Kawaii Rebirth

Game Master BastianQuinn

Head on over to Discussion, Pixels.

Recruitment is closed to all but players from Season 1. PM me if you need a summary.

Ouch. I was only watching this thread loosely while trying to make my way through season 1 gameplay so I could understand what was happening better. Thought I had the weekend to finish catching up.

If you have the players you need already though, I guess I messed up. Have fun!

I started with too many players in season 1 and it was a mistake. I'll pm you if space opens up before I re-open recruitment.

I noticed that in my read. I was a bit leery about a player overload as well. Maybe later!

Recruitment is back open!
Looking for one or two more players.

The story so far:
Ten years ago the world ended, and a world of childlike gods called Erohin was fused with the modern world in an event we call the Cataclysm. Since then, humanity has been conquered and fed into re-education camps to strip away destructive habits like identity and love. While this is the stated goal of the Erohin, they are also huge, petty hypocrites.

You work for one of these petty child-gods in a task seemingly set to make your life miserable, and are watched closely in your daily duties by a yokai (in this context, this could be any mythological creature, even the humanoid ones)

For the first time in ten years, people have been dying. A person will fall to Darkness and become a horrible creature which then murders tons of people. A committee of Erohin and their human entourages (you) have been assembled to address this Darkness. There were Hunters, a band of humans and rogue Erohin who have been blamed for these seemingly random attacks. Weeks ago, one was executed. Now, the blame has shifted to one of the Erohin on the purity committee itself. That Erohin, Brilliance, master of the human re-education program, has been put under house arrest. Their friend, Conquest, has been kind enough to make the experience fun by running a massive LARP game in some of their barns and warehouses.

In order to lift morale, and guard against the Darkness, the humans of the purity committee have been told to throw a social mixer in the form of a tavern scene. You have been assigned a role as either tavern staff, or tavern patron and you expect you’ll be forced to come up with quest hooks for Brilliance and Conquest when they get back from the lair of the Cult of the Golden Manticore; however, some of the other humans in the purity committee seem to think there’s something more going on tonight.

The Erohin of the Purity Committee
You will choose one of these child-Gods to serve.
Perfection - human housing and history
Brilliance - human and yokai re-education
Conquest - yokai gardens and ranches
Malice - discipline and inquisition
Temerity - human intake and cartography
Maturity - human cloning and Erohin black market

Available playbooks:
The Stranger
The Outsider
The Time Traveler
The Harmony

Feel free to ask questions.

What does 'Human Intake' even mean? :P

Link to Girl by Moonlight material for ease of access. :)

It means that there are humans 'out there' who need to be 'taken in'.

These links are in the description at the top of the page:
[Team and Characters]   [Reference Sheets]
[Relationship Map]   [Tactical Map]

Dotting. Saw an option for a mecha focused game in the original recruitment and was wondering if you would be open to having magical girls in power armor?

If not that's fine. I'm sure I can come up with something. :)

Dot, dot, definitely dot! I'll have to read the source material but I'm definitely down for it.

Dotting. Saw an option for a mecha focused game in the original recruitment and was wondering if you would be open to having magical girls in power armor?

If not that's fine. I'm sure I can come up with something. :)

We aren't playing that Team sheet, but Temerity's humans might pilot "suppression frames" and your Transcendent form could be literally anything.

Transcendent form is actually what I was thinking if that's the powered up form

Intirguing concept, I might put something together for this.

Hmm, didn't realize this was a different rules set than pathfinder and as I don't think I have it in me to learn a new game system right now I'll pass. Good luck to you.

Hmm, I'm thinking about going with Harmony. It looks fun and I think the banter will be fun between the twins.

Aila and Aina:
How old were the two of you when the Cataclysm happened and the Erohin separated you?

How did Aila feel being placed in Temerity's gearhouse, with the opportunity to work on The Mark of Hubris, an all-terrain silver steam engine, while Aina was placed with Mercy, in their image correction facility?

What hasn't Aina told Aila in the ten years they've been apart, and why?

Which sibling didn't mind discarding gendered mannerisms, and what about the old ways does the other sibling cling to?

What mythological creatures were assigned to watch over each of you, grant your every wish, and report to your Erohin masters should you fall prey to your flawed human natures?

Do you even Voltron? Please tell me you Voltron.

Ha, Giant Woman to make a mech is totally cool. I a-purr-ove.

Ha, Giant Woman to make a mech is totally cool. I a-purr-ove.

Just wait until it pulls out the big guns. ^_^

Aila and Aina:

How old were the two of you when the Cataclysm happened and the Erohin separated you?

Aina: "About 7 or 8. Can't really remember. There was smoke and shouting, and lots of big booms."

How did Aila feel being placed in Temerity's gearhouse, with the opportunity to work on The Mark of Hubris, an all-terrain silver steam engine, while Aina was placed with Mercy, in their image correction facility?

Aila: "This one enjoyed it. Temerity was kind enough to let this one work on most of the engine and even let this one build some things from scraps."

Aina: "Ever hear of Sysiphus? That's what my job is like. The little tramp was never satisfied." *In a very whiny, valley-girl accent* "'This one makes me fat!' 'Now it makes me too skinny!' 'This one's too masculine!' 'This one's butt and hips are too big!' 'The copy still makes me sound like a raving lunatic!' 'Your clothes are too baggy!' 'Now they're too tight! I can see your boobies!' 'GAH! You got machine oil on the good linens!'"

