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It's Turbin' Time (Library of Ruina Modded/Arknights)

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The gameplay was guilty gear, but yeah, I expect heavy makes at least some kind of memetic breakdown and breaks the world's logic in half, just because he is da heavy and because there is literally hot anime booba walking around like background characters.
 
So, what are the Troupe anyway?

The little the thread has said reminds me of the Musicians of Bremen or the 8 O'Clock Circus.

The Musicians are a group of people who got mind fucked by the Pianist's Song and now wants to recreate that song at all costs. This mostly manifests in them killing people and using their remains as instruments. Their original members we based on the fairy tale: Woof, Hee-Haw, Doodle-Do, and Meow, with Oink and MuMu (rabbit-themed guy, he despairs at rabbits not having an iconic sound like the others) being later additions.

Woof, Hee-Haw, and Doodle-Do eventually joined up with the Reverb Ensemble and their Distortion caused them to fuse into one entity with three heads. Each head is independent (the Artbook notes that each head likes something another head hates) and is only capable of vocalizing with their respective animal noise. Their philosophy is that they want to pursue greater and greater pleasures as hedonists without regard for others, which is why their Distortion makes them incomprehensible to others even while they're capable of understanding normal speech.

The 8 O'Clock Circus is Oswald and his minions. His whole thing is that people expect too much from each other and these Expectations put undue pressure on each other and when those Expectations don't get fulfilled they get irrationally angry about it. To him, people shouldn't put their expectations on one another any more than they put expectations on flowers or the sun. People should just leave people alone to do their own things, basically.

Oswald's powers are noted to be great at Distorting other people, as seen with the Crying Children and possibly Emma and Noah. He has an entire troupe of people he mutated into various circus abominations.
 
kaillll said:
because there is literally hot anime booba walking around like background characters.
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Though don't send him to fight against any [HOT ANIME BOOBAS].
As seen in the ending, they...well...they can one-shot him with a [NUT ATTACK].

E: Note, this only works if they have [HOT ANIME BOOBAS]. If the girl is flat, Heavy probably won't die from a nut shot.
 
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[No] Walk over to the kids and introduce yourself.
-[No] Tell Capone to disguise himself with a mustache. He is now Luigi Tortellini, an amateur Siracusan chef with big dreams. Stick to that story no matter what happens.
 
drearyArchon said:
So, what are the Troupe anyway?
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The Crimson Troupe are strange, even by Terra's standard.

The mundane explanation is that they're a bunch of assassins pretending to be a wandering actor's guild, a remnant from Gaul after their empire fell, but here's where it gets weird.

Their ordinary mooks share the same game mechanics as the Seaborn. They deal nervous impairment, which is basically sanity damage.

The place where their HQ is supposed to be doesn't exist. There are dead Gaulic Emperors debating each other inside their castle, living people who've been turned into statues, a giant mechanical teddy bear that's made out of clockwork and the soul of a unfortunate Ursus (Big Sad Lock), eternal balls where people have gone insane dancing forever, and a lot of other freaky stuff that wouldn't be out of place in the City.

Take this with a grain of salt since I haven't finished their event myself and so have to rely on the wiki, but there's probably a Feranmut behind all this called "The Playwright", and whatever they write turns into reality. The Crimson Troupe is supposedly a product of his writings.
 
So...they are either what would be if Full Powered Oswald got back out into the city.
Or the Crimson Ordeal itself.

Fun. Let's not touch the clowns with a 12-foot-long sword.
 
[X] Planning the Funeral
-[X] Ask Capone to eject his head, spine and vital organs in order to fake his death.
-[X] Pretend to rip his head off, and run away very quickly. They have no reason to assume this wouldn't be extremely fatal.

I know this is somewhat a bad idea for several reasons, but I can't just not suggest it.
 
zang269 said:
[X] Planning the Funeral
-[X] Ask Capone to eject his head, spine and vital organs in order to fake his death.
-[X] Pretend to rip his head off, and run away very quickly. They have no reason to assume this wouldn't be extremely fatal.

I know this is somewhat a bad idea for several reasons, but I can't just not suggest it.
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Ah yes, Tactical Suicide
 
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    • I have commit sins because the vote didn't even win but I thought it was funny. (I spend on this longer than I would've like)


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    • The Troupe inflicts Nervous Impairment because they're fucking insane and have no problem spreading it around. I'm not sure about the Playwright, he's not out on Global yet, but they have something akin to a Feranmut at least, except the God that's their patron is really into murder and insanity. The Troupe is also technically already dead - I don't quite get whether it's because Phantom killed them all or if anyone else did but he definitely contributed heavily. Our boy Lucien was trained by the Troupe but when it came to finally sending him out to assassinate people he snapped, killed his mentors everyone else he could find and left.

