For those who want to be a male protagonist, Sakura is an acceptable name for males as well. One anime I vaugely remember was pronouncing it Sagura, but it was spelled the same.
Adhoc vote count started by Madou Sutegobana on Sep 10, 2017 at 12:00 PM, finished with 30 posts and 26 votes.
[X] Fantasy. We know you want the elves, the dwarfs, the demon lords and everything nice. [X] Light. [X] Sakura [X] Athletics [X] Crafts [X] Rapport [X] Stealth
[X] Space. We know you want a space soap-opera. Let's get to it with Lasers and moon-sized megaweapons! [X] Serious. [X] Masaki [X] Athletics [X] Provoke [X] Resource [X] Will
[X] Futuristic. It's not space, but cyber-augmented humanoids and quick-thinking AI and Hackers are reality. [X] Deconstruction. [X] Sakura [X] Crafts [X] Resource [X] Will [X] Athletics
[X] Futuristic. It's not space, but cyber-augmented humanoids and quick-thinking AI and Hackers are reality. [X] Light. [X] Sakura [X] Athletics [X] Notice [X] Rapport [X] Will
[X] Futuristic. It's not space, but cyber-augmented humanoids and quick-thinking AI and Hackers are reality. [X] Light. [X] Sakura [X] Athletics [X] Notice [X] Rapport [X] Will
[X] Steampunk. If it's not steaming, exploding with cogs flying around or otherwise filled with silly top-hats we do not want it! [X] Light. [X] Da Grandu Vizard [X] Crafts [X] Provoke [X] Resource [X] Notice
[X] Something Else. It must be a setting described in one word. It cannot be a fusion of multiple settings. -[X] Horror. There are things man is not meant to know and no one is truly safe. [X] Light. [X] Brandon [X] Crafts [X] Notice [X] Rapport [X] Stealth
[X] Space. We know you want a space soap-opera. Let's get to it with Lasers and moon-sized megaweapons! [X] Serious. [X] Masaki [X] Rapport [X] Notice [X] Resource [X] Will
[X] Futuristic. It's not space, but cyber-augmented humanoids and quick-thinking AI and Hackers are reality. [X] Dark. [X] Marcus [X] Athletics [X] Notice [X] Rapport [X] Will
you're new here, i see'Trap' is not viewed kindly here. This is not 4chan. Yes, we've seen anime, no, it's not a friendly, neutral term, yes, we've heard that objection before. 25 points and three days' out. Don't repeat it.
Core design aspects. Anyway, it's not like you can't always change stuff as we go along.
The 'FATE' System has this nifty feature of allowing 'Retcons' after all.
You earn Fate Points, you lose Fate Points, you suffer consequences, you accept consequences and so forth.
In the end, even if you put this up as a 'Fantasy', if at a later date you wish to revise how in truth it's all a 'MMORPG' gone wrong in which no one remembers it's a game anymore...that's up to the modifications you wish to perform upon the world once you achieve enough Fate Points.
[X] Fantasy. We know you want the elves, the dwarfs, the demon lords and everything nice.
[X] Light.
[X] Sakura
[X] Athletics
[X] Crafts
[X] Resource
[X] Will
[X] Space. We know you want a space soap-opera. Let's get to it with Lasers and moon-sized megaweapons!
[X] Light.
[X] Jackie
[X] Athletics
[X] Crafts
[X] Notice
[X] Will
[X] Fantasy. We know you want the elves, the dwarfs, the demon lords and everything nice.
[X] Light.
[X] Sakura
[X] Athletics
[X] Crafts
[X] Rapport
[X] Stealth
At the present, the winning votes are...
Skills: [X] Athletics Number of voters: 23 [X] Will Number of voters: 21 [X] Rapport Number of voters: 19 [X] Crafts Number of voters: 18
Name: [X] Sakura Number of voters: 16
Setting: [X] Light. Number of voters: 15 [X] Fantasy. We know you want the elves, the dwarfs, the demon lords and everything nice. Number of voters: 9
Notice: Please, by all that is holy, conform your votes to the ones of the opening post if you're picking a choice that isn't a Write-IN. That's because otherwise, the 'scraps' of votes are lost to the bottom of the tally system, and I've got no intention of manually adding them on.
Name of the World: Sakura's Light-Heart Fantasy Life
Setting/Scale: Light. Slice of life episodes. Funny quirky characters. Little problems solved easily without the need for gory demonic pacts or painful agonizing choices between greyish moralities.
Fantasy. Dwarfs. Elves. Demons. Everything nice.
The World's Issues
1) Reaching the end of an anime season (12/13 episodes)
2) Being original
3) Preventing the Artistic Director from making everything Cliché
The World's Aspects
1) Magic is real.