What hasn't Aina told Aila in the ten years they've been apart, and why?

Aina: "How do you tell your own sister that you despise them for becoming like those damned bastards want us to be? We're all the other has left. Momma and Poppa are gone. We are all the family we have."

Which sibling didn't mind discarding gendered mannerisms, and what about the old ways does the other sibling cling to?

Aila: It's not like I wanted to. I didn't want to leave and Aina wasn't getting along well with anyone. They would have sent her off even further away if I hadn't conformed to their ideals. I never would have seen her again.

Aina: "People don't fit into nice neat little boxes. Making us all the same will never work. We're all different."

What mythological creatures were assigned to watch over each of you, grant your every wish, and report to your Erohin masters should you fall prey to your flawed human natures?

"Oh! Oh! I know! I know! Gremlins Three!"

"Yup! yup! That'd be us! Betchen, Fetchen, and Retchen!"

"Ehehehehehe! They do try, but we know best, don't we girls? We know what's in their wicked little hearts!"

"Oh yesyesyesyes! The poor dears keep slippin' up! Aina much more so than Aila."

"Best part is breaking their stuff. Makes 'em so upset it does, which means we have to break more things!"

"Yup! And keeps the shinies we do. No shinies for naughty little children who misbehave."

Do you even Voltron? Please tell me you Voltron.

Aina: "Uh? How? There's only the two of us?"

Aila: "Yeah, we're more like the Wonder Twins if they were both gir-" *Gets chills as Fetchen appears behind her* "Uh, this one thinks there is not enough of us for this Voltron you speak of."

So, yeah. I want Aila and Aina to be similar, like reflections. I figured that if one of them has to conform to the Erohin ideal for humanity, it'd only be skin deep. Good news is there's a lot of drama to be had from that.
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I think that gremlins as mischievous mechanical mayhem inducers would be too perfect as their yokai. I hope I was able to get some personality into them. The three of them rotate between Aila and Aina and have mostly managed to keep them in line by threatening to do something to the other. Betchen's excitable. Fetchen's got a verbal tick. Yup! Yup! Retchen is like some dark twisted grandmother that just oozes saccharine venom.

I'm drafting up a spider-girl as a Stranger, loosely based on Entoma from Overlord and the Queen of Blades from Starcraft. She'd likely be working for Malice, and have an alien, rational, insectile mind (I'm thinking of a swarm as her Transcended form) because of some past emotional trauma. As for the obligation, precise background, and abilities, I'll have to think about it too.

It could be someone's promise to her to bring out her human side, which exists but is buried under layers and layers of repression.

Aila & Aina:
Take a look at the sheets Here

Many of the cells have tooltips that better describe some of the mechanics of the game. You'll pick one of the nine actions for Aila, and one for Aina, changing the font color of the little moon to red or blue to keep track of which is which. The two of you share Empathize, which is somewhat like Pathfinder's Sense Motive. You'll put these marks in the first column, where they will also count toward one of your three Resistances (Moe, Tsundere, and Kuudere) I would recommend Aila take a Kuudere move, and Aila take a Tsundere move, based on your descriptions.

At the bottom of the sheet, there are moves to choose from. The first move, marked with a moon, doesn't count. You'll pick one Core Ability and one Transcendant Ability, and change their fonts to black.

Feel free to stylize your sheet. This game is about expressing identity. If you're not sure how, I can do it.

With that done, you'll be ready to post in Discussion. You can also dot and delete in Gameplay so you can track the thread. Once re-recruitment is over, we'll be starting a mission.

Sapiens' character:
You have faith in Malice's judgement, but what would you rather be doing instead of maintaining the furnaces?

The only human you interact with on a regular basis is a strange teen who hides among the pipes. Are they a constant nuisance, stealing materials you'll have to replace, or do you help keep them hidden, for fear you'll be left alone with the knocking pipes?

What is your relationship with your Yokai? They don't seem to bother you as often as you've heard others complain about their own yokai. You get the feeling they flunked out of re-education more than once.

I'd go with the name "Salvia".

Sapiens' character:

You have faith in Malice's judgement, but what would you rather be doing instead of maintaining the furnaces?

"Research. I am educated, I understand math and I'm good at logic. It feels irrational to assign me to menial labor when I can be more effective gathering knowledge."

The only human you interact with on a regular basis is a strange teen who hides among the pipes. Are they a constant nuisance, stealing materials you'll have to replace, or do you help keep them hidden, for fear you'll be left alone with the knocking pipes?

"What you call a nuisance is merely an opportunity that hasn't been exploited yet. Theodore's penchant for scavenging means I have to factor an additional 5% in material costs and time investment, but in exchange he keeps the airflow channels clean and free from parasites, which would require a more significant time investment. It's mutually beneficial, like symbiosis."

What is your relationship with your Yokai? They don't seem to bother you as often as you've heard others complain about their own yokai. You get the feeling they flunked out of re-education more than once.

"Iktomi is excitable, wild, active. Often exceedingly so, considering how repetitive my job is. There hasn't been a singular occurrence of her telling me I couldn't do something, or reporting me for anything. Although I guess I'm not the most rebellious of the group."

Alright will do when I get home tonight.

Salvia:
Looks good! Looks like you've got the sheets figured out too. We'll worry about Promises and Friends and things when we get into the mission. You can go ahead and dot and delete in Gameplay, and keep an eye out for updates in Discussion and Gameplay.

I should have introductions posted in the next few days.

Recruitment is closed again