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Well, Zeni was apparently killed/kidnapped by fangirls/unknown beings from outer space, and ever since her mysterious disappearance this once-awesome forum fell into disuse (seeing as she GM'ed most of the threads here, that's no surprise).
Seeing as I have been bored out of my skull and completely despondent for most of the whole month (I'm better now, but man, was that a rut), I regained a bit of an interest in the whole RPG concept, as it's round-robin format is really (++) good at exercising the creative muscles (either mine or anyone else's). Unfortunately this forum is pretty much dead and provides no existing RPGs, so I decided I might as well ask you guys the question:
Would any of you be interested at starting and playing/helping GM a new TFF RPG?
I've entertained several ideas, some following the basic (and successful) format of the RPGs that have already been hosted here, i.e. TFF getting assaulted by *insert threat here* and a horde of heroes, bastards, and misfits both from inside TFF and from all corners of the Internets rush out to defend it. However, I've also entertained some other ideas, quite a few with a setting outside TFF City, but also (and prominently) one involving an Assault of Yaoi. Garedelyon, Watashiwa, and Lord Raine provided the original inspiration, and then Vex, I, and a few other guys talked about it on a thread somewhere, lemme see...
Yes, from "Your Daily Thing..."
And then Raine made one of the most epic posts in the history of ever, which is really what sparked the whole concept in my brain:
And then:
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So, that's how we got here, folks. Obviously, however, a concept is not enough, we need a plot, and here it is:
It is A.D. 3,149, during the Dark Age of the Internets. In a stunning display of audacity, cunning, and sheer evil manipulation, a large force of Yaoist fanatics, the elite wing of that plague-spreading empire of Yaoi, whose holdings include more than 2/3rds of the worlds along the Internet multiverse, including substantial parts of FF.Net, Fictionpress, and, even, a foothold in the surreal world of 4chan, smashed through the defenses of TFF Academy City, an Internet-renowned hub of fanfiction trade and commerce, along with several other large enterprises and markets, in a lightning raid, razing the TFF Internet Trading Center to the ground and heavily damaging the Government Tower, the administrative building also known as the home of the mysteriously absent Lord Hawk. Before a city-wide alarm could even be sounded, the Yaoists were already falling back, damage done, along with a large number of hostages, including many prominent personalities, such as the Obnoxious Goddess Haruhi, Rin Tohsaka, Lelouch and Nunnally vi Britannia, many renowned fanfiction authors, and even Zeni and her sister Eterna, heroines of past wars against Yaoi. Meanwhile, with Lord Hawk absent, the government was thrown into complete disarray.
Then, as the city descended into panic, the last Yaoist ship to retreat, the massive flagship Cassandra the Great, dropped one last gift upon the city in the form of a gigantic antimatter-fueled F.R.E.Y.A. bomb. Fortunately, by this point the more powerful inhabitants of the city had been sufficiently roused, and this allowed for the deployment of a tactical emergency shield fueled by redirecting the city's entire energy grid into it. The shield was then used to surround the bomb's surface area just as it went off, preventing all damage from the explosion. But even this shield could not stop the gigantic, blunt-force shockwave generated by the contained explosion, which, when unleashed, caused disastrous damage to the outskirts of the city.
And thus the fangirls faded into the darkness, leaving behind a TFF Academy City that was broken and in disarray.
Barely a day after the event, the remnants of the Government convened.
Such an atrocity, it was decided, could not go unpunished.
However, what could be done? Even at its strongest, TFF was in no position to launch a war against the massive Empire of Yaoi. What could be done now, with most of its industrial base left in shambles, its fanfic production ruined? Even if all the admittedly quite powerful individuals that roamed TFF's streets, including those that had fought in previous wars with the Yaoists, could be assembled into a proper fighting force, they could never hope to match the sheer size of the Empire.
And yet something had to be done. The hostages had to be rescued. An eye had to be taken for the eye that had been so violently ripped off the face of TFF.
And then came the bright idea. Just as the fangirls had come to realize the futility of a direct military invasion with conventional armies and had attacked TFF in a lightning-quick terrorist raid, so would TFF do the same.
Capitalizing on its most visible advantage, the individual fighting and sometimes even magical prowess of most of its inhabitants, TFF Academy City would assemble an elite group of individuals. They, equipped with their own powers that had already been honed over the years, would lead an ambitious infiltration mission on the heartland on the Empire of Yaoi, rescue the hostages, and pay back the evil done by doing the impossible - assassinating the Empress of Yaoi. All help would be accepted. Anyone, from all corners of the Internets could answer the call, provided they had sufficient power.
This would not be a war on the Empire.
This would be... an Assault on Yaoi!
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So, that's it. Anyone interested? I'm not really planning on starting up a character sign-up thread if there aren't at least six people interested on making an effort at playing this thing (not that it'd really be anything out of this world - one post per day from each of the members tends to be more than enough). A note: this, as all other TFF RPG's, will be in round-robin format, not tabletop.
So...
...will you answer the call?
