I'll PM one to you a little later today.That would probably work.
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OOC Black Knights/Byakuren Discussion
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Fred
Retired Staff
So! To summarize...
Nyton seems open to doing meets and greets, or taking care of other samurai if they ever come in.
Kim and Bilgecrank want to have some reaction how their characters are married and have a daughter.
Rolf ought to have an encounter with the revived sisters.
Some sequence on body transition/adaptation for the Ketsurui Samurai downgrading their bodies might be desirable, at least from Chi's perspective
Doshii and Khasidel may have a Reika/Kôsuka thing cooking.
It strikes me that what might resolve a lot of the above wishes is simply to JP a continuity, when they arrive to Luna Bianca and seek out Kotori to share the details on all that happened. To which I figure most of the participants would be involved? It also kind of seems like Kosuka and Koyama might want to see Kotori. They might not have to come as one big group and more multiple encounters - that way individual people would get more facetime.
It would help if I knew the timeline/setting of that Kosuka/Reika talk.
Nyton seems open to doing meets and greets, or taking care of other samurai if they ever come in.
Kim and Bilgecrank want to have some reaction how their characters are married and have a daughter.
Rolf ought to have an encounter with the revived sisters.
Some sequence on body transition/adaptation for the Ketsurui Samurai downgrading their bodies might be desirable, at least from Chi's perspective
Doshii and Khasidel may have a Reika/Kôsuka thing cooking.
It strikes me that what might resolve a lot of the above wishes is simply to JP a continuity, when they arrive to Luna Bianca and seek out Kotori to share the details on all that happened. To which I figure most of the participants would be involved? It also kind of seems like Kosuka and Koyama might want to see Kotori. They might not have to come as one big group and more multiple encounters - that way individual people would get more facetime.
It would help if I knew the timeline/setting of that Kosuka/Reika talk.
Kosuka/Reika pad is developing. I haven't jumped on it yet.
I think the talk would be after everyone had experienced the big JP. I don't know what effects said big JP would have, but if any develop, Khassy and I can rewrite.
I think the talk would be after everyone had experienced the big JP. I don't know what effects said big JP would have, but if any develop, Khassy and I can rewrite.
Can we get a post in plot planning for a sense of where you're going and what you're doing?
For clarification, only in-character posts count as forum activity for subforum purposes so if you've got any JPs to post, please post them as soon as it's convenient for you. Remember, RP events don't count as canon until they make it to the forum or wiki.
Fred has asked that this forum be kept free from prying eyes so it's been set up where only members of the Black Knights plot can view it, which is currently a unique setup for a SARP plot.
If you have any issues, just send me a PM. Thanks!
If you have any issues, just send me a PM. Thanks!
Whose character is this and can we get her wiki bio updated to the current template? https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=characters:yamatai:shimabumi_akiko
Fred
Retired Staff
We're still going, though the coronavirus really slowed us down. Our latest thread is up.
Doshii got another kid. Nyton got himself a farm and has been trying to manage it despite various mishaps. Tom caught the coronavirus and is in recovery. Khasidel has been a complete no-show since July 2020 and had spotty attendance even before that; which is a shame since most of my current content had been tailor-made for his participation. If I have no attendance from him in 4.2, his participation to my plot will be discontinued.
Shimabumi Akiko is a sidecharacter of Nyton's. As I don't expect Nyton will have much chance to swing by to do this kind of homework, I roughly converted the content of Akiko's bio to the current template.
Doshii got another kid. Nyton got himself a farm and has been trying to manage it despite various mishaps. Tom caught the coronavirus and is in recovery. Khasidel has been a complete no-show since July 2020 and had spotty attendance even before that; which is a shame since most of my current content had been tailor-made for his participation. If I have no attendance from him in 4.2, his participation to my plot will be discontinued.
Shimabumi Akiko is a sidecharacter of Nyton's. As I don't expect Nyton will have much chance to swing by to do this kind of homework, I roughly converted the content of Akiko's bio to the current template.
I'm enjoyed to just see some activity! I'm glad that after all this time you guys are still going, even if it's at a slow pace.
Let me know if there's anything I can help with and if you can provide a sort of summary of current events that would go a long way for me.
Let me know if there's anything I can help with and if you can provide a sort of summary of current events that would go a long way for me.
