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31st ♫ | If you wanna get rowdy, you're welcome with us!

The All-Purpose JamJar Meme

For that authentic Jamjar experience without the pesky commitment. Roll or pick from a setting and a prompt below! Drum up some assumed CR with strangers! Jamjar settings are officially the best when you want to do a cross-canon tag-out but just can't be assed to think of a way to fit your character in another one's canon.

I - SETTING

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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[ Fantasy European knight with swordfighting skills and powerful song magic. Tries to act cool and professional -- actually a hotblooded, bloodthirsty shonen protagonist at heart. Info! ]

Post title: Our languages?
Posted: aridgely

Some of you may remember my asking around this past week regarding people's homes and their country's languages. It seems a touch too convenient that we all happen to speak the same languages, doesn't it? So I supposed that, rather than take my time speaking about it with everyone individually, posting this in a public place might reach a wider audience.

If you're comfortable and able to do it, would any of you be interested in gathering a sampling of the languages we speak? It might come to be useful at some point.

I speak Nohrian and Trade fluently, as well a sampling of other languages. I will admit, until someone mentioned otherwise I assumed everyone here spoke Trade as well.

Likely it is some group comprehension spell we are all under.

[ come talk to a loser fishgirl ]

[Heaven help whoever got assigned as parents to these two. We're not sure if it'd be better that way, or if it'd be safer for Yoshiko and Marion to have been left to their own devices as assigned "siblings" in this world. Either way, their house is doomed.

The tiny anime-British witch has steadfastly refused to go to school since her arrival, but it's catching up to her after only a few days. While Yoshiko's on her way to their door, a tall nondescript man who's clearly a native to the community comes walking up from the other side of the sidewalk. Under his arm, he's carrying a kicking and screaming little blonde.]

Let me go, you big oaf!!! I told you, I'm not a student!!!

[The man just casually carries her and sets her down in front of Yoshiko. There'd been a rash of truancy lately, and the community seems to have responded by assigning more natives to handle the problem. Marion probably got snagged during one of her shopping trips for more 'ingredients' to try in her 'spells' that never seemed to work.

Marion tunes out whatever the native says. Something about finding Yoshiko's sister skipping school, browsing the stores unsupervised, how they hope Yoshiko plans to take more responsibility for her little sister's whereabouts from now on...]

Hey!!! I'M the older one! And we're not sisters!

Tell him, Yoshiko!

[Whew, there she goes. This is going to be a fun day at their house.]

[ You know. You'd think that being pulled away from everything she's ever known and loved would be a little more of a hard sell for Yoshiko. Especially only a few days in. But here's the thing: this place is so overwhelmingly normal. And it's filled with abnormal people. No one looks twice at her when she talks about Yohane or fallen angels or any of that. It's a place where she can both be herself and have a chance at being a regular girl.

In other words it's the perfect place for Yoshiko. And Marion is not going to mess this up for her.

Yoshiko ignores Marion entirely. Instead she clasps her hands together in front of her and bows her head deeply. ]

I understand...! Please, I beg, forgive my baby sister! [ YEOWCH ] She has still yet to mature! I may be a disgraced fallen angel but I will not allow the same fate to befall her!

They're not languages I'm familiar with, so it's likely they're very different from the languages in my own world. Unless you're familiar with Adryian or Frital, of course.

Would you be willing to elaborate the two you've named? Or be able to, I suppose, as much as we can elaborate on languages we seem to instinctively understand.

[Marion has never known or cared whether Yoshiko believed her about being older than she looks, and a real witch. She just acted like it was perfectly obvious, regardless of anyone's reactions. Despite also acting like a completely spoiled brat. She didn't care if Yoshiko acted like she was some fallen angel and all her talk about 'little demons' or whatever, either.

Literally the first time she's ever cared what Yoshiko thinks is now, when she needs backup to handle this brainless mass of muscle that's been dragging her all over town. And Yoshiko just completely caves to his demands. Now Marion is furious.]

WHO ARE YOU CALLING BABY?!!! I'm more mature than you, you wannabe!

[She's... really not, though. The truancy officer practically shoves Marion into Yoshiko, expecting the (apparently?) older girl to take her from here. With a warning to 'not let it happen again', for good measure.]

