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Boom town, booming drama.

I did so as well including for the possibles later. Man looking at this map this is a definitely a chaotic place.

Ah alright gotcha. I've struck through what Kojo doesn't have access too right now then

@IsabellaRose Gotcha, see what I need to do. I might be a little bit confused on how the abilities work as it says I need to select one the Other Theory is only capable of one thing? Cause the way I was doing it I thought things unlocked with it as things stepped up.

Ah alright, stepped up Glory to d10 then so everything should be good on my end

Alright if I did this correctly: I chose Skyward Road for Kojo, seems most appropriate for a musician dumb enough to mess with the bound and get themselves cursed and bumped up Virtuoso to D8 as well as Glory. Bumped up the Rebirth Hall to D10 @DreamsnThings Bumped up the relationship with Ramona and changed the statement from "Maybe she can help me." to "She's good company" since they've presumably spent enough time together to get along and maybe more depending on how you'd prefer that. @WickedCadrach Connected Joshua Thane to Millicent Fisher as "Hates but is obsessed with", being a corrupt and nasty piece-of-work he probably wouldn't have a high opinion of woman in general, a free-spirited one even less, but he has a strong desire to own her anyway.

Doing alright, still rockin' wit it here.

Gotcha! Yeah that works for me and the voice is technically an instrument on its own when used that way just wanted to make sure and see if I needed to plan more so his voice would fall under too. Aaaaah gotcha gotcha. Understood! Yeah only emotional effects for this so that clears that up. Oh for sure I'd love that. I also think that would help Kojo's character more for adult scenes given his personality. He's not exactly designed to be as much of a out and out Lothario as Edmund seems to be but Quieting The Noise, at least in my mind, gives him more of a reason to engage like even if on a more personally level he's a bit more of a romantic sort. Kind of a hybrid between story and mechanics if that's allowed maybe with the Limit triggering meaning The Noise is now overwhelming, near madness almost.

Wonderful will update that on the sheet but a few questions: I fashion Kojo as a singer as well and I notice it does say requires an instrument so would that leave out things such as A Capella? All under the umbrella of performance of course but would the voice be too strong or require a bit of a different path to develop? Also under the inflict stress Sfx I know you have a few emotions listed, are those just examples? Can I expand the list or just explain what The Theory is opening up when he needs to preform? And just to understand the mechanics, I was kicking around the idea that The Noise is at least particularly quieted by sex (As a Sort of cheesy play on "Make beautiful music together") would that need to be noted or just assumed?

You for sure nailed it and that definitely helps link it to something older than human comprehension. I always find different used aspects of the same entity being used cool and poetic. I did imagine all these things were part of the same world but as a singular entity or concept its definitely better. A thing with no (known) name, only aspects understood in simplicity. Everyone knows it in some way, but can't know the truth of it beyond their limited scope. Music being so primal and ancient that we don't even know when it started Kojo obviously couldn't figure out everything, or much of anything because the course of history would destroy what even could have been written down. Its just enough to draw him into that incomprehensibly ancient dark legacy where he's likely to end up like so many others who touched on it in this form. Should be fun to explore a bit of

@IsabellaRose Simply wonderful. That is pretty much a perfect write-up of the idea I was going for. I really do like the touch of the noise being the aspect of the same being really drives home that Lovecraftian-feeling origin more than what I was doing. Really gets into the benefits as well as the clear stress of it all. The sacredness and terribleness in one. I love it.

Looking forward to seeing that!

Lol Lol I was just trying not to make you have to do too much work is all but I'm definitely looking forward to seeing that world building. I hope my explanation is fairly clear on the idea I was thinking up with that portion of Kojo and it makes it a little simpler to find nice ground. I was definitely not aiming for too powerful. A very situational sort of ability with more drawback than not outside of certain contexts.

