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adsum ([personal profile] adsum) wrote in [community profile] desum2022-05-01 12:31 am
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May Plotting

OOC UPDATES
Game status
The player cap has been removed. We will no longer max out at 30 players. Applications will remain open at all times.
AC has been lowered from 20 comments to 10 comments or a top level and 5 comments.
If you have made any major changes to the setting, please let a mod know. If your character has contributed to any changes in setting that would be noticed by other characters, please reply to this comment to let us know. Please note that minor changes are reset at the end of every school day.
May will be a no murder mystery month. This hold may continue past the current month. Character death may still occur, and we encourage players to explore other options for player plots. When murders resume, we they will be evaluated on a case by case basis to see how to best run it.
A new series of missions is planned for May 13th. In order to progress the plot and allow characters to engage with the setting, we will be hosting a series of IC "missions", similar to the series of events that took place in August 2021. These will be a collection of mod-guided threads that lead to wide-scale changes in the game setting. There will be a total of three groups with three people per group. Please see below for sign ups.
Game updates
Our game pages have undergone an overhaul. However, the taken, bonus activity and locations pages have received a full revamp. Please let me know if there are any errors.
We have added a game lore page to the navigation. As we move away from an NPC focus, the NPC contact page has been retooled as a summary of game lore up to the current month for ease of review for players new and old alike. Moving forward, new NPCs can be contacted through this page.
The student store has been overhauled. We have removed redundant items and maintained those which we believe will be most useful to characters going forward. Items that have been removed may be kept or exchanged for the updated equivalent.
Plot clues no longer need to be bought through bonus activity. We are currently focusing on both tying up loose ends with existing plots, and making engagement with the plot more accessible. Please contact a mod if there's a plot point or player plot that you wish to pursue.

IC UPDATES
Weather update. April showers bring may flowers! May will see warm and sunny days with scattered showers. The plant life is in full bloom, and the first signs of summer are here.
The void has expanded. It now encompasses the encompass the entire right wing of all floors, including the locker area including the rooftop. Throughout the month it will continue to expand, beginning to encompass pieces of the left wing.
The school is cold. As mentioned in the April update, the chill is more obvious in some areas than others, and the mirror room is frigid.
All mirrors are cold to the touch. The larger the mirror, the colder it is, and those in the mirror room are cold enough to cause frostbite. Characters may also occasionally see handprints or fog on the mirror, as though something were pushing against it; or perhaps they'll see a flash of the other school, or even their home world - whatever the mirror may offer them, it's gone the moment they blink. It's probably just their imagination.
The shadow students remain in the school. The whispers seem to have quieted down, but they may still latch onto characters who are left isolated and slowly drain them. Those who have the ability to see spirits will notice that they've increased in volume. The largest concentration appears to be in the mirror room, bathrooms, library, and auditorium.
The sound of gears turning can be heard in the clock tower. It seems to be coming from somewhere under the floorboards, and it is loudest where they've been pulled up.
The cabinets in the music room are now unlocked. Various instruments can be found inside of them.
The anatomical model has returned to the science lab. It is impossibly heavy and cannot be moved by any means. If one is quiet, they might think that they can hear it laugh or weep, sigh or whistle, though that should be impossible. Those who visit the lab regularly will now find it oddly to be more inviting, almost as though they're being welcomed.
There will be additional updates in the event post. Please stay tuned.

PLAYER UPDATES
Reminders
If you have plot points or clues of particular interest to you, or that your character is currently pursuing on an IC level, please let us know so that we can include these pieces as we map out the endgame direction.
Please ensure that you are not utilizing other players' characters without permission. This includes spreading personal details and issuing "warnings" to characters. This is a collaborative hobby, and we ask that everyone be considerate of each other and their character development and relationship opportunities. When in doubt, assume that permission is needed.
Player feedback
Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to ask players for their OOC feedback on where they would like the game to go from here. One major topic of interest is how you wish for the game to proceed, including the pacing (i.e. a quick wrap up versus steadily working through the plot,) and plot points that your character is following up on or that you wish to see resolved. We hope to move forward considering what players hope to see from the game and its ending in mind.

If you would feel more comfortable sharing your feedback in a private setting, feel free to post a screened comment to our mod contact page or reach out to Bunny ([plurk.com profile] pfle) directly.
OOC PLOTTING
Player:
Character:
Canon:
CR: Tell us a little about your character, how they're faring, and what sort of cr you want to establish or expand upon
Plans: What is your character interested in investigating, or have they found something interesting to involve others in?
Recent posts or toplevels: If applicable, for people to jump right into tagging you!

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bunny

[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Player: bunny | please feel free to add me on [plurk.com profile] pfle as that's the best way to contact me!
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chiaki nanami

[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Chiaki Nanami
Canon: Danganronpa
CR:
I have a summary in her info post. In short, she's a quiet and sleepy girl. Nanami is an AI created for the Neo World Program, and so she's a bit of an odd combination of traits. She's empathetic, perceptive, and social, but she tends to take her time to collect her thoughts and often adds phrases such as "I think" or "probably" to the end of her speech. Additionally due to the nature of her existence she lacks knowledge about certain common senses issues such as animal handling.

