Chiyako

I shall respond tomorrow if nobody else has!

Truth be told if someone selected Hot for Kiyo I wouldn't mind. It'd be funny to see her trying to struggle with it. Maybe during that session she needs to try to seduce or manipulate her way out of a situation. Or maybe she decides to try her hand at practicing it. Could be ways to use it, or for the MC to use it to make things more interesting. Also the good part about it is that you don't need to succeed on the roll to get the experience, you just need to attempt the roll for something using that stat. It just encourages you to play your character in different ways, or for the MC to try to put you into situations that are maybe unfavorable to how your character might normally proceed. Gives chances for character growth. Also highlights can get changed each new session so it isn't permanent.

I think part of why they have it this way is to encourage people to maybe try to play around in ways that utilize the stats they don't focus on, to maybe have a session where your character explores deeper into territory they aren't used to dealing with. Sort of an incentive to do that. Completely optional, and there are other ways to gain experience. You also get two stats highlighted so it isn't like you are completely hamstrung.

@SataiRolePlayingGuy I kind of want to see what sort of weird things Leon does during this first session, so I'm going to elect Weird. Wait if Jasmine gets the same Hx's does that mean I choose Jasmine's as well?

Good question actually. Kiyo is done. Leon is done. That is all I know for certain. I mean besides highlighting stats, which we do when everyone's questions are finished, but that might be the case here? Speaking of which, nobody can answer any more of my questions so I believe I would ask Leon which one of my stats is the most interesting, and then I would highlight it. And then the MC would highlight a second stat. After that I should be completely done (save for any more backstory building questions that are asked).

Selling his coat would be rude! Also it'd work much better as a lure to pull in some unlucky folks for her experiments! Or Kojo himself for that matter!

That's okay, it opens up new ways to impress the ladies! Like draping a lady in one's own coat! Although now Alicia may need to beat away Kojo's admirers with a stick to keep it.

Poor Kojo. Hopefully he gets another shot at his show. And poor Alicia she really wanted to observe the show! For scientific research purposes, of course!

Kiyo's stuff should be done at this point, I think (except for highlighting stats, I mean)? Unless we delve more into questions for each other for building characters (which I am enjoying). Updated her sheet regardless to reflect new informations.

I mean I could definitely see Leon fitting smart since his weird Brainer abilities let him at least seem like he knows a lot of things, especially about other people. Since Leon has Hx+3 with Kiyo at start we can assume he knows a little more about her than she might expect him to know, given the uneasiness she feels towards him, which to Kiyo would make him seem smart. As for pretty, well, even if she wouldn't want to admit it out loud she probably would consider him pretty/handsome, if her thoughts were steered towards considering the idea.

Suppose I could ask Kiyo's last question at this point, being: Which one of you is prettiest/smartest? I'll be writing Hx+3 for them.

Truth be told originally I was going to have Kiyo answer this one, but the other one she answered fits well enough and didn't seem to fit anyone else well. I'd still probably answer it with Kiyo if nobody else did but I'm pretty sure either Seraphina or Jasmine can answer it.

Rubble was a big mean looking lady with a real steely face! People called her Rubble because she wore these makeshift armor plates that were crafted from the tall stone ruins, so she looked like rubble. It let her be sneaky even though she was real big! Also she was really strong and used big weapons that made things explode and leave behind a lot of rubble. Her favorite was a big hammer she named Penelope. Kiyo could never lift it herself. It was real heavy. Most people thought she was scary, but not Kiyo. She was really nice to Kiyo and let Kiyo ride on her shoulders, and she would spoil Kiyo lots and even gave Kiyo leftovers all the time cause she said Kiyo had to eat more to grow more. Kiyo only lived because Rubble shielded her from heavy gunfire after Kiyo got hit.

Right now I do have marked down that Seraphina answered my question about fighting shoulder to shoulder, but I'll let Seraphina and Jasmine decide which would rather have answered that question. @IsabellaRose Also that fits quite well to me! Kiyo maybe holds a bit more of a grudge over it than she should but hopefully she will someday appreciate the professional courtesy. A good reason why they haven't come to blows, yet Kiyo still not quite trusting Violetta, or understanding her as a person.

Kiyo and her crew (essentially her second family that she'd been running with for a few years since having lost her original family) were on a job protecting what was supposed to be a shipment of medical supplies destined for one of the few relatively safe havens within the world. Supposedly goody two-shoes sort of stuff, but then Kiyo didn't manage to check what was in the shipment herself, so who knows what it actually might have been. Whatever it was, it was enough for another crew to hit her crew in transit. They were ambushed. Her crew was all but wiped out, probably not without a good fight but even so. Kiyo was the sole survivor on her side (yet again, and yet again with the guilt of her family's sacrifices to at least give her a way out). She didn't look so great and was left to perish. The specifics of that conflict, well, I think Violetta's imput would be good to have on that. Did Violetta kill any of Kiyo's crew? Did she put one (or more) bullets in Kiyo? Also I imagine their meeting up again when they inevitibly found themselves running together on this same crew was probably at least somewhat amusing, if not at least quite tense for a bit. I wonder what pushed them into the same group together. Would Violetta even remember Kiyo? It's possible that any ill feelings are one-way.

