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[Touhou Valor] Here's some stuff for people to do during the wait
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First off, here's a game link - pop into the game for a second at some point, and then I'll be able to hand over edit rights of your character sheet
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Beyond that, the main thing is fleshing out characters so that I can come up with more fine-tuned fun adventures for them
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Particular things to sort -
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>Name
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>Species
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>Ability (all Touhous have some kind of specific weird ability - manipulating cold, immortality, seeing long distances, invoking death, stockpiling misfortune, etc)
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>Hat (Touhous without a hat or ribbon or horns or SOME kind of head ornament are quite rare, it's not plot relevant but it is definitely an important #aesthetic point)
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>Backstory (the more plot/NPC hooks, the better - for the humans in particular, if you've been involved with resolving any past Incidents, you can make something up here)
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General pings
GalacticBattler
Dragomorph
Vehrec
Princess Emily
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I'll get you a copy of the rulebook soon
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and help with chargen if necessary
Princess Emily
I'll put together a google doc
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I like that hat is included
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listen
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you need a hat
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I appreciate the series' dedication to headwear
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among the very few characters to have no headwear at all are
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>someone who spent 1000 years locked in the bottom level of makai
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>someone from the moon
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they're not locals, they don't know the unwritten code
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everyone keeps waiting until Kaguya is out of earshot and going "is anyone going to tell her about her hat situation"
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jokes aside I also put up the name of the first season at the game link, so that's a small teaser about the first incident
Princess Emily
hon'oka: does this have something to do with them sealing away the moon again
GalacticBattler
Awe
Kaguya is in an odd position since every other character from the moon has headwear except Reisen. Unless those ears are clipons but that wouldn't make sense
Awe
or I'm just forgetting something maybe
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funny ears count as head decoration
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yeah I think it's just Kaguya
Awe
the true reason for her exile
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we cracked the code
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"We exiled Kaguya because she refused to wear a silly hat"
Vehrec
I think my character might have a tiny tree or a hair-clip in the shape of one. 
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Emily and Vehrec have been given character sheets
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thanks!
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lesse if I still have that link on hand
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Eric let me know if you want to fiddle with Experimental Boss-Only Shit for your before-joining-the-party incarnation
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i wanna do one of these campaigns next time you run one
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absolutely! I post signups well in advance, and anyone can join as long as they have some kind of weekly consistent availability
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the next one on my radar with still0open signups is Code Geass Valor
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but I recall you not being into robits
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honestly I could probably handle six in this game, with how I'm doing the bosses
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Oh! I do love CG though
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I RPed Kallen forever
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oh ok
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geass is like the one exception
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well, consider either of those options - either Weird American Code Geass in the far future or Touhou Valor in the nearer future if your Wednesdays are open
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is there a spectate mode first lol
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there is!
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ok! I dont know Touhou well enough for that one 
but I will keep it in mind
but I will keep it in mind
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I've got two games a week if you want to check them out
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one tonight even
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there's math but the roll20 character sheet I built takes care of most of it for you
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hmm I'm a little busy tonight but maybe next time!
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o7
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if the code geass alt setting I made up looks fun you can throw a comment on there with some ideas whenever
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that's probably until, like, winter
Princess Emily
Kumotta Hon'oka's character sheet
Princess Emily
of possible interest to my fellow players since it establishes a couple prior Incidents
Dragomorph
popped in for a bit but maybe i'm a bit too late?
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there's no too late
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I just need you to have popped in at least once before I can assign your sheet
Dragomorph
ah, got it
Dragomorph
it's hot so i don't use the desktop as much
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there, you're set
Dragomorph
coo
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so i should build assuming i'm level 8
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hmm
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let's go with 7 for now
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and I'll see how S2's plan stacks up
Dragomorph
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(for the others: Emily and Vehrec 1, Neb 2, Eric 4)
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Momoko's mostly set up. I'll have to sit down and flesh out backstory and special ability.
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oh, an important house rule I forgot to codify anywhere:
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All references to Flight are stricken from the books - no Landbound Limit, no flaw that steals flight, no Fly skill, no Jump
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flight is instead universal
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everyone can fly and usually is flying
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combat mechanics will not distinguish
Princess Emily
awww good bye flightless
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you can't just take flying away from touhous
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that's cheating
Princess Emily
it's only cheating if you lose
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unfortunately this is a setting where that's distinctly not the case
Awe
also no Drop Attack or Launch
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...Launch I'd consider still allowing
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based on how the later fighting games work
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launch is OK, knocking prone is OK (in-fiction it just becomes, like, dizzied)
Dragomorph
I feel like Drop Attack should be allowed to work as a sort of Throw attack that keeps somebody in a single square rather than completely disabling flight.
Dragomorph
I mean, no matter how much you can fly, it still hurts like a bitch if somebody hits you and you hit the ground.
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that'd be the same as Immobilize
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plus free bonus damage
Dragomorph
well I mean it doesn't stop them from moving
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it just means instead of hitting them against a wall you're hitting them on the ground.
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the issue is that, when everyone is flying, putting Drop Attack on a tech is always going to be worthwhile
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because it's always going to get its bonus damage
Dragomorph
Fiiiiine. Man, way to kill one of my thematic ideas.
Dragomorph
Didn't have any moves that made use of that yet anyway. I'll have to figure out something else for the Gorilla move.
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you can still flavor a tech to do that!
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it just would be better flavored as Immobilize or Knock Down
Dragomorph
Sweet, so we can still have the fucking ridiculous "somehow plow somebody through the earth" deal.
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yes, it just won't have its own dedicated mod
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Ramming Attack could also work
Princess Emily
ramming with knock down
Dragomorph
Works.
Dragomorph
Momoko is still working on finding the monkey for the record. (Mostly because she can only have two companions at the moment.)
Dragomorph
I fully expect at least half the party to protest when she finds "the monkey" that apes aren't actually monkeys.
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also i don't know if everybody else did it, but I followed the whole "Blank Sign: move name" motif in my naming.
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my general policy on that has been 'go ahead, but if you're having trouble coming up with fully fancy names for every move you can also save that for the ults'
Princess Emily
I've got that
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it is however an in-universe rule that, because wholly thoughtless action goes against the principles of the spell card rules, all attacks must have a name
Princess Emily
four moves; Moon Sign "Time in the Night", Electric Sign "Lightning Watch", Echo Sign "Thunderous Echo", Malice Sign "Unerring Bloodlust"
Dragomorph
Incidentally, uh, I'm assuming that Empower Attack should not work with a move with the Slow Limit?
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correct
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nor anything that requires Attack+Move actions, like rush attacks
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all those things are mutually exclusive
Dragomorph
because i gave something a slow limit and it still has a checkbox for it
Dragomorph
that said I think I'll get rid of it because a lot of Momoko's moves require some form of movement anyway
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That's more of a GM ruling than a Rule
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the box is there but, don't use it
Dragomorph
This will let me give her an Overdrive move anyway.\
Dragomorph
er Overdrive skill.
Awe
It doesn't have to be X Sign, there's plenty of examples of not that
GalacticBattler
OKAY I'm home
GalacticBattler
I joined the game
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And also left the game