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Please, tell me if I'm out of place with this. I don't want to seem overly presumptuous.

Over the last almost-year I've been here, I've noticed a couple of things concerning plot and plot ideas. Usually our plots (at least Tenrai wise) are brought up in three ways:


This has been happening with pretty big, serious things in the rp as well. I understand and fully take advantage of surprises for other characters. I understand being afraid that your plot idea will be shot down. And I understand that RP is generally pretty spur-of-the-moment, so if you don't post your plot NOW and tell later it'll never happen. I'm just as guilty of this as anybody else. sweatdrop

But there have been hurt feelings caused by this and it makes the Happy Fantasy Fun-Time that RP is kinda suck. So I'm hoping that by having a thread where we can put these ideas and our feelings on them out in the open will help. It'll get everybody involved and it'll hopefully lead to more compromise (at least on the major stuff). Here's a couple of things to ask yourself to see whether the idea is major:


Oh, as a last request: in here, at least, please mention the characters you play? We all pretty much know each other, but this is just to be sure there's no confusion. Plus, it helps if you're skimming for plot lines that might affect you.

I'll start with an idea of my own...

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Mitsukake/assorted OC's (Seiryuu and Athena are the biggies)
Tenrai

Now currently we're about to depart on a quest to free Seiryuu from his underwater prison near Atlantis. Once the girls "summon" Seiryuu, they lose their godly powers and since Suzaku is gone the guys lose their seishi powers as well.

Now, my plot is this: Athena has asked to take over her husband Suzaku's powers. She was granted this and has his powers in a pretty little necklace until the seishi are all dead and she can take over his spot in the heavens. Now Seiryuu not only has no knowledge of this but really doesn't care much - they saved him and he's in debt to them, but he won't throw the balance of the heavens off for them. He wouldn't give a rip, and he'll let them know that there's nothing he can or would do to help. So my idea was to leave them powerless for a couple days, at least until Athena can go "HOSHIT" and get herself to the other world (which'll be harder for her because I already said she doesn't have a lot of magical endurance).

This way we get the angst Opaaru and Chichiri seem to enjoy, we get a little bit more relationship development with Mitsukake and Cat, Tasuki and Sam can have a little more relationship development, and Seiryuu can contact Nakago and get all the Seiryuu seishi back in the game with a fun new plot twist that I'm pretty sure 'Kago would love to exploit.

Is this a good idea, or a bad one? Does it work for your character? Do you think I'm assuming a little too much with everybody else? The Athena thing cannot be changed now - I mentioned it almost fifty pages ago, and I tried to make it a big deal. This is just how I'm trying to work it in.

Does this new plot point of power-losing also involve the 'exorcism' of my Muse friend Euturpe? I'm not going to vehemently oppose it either way, 'cause at this point I figure I'm just along for the ride, having sorta jumped into the story in medeas res, after all; I just need to know if I'll be saying good-bye to Euturpe soon or not. It'll affect how I play up the relationship between the muse and the miko from now on, since, if Euturpe's gonna be gone in a few posts, there's really no reason for me to push my goofy little Chichiri-the-rock-star subplot.

Well as long as we're airing our dirty little plot-secrets ninja

For a few weeks I've been asking Opaaru for the part of Thanatos, and I she said Digital turned down the part so I got him. He'll be a major plot point in the whole free-Seiryu arc. When Cat and Opa attempt to open the door to seiryu's prison using Suzaku's power they'll trigger a booby-trap that will send them into a compressed dimention within the door. They'll have to travel through it to a specific departure point to emerge on the other side of the door and only then will it open and everything be free.

This whole section will really put the bond between muse/fury and host to the test since imprisoned within the door, acting like a guard, is Thanatos, the first god of death. I'm making Thanatos be this twisted being with no sense of wrong or right but rather inherently evil. He takes amusement from causing human suffering and eats souls to temporarily boost his power, hence why the gods imprisoned him within the door. Since only a true deity can withstand Thanato's attacks, the "paranormal hitchikers" will have to help their hosts survive through Thanatos' attempts to take their soul.

Any more details are a little sketchy since I don't know if Rhiga and Opa plan on permanently getting rid of Alecto and Euterpe. Though if by freeing Seiryu they do get rid of them it would be interesting to see the conflict of intrests.

So in conclusion: Thanatos soul-eater BAD, Paranormal Hitchiker insurance GOOD.

Oooooh, I'd love a Suboshi around! Ami's being a right little angst-muffin without Shun to whap him upside the head. Only if we can find one though.

Your guys' ideas sound awesome! Nah, you can have Thanatos, Hakkai - you're much better at the meaningless evil than I am. All my evil characters are a bit like corrupt politicians, in a way; I can't play without a purpose. sweatdrop

Currently Mitsu's plan is to head to the pier that Opaaru mentioned (seeing as most of Konan's pretty land-locked, he's probably only seen/been around an ocean a couple of times); there's a few restaurants nearby and a couple of small novelty stores. Since it's basically a tourist trap anyways, sky's the limit on where Yuri works.

I'm really excited now 3nodding !!

Ooh! I got an answer to that! See I'm making Hel's scythe be Thanato's old weapon so originally there was going to be a private showdown with Thanatos trying to break free and Hel keeping him back and the scythe trying to go back to Thanatos a la Lord of the Rings. Maybe then Thanatos can summon minions like Rachel said or something since his old weapon's outside and he's locked inside.

YAY CHICHIRI THE ROCKSTAR!!! Now I have an urge to doodle him in punk gear. xd What would Miaka think?!

Something I'm going to implement today RP-time, but it's pretty important.

The hourglass? It's gonna break, one way or another. Which means that Mitsukake's soul goes bye-bye. However, Hakkai already said since he plays the demon of death, Thanatos will be taking good care of him. Mitsu shouldn't die completely.

Well, the easiest way to get information across is bluntly, right? Eh heh...

I'm weighing pros and cons now. Poor Cat's probably going to kill Mitsukake for all this crap, but on the other hand, having the insurance of him being there for the girls' "fight" with Thanatos could be helpful. They still need to meet Yuri and it could put a serious damper on things, but on the other hand if I play it right it could be a way to get to know Yuri better and incorporate her in our merry band. It could completely destroy CatMitsu which I never really wanted in the first place or it could bring them closer together...

@.@ Aaaaaaaaaugh.

You never wanted Cat and Mitsu to hook up? Aww... I'm sad to hear that.

domokun Domo-kun is sad too.

But hey, if you want them to break up, then we could probably make it happen. A situation like this could certainly lead to it, at least. Of course, I'm in agreement with Jun on this one: Angst = :XP:, gonk and stressed , so if this has to happen, then we'd better try to avoid the angstness... which is already going to be hard with Mitsu's soul going bye-bye for a while.

I'm debating what Cat will do when that happens... I imagine there will be a lot of yelling and crying at first, but past that... I know earlier I said Euterpe would take over, but the more I think about it, Cat is a really strong person. She might react with a more hostile "We're getting him back, NOW" attitude than a "Waaaaah angst!" one. sweatdrop But we'll see when it happens, I guess.

Going back to the book world would be fun, by the way, if it's possible. As stated earlier, I'm mostly just along for the ride in this RPG, so whatever happens, I'll work with it as best as I can.