That usually goes under transformed.
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[X] Journey for the Blade Of Ten Heavens, you are here to...
-[X] ...provide information. Barring that, to gather and record the information. The role of the informant.
Sounds legit enough to be a thing, while keeping us away from the stuff happening. We might have to actually look into this, but checking out other libraries for sources, not that bad.
-[X] ...provide information. Barring that, to gather and record the information. The role of the informant.
Sounds legit enough to be a thing, while keeping us away from the stuff happening. We might have to actually look into this, but checking out other libraries for sources, not that bad.
Shintouyu
A Wandering Soul
Nope. Not in the Quest System.
Note that any Role taken is a Protagonist Role either way.
Meaning that the Informant's Role is to find important (which is usually dangerous) information -- accidentally or not.
I will say that in terms of the goal, Informant and Chronicler are essentially the same.
The Chronicler is making a commitment to see the quest to the very end. Meanwhile, since the Informant doesn't have a clear-cut goal, they're also sticking until the quest ends.
The Quest System gives everyone a Role and/or Goal to achieve and then sorta just watches things spiral out from that.
[X] Journey for the Blade Of Ten Heavens, you are here to...
-[X] ...record the journey for posterity. The role of the Chronicler.
Being a sword is only fun when you convince the wielder to make terrible, terrible life choices. Which is kind of convoluted when you can skip right to the convincing part as either the Betrayer or the Traitor.
-[X] ...record the journey for posterity. The role of the Chronicler.
Being a sword is only fun when you convince the wielder to make terrible, terrible life choices. Which is kind of convoluted when you can skip right to the convincing part as either the Betrayer or the Traitor.
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Shintouyu
A Wandering Soul
Well, there seems to be confusion, so to clarify: the Ascended doesn't turn Revya into inanimate weapon, she more or less becomes the personification/anthropomorphic of the Blade Of Ten Heavens -- a Weapon Spirit, to give a name.
Of course, becoming the the PLOT WEAPON is...
Of course, becoming the the PLOT WEAPON is...
bookwyrm
Doom of Public Libraries
- Location
- Wichita, Kansas
That actually sounds kind of awesome. Because of the quest system, every Hero is psyching themselves up for trying to get Excalibur, but when they finally get to the mystical glen or whatever, there's no test, no challenge just us nonchalantly letting them do whatever they want as long as they don't mess with the sword (ex-demon lord makes it really hard to do anything we think is over the line) and explaining that we agreed to the deal so we don't have to go threw the hassle of reincarnating all the time. Just a total mind screw.
And the the same for the villains. They would psyche themselves up for corrupting a holy blade and instead get us off-handedly critiquing them until they lose all self-confidence as a force of evil.
- Location
- Dreary ol' London Town
Trying to get my head wrapped around this. Does she gain the abilities of the Blade of Ten Heavens while the physical sword disappears thereby becoming the living weapon? Or is she gonna be like the weapons from Soul Eater? or be bound to the physical sword with benefits like, she gets to choose whether its wielder can use the sword but if something happens to the sword, she'll be in danger too?
boredbird
Ravenous Reader
Hey @Shintouyu , what kind of plot hooks did you have planned, had the Destroyed Hometown been chosen?
I mean, we'd practically be obligated to go on an epic quest for the power to Purge the Church of it's Radically Extremest Elements/Cull the Draconic Population/Subjugate the Demonic Commonwealth or you know, just Kill'em'all. Maybe even getting a head start on phase two by taking off the Ring of Supreme Hardship andDemon Blasting finishing off the victorious side, since they so kindly exhausted themselves in the battle that blew up our home.
I mean, we'd practically be obligated to go on an epic quest for the power to Purge the Church of it's Radically Extremest Elements/Cull the Draconic Population/Subjugate the Demonic Commonwealth or you know, just Kill'em'all. Maybe even getting a head start on phase two by taking off the Ring of Supreme Hardship and
But wasn't the recruitment of the reincarnated demon lord a quest that the hero and his rival just had to do? And so it's not really their faults.
- Location
- Dreary ol' London Town
Except they had no idea that we were the reincarnated demon lord (I think).
[X] Journey for the Blade Of Ten Heavens, you are here to...
-[X] ...record the journey for posterity. The role of the Chronicler.
Sounds awesome. I can just imagine some villain trying to screw with us and we just beat them down effortlessly before calmly telling them to leave us alone, we just write stuff down.
Sounds awesome. I can just imagine some villain trying to screw with us and we just beat them down effortlessly before calmly telling them to leave us alone, we just write stuff down.
Shintouyu
A Wandering Soul
Depends on how the fusion goes about.
You could end up being the 'sheath' of the blade, ala Guilty Crown. You could become the 'physical spirit' of the blade, ala Excalibur from Soul Eater. You could have gotten a life-link with the blade, so you feel what it feels. Etc.
The Plot Hook would have been Revya being the only-survivor or a friend of a very passionate-survivor
She would get shunted into (1) causing genocide, (2) unraveling politic mysteries, or (3) become the Guardian for the rest of her life.
There are other variations (like Revya starting her own Faction to play peacekeeper or domination) but those are the basic 3.
Azrael
Sakura Saber
- Location
- Throne of Heroes
I'm railling against the Quest System and it's not like I give a crap about them.
With the role of Traitor we are designated by Fate to "betray the Hero" this is not limited to solely destroying the Blade, but also making it harder to find in the first place, acting as a Final Boss (which would be a bad thing, except we're hideously overleveled), subtly screwing over the other members of the Party.
And I think that that's more fun than "Chronicler" or the other options.
I didn't vote for Betrayer because that could make for a very short Quest, assuming one of these two is the "true wielder of the Blade" we could just kill them both right here and now with very little effort.
boredbird
Ravenous Reader
Huh, I kind of anticipated (1) and (2), but I didn't see (3) coming. I'm guessing the Guardian basically stops any world threatening conflicts, or just prevents them from spiralling into that.
So would the captured for magical power start choice shoe-horn us into one of those Magical Battery/Damsel roles? Or could we have gone the Usurper route and taken the local Dark Lord as a Mid-Boss minion?
Oh, and what about the kidnapped route? That looks like a one-way street, but I wonder if there were any alt-routes in it.
What are Dark Lords and Demon Lords anyway? Just random schmucks who got designated as primary antagonists? Do they get any benefits or is our power from the diminishing snowball effect from a degrading reincarnation?
And the most important question: Was there a Demon Path?
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Meh, it's just that the quest's name was an ambiguous hint as to our true nature that they just did not know how to interpret.
We may not be that overleveled by the time it come from us to reveal ourselves as the final boss. Anyway, I stated my dislike for joining a group to plan to betray it from the start. Other antagonistic choices that would not have us joining the hero's party durably I would be fine with.
And we're still playing with the Quest system if we accept a predesignated role. Our rebellion against it is already about choosing what we want to do in the story. Just going against the hero isn't in any way different.
Shintouyu
A Wandering Soul
Love Interest, Damsel, Usurper, etc.
Nah, it's as straight-forward as it sounds.
Basically, yes. They're either random or people who fit the bill.
And, no, they get no benefits.
"Nope."This worries me to no end and I love it.
Shintouyu
A Wandering Soul
"It doesn't matter. It was fun."