- 1. Horror: Your characters are taken from their own worlds and thrown into a terrifying situation! Things are creepy, resources are scarce, and ensuring your own survival is paramount.
- 2. Sex Game: For whatever contrived and nonsensical reason, your characters are forced into a world where they gotta bone. Aside from smutstuff, you have the opportunity to play out how very awkward it is to navigate these agreements and encounters before and after. Lasting bonds can form from something you didn't expect! But so can eternal regret.
- 3. Slice of Life: Characters are forced to live together in familial units. They have an opportunity here -- in spite of being stuck -- to relax and slow down and do some fun, ordinary things. Picnics, dates, school, etc.
- 4. Fantasy: Characters are forced into guilds and roles, given weapons and are made to utilize their powers in coordinated units to complete missions.
- 5. Scifi: Characters are thrust on to the frontier of spacial colonization! Characters on a spaceship! Characters being drafted into an Imperial Earth Army to fight/conquer foreign entities! Characters being in a world where they are assessed, identified, tracked and policed by artificial intelligence! And so on!
- 6. Reincarnation/ New Identity: Your character has been reborn at this game, or given a new identity. Work out their karma or help them come to terms with having to live a new life.
- 7. Asylum/Prison/Institutionalized Identity: Characters are locked up and put under heavy surveillance. Slowly they are institutionalized and disintegrated from ordinary social rules of engagement. They could be told that they've been identified as mentally dysfunctional, or they could be in prison! Are they pleading their innocence, or do they know they're guilty as fuck back in their world?
- 8. Assignment-Based/Mercenary/Survival: Characters have to put their skills to good use as drafted mercenaries. Help your captors assassinate, spy, sabotage, infiltrate, steal, and terrorize for points that will lead up to your freedom or the freedom of others.
- 9. Your Choice!: Do whatever!
II - SITUATION
- 1. First Impressions: You never forget your first impression of someone. Unless it was entirely forgettable.
- 2. Oh Hey Again: I kind of know you!!!! Hi!!! I hate this place but love familiarity hi!!!
- 3. Event: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING and your characters have either run into each other or sought each other out to stick together during it!
- 4. Living Quarters: Surprise, your characters are in the same house! Or room! Or building! Either way you have to share space and facilities with this person. Enjoy!
- 5. Mystery: Who Did It? Why Are We Here? Characters are disappearing, people are dying, whatever is happening it is FISHY!
- 6. Canon Update/Respawn/"But we know each other, I swear!": One character comes (back) to a game and does not remember previous CR. A relationship or friend or even hateship is forgotten. How will this be dealt with?
- 7. Begrudgingly Working Together: You are so fucking annoying but I guess we have to fight Monster of the Day Together/Get Unstuck-UnLost Together/Find Our Way Back/Help Each Other Out.
- 8. Is This a Date: Gee, you guys sure are doing a lot of things that people on dates do and you're having a lot of fun [sweats]...
- 9. Violence: Characters beat the shit out of each other or help each other out of a gory situation with terrible traumatic injuries or something!
- 10. One-Sided(?) Crush: How do you get their attention? Or, alternatively, how do you ignore that this person obviously is crushing on you and it's totally awkward
- 11. Protecting/Saving: Your character's chance to be a hero or a damsel!
- 12. Network Post: Mandatory bs.
- 13. Inbox: Hey, can I talk to you for a second? In private?
- 14. Your Choice!: Do whatever!
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Right, right! Of course, it won't happen again! I'll make sure of it!
[ and with that she starts dragging Marion along with her into the house. She doesn't let go until she's managed to slam the door behind them and finally releases her, giving the girl a little push for good measure. ]
What the heck are you doing?! Are you trying to get us both arrested or something?!
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Yoshiko has to drag Marion inside practically kicking and screaming. She calms down a little once she's been released, but still whirls around to look up at Yoshiko with the fiercest rage her tiny body can muster.]
What are you doing?! I tried to tell them I'm too grown up for their stupid schools! They just picked me up and dragged me here.
[There's a scoff then, and she mutters:]
What's a fallen angel afraid of, anyway?
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So what if you're too grown up?! You don't look it! And neither of us have any of our powers anymore! [ not that... yoshiko had any in the first place BUT THAT'S NOT ANYONE'S BUSINESS BUT HER OWN ] While we're here we've got to act like normal girls as much as we can!
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Oh yeah?! What's so normal about going around calling yourself 'Yohane' and going on about angels and demons?
[She's a tiny bit bitter that Yoshiko can get away with her nonsense, while Marion... can't. People naturally assume Marion's full of it when she claims to be older than she looks
and acts, but no one can prove Yoshiko wasn't a fallen angel before she came here.]School's a waste of time for me. You can go be normal with your friends, but I have more important things to do.
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[ But that sounded like it hit a nerve. She's been trying to keep doing Yohane's voice while she's here but that got it to crack and slip back into her natural voice. She doesn't even try to get her tone back into control before she continues. ]
Besides! When you cause trouble, it gets me in trouble! You saw the way he acted like it was my fault you can't stay in school! I'm not taking the fall for you!
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I don't care, I'm not letting anyone treat me like a little kid!
[She folds her arms and gives a haughty little huff.]
Serves you right if I get caught again, anyway.
[Why should she be the only one suffering?]
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[ Suffice to say: she mad. ]
If you don't quit causing trouble, I'm gonna have to start taking serious measures. Is that what you want me to do?
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Uh-huh, sure. I bet you couldn't do anything if you tried, Yohane.
[She's also supremely overconfident. What's Yoshiko going to do, anyway? Threaten her with some fallen angel nonsense? That might work on some people, but it doesn't work on Marion.]
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[ Yoshiko plants her hands on her hips and leans in until she and Marion are nearly nose to nose. And then she smirks. ]
If you don't start going to school, I'm telling.
[ OHHHHHHH SICK BURN, YOSHIKO, SICK BURN ]
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... And then it's even lamer than Marion thought. She didn't even try to threaten her with flashy poetic 'fallen angel' nonsense! She's telling. Ooh. Marion's so terrified, she 'snrk's a little almost-chuckle, defiantly leaning up to meet Yoshiko's invasion of space.]
Go for it! You'll just get blamed too, big sister.
[It's so distasteful, saying those words out loud. She has to put every ounce of sarcasm she can into it just to make it tolerable. She's not above taking advantage of situations like this, when it serves her purposes.]
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[ Yoshiko just grins. This honestly sounds like a threat to her. Very unlike a fallen angel. ]
What are you gonna do when they confiscate all your stupid magic junk, huh?
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[She looks nervous, though. Yoshiko's change of tactics is much more effective than their squabbling earlier, at least in terms of making Marion seem extremely uncertain about what might happen next. They both know that, regardless of what Marion claims about herself, the truancy officers dragging her back certainly don't see a seventeen-year-old. Nobody would look at her and think that.]
And it's not junk! It's important research! They can't take any of that.
[... She's pretty sure?]
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[ She's laying this bit on particularly thick because it honestly seems like the only part that's actually working.
She even gives a mock gasp and covers her mouth. ]
They might even... throw it all in the garbage!
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I... won't let them!
[Says the girl who couldn't stop the officer from carrying her back here.]
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[ she doubts it but as long as she's got a threat that works on Marion she's going to milk it for all its worth. ]
And how are you gonna do all your magic crap then, huh?
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Why don't you just quit playing along and help?! They listen to you!
[Marion, did you miss the part where Yoshiko wants to fit in as normal girls? The part where she insisted that she won't let you screw this up for her...?]