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Hornet 02-Jul-21 09:14 PM
Welcome; @Ahmayksonozaki and @loweffortmemes, to Anarchy at the All-Star Arcade! As you've read in #rules, it's now time to decide your characters and your personal objectives together. The character theme for this Objective game is video game characters, or characters that come from a video game. Every character theme tends to have a grey area where the character's applicability is hazy - when it comes to these sorts of cases, Superb and I will give judgment on whether it's a valid character or not. Your objectives have to be similar to each other - the intended meaning of this is 'have your objectives tie into each other in some way', but if you want your two objectives to just be coincidentally similar - go ahead! Get creative! Be allies, be enemies, be rivals - you don't necessarily have to work together. Once you've decided, ping either one of us [@Hornet , @Scorpion] with your choices. Remember - we will design the game around your picks. Whatever you pick as an objective, we'll make it possible - and whoever you pick as a character, we'll design stuff for that character. You're going to have until 6PM EDT, July 4th to talk this out and decide what you'll be picking. Feel free to ask us any questions in these channels, if you want to. In case you're having trouble figuring out where to start, you could answer these questions out loud, see if you can get a discussion going on things you both like: 1. What are some of your favourite video game characters? 2. What are some of the games with your favourite music?
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 09:17 PM
yo yo
you ready to objective this conjective?
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 09:29 PM
I see your steam profile is erika
I literally just played Beatrice last game lmaooo
right ok you're also in the umineko chat in spaceman's server
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 09:42 PM
@loweffortmemes ping me when you're available to discuss business business and I'll respond if I'm available, I might be going to sleep soon. I'm on a weird sleep schedule atm
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:14 PM
@Ahmayksonozaki Hey if you aren't asleep yet, I'm free to chat right now
And yeah haha my profile pic here on discord is Erika too
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:15 PM
Hey
Oh yeah lol
Have you read other rykushi?
dammit it's ryukishi
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:17 PM
I watched the Higurashi anime (I read up to around episode 4 of the VN though) and I'm somewhere in the middle of season 3 for Rose Guns Days. I went through the first demo of Ciconia when it was released but never looked at the second demo or got the first chapter of the game lol
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:17 PM
yoooo I'm aslo reading rose gun days
I'm in the last season
it's such a weird vn to read as a non-japanese person
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:18 PM
Oh nice. I definitely need to get around to finishing that at some point
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:19 PM
I'd suggest we do somethiing 7th expasion releated by i literally just played beatrice last game
battler was in the game too, we had a logic battle and everything
it was nuts
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:20 PM
I'm all for that. I'm definitely a big Ryukishi/07th expansion fan. That must have been pretty sweet too do a whole logic battle and everything
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:21 PM
it's actually the second time i did the character. the first time I had an ability where I could speak the red truth
and the gm would confirm that what I said was true
I would die if i ever was wrong though
my objective in that game was to make someone believe i had an ability that let me make people come back from the dead
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:23 PM
Oh that's pretty interesting
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Hornet 02-Jul-21 10:23 PM
(it was a really good game)
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Scorpion 02-Jul-21 10:24 PM
Pinned a message.
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:24 PM
do you follow siiva, that might be more common ground between us
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:26 PM
I haven't actively followed siiva in a while, but I used to be a lot more active with that like 2017 when I first started getting into it to maybe 2019 or so
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:26 PM
i joined the team early 2017
and recently also not been that involved
have mostly only been iinvolved in large projects in the last few years
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:27 PM
Ah gotcha. I've gotten a couple rips on siiva, but I haven't worked on any for a while
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:29 PM
so uh, you into any other vns?
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:32 PM
Yeah, I've read a lot of Key VNs. Clannad's my favorite from them, but I've also read Little Busters, Rewrite, a good portion of Air. I watched the Kanon anime. Others I've read and enjoyed are The Fruit of Grisaia, Saya no Uta, 999 if you count that. Katawa Shoujo was my first VN and I found DDLC interesting too
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:33 PM
I've read some of those
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:34 PM
Oh cool. Which ones have you read?
