Ranma ½ Rosario + Ranma
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Hmm... I suddenly have an image of a monster version of Dungeons & Dragons, called Cities and Cyclists. You take on the role of a human and have to band together with assorted office workers and tradesmen with different skillsets to hold a community rally, start a company, or navigate a natural disaster in order to get everyone to safety. Occasionally the party is ambushed by random encounters of loitering teenagers, disgruntled police officers, and homeless panhandlers.
The moral alignment system is replaced by a political alignment system. Party leaders need to spend most of their time keeping the hardline conservative and fanatic liberal players from stealing/destroying each others' assets (a player's net worth being equivalent to their HP).
Side missions involve taking animals to the vet and going out with your boss's daughter without losing your job (epic level quest).
The moral alignment system is replaced by a political alignment system. Party leaders need to spend most of their time keeping the hardline conservative and fanatic liberal players from stealing/destroying each others' assets (a player's net worth being equivalent to their HP).
Side missions involve taking animals to the vet and going out with your boss's daughter without losing your job (epic level quest).
...Actually, that sounds like it might be interesting in RL, if you take the setting as a layer of meta-interface.
Play a game set in that scenario, but you have to play like a monster, meaning you can't actually react 'correctly,' to anything.
It'd be pretty immersive, but if you can doublethink...
Play a game set in that scenario, but you have to play like a monster, meaning you can't actually react 'correctly,' to anything.
It'd be pretty immersive, but if you can doublethink...
Yeah, but good luck changing out the damage/combat system with an equivalent one representing influence and/or investment finance performance (depending on which quest you're on).
I would like to see the class list though.
Policeman has leveled up!
Policeman chooses paragon path: Federal agent!
Policeman chooses feat "National Security"! Player is allowed to use this excuse once per encounter, in order shut down any inquiry into player's motives or objective!
I imagine the epic destiny choices are all heads of state or CEOs.
I would like to see the class list though.
Policeman has leveled up!
Policeman chooses paragon path: Federal agent!
Policeman chooses feat "National Security"! Player is allowed to use this excuse once per encounter, in order shut down any inquiry into player's motives or objective!
I imagine the epic destiny choices are all heads of state or CEOs.
I am very nearly 100% positive in one of the ancient 2nd edition manuals there's an illustration of the fantasy characters doing that exact thing almost word for word.
On a more related note this could be used as a brutal practical exam for students to pass the classes and graduate out. Prove you're able to 'pretend' you are a good enough human for a total dick monster gm. Failing means being eaten by the thing behind the screen.
On a more related note this could be used as a brutal practical exam for students to pass the classes and graduate out. Prove you're able to 'pretend' you are a good enough human for a total dick monster gm. Failing means being eaten by the thing behind the screen.
GM: Your party arrives at the teahouse. An older lady greets you warmly and bows.
Ranma: My carpenter draws his chainsaw and revs it up.
Kouma: Oh, not this again! It's a bloody teahouse, not a-
GM: The lady suddenly grabs a serving tray and hurls it at you like a chakram.
Tsukune: What?
Ranma: I want to cut through the tray with my chainsaw. (Roll) 18.
GM: (Roll) Success. Another two servers rush from the teahouse, shouting, "There is a fifteen minute wait... Unless you can defeat us!"
Kouma: My lawyer would like to point out that this is a total violation of civil code 917-3A, as pertaining to assault and distribution of services within Tokyo city limits.
GM: Okay. Roll for it.
Kouma: (Rolls) Sigh. I got a four.
GM: You take a battery of tea cups to the face. You take (Roll) eight damage, plus five ongoing from the scalding tea.
Kouma: Man... Bringing up how illegal these things are never works. Can I get heals?
Moka: Sorry. My nurse is still tending to the victims of the LAST restaurant we went to.
Ranma: Hey, I warned you guys to dump all your points into making martial arts out of your jobs, but you didn't listen to me!
Yukari: Senpai, where on Earth did you find this sourcebook?
Ranma: My carpenter draws his chainsaw and revs it up.
Kouma: Oh, not this again! It's a bloody teahouse, not a-
GM: The lady suddenly grabs a serving tray and hurls it at you like a chakram.
Tsukune: What?
Ranma: I want to cut through the tray with my chainsaw. (Roll) 18.
GM: (Roll) Success. Another two servers rush from the teahouse, shouting, "There is a fifteen minute wait... Unless you can defeat us!"
Kouma: My lawyer would like to point out that this is a total violation of civil code 917-3A, as pertaining to assault and distribution of services within Tokyo city limits.
GM: Okay. Roll for it.
Kouma: (Rolls) Sigh. I got a four.
