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University Excalibur: SUMMARY 1
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THAT'S RIGHT IT'S TIME FOR A VERY DIFFERENT TABLETOP SUMMARY
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This one will have much more all-caps yelling in it
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University Excalibur started in 2018, I think a bit after Tower ended
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so let's get some BACKSTORY
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and much less art
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Evangelion vs. FLCL isn't the correct analogy, but it's the one stuck in my head right now
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it isn't NOT correct
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so let's send the clock forwards
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to the distant future year of 2019
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when ALIENS ATTACK
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just outside of São Paulo, Brazil, huge alien monsters later called NOMADS appeared overnight, reducing large parts of the country to blasted rubble!
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Nothing could stop them! Our weapons were useless!
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But mysterious heroes rose with the power to defeat the Nomads! Their name:
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THE HENSHIN TWELVE
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
HELL YES
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These dozen masked heroes, their identities a total mystery, turned the tide and pushed the Nomads back!
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Then, at the end of a long battle, the Nomad leader spoke the only words ever heard by an alien on this planet:
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https://images.plurk.com/zvyVogP9L7NAnu6YvddVd.png
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NINE AND A HALF YEARS LATER
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on the privately-owned Isla Cágada, a new school has been established!
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A school founded by the Henshin Corps, with the purpose of training the next generation of transforming heroes who will save humanity from the return of the Nomads.
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Its name...... UNIVERSITY EXCALIBUR
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So because Kill la Kill was a major inspiration for this game, I had to implement some important roll20 tech:
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https://images.plurk.com/6N86SY6kv83h9bNutUAsnn.png GIANT RED TEXT
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Our story starts on a boat, barreling towards Isla Cagada at unsafe speeds!
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https://images.plurk.com/17Q1qVQaea4OZPOCzGkVaP.png Our heroes - some of them, at least - are given their new student Henshin Devices by robot VTuber Hibiki Hibi
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Before their school life can begin, it's time for their first battle ordeal: The CLUB RECRUITMENT FAIR
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There's a whole ass jungle between them and the campus! Every club has either deployed any number of non-president members OR just the club president into the jungle.
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Their goal is to capture new students to recruit into their clubs.
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https://images.plurk.com/6jNrIXttTSiU8V6t9LmTHN.png The new students are launched into the jungle, LET'S GO
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interestingly both of these campaigns start with a survival battle test about traversing a jungle
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https://images.plurk.com/3Z58CBYNFUjmk5hC5wEvFU.png Mateo Lopez (played by boo(f) ) lands with the grace of the guy from QWOP, and stumbles directly into the person he was planning to spend the next like year trying to find:
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STUDENT COUNCIL VICE PRESIDENT
VALQUIRIA MAGALHAES
✶ 天才的なIDOL様!
the IMMEDIATE tone difference between this campaign and ToV is so delightful
moontouched
we were winding up ToV at the same time UE was going into full swing
moontouched
that was a tonal whiplash for those who were in both
boo(f)
me
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https://images.plurk.com/4Mfxf47XrWca6yfFmRd6ff.png Foxglove (played by Niamh Vibes ), definitely a human and not a sentient flower in a student uniform, is hunted by the horror movie villain president of the Flower Arrangement Club!
lily!
oh my god this is already perfect
boo(f)
Fun fact, I was not originally slated to play this game! Quinn approached me at the 11th hour and and basically told me "I need you to play a stupid asshole who fights everything"
boo(f)
To which I immediately agreed, of course
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yeah we lost a player at the last minute
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before game start
✶ 天才的なIDOL様!
iirc i originally wanted to try UE but i had to dip because my work schedule changed
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yeah
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https://images.plurk.com/1KMLOrQljl1HzMq7Fxyjir.png Foxglove is joined by Celia (played by Princess Emily ), a mystery wrapped in various larger mysteries, containing within herself even more smaller mysteries!
boo(f)
she is extremely mysterious.
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We're already back to our old friend, SIMULTANEOUS FIGHTS
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Fight 1: Celia and Foxglove VS Beatriz!
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Fight 2: Mateo VS Valquiria!
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https://images.plurk.com/1Etqlx9M33Xm6VR9BjZIse.png On Val's first attack, she rolls a 1, and Mateo rolls a 10, which is LITERALLY the only possible way he could have avoided her attack!
