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Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Magical FATE Squad, Assemble!
Reality Glitch: Is it still a squad with only two of us?
Reality Glitch: Not counting you as the gamemaster.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: You are right, it would be more like a duo, but i was doing that in a more "Ooc" manner anyways XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: So, lets begin: We are doing a session 0, its objective is to figure out what we want to play.
Reality Glitch: Co-ed magical folk. Not afraid to tackle hard-hitting themes, but always managing to keep it P.G. in the process.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Well, i was trying to remember the few questions i wanted to ask you as to make my job sifting through the log easier, but that works too XD
Reality Glitch: Oops! Sorry.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Don't worry!
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: The first question was regarding what kind of Magical Girl style you wanted anyways.
Reality Glitch: If we aren’t playing the genre straight, then I’m requesting nothing edgy; please.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: There are shows that just tackle it lightly and put a monster of the week, working towards a goal like freeing an alternate world of darkness, or defeating the big bad that wants to control the world, things like that are what Card Captor Sakura or Sailor Moon Work on. Which is what RG wants.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: The other kind is the more "Death is real" and you and your friends WILL die if you mess it up and cause a mess with your powers, Such kind are Kentarō Satō's Mahou Shoujo (Of the End and Site) or Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Which is why i wanted to ask <@!Ryusui|GM> Which kind he wanted to play!
Reality Glitch: <@!Ryusui|GM>; you here?
Ryusui|GM: whoop, sorry
Ryusui|GM: attention in different places, like i said
Ryusui|GM: but i can devote some clock cycles to this, NP
Ryusui|GM: anyways maybe we could play it somewhere in between? like a Gurren Lagann approach to magical girls
Ryusui|GM: like y'know
Reality Glitch: I'm perfectly fine with death being a real consequence.
Ryusui|GM: embracing the positive excesses of the genre while also sprinkling in some of the darker stuff
Reality Glitch: Even character dealing with dead loved ones in their back stories.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Don't worry, just make sure you don't put the important task aside, the more time you take the more i have to think through XD. I think i can picture what you mean, though
Reality Glitch: That can all be handled with tact and grace.
Reality Glitch: But what were you thinking in terms of questions; <@!Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla>?
Ryusui|GM: like, hmm
Reality Glitch: I like the idea of a more diverse cast in terms of sex, gender, and age range.
Reality Glitch: Or just more diverse in general.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Mostly to figure out how exactly were we gonna do this magical show, places, kinds of powers, if there were other magical girls rather than just two, etc.
Ryusui|GM: deffo more than two
Ryusui|GM: more potential cannon fodder XD
Ryusui|GM: i kid, i kid
Ryusui|GM: but like, hmm
Ryusui|GM: my mind obviously goes to Madoka Magica for certain things, but as much to differentiate as to borrow
Reality Glitch: I like the idea that one's powers reflecting who they are as people in a very "beat you over the head with symbolism" way.
Ryusui|GM: like i like the idea that magic is potentially dangerous, but the consequences shouldn't be inevitable
Reality Glitch: ^
Reality Glitch: Like technology in real life.
Ryusui|GM: less "you take up this wand and you will become a monster someday" and more "if you're not careful your magic may have some horrifying backlash - emphasis on 'if' and 'may'"
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: scratch "death" and replace it with "I hope you like feeling like death for a month" ?
Reality Glitch: "If you're not careful with your firearms, people may get hurt."
Ryusui|GM: and mind, fallen magical girls would be a cool concept of adversaries to face! but like, maybe in a "big bad"/"major adversary" capacity?
Ryusui|GM: and it would take a lot for a magical girl to actually fall like that
Reality Glitch: Maybe the story starts with four of us and the party splits when a mission goes so south that the N.P.C. half "falls" and becomes reoccurring villains that we need to send the entire series to redeem or rebuke.
Ryusui|GM: we're heroes who wield the power of wishes! and you know what they say about those who keep wishing...
Ryusui|GM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4lIBZGrA4U
Reality Glitch: Aaaah Flapjack.
Ryusui|GM: or how about this?
Ryusui|GM: we're a two-person trainee squad and we have a Mami mentor figure leading us into what's supposed to be our first action
Ryusui|GM: turns out this minor training encounter puts us against an enemy, possibly yes a fallen magical girl; mentor is either taken out or otherwise incapacitated and it falls to us to pull off a miracle XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Oooh, Yeah that is indeed an idea I had thought of!
Reality Glitch: But we don't despite our best efforts, and have to retreat to face them again another day.
Reality Glitch: What do you think about that; <@!Ryusui|GM>?
Ryusui|GM: i'm thinking maybe we pull off a stopgap measure, a half-assed win
Ryusui|GM: i guess it comes down to how the dice roll out but i'm figuring we at least partly solve whatever problem there is, at least enough that we can get away without leaving a catastrophe behind
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: the sort of "You pulled it back for now " kind of win.
Reality Glitch: You also mentioned "places". What exactly did you mean by that?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I think we have a base, the way this show is gonna play, so we can move to step two!
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Where are this events gonna happen?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: in other words, places.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I was gonna condense it into "American, European, or Asian?" for the sake of simplicity.
