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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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I'm not dating anyone. [he flips the card over, looking for answers. nada. the other side has a heart broken in two.]
Who did you get this from?
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Whoever decides these little quests we're delivered upon.
[ Who can say who's behind it? ]
There's no need to hide a paramour from me, Felix. [ he's happy for him.. even if he just got broken up with..... ]
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[in a show of how much he doesn't care about this, he rips the card into several pieces, and scatters it. take that, fake exe?]
Ridiculous. Whoever is behind this is--are you smiling?
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Smiling? Who would do such a thing...?
[ In a tremendous show of self-restraint, he does manage not to smile, but the amusement rings like a little bell in his voice anyway. Oopsie. ]
In all seriousness—would you like the rest of the delivery? It seems a shame to let this food go to rest.
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Food? What do you mean, food?
[his attitude hasn't diminished, but his curiosity is piqued enough to shelve it until he sees what else is in store.]
rest?? waste* i cannot write
Instead, he toes at a large cooler he's been made to cart around. An offering. ]
This is, ah—a "condolence" package.
[ check out this sweet mix tape ]
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[at the prompting, he kneels down, opening the cooler with a complete lack of finesse, and withdraws two of the several containers of ice cream, frowning at them as he reads them out.]
"Chunky Monkey"... and... "Phish Food"? [he fixes dimitri with another pointed look] Is this really ice cream...?
[he completely ignores the sweet mix tape and vhses.]
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[ He also sounds dubious, because the naming conventions are out there, and he is but a medieval peasant-royal who would die after eating a Cool Ranch D*rito.
He takes a small pint out of the cooler: salted caramel almond. Purely because it has the word 'salt' in it, so maybe it'll be savory ice cream, which sounds terrible but is likely closer to Felix's refined Salted Meat palate. He won't judge. ]
I've handed out several already, and people seemed to enjoy them. [ through their tears... ]
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Eat them yourself. You know how I feel about sweets.
[now he does pick up a vhs. it's mamma mia, a movie that was only ever released on DVD and Bluray, but that's neither here nor there.]
I know what this is. [wow!] It's a video. I saw them in Stygia. What part of this is a condolence?
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Oh, like the one we saw before... In the lobby of the apartment building.
[ Before they got arrested. ]
Maybe it has to do with the actual contents of the "video." Do you have something we can view it with?
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This one's different. It goes into a... [he struggles to remember what toko had used. what had she called it?]
A box. [nailed it.] I'd know it if I saw it. [but now he's reading the back of the box, frowning.]
This sounds more like a bad comedy play. I guess the only way to know is to watch it. Come on. This is your fault.
[and off they go, on a vhs hunt...]
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What a... convoluted story. [ three possible dads?? ] I admit I'm intrigued though.
[ also, he wouldn't deny an invitation! because wow, felix inviting him to hang out. off they go to find a box, with this stupid cooler of ice cream.
dodo probably has a vhs player somewhere though, which they can find without much trouble. ]
This is it, then?
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after some poking here and there, they eventually round on a room with a CRT TV and a vhs, which felix correctly manages to identify.]
That's it. You just put this video into it, and it shows the film. [easy! he gets the general idea.] Watch.
[withdrawing the tape from the sleeve, he immediately puts it in the wrong way around—flips it—still nothing. these shenanigans continue until he presses enough of the buttons to turn it on, so it finally accepts the tape. luckily, felix's confidence is spared further injury because I don't want to type out ye oldes struggling with the auxiliary channels, and it just plays.
the scene fills with a girl singing on a boat, and three letters. it cuts to scenes introducing the three different gentlemen.
and felix, who doesn't respect the sanctity of movie-watching silence, speaks over it.]
What does this have to do with getting broken up with?
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it somehow makes sense that a crt tv works for them, because they're also from the stone age. dimitri waits patiently and definitely does not say anything about how felix struggles with the controls. ]
Mm... maybe these movies are about finding love? To ease the pain.
[ ... ] I'm not sure how effective a strategy that is.
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I'm not watching some romantic nonsense. [especially not with dimitri? considering their last interaction before here??] It's wasting time when I could be training. [and, with a sideways glance at dimitri:]
You, too. All this technology is making you slow. [is it???]