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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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She sees the teen sitting there, probably going on and on about this and that, and a fond smile instinctively curls her lips. Pausing briefly when she feels that pang of familiarity, cerulean eyes blink a few times in confusion before she forces herself to shake it off. She's going to let muscle memory take control here, but if she's right-- ]
Izuku, hey!
[ She waves while making her way over, crouching down once she reaches him and the confused whale calf. Hibiki grins brightly at both of them. ]
Giving a dissertation? Looks like you've got a pretty captive audience. Mind if I sit in too?
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Not that he'd want to be anyone other than who he is now. Although maybe it would have been nice to, like, skip the bullied stage. But even that led him to All Might and One For All.
The smile he shoots back at Hibiki is both shy and welcoming at the same time, balanced on the edge of familiarity and not. But he's relaxed in his own way, letting those warm memories buoy him. ]
I don't mind at all! Though you know, captive audience implies I'm holding them hostage...I think they just like being talked to. Babies do, right?
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She would be lying if she said she preferred them to the family she has here, even if she has no clue who they are. Any time she tries to sift through the events of her life in Crane City, the faces of those friends and loved ones she has there are hazy at best.
None the wiser to his own struggles, Hibiki continues to smile brightly at Izuku as she takes a seat nearby. ]
What about captivated, then? [ No, they're just confused... ]
Yeah, that's been my experience more or less. Talked to, sung to, even if they don't as long as it's soothing in some way. Even better if you can rock them or bounce them while you do it, but good luck doing that with these little guys.
[ Never mind that most of the calves here are larger than she is, they're still little in her eyes. ]
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I've never actually had a pet or anything. [ At home. He sort of remembers a much beloved goldfish here... ] But I always wanted one. I mean, they're just so cool! All animals.
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Me neither. Our apartment didn't allow pets, so I was always super jealous of anyone with a cat or a dog... anything, really!
[ In her Real Life. In Crane City, her family has a house at the edge of the city, with an old, rotund bloobette. ]
But I wouldn't mind having a little wind whale floating around.
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...You're moving to Dodo?
[ But she thought... Hm. ]
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But your stuff was already there, wasn't it?
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Anyway, Izuku basically has no poker face. He smiles even when he doesn't mean it very occasionally, but his nerves are written all over his face and body language. He is a terrible liar. Or concealer. He can basically only do it as battle tactics in a battle. ]
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...It's the same for me.
[ To her, this is the equivalent of a big, earth-shattering reveal, but she's genuinely concerned that this kid is going to start crying if she doesn't make this as obvious as possible. And boy is that ever nerve-wracking for her. Haaa, okay, time to just rip this band-aid off. ]
This might sound crazy, but stay with me, okay? I'm guessing your mom isn't actually my aunt. I couldn't tell you what her name is or what she looks like if my life depended on it. But I remember you, and it's hard to shake the feeling that I've known you your whole life even though I know for a fact that that's impossible.
It's the same for you too, isn't it?
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Honestly, even if he thought it sounded crazy Izuku wouldn't call her crazy. He's nice down to his bones, and he listens intently as Hibiki talks, his fingers tapping on his knee. Not in impatience - he's just kind of fidgety sometimes, and his gaze doesn't waver. ]
Well...yes. I mean - technically - I'm pretty sure I don't actually have much of an extended family. Or a family. I mean, I have my mom, but it's pretty much just always been us - my dad works overseas.
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This isn't fair, to either of them. She's angry for herself, but even more for the kid sitting next to her. That he has to deal with a tough family situation that hits incredibly close to home only makes this worse. ]
I'm sorry, this is probably a lot to take in all at once, but if you're like me, than the life you've lived in Crane City isn't the one you actually lived. I don't have a big family, it was always just me and my mom before she died. I didn't grow up in Crane City in a cute house with a bunch of kids, I grew up in Tokyo in a cramped apartment on my own.
I should be dead, but instead... I'm here. And I don't know why.
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Still, he doesn't want to pry. Or press her. So... ]
I, uh. I can't say why either. Right before this - I mean, the last thing I remember from there - I just got to a battlefield and I was, uh, going to fight. The battle. I think I was alive. I mean, I remember being alive.
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But wait a minute. ]
Hold on, back up—battle? Where? Are you okay? I mean, yeah, you're here and you look fine, but what happened? Why were you fighting?
[ He's small and she can tell he's reasonably sturdy, but that could be due to character customizations. ]
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[ He got...detained. Thanks, yandere villainess who is obsessed with him. ]
Er, to clarify, I don't mean a hero like...here, a hero. But like, a superhero? That's a career choice you can make as far as I know. Where I'm from, anyway.
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Himiko why are you like thisHero-in-training? Provisional license? Tapping a curled finger to her lips, brows knitted in thought, Hibiki sits in silence for a moment. ]
So definitely not the same Earth...
[ Don't mind her, Izuku, she's just mumbling to herself. Still, she seems oddly blase about that fact. Weird. ]
Is it normal for teenagers to be out fighting like that? I mean, I know you see it in anime or video games, but shouldn't there be laws out there that keep that from happening? [ Translation: Where are the adults in this situation? ] I don't doubt you for a second, just...
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[ The adults are doing their best, maybe. His own sensei is losing limbs and eyes over this... ]
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Can I ask the details? I'm curious.
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[ So, the people of Japan are all living in shelters and trying not to mcdie. It's a whole Thing right now. ]
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Letting out a hard sigh, she leans back on her hands, lips set in a thin line. ]
And somehow, during all of that, you were pulled away and thrown here. Did something happen to you while you were fighting? Maybe someone caught you off-guard? Knocked you out or something like that?
[ That's what happened the last time she wound up somewhere else. Except sub "knocked out" with "possibly killed" in her case. ]
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[ Izuku can't really be sure, though. Mid battle is always pretty hectic. ]
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I guess hallucinations based on a lack of oxygen might be possible...
[ Hibiki, how can you say that so nonchalantly? ]
But you can feel things here, right? Like to grass or the wind. Or if you tried to pinch yourself? That probably means you aren't dead, at least based on what I know about that kind of thing.
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[ He's willing to listen to anything as 1) he's nice like that and 2) he's still in the theorizing stage. ]
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I mean, the last thing I remember is freezing my possibly-dead but possibly-not-dead butt off in the Netherworld. If this isn't some weird case of reincarnation, I have no clue.
...There is that, but that makes even less sense.
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