Reality Glitch: Well, I think we should take a step back and think of the kind of world we're in first.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Right, Right, i was gonna follow Ryu's suggestion in <#310914202871136256> of a Furry world like Earth but with the serial numbers filed off xD
Reality Glitch: I would like to have it a separate world from Lefurage as well.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I see, <@!Ryusui|GM> and you?
Ryusui|GM: that's fair enough! means we don't have to worry about our worlds stepping on each other's toes XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: heh, Noted! So we are doing an alternative Furry Earth.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: So this means, Where are this events gonna occur in? Mind you I'm saving most of the magical girl related questions for the next step.
Reality Glitch: Now that I think about it: I want to go with a regular Alt-Earth instead of a furry variant.
Ryusui|GM: well i'm gonna go straight up and say "the US or an analogue thereof," because as Japanese as the genre is I don't think researching Japanese names and culture for this game will be a productive use of time and energy
Reality Glitch: I agree, but I like the idea of Japanese Shinto being real and the powers being granted be kami patrons.
Ryusui|GM: not sure i wanna tie this to any real-world religion.
Shadowhunt: The thing is, not all of us have a jist of what shinto is exactly, let alone the limitations that might place.
Reality Glitch: Well, it doesn't have to be overtly shinto; just some form of animism, mostly.
Ryusui|GM: most of what i know about shinto comes from the bastardized version practiced by the Kojin in FFXIV
Reality Glitch: <@Shadowhunt>; Shinto is an animistic religion: a belief that all things have life and/or a soul. That's the part I find most interesting.
Ryusui|GM: which is to say...pretty much what RG just said
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Hmm, I'll admit that i wans't planning in pinning the magical powers to any religion.
Reality Glitch: What I'm thinking is: the spirit of a person, place, thing, idea, or general concept decides that we are worthy to be their champion (or sufficient to be their pawn) and bestows upon us the power to do so. Basically, we're all D&D 5e Warlocks.
Shadowhunt: Animism sound like it could work well though. And it isn't exactly a singular religon.
Shadowhunt: Plus Rogue things/ideas/places could also be the things we fight.
Reality Glitch: Yeah; as long a we don't use any of the established figures in Shinto, we can get away with it being a "general animism" world. Maybe Shinto is just the Japan of the spirit world.
Reality Glitch: If we go with Modern-day U.S.A., then that opens up the possibility of native american animistic spirits.
Shadowhunt: Kinda makes it sould like we will be the Sidereal Exalted of the setting... every time the little gods start to run amuk, or just do things they aren't supposed to, we have to fix it. Like some sort of reality police force...
Reality Glitch: I can get behind that.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Hmm, I would probably just have a single big baddie and the underlings, which are the main threat in the area.
Reality Glitch: That can work too....
Shadowhunt: Nothing say it can't be that in the end. Most of the damage being caused by some villian mobilising their own schemes.
Reality Glitch: ....We are basically Reality Police™, and we've been "assigned" to a particular case.
Ryusui|GM: is it wrong this talk about animism and reality police is making me think of Bogleech's Noisy Tenantverse
Ryusui|GM: like lemme see if i can summarize
Reality Glitch: Never heard of it.
Ryusui|GM: you're in for a ride my friend
Ryusui|GM: http://www.bogleech.com/awfulhospital/intro.html
Ryusui|GM: start here
Ryusui|GM: but lemme summarize
Ryusui|GM: "everything that exists has a 'soul'"
Ryusui|GM: "these souls manifest in different ways in different planes of being"
Reality Glitch: You showed me Awful Hospital before.
Ryusui|GM: "your refrigerator might be a terrifying monster in another universe, or possibly a deity"
Ryusui|GM: "likewise you yourself could be an inanimate statue elsewhere, or perhaps a sentient mobile star"
Ryusui|GM: "the possibilities are endless; all of these are representations of the same nucleus of existence"
Reality Glitch: And what you're describing is basically a variantion of the animism I'm thinking about.
Ryusui|GM: actually now that i'm talking about it
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Hmmmm.....
Ryusui|GM: i'm suddenly thinking of...I think the term was "revereberators"?
Ryusui|GM: they're parasites, basically
Ryusui|GM: they don't, in the strictest sense, exist
Reality Glitch: The kind I was referring to is "everything is people in this universe".
Ryusui|GM: but they latch onto other things that do exist
Reality Glitch: <@!Ryusui|GM>; so they're the existence equivalent of viruses?
Ryusui|GM: yes, you could say that!
Reality Glitch: Are viruses alive? We can't tell given how close to the edge they are.
Ryusui|GM: so yeah like
Reality Glitch: Do reverberaters exist? We can't tell given how close to the edge they are.
Ryusui|GM: i guess a way of thinking of it is, in Noisy Tenantverse, not only "everything is people," but if you're in the right realm of being they manifest as people as well
Ryusui|GM: and "everything" includes not just objects or creatures, but ideas as well
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: While i think some animism touches can stay, I'm thinking of this being goddesses based on a certain aspect deciding to grant powers to people in order to fight an incoming threat, which is in a similar vein to the goddesses, albeit bent to the dark ways.
