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[orleanide]

Hello hello hello!!! And welcome back to Emerald! Surely you missed it! The horrible memes where everyone hooked up while turning into monsters, cults building up and being destroyed, creating the internet a hundred years early, that time Chris did a genocide pretty much single-handed-

ANYWAY. So here's the deal! I don't even know what year it's supposed to be now like 1884?? Anyway first things first. Let's toss down some ideas.

So here's where you post what characters you're probably bringing, what ones you feel like NPCing a bit from ye olde events, what shit you'd like to stir up first, whatever. It'll give everyone a good feel of what they might be interested in bringing in and what we can jump into.



I'LL GO FIRST SINCE I'M POSTING THIS. Sup this is Kisha in an account I don't use I figure you know that but anyway. I'll probably be bringing Kido, Letty and/or Chelsy (Alicemare), A-ya and Junko? I'm pretty flexible though honestly. I'm also considering Rena, Lemina, ...Maybe even Pascal god I dunno. Or Garry.

NPCing/bringing our occasionally wise I'm good with doing anything. Erika would have stuck it out with Zelos, Lion would be running numerous charities by now, Minene is still living in a box bombing churches andddd I think that was it for super important things??

And plot wise god I am craving some body horror like no tomorrow and forced/trapped into horrible situations.

Sup with you guys?

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[concealingeyes]

UPDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE from Kisha hi

Doing a proper update on characters I'm definitely playing and what they're up to + more detailed suggestion for first plot?

Kido will actually be an Emerald AU. As the bastard child of a wealthy family, her parents often used her for minor rituals and stuff for luck and prayers and ignored her otherwise until her family hit severe money troubles and sold her to a snake cult as a sacrifice. The sacrifice ritual actually worked in getting her in connect with Azami but they don't know that and ditched the corpses of her, Kano and Seto.

Street orphans horribly abused for being monsters - their powers are a lot stronger + scales sometimes appear when they use them whooo - to Tateyama family where shit goes bad after Ayaka dies for real in a ritual from the snake cult who needs a name and Kenjirou goes pretty nuts after surviving the ritual and Ayano does magic shit with the ritual and who knows about her either way orphan trio meet up with Mary and they're trying to avoid cults and shit now because it never goes well.

This Kido is more cynical but has a huge soft spot for cute things and kids like usual and she's more prone to violent outbursts and also has some blood on her hands whee. Oh and she dresses like a boy. No surprise. She's super fond of the clothes that she sees the refugees from other worlds wearing though and likes to steal them so yeah she'll have a hoodie. She doesn't always wear it though.

A-ya is well-off with workaholic parents. The world is a dull place to him because he's not exposed to the more graphic horrors like the lower class so he finds that stuff thrilling. He does rituals all the time but only dangerous ones! He usually does them wrong or gets scared halfway through and nothing too terrible happens though.

He refuses honey because he likes wallowing in his nightmares and has a constant fear/paranoia that someone is watching him not just in his room but everywhere he goes and tries not to sleep in case whatever it is kills him. Overall same old A-ya thinking nothing interesting will ever really happen to him and doing stupid shit to get it to happen anyway.

[As a note on both, they're both second generation Japanese immigrants from business families who were working in London. Kido had English lessons as a kid and through the Tateyama family so her English is good all around, though if you're Japanese she'll speak it immediately. A-ya's English is actually slightly less decent because someone tends to do the talking for him. Though he can read and write it well his spoken is more basic.]

Junko washed up on the Thames post-DR1 and is pretty upset that her awesome death was ruined like wow that is super despairing it's great help me stop me from writing her. Anyway she will not give a shit about walking around in her uh. Lovely outfit in Victorian London and focus on doing a SHSL Despair Cult Part 2, learning magic, ruining lives, making friends and thinking up especially awful ways to ruin their lives, etc.

If I don't do Junko though or she's too high energy for me I'll do Rena from Higurashi, post-series, and she'll obviously be very stable in this environment.

AAAAAND OKAY SO. Here's my idea? What do you guys think suggestions changes totally different ideas instead etc.

But since we were thinking of setting up the beginning of Nyarlathotep, possibly two rivaling cults have been abducting people around the city. Both cults technically worship him but don't know it since he's a douche got a billion forms so. Their rituals clash and that's where everyone comes in?

You could, say have been forced to perform some awful ritual on a friend. Or be part of it through NPCing. Or you're just stumbling onto it or hell maybe you infiltrated one of the cults. This means you could also decide the side-effects of the ritual in question from nothing to body horror to just general pain and awfulness or some curse or whatever. Or maybe you somehow got your character summoned into this bloodshed.

IDK. It seems like a good mingle idea? Because nothing says bonding like horrible trauma.