H-Hey! Watch it!!!

[Get her inside the house, Yoshiko. Before she does something to really get you both in trouble. Or possibly worse, blow "Yohane's" cover.]

I can attempt to. Honestly they are not separate languages, but different dialects of the same one. Nohrian is more of a scholar language- used in magic and books. While Trade is the more common dialect, with parts of it coming from our neighboring countries.

[ Yoshiko takes Marion with a quick movement, yanking the girl against her and pressing a hand to her mouth in case she starts blurting out anything else that might ruin their credibility around here. This kid is a menace! But she forces a stiff smile, nodding along the whole time. ]

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?!

[ fantasy, w training him how to use Swords y/y ]

I suppose we might have a bit more in common than I was expecting, then. With the languages we speak, at the very least. It sounds as though yours evolved similarly to ours.

Frital is "old" Adryian, essentially. It's what we're expected to speak as members of the Royal Guard and composers draft spells and songs using it. Adryian is the language of the people -- I believe they began branching off from each other around the same time we began trading with the countries in the surrounding regions. It was considered very "low class" for a time though -- adventurers used it and they were often considered ruffians or otherwise similarly uneducated.

[The rest of Marion's protests are muffled behind Yoshiko's hand, her struggling proving useless against her bigger and stronger 'sister'. She's clearly been insulted, and now betrayed. How dare Yoshiko go along with this stupid world! The truancy officer naturally ignores her throwing a fit, only giving Yoshiko another warning that further absences won't be treated lightly.

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?

[ABSOLUTELY. he's keeping the demon thing under wraps here too.]

[ Yoshiko jabs her finger forward so hard that she nearly impales Marion's forehead on the end of her fingernail. This 50/50 life of normalcy and acting as Yohane is a perfect deal and she knows she won't get this anywhere else. This little girl is not messing it up for her. ]

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!

[ Alalia's been taking a few of the teenagers under her wing over the past few weeks. It's clear why -- this world might not be all that different from the world she knows but from the chatter she's heard it's clear that quite a few of them barely know a broadsword from a gladius and that's not acceptable. Not in this place and not with what the battles they're expected to fight.

So she's taken it upon herself to draft a beginner's course, of sorts. Alalia has no illusions of being a teacher but she can at least ensure that the children here will be able to defend themselves with a blade should they need to do it.

They're by themselves in one of the wide, cold sparring rooms that Alalia had commandeered for her lessons. It's a fairly simple setup -- a few training dummies and a rack of wooden practice swords. Western blades rather than the slender bokken she's some of the others practice with. It's only their first lesson, after all. She doesn't want to overface him. ]

Have you ever used a sword before? Any kind, not specifically one of these blades.

Nnnnno.

[This is the face of someone who is starry-eyed with wonder but also pretty sure they're going to die, or at least get their teeth knocked out at some point.

Not that he's going to complain. Of the local teens, Hallelujah doesn't have much of a bad word about this place to share - it's bright, and colorful, and smells like fresh air and real plants, and there's food. It takes some effort to get, yeah, but Hallelujah's never been able to reach into a refrigerator and pull out whatever he wanted so he only knows it's not ideal because some of his peers seem disappointed.

Learning some hand-to-hand combat skills? That's a fair trade. More than fair, honestly, because he should by all rights know some of this already.]

No, I, honestly, uh, barely know how to throw a punch.

[It's going to take more than a finger jab to cool Marion's glare. She's not sure she believes this girl had any powers to begin with, but then she doesn't particularly care one way or the other.]

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.

Excellent. I won't have to try and adapt to a previous teacher's styles, then. From here on out, you'll be learning the same way I learned. Don't be discouraged if it takes some time or seems insurmountable. Most of us trained for some years before we were permitted to pick up anything more deadly than our practice blades.

[ She's slowly circling him as she says all this. It's probably not the best way to make him feel comfortable but she's not doing it to intimidate him to her credit. She wants to see what his stance is like naturally before she makes any more to correct it. ]

Take an... offensive position with your blade. Let's begin with that. Imagine you are faced with an enemy and take whatever position comes to mind first.