Ryusui|GM: "concepts" perceive each other through a myriad of forms, and are perceived in turn, ensuring a mutual feedback loop of, well, existence
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: We sorta jumped to in-between setting the location and defining how magical girls behaved xD
Reality Glitch: <@!Ryusui|GM>; That's still not exactly what I'm thinking: "Everying thing in this existence has a consciousness in this existence."
Ryusui|GM: yeah i getcha
Reality Glitch: I'm fine with Modern day U.S.A. as the general location.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Alright, <@!Ryusui|GM> , <@Shadowhunt> Do you agree with having the location be Modern Day Untied States?
Reality Glitch: <@Shadowhunt>, <@!Ryusui|GM>; what do you two think?
Ryusui|GM: United States. Yes. XD
Shadowhunt: Sure
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: GOOD, Now we can get to the fun part
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: MAGIGIGIGICAL GIRLS!
Reality Glitch: I still think magical folk should be co-ed.
Ryusui|GM: what you mean is, "there are magical boys too," right? XD
Reality Glitch: Yes.
Reality Glitch: Why?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Yes that can be perfectly a damn thing.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: 👌
Ryusui|GM: in all honesty we totes had magical boys too in Persona Burst
Ryusui|GM: my bro joined in at one point and came up with a pretty awesome character + mascot sidekick
Ryusui|GM: he didn't stay permanently but
Reality Glitch: What was the duo like?
Ryusui|GM: combat butler who could summon the mecha-like Icarus and his cute little fox partner ❤
Ryusui|GM: there was a point where like
Ryusui|GM: he rolled so well that he sliced a giant monster in half and kicked it right back through the portal it was coming out of
Reality Glitch: I have an idea for how the whole "animistic spirit gives you power for its own purposes" thing might work. Would you like to hear it; <@!Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla>?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Now, I am also coupling this with defining which version of Fate we are using and how the magical girls will work both in-world and mechanically.
After reading a bit, I think FAE would work best for both its simplicity and easiness of use.
Magical girls, however?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I was thinking on the powers themselves being an item rather than innate given powers.
Reality Glitch: Like a totem of their spirit patron?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: this Items are the powers granted given a physical form, so say, a goddess of deception could give you a Make-Up set with the ability to copy people's faces.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: (Also, whoops, people calling me for dinner ^^;)
Reality Glitch: I was using "totem" loosely here, so that would qualify.
Reality Glitch: But I like the idea that it's not always a deific being that does this; though, all of the mascot spirits would be on the same side as said divine patron.
Reality Glitch: Also, I feel we could take some mechanics from Frontier Spirit. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/161674/Frontier-Spirit-o-A-World-of-Adventure-for-Fate-Core
Ryusui|GM: WE HAVE POWER MORPHERS
Reality Glitch: That too! 😄
Reality Glitch: I've got an idea that my character's patron/mascot is the spirit of someone dead they knew in life.
Shadowhunt: lol, once the whole girl requirement is removed, we are kinda basiclly power rangers.
Reality Glitch: There are more differences then that, but yes: closer in that direction.
Reality Glitch: For one: no zords.
Shadowhunt: Ok, minus the girl requirement, a mech, probably a larger mech composed of the smaller ones, a plethora of weapons and vehicles, and combination attacks.
Reality Glitch: So, everything that defines the super sentai genre as most westerners know it.
Reality Glitch: Though; if we go with the "your powers are symbolic of who you are", I wouldn't be surprised if an American managed to manifest a mech of pure magical energy.
Ryusui|GM: technically <@Reality Glitch> Power Rangers didn't originally have Zords
Ryusui|GM: the original Goranger didn't
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Megas XXL
Ryusui|GM: i don't remember when Zords originally came in, in fact
Ryusui|GM: (obviously before Zyuranger/MMPR, of course! XD)
Shadowhunt: To be fair... I kinda was going to with a gundam ish gimmick for my Magical Girl actually... No actual giant robot, but a power set reminicent of what one would expect of a gundam...
Reality Glitch: Spider-Man had a megazord.
Reality Glitch: A loin-themed one bizarrely enough; don't know why it wasn't spider-themed.
Reality Glitch: <@Shadowhunt>; so, like Iron Man?
Shadowhunt: Kinda?
Reality Glitch: <@!Ryusui|GM>; I did say "as most westerners know it."
Ryusui|GM: fair enough
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: But alas, i am back, I'll check the Book because i can actually download it once i figure a good name for this account and combine it with my SRD FATE knowledge.
Reality Glitch: Wait; I don't remember if we agreed on a furry world or not. I'm leaning towards not.
Ryusui|GM: i'm leaning towards yeah? XD
Reality Glitch: <@Shadowhunt>?
Shadowhunt: Either way works for me.
Reality Glitch: <@!Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla>?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I was leaning towards yeah ^^;
Reality Glitch: Alright; I see about tweaking my idea.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I take it isn't a detriment to playing, is it?
Reality Glitch: Nope; just have to alter my initial character idea.
Reality Glitch: What do you think about my "non-deity spirits can grant magical power as part of the job description of working for a deity" idea?
