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1.0 game launch log
1.0: Game Launch
Patch Update
Maybe you’ve been getting settled in for a little while now, maybe you just arrived yesterday. Either way, a big change is coming! All Dodo residents will receive a city-wide broadcast on their phones:
> Thank you for your patience with our construction, city-goers! As our month of pride celebration has wrapped, all our streets are once again open. Hope it sets your hearts aflutter for 🤍 White Day! 🤍
The streets of Crane City have opened, and what glorious streets they are! Decorated with gently blooming white flowers, ivory streamers hung from building to building, and floating snowy balloons, everything seems to be elevated with a touch of elegance. What’s that? It’s looking a little bridal? Now you’re getting in the spirit! The city is abuzz about an upcoming celebration...
Meanwhile, Duocaeli has also become the loveliest storm. It’s a tornado of silks, a cyclone of chiffon, ribbons as far as the eye can see - that’s right, it’s time for a parade of princesses. Avis Isle is tittering with gossip, airship after airship coming to land as royalty gets to enjoy the fresh air and roguish sights of a guild town. There’s princesses from faraway lands, kingdoms large and small, excited to rest before they depart soon to their next destination—some kind of royal slumber party? rich people—and they’re so excited to be here! Some are children, others as mature as their late 300's—once a princess, always a princess.
Avisle is excited for their business too! ♥ Looks like everything’s a little more expensive around these parts (know your audience) but there’s also better service and rumors of special treatment for those of blue blood pedigree, or their staff. Why don’t you slide on in? If anything, you might want to teach your friends how to pass for royalty, lest they get mistaken for a worker!
Speaking of roleplay, it seems like there’s an abandoned chest in one of the roadways, likely fallen off a carriage in the chaos… Inside, characters will find gorgeous adornments, including lovely gowns, crowns, etc. The criers looking for royal customers ring in the back of your mind – “Princess business welcome!!” – do you do the proper thing and look for the owner of the chest, and see if you can get a reward? Or is it time for royal cosplay? (Though should you return it, and the shopkeep may ask you to wear some garments as advertisement anyway...)
Alternatively, in your plain clothes, or... most clothes, it’s easy to be mistaken for a page. Well, they’re all awfully young ladies–have a sense of humor! Don’t let it rankle you too bad... or do?
Guild business is in high demand now especially, with most specialties being sought after by a monarch-to-be for one reason or another.
♔ Crafters are highly sought after, especially those who specialize in adornments. Won’t you make them some hair ornaments that bloom just like true roses?
♔ Warriors are being asked to fulfill more bodyguard roles. You know! Just like in their romance novels…
♔ Scholars are being asked to fulfill divinations—how good are you at fortune tellings? The future of their kingdoms are prosperous, aren’t they? Aren’t they?
♔ Wanderers are being requested as tour guides and escorts. They have a higher chance of being mistaken for pages. Sorry.
♔ Menders must clean up after everyone’s messes, as usual. Stained gowns, broken hairpins, the occasional sprain of a princess fallen out of a tree (we told her not to!)—you name it.
♔ Warriors are being asked to fulfill more bodyguard roles. You know! Just like in their romance novels…
♔ Scholars are being asked to fulfill divinations—how good are you at fortune tellings? The future of their kingdoms are prosperous, aren’t they? Aren’t they?
♔ Wanderers are being requested as tour guides and escorts. They have a higher chance of being mistaken for pages. Sorry.
♔ Menders must clean up after everyone’s messes, as usual. Stained gowns, broken hairpins, the occasional sprain of a princess fallen out of a tree (we told her not to!)—you name it.
1. Questboard
The quest board at the guild hub has been updated with the latest patch! Excited players are gathered around to collect new bounties, which are open to all. The guild hub also provides a useful bestiary, which is readily accessible by guild members via crystals.
2. Dungeon Crawl - Guild Hub Catacombs
Welcome to your first limited time domain! Princess Andalina is the belle of the ball, and the one organizing the royal slumber party... when she's suddenly attacked by robed figures in the Guild Hub! It's your job to escort her safely through some secret underground catacombs so that she might be smuggled aboard an airship and escape–though naturally, there's a catch.