Well, Zeni was apparently killed/kidnapped by fangirls/unknown beings from outer space, and ever since her mysterious disappearance this once-awesome forum fell into disuse (seeing as she GM'ed most of the threads here, that's no surprise).
Seeing as I have been bored out of my skull and completely despondent for most of the whole month (I'm better now, but man, was that a rut), I regained a bit of an interest in the whole RPG concept, as it's round-robin format is really (++) good at exercising the creative muscles (either mine or anyone else's). Unfortunately this forum is pretty much dead and provides no existing RPGs, so I decided I might as well ask you guys the question:
Would any of you be interested at starting and playing/helping GM a new TFF RPG?
I've entertained several ideas, some following the basic (and successful) format of the RPGs that have already been hosted here, i.e. TFF getting assaulted by *insert threat here* and a horde of heroes, bastards, and misfits both from inside TFF and from all corners of the Internets rush out to defend it. However, I've also entertained some other ideas, quite a few with a setting outside TFF City, but also (and prominently) one involving an Assault of Yaoi. Garedelyon, Watashiwa, and Lord Raine provided the original inspiration, and then Vex, I, and a few other guys talked about it on a thread somewhere, lemme see...
Yes, from "Your Daily Thing..."
And then Raine made one of the most epic posts in the history of ever, which is really what sparked the whole concept in my brain:
And then:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, that's how we got here, folks. Obviously, however, a concept is not enough, we need a plot, and here it is:
It is A.D. 3,149, during the Dark Age of the Internets. In a stunning display of audacity, cunning, and sheer evil manipulation, a large force of Yaoist fanatics, the elite wing of that plague-spreading empire of Yaoi, whose holdings include more than 2/3rds of the worlds along the Internet multiverse, including substantial parts of FF.Net, Fictionpress, and, even, a foothold in the surreal world of 4chan, smashed through the defenses of TFF Academy City, an Internet-renowned hub of fanfiction trade and commerce, along with several other large enterprises and markets, in a lightning raid, razing the TFF Internet Trading Center to the ground and heavily damaging the Government Tower, the administrative building also known as the home of the mysteriously absent Lord Hawk. Before a city-wide alarm could even be sounded, the Yaoists were already falling back, damage done, along with a large number of hostages, including many prominent personalities, such as the Obnoxious Goddess Haruhi, Rin Tohsaka, Lelouch and Nunnally vi Britannia, many renowned fanfiction authors, and even Zeni and her sister Eterna, heroines of past wars against Yaoi. Meanwhile, with Lord Hawk absent, the government was thrown into complete disarray.
Then, as the city descended into panic, the last Yaoist ship to retreat, the massive flagship Cassandra the Great, dropped one last gift upon the city in the form of a gigantic antimatter-fueled F.R.E.Y.A. bomb. Fortunately, by this point the more powerful inhabitants of the city had been sufficiently roused, and this allowed for the deployment of a tactical emergency shield fueled by redirecting the city's entire energy grid into it. The shield was then used to surround the bomb's surface area just as it went off, preventing all damage from the explosion. But even this shield could not stop the gigantic, blunt-force shockwave generated by the contained explosion, which, when unleashed, caused disastrous damage to the outskirts of the city.
And thus the fangirls faded into the darkness, leaving behind a TFF Academy City that was broken and in disarray.
Barely a day after the event, the remnants of the Government convened.
Such an atrocity, it was decided, could not go unpunished.
However, what could be done? Even at its strongest, TFF was in no position to launch a war against the massive Empire of Yaoi. What could be done now, with most of its industrial base left in shambles, its fanfic production ruined? Even if all the admittedly quite powerful individuals that roamed TFF's streets, including those that had fought in previous wars with the Yaoists, could be assembled into a proper fighting force, they could never hope to match the sheer size of the Empire.
And yet something had to be done. The hostages had to be rescued. An eye had to be taken for the eye that had been so violently ripped off the face of TFF.
And then came the bright idea. Just as the fangirls had come to realize the futility of a direct military invasion with conventional armies and had attacked TFF in a lightning-quick terrorist raid, so would TFF do the same.
Capitalizing on its most visible advantage, the individual fighting and sometimes even magical prowess of most of its inhabitants, TFF Academy City would assemble an elite group of individuals. They, equipped with their own powers that had already been honed over the years, would lead an ambitious infiltration mission on the heartland on the Empire of Yaoi, rescue the hostages, and pay back the evil done by doing the impossible - assassinating the Empress of Yaoi. All help would be accepted. Anyone, from all corners of the Internets could answer the call, provided they had sufficient power.
This would not be a war on the Empire.
This would be... an Assault on Yaoi!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, that's it. Anyone interested? I'm not really planning on starting up a character sign-up thread if there aren't at least six people interested on making an effort at playing this thing (not that it'd really be anything out of this world - one post per day from each of the members tends to be more than enough). A note: this, as all other TFF RPG's, will be in round-robin format, not tabletop.
So...
...will you answer the call?