GM: You take a battery of tea cups to the face. You take (Roll) eight damage, plus five ongoing from the scalding tea.
Kouma: Man... Bringing up how illegal these things are never works. Can I get heals?
Moka: Sorry. My nurse is still tending to the victims of the LAST restaurant we went to.
Ranma: Hey, I warned you guys to dump all your points into making martial arts out of your jobs, but you didn't listen to me!
Yukari: Senpai, where on Earth did you find this sourcebook?
Ah yes, that takes me back to the 90s and this little gem from the Dead Alewives
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kgx2b1sIRs' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kgx2b1sIRs</a>
And here's a remade version with real actors (well, actors in the broadest sense)
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArpoNdAZuI' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArpoNdAZuI</a>
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kgx2b1sIRs' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kgx2b1sIRs</a>
And here's a remade version with real actors (well, actors in the broadest sense)
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArpoNdAZuI' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dArpoNdAZuI</a>
...I thought they were pretty much ignoring the cannibal thing, after determining that Ranma wasn't about to do that regularly as long as he could chug T-Virus.
As for general plot, it seemed like there was going to be a new wave of monsters/mad science, with Yoshi testing some genetic monster called 'Predator,' in the second-last chapter, and some mooks stealing what seemed to be Nuku-Nuku, or another robot built by related characters.
Maybe bridging towards the androids referenced in the Millenium background?
Oh, and Sakura was angry about the whole 'Akina raped Ranma,' thing, which he seemed to not have much of a problem with after an apology from Junko.
As for general plot, it seemed like there was going to be a new wave of monsters/mad science, with Yoshi testing some genetic monster called 'Predator,' in the second-last chapter, and some mooks stealing what seemed to be Nuku-Nuku, or another robot built by related characters.
Maybe bridging towards the androids referenced in the Millenium background?
Oh, and Sakura was angry about the whole 'Akina raped Ranma,' thing, which he seemed to not have much of a problem with after an apology from Junko.
Okay, so I started the long omake thing, but I'm not sure what I think of it. It's mostly just the characters bickering amongst themselves as usual, but without any central plot progression like the normal chapters. I can't tell if the silly game really adds any humor to it.
Tell me what you think.
"All right, does everybody understand the basic rules?" Yukari asked as she sat down behind a large desk, a short stack of books next to her.
Sitting on the desk in front of her and almost entirely obscuring the young witch was a fold-out cardboard piece with a picture of a busy but serene city street on it.
Sitting around the desk and slowly filling out sheets of paper were Ranma, Tsukune, Moka, Kouma, and Kurumu.
"I think I have the basic idea, though it still seems strange to me," Tsukune mumbled as he dropped his pencil on the desk, "a roleplaying game where you act like a human and have to survive completely ordinary problems in an adult human's life? Doesn't that sound kind of boring?"
"Well, it would probably seem boring to a human," grumbled Kouma, idly chewing his pencil eraser into mush, "but it's new to us. Besides, some of this stuff could actually come in handy."
"Well, okay, fine, but you do know what this game is, right?" Tsukune asked. "I mean, 'Cities and Cyclists?' This is based on a roleplaying game where humans pretend to be powerful warriors that fight skeletons and goblins and stuff and hunt for treasure."
"If I wanted to kick around greenskins for pocket change, I'd join the handicraft club," Kouma said before scribbling on his character sheet, "we don't need to have pretend games for things you can easily do in real life."
"That's..." Tsukune sighed as he gave up the point, "okay, yeah. That's true. But it's not like these things are totally beyond our imagination, right?"
"Well, sure, but normally becoming a lawyer takes years of expensive schooling, not fifteen minutes with a source book. By the way, what are everybody's classes?"
"I chose a nurse!" Moka said brightly, looking like she was already enjoying herself greatly.
Kurumu grimaced. "Huh! Formidible! But you won't beat me! I'm a maid!"
"Beat you... at what?" Moka asked, clearly confused.
"In a contest of sex appeal, of course!" Kurumu said, pumping a fist into the air. "Also, you wouldn't BELIEVE how many skill points I get!"
"I'm sure any dust you encounter won't stand a chance," Yukari said, rolling her eyes, "Tsukune, how about you?"
"I chose an accountant," Tsukune said, holding up his character sheet.
"How like you to choose such a boring, mostly useless, and completely ordinary career," Kouma scoffed, incidentally annoying the author considerably.
"Oh, leave Tsukune alone! At least he chose a respectable profession!" Kurumu said hotly.
"Civil law is respectable!" the hellhound protested. "It's essentially stealing and humiliating people while explaining how you're completely justified in doing so! It's hard work!"
