Double the Valor pitches, double the fun!
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blissauthorityHello all, I have two Valor game pitches for you come the summer or fall.
The first is the oft mentioned Gakuen Phantasia V: Adventurer's Class, my battleschool setting, now turned to a game. The obvious answer to a JRPG or D&D world full of old wizards leaving behind ruins full of semi-sentient alchemical slimes and Freakin' Owlbears? Form a high school for aspiring adventurers to learn a Class! A class for Classes, if you will (in a game that may have something to say about social class). It's a little bit RWBY, a little bit Dungeons and Dragons, and whole lot of Boku no Hero Academia.
(I get a little bit RWBY, and I don't ever wanna see more inequality, more inequality~)
You would be teammates in an adventuring party group for one of the Five Great Houses of the school, chosen for a combination of being friends and having usefully interlocking talents. You'd need to survive the classes and field trips - in the face of the aristocracy crumbling from democratizing new discoveries of technology and magic, and villains who would hang on to power, no matter the price, including the power of young adventurers they'd like in their pockets...
The second is Persona V: Tower of the Animus, an attempt at Persona with the following twists:
1: Everyone's persona is a legendary or fictional heroine; and
2: The aesthetic is magical girl, and Pretty Cure style fighting magical girl at that; color coordinated teenagers or college kids in frilly dresses punching, stabbing, and Agidyning malevolent Shadows in the face.
You would all be students: either at the fictional Sagittarius High School of Berkeley, CA; of UC Berkeley; or of the fictional Horizon Community College. It's an urban area near Oakland and San Francisco.
The guiding arcana is The Star, and I'd want each of your characters to give me thier Tower moment, when life needed to change or they'd be doomed, for use in making Shadows for them to face. Igor and his buddies Adam and Safie will of course help you out from the Velvet Room, on top of a great tower in the middle of Twilight...
Both of these would start in late summer or fall, and the afternoons or evenings Pacific time I'd have available would be Monday or Friday, possibly Saturday if Valoranger or S&V ends by then. Sunday I'm already running Reach Heaven Through Valor, my experimental PVP Heaven Will Be Mine riff...
Let me know who you are, how to reach you (esp. on Plurk and Discord), which games interest you and when you'd be available! It's possible I could run both, or just one, if interest and timing overlap...
Also, let me know what character concepts you have! One or two broad ones are fine.
Finally, ask me any clarifying questions you might need to ask, and I'll do my best to answer them...
The first is the oft mentioned Gakuen Phantasia V: Adventurer's Class, my battleschool setting, now turned to a game. The obvious answer to a JRPG or D&D world full of old wizards leaving behind ruins full of semi-sentient alchemical slimes and Freakin' Owlbears? Form a high school for aspiring adventurers to learn a Class! A class for Classes, if you will (in a game that may have something to say about social class). It's a little bit RWBY, a little bit Dungeons and Dragons, and whole lot of Boku no Hero Academia.
(I get a little bit RWBY, and I don't ever wanna see more inequality, more inequality~)
You would be teammates in an adventuring party group for one of the Five Great Houses of the school, chosen for a combination of being friends and having usefully interlocking talents. You'd need to survive the classes and field trips - in the face of the aristocracy crumbling from democratizing new discoveries of technology and magic, and villains who would hang on to power, no matter the price, including the power of young adventurers they'd like in their pockets...
The second is Persona V: Tower of the Animus, an attempt at Persona with the following twists:
1: Everyone's persona is a legendary or fictional heroine; and
2: The aesthetic is magical girl, and Pretty Cure style fighting magical girl at that; color coordinated teenagers or college kids in frilly dresses punching, stabbing, and Agidyning malevolent Shadows in the face.
You would all be students: either at the fictional Sagittarius High School of Berkeley, CA; of UC Berkeley; or of the fictional Horizon Community College. It's an urban area near Oakland and San Francisco.
The guiding arcana is The Star, and I'd want each of your characters to give me thier Tower moment, when life needed to change or they'd be doomed, for use in making Shadows for them to face. Igor and his buddies Adam and Safie will of course help you out from the Velvet Room, on top of a great tower in the middle of Twilight...
Both of these would start in late summer or fall, and the afternoons or evenings Pacific time I'd have available would be Monday or Friday, possibly Saturday if Valoranger or S&V ends by then. Sunday I'm already running Reach Heaven Through Valor, my experimental PVP Heaven Will Be Mine riff...
Let me know who you are, how to reach you (esp. on Plurk and Discord), which games interest you and when you'd be available! It's possible I could run both, or just one, if interest and timing overlap...
Also, let me know what character concepts you have! One or two broad ones are fine.