2) Elves and Dwarfs exist.
3) There is a Hero who must embark on a quest.
4) Tensions are Rising. Enemies Incoming.
Faces and Places - Those of Importance
Artistic Director Shadenight123. Motto: "If it's not broken, don't fix it. If it's worked till now, let's keep using that. Dark-Haired, dark-eyed random male protagonists with harems are a go!"
Inside the Anime:
Niko - Childhood Friend. Friendly Rival Hunter. Clearly Tsundere for the Protagonist. Serious Consequence (6): Broken Leg Bone (Being Healed).
Himari Sato - Obsessive Older sister. Loves her little brother a lot. A REAL LOT. Clearly the WAIFU of the story.
Joshua Savior - Old wise Priest. Kind Soul. Healer.
Seraphima - Fully armored Half Dark Elf and Half Succubus Klutzy Maid.
Necrys - Skeleton Overlord. Illusion to appear womanly. Pretty much girly inside, but tough cookie outside.
Crystallite - Jadeite Expy. He's a Devil.
Current Arc/Episode:
0) Pilot.
Bestiary:
Dire Wolves. [1] [2] [3] Health Box. +3 Bite Attack. +2 Athletics for defense. Forward scouts of the legion of Evil. Normally found in packs during battles and used to break shield-lines due to their bodies reinforced by the unholy usage of Evil magic. They enjoy eating human flesh.
Average Everyday Protagonist
Slave to the Whims of the Voters
A Hunter
Skills at Average (+1)
Athletics: The Athletics skill represents your character's general level of physical fitness, whether through training, natural gifts, or genre-specific means (like magic or genetic alteration). It's how good you are at moving your body. As such, it is a popular choice for nearly any action-y character.
Will:The Will skill represents your character's general level of mental fortitude, the same way that Physique represents your physical fortitude. In settings where magic or psychic abilities are common, contests of Will are popular occurrences.
Rapport: The Rapport skill is all about making positive connections to people and eliciting positive emotion. It's the skill of being liked and trusted.
Crafts: Crafts is the skill of working with machinery, for good or ill.
Stunts
The Trap Shall Be Laid Henceforth: Without spending a Fate Point, create an advantage 'A trap has been laid' once per Episode.
You can spend fate points to invoke an aspect, to declare a story detail, or to activate certain powerful stunts.
You earn fate points by accepting a compel on one of your aspects. Sometimes, a compel means your character automatically fails at some goal, or your character's choices are restricted, or simply that unintended consequences cloud whatever your character does.
Actions Available To the Likes of You
In FATE, the work isn't just in the hands of the 'DM' or 'Narrator' or 'Chronicler' or 'Whatever'. It's also in your hands. Each skill may be, with some leeway, used in different-than-intended ways. However, they normally fall under 'Four Actions'.
Overcome: True to its name, you tackle some kind of challenge, engaging task, or hindrance related to your skill. Create an Advantage: Whether you're discovering something that already exists about an opponent or creating a situation that helps you succeed, creating advantages allows you to discover and create aspects, and lets you get free invocations of them. Attack: You try to harm someone in a conflict. That harm may be physical, mental, emotional, or social in nature. Defend: You try to keep someone from harming you, getting past you, or creating an advantage to use against you.
FATE rolls very specific 'Fudge' dice, which go from +1 to -1, and to which your modifier is then added. Usually, 4 Dice are always rolled, and the invocation of aspects grants a reroll of Dice or a +2 modifier... and that's pretty much it.
As always, this Character Sheet as well as the World Sheet will be continuously updated throughout the 'Anime Season'.
The Pilot Episode is the one that makes, or breaks, an anime season. Sometimes though, it generally breaks it and that's it. Even if the pilot succeeds, the moment one of the ensuing episodes ends up being horrible the fanbase rushes away, never to return. We must be careful. We aren't like those folks of the nearby studios with their Nyan Genesis Vangelsion that managed to garner support for three new movies after years of inactivity. As your artistic director, I will lay down a plot, a very simple and cliché like setting, and will endeavor to do my very best to make it such a compelling and eager narrative that by no means whatsoever will you think about changing it.
What do you mean, being cliché would leave us as an average Anime Company? Who wants to take the risk at being original!? Not I, sir! Not I! —Shadenight123
Intro
The World of Gaia has been for countless centuries under attack by the vile demonic beings of the Underworld. They, blessed by the powers of the Dark, have continuously attacked, harmed and annoyed the pure citizens of the many races that belong to the powers of the Light. The sturdy Dwarves, who work in their mighty furnaces in the depths of the mountains, have fabricated many a weapon for the valiant heroes who set forth to defy these demons and hellish necromancers. The gracious Elves with their pointy ears and magic, as well as keen eyes and nimble bows have held dominion over the forests for centuries, without once allowing them to be marred by the hands of the Dark.