Tsukune, as usual, deigned to answer to the insults he had been subjected to, and turned toward Ranma, who was studying his source book with unusual intensity.
"So what are you, Ranma?" he asked, leaning over to glance at his roommate's sheet.
"Carpenter," Ranma said as he studied a table carefully, drawing one finger down a column.
"Oh, okay. And here I thought you'd choose something really unconventional, like-"
"A martial arts carpenter," Ranma mumbled, quickly writing down a note on his character sheet before returning to the book.
"... Like that, yes," Tsukune mumbled.
"Hey, you can't be a martial artist AND a carpenter!" Kouma protested, "you have to choose one!"
"Besides is 'martial artist' really a profession or useful trait in the human world?" Moka asked doubtfully.
"Of course it is!" Ranma replied to Moka, "you think I took up martial arts for the health benefits?"
"It might have worked out, if you didn't keep getting your ribs smashed in," Tsukune noted.
"As for how I'm using a martial arts carpenter, I'm using this," Ranma said proudly, holding up the book he was working with.
Everyone at the table could see that it was labeled "Nerima CnC Supplement: Bicycles of Death".
As the others looked perplexed by the title, Moka was suddenly startled by a voice emanating from her Rosario.
'Hey, hey. Roll me up one of those.'
The vampiress looked stunned. 'YOU want to play too?'
'Why not? It's boring sitting alone in your head with nothing but your suppressed libido to keep me company,' Evil Moka grumbled. As Moka's face flushed, she continued, 'by the by, some of the material in these little fantasies of yours are just WAY too advanced for someone of our sexual experience. You're setting yourself up for disappointment. Just FYI.'
"Hey, Moka? Are you all right? You look all flushed," Kurumu said.
"Oh, uh... Would it be okay if Evil Moka had a character too?" Moka asked, feeling incredibly foolish. That feeling wasn't helped when everyone else in the room stared at her inaskance.
"Wait, so... you'd run two characters?" Yukari asked, scratching her head. "Well, I don't see why not..."
"So one person would be controlled by the voice in your head?" Ranma asked as he put the finishing touches on his character sheet.
"She's not going to spend the entire game trying to kill Ranma's carpenter, is she?" Tsukune asked suspiciously.
"She says no, she just wants something to do," Moka explained.
Then she suddenly recoiled. "NO, I'm not going to borrow Ranma's source book!" Moka yelled at her Rosario as the others sweatdropped.
Yukari clapped her hands to regain everyone's attention. "Okay, that's fine. While Moka's making a second character, the rest of you should choose alignments."
"What's that, exactly?" Kurumu asked, frowning at her character sheet.
"Well, in human society, all people are assumed to believe in a basic set of principles that establish 'society' as they know it. This includes belief in law and order, certain universal rights, and a natural inclination to favor the betterment and advancement of civilization as a whole. Beyond these 'core', beliefs, any variations in beliefs between individuals are accounted for by your political alignment," Yukari explained at length.
"So... your asking for us to choose a political stance?" Tsukune said, looking somewhat ill, for some reason.
"Yes, that's basically it."
"Neutral," Tsukune said immediately.
"Neutral," Kurumu echoed.
"Neutral," Moka agreed, "and neutral again."
Kouma scratched his chin. "I think I'll go ultra-conservative, actually."
Tsukune groaned. "Why?"
"Well, I am from Hell. I should stick to what I know about ethics and philosophy," the hellhound reasoned.
Ranma nodded thoughtfully. "I think I'll be a radical liberal."
"Because Kouma is the opposite?" Kurumu asked.
"No, because my character has an intelligence score of 7," Ranma admitted, "does that mean I believe in crazy conspiracy theories or anything?"
"We'll roll for that once we begin," Yukari confided. "Moka, are you done with your evil character?"
"She's not an evil character... necessarily," Moka protested weakly, "she's a corporate manager for an IT firm."
Kouma clicked his tongue as he leaned back. "Too easy. Don't even want to waste my breath..."
"All right, is everyone finished?" Yukari asked, dumping several dice out of a small cloth bag. "Are we ready to start a perfectly normal day in the human world, full of petty social conflicts and minor inconveniences?"
"Yeah! Let's start!" Kurumu cheered.
"As ready as I'll ever be," Kouma said.
"All set," Ranma gave a thumbs-up.
"We're ready," Moka offered, though she looked reluctant about it as her eyes glanced back and forth between her two character sheets.
"Then let's go," Tsukune offered, picking up a handful of dice.
"It's Saturday morning. Those of you that have professions with ordinary working hours have the day off. By coincidence, you all emerge from your rooms more-or-less simultaneously from the house you all rent rooms in," Yukari began, setting the stage.