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:35 PM
one route of clannad, saya no uta, a few routes of 999, katawa shoujo, ddlc
uh is rewrite the one underwater?
if so yeah
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:39 PM
You might be thinking of Ever 17 with the underwater one. I've been wanting to read that. I was thinking of starting either that or Steins;Gate at some point. I actually first discovered Ryukishi because of Rewrite since he was the writer for one of the routes that ended up being my favorite route in the game
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:39 PM
oh right, yeah that's what it is, ever 17
hmmmm well
in this game you're basically gonna be roleplaying as a character
if there's any character who you might be interested in rping that'd be the choice lol
you know I just realized
our objectives need to be similar, but we don't actually need to choose characters from the same ip
characters can be nothing relating to each other
you could very easily pick a character from that pool and I could pick any other video game character that matched an appropriate objective
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:55 PM
Gotcha, that's fine with me. When I first saw this, I figured it might be fun to try an Erika roleplay, but I didn't know if it would be a problem that she shows up later in the game (especially since I see TehFriedWaffles in here who's still early on in Umineko). I could certainly try to think of other characters too
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:55 PM
Lol I'd recommend maybe not doing erika
for that reason but also
someone has also played her
which, you know maybe that isn't relevant
Someone played erika in a past game who had a big role in events, you'd be very much compared to that for a lot of people i guess
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 10:59 PM
Ah yeah, I wouldn't be all that confident in matching up to that person then haha. Hmm...I could do a different Umineko character maybe or a character from a different game entirely. I don't have anyone else really coming to mind though lol. Do you have anything in mind for your character?
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 10:59 PM
uhhhhh
usually the themes are a little more specific lol
imo they kind of shot themselves in the foot making this a bit too generic
well what's your goto vgm?
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:01 PM
...Umineko hahaha. That's my favorite soundtrack, but in general, I'm really big on JRPG and VN music. From the JRPG side, I really like songs from Gust (Atelier, Ar tonelico) and Falcom (Trails, Ys) games
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:02 PM
damn maybe we should just go ryukishi lmao
yeah my main computer is named Beatrice I'm also a big umienko fan
uh, have you played higurashi? You could be rika
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:05 PM
I have. I'd be open to being Rika
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:05 PM
pick whomever you think might have a really fun objective
or idk, this game is probably hard to understand if you've never experienced it before
being able to do anything can be paralyzing lol
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:09 PM
Yeah lol I definitely feel that. Maybe Rena could have something potentially fun/silly
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:09 PM
yoo that'd be really fun i bet
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:10 PM
Yeah we could maybe play into that whole "steal cute things" aspect of her character
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:11 PM
we have to be careful not to focus on spoilerly things though
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:12 PM
Yeah, definitely
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:12 PM
that's one challenge of choosing something from a mystery
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:15 PM
Yeah that's true. If I do go with her, I think the main thing to be careful of is not to go into anything Hinamizawa Syndrome-related (spoiler tagging because I see Zel in here, and IIRC, he wanted to get into Higurashi at some point)
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:15 PM
these channels will be opened up later so don't say anything spoilery yeah
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:16 PM
Ah okay gotcha
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:16 PM
if you wanted to do rena you'd probably have to avoid most of that stuff
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:18 PM
Yeah, the main stuff I'm guessing would have to be the slice of life elements of it. Of course, this isn't totally set in stone yet, but yeah just to throw that out there
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:20 PM
Hm I think I might have a fun time being rika
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:30 PM
Rena objective might be something like "collect a giant stash of cute objects" where she just goes around taking things like toys and hoarding them all lol. That may be funnier in my head than it actually would be though lmao. Plus, I'm not sure how to make Rika's similar
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:30 PM
the trick to a good objective it to make it about other people
cause that's where the meat of the game is
what if you were to convince someone that oyashumi is real
that might be interesting, although it's treading on spoilers
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:34 PM
Yeah I can see how. Maybe I could have an objective related to some of those games that Rena, Keiichi, and everyone would play with each other. Like beat someone in x competition or whatever. I remember there being stuff like water gun fights and other silly things
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:35 PM
oh damn that's a really good idea
i could be mion
yo let's
form a club and we gotta play a game
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:35 PM
Yeah I like this idea
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:35 PM
yeah i dig this
I'm looking on the wiki for what the heck the club was called
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:41 PM
Oh I don't remember either lol
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:42 PM
ok i found a good page on it
I'm just gonna write up some specifics I have something good in mind.
Form a club with at least 5 members and play a game together. Mion will choose the game. All losers of the game must endure a punishment no matter what.
hm, if it's stated like this then we might lose if the others refuse the punishment
lol
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Hornet 02-Jul-21 11:48 PM
(butting in just to ask if you know that you both have an objective?)
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:49 PM
our own objectives could be to win the game ourselves
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Hornet 02-Jul-21 11:49 PM
(if you do then alls cool 👌)
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:51 PM
gonna copy paste this for mainly the gms lol
1. Club members must strive for first place with a full-hearted attitude. 2. As a club member, you must do whatever it takes to win (which includes playing unfair sometimes). 3. You must go through the punishment no matter what.