The Humans, the most adaptive of races, has always been on the forefront of this war between light and dark, between the pure and good goddess Hikari and the evil goddess Yami. Most often than not, humans are found on both sides of the conflict.
Sakura Sato, a young boy, was born into a period of peace following the prophesied arrival of a Hero meant to defeat the evil Lord of Darkness, and finally banish the Goddess Yami from the world of Gaia. He is a villager, a son of villagers, and his village is just one among the many that peacefully and boringly were formed alongside the bed of a river, with a nice cobblestone path that snakes through it and a dainty-looking brick chapel-like structure that preaches to the good goddess Hikari.
It is a happy, everyday serenity that glows through the streets and eases the hearts of the villagers.
Something, however, disturbs the peace of an otherwise utterly average morning.
A sheep has escaped from the fields, and is running amok in the village's market!
Character Aspects: Pick One.
[X] Sakura Sato is watching the scene from the market stall his parents own.
[X] Sakura Sato is pursuing the sheep to calm it down.
[X] Sakura Sato is the one who scared the sheep into running in the market.
[X] Sakura Sato finds himself on the path of the sheep, unfortunately.
[X] Sakura Sato is nowhere in the city center, having gone to gather wood and herbs in the nearby forest. (+1 Fate Point)
[X] Sakura Sato watches the scene from the window of the church. (+1 Fate Point)
[X] Sakura Sato *Insert something that he is doing*
Author's Notes:
Do you see the BOLD, UNDERLINED sentences? This is the Pilot, and so I'll do the job of acting as a Tutorial for the likes of you. Technically, any and all parts of a post may be 'modified' if one is willing to pay FATE Points for it. Some of these parts have been underlined and rendered 'Bold' for you to see them. This permission to 'modify' lasts only until the Episode is concluded. Once it's done for, you can no longer retroactively modify *anything*. If, say, the Goddess' name becomes 'Jasmine', then in a new episode her name can no longer be changed. New information may be tackled on, but never 'erased' or 'modified'.
Some choices may inherently give Fate Points. But before you push for them, notice that whenever Fate Points are given, that is because the choice itself adds something that locks the character on a path of sorts. It may be a character aspect, it may be a background addition, it may be *anything* but since it is added due to the choice being undertaken, you get one Fate Point as a compensation.
So, with that said...
How do you EARN Fate Points as to Modify the Setting/Have a better chance with the protagonist's skills/Fight better in conflicts?
You start the Game off with 6 Fate Points, which will refresh at each new 'Episode'. That is due to you not having any 'Stunts'. Once you gain a few, the number of starting Fate Points will drop down. You gain Fate Points by allowing me, the most boring Creative Director, to 'Compel' your character aspect of 'Average Everyday Protagonist'. Basically, I will render the entire plot as boring as possible, and do the same with the actions/consequences. Your job is to decide whether that's fine, or not.
So, TO RECAP:
1) You have 6 FATE POINTS at the start of each episode (They will diminish as you earn aspects/Stunts).
2) If you wish to modify something from the original post, make a [X] "Sakura Sato is called Sakura Ezechialis instead" type of vote. (Remember the importance of Copy-Pasting!) Each modification costs 1 Fate Point.
3) I might randomly remark on my desire to modify parts of the otherwise 'boring' plot in exchange for Fate Points. Every time I will do that, as a rule of thumb the change will always be in line with an extremely Harem-Vibed, Japan-strong/Steelfoldedathousandtimes/NipponBanzai kind of thing. This is to poke fun at the general clichés of the anime industry, mind you.
4) At the very end of the Episode, you will have *ONE* last chance to annul any modifications done by repaying the cost in Fate Points. If you do not have any fate points left, then that's it, modifications are final.
5) Fate Points that are carried over to the end of the episode can be used to 'modify' the character sheet and give the character bonuses/aspects/stunts/increase his characteristics.
6) Nothing is sacred and everything is permitted, but silly votes will be utterly ignored. By 'Silly' I intend votes which might be like modifying Sakura's surname to 'DirtySock' or similar.
7) Have fun.
Adhoc vote count started by shadenight123 on Sep 12, 2017 at 11:22 AM, finished with 24 posts and 12 votes.
[X] Sakura Sato is nowhere in the city center, having gone to gather wood and herbs in the nearby forest. (+1 Fate Point)
