I'd like to point out that "quite a few" clubs being active means "not ALL". This might be better to put off for a school day.
Of Stars and Melodies - A Girls Band Party Quest (No Setting Knowledge Needed!)
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EternalObserver
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I mean it's not winning anyways so..... shrug
Also don't really care about the "quite a few" detail
In fact, one could argue that it's better if not all clubs are present, we don't have all the time to look through every single one.
Also don't really care about the "quite a few" detail
In fact, one could argue that it's better if not all clubs are present, we don't have all the time to look through every single one.
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- Singapore
There certainly is a trade-off checking out the clubs during a weekend compared to a School Day, but one is not necessarily better than the other. Depth versus variety certainly is one way you could look at it, but bear in mind that Hibiki is spending half of a weekend day checking out the clubs that are operating this weekend should she choose to go to School and so all else being equal (this is just a hypothetical assume a spherical cow type of statement), her interactions are likely to be deeper per the fewer clubs operating in the weekend. Alot can potentially happen in half a weekend day....
All it takes is for one new or late voter to vote a certain way for Explore the Dungeon to be at parity with the other two options in third place. Interesting, especially considering the cases made for those three options so far - if these feed into Hibiki's rationale for choosing one over the other, it says something interesting about what kind of individual Hibiki is doesn't it?
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Come to think of it, I wonder how Michiko will take her request being turned down, especially if Hibiki is spending time with their other band member and a person who technically hasn't joined yet. It kind of feels like she's being viewed as less important than the others? If she doesn't win, then we should definitely spend time with her soon to make up for it, assuming that she's not upset with Hibiki.
I kind of wish that we had an action free to spend time with Hibiki's mom. Hibiki's parents have been pretty understanding so far, and I don't want them to feel like Hibiki is ignoring them. I'd rank Hibiki's mom's action as more important than Aya's action.
I'm kind of confused about this. Do we need to roll a die to figure out what happened?
EternalObserver
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That's kinda what I expect (us rolling the die). Though I'm just waiting for @Sideral to say something about it before making my move
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It's a roll for what happens when Hibiki unpacks through her boxes. More interesting things tend to happen on rolls trending towards 1 or 100. Vote has 18 hours to go before being locked, and if I understand correctly, @Sideral prefers to do the public rolls on SV together in a batch where possible.
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~Celeste~
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What Andmeuths said. That option is locked in due to earlier actions (otherwise you'd have had another free action this weekend), but I'm still letting you roll for what you find, and for simplicity's sake I'm waiting for the end of the vote to see if there are other options you guys need to roll for - so you can roll for all of them in one go.
This vote has been pretty interesting so far - no matter which options win, writing the next update (or, eventually, updates) should be fun.
A Bunch Of Atoms
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- Canada
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[X] Vocal Training
[X] Investigative Journalism
[X] Between tarmac, silver and brass
[X] Tea, cake, and the prelude to a walkabout
[X] Investigative Journalism
[X] Between tarmac, silver and brass
[X] Tea, cake, and the prelude to a walkabout
Vote closed
EternalObserver
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Tally's a bit confusing, but basically Vocal Training, Investigative Journalism, and Between tarmac, silver and brass won
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@Sideral Looks like the auto tally was done according to block voting rather than line voting. But yes, looks like we are going for a band-centric weekend, the vote changes in the final 24 hours, including Atom's final vote broke the deadlock.
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UrsaTempest
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Eh, deepening band isn't too bad. With tarmac, we'll hopefully clear the biggest chore of the week, renting place, so we can do other stuff later this week.
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Now that the vote is closed, I feel it's abit safer for me to given an answer to this question from Hibiki's perspective: Hibiki doesn't know enough about Michiko to answer this question with any degree of confidence given how recently she met MIchiko. Remember, Hibiki has only interacted with Michiko outside the context of the band precisely once (twice if you stretch it), and that was with their initial encounter. Whether or not this is a problem, is up for Hibiki to judge, but consider the following from Aya in Band Story 0.4 when Hibiki asked for advice about her band.
It's Hibiki's prerogative about what she does with said advice, she's not necessarily obligated to agree with it, but Aya is definitely coming from a certain place with this.
Chou: There's abit more to the story than just Live Houses and Schools
The GBP Mobage, the Bandori Anime and Garupa Pico has made use of this at least once or more as plot devices or sometimes even outright subjects of a story/episode. I was slightly surprised no-one tried to guess what Chou was talking about in the blurb, you don't need meta-knowledge to guess , but it's already something that has happened a few times in the franchise. Guessing what it was is possible via process of elimination. Oh well, let's see what the rolls throw up.
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~Celeste~
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Ugh I put a lot of effort into this stuff but it seems like I keep making mistakes on the simplest things
Anyway yes, Vocal Training, Between tarmac, silver and brass and Investigative Journalism win this round. There's definitely good synergy between the three I'd say.
Okay, I'm going to need a 1d100 for Cleaning and a 1d100+10 for Tarmac - roll away!
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EternalObserver
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Rolling for dice
Rolling for dice
GhostStalker
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What, just outright scouting people on the street with a street performance like Otae did in that one Pico Ohmori episode where she couldn't get a drummer?The GBP Mobage, the Bandori Anime and Garupa Pico has made use of this at least once or more as plot devices or sometimes even outright subjects of a story/episode. I was slightly surprised no-one tried to guess what Chou was talking about in the blurb, you don't need meta-knowledge to guess , but it's already something that has happened a few times in the franchise. Guessing what it was is possible via process of elimination. Oh well, let's see what the rolls throw up.