Fred
Retired Staff
The plot's status on the wiki page is still more or less accurate as to our current circumstances. I quote:
Threads 4.0 and 4.1 happen around the time where the Second Battle of Nataria is set, though my narrative sets it up as a campaign which lasted a couple of weeks - the actual event you staged for the Second Battle of Yamatai was probably the final climax of that campaign. 4.2 will be set just after the Second Battle of Nataria. During that period, the mental backups were unavailable and prior backups corrupted - so death was permanent.
In Kotori's absence, Yukari is captain of Miharu II, which is grounded and undergoing repairs from its previous conflict with Black Spiral.
Threads 4.0 and 4.1 happen around the time where the Second Battle of Nataria is set, though my narrative sets it up as a campaign which lasted a couple of weeks - the actual event you staged for the Second Battle of Yamatai was probably the final climax of that campaign. 4.2 will be set just after the Second Battle of Nataria. During that period, the mental backups were unavailable and prior backups corrupted - so death was permanent.
In Kotori's absence, Yukari is captain of Miharu II, which is grounded and undergoing repairs from its previous conflict with Black Spiral.
- My SAINT rear admiral, Celeste, was responsible of keeping tabs on Kotori to keep her contained should her discontent for the Empire prove a threat. (Celeste is a SAINT Elysian archangel Shôshô introduced as Reika's supervisor at the very beginning of the Byakuren plot)
With Kotori out of the picture after being involved in a few major Shadow Viper-related incidents threatening royalty, and two Black Spiral squadrons destroyed for it - Celeste finds herself out of favor and her department is likely to be closed down once the Second Battle of Nataria is resolved. It's hinted that she is soon to be 'honorably discharged' out of the way.
Celeste finds the circumstancial evidence against Kotori shoddy and convenient, and out of a sense of pride for the quality of her work, decides to use her remaining time in office to collaborate with Yukari in order to find out more on what really happened to Kotori.
- The evidence that Black Spiral was involved in the attempt on Empress Himiko's life is compelling, which grounds Black Spiral while the Star Army skirmishes with the Kuvexians are heating up. Taisho Irim, through her underlings, makes is clear that she doesn't appreciate that and tries to damage the evidence against Black Spiral by putting in doubt the crew of the Miharu.
- Miharu defeated two entire squadrons of Plumeria gunships, with survivors reporting she was blinking in-and-out around the battlefield, which allowed it to sink 8 warships without itself being destroyed. Celeste rebuffs the accusations by explaining that the Himiko-class traded a main gun for a powerful electronic warfare package, rebuffing the intent to teardown Miharu for its tech; and anything else yet unexplained is need to know.
- What actually happened was that the Miharu clan reverse-engineered a piece of alien time-altering tech they obtained from Amaya's Gate (near the end of the original Miharu plot). They originally wanted tech that would help them survive null-time space like where the Second Draconian Fleet was trapped (only a fraction was saved), and instead ended up with a ship-sized teleporter which allowed them to save up to 3 locations and instantly teleport to them.
- Miharu defeated two entire squadrons of Plumeria gunships, with survivors reporting she was blinking in-and-out around the battlefield, which allowed it to sink 8 warships without itself being destroyed. Celeste rebuffs the accusations by explaining that the Himiko-class traded a main gun for a powerful electronic warfare package, rebuffing the intent to teardown Miharu for its tech; and anything else yet unexplained is need to know.
This is how Miharu II actually survived being ambushed by 2 squadrons of Black Spiral Plumeria gunships. They were reluctant to put the tech to the test on a live battlefield for fear of escalating use of time-altering technology or being targeted for what they might potentially be able to do with it. They were left with no choice: not using it meant dying.
Thanks to Celeste covering for them, they narrowly escape Irim's scrutinery. After all, Black Spiral operations are Mishhu-oriented, and there's what might be the deciding campaign with the Kuvexians that's going on. Celeste herself isn't fooled, but based on past heroics from the Miharu crew, decides to turn a blind eye to it.
- Yukari and her staff review the surveyed evidence of the 'crime scene', where a SAINT surveyor ship snapshotted volumetric data on the four destroyed Yui destroyers that had been part of the MP squadron transporting Kotori to Nataria.
- Is it clear they were downed by kuvexian weaponry.
- There is no hyperspace exit trail from the perpetrator
- They were destroyed while in formation. From the killshots in their flank, they were not facing the aggressor at the time they were destroyed.
