the form a game...

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Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

I said I was going to edit it, but I feel it more poignant to make it a separate post instead for reasons.

So, I did the minor updates. We're officially set two weeks after forming the "Breakers"

However...

This is just an idea, but would anybody mind if they weren't actually the "Bulwark Breakers" quite yet? What if we used this retaliation by Doomraisers to set their own goal in stone? Have the first little story beat end on the official forming of the Bulwark Breakers? For now they're just a nameless group hanging around the old base, and they call themselves a gang without any real name for now.

Of course, that would conflict a bit with some already-accepted characters. I'm specifically thinking of Akane and Shimizu. Therefor, @Amaranthine and @LunarStandard, what would you two think about not actually being a part of the gang yet? Akane only saw something in the breakers because they wanted to get inside the core, but if I change this to only happen after the first story beat, she wouldn't have a reason to join yet. She could be observing this little 'feud' and judging the breakers worth for it.

For Shimizu, since the breakers are aimless and not a direct thread, I would feel she doesn't have any immediate pressing concerns to joining them. She could just be tagging along with the Doomraisers for now so that, in case they do win, they're still out of her hair. Of course she could have also joined up with the Breakers and they'd see her as a traitor for it, but if you go with the former option you at least have an excuse to duel any of the players or Takuma if you wanted to.

I don't think Keita and Kato have much reason to not be a part of Takuma's immediate entourage, though. Depends on what @PKMNB0Y and @webboysurf think.

_{also my apologies for this RP being such a mess already from the first post.}

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

Well since I'm not hearing any opposition, that's what I'll be doing then.

I'm gonna do the following things right now, and I'll get to writing a new opening post tomorrow.
-Rewrite Takuma's BG to have only just formed the breakers
-Rewrite the OOC's first bit to show that they're newly formed

Additionally, I'm also going to scale back Takuma's age a bit 'cause I kinda felt he was weirdly old on reflection. Not that it matters much for a young adult as they don't change too much in their early years, but for an anime RP I feel like I may have set a bad precedent. Oh well.

Will just edit this post once I'm done with the updates to the OOC/CS.

Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

Maybe you can give us the best of both worlds, to a point where the the Breakers are fairly new and have just overthrown the Doomraisers, it doesn't change much except for the fact that everyone will still be working out their relationships and their goals onward (which is desirable, as trying to convey a gang society without any prior talking or posting is difficult), giving us a plot to focus on and the foundation of what the breakers will be to figure out. That way the counter-attack plot can make sense.

@Amaranthine

In thinking about it, I think I like the idea of setting it only about a week or two after the breakers have been 'formed'. It'd require a little bit of a rewrite on most our parts, I think, but it could work if everyone else is up for it.

I maybe shot a little high with when I set the timeframe for this, but that's because I initially thought it appropriate. Now I realise that leaving the timeframe small enough to where people know each-other, but don't really know each-other is probably for the better.

I think if we set the RP in such a short timeframe, though, it'll put some of the gang dynamics in a different context as people haven't really settled into things yet. I'd like to think if we set it this close to their forming, that they haven't actually done much of anything yet. Haven't gotten into shit with anyone other than the Doomraisers, haven't raided a security outpost yet, etc.

Maybe then this first act could serve as them getting their shit together and seeing they need to think things through a little better, since I imagine they'd have just routed the Doomraisers and didn't really put any checks in place for them to rise up again. The gang they see will definitely be in smaller numbers though, just like a handful of guys or that didn't feel like giving up, being led by the same big brass. Have the scenario be that they maybe-not-so-figuratively kick in the door of the schoolhouse. This would also set the Breakers' rep to basically 0 and have them not really recognized as a real gang/threat yet. Y'know, other than maybe some key figures around the Collar that keep track of this stuff.

Idk, anyone else have any thoughts?