Yeah, I'm really excited to explore the reasons why Violetta left Kiyo at that time too! Especially given how traumatic that day was for her. And I'm excited to see that day from Violetta's point of view.

@Warning Seraphina is also a lovely name! I don't think there is anything wrong with changing it, since we haven't actually started the roleplay yet. If that feels better for you then you should definitely make the change. Also yeah, I would agree since Seraphina is not very combat focused, and avoids hurting people, that maybe she might fit another question better. All told there is Kiyo, Leon, Violetta, Jasmine, and your character. Technically Violetta and Jasmine have asked all their questions (Violetta asks everyone the same question and Jasmine doesn't ask anyone questions besides whoever holds her leash, since she then shares answers with the holder of her leash, in this case Leon). So it is really Kiyo, Leon, and your character asking questions to one another (although Violetta can also answer them).

Definitely possibly true! But this does give them an excuse to do that more in the future! And maybe make nice through it! Or argue in conflict while in extended conflict!

I suppose then it'd be between Kiyo and Cassia then for Leon's question. Out of the two maybe Kiyo is the one most likely not to trust him so I don't mind answering that one for Kiyo, especially if we take into account Leon possibly having made a slightly more aggressive move. Let's say Kiyo is the one that distrusts and maybe dislikes Leon the most. She hasn't been around him enough to quite trust him yet (maybe she is still relatively new to the crew) and gets weird vibes from him since maybe she has caught him watching her a bit too much, and perhaps his attempts at aggressively checking her interest have failed in the short time they have known one another (maybe he was being aggressive and direct but not quite direct enough for someone as ignorant as Kiyo, and so she misconstrued the situation as one where he was trying to harm her, and that rubbed her the wrong way). On that note, I think I should ask a second question from Kiyo next. So: Which one of you has fought shoulder to shoulder with me? I'll be marking Hx+2 for them.

I think for Kiyo it would depend on how long she has known Leon and how, let's say, frisky he has tried to get with her. If she has known him long enough she would probably over trust him. If not then she could definitely be the one to answer for that (or if he has tried being a bit too frisky too quickly).

I just answered one for Kiyo (helping Cassia saving a life) so I'll chill and let someone else take Leon's question there.

Correct! We ask one at a time, and someone answers. You want to answer only one of some other character's questions but you could theoretically answer one for each character. And each question should only be answered by one person. So my question that I asked for Kiyo was answered by Violetta. Nobody else would answer that one, but I do have others to ask later. Violetta wouldn't want to answer another one of my questions. I did answer one for Casia, so I probably shouldn't answer another of her questions. But I could answer other people's questions. And Leon just asked another one.

So for this system we have each question more or less answered by only one other person, because each question has a related Hx amount (which is a way to kind of show how well you might think you know another character). It also builds unique little things between individual characters that they might not share with another. For example, Kiyo doesn't trust Violetta as much since she left Kiyo bleeding (which was one of Kiyo's questions that Violetta answered). So Kiyo starts with Hx-2 with Violetta. And I also tied that into her backstory (which I might try to do with the others as stuff is asked further). It says after each question you ask within your sheet what the Hx amount will be towards the one who answers.

I don't think we've really fully established how we as a group came together quite yet (although Leon and Jasmine are a bit closer on this note, since Leon holds her leash). I think that stuff gets established more in the game? Or I imagine if people decided they wanted to flesh out more of their background with one another on a case by case basis? Right now I think it is more assumed that we are something of a crew and more of that gets explored through the questions we ask and in the course of the game itself. This is more what do you think your character might do in this specific situation (so during one of Jasmine's gigs what might your character be doing), and whether or not they saw where this Yuka character went (allowing you to add some things about Yuka through stating where you might have seen them gone, or deciding not to by simply saying you didn't see them, and perhaps then maybe expanding on Cassia by saying what they might have been doing instead). I think answering that Cassia was wandering around making sure everyone was fine and nobody was injured might work well enough as an answer, if you wanted to leave it at that. Or you could make up something else that they were maybe responding to (for example, could say that maybe a short fight had broken out between X and Y, and that Cassia was tending to their wounds after their dispute had been settled, in which case you could completely make up who X and Y were if you really wanted to). It's all about setting the stage while building up Cassia a bit more as a character. All that said it might be easier to also answer them once you do finish the other things about Cassia, but that really depends on what helps you more with building her as a character.

Sorry! I think I was rushing while I replied. Am busy doing other stuff too. I've editted my mistake! Jazz should be Jasmine. @DreamsnThings character. They are The Show, a post-apocalypse bard with traveling music set. The setup that @WritesNaughtyStories gave us originally was: We've answered our portions of that question, for setting up the beginning plot and setting of the game, so they were also trying to set up your character into the scene as well. So far our replies have been the following (just so you don't need to go searching for them): Kiyo's Reply: Jasmine's Reply: Violetta's Reply: Leon's Reply: So the next part of setting up the initial plot setting would be asking about Cassia, which was: tell me what you were doing during Jazz's gig last night. Did you see where Yuka went? Essentially we're being given some freedom to kind of set up some of how it went in preparation for the first setting, if that helps! Nothing was super elaborated about Yuka, I think it's more a name we can hook things onto for now for building up stuff, and we can kind of make some of the stuff up ourselves. Also Cassia really does work as a good name sorry I got it wrong!