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I leave it to your imagination what the crit encounter table for this might have looked like. Remember, this isn't just scouting, Chou is trying to introduce Hibiki to yet another way of meeting other players and bands, of networking and of performing. Hibiki knows of one world of music, Yuki of another, so is it not surprising Chou has experienced yet another? The Gacha has already been rolled. Abit of a shame this wasn't an extraordinarily high roll, but 49+10 would have to do - it's out of range for the wilder outcomes, but hopefully what Suginami wanted to show Hibiki would be interesting enough in its own right.
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UrsaTempest
Don't Panic!
Hibiki need to buy voucher to pay for new gacha roll looks like.
~Celeste~
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UrsaTempest
Don't Panic!
EternalObserver
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Good to see you back!
Take your time with the update. We can wait
Author's Note - Closure
~Celeste~
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So...
this isn't an update, sadly. I just started thinking about this quest again recently and thought I should write something - give some closure instead of letting it just... fade. So forgive me for the thread necromancy and let this girl ramble a bit, okay?
I started this quest with the best intentions and a great deal of enthusiasm for both the idea and the franchise it was based on, even if with a general lack of writing experience - which I think was most evident in the messy and slow narrative pace. I kind of underestimated the need for constant, quick updates that quest writing would place on me. I had lots and lots of ideas that I struggled to put into words in an organized and efficient way and ended up writing myself into a corner where the level of writing needed kind of exceeded my capabilities as a writer.
Maybe I could have managed regardless, but there was another thing that more or less stopped this quest in its tracks:
I realized I was a girl and started transitioning.
Not only the ensuing changes in my life took a lot of my time, but as time went on I found out that my reserve of energy to dedicate to all-female game and anime franchises like bandori in general and this quest in particular was gradually fading. It was not as if I appreciated bandori any less, really - I was just spending less and less time on stuff like that. It took me a bit to realize that I had immersed myself in those franchises so much as a way to deal with my dysphoria, and that now that that was slowly going down, so were my coping mechanisms.
I ended up losing track of a lot of bandori developments - I'm given to understand that the franchise has evolved significantly over two years - and of this quest in particular. Honestly, even if I were to recover all my notes so much of it was in my head (like the knowledge of all event stories) that I'm not sure I could get back to writing it if I wanted.
It's still tempting, at times. It was my first serious writing project - in quite a low point of my life, to boot - and you don't just forget that.
And you folks liked it, somehow,
Will I get back to writing something along these lines? A reboot? Another quest? A story?
I don't know, maybe, but I'm not the best writer. It might get all slow and messy again.
But I wanted to thank the people who made writing these 70k words worth it,
So... thanks, everyone, for following this quest as long as you did.
this isn't an update, sadly. I just started thinking about this quest again recently and thought I should write something - give some closure instead of letting it just... fade. So forgive me for the thread necromancy and let this girl ramble a bit, okay?
I started this quest with the best intentions and a great deal of enthusiasm for both the idea and the franchise it was based on, even if with a general lack of writing experience - which I think was most evident in the messy and slow narrative pace. I kind of underestimated the need for constant, quick updates that quest writing would place on me. I had lots and lots of ideas that I struggled to put into words in an organized and efficient way and ended up writing myself into a corner where the level of writing needed kind of exceeded my capabilities as a writer.
Maybe I could have managed regardless, but there was another thing that more or less stopped this quest in its tracks:
I realized I was a girl and started transitioning.
Not only the ensuing changes in my life took a lot of my time, but as time went on I found out that my reserve of energy to dedicate to all-female game and anime franchises like bandori in general and this quest in particular was gradually fading. It was not as if I appreciated bandori any less, really - I was just spending less and less time on stuff like that. It took me a bit to realize that I had immersed myself in those franchises so much as a way to deal with my dysphoria, and that now that that was slowly going down, so were my coping mechanisms.
I ended up losing track of a lot of bandori developments - I'm given to understand that the franchise has evolved significantly over two years - and of this quest in particular. Honestly, even if I were to recover all my notes so much of it was in my head (like the knowledge of all event stories) that I'm not sure I could get back to writing it if I wanted.
It's still tempting, at times. It was my first serious writing project - in quite a low point of my life, to boot - and you don't just forget that.
And you folks liked it, somehow,
Will I get back to writing something along these lines? A reboot? Another quest? A story?
I don't know, maybe, but I'm not the best writer. It might get all slow and messy again.
But I wanted to thank the people who made writing these 70k words worth it,
So... thanks, everyone, for following this quest as long as you did.
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A shame but understandable. With time and moving on along with changes and enthusiasm. I certainly have changed in what I like to watch, what with recently looking through watch later due to it reaching max and realizing the large amount of MMD videos that were there...which until then completely forgot about.
Also certainly understandable fallowing behind on a franchise or just not being aware of everything going on in it.
This quest was certainly the first time I even heard of this franchise. But thanks for the journey and wish you luck to wherever your own journey takes you. Wherever that may bay, as long as its enjoyable. Never know when one might suddenly gain a desire to write something else. So with that, suppose a farewell at least in this thread.
Also certainly understandable fallowing behind on a franchise or just not being aware of everything going on in it.
This quest was certainly the first time I even heard of this franchise. But thanks for the journey and wish you luck to wherever your own journey takes you. Wherever that may bay, as long as its enjoyable. Never know when one might suddenly gain a desire to write something else. So with that, suppose a farewell at least in this thread.