[That's gooooood...?

Hallelujah's uneasy and it shows; even before taking a stance, he's stiff and overthinking every motion. When she asks him to wing it, he hesitates, hard, moving to take a number of different stances and stopping each one mid-motion like he's scrambling to figure out the right answer.

He settles into something that looks like he's winding up to swing a baseball bat, but without conviction.]

[ Oh dear. She's not quite sure how experienced she was expecting him to be but this is... something of a let down. Nothing she can't work with, of course, but she'd expected something a bit more encouraging than that. Starting with a blank slate is probably a bit easier, though.

Finally, Alalia stops and steps in just a little closer. She doesn't correct him -- not yet, anyway -- and instead just raises an eyebrow. ]

Explain what it is you're doing. Why you've chosen this stance in particular.

...Uhhh. [There's this uncertainty on his face, like he's trying to read her as much or more than he's trying to give her an answer.] I don't...know? I don't know what I'm doing. [He lets the sword drop. There is a reason, in the loosest sense, but he knows he's got it wrong and he assumes admitting that is faster and easier than having her convince him of it.]

Something inspired you to take a stance like that, though.

[ She's not disappointed, no, but she's pushing him a little less gently than before. She needs to know what she's working with here in every way even down to his expectations of the tool he's using. ]

What image did you have in mind? What weapon, what tool? You must be starting from something. If I'm to teach you then we must be on the same page.

Wh... what's normal for me is totally different from what's normal for mortals like you!

[ 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!

[Tch... okay, she can ignore Yoshiko talking down to her this one time. Because clearly Marion's struck a nerve and flustered her. Which makes this a partial victory for the smaller 'sister'!]

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?]

What do you mean "serves me right"?! You're the one who won't go to school! How come I'm the one getting in trouble for you being a brat?!

[ 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?

[Marion is not only a tiny girl with a big attitude, and an even bigger mouth. She's also extremely petty. Does she care if Yoshiko gets in trouble for her actions? Not in the slightest.]

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.]

That's what you think.

[ 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 ]

[For a second, Marion almost seems nervous. Or maybe it's just that she's grimacing at how Yoshiko looms and leans in close like that.

... 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.]

[Oh. Oh!]

Like - a bat. Or a pipe, or anything. Like, if something came at me, I'd just...swing at them, hard.

[ That gets -- heavens above -- a small smile and a nod of the head. ]

You'd be along the right track if you were swinging a blunt weapon. A staff or a hammer, perhaps. You're not too far in the wrong direction, though.

[ She heads over to where the practice blades are stacked and grabs one for herself, handling it lightly and confidently. ]

Would you like a demonstration before we carry on?

That's what you think. It's not like I'm gonna tattle on you or anything, though! I'm just sooooo worried about my little sister. How else are we going to keep her toeing the line?

[ 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?

Q-Quit talking like that! I told you, I only look like this! I'm really seventeen, so if anyone's the little sister here, it's you!

[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?]

They would! That's what happens when you get grounded. They take away all your most fun things. All the stuff you like best.

[ 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!

[She comes from the weirdest version of the 19th century ever. So while she should think it's a pretty childish threat, getting ~grounded~ and having her stuff taken away... the threat actually does kind of work.]

I... won't let them!

[Says the girl who couldn't stop the officer from carrying her back here.]

What, you think you're gonna be able to stop them? If you make a big stink they might even throw out the rest of your stuff, too!

[ 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?

[She's not going to let any of that even possibly happen!]

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...?]

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31st ♫ | If you wanna get rowdy, you're welcome with us!

Alalia Ridgely ♫ OC

Yoshiko Tsushima | Love Live! Sunshine!!

Maki Nishikino | Love Live!

Honoka Kousaka | Love Live!

Miku Hatsune ♫ Vocaloid (World is Mine)

Dia Kurosawa | Love Live! Sunshine!!

Xander | Fire Emblem Fates

SoL jamjar and network post bc you know im about them texting memes

Hallelujah | SMTIV:A

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Alani | Battleborn

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Shinoa Hiragi | Seraph of the End

Honoka Maki | Kiznaiver

Nio Hashiri | Akuma no Riddle

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