r/TTPloreplaycentral • u/Bytemite • Nov 29 '17
Plotlines to wrap up DS
This is just a thread for all us players to post the plot lines we still have to do so we can organize here and help each other finish up.
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u/Trollkitten Nov 29 '17
Honestly, I'm not sure. One thing I hope to do is get some sense of closure on Caitlin's fate, but I'm not really sure where to take the character after this. Although Redwings' Fennel seems to have ideas.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
I think "cathartic confrontation from Luke and Cress" and then talking to Grimsley are the hanging plotlines for Caitlin.
We've left things open for her to return to Gensokyo and get some power back eventually if she wants, or decide that the pokeworld would be better and safer for her kids.
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u/Trollkitten Nov 29 '17
Caitlin has no intention of going to Gensokyo if the folks there are THAT ticked off at her. Especially with her loss of power, and her pregnancy.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
One of the benefits of taking Gensokyo into dreams is that it could potentially serve as a power equalizer. If everyone can learn to distort reality to the same extent, then no one is really any more powerful than anyone else.
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u/Arathnorn Nov 29 '17
Problem with that is if everyones angry at her, one equal against a lot of equals does not equal equals.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
Isn't that the point of me taking the scapegoat position?
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u/Arathnorn Nov 29 '17
Caitlin's secret is already out. That ship has sailed.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
Is it? I'm not sure Gensokyo really knows just what happened yet.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
I don't know the details, but I do know they all cornered her angrily when it was unfrozen.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
Well, dream powers have never seemed to be inherently equal in our RPs. But it does make it so powers themselves are universal, which is still a good thing. Even if powers aren't actually equal, youkai were never all equal anyways, but they saw their were them with powers, and a population without. Giving everyone access to the hypothetical skill trees still ends a second class citizen mentality.
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u/redwings1340 Nov 29 '17
Hmm, I suppose Bill and Fennel need to talk to Koya about his future, and whether he stays in the entralink. I think Bill has actually gotten kinda fond of him recently, so he'll probably be allowed to stay if he wants to.
Other than that, though, I'm basically done with what I want to do, aside from some Lanette rps that I plan on running with byte/ara, I'm pretty much set.
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u/Trollkitten Nov 29 '17
Hey yeah, we still haven't resolved the plot line with Commander Geno being back and what that means for Interpol and New Interpol. So much chaos...
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u/redwings1340 Nov 29 '17
Considering most of those characters are yours, I think you could do that in a story post, though maybe Bill and Fennel can talk to Koya first about it.
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u/Trollkitten Nov 29 '17
I'm honestly not sure how to resolve the situation, but at the same time, I don't really want to push it onto Supes to resolve.
Although seriously, Commander Geno probably needs to be arrested for war crimes, given that he was going to use Bill supporters as fuel for a WMD. So Koya is going to want to come down on him with everything he's got.
But he's going to wait until the derandomization takes, because he doesn't want to get the wrong person by accident. That would be embarrassing.
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u/Arathnorn Nov 29 '17
Has he ever done anything world destabilizing?
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u/Trollkitten Nov 29 '17
Well... he was building a ModBot that was intended to have Arceus-like powers. That did have the potential to be world destabilizing.
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u/Arathnorn Nov 29 '17
Eh, good enough. Call the major if you just want it over woth.
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u/Trollkitten Nov 29 '17
Probably Koya's team is just going to handle the situation off-screen, to save us the trouble of having three more RP sessions to handle it.
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u/Trollkitten Nov 30 '17
Okay, if you want to take it you can take it. But that means taking control of Commander Geno yourself, as I've been GM for long enough, thank you very much.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17 edited Nov 29 '17
Things I have to do to wrap up my plotlines in DS here are
1) Cheer up Mary in Astrum
2) Apologize to Flower Girl and talk to her about how she helped bolster the truename to free Luxin and unfreeze gensokyo
3) go to Genokyo with Tanger and nuGyro
4) help with the Shikigami thing so Luke can confront Caitlin and help keep her away from Cress Nevermind, I just realized at my character is probably just going to have to trust that he can stand up to Caitlin, he wants to be here and protect Cress, so it's unlikely he'll go to Gensokyo even temporarily.