Ryusui|GM: it makes sense to me
Ryusui|GM: like we get our powers from our mascot buddies
Ryusui|GM: who are obvs more Kero than Kyubey XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Ah, yeah, AND YEAH XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: By the looks of it you guys are leaning more towards having a rigid set of powers rather than having collectable items be the main sources of magical power, am I correct?
Reality Glitch: Why not both?
Reality Glitch: Then again, you said "main source", so let's go with that then.
Shadowhunt: I can't see why it wouldn't be possible to be augmented by collectables.
Reality Glitch: ^
Shadowhunt: Thought a character's given power set my effect just whay a given collectable does.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Because if you go for the former, the latter would probably end up as a Macguffin or just an activator, contrary to the powers being solely on the item (probably with weird one-situation gimmicks) , the PC's being merely "Choosen Ones" cleared to use them without guaranteed smiting from above.
Reality Glitch: Just means our base powers can't be easily stripped.
Reality Glitch: I'm for the "main source is from mascot and bonus items might show up." option.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I see, so to give an idea, this would be the equivalent to Digimon 02,where the Digimon could evolve later one, but had access to digimentals for side powers.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: But that idea also works, RG!
Ryusui|GM: well here's a thought
Ryusui|GM: we have an innate power set, but we also have access to, well
Ryusui|GM: clow card equivalents
Reality Glitch: I haven't seen Cardcaptor since it was a Saturday-mourning cartoon, so You'll need to remind me what those are.
Reality Glitch: >implying ive seen that part of the show
Ryusui|GM: well, i'll admit the utility i'm thinking of is something almost akin to Caster shells from Outlaw Star
Ryusui|GM: like
Ryusui|GM: like Clow Cards they'd have big, flashy, themed magical effects
Reality Glitch: Never heard of that franchise.
Ryusui|GM: but like Caster shells they would be limited in supply
Ryusui|GM: in Outlaw Star, protagonist Gene has a special kind of gun called a Caster which shoots what I can best describe as sci-magical bullets
Ryusui|GM: it's not a franchise btw; it's a single TV series
Ryusui|GM: funnily enough I'm pretty sure it ran on Toonami before Cardcaptors was a thing
Reality Glitch: That counts as a franchise.
Ryusui|GM: lemme see come to think of it
Reality Glitch: I was trying to be generic.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Iirc the Clow Cards held the powers of the big bad, except a teeny fraction, so it would be for example, a Water fairy that let you control water and throw it to your opponent, or access a big tornado
Ryusui|GM: well shit i was wrong
Ryusui|GM: Cardcaptors was 2000; Outlaw Star was 2001
Reality Glitch: Also, "sci-magical"? Do you "mean magi-technological" or "super-scientific"?
Ryusui|GM: (and this is US airdates, not Japanese premieres)
Ryusui|GM: the first one, as i recall
Ryusui|GM: it was largely a sci-fi setting but there were some mystical trappings
Reality Glitch: Now I'm remembering the ma-gun from one of the Final Fantasy cartoons.
Ryusui|GM: like the primary antagonists basically being a bunch of interplanetary sorcerors
Ryusui|GM: and the main goal of the series being something called the Galactic Leyline
Ryusui|GM: also HELL YES FINAL FANTASY UNLIMITED
Ryusui|GM: it was stock footage but damn the Magun sequences owned
Ryusui|GM: "THE SOIL CHARGE TRIAD TO USE ON YOU HAS BEEN DECIDED!"
Ryusui|GM: i'd never make the mistake of calling it a great series but it was pretty solid and decent
Reality Glitch: I remember having a character for some pretend-play/freeform RPG I did back in highschool with <@ThorNonymous> and our friends where I had the ma-gun but someone changed all the soil colors to green, but they didn't specify what kind(s) of green so I pulled a Magic: the Gathering and fired a soil-generating shot.
Casper: Okay, I’ve read up what I missed, and suddenly I’m un-uninterested.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: But I think I got this: The goddesses grant you fragments of their power (which is still a lot) to aid you in your mission of recovering the MAmuffins (Magic Muffins, or MAMUs) Artifacts which are also fragments of power of the gods, which have started surfacing as part of the machinations of an evil interloper.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Oh dear
Casper: That is to say, I’m interested now.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Oh dear xD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: We have got a four passenger car now?
Reality Glitch: I'm fine with that.
Casper: When I heard “totem spirit,” my mind went to totem poles, and then to my potential character’s powers being based from the thunderbird.
Reality Glitch: Cool.
Casper: Narrowing in on locale, is west coast alright?
Reality Glitch: I'm fine with that.
Shadowhunt: Why the west coast?
Reality Glitch: Actually, why not have it be a cross country thing?
Casper: Well, I wanted to say “Pacific north-west,” but then I worried that’s too centered around my power in particular.
Reality Glitch: That being?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Probably because of the idea of a town near the coast, it gives quite a few locations where things can happen?
Casper: The thunderbird.
Reality Glitch: Ah.
Casper: It’s a Native American mythology critter, prominent on totem poles.
Reality Glitch: I know.
Casper: Blame slow typing.
Casper: So are we gonna establish a solid World aspect or two?
Reality Glitch: I think <@!Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla> might have more they want to ask of us first.