Oh I'm sorry I was hoping this concept wouldn't be too out of step. I was working on the idea of that layer of reality above our own, eldritch and unknown. There but not. This is all fairly close to the idea I had though. In my mind The Other Theory is hidden music theory, an ancient ritual of sorts in the form of music. Its not something most would know about because most of the people who have ever learned The Other Theory are killed or consumed by madness and thus The Theory is often lost and fairly unknown to anyone who isn't involved in a cult. Its effectively connected to, as mentioned in that blurb, The Sound (What I called The Noise) a sort of (in my mind) living concept or entity of noise. It does pretty much all as outlined as it sort of feasts and expresses on the sounds produced by emotion (Cries of joy, Lustful moans, screams of terror, etc etc.). The stronger and the more numerous? The more satisfied. The idea is that Kojo is aware of it but he doesn't know the finer details exactly he's more of a channeler than a magician. Kojo can invoke powerful emotions and as a result people will likely act on those emotions and in return he has to play, The Noise has a tendency to take control, he is constantly haunted by The Noise which hurts him which can only be staved off by feeding The Noise. Basically in return for that ability he's eroding his sanity and health. It demands more and more and becomes harder to stave off. No escape from it for Kojo. I definitely wanted the cost like the possession or that maybe actually focusing the results of his performances with the Other Theory upsets The Noise so causes him great stress as a rebounding until he's fed it enough, etc. Basically kinda Witchcrafty but the focus is music. Having it connected to a singular source is good, I was just doing The Other World thing, but I like the idea of all these mystical stuff actually having the same source.

Let me know if I need to alter the concept more to be clear or anything.

Hey we got a new joiner (and a full party again) to catch up and clearer rules. A little slowdown is no problem. I'm still mighty excited.

Pherosol is such a good name.

Its best to keep the relationship statements light and actionable as well when you're adding them to the map and sheet

This is a strange group when you think about it

Lol Well that'd be fine with me! It'd be useful for her and he'd definitely take her to these parties as thanks for her help with getting the medicine he might need. Wouldn't even really ask questions as she went off.

Kojo "Ticket to the party" Amankona But yeah good place to start. I'm fine if you want Carlo (Kojo) to be familiar with "Jolene" already but yeah just bump em up by what your character would think and any other details can be proposed like Kojo could have visited the Pharmacy plenty for medicine in hopes to manage the headaches managing his uh...articular condition brings so they might be somewhat familiar.

All of these things will be developed as you go through Pathways though for things like abilities and such you'll probably need to ask Isabella for specific help with how to translate your characters tools properly. Read the pathways steps carefully and that should help you know where to put what and where. The character relations are are also stepped up through that though everyone starts at a d4 at default (and you can pick who to step up and for what reasons she has made clear the step-ups are super important) but this is all outlined in Pathways so check that out. Its at the bottom of the rules reference page. Origin, Youth, and Focus.

Well it seems like you have a bit of an idea about your character yes? Pick a name and pick a look and then head on over to rules reference to find the info you need. You can just copy the profile and paste it over in characters to alter while you work your way through and alter the sheet as you go and then head down to the pathways system which is the guided creation system we've been going through which should help with what you need to focus on, ask about, and talk about in chat. It'll also tell you what to put up in the miro map but definitely get your character idea solid to make following the steps easier to follow and the questions easier to ask.

Yeah we've already got one mad scientist doing got-knows-what in her tower we don't need some guy named Soliman flooding the streets with literally poison face masks. Leave the insane medicine and concoctions to the woman who may or may not be a vampire. Should be a fun thing to explore for the academics in the group Kojo's just an Archaeologist but he'll sing about it.

Modern Medicine was rapidly advancing at this time and there were moves to combat Quack Medicine by 1880 (Just a year after this rp's time they wouldn't be allowed to advertise in newspapers), it just that actually useful methods of medicine were expensive especially since real doctors had to travel rather than set up hospitals. Now how steampunk tech would advance this is probably something to think about but your character could have chosen to eschew the quackery to push through the more approved medicine. This would greatly piss off quack doctors, newspapers, and their often shady business partners though.