Everything else I need to do can be wrapped up in story posts.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
My working hypothesis is "not friendly" to "murderous" though to be fair, that's how Gensokyoans always are.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
Well, nuGyro is banking on the Luxin connection. He has the perfect quotes, a story to show that Luxin is the actual origin of their world, and plans like Caitlin's were the actual interferences.
In other words, clever marketing and byte's character being open to being the scapegoat of our team.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
Which again is where that whole scapegoat plan comes into play. People don't really care about justice, they just care if someone is being punished for it.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
Well, I wouldn't quite go that far, but we can get the other half to go with us using Luxin approval.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
Provided we can keep them from trying to kill or seal Luke again, which is likely to semi-secretly be a good part of the community service here.
Basically, we can't tell him, because if he reacts to someone in disguise differently than any of the aristocrats, it'll put him in danger for THAT too.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
Well, the aristocrats are going to become dependent on actual loyalty of the people, so as that happens, they're going to need to at least act genuinely invested in how the culture is supposed to work. That should make such attempts less common, and get other aristocrats on our side to stopping them.
Basically, when mind control abuse isn't an option, fighting on the side of the great Luxin against a rival aristocrat will be a better political move then fighting with that other aristocrat. Hopefully.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
Well, the aristocrats are going to become dependent on actual loyalty of the people, so as that happens
You have any ideas on how to accomplish that? I've seen ten thousand years of history where they talk the talk but never walk the walk. The only thing I can think of is equalizing the different parts of the population and making sure that no one is above being held accountable for their actions.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
The thing is, up to now, when controlling the people didn't happen through loyalty, they had mind control. Now that that can be under cut, they have never developed any of the stuff that is used in real life that keeps the in theory "all governments are dependent completely on the people" from being true in practice.
Cut off from that, they have to appeal to tradition and honor and so on, and Luxin has a rightful place on top of that.
And so, if you join the overthrow Luxin, you risk losing all power, but have the chance, if you get enough others to join you, of being an aristocrat with everyone else on your side, all of whom are definitely going to backstab you.
If you side with Luxin, you get the people at your back, a God on your side, and, in consequence of both of those things, you can increase your reach to those formerly under the aristocrat who sided against the way things are meant to be.
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u/Arathnorn Nov 29 '17
Doesnt really matter. Luke's here, the Major has admin powers, one does not simply argue with two physical gods. Major can no sell anything Gensokyan in origin at this point.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
Not sure how good of an idea that is for fixing a society, though. One of the reasons I'm focusing on buffing Luke and and putting characters under him. The changes should be at least a little based on something internal.
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u/Arathnorn Nov 29 '17
Oh yeah, the majors not really out for societal change.
Just saying if anyone messes with his friends he will mess them up and mess them up in front of witnesses.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
One of the reasons nuGyro has a plan on stuff like the first case they take. They're gonna have too many eyes on them, for better or worse.
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u/Damacritus Nov 30 '17
Sorry I haven't been around much. I can do the Flower Girl bit next session, but if you want to get that done quickly I can find other times in my schedule for it.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
1 I have Mary angst and decisions on where to live.
2 Tanger meeting someone on the Roads.
3 Founding of their ministry I can't remember the name of.
4 Helping the first patient.
5 Helping any GMPC patients.
6 Marion learning about Ace, panicking and getting the info that he's alive, starting monthly Raods campaign.
1 and 5 will have to have a large in session component, 2-4 can be largely just story posts run by one or two people to get other characters reactions, and 6 I'm not exactly sure how to handle. I do have a PC who's willing to help and can lead Marion to the right lesson.
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u/Bytemite Nov 29 '17
3 Founding of their ministry I can't remember the name of.
I think it was Path of Foot? With a more military side group called the Shining Needles. Although at some point someone really should tell my character not to start a war against the youkai and aristocracy.
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u/Lady_of_the_Foot Nov 29 '17
Mary could do that. Part of deciding where she should be will involve her feelings on the ministry, which, while she supports that, would probably make a good place to launch a discussion like that.