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Hornet 02-Jul-21 11:51 PM
(you only have 1 personal objective per player - just to make it clear)
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:52 PM
this is on the wiki and the spirit of it
they like cheat to win that's the vibe
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Hornet 02-Jul-21 11:53 PM
(yall seem to be getting on fine anyways, ping me when you're ready)
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:54 PM
I'm fine with both of our objectives being to win Mion's game if that's allowed. Otherwise, maybe our's could be slightly different in that Mion's goal is to win, but Rena's is to make someone lose? I know that sounds like sort of the same thing, but I saw on the wiki that Rena enjoys seeing people go through the punishment game or something like that and she'd even accept losing herself if it means other people do the punishment game with her
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:55 PM
rena is more in it for the good times ya
maybe it's your objective to make the club and mine to make a game happen?
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:56 PM
That can work
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Ahmayksonozaki 02-Jul-21 11:57 PM
although both characters do care about the games
just in different ways
maybe we should drop the club part, it's more the game that's interesting
although i guess that part of it wouldn't be hard if we're doing the game too (edited)
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loweffortmemes 02-Jul-21 11:59 PM
Yeah I'm not sure how to best implement this, but I'm fine with whatever works well
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Ahmayksonozaki 03-Jul-21 12:00 AM
ok I think for me I'll do
"Form a club with 5 people and play a game of my choosing. I must do everything in my power and try to win, even if it involves cheating. Afterward, force the losers to endure a punishment." (edited)
ok yeah I think I'll word it like that, it's more the determinatiion that's important than the winning
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loweffortmemes 03-Jul-21 12:06 AM
Got it. So we're doing it where determination is important for you and winning is important for me? I'm just not sure how to phrase my objective. Or maybe something like what I was thinking of earlier. Like: "Make another person lose Mion's game and watch them endure their punishment, even if it means losing myself."
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Ahmayksonozaki 03-Jul-21 12:07 AM
it's really however you want to do it
you set your own difficulty level
it's also a prompt for the GMs to design something interesting
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loweffortmemes 03-Jul-21 12:10 AM
Gotcha. I'd probably choose interesting design over easier difficulty, but I wonder what would be more interesting. I guess both in theory could be, but maybe if I phrased it as winning being the goal, it could be fun trying to overcome obstacles to win a game or something
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Ahmayksonozaki 03-Jul-21 12:11 AM
They could go about the "force the losers to endure a punishment" in several different ways
we'll probably be responsible for getting people on board with that in some way, which could be really interesting
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loweffortmemes 03-Jul-21 12:14 AM
Yeah true. I guess focusing on winning the game for my objective would be better then. So maybe something like: "Win Mion's game by avoiding the punishment."
Though maybe that's too vague
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Ahmayksonozaki 03-Jul-21 12:14 AM
lol would she do that?
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loweffortmemes 03-Jul-21 12:16 AM
Hmm yeah you've got a point. I think she can be competitive, but maybe not in the sense of trying hard to win lol
Maybe my first thing fits her character better then
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Hornet 04-Jul-21 01:32 AM
heads up, you got roughly a day left
seems like you got your stuff together for the most part
ping me when you know you're ready so i can give you the ok
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loweffortmemes 04-Jul-21 01:36 AM
Gotcha. Yeah ahmayk, I think I'm fine with the "make another person lose Mion's game" objective if you think that'll work well. And I like the objective you have
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Hornet 04-Jul-21 01:38 AM
im not ahmayk but as the cat said, its partially you setting your own difficulty and honestly a prompt for us gms to design the game with
i also wanna say like - if you ping its not final you can re-ping and update as much as you like its no bother
its just a 'we decided on this'
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loweffortmemes 04-Jul-21 03:51 AM
Okay. I'm cool with that objective for the time being, so I'll send my ping
@Hornet Character: Rena Ryuugu Objective: Make another person lose Mion's game and watch them endure their punishment, even if it means losing myself
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Ahmayksonozaki 04-Jul-21 08:16 AM
@Ahmayksonozaki
wait
wrong person
@Hornet Character: Sonozaki Mion "Form a club with 5 people and play a game of my choosing. I must do everything in my power and try to win, even if it involves cheating. Afterward, force all the losers to endure a punishment."
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Hornet 04-Jul-21 01:13 PM
awesome, you have the ACCEPTED red stamp
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Hornet 04-Jul-21 11:51 PM
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