Casper: <@!Ryusui|GM> hasn’t said anything in a bit, meanwhile.
Ryusui|GM: yeah, my attention is in multiple places
Reality Glitch: Nor <@Shadowhunt>.
Shadowhunt: It hasen't been that long since my last reply...
Reality Glitch: Guess I'm just being paranoid, then; sorry.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Well, We already come to near the end of my puny "basic steps" notes. (sorry, i'm not that good at GMing yet xD).
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: We did say the world was basically Furry Earth, no, not Ryus', Revos'.
Reality Glitch: So, world aspects?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: <@!Casper> <@!Ryusui|GM> <@Shadowhunt> Should we begin doing actual FATE World groundwork and prepare some world aspects? sorry if im a bit new to Directing a campaign ^^;
Casper: Yeah, let’s do that.
Reality Glitch: Maybe Magic is the Will of the Spirits?
Ryusui|GM: sounds good to me
Ryusui|GM: er
Ryusui|GM: was addressing revo
Ryusui|GM: that said it's an interesting take
Casper: I like the idea that we were rare cases of possession actually working out.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Let me quickly run to my Google Drive to set up a Doc
Ryusui|GM: moreover, i'm liking the idea that we're instruments of wills that may not always coincide with what we desire
Casper: Like, “congratulations, you managed to embrace the power that was thrust into you without imploding and turning into a monster!”
Ryusui|GM: ("We have managed to avoid drowning!")
Ryusui|GM: i'm not sure if we should be rare in that sense
Ryusui|GM: if what you're saying is
Shadowhunt: I'm pretty sure we already established that kinda thing doesn't happen. Powers usually only run rampent after chronic misuse.
Ryusui|GM: "for every successful magical girl, there's dozens of failed attempts either suffering or on the rampage"
Ryusui|GM: i think we pretty roundly vetoed that
Reality Glitch: That wasn't what I got.
Casper: Oh? What did we agree on, then? (I might have to re-read the log.)
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: ("The unreal black creature in yourself will have lesser chances of obliterating you! Congra-Tula-tions~!")
But yes, we did say it could make things bad, but only if you went extreme bananas willy-nilly style with the usage of your powers
Reality Glitch: My understanding was that they only choose those they believe will continue working for them and set them up for success in terms of being able to use the powers without putting one's self in danger.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: in other words, it could be a thing, but its gonna be a very, VERY rare case.
Casper: I mean, I was thinking that there was nothing actively making stuff possess people (except for some big bad causing the overall situation), but those that manage to get things under control get the attention of those little spirit animals.
Reality Glitch: They aren't going to be strictly animals.
Casper: You know what I meant.
Reality Glitch: The spirit of a rock, or the spirit of capitalism could be your mascot/patron.
Shadowhunt: Capitalism Ho
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Oh dear
Ryusui|GM: so kind of a thing like YYH
Reality Glitch: http://yokaiwatch.wikia.com/wiki/Spenp
Ryusui|GM: the potential exists in most people
Ryusui|GM: there's no one organization handing it out
Ryusui|GM: some people have more of it than others
Ryusui|GM: it's kind of a lottery really
Ryusui|GM: some people achieve this sync, most don't
Ryusui|GM: and there's no negative effect if you don't
Reality Glitch: I'm thinking more like, "someone (or something) has to give you the powers".
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: If I'm right, we did establish that Gods > who give power to > Spirits > which find people to make > Magical Girls/Guys.
Reality Glitch: Sure.
Casper: And the big bad is... riling up various spirits to cause trouble?
Reality Glitch: Heh; interesting.
Ryusui|GM: is it wrong i'm now thinking of Shaman King a little
Reality Glitch: I've heard of that, but haven't seen it.
Casper: Ooh, yeah!
Ryusui|GM: but yeah i like this idea that What's Going On is that someone is Upsetting The Balance and instilling spirits with malice
Ryusui|GM: like they're the same spirits who give us our powers
Ryusui|GM: er, kinds of spirits
Ryusui|GM: but when they're afflicted so, the things they're the spirits of begin to go...haywire
Ryusui|GM: and i'm thinking this isn't obvious at first!
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Same here, but yeah Caillou, Ryu got it right. This spirits are, instead of allied with us, allied with the big bad.
Reality Glitch: How about: instead of "filling them with malice" they seek out the more malicious ones and .... encourage them to do what they do, but more so.
Ryusui|GM: i kinda prefer the idea that most spirits are at worst morally neutral?
Ryusui|GM: like, hmm
Ryusui|GM: i like the idea that whoever is ultimately responsible for giving us our powers isn't catching on that something is really BAD WRONG because spirits going a little nuts is a common phenomenon!
Reality Glitch: Well; I'd rather we go with spirits being as varied as humans in terms of morality.
Ryusui|GM: magical girls like us have been around for a long time putting out the little metaphorical fires that start, on account of spirits assimilating human bad vibes over time
Ryusui|GM: imagine like
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: This
Ryusui|GM: natural disasters happening where people have been damaging the environment, because the sprits have been harmed
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: this reminds of PreCure
Reality Glitch: Especially since human consciousness is a kind of spirit.
