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Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« on: December 22, 2010, 08:21:01 PM »
So, I had an idea. I've said before I suck at DMing, but a format like this one should avoid most of the problems.

Basically, take Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and turn it into a freeform RP. The plot will be expanded a little beyond the dialogue in the game, but still following the same general direction. I'm looking for 2 players to play Marisa and Reimu.


There are a few things to sort out before I can do this, mainly related to combat. Namely, does it consist entirely of sprays of non-lethal bullets, or can it involve things like swordplay? (like the fighting games) I'd prefer the latter, but that raises the question of how slashing someone at the speed of light is "non-lethal". And how do spell cards work outside formal duels?
« Last Edit: December 22, 2010, 10:50:43 PM by Prime32 »
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 08:25:57 PM »
You know me. Dibs on one spot. Dunno which one yet, though. :p
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 10:28:54 PM »
Dibs on Marisa! Love shall prevail!

There are a few things to sort out before I can do this, mainly related to combat. Namely, does it consist entirely of sprays of non-lethal bullets, or can it involve things like swordplay? (like the fighting games) I'd prefer the latter, but that raises the question of how slashing someone at the speed of light is "non-lethal".
Touhou characters, like D&D characters, are just that tough.

Also if I can make my broom count as a masterwork quarterstaff count me in for melee combat. Altough Marisa does prefer blasting from far away.

Can we grab some extra wargear?
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And how do spell cards work outside formal duels?

Just like they work inside the duels duh! I'm not even sure there's such things as "formal duels". Ambushing oponents (Mountain of Faith), ganking (Perfect Cherry Blossom), hit and run (pretty much every title), is all fair game.

Notice how in Silent Sinner in Blue Marisa's Master Spark goes all the way from the Moon to the Earth.

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 10:36:45 PM »
Well, there's the whole 'kill Reimu and world goes poof' possibility, so... :D

I can't say I haven't thought of running a game based on EoSD myself. Do report on how it goes.


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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 10:51:55 PM »
Touhou characters, like D&D characters, are just that tough.

Also if I can make my broom count as a masterwork quarterstaff count me in for melee combat. Altough Marisa does prefer blasting from far away.
Ah, I meant to clarify that this would be freeform.

Sorry, I was talking about it with Agita before and I think I forgot to mention it... :blush
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[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2010, 10:57:03 PM »
Touhou characters, like D&D characters, are just that tough.

Also if I can make my broom count as a masterwork quarterstaff count me in for melee combat. Altough Marisa does prefer blasting from far away.
Ah, I meant to clarify that this would be freeform.

I figured as much. What I meant it's whetever I can assume a broom (wooden stick) won't instantly break when faced with Meiling Kung-Fu's skillz, or a vampire's superior strenght, or Sakuya's flurries of knives. Altough it would certainly give an edge against "I don't have enough breath to recite my spells" Patchoulli.

On the other hand, I guess that Marisa would reinforce her broom to be able to whitstand that kind of things, so kinda of moot point.

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2010, 11:06:40 PM »
There are a few things to sort out before I can do this, mainly related to combat. Namely, does it consist entirely of sprays of non-lethal bullets, or can it involve things like swordplay? (like the fighting games) I'd prefer the latter, but that raises the question of how slashing someone at the speed of light is "non-lethal".
Touhou characters, like D&D characters, are just that tough.
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And how do spell cards work outside formal duels?

Just like they work inside the duels duh! I'm not even sure there's such things as "formal duels". Ambushing oponents (Mountain of Faith), ganking (Perfect Cherry Blossom), hit and run (pretty much every title), is all fair game.
Here's some stuff on that
http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=danmaku

As I said though, the idea that physical combat is an abstraction and they're really using danmaku doesn't really work as well as the inverse for this kind of thing.

Some things I'd like to establish:
Flying is more tiring than walking.
Both sides can use spellcards.
Grazing accomplishes nothing other than taking your opponent by surprise, at most.
No one calls out difficulty levels. :p
« Last Edit: December 22, 2010, 11:12:00 PM by Prime32 »
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2010, 11:21:06 PM »
Hmm...interesting...though I see I'm late to the party by deciding to go to work instead of posting!

You're gonna have a LOT of dibs on Marisa.
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2010, 12:11:32 AM »
Then I'll settle with Reimu and watch you two (and probably Nick if he comes in later) duke it out for Marisa. :p
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2010, 06:39:30 AM »
Screw the two protagonists.

I'm gunning for Cirno :D
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2010, 10:49:06 AM »
You could always be Rin Satsuki.