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The number of Valor campaigns that start with the players getting unceremoniously dumped into some kind of wooded area is rather high
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https://images.plurk.com/42XxypyAE9bBlFYciQHelT.png The dice knew what genre this is out the gate
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everyone is rolling 10s and 1s
moontouched
FEAST OR FAMINE
boo(f)
thus securing mateos position as very cool and valquiria's position as EXTREMELY strong
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MEANWHILE
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https://images.plurk.com/5IYQgyblnXWJEj74CNOEYN.png THE WITCHCRAFT CLUB
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Where we meet our fourth PC, Luca Amaya (played by piratopteryx)
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https://images.plurk.com/7l55XyDH24SmelyyTtMtUc.png Luca's mission is not recruitment!
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It's to ruin Beatriz's day.
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https://images.plurk.com/3yHsx0RYaLFYx2QaOhdN1A.png Beatriz's power is flowerkinesis by the way
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she can make a gun
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out of flowers
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
god i love ue
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This is extremely normal, says the Metal Gear Solid fan
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https://images.plurk.com/6p4ln8IbL1rIkjX4L5fwKX.png Valquiria does better with her second attack, uppercutting Mateo into the stratosphere
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then going all The Boss at the start of MGS3 on him
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and leaving mysteriously
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https://images.plurk.com/mXPKFFLH7QICdDpYSrU4y.png MEANWHILE
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The Social Good Club and guests go to work!
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LALO
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And within it, our last two PCs:
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https://images.plurk.com/4VMaN3AwPknjGuIhrg8DEl.png Astra (played by Echo ), a hippie with a guitar,
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and Tsubaki Yoko (played by ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ ), a special PC!
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This being at least somewhat a KLK pastiche, I had an experimental idea!
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And that was having five full PCs and one Mako.
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Tsubaki is the Mako.
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This means that she has 1 HP and no offensive abilities.
lily!
absolutely brilliant
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
the problem with this is i am, as a person, completely incapable of playing a character who is capable of shutting up.
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
which can be a problem when you have 1 max hp.
lily!
i mean. perfect for the mako, frankly
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It was a memorable experiment, which I don't think I would repeat
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
i'm very happy with how she turned out, though.
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BACK IN THE PRESENT
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https://images.plurk.com/1yRpo8C9o3A2k4z730LqJ3.png Luca comes to Foxglove and Celia's aid!
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https://images.plurk.com/3uAq018COe9KVNEiEBB2Om.png Astra and Tsubaki come to rescue a recovering Mateo from being recruited by the Latin Club!
lily!
i think. from what i've seen so far. university excalibur and tower of valor are both the perfect campaign except in very different ways
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https://images.plurk.com/6YWjJwc0PaCaXo9EmRYObr.png Lalo is here to help!
boo(f)
Mateo could have had a more confusing first day
boo(f)
but, like, not by a lot
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https://images.plurk.com/1CeqiRcVdzixA5jwg10eMd.png Tsubaki starts monologuing! With Hannah just throwing out complete sentences in Latin and hoping I know Latin!
Princess Emily
he could've met Celia
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I do not know Latin!
Princess Emily
well not with THAT attitude!!!!1
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https://images.plurk.com/2pDjwVQJphMisScCcEsWSX.png Beatriz has a bad time of things!
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I think she's calling Latin overly difficult and them foolish for trying to recruit a rando into a club about speaking it
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I think she was more just saying they're stupid and are going to lose
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Also accurate
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https://images.plurk.com/2Ow02UfJHskVvnYRYJdIQ9.png She loses gracefully!
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GARNiDELiA - Speed Star
we're into the second session now, so here's the season 1 OP!
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
i honestly google translated that latin
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
but it was, indeed, something along the lines of 'you're stupid and going to lose'
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And we'll return after these commercials
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SO
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Getting back to campus requires crossing a river! Fortunately there's a bridge.
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https://images.plurk.com/4OTrH0cfyWOMbkY6ew6PGN.png And a troll.
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It's IVAR THE BLUE, Rank B student and standing senator for the Latin Club!
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https://images.plurk.com/11SjvMEnlvLKyZBNYU5iNX.png Not a viking!
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https://images.plurk.com/5JDY1wwM44J4cY41di7oYv.png Tsubaki gives an even bigger speech!
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Ivar henshins into a viking mecha by the way
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https://images.plurk.com/2aZcCZi5f6ZswdynRNSHeT.png antics continue
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https://images.plurk.com/6qFt4Jp3AyxKWo4Vafxj6D.png Celia deals the killing blow, which doesn't kill him, because honestly I'm not sure anyone actually dies on screen in this entire campaign
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https://images.plurk.com/6paNkPumlrpqnXqhwge05V.png The gang reaches the campus, and is greeted there by
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VICE PRINCIPAL
TATSUKO HIGASHIKOKUBARU
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https://images.plurk.com/3ZnU3xUv5tMT6WLlGyLex8.png She gives a very straightforward orientation speech!