"Wait, we all live together? Why does my lawyer have to be housemates with a hippie carpenter? Don't I make way more than the rest of them?" Kouma asked.
"You're only level one, Kouma. That puts you in the same income bracket with the rest of us," Tsukune explained.
Ranma stuck out his tongue. "Ha! I make as much building useful things as you do ruining people's lives!"
"That's totally unrealistic!" the hellhound complained.
"Oh, get over it! Now hush, I've barely started," Yukari groused, "as is normal first thing in the morning, you make your way to the shared kitchen for breakfast, where you find the first obstacle of the day: the fridge is completely barren!"
Moka winced, and her expression darkened as she spoke. "My, uh, manager suggests that we eat the hippie carpenter."
Tsukune chuckled weakly. "Ah, Moka, you're not a vampire in this game."
"Evil Moka is aware of that, yes," Moka deadpanned.
Kurumu rolled her eyes. "Then that makes it cannibalism, Moka. Humans don't do that."
Kouma was quick to interject, "Actually, my lawyer cites precedence in the case of the Donner Party, in which humans devoured each other in order to survive an emergency situation."
"This isn't an emergency, it's breakfast," Tsukune protested as Ranma perused his character sheet silently.
"These things are all relative. I'm sure I can swing it in court," Kouma said, almost giddy. "My lawyer reaches for a kitchen knife."
"My carpenter draws his chainsaw," Ranma said, leaning back in his seat.
Silence reigned around the table.
"Ranma... you're a carpenter, not a lumberjack or gardener class. Why would you have a chainsaw?" Tsukune asked.
"Because I took the right feats," Ranma said smugly, holding up his character sheet for all to see, "and I have the required proficiency in Power Tools, so bite me."
"And you just carry a chainsaw around with you?" Moka asked incredulously.
"It seems like a good idea when you room with people who'd rather kill and eat you than go to the supermarket," Ranma said with an eyebrow raised, "my carpenter revs up the chainsaw."
"All right, knock it off," Tsukune said, rubbing his head with his hand, "this isn't that hard a problem. GM, the fridge is absolutely bare?"
"Nothing but a milk stain and a slightly bloated cockroach," Yukari affirmed.
"Ooh! I take the roach!" Kurumu said eagerly.
"Why?"
"I think they're cute! Not as much as spiders, burt still..."
"Well, unless your maid knows a recipe for cockroach, we still have to get some food," Tsukune said, "my accountant steps out the front door and searches for transportation."
Yukari nodded. "You find a large SUV. It belongs to Kouma, and he's still making payments on it, as a retroactive explanation of your income disparity."
"Great. We'll just drive to the supermarket and get some food," Tsukune said, feeling a little bit silly in having to lead the other players in accomplishing something so mundane, "so who's driving?"
Kurumu shook her head. "I spent all my points and feats maxing out my sex appeal."
Moka flushed. "Actually, my nurse is very environmentally conscious, so she takes a bicycle to work... And apparently my manager thought that she'd have her own limousine and driver when she chose her class."
Ranma shrugged. "I'm no help. I set up my stats so I could run everywhere on the rooftops."
Kouma scratched his head. "Me neither. I had to use my feats to expand my legal expertise."
Ranma blinked. "What? But it's your car!"
"You bought a car without even being able to drive it?" Kurumu asked, rolling her eyes.
"That was decided for me! I didn't actually do that!" Kouma protested.
"So NONE of you have the driver's license feat?" Yukari deadpanned.
"I didn't think it would come up!" Ranma said sheepishly. "I mean, I've never needed to drive in the human world!"
"Yes, well, not all species can just leap on top of buildings," Kurumu pointed out.
"It's not a matter of species!" Ranma said hotly, "I'm a human! Any human can do it with some practice!"
All eyes turned to Tsukune, who did his best not to make eye contact. "Yes, well, none of us have had the practice to do that other than you. GM, is there a bus stop nearby?"
"YES. Now for the love of the gods, get to the damn store," Yukari said impatiently.
Moka massaged her forehead as she mumbled, "While we're waiting, my manager inconspicuously moves directly behind Ranma... behind the hippie carpenter. Also, Evil Moka wants to prepare an action."
Tsukune groaned as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Moka..."
"You know, it's not like his character's likely to die from anything a middle manager can do to him," Kouma pointed out, "I mean, we HAVE a nurse in the party."
"Kouma, that is not the point," Tsukune groused.
"My carpenter draws his chainsaw..."
Tell me what you think.
"All right, does everybody understand the basic rules?" Yukari asked as she sat down behind a large desk, a short stack of books next to her.
Sitting on the desk in front of her and almost entirely obscuