Marik Ishtar // "Brunch" (
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[MOD] HMD~
Feels a little weird having one of these when we've been open for what, less than a week, but here you go: it's time for How's My Driving! Post with what your characters have been up to and leave feedback for others.
This is also a good place to do event planning! Or rather, to hash it out. Do we want a single post where we comment with event ideas, or should event ideas be proposed in individual OOC posts as we think of them/by approaching me OOCly/by commenting to these HMDs? Do we want the event list to be public, as opposed to YGODressing where I have a little secret .rtf file? I'm good with any system. (We also have to start filling said list or else you'll both be subjected to whatever the hell I feel like making the event - see below for an example). Please chime in both with your opinions about how events should be handled AND with ideas for said events!
I'd also like to propose permanent wildcards: events that will always happen tied to certain things about the setting. Examples: if you go swimming in the high school pool you will always turn into a Pokémon. If you eat a "deluxe special" café creampuff you will always end up mildly lust evented. If you go over your time at the Domino karaoke parlor you will always lose your voice for a day. That kind of stuff. Should we make a list of places where these things happen? I could go on, but I also take suggestions! :D
In either case, this week's event for the affected is Canon Powers Swap! Can you do something special? Use an Item no one else can? For a week, you've got someone else's powers - but do they have yours, or does a third party....? (Extra nurses will be on staff at the hospital, particularly for Item burn wounds. An exception to canon will be made for people wearing Items that suddenly reject them - it'd kind of be a downer if you couldn't enjoy your new powers because you started vomiting flames. The Item will just hurt to touch, and not respond to you.)
Lastly, a mod announcement: I'll be adding a "respawn point" to the Settings page after posting this. Those with the misfortune of meeting an untimely end while in any world covered by this musebox will find themselves awakening on a corner bench in the Domino High girls' locker room, a Band-Aid of mun's choice in color and design over any mortal wounds they may have received. (Those dead of more insidious causes may also have Band-Aids, if it is so wished.) Pray you don't run into NPC Anzu on your way out. She has this thing for hitting trespassers with globes.
I think I'm done textwalling for now. Hope everyone's been having fun! I certainly am. <3
This is also a good place to do event planning! Or rather, to hash it out. Do we want a single post where we comment with event ideas, or should event ideas be proposed in individual OOC posts as we think of them/by approaching me OOCly/by commenting to these HMDs? Do we want the event list to be public, as opposed to YGODressing where I have a little secret .rtf file? I'm good with any system. (We also have to start filling said list or else you'll both be subjected to whatever the hell I feel like making the event - see below for an example). Please chime in both with your opinions about how events should be handled AND with ideas for said events!
I'd also like to propose permanent wildcards: events that will always happen tied to certain things about the setting. Examples: if you go swimming in the high school pool you will always turn into a Pokémon. If you eat a "deluxe special" café creampuff you will always end up mildly lust evented. If you go over your time at the Domino karaoke parlor you will always lose your voice for a day. That kind of stuff. Should we make a list of places where these things happen? I could go on, but I also take suggestions! :D
In either case, this week's event for the affected is Canon Powers Swap! Can you do something special? Use an Item no one else can? For a week, you've got someone else's powers - but do they have yours, or does a third party....? (Extra nurses will be on staff at the hospital, particularly for Item burn wounds. An exception to canon will be made for people wearing Items that suddenly reject them - it'd kind of be a downer if you couldn't enjoy your new powers because you started vomiting flames. The Item will just hurt to touch, and not respond to you.)
Lastly, a mod announcement: I'll be adding a "respawn point" to the Settings page after posting this. Those with the misfortune of meeting an untimely end while in any world covered by this musebox will find themselves awakening on a corner bench in the Domino High girls' locker room, a Band-Aid of mun's choice in color and design over any mortal wounds they may have received. (Those dead of more insidious causes may also have Band-Aids, if it is so wished.) Pray you don't run into NPC Anzu on your way out. She has this thing for hitting trespassers with globes.
I think I'm done textwalling for now. Hope everyone's been having fun! I certainly am. <3
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Brunch actually kind of likes it here, because the scenery is totally his thing. Or he did like it here until April Fools' Day bodyswapped him and Snack. He's currently
enjoyingtolerating huggy time with little Seiran and wondering what the hell he should do about his body.Linner met a different kind of little Seiran and had a fantastic time confusing the hell out of her! Management apologizes.
Luna wants there to be an Underground. So badly. She was going stir-crazy in the DR even with the prospect of collaborating with Bones. But first she has to get Lily to tag along like a good girl, since they've run into Glitter, who just wants phone reception, god dammit.
Candy met the man of her dreams. That he's an evil megalomaniacal shadow lich attached to a double only seems to add to his charms. We shall see how she takes this once her event pastry has worn off.
Mali went from being a very good tombkeeper (expressing outrage over the fact archaeology is a thing) to being a very bad tombkeeper (telling Upwords the family secret) in about three seconds flat. But she is a Marlick, so this is how she rolls.
Papyrus and Black went joyriding. There has likely been all sorts of offscreen mayhem. I'm not sorry.
Bramble got stolen from by a very pretty lady. So he might not actually begrudge her the goods, just the slight to his pride.
And tomorrow is Isis's birthday! So while I have to go in to work, at least for a few hours, I'll be posting for Cassandra.
Powers to swap for the event -
Brunch & Luna - Ability to command the Millennium Rod. Swapping with Luna, you'll gain more savvy with the thing than Brunch, though he's getting better. I'd offer Snack as part of the swap, but it's not like he ever listens to Brunch anyway. (Unless someone wants to swap with Snack and breathe fire.)
Papyrus & Black - Can't exactly take away their ba-ka bond & the stuff associated with that. But if you want to swap wall phasing and Spiral Wave for your powers for a week, be my guest.
Bramble - Want an ickle Diabound? I'll swap when it comes to his since that doesn't involve a more playable character.
Candy - Magical girl Millennium Ring. Enough said.
There are also lots of people with latent ability to be accepted by various Items: Nostradamus the Isis was once accepted by a Torque, Pretty Pretty Princess is an Atem so presumably he's good with Puzzles, Mali will someday be a big girl and use the Rod to kill people just like everybody else, Linner is fasting from using his Rod.
Also, Cassandra and Glitter are both powerless. But feel free to "swap" with them, too.
Activity
Okaaaaaaaaaay, let's see how much activity I managed during the latter half of my wtf week, so I may grin with both pride and sheepish.
Rising Dead poked back to life near the walls of the palace in Ancient Egypt, where he eventually found Alarm cackling up a storm with suddenly far-more-interesting NPCS - a fact he quickly used to harass them with his Rod once they complained of his thieving. Rising Dead did a Season Zero then by playing your basic wth game of the moment with him, and then Penalty Gaming him with his own getting-stab delusions. This led to Alarm shuffling back to home base, where he found Amaryllis. He's trying to figure out what he can make her do- er, if she'll avenge him.
Upwords is currently missing his Temari, but the familiarity of that paired with kiddish distraction means Mali managed to drag him to the museum. Secrets are falling out like bad gossip.
Memory spent her first day wandering the Satellite junkyard, found a door to Domino, spawned a car, passed out from exhaustion of said spawning, got turned into a seven-year-old-that-looks-four during a drive and crashed, and then ran over a body swap. All to the tune of "Where's everybody? I want my marlick man and marlick boy back!" Thus marlick vulpix is getting the love as her brain turns slowly to kindergarten mush.
Nightshade and Moon Vine made their entrance with oocharacteristic melodrama and apathy, being the Okage crossovers they are. Once they stopped double taking at the new setting, the double Candy was pulled under wing. The fact it's because of an odd crush is lost on Nightshade, but not poor Moon Vine.
Bones ...lazed, namely, thanks to some hot chocolate. Once that wore off he scoured the city for his own casino, and discovered it gone. This has led to some likely going to land him in the locker room thinking up buildings plans, along with his hidden backroom dueling, which I suppose could be tied into the proper underground now, as a particular hub of activity. (I'm still iffy on where the underground took place in GX.)
While unseen, Aloe Vera went "home" to the Ancient Egyptian tombs, and is currently gawking and getting deja vu at the different layout of the desert, three thousand years back. Pac-Man is haunting BC Domino, trying to figure out the familiar NPC quirk, and following Piston around, who's forgotten to freak with so many people around to duel. Pythia was having a very confused time over at DA, but should be wandering Domino by now.
And- I think that's it.
Power Swapping
Upwords - Solve a Puzzle?
Pac-Man - Be a ghost?
Memory - Call on the spirits from DM cards? Self-damage is optional, but exhaustion from it mandatory.
Marble Drop - She has... a "latent" ability to draw on the shadows binding her soul together, and use it to counter Item powers or basic life draining shadow effects (i.e. Yuugi near dying from shadows during Pegasus duel). I suppose this could be swapped, but it'd come with some very uncomfortable soul tweaking I'd pass info on.
Aloe Vera - Ghost again, with a side of compatibility with Ring, Scales, and Key?? (so versatile!)
Nightshade - His, powers are so built in... But, you could swap with Moon Vine for the evil king himself! (He'd love that.)
Pythia - I can see your future, and it involves some uncanny foresight.
Alarm - One rod compatibility, complete with hefty power over throwing people, physically controlling them, and invoking "hallucinations" via mind tweaking. He does lack some of the marlick flare of implanting emotional influence on his victims, though.
Piston & Bones - Nothing! =D Good job.
Re: Power Swapping
Being a ghost would also be fun for someone.....I'm not quite sure who just yet, though, so again if you have preferences about which of my folks you want to swap for let me know! Otherwise I'll *gasp* make up my own mind. XP
Re: Power Swapping
While, let's see again... Rods would be totally wasted on Pac-Man. x3 But powerless would make him, happy too. (Although making him breathe fire or continue wall-phasing, only to be hit upon entering the wrong place, has it's pluses.)
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As for Pac-Man...what if he swapped with Candy? The Ring doesn't have to act up for him (she wouldn't, probably), and he gets the facepalm of being solid but Candy now being - less so.
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And. And. Fetchie. Are you aware you're making Pac-Man my personal Brunch?? So cruel..