Task: Escort Princess Andalina Quartzrosen Pili Majesteria the Third
Reward: Daiya, diamond jewelry of choice.
Chamber 1: Once Upon a Time...
Right in front of your eyes, the exhausted Princess suddenly transforms… into a beautiful diamond? Housed in a necklace, it seems that this icy stone is her dormant form, and is entrusted to players for safekeeping. Dungeon party members will be given roles in the first chamber: knight or princess. Knights will be in charge of defeating foes; princesses will have to wear the enchanted stone and keep it intact. If princesses are hurt, the stone will be damaged. If they're grievously injured or killed, the stone will be destroyed outright.
Additionally, knights will find themselves buffed overall and invulnerable to damage. But it's not that convenient–princesses will sustain any injuries meant for their knights. In RPG terms, princesses serve as the HP for all members of their parties.
It's imperative to keep moving to avoid the incoming assassins, though that's easier said than done: some of the hallways are incredibly narrow, there's constant forks and uneven terrain, and the darkness is thick and suffocating. It'll be easier to stay close–or maybe even get a piggyback ride? A princess carry, if you will? It's easy mana!
Chamber 2: A Sticky Situation
The catacombs are damp and stale–and of course, in their neglect, they're teeming with danger. The pitch black corridors make it easy to stumble into giant spiderwebs, which are nearly impossible to escape alone, though they can be burned or otherwise destroyed with some help. The webbing itself is weaved with magic, and will quickly drain the mana of anyone trapped within.
But where there's spiderwebs, there's bound to be… spiders! Careless knights and princesses may find themselves kidnapped and carried away by these hunters, which can attack with sharp barbs and acid that lingers on every surface. Knights are invulnerable, but can still be incapacitated by webbing–be careful!
Chamber 3: Sins of our Daughters
The light is at the end of the literal tunnel, but one obstacle remains: the young leader of the assassins who introduces herself as Nina.
Nina doesn't attack outright, instead first explaining Andalina's crimes against her kingdom, and her desire for justice. Proudful and grieving, Nina will only accept Andalina's death, but nevertheless offers the players a choice:
Destroy Andalina: By deliberately injuring a party's princess, Andalina's crystal will be destroyed, and she'll be killed. Nina will thank the party and slip away without another word, looking wearied.
Save Andalina: Protecting Andalina will cause Nina to attack, leading to a boss battle.
BOSS: Nina the Emerald
HP: 10000
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Weakness: Water, despots
Resistance: Earth
Attacks
Defeating her can be as "simple" as beating her in a fight before the party sustains too much damage, but there's also a large, deep lagoon in this chamber. If you can make Nina sink like a stone, the water might be enough to dispatch her permanently…
HP: 10000
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Weakness: Water, despots
Resistance: Earth
Attacks
- Crystal Cage: Summons giant, emerald shards to create walls, isolating party members.
- Shatter: Anything her knives touch turns temporarily into crystal, including limbs and portions of flesh. Nina will often throw these knives, though she can also be turned to stone using them. Payback's a bitch!
Defeating her can be as "simple" as beating her in a fight before the party sustains too much damage, but there's also a large, deep lagoon in this chamber. If you can make Nina sink like a stone, the water might be enough to dispatch her permanently…
G̴̮͇̽ĺ̶̻͉̓͝i̷̜͓̙̊t̵̤̄́̏c̶̝̘̃̉̀h̶̯͓͘i̶̖͙̭͆ń̷̻̦̘g̶͐͒͜ͅ: Occasionally throughout the dungeon, including during this boss fight, the role between princesses and knights can switch without warning! Don't get too comfortable.
In the end, only one of the two girls can survive. While others may view this as just a cutscene in a game, to PCs, something about both these women feels quite real. Claim your reward, and step into the glowing portal that will teleport you back to the dungeon entrance. Players may thread any number of outcomes, but can only report one of their threads here for rewards!