Ryusui|GM: or "hauntings" occurring where hideous crimes happened, because the local spirits have been tainted by the malice and fear and pain and sorrow of the acts in question
Ryusui|GM: they pick up on the bad and accumulate it and when it reaches a certain threshold, Bad Stuff Happens
Reality Glitch: Again; I don't like the idea of objective morality.
Ryusui|GM: and i'm fine with that
Ryusui|GM: to put it another way
Ryusui|GM: i don't care for the idea that evil spirits are common
Ryusui|GM: their attitudes and thoughts and behavior may very wildly but it's rare that a spirit actually wants to spread harm and destruction of its own accord, not because it's been "afflicted"
Ryusui|GM: ...i'm gonna go ahead and nominate that as an actual term
Ryusui|GM: "afflicted"
Ryusui|GM: spirits that've accumulated enough bad vibes to go berserk are "afflicted"
Reality Glitch: Well, I'd think they'd be as common as evil humans, but there are spirit police that keep them in check and mortals are only called in when things get really out of hand, i.e. a B.B.E.G. is looming.
Ryusui|GM: well my thought, again, on the matter is that most "evil" spirits are just "afflicted"; they accumulate bad vibes and eventually snap, and our job is to "purify" their affliction with our powers
Ryusui|GM: that's not to say evil spirits don't exist at all!
Reality Glitch: And I don't think "affliction" should be any different for spirits than the equivalent phenomenon in mortal humans.
Ryusui|GM: all right, i'm gonna concede the point
Ryusui|GM: i'm fine with things being both ways
Ryusui|GM: there are spirits that go nuts and we have to cure them, and there are spirits who are just plain assholes XD
Ryusui|GM: but i'll admit a gloriously horrible thought came to mind
Reality Glitch: I just don't find there being such an easy out to be as interesting.
Ryusui|GM: what do you mean "an easy out"?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: (God's I'm gonna have one hell of a day Writing this down.)
I do like having a mix of both, Bad spirits deserve a kick in the ass, the ones that have sucked a bit too much hurt deserve to be purified.
Ryusui|GM: like revo says
Ryusui|GM: that's the scenario i'm thinking of
Ryusui|GM: but anyway, that gloriously horrible thought
Ryusui|GM: we have deities here, who are basically spirits writ large, right?
Ryusui|GM: and most of them are good?
Reality Glitch: <@!Ryusui|GM>
"They aren't truely evil, we just need to clean them."
"No, I'm preaty sure they're just a jerk at heart; that'll take more than 'cleaning' to change."
Ryusui|GM: yeah, we're doing things both ways
Ryusui|GM: some are jerks and need to be captured
Ryusui|GM: some have sucked down too much hurt and need healing
Ryusui|GM: but yeah, i dunno why but i like this idea that the forces of good plain don't recognize what's happening, not to its full extent?
Reality Glitch: And others are misguided and need to be exposed to the truth.
Ryusui|GM: like i'm reminded of one of my favorite bits in Good Omens where someone wonders why they can't detect the boy Adam's aura
Ryusui|GM: by "the forces of good" i mean the deities giving us our marching orders
Ryusui|GM: whatever's going down has been in the offing for a while, in secret
Ryusui|GM: but like i was saying
Casper: What do you mean by that, <@Reality Glitch>?
Reality Glitch: That's .... I'm not sure what the proper term for helping someone who is chronically misguided is.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: The situation has always been, "Keep the peace in the spirit world" that they don't figure someone is actively messing with this peace.
So I think I'll write [The Spirit World is Uneasy...] and [Something is Upsetting The Balance...?] as a Trouble world aspect, is that alright?
Ryusui|GM: I'd say the two could be combined? like [Something is Upsetting the Spirits], with another aspect like [Evil Lurks In Hiding] or some such
Ryusui|GM: like to finish that thought from earlier
Casper: I was more referring to the context behind the statement; why the first person?
Ryusui|GM: it's explained the reason the guy can't detect Adam's aura is because it's huge, like, covering the whole town huge
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Hmm, I see, I'll write that down instead, if it isn't much trouble.
Reality Glitch: Typo; the "I" isn't supposed to be there.
Reality Glitch: <@!Casper>
Casper: I saw.
Reality Glitch: <@!Ryusui|GM>; so it looks like background noise?
Ryusui|GM: he can't see it because he's standing in it, is the idea
Ryusui|GM: i.e.
Reality Glitch: Exactly.
Ryusui|GM: whatever we're up against, it's managed to hide itself as it's grown
Ryusui|GM: to the point it's vaster than the good deities combined
Reality Glitch: Well; that's problematic.
Ryusui|GM: exactly XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: That's the idea!!
Ryusui|GM: the saving grace, much like in Good Omens, is that it's not fully awakened yet
Ryusui|GM: or maybe it manifests as something limited
Ryusui|GM: like just think about it
Ryusui|GM: some malevolent little mascot critter turning out to just be the avatar of some cataclysmic abomination
Reality Glitch: Why not just have it be a rival deity?
Ryusui|GM: god it writes itself in my head: it looks like just the evil mascot to our bad guys but it's actually the string-puller
Ryusui|GM: that's my point!