- It is unknown why they dropped out of fold mid-way to Nataria.
Investigation and computer-assisted renderings eventually reveal that the SAINT surveyor was actually a SMX Xianthrafruglu-class gunship grafted with kuvexian weaponry, which raises the suspicion that the surveyor might have been the perpetrator. This raises an alarm, as this mean this outsider vessel was able to send data to SAINT, that it was somehow vetted through, and that it was then presented to the admiralty as evidence!
- Given the gravity of the security breach and what had been taken for granted on incorrect information, Yukari quickly goes to Celeste to present her evidence. Celeste takes action and schedules a face-to-face meeting with Director Shida to grant Yukari's team broader access to SAINT IT/networking architecture to figure out how the data was allowed to get in and track down the culprit; as well as arrange to have sensor logs from salvage ships whom later came to the scene to recover the wrecks (in hopes that those would have the real answers).
Celeste then leaves to meet with Shida, but perishes when - for some yet unknown reason - her elevator catches fire and burns her down to charred bones. Given the current condition, her apparent murder has permanent consequences.
Thread 4.2 will start with our characters picking up the pieces and trying to move forward despite losing what had probably been their best ally in that investigation.
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Fred
Retired Staff
Thread 4.2 is running long and is still ongoing. It's been open since June 2021 and so far, we have 1083 lines/paragraphs of text.
This plot is composed of 3 roleplayers: Doshii Jun, Nyton and Tom.
Several people affiliated with Shattered Universe felt disinclined to continue even though I was staging my plot away from the then-existing Star Army drama: so Kokuten and Kim's characters were removed from the plot.
At some point, I examined our level of activity and proposed the closure of our plot and the retirement of our characters. My remaining roleplayers seemed agreeable to it. I noticed that Soresu went contrary to the retirement plan to "go off into the sunset" and reused Koyama in SARP. One month later, I re-engaged with my four other players and asked them if they wanted to continue afterwards - after one month of stopping - and they seemed agreeable to it and more motivated to "make it work". As Soresu was already engaged somewhere else, I did not include him in this discussion... and in hindsight this seems to have been a good call: he and Koyama have done pretty well for themselves roleplaying-wise.
Khasidel, whom is an amazing roleplayer but had a series of unannounced hiatuses, vanished off the map around the same point as I introduced more SAINT-heavy content that I hoped to spotlight his character into. I tried to make do and retain Reika as a background character in case he showed and wanted to jump back in. However, after being absent for more than 9 months, I finally gave up. Thread 4.2 is where I enacted the retirement of his character.
A loss of our forum space combined with the bans of certain controversial individuals prompted a discussion where my 3 remaining players opted for a resumption of their forum activity.
I'm taking the pretext of what is outlined in the Membership cleanup thread as an opportunity to have a forum roll call. They're to post here.
This plot is composed of 3 roleplayers: Doshii Jun, Nyton and Tom.
Several people affiliated with Shattered Universe felt disinclined to continue even though I was staging my plot away from the then-existing Star Army drama: so Kokuten and Kim's characters were removed from the plot.
At some point, I examined our level of activity and proposed the closure of our plot and the retirement of our characters. My remaining roleplayers seemed agreeable to it. I noticed that Soresu went contrary to the retirement plan to "go off into the sunset" and reused Koyama in SARP. One month later, I re-engaged with my four other players and asked them if they wanted to continue afterwards - after one month of stopping - and they seemed agreeable to it and more motivated to "make it work". As Soresu was already engaged somewhere else, I did not include him in this discussion... and in hindsight this seems to have been a good call: he and Koyama have done pretty well for themselves roleplaying-wise.
Khasidel, whom is an amazing roleplayer but had a series of unannounced hiatuses, vanished off the map around the same point as I introduced more SAINT-heavy content that I hoped to spotlight his character into. I tried to make do and retain Reika as a background character in case he showed and wanted to jump back in. However, after being absent for more than 9 months, I finally gave up. Thread 4.2 is where I enacted the retirement of his character.
A loss of our forum space combined with the bans of certain controversial individuals prompted a discussion where my 3 remaining players opted for a resumption of their forum activity.
I'm taking the pretext of what is outlined in the Membership cleanup thread as an opportunity to have a forum roll call. They're to post here.
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