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Strength is justice! Fight to survive!
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https://images.plurk.com/23lMyb9g505lcmwaXW6WbU.png Maxwell Gray, Student Council Treasurer, makes me explain the ranking system!
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for their exploits, students are awarded AP (Avalon Points)!
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Avalon is, by the way, a ring-shaped space station floating 1.5 kilometers over the school vampus
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where the Student Council lives
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as you gain AP, you advance through the ranks!
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The lowest rank is Rank D, where you have no rights and no housing and live in a shanty town built on the edge of campus
lily!
hannah i have to say i love tsubaki
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and the highest is Rank S, reserved for the Student Council, who live in opulence on Avalon
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The party is all Rank C, aside from Tsubaki, who is Rank D!
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oh, and Max has one last thing to announce.
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https://images.plurk.com/h5ZBMVi6kzDiKGY9lsSrm.png a bounty on the heads of Mateo, Foxglove, and Celia.
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https://images.plurk.com/4nF9l38cfFIPxN1iak5LC7.png TO BE CONTINUED
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https://images.plurk.com/3N9X5Kzq4maRHq6F4Bacq3.png
lily!
YOU EVEN HAVE A NEXT TIME ON SEGMENT
lily!
THIS IS PEAK
boo(f)
quinn went ALL in on aesthetic bullshit from the jump
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
TheDoomkitten: im very glad
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UE is a very different experience from TOV
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
shes VERY stupid
lily!
The Mako is one of my favorite character types and you did it very well while still putting your own spin on it it's great
lily!
also i'm losing it at Foxy Henshin
boo(f)
actually I would like everyone to play a guessing game, now that we've met the cast
boo(f)
please rank the main characters in order of most likely to least likely to hold the team braincell
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
honestly, my favorite stupid low-key goof
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
is that every single character in the game says "henshin"
except for tsubaki, who is actually from Japan, says "transform"
lily!
1. Luca
2. Mateo
3. Astra
4. Foxglove
5. Tsubaki
6. Celia
lily!
god that's amazing
owl time
Wild...
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I'm honestly not sure the party HAS a brain cell
boo(f)
I would say the party has a braincell but it jumps wildly between Luca, Astra, and Mateo depending entirely on what's happening on screen.
boo(f)
Foxglove, Celia and Tsubaki are not trusted with the braincell.
lily!
Hence my own ranking.
lily!
I still trust Tsubaki with the braincell over Celia for some reason, though
lily!
Just gut instinct
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Tsubaki is indescribably dumb, but she won't do anything bad with a braincell
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A heart full of love and a head full of empty
boo(f)
there's a lot of assumptions being made that emily is playing an extremely dangerous idiot
boo(f)
I'm not going to refute any of them at this time
(it's a helmet)
most likely to least likely?

Astra, Luca, Foxglove, Mateo, Celia, Tsubaki
(it's a helmet)
Mateo might HAVE a braincell but, like many Sven characters, should probably not.
Echo
University Excalibur was my first-ever Valor campaign, and the best possible introduction to it that I think I could have had.
expired milk
This is hilarious and I love it.
boo(f)
(it's a helmet) : "most sven characters should probably not be trusted [with the braincell]" how dare you say something completely true
Princess Emily
y'all just coming for Celia with these braincell rankings, wow
Princess Emily
anyway Celia's entire aesthetic is "Mysterious Transfer Student"
Princess Emily
"but Emily, Celia started the school year with everybody else, she's not a transfer student," you might say,
Princess Emily
but
Princess Emily
in her HEART
Princess Emily
she is a mysterious transfer student
(it's a helmet)
emily i respect you but celia already has that very decisive energy of "i'm a genius, oh no"
Echo
So, this is Astra.
https://images.plurk.com/JAOA3YWOg6RpXP7l84ORq.png
Echo
Hippie mystic with a magic guitar, she's just vibing.
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the guitar is her henshin device
Echo
Yep. Fun fact: when Astra henshins, she does not actually transform herself. She just transforms the guitar.
Echo
It changes from being an acoustic guitar into an electrical one that somehow plays without needing to be plugged in.
Niamh Vibes
god UE was so good
an alleged frog
AH YES
an alleged frog
GOOD TIMES
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