    Except the problem with that is that his Arts are an uncontrollable mess right now and have to do with nightmares. And the Troupe instilled itself into his psyche as something he was rather very afraid of - at least while lucid - and they literally come back from the dead whenever killed as long as he's alive at the moment. Their whole thing starts up again because a singular Troupe dancer made their way to Rhodes Island and left a letter on his bed. He immediately went under mentally and snapped back to the role of Blood Diamond, the Troupe's current prime time star.

    Shalem who at some point was also recruited into the Troupe fucked off before they could make him kill people and has been, as previously mentioned, running the hell away from his backstory and pretending very hard that, no sir I Am Just A Normal Guy, See How Normal I Am Fighting By Setting Myself On Fire, realized that's actually really bad and so he went to go get him, prepared to brain Lucien with a fucking rock if he didn't snap out of it at the end of his boss fight.

    I'd have to consult The Diagrams for anything else, this is all I remember of the top of my head.

    Oh, and Miss Christine is there too.
     
    LucidProp said:
    The Crimson Troupe are strange, even by Terra's standard.

    The mundane explanation is that they're a bunch of assassins pretending to be a wandering actor's guild, a remnant from Gaul after their empire fell, but here's where it gets weird.

    Their ordinary mooks share the same game mechanics as the Seaborn. They deal nervous impairment, which is basically sanity damage.

    The place where their HQ is supposed to be doesn't exist. There are dead Gaulic Emperors debating each other inside their castle, living people who've been turned into statues, a giant mechanical teddy bear that's made out of clockwork and the soul of a unfortunate Ursus (Big Sad Lock), eternal balls where people have gone insane dancing forever, and a lot of other freaky stuff that wouldn't be out of place in the City.
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    Oh, they're like the Ring, then.

    For context: The City's 'criminal' elements (in quotation marks since everyone follows the Head's rules, even people who'd be criminals in other worlds) are run by the Five Fingers, each of which is a massive Syndicate with power and influence similar to the Wings themselves. We've met three of them thus far: The Index are those weird guys who follow the Prescripts, and the Thumb are mafiosos whose thing is absolute obedience to authority (if Capone was in the Thumb, he'd get shot the moment he questioned his Father's orders).

    The Ring was mostly present in Leviathan. We don't know much about their internal structure, but the little we've seen shows that they're a group of mad artists. They have control over some labyrinthine extradimensional 'corridor' that they can connect to anywhere in the City by building an entrance to it.

    They hold a bunch of art exams wherein people pose as statues and get killed if they break character, or where people submit paintings, and if their painting is subpar, the painter gets killed on the spot (apparently, art made when one's life is on the line has a charm to it). I'm guessing it's the same kind of thing as the Index making people follow Prescripts. In Ring territory, you are either a good artist or you're dead.

    We're also shown an art auction where people have to wear veils and bows before the bidding starts. The items on sale are stuff like "an urn hair collected from every villager in a now-gone town in a nest," "a man who has been dancing in a display case for 8 years now, with time flowing 8 times slower within a said display case," and "a painting, taken from the consciousness of the sole survivor of a massacre to immortalize the carnage."

    The Troupe gives the same vibes as them.
     
    [X] Plan: Hello Fellow Kids
    -[X] Stick to public spaces with lots of people. Your stalker hasn't made a move yet, so it's probably a safe bet to stay where law enforcement can help you.
    -[X] Walk up to the gaggle of kids looking for a fight, and try to be as non-threatening as possible. If they really are do-gooder vigilantes from a detective agency, surely they wouldn't punch a homeless, injured man and his only guide just trying to buy some clothing? Inform them you two are on your way to a meeting with Wei and the Rat King, and show them the note to show you're not lying.
     
    [X] Plan: Hello Fellow Kids
    -[X] Stick to public spaces with lots of people. Your stalker hasn't made a move yet, so it's probably a safe bet to stay where law enforcement can help you.
    -[X] Walk up to the gaggle of kids looking for a fight, and try to be as non-threatening as possible. If they really are do-gooder vigilantes from a detective agency, surely they wouldn't punch a homeless, injured man and his only guide just trying to buy some clothing? Inform them you two are on your way to a meeting with Wei and the Rat King, and show them the note to show you're not lying.
     
    Gun and Powder said:
    I have commit sins because the vote didn't even win but I thought it was funny. (I spend on this longer than I would've like)


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    My first fanart????? Instantly threadmarked, thank you!
    kaillll said:
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    the Ring, imagine Sander Cohen, but there's a bunch of them and even more out of their mind compared to him in the game.
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    Hey, Sander Cohen's art was universally dogshit, don't diss the Ring and the Troupe like this.
    breakingamber said:
    Huh... slightly younger than Kali. Whaddyaknow.

    Thanks!
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    According to the info I could get by interrogating the makers of the mod, Sieghart has been in numerous Fixer offices and even led some, even though Turbulence was where he found his true calling. I also got some on their ages:
    • Nicole is in her early 20s
    • Lech, late 60s
    • Sieg, late 30s
    Based on that I decided to make him 39. Not too old, old enough to have seen the world as it is.
     
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