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abovegrounds2015-05-15 11:41 pm
undergroundmods) wrote in abovegrounds2015-05-15 11:41 pm
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CR Planning: May 2015
CR Planning: May 2015
Welcome to the Underground! As promised, this is a follow-up post for players who have been accepted into the game to discuss your characters' AU backgrounds with canonmates and other characters, and to establish pre-existing CR (character relations). Feel free to revise your character's history as appropriate to fit in with other characters in the game.You can use this post to:
• Discuss your character's background history with other players and make changes where needed.
• Work out shared history with canonmates and build in cross-canon CR.
• Say what kind of CR you're looking for and reply to others to offer CR.
• Say hi to the members of your faction and begin discussing your in-game strategy.
• Start thinking about what territories you might want to make a claim on.
There will be a plotting post on the 18th where you can stake your territory claims for the opening month of the game, choose a prompt from a list of plots and start planning the events listed in the calendar.
Read the factions page to remind yourself who your allies and enemies are, then take a sneaky look at the territories map as it currently stands and have a think about your faction's goals. Do you want to make an aggressive grab for power? Sit tight and defend the territories you've already got? Play nice and build alliances with other factions? There's no right or wrong way to play: the tactics employed by your faction are completely up to you.
As before, this is a player-led discussion, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Happy planning, and I look forward to playing with everyone when the game opens!
Heiji
Faction: fae, Seelie Court
What I'm looking for: Friends for Heiji to hang out with (he'll probably keep quiet about the being a fae thing for now...). Heiji is a bit wary around werewolves, so that could be interesting. He likes ghosts as a general rule.
In the future, there are a few plot-related things I've been thinking about, including someone getting hold of Heiji's gem, which stores part of his power. At some point I'd also like one or more people to find out his true name, which he will not be telling most folks. He's also secretly pretty good with a biwa, but assumes no one in London is interested in listening/would think it was weird he plays a kind of old-fashioned instrument, so finding someone who might want to listen to that might be cool.
Heiji also enjoys talking about mysteries, forensics, how Osaka is literally the best place on the planet, and random facts about psychology, medicine, and so on. He's not a doctor, he just likes reading random crap. Also if anyone over like 50 or so who is supernatural wants to bitch about the good old days, that might be fun. He usually has to pretend he's 20 or something.
OH YEAH I almost forgot, I'd like to do a post where a couple people can end up blundering into the wrong alley at night and are confronted by a fae and it looks like they're about to be menaced, but instead Heiji just asks them Jeopardy questions or something and gives them
fifty bucks35 pounds if they're right.Shared history: Heiji has a bit of CR from the test drive meme I'd be cool with carrying over to the game, IIRC with Clara and Stiles. If your character stopped by at Barnet, they might have met Heiji at his part-time job at Cafe Poirot.
If there are any Japanese characters around interested in working out a bit of shared history, that might be interesting, too!
Faction stuff: I think there are actually only two fae characters at the moment, but welcome to planning faction stuff. I know fae aren't really in the territory game at this point, and in terms of strategy, Heiji isn't currently the type of character who'd be super aggressive about territory grabs but whatever whatever let's plan.
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I'd love to work out some commonality with their Japanese background, i.e. magical culture and "remember that one guy who tried x and then y happened". I'd even be game for them having run into one another way back, if you think that would be interesting.
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Maybe they could talk about Seimei or something if Ginko figures out what Heiji is, that'd be pretty cool. Since Japan has a giant history of supernatural creatures but it's short on descriptions of vampires/werewolves (iirc it's Chinese vampires/zombies you gotta look out for), I was headcanoning the Kansai area at least as bigger on other types of supernatural creatures. Particularly fae and ghosts since a lot of youkai/urban legends would qualify as those two categories.
I think overall Heiji would be fairly friendly towards Ginko, because at last, someone to talk about Japan with, why don't they have more Japanese food in London...
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I'm cool with anything, they'll have something to talk about either way!
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I kind of like the idea of spotting Heiji being summoned earlier; it'd actually make sense to be able to tell Heiji apart from other foxes because he's got black fur vs. red or gold.
So maybe Heiji can run into Ginko while he's tooling about in fox form?
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She would totally be up for discussions with him about mystery books and stuff like that. You know she's a great listener and sounding board for this type of stuff.
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Oh man oh man she'll try to give the most sensible advice ever only, okay. Mostly related to normal stuff but who knows it could be useful in the future. /o\
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