OOC Notes
March's OOC Event Plotting Post is also here for your reference!
Please look forward to our next gamewide mingle for Dodo's Doki Doki White Day Auction on Friday, March 17th.
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No.. These stupid pearls to put on their stupid bodies are their police sirens.
[ She doesn't even say this like she's impressed, it's all resigned (because she's been there, she knows that the stupid.. Nice looking pearls.. Are more than just pearls!!) the way she says it. She crosses her arms, ]
I wonder how long these have been sitting here, for.. Or who it belongs to?
[ The last one the two of them were detailing for the day had been a very exhausting, very young, princess belonging to a foreign kingdom. One with ridiculous customs and, apparently, terrible manners towards their employees. She almost sprained her virtual ankle because she couldn't be assed to get a ladder to climb up her wardrobe for some awful shoes.. There's a long, measured silence, before she kicks at the chest with the tip of her boot. It doesn't even budge, it's so stuffed. ]
If it's not the one we're assigned to, can't we just take it?
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You th-think so? [Don't speak to her most secret desires. Fukawa bends at the knee. Dare she?
She dares. With a silken whisper one frock slides loose. The pale golden one she'd been eying. She holds it out, turns it back to front. The embroidery is divine. They probably stiffed the seamstress, rich people are always cheap assholes. Not her Byakuya-sama of course, but the hellions they've been forced to serve all day are most definitely bourgeoisie bitches. They probably wouldn't notice a missing dress or two. Or twenty. The trunk is thickly stuffed.
She begins to draw it towards her. Would her knobby bones fit in such finery? Fukawa flushes and pushes the dress towards Lottie instead, holding it at her shoulders to test for fit.]
It's a v-video game, right? Maybe this is like, some k-kind of mission. Maybe we have to infiltrate some snooty party to uncover a plot. You'd fit right in if you ch-changed your clothes.
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Wh —
[ Which is, also, why she's a bit confused that the dress is put up against her body instead of Fukawa's? Isn't she the one that picked it up?? Lottie gently lowers it down (this is after she gives a cursory look at the embroidery and fabric used to make this silky number), right before stepping to the side and crossing her arms in that Knowing™ way she does.
In fact, in typical Lottie fashion, she doesn't say anything when those arms cross. Just kind of gives a measured stare between Fukawa and the dress, putting the pieces together. ]
Why don't you try it on? Brown hair is more princess-like, anyway. [ Like Belle, or.. Hm, actually, she thinks that's the only one with brown hair. Everyone else is blonde or has black hair? BUT STILL!! She lowers the dress to be at level with Fukawa's frame, ] No Disney princess has crazy ass hair like mine!
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It's p-purple!
[Or a deep maroon. Maybe burgundy. Fukawa scowls to the side, unwittingly wringing the dress as she grumbles.]
Though it's n-no surprise you'd thought it was brown, just right for a piece of crap like me...not lilac like that p-p-perfect priss Kirigiri, or deep blue like that pop-star bitch...
[Anime hair, whatcha gonna do. She breaks out of her own reverie with a grunt and tries to push it forward again.]
And besides, even with that crazy hair you still l-look the part. Aren't princesses supposed to be glamourous? [Come on, Lottie, she knows you've seen a mirror. She catches you staring in them all the time.] You're the one with the perfect nails, and lips, and humongous boobs. No one would buy me as a princess unless they suspected inbreeding.
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These compliments (?) are so backhanded that Lottie has a hard time keeping up, especially when she knows she's technically saying good things here. Before she can even argue that purple is still a very stylish color — and lighting affects things? She didn't mean poop brown why assume poop brown? — the dress is pushed back to her. ]
My boobs aren't that humongous..
[ Says the woman who lists her cup size under 'fun facts' on her website. ]
And stop — [ Why inbreeding!! Her lips twist up in vague (but fond) irritation. She sighs quietly, ultimately being won over by the compliments and the fact she's a little more stubborn than Lottie is. ] stop with the incest stuff and I'll try it on!! But you pick one too, okay? I don't want to be the only one butt naked in the woods..