Touhou: Resolve
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lesyayTOUHOU: RESOLVE
Welcome to Gensokyo! What's Gensokyo, you ask? Consider it a little piece of the real world that we snipped off a couple centuries back when that whole "science" thing started getting popular, so that the creatures you now consider "myth" wouldn't fade away.Gensokyo is a land of fairies, of youkai, of fierce demons and regal vampires. It's a land where Momotaro is history, and where there really are rabbits on the moon. There are humans too, of course - just enough of them to populate a village so that their belief and their fear can continue giving youkai the belief they need to exist.
You might be familiar with a certain lazy shrine maiden and scheming magician solving various incidents around Gensokyo. Don't worry about them, this is a Different Gensokyo. If that confuses you... just don't worry about it!
What we need are our own heroes, humans and youkai who will work together to solve our own Incidents. We might play by Spellcard rules, but these Incidents are no joke. Can you step up and be the people Gensokyo needs?
What, me? Don't be stupid. I'm just your normal every-day youkai. You can call me Mary, though. What we need is you.
Q&A TIME
Q. What is Touhou?
A. Go ask Quinn, you'll get a better answer.
Q. What is Valor?
A. The system we will be using to play Touhou: Resolve. There'll be some custom rules, stuff that'll be made clear before game start.
Q. When is the game?
A. It will start after I finish up Half-Plus. Estimation: Early 2024. Yeah, we're early.
Q. When will the game?
A. I've currently divided my games into "weekday games" or "weekend games," depending on tone and how hard it is to run. Touhou: Resolve will be a weekday game. Which day is not set in stone, and will depend on both GM and player availability as we get closer to game start. But expect a weekday evening, starting somewhere between 6 and 8 (maybe 9, but that's pushing it) Eastern Time.
Q. Why is the game?
A. Because Touhou is a rich setting for characters and spellcard rules are fun.
Q. Anything to keep in mind?
A. When it comes time to plan actual characters, it might be best to have a couple ideas in mind. Part of the selection process will be making sure the party isn't stepping on each other's toes for character beats, which means there probably won't be more than one shrine maiden, more than two humans, more than two outsiders, etc.
Q. Sounds cool, how do I sign up?
A.
1. What name/alias do you go by?
2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept(s)?
4. Anything you want to see in game?
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs.
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Date: 2023-04-30 01:18 am (UTC)2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.) lastbastion
3. Character concept(s)? The alien from Area 51! She does not believe in magic and thinks youkai are just Earth life forms. Shoots danmaku from her alien ray gun.
4. Anything you want to see in game? cute girls
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. FIND ONE URSELF NERD (i dont have amvs)
noooo i took too long researching HTML stuff and was beaten
Date: 2023-04-30 01:19 am (UTC)2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept(s)? To copy from Plurk:
Hakisouji Masako
Masako was an ambitious noble who was foiled in life through political machinations who became a terror of a vengeful ghost in death. She was eventually thwarted by a prominent family of shrine maidens and sealed inside a broom. Said broom was kept enshrined, but in the process ended up being neglected as a tool. As the shrine itself fell into disrepair, the broom eventually would start emerging as a tsukumogami. But Masako's will was so strong that rather than manifesting an independent spirit, Masako merged with the developing spirit. She thus found a way around the seal, but in the process she done played herself: not only was she now only as strong as a newborn kami, but the imperative of that tsukumogami meant she suddenly found herself compelled towards domestic maintenance of the shrine.
Over time, as her attention focused mostly on her new duties as maintainer of the shrine, her desire for vengeance diminished. Yet she still has the seal, and who knows what would happen if that seal was removed?
Basically Aura/Dex, former Stage 6 or so boss in a Stage 1 boss body.
4. Anything you want to see in game? Plenty of creative takes on spellcard battles is all I need.
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. I'm an HTML dunce so I'll just link it. https://youtu.be/c9AfoNI7dL4
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Date: 2023-04-30 01:22 am (UTC)1. What name/alias do you go by? Eric
2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept(s)?
4. Anything you want to see in game? Emily you can't just ask that with your initial signup post! I don't know what the fuck I want yet and I won't for several months!
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. This is honestly a kind of mid tier AMV but it feels especially appropriate for this game in particular
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Date: 2023-04-30 01:47 am (UTC)2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept(s)? Anzu Sakurada, a human from the outside world with a deep youkai hyperfixation who is imported into Gensokyo by the Sakurada Shrine's enshrined god. Engages with youkai battles with the excitement of a birdwatchter catching sight of a New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar.
4. Anything you want to see in game? Something like the Moon in canon - some realm or faction that's just conceptually beyond Gensokyo's ability to oppose. Makes it all the more hype when we have to do it anyway.
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. There's only one pop team epic AMV
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Date: 2023-04-30 03:20 am (UTC)2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept(s)? So a kappa got her hands on some media involving robots, got excited about the idea, and tried building one. It... honestly wouldn't have worked if it hadn't attached a youkai currently in the process of forming from the various superstitions associated with computers and also people generally treating actual robots like pets or people. Kinda a chaotic youkai, sometimes prone to strange behavior/'glitches'. Has the power to create glitches in things and people.