So what have we got?
Moon <--> Bramble
Candy <--> Pac-Man
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everyone should have a personal brunch, they're funFor starters, at least. ~_^ We'll see how things go!
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Also, I can't remember if I asked elsewhere, but do you need any other support on the building/contacting front? (And did that sentence make sense???)
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Speaking of. I was thinking it'd be cool if there were tournaments throughout the worlds~ Maybe even one game for each main world? And they'd all host one tournament per month, even if it's just NPCs taking part that month? =3 I have ideas for what game would be for each world, but my big point would be that, if a muse wins a tournament, he/she gets a special prize, of an
amusingappropriate variety.For instance.
"Congratulations player BRUNCH! You won your first Turbo Duel Tournament! Neo Domino City presents you with one cookie. If eaten, you will be a psychic duelist for the next month!"
Or you know, if eaten, you're turned into a ghost. Or you're the accepted owner of the next Item you touch. Or lusted out. (Do be nice and not pass that last one on to someone. Cookies should not be passed out)
...watch me plan this whole thing out just for kicks.
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If you want to be "tournaments mistress" and run one of those whenever you feel like it that'd be awesome. Because those sound like a lot of fun and if you've got the idea and prizes in mind, run run run with it for all it's worth! I'm definitely a fan and would totally throw my characters at whatever you arrange. <3
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And immediately ask the whole world for prize opinions. :3
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For one, I've worked out locations and general games for each world (and even have a world suggestion out of it! That is, the DM Anime's Virtual World, amazingly named Adventure Time??), and an idea of what the prizes are.
But, I'm trying to decide if we want set "it's always this prize in this world" so muses can find out and strive for it, or if it's a rotating prize, and you only have an idea of what it would be based on world. (i.e., AE's prize having to do with Millennium Items, Adventure Time some RPG quirk.)Actually, I went on a brainstorming splurge on prize themes. :3 Instead, any prize theme requests? Romance, powers, swaps, etc.Oh, and game requests. I've got 3 versions of DM tournament so far, plus Turbo Duel, CapMon, Monster World, basic common game tournaments, and a... vague, Ka battle concept thing. xD Yeah... AE needs help.
(also, would it be odd to ask for Spears' contact? xD; I somehow do not have anything obvious, and I'd like to obviously include her.)
More ooc thinking
Although I would expand "deluxe special" to any food called thus, you ryou-favoring girl! Er, victimizing girl... er.I'm still trying to come up with any additions to that idea, since my brain is Harvest Mooned into saying things like, give a muse a well-liked/favored gift, and you get stars or hearts floating over their head to signify an affection increase - namely for NPCs, but fun forcourtingbefriending muses, too. Which is silly. My far better suggestion is just mechanical- that the location quirks get bulleted under the worlds they're based in under settings.More to come without video game brains.
I have a list of just keywords for events pulled together from classic oldies and bakerstreet memes, so I can pass that on. And it would be kind of cool to have the list out in the open, just in case one of us wants to go "heeeeeeeeey, I'm so craving some romantic cr right now. Plz this?"
...not that I'm saying anything, mind you.
(Also, is the locker respawn point in BC Domino? Because... Anzu. xD)
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and yeah, we need deluxe special burgers and deluxe special koshary and deluxe special om ali, don't weBunches of keywords for memes and such also sound like love - I can also put up an "event list post" later today if we're all in agreement that'd be the way to go. I've got links to event-heavy comms that have lists, myself, and can add those as a resource. <3
(And yes. That it is. But you might have the misfortune to encounter her anyway.)
and suddenly I wonder if Yuugi fears Anzu-noticing-pervy-movies is from some past retribution...
may all huge hunger be countered by other cravings, hur hurThat is, I shall then poke you with my random word list as soon as I'm home tonight! =3 I'm not on the right computer right now~ (And then we can make a favs list from all the multiple resources?)
i'd read that fic
....I'm on like the one account I own with no devious grins. Even Isis has some. Why.
yuugi would prefer not to ;-;
(Besides, I sense the evil behind the happy candy face. Pure. Evil.)
Here's the list I mentioned!
cr game time (2 truths + 1 lie, spin the bottle, etc.)
love type (yandere, tsundere, etc)
fighting style switch (ka, rpg, etc.)
gender/body/powerswap
morning/moment after
crush/lust
hurt/comfort
mind reader
can't lie
movie time
locked in together
memory tweaking
fake interest
Higurashi
dating sim
...not that big now that I see it. xP
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The two I know of from other games are Vatheon's (whence comes this week's event, actually) and Polychromatic's (which I have linked in the past, but always bears repeating). So if/when an event list goes up, I'm all for us using these for inspiration as well.
Well add these to my list, please!
Family Day
Chocolate Day
Days of Our Young & Restless Passions
Thirty One Flavors (people taste like ice cream)
Role Reversal (cr dynamics switch up)
False Confessions
Fetish Folly
Vatheon:
Canon abilities disappear
Loss of Senses
Intensified Senses
Confessions Confessions
-now we just need more villainous ones, don't we...
What are you doing to my brain, Nightshade?