Ryusui|GM: it's a rival deity
Ryusui|GM: the tropes are practically assembling themselves in my head
Ryusui|GM: the other deities put him down/sealed him away long ago
Ryusui|GM: the seal didn't stop him from recovering, though; he's just grown behind the scenes
Ryusui|GM: and now a tiny piece of him is poking through, and he masquerades as the mascot of other, more obvious threats
Ryusui|GM: we're practice!
Ryusui|GM: he's planning on taking his mayhem show global but he's testing his game against us first
Ryusui|GM: what he doesn't know of course is we're going to kick his ass XD
Reality Glitch: Eventually.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Oh dear, And i got it slightly working https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q8JgOjC9LhdIxTEkJjnyugP454PDf6UPHPv70rhLK64/edit
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Be free to point out anything that doesn't add up.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: (Its on COmment, so you can also do it from the sheet)
Reality Glitch: I've made some of my adjustments.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Yeah, i noticed the mistake, thanks for pointing it out!
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Although don't forget to discuss here so the log picks it up
Reality Glitch: Alright.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: the comments are so we can do the changes once we finish discussing it faster ^^;
Casper: Everything checks out, I think. <@ThorNonymous> is incoming, meanwhile. Should we wait for him before discussing characters?
ThorNonymous: Hello
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: speak of the Devil, A five man band is here!
Reality Glitch: Too late; we already did.
ThorNonymous: And he shall appear?
ThorNonymous: Yo
Reality Glitch: I call being The Heart.
Casper: Before that, are there any mechanical differences we should be aware of?
Casper: (Also, dibs on a hotheaded lancer.)
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Right, namely how Magical Items and Powers are gonna work.
ThorNonymous: Dang, big guy it is
Reality Glitch: I would like to pull from Evil Hat's Frontier Spirit for inspiration.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: (i call the magical pe- oh wait.)
Shadowhunt: I'm probably gonna stickl with the Smart guy
Reality Glitch: <@!Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla>; what?
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: (Im the GM :P)
Reality Glitch: Right.
Shadowhunt: Although, shouldn't we start with who the leader is?
Shadowhunt: Because the Lancer tends to be a foil to them.
Reality Glitch: Leader: Leads the team
Lancer: Leaders foil
Big Guy: Brawn
Smart Guy: Brains
Heart: Emotional/Moral Core.
Reality Glitch: How wants to play leader?
Casper: All I know is that I’m a hotheaded birb.
Ryusui|GM: okay, question
Ryusui|GM: can I be "The Big Guy," but technically be something cute with a huge amount of firepower and little restraint rather than the literal big guy?
Reality Glitch: Yes.
Shadowhunt: cute bruiser is a trope
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Ryu pls
ThorNonymous: uhh well I was thinking wendigo patron, usually relatively calm if moderately skittish except the associated occasional battle frenzy, work name is Deer Force
Reality Glitch: Megumi would fit that description.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: this is magical girls
Reality Glitch: >implying i spelled her name right
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: cute bruiser is not just loved, but encouraged
Ryusui|GM: i just wanted to know how closely we were sticking with the pattern XD
Ryusui|GM: anyways i'll take the Brawn slot
Shadowhunt: But we really should start with the leader...
Reality Glitch: NOT IT!
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: But right let me respost what RG messaged but with people's names in the roles
Ryusui|GM: i'm going to gun for being the team's screwball, and we'll see how long it takes before i turn her into a bundle of trauma and issues
Reality Glitch: That sounds like lancer material.
Reality Glitch: The big guy doesn't have to be the only bruiser.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Leader: Leads the team. | ThorNonymous
Lancer: Leaders foil. || Ryusui
Big Guy: Brawn. ||| Caillou
Smart Guy: Brains. |||| Shadowhunt
Heart: Emotional/Moral Core. ||||| RealityGlitch
Casper: Yeah, the lancer can be strong in finesse rather than brawn... which is what I wanted to be.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Did i get this right?
Casper: Question; does anyone actually want to be the leader?
Reality Glitch: I think so; though.
ThorNonymous: I could do it?
Reality Glitch: I can, if need be.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Ah, if Thor can, then let me edit...
Reality Glitch: Not sure how good of a heart I can be with my idea.
Casper: Because I was thinking it would actually work if you swapped me and Ryusui. “Big magic firepower” can be a leader trait.
Reality Glitch: ^
ThorNonymous: I can fill basically any role
Reality Glitch: And a straight lancer to a crazed leader also works.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Hm, i see so it would be
Leader: Leads the team. | Ryusui
Lancer: Leaders foil. || ThorNonymous
Big Guy: Brawn. ||| Caillou
Smart Guy: Brains. |||| Shadowhunt
Heart: Emotional/Moral Core. ||||| RealityGlitch
Ryusui|GM: oh god
Ryusui|GM: i'm not sure i want to be leader XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Also, is it alright if we can leave actually making charcter for a session 0.2?
Ryusui|GM: though i guess it's an interesting idea
Ryusui|GM: look i'm gonna get this out of the way
Casper: Wait, how’d I end up the Big Guy?
Reality Glitch: Now I've have an idea: What if our characters are us, but from this world?