For combat, I would suggest a "spell border" which makes things in the area non-lethal. Anyone can raise a border, and it persists as long as at least one combatant with remaining energy wants it to. In addition, magic cast from spell cards is non-lethal automatically. If you sufficiently disrupt a caster's concentration while using a spell card it results in "spell break", rendering the card unusable for a while.
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2010, 10:59:28 AM »
Heh, say, what if the protagonists get shot down?
Use a continue(new player)?
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
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There is no higher price than 'free'.

"I won't die. I've been ordered not to die."

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2010, 11:04:16 AM »
Well, there's the whole 'kill Reimu and world goes poof' possibility, so... :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_GmXsKiF3I#2m15s

Heh, say, what if the protagonists get shot down?
Use a continue(new player)?
Continues? Continues are for WIMPS! Next thing you'll tell me you want to play on Easy mode.
« Last Edit: December 23, 2010, 11:15:41 AM by Prime32 »
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2010, 11:14:47 AM »
Well, there's the whole 'kill Reimu and world goes poof' possibility, so... :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjJUUS41h24

Heh, say, what if the protagonists get shot down?
Use a continue(new player)?
Continues? Continues are for WIMPS! Next thing you'll tell me you want to play on Easy mode.
Easy Cirno DOES have a certain charm to it.
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
[/spoiler]

There is no higher price than 'free'.

"I won't die. I've been ordered not to die."

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2010, 12:07:07 PM »
Heh, say, what if the protagonists get shot down?
Use a continue(new player)?
Knowing freeform, this won't happen. :p
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2010, 12:20:09 PM »
For combat, I would suggest a "spell border" which makes things in the area non-lethal.

What's exactly "non-lethal". Stripping your oponent of  clothes? Explosions knocking back? Bruises? Flesh wounds? Broken bones? Reducing your oponent to lumps of flesh that's somehow kept alive and regenerating from the border magic? No physical damage but pain untill your oponent gives up/faints?

I must point out to Silent Sinner in blue, where danmaku fires does cause burns. And Reimu threatens to turn the Rabbit's moon in a wasteland, wich tecnically is "non-lethal".

Continues? Continues are for WIMPS! Next thing you'll tell me you want to play on Easy mode.
There's no such thing as easy mode in Touhou. There's hard mode that Zun always labels as "Easy" for unphatomable reasons. And then it only gets worst The only mode that's properly labeled is Lunatic. :p

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2010, 04:38:30 PM »
For combat, I would suggest a "spell border" which makes things in the area non-lethal.

What's exactly "non-lethal". Stripping your oponent of  clothes? Explosions knocking back? Bruises? Flesh wounds? Broken bones? Reducing your oponent to lumps of flesh that's somehow kept alive and regenerating from the border magic? No physical damage but pain untill your oponent gives up/faints?
Probably around Nanoha level.

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I must point out to Silent Sinner in blue, where danmaku fires does cause burns. And Reimu threatens to turn the Rabbit's moon in a wasteland, wich tecnically is "non-lethal".
I thought we didn't speak of that. :p
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]

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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2010, 04:56:12 PM »
For combat, I would suggest a "spell border" which makes things in the area non-lethal.

What's exactly "non-lethal". Stripping your oponent of  clothes? Explosions knocking back? Bruises? Flesh wounds? Broken bones? Reducing your oponent to lumps of flesh that's somehow kept alive and regenerating from the border magic? No physical damage but pain untill your oponent gives up/faints?
Probably around Nanoha level.
To clarify, this means clothing damage, knockback, and possibly bruises (though I don't recall ever seeing much in the way of bruises in Nanoha), and blood running down the face as indication of vague injuries after a certain time spent fighting, yes?
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Re: Campaignment of Scarlet Devil
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2010, 05:04:12 PM »
For combat, I would suggest a "spell border" which makes things in the area non-lethal.

What's exactly "non-lethal". Stripping your oponent of  clothes? Explosions knocking back? Bruises? Flesh wounds? Broken bones? Reducing your oponent to lumps of flesh that's somehow kept alive and regenerating from the border magic? No physical damage but pain untill your oponent gives up/faints?
Probably around Nanoha level.
To clarify, this means clothing damage, knockback, and possibly bruises (though I don't recall ever seeing much in the way of bruises in Nanoha), and blood running down the face as indication of vague injuries after a certain time spent fighting, yes?
Sure. Plus drained energy.
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The tier system in a nutshell:
[spoiler]Tier 6: A cartographer.
Tier 5: An expert cartographer or a decent marksman.
Tier 4: An expert marksman.
Tier 3: An expert marksman, cartographer and chef who can tie strong knots and is trained in hostage negotiation or a marksman so good he can shoot down every bullet fired by a minigun while armed with a rusted single-shot pistol that veers to the left.
Tier 2: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything, or the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.
Tier 1: Someone with teleportation, mind control, time manipulation, intangibility, the ability to turn into an exact duplicate of anything and the ability to see into the future with perfect accuracy.[/spoiler]