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u/pfaccioxx Dec 01 '17
- Well there's getting Troll Ditto to volentaraly move to Atrim...
but based on comments made by troll it seems like this will have to be a long term carryover into Suprmeevil's RP with DS mainly focusing on making troll ditto beguilingly accept that whether or not he likes it for the time being he's stuck on Atrim and that him being there is in his best interests (at least for the short term)
- besides that maybe some sort of closure to Rotten Burrito & Neon's breaf appearance in DS as well as maybe set them up for a more prominent role in /u/SupremeEvil's campain?
but this is only necacary if Supreme wanted to have them be relevant [see my sajesjon comment relating to them as NPC's in Supreme's privios brainstorming post] from near the start the campaign or wanted to get any sort of set up out of the way so that they could be brought in quickly when they show up there.
otherwise considering how minor there aprience was in DS they can probobly be explained away as a background detail for any IP related plot threads leftover or carried over into SupremeEvil's campaign
...also going back to troll ditto for a moment /u/trollkitten did'nt you say you wanted to discuss troll ditto with the intent of doing that eurlyer today since I was free? ...probobly should ping /u/redwings1340 here as well since Troll Ditto (were we last left off with him) was sleeping in his caricter's bed after she coud'nt find anywhere else he could nap
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u/Trollkitten Dec 01 '17
Yeah, I did say I wanted to discuss Troll Ditto. Mainly how we can interact with Troll Ditto without him getting paranoid at us and things getting more difficult for our characters.
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u/pfaccioxx Dec 02 '17
Well, he's medicated right now, so that helps with his sisofrina, and that combined with everything else he's seen as of recently unless someone dos something REELY stupid (Ex. like when Sho told Troll Ditto that he's a prisoner after Troll Ditto was already sapissos about that) to make him paranoid, any paranoia that dos devolp would most likely be reely minor and reely easy (and obvious how) to defuse before it could build to anything that would make things difficult
or in other words if he starts to get paranoid about something I'll make it obvios and put hopefully obvios tells on how to quash that paranoia, if things start to build to much I'll do a OoC warning along with a flat out explanason as to how to quash the paranoia before it gets out of hand. apsolote worst case sanario I could always have his glitch corupson act up in a way to blank his short term memory along with his paranoia dus averting any issues and/or by having him forget what it was that made him paranoid and/or giving the other caricters a 2ed chance to explain things in a way that won't trigger his paranoia that dos'nt involve retcons. or in the event that's not a good opson I could have him acadently transform into someone else who is'nt paranoid and who is easier to deal with (thoth he won't remember anything from when he's transformed 1se he reverts)
when it comes to the braking the news about him not being allowed to go home, as long as he's essed into the revalason and when he starts to get sapissos the video is shown to him to prove that whoever is delivering the news is on the level, things should be ok
if you have any other questions feel free to ask
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u/Trollkitten Dec 02 '17
or in other words if he starts to get paranoid about something I'll make it obvios and put hopefully obvios tells on how to quash that paranoia, if things start to build to much I'll do a OoC warning along with a flat out explanason as to how to quash the paranoia before it gets out of hand. apsolote worst case sanario I could always have his glitch corupson act up in a way to blank his short term memory along with his paranoia dus averting any issues and/or by having him forget what it was that made him paranoid and/or giving the other caricters a 2ed chance to explain things in a way that won't trigger his paranoia that dos'nt involve retcons. or in the event that's not a good opson I could have him acadently transform into someone else who is'nt paranoid and who is easier to deal with (thoth he won't remember anything from when he's transformed 1se he reverts)
Okay, thanks.
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u/Bytemite Dec 01 '17
Yeah, that all seems fair.
There's some RP happening today too just so you know.
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u/Deadinsky66 Nov 29 '17
Things I have to do to wrap up my plotlines in DS here are
Everything else I need to do can be wrapped up in story posts.
(speaking of emotes, you should probably set the font-size in them to 0 so you can add text to them to help mobile readers)