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Workshop #1: October 2018
Workshop #1: October 2018—
§ about.
Greetings, everyone! This is Forgotten Tales first ever workshop! Here players can come together and discuss what storybook characters they are considering for their character's essence, their new potential abilities, and even ask for help if you can't think of anything on your own. This is also doubling as an official interest check, so don't be shy!
Here are some reminders about how essences work in-game:
If you have any further questions about this or anything in general, comment to the Mod Thread.
TDM will be up October 12th. Registration opens October 19th.
Game starts October 21st.
§ the form.
If you're ready, just fill out the following form and discuss away! One character per comment.
Player:
Character:
Canon: (and canon point)
Age: (of the character)
Bio Blurb: Just a quick blurb about the character so everyone can get a basic idea. Feel free to link a wiki and mention canon abilities in here.
Preferred Essence(s): Have one already in mind? List it here!
Looking For: What kind of storybook character would you be interested in? Things you're not interested in should also be mentioned.
Appearance: Any notable features both for the character in general and any appearance or style changes you may be considering for their essence.
Abilities: Whether you have an essence in mind or not, talk about what kind of abilities you're hoping to recreate or gain while in game. Any weapons that are going to be regained or explored?
Quirks: Are you interested in gaining any quirks of the storybook character? Or do you already have one already in mind? Need suggestions from your list?
Extra: Anything else you'd like to ask or talk about. Can be about the essences or just general ideas of what you'd like to hopefully play out.
Questions: Any other questions you might have.
Post away and go buzz about everyone else!
Greetings, everyone! This is Forgotten Tales first ever workshop! Here players can come together and discuss what storybook characters they are considering for their character's essence, their new potential abilities, and even ask for help if you can't think of anything on your own. This is also doubling as an official interest check, so don't be shy!
Here are some reminders about how essences work in-game:
- All characters will inherit characteristics and themes from a particular storybook character.
- Storybook characters can be from any work of literary fiction such as fairy tales, folklore, fables, nursery rhymes, classics, plays, mythos, legends, etc. They can be well-known or obscure, and origins must pre-date the 1950s.
- The essence doesn't necessarily have to match the character, just make sure you pick one that you can work with.
- Refer to the Abilities section to see how abilities work.
- Because the game currently doesn't allow duplicate essences, list your top preference and any others you're considering, but also be open for other suggestions. And if you see someone else list one you are considering, list it, anyway! Anyone could change their mind. Just don't be salty or badger anyone about their choice, otherwise it's an automatic boot out the door. The goal is to try to not only match the best essence to the character, but also one that people can have fun with.
- For a complete refresher, refer to the Character section of the Game Info.
- Feel free to hop into the Discord server.
If you have any further questions about this or anything in general, comment to the Mod Thread.
Game starts October 21st.
§ the form.
If you're ready, just fill out the following form and discuss away! One character per comment.
Player:
Character:
Canon: (and canon point)
Age: (of the character)
Bio Blurb: Just a quick blurb about the character so everyone can get a basic idea. Feel free to link a wiki and mention canon abilities in here.
Preferred Essence(s): Have one already in mind? List it here!
Looking For: What kind of storybook character would you be interested in? Things you're not interested in should also be mentioned.
Appearance: Any notable features both for the character in general and any appearance or style changes you may be considering for their essence.
Abilities: Whether you have an essence in mind or not, talk about what kind of abilities you're hoping to recreate or gain while in game. Any weapons that are going to be regained or explored?
Quirks: Are you interested in gaining any quirks of the storybook character? Or do you already have one already in mind? Need suggestions from your list?
Extra: Anything else you'd like to ask or talk about. Can be about the essences or just general ideas of what you'd like to hopefully play out.
Questions: Any other questions you might have.
Post away and go buzz about everyone else!
goro akechi | persona 5
Character: Goro Akechi
Canon: Persona 5 — from 12/16 after his last appearance...you know what I mean.
Age: 18
Bio Blurb: (Wiki.) Japanese high school student, orphan, and ace detective, Goro Akechi is a sharp-minded, likable young man who takes a keen interest in the case of the Phantom Thieves as they change the hearts of criminals through their mysterious means. Akechi is polite and well-spoken, praised by adults and the general public for his deductive reasoning skills and his charismatic energy. A vocal critic of the Phantom Thieves' vigilante justice, Akechi comes under heat as their popularity rises, facing ridicule as public opinion turns in their favor. However, after the Phantom Thieves become public enemy number one, Akechi ascertains their true identities and reveals to them that he possesses the same abilities to enter the Metaverse and use personas as they do. Akechi strikes a deal with the Phantom Thieves: in exchange for helping them clear their name, they will disband after one final heist.
...Except Akechi's true intentions were never to help the Phantom Thieves clear their name, but rather to pin the blame for a series of mental shutdown cases he caused on them and subsequently attempt to murder their leader. Akechi doesn't seek the altruistic justice he so often espouses on television, but rather his own ends, weaving a complex web of lies for his self-interested motives, deceiving literally everyone around him. Akechi has no accomplices, no real friends, and struggles to see the worth of attachments to other people. He is manipulative and scheming, and not above getting his hands dirty to achieve his ends. He has cultivated a perfect outward appearance and mannerisms so other people would want him around, but his emotional damage make him pretty damn terrible at assigning value to people beyond himself. Anyway, you get the idea! They call him the Trash Man for a reason...
Preferred Essence(s): My first choice for Akechi is Robin Hood! For the obvious persona-related reasons, and tying Akechi to a character known for their notoriously outside-the-law behavior and moral uprightness would be interesting to explore. Alternatively, I've also considered Mordred from Arthurian legend, but have less concrete ideas to go off of there.
Looking For: Mostly help deciding on abilities! I'm also open to other ideas for essences if anyone has one that strikes some deliciously ironic parallels to Akechi.
Appearance: For the Robin Hood vibe, I'm torn between dressing Akechi up in the typical green garb so he looks like an awkward fairy child, or sticking closer to his usual Metaverse garb. Whatever happens, he'll definitely have a silly, jaunty hat with a feather in it and he'll hate it.
Abilities: Typically in battle, Akechi wields laser swords and ray guns, but for Robin Hood I'd rather him be tethered to the typical outlaw weapon: the bow and arrow. I debating weather or not his arrows will have special properties or not and if so, what kind of properties — will they be the typical zelda-esque elemental effects or something more helpful with stealth and infiltration? Also with continuing Robin Hood's thief motif, it'd be fun to give Akechi some next-level thievery abilities, like shadow clones or short-range illusions. Or maybe he'll just turn into a fox. Because.
Quirks: Going with the whole "take from the rich, give to the poor" motif, Akechi with feel compelled to share his "bounty" will people around him...regardless of what that means, whether it be money or food or information. He'll find it difficult to hold onto things for long! He's gonna be so charitable...
Extra: is Akechi's middle name.
Questions: what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow
no subject
If you want some thief-y ideas for the bow and arrow.../points you to Guild Wars 2 Thief profession. They actually use the shortbow for various things, including creating smoke fields, poison fields, teleporting, and crippling. But you could also mix in some other elemental stuff in there, too, if you wanted!
/throws out random ideas
(i also laugh at the fox)