Ryusui|GM: my spirit's name is Bigfoot, and it looks like a giant cackling wind-up cymbal monkey
Ryusui|GM: <@Reality Glitch> no
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Ah.....sadly, i think im gonna veto that, yeah.
Ryusui|GM: i don't wanna be Isekai Ryusui
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Nobody wants to see GM IRL ME in action
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: trust meù
Reality Glitch: Not Isekai; many-worlds-interpretation.
Ryusui|GM: i wanna be my crazy girl with magical bazookas and a clattering plastic nightmare for a spirit animal
Ryusui|GM: Bigfoot talks entirely in laughs ("Hee hee hee hee hee!") and I'm the only one who can understand him
Casper: Reiterating; at what point was it suggested that I’m the Big Guy?
ThorNonymous: Big Guy is a state of mind
ThorNonymous: Naturally imposing sometimes softie
Reality Glitch: Yeah; Thor and DC should be swapped.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Ah.... Okay, can we reiterate what your roles are, then? i think i got it a bit messed up
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: AH
Casper: I said I wanted to be the Lancer, repeatedly.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Leader: Leads the team. | DetectiveCaillou
Lancer: Leaders foil. || Ryusui
Big Guy: Brawn. ||| ThorNonymous
Smart Guy: Brains. |||| Shadowhunt
Heart: Emotional/Moral Core. ||||| RealityGlitch
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I apologise, DC, i got it confused too many times 🙏
Ryusui|GM: can DC be leader and me the lancer? i feel like those would be more appropriate for...well, my character concept, at least XD
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: I see, if DC is alright with that, although its getting pretty late and family wants me off the Laptop and into Bed XD
Reality Glitch: I can see the leader being the wacko and the lancer and heart have to work together to keep them in check.
Casper: Hm... My concept was as a short-fuse shorty, but a Lancer dynamic could work in that I’m the only one to really openly point out my unease with our Leader’s behavior. “Our leader, ladies and gents!”
Reality Glitch: "No kinding."
Ryusui|GM: fair enough XD
Casper: Or rather, the only one bold enough to openly take issue with the shenanigans.
Reality Glitch: Actually, I can imagine this being a House-esque situation, where everyone does.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Alright, let switch to phone, we should leave characters for next session, for now, can you tell me what is the roles we decided while i go to bed?
Ryusui|GM: HA HA
Ryusui|GM: looks like i'm leader, then XD
Casper: Lancer.
Ryusui|GM: against all common sense and sanity XD
ThorNonymous: Excellent, I can work with this placement. I'm gonna use my head in tough situation at least once :}
Reality Glitch: Heart
Ryusui|GM: ("I'm not sure that thing she's got is even a real spirit!")
Casper: <@Shadowhunt>?
Shadowhunt: Yeah?
Reality Glitch: (Ryu; you should say "And I'll form the head." once everyone else has gone.)
Ryusui|GM: HA HA HA
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Okay, I'll copy that into the doc!
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Should we ave final words now?
Casper: I will make the perfect baby trash birb.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Pfft, it's just session 0 xD
Casper: <@Shadowhunt>: We were asked what our final choices for roles were.
Ryusui|GM: "What's that, Bigfoot? Turn 'em into pretty fireworks? Ha ha... -cocks bazooka- Thought you'd never ask!"
Reality Glitch: I'm going with an alternate, less exaggerated version of my character from Lefurage.
Shadowhunt: Right, I'm playing the smart guy then.
ThorNonymous: I mean you could also be the big guy I guess?
ThorNonymous: As mentioned I can fill just about any role
Reality Glitch: I could see both of you being both roles at once, but you should each have your own focus.
Casper: A big strong guy who spouts spiritual wisdom, and a nerd who’s just big. XD
Reality Glitch: Heh.
ThorNonymous: [a smart guy] who's basically a monk
ThorNonymous: Or a big guy who's basically a monk
Shadowhunt: Kinda? odds are she will lean more towards being the brains. Considering their power set, and nature.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Leader: Leads the team. | Ryusui
Lancer: Leaders foil. || Detective Caillou
Big Guy: Brawn. ||| ThorNonymous
Smart Guy: Brains. |||| Shadowhunt
Heart: Emotional/Moral Core. ||||| RealityGlitch
Is this the final choice?
Casper: Yep.
ThorNonymous: Sure
Reality Glitch: I've already suggested it in the doc.
Casper: I will make an ANGERY BABY.
Ryusui|GM: i think you mean
Ryusui|GM: "Is that your final answer?"</regisphilbin>
Ryusui|GM: and yes
Casper: draws crude picture of pissed off derpy birb with only the word “FUCK” next to it
Reality Glitch: <@!Casper>; "ALWAYS ANGERY; ALL THE TIME!"?
Ryusui|GM: "So which of you jerks wants to be the first to run away? Trick question...you're not getting away. >8D"
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: "I'm glad you have choosen to help our cause my dear.... M a g I c a L g I r L s! ~"
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: ! End
Casper: Not all the time, but yeah, he’s a short-tempered shorty.
Melissa "Baillie" Brambilla: Oh, fudge
Reality Glitch: !end