[sharkastic]

Oooooh Kisha give me Kido it's been forever also I think they'd get along. :Dc

I know nothing about the previous incarnation of the game really but I like the idea of clashing cults, lolol. So all of them would have been involved in the ritual when they came in/got involved? Trauma right off the bat, sounds excellent.

[concealingeyes]

Yesss I want tsuns and Rin is adorable gimme.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking! I'm bugging Leif below about setting because I mostly just ramble until something works rolls around

[sharkastic]

OMG I just realized they can bond over cats OK he secretly feeds cats at his dorm like a total loser. ☆

[canyouhearmenow]

he's helping

also man I do love terrible rituals I vote yay for any option that involves those.

As far as the snake cult goes, though, we could go the "oh yeah AU Kaguya is D'enndrah" route and have Azami actually be/be an aspect of something preexisting? Like a female equivalent of Yig or something. Wikipedia gives me Ayi'ig as one of his daughters from a contemporary book? Which could be interesting since one of the more popular religions in London involves worshipping him a little :|a

[concealingeyes]

I just want to put that somewhere. "he's a helper"

Do you have any setting preference for it??

Ooooh I like that idea. Also Ayi'ig is pretty to look at. I like this route :|a plus then we have something we can actually refer to instead of going like. idk The Order every time or something.

[canyouhearmenow]

I like the church idea you and Leif came up with downthread, but I guess I'd add like. For characters who wouldn't get kidnapped or go down there for typical reasons, maybe a big gap in their memories as to how they actually got beneath the church? Like how when you're riding in a car and you just kinda zone out and snap back and you're someplace else, but worse because you're either overcome with the desire to sacrifice innocents in the name of your god or you're one of those innocents. Despite knowing perfectly well inside you don't want to do this. Almost like your body's acting on its own.

Probably the brain parasites in the water that guy with the face you forgot handed out. Or something like that, anyway.

Tsukihiko couldn't pronounce it so he was just like HEY YOU KNOW WHAT REMINDS ME OF YOU AND STARTS WITH THE SAME LETTER IF YOU PRONOUNCE IT

"THISTLE"

CAN I CALL YOU AZAMI and she's just like what. Centuries-old tatatara

[restorefromsave]

I am all for ritual summonings this sounds very perfect to me. Can we involve monsters and horror and hallucinations as well as possibly dragging people from other worlds/this world into it?

A bit of all out chaos?

[concealingeyes]

Yes! That's what I'm thinking? Sort of a mingle of choose your own horror right off the bat so you know people can jive with whatever they want. I'm not sure of a good setting though idk thoughts? Somewhere isolated like....idk DEEP BENEATH A CHURCH might be harder but easier for characters to run into each other...

Somewhere connected to the sewers could be fun!

And smelly.

So I mean there's a con there. LEIF HELP.

[dorca]

Somewhere easy to wander into for people already in the world might be good like? IDK this is a school outing in a big Park in London middle schoolers learning BASIC RITUAL SUMMONING and it goes wrong like it does every year because GOD someone forgot the right virgin sacrifice--that's one option.

Another is to do it in an isolated spot like you suggest! DEEP BENEATH THE CHURCH and characters who don't have an IC reason to have joined in can wake up because they were brought there with the usual kosher method of being randomly kidnapped off the street. A strange labyrinth of horror you were kidnapped/summoned/stumbled into, something like that? Escape the horror terrors via sewer adventures could also be a thing!

[concealingeyes]

Makoto looks so serenely happy about all this.

Oh yeah that's a good idea too NOW I AM TORN BETWEEN IDEAS they're all fun...

why are we the only ones awake. Decisions are hard.

[dorca]

I needed his face in order to properly plot.

WHY ONLY DO ONE we can always reserve what we don't go with for a later event. I think as an intro event your idea of an isolated place works best, then people can be horribly kidnapped, ripped from other worlds, or just be there hanging out because they want to be. Then we can have misadventures in the park another day.

If we do a terrible underground summoning should the setting be full of maze-like corridors and magical traps so anyone trying to escape has extra fun to deal with? Monsters are probably a must have at this kind of get-together.

[makeshifts]

I THINK THIS SOUNDS FUN it can kind of be like a tazing for newcomers to london too, i mean

[sharkastic]

SEWERS SOUND FUN. WELCOME TO THIS WORLD, THE WATER'S DANK, THE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY.

Or, you know, the catacombs under X Church.

[makeshifts]

if you do keep junko i wanna slide ritz at her bc in his original incarnation he's from a route where his girlfriend went shsl despair and he followed after her and despaired later IT'D AMUSE ME OK

also i super like that mingle idea since it's p flexible and fun? and it'd give people things to play with right off the bat and probably a reason to tag out if they might not normally have a reason to.