4. Anything you want to see in game? shrug
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. sorry i'm deaf, i don't really watch AMVs
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Date: 2023-04-30 04:09 am (UTC)2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.) As if you don't know I'm
3. Character concept(s)? I have heaps of them, including a magician who turned herself into a doll for immortality/to escape an afflicted body (shades of Alice/Patchouli), a dog youkai who was formerly an enforcer for a family human magicians but has been freed but turned out of the village, A Yuki-onna who is the princess of her own youkai faction in the distant mountains, a Kappa 'leader' who tends towards grandose plans and is very bad at actual leadership, and a cursed oni who can drink not a drop until she makes pennace for her misdeads to the sages. Picking just one is my greatest problem.
4. Anything you want to see in game? I think that, for optimum Tohou Expanded Universe feels, we should have some kind of lower-stakes adventures where we can just get absolutely clowned on due to our own characters desires and personality flaws.
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. This ought to do, though I feel like many of the great AMVs of yore have fallen away. Oh, but I think a little gunbuster is fine too.
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Date: 2023-04-30 08:40 am (UTC)2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept(s)?
Probably something based on Chinese mythology, got a few ideas:
-The filial tiger, a story about a tiger who eats a woman's son and as penance takes up the son's role as her provider. To make it more tone-appropriate for Touhou I'd probably have the son just be injured and the tiger helping out while he recovers. Probably going to play the tiger as a full tiger at first, maybe having the mother be the main character as a sort of companion build.
-Something based on Legend of the White Snake, a descendant of hers. I want to have it be a running gag that she keeps having snakes come to her for help but it's less of a fairytale helping an animal thing and more like your annoying relatives asking you for favors.
4. Anything you want to see in game? Not sure yet
5. Link your favorite AMV! Because I like AMVs. I don't really watch AMVs nowadays, unfortunately
FINAL SIGN-UPS AND TIME SLOTS
Date: 2023-06-02 03:10 am (UTC)TL;DR
Give me what days and times you believe you'll be available in 2024, M-F! Here's my availability for said days:
MONDAY: Following the ending of One Piece Galaxy, available 6-11 PM ET.
TUESDAY: Following the ending of Half-Plus, available 6-11 PM ET.
WEDNESDAY: Following the ending of Godbreakers, available 7-11 PM ET.
THURSDAY: Following the ending of Granblue Fantasy D&D, available 7-11 PM ET.
FRIDAY: Following the ending of Kingdom Valor, available 4:30-9 PM ET.
I'm estimating 2024 for all of these campaigns to finish up, though with Godbreakers being the most likely to end last (we're currently entering S2) Wednesdays are unlikely unless nothing else works.
You can either reply to this post or reply to your initial post.
ALSO, if you haven't signed up yet: Yes, you still can! Until the final choices are made, you can still sign up, just include estimated times you're available in the sing-up.
Re: FINAL SIGN-UPS AND TIME SLOTS
Date: 2023-06-02 03:15 am (UTC)TUESDAY: Available any time
WEDNESDAY: Available any time
THURSDAY: Available any time, although I'd prefer it end by 10:30 for anime club
Friday: Available until 10:30 ET
Re: FINAL SIGN-UPS AND TIME SLOTS
Date: 2023-06-02 03:29 am (UTC)Monday: Available at all times except during One Piece (which you also have the problem with)
Tuesday: Unavailable from 5-7 PST
Wednesday: Available at all times except Godbreaker
Thursday: Completely open
Friday: Kingdom Valor, and then unavailable from 7 PST on
Re: FINAL SIGN-UPS AND TIME SLOTS
Date: 2023-06-02 03:31 am (UTC)TUESDAY: Free whenever
WEDNESDAY: Following ending of Parabellum Magicis, available 9-12 ET
THURSDAY: Free
FRIDAY: Free until 10:30 PM ET
Times may change based on employment.
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Date: 2023-06-02 03:32 am (UTC)MON-THUR: Not available
FRIDAY: 6 PM onwards
Timezones mean most of those times will be working times for me, apart from Friday which will be Saturday morning for me. Although depending on my exact job schedule I might be able to make it other times, or 6-8 PM if I wake up earlier that day.
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Date: 2023-06-02 04:00 am (UTC)Tuesday: As long as we start after 7est at the earliest
Wednesday: As long as we start after 9est at the earliest
Thursday: no good
Friday: no good
(This is Eric)
Re: FINAL SIGN-UPS AND TIME SLOTS
Date: 2023-06-02 06:03 am (UTC)Available in all those slots except Wednesday
Re: FINAL SIGN-UPS AND TIME SLOTS
Date: 2023-06-02 04:22 pm (UTC)TUESDAY Available 6 PM-12 PM ET
WEDNESDAY Available 6 PM-12 PM ET
THURSDAY Available 6 PM-12 PM ET
FRIDAY Available...actually this one is up in the air, I was slated to start a game with Talia almost 8 months ago but well, Events Eventuated, and I am unsure if she will want to do it. But your GMing timeslots are so early compared to pacific time, that I don't think it overlaps meaningfully even if it does. So, call it 5-9, maybe?
I can push those to start a bit earlier if we need to, but it will end up with me rushing around to do more chores and dinner stuff around game start if we do.