Nanami is the Ultimate Gamer, which just means she's really good at video games. She loves call kinds from every genre, including the terrible ones, and has a fondness for retro games. She can often be found at the robotics & programming club, gaming club, in the common room playing the arcade machine, and sleeping in weird places. You may or may not find her sleeping standing up. She can often be found at the gaming club and in the common room playing the arcade machine.
Plans:
▶ She will be investigating Hinata's disappearance with a particular interest int he clock tower, and probably the mirrors to a lesser extent.
▶ She has no restrictions on her code now, so she's able to admit to being an ai and other subjects that she couldn't speak of thanks to Midori so that might be something that can come up.
▶ She's fussing over Komaeda a lot since he nearly died, but she's also developing family bonds so I think it would be cute for that to come up with other characters.
▶ Honestly, Id like to see her pick up new hobbies and do other misc activities with other characters since she was programmed to be the Ultimate Gamer and then got pulled into a killing game so a lot of the things she would have learned were snatched away. Please teach her things.
▶ She has a picture diary that she's asking other people to put entries in so I think it would be really cute to do a few threads where it ends with that, please indulge me.
▶ ??? I'm up to basically anything. Please be patient with me if I seem slow since I've spent the last month and will probably spend a lot of this one organizing the remaining timeline/plot points for Yogen so that's eating up a lot of my free time.
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recent posts or toplevels

[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
tba.
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[personal profile] antitoxin 2022-05-02 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Bark bark!!!
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[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
mrow!!

what should they do next month, there's a lot of cute options
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[personal profile] antitoxin 2022-05-02 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
feed him the candies while he lays his head in her lap and he disappears into the mission out of the blue kinda like how her twin did...
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[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
honestly the idea of him getting yanked into the mission while he's just living his best life being weird with a 17-18 y/o is the funniest thing please give me this fr

sumn bout him continuing to be punished for his freak behavior
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[personal profile] antitoxin 2022-05-02 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Hiyori most game rides you must be this tall but it's you must be 17
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[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
him collecting all the sdr2s like ah yes unstable 17 y/os my favorite
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[personal profile] antitoxin 2022-05-02 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
they are ripening and their nectar forbidden...
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[personal profile] protect 2022-05-02 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
he's such a disease

when i kill him by throwing him into the wet bone room and leaving him there. that's the new jail cell, we're locking him up for his horny crimes.
Edited 2022-05-02 22:43 (UTC)
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[personal profile] antitoxin 2022-05-02 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
NAOW why would u do that to him...
you knew what you were getting into how else will he stay young and beautiful, Elizabeth bathory but for kids 17+
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[personal profile] protect 2022-05-03 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
that's true, i mean he's already young and beautiful but

imagine having somebody who's 17 forever sigh he's living the dream rn
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[personal profile] shimashima 2022-05-03 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad we have cute interactions underway with AInami and Alice, and it sounds like there's potential for more coming up. Maybe the picture diary could come up at some point if they're hanging out with Komaeda and belatedly acknowledging his birthday or something like that.

No worries wrt tagging pace!
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rio ranger

[personal profile] rearranger 2022-05-02 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Character: Rio Ranger
Canon: Your Turn To Die
CR:
I have a summary in his info post. In short, Ranger is an advanced AI known as a "doll" created by the company ASUNARO. He is the masterwork of the company's three prodigies, a doll that was meant to be a true human, and it is implied that he was intended to be an important piece of the company. Due to circumstances, he was modified to have an inferiority complex and was unable to feel positive emotions. Since coming to Yogen, his code has been completed/corrected.

Due to the company culture and his own experiences, Ranger can be rough around the edges. He has a very lose sense of morality and a very high sense of self-preservation, but he's generally easy enough to talk to and responds to how people treat him. Ranger protects himself first, his partner second, ASUNARO third, and everyone else after that.

He was hallucinating throughout April due to internal glitching that ended in trying to kill 16 people. Fortunately, Komaeda woke up from his coma to stop him. Unfortunately, he tried to lop his head off, so he's not doing that great right now. He's been working on Dynamo alongside Midori, and he can be found in the workshop or just wandering around, he doesn't like to sit still for too long. He can be found hanging around Maple, Midori, Amami, and Komaeda whenever they patch things up. Dynamo too, that's his best friend now.
Plans:
▶ He's dealing with a little bit of trauma following somebody nearly lopping his head off so please be kind to him. That's something where it'd be nice to see him open up, but I'm not sure he will so just not isolating will be good for him!
▶ He will be going along with Midori and Dito on the clock tower mission.
▶ Komaeda gave him the love compass, which points to either the person the holder loves most or Lily May so I just want him to give that to people and see where it points as he tries and fails to understand it. Please let me see who loves Lily May most.
▶ He was working with Midori last month to patch up Dynamo so he'll be keeping a close eye on them to make sure that everything's working properly so people might notice him low key fussing.
▶ He has a particular interest in investigating the mirrors this month, he might pay a visit to the void or smth too.
▶ Like Midori, he can play multiple instruments so he'll probably check out the music room at some point or another, probably hone in on something in the violin family (the viola specifically) so that could be a cute thing to bond over.
▶ Tentatively looking at canon updating him later this month, which would mean that he remembers everything post-final attraction. He'll have some mixed feelings on that.
▶ ??? Like with Nanami, I'm up for basically anything, please be patient if I'm a little slow as I work out mod things!
Edited 2022-05-02 17:44 (UTC)
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[personal profile] rearranger 2022-05-02 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
tba
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[personal profile] shimashima 2022-05-03 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Alice is still awkwardly concerned, especially with the complicated Komario situation, so he'll probably try to see how Ranger is doing now, if they cross paths. Also :eyes: at the canon update....