Finally, ask me any clarifying questions you might need to ask, and I'll do my best to answer them...
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Date: 2019-02-24 11:50 pm (UTC)I'm interested in the Persona campaign, and my character would be a transgirl at community college studying physics and science, hoping to transfer to full college soon. (Money issues.) Her Tower moment is when she came out to her parents and they tossed her out. Personality is cheerful and bubbly and helpful. She's got her demons, but she truly wants to help and keeps her demons very very quiet. (I'm thinking she'd either be nav or healer, if we're going true-to-canon for party composition.) I'll get back to you on Persona. I have ideas, but I need to find them.
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Date: 2019-02-26 03:01 pm (UTC)Do you have any preferences for Arcana?
It’s easy to play a full support in Valor - a buff, Debilitating Strike, and debuff focused character would be ideal. I can help you mechanize “the support” but you may end up more Ami Mizuno than Twochan Hackerma’am.
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Date: 2019-02-26 03:59 pm (UTC)As for Arcana, hm. Priestess, Temperance, the more cheerful side of Tower, maybe Fortune off of the top of my head.
Oooh. Yeah. I like that. Buffs/debuffs/status ailments would be perfect, and I'm all for figuring out how to make it work. :D
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Date: 2019-02-26 04:03 pm (UTC)Also: does either or both Monday or Friday work, starting July in the earliest?
Interest!
Date: 2019-03-01 06:13 pm (UTC)I'd be interested in the Persona one; I think Mondays miiiight work for me, if late enough that I can get home from work at 8pm UK time.
Concept: get fully on my bullshit and play a butch lesbian agi/mind/guts mobile offtank/single-target control specialist. Not sure about fictional protagonist nature or arcana, but likely Artemis as underlying goddess; Tower moment likely either someone getting hurt because she didn't act, someone getting hurt because she tried to make things better and fucked up, or both.
same person, Sara RP account
Date: 2019-03-01 06:58 pm (UTC)obviously double down and make the purse Homura, yo dawg heard u liked magical girlsAgi/Mind lends itself to control, to what I call Multiball Madness (where you fling a bunch of enemies at each other with Repositions and rack up chip damage). Agi combined with ????/(Artemis) suggests Gun Elemental, or a bow or something.
If inaction is what caused the problem, maybe the Hanged Man?
Re: same person, Sara RP account
Date: 2019-03-01 07:06 pm (UTC)The style I'm looking at is approximately Duel, the Mind assessment tricks, and some mobility, to let me pick a target and peel them off to where they can't fuck with people as easily.
Wondering about Judgement, and maybe-
oh fuck me I'm going all in on my bullshit aren't I
nobody's called Riza Hawkeye yet, right?
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Date: 2019-03-01 07:09 pm (UTC)cashSkill Points.)Nope. No one called Riza yet. Have fun.
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Date: 2019-03-01 07:13 pm (UTC)I am interested in Gakuen Phantasia V: Adventurer's Class, narrowing down to one particular idea:
* A Rita Mordio-esque Tsundere Mage or Artificer. (I'm fairly certain tsundere is a racial template.) Has a bit of an explosion addiction; Very Large Areas Of Effect would be a thing she would actively pursue. An important objective would be her actually having a relationship with someone.
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Date: 2019-03-01 07:18 pm (UTC)so obviously one of the catgirls, the BastimThe Biggest Booms means Spirit is one stat; if they're an artificer and Mechanists this also suggests Mind. But the thing that pushes people away when you defend against them is a (season 2) Guts-based skill... decisions, decisions!
(Heck, who said they were long range spells? You can have a short-ranged but AOE build just fine! Mage tank baybee!)
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Date: 2019-03-01 07:23 pm (UTC)Spirit/Guts could be a good combination for mage-tanky schematics, possibly somewhat influenced by Pascal from Tales of Graces (whose big skills were all player-based AoE).
I also was considering a healer/support type (yes I kinda have a Valor pidgeonhole by now) who was a fangirl of a regional dark lord, with the deeper joke being that it's basically a Weird Fandom Culture, with the dark lord basically putting over-the-top supervillainous affectations on a reformist culture to make it oddly more palatable to the societies around it.
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Date: 2019-03-01 07:28 pm (UTC)"Supervillanous veneer over a social justice movement" is the most Orcish thing imaginable given the Orcs in GFAC, for the record, and would seriously weird out the locals which is definitely a good thing. (Later on, ask me about races and power sources and stuff in GFAC!)
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Date: 2019-03-01 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-01 07:22 pm (UTC)what if just playing ThorneNoted, looking forward to it!no subject
Date: 2019-03-01 07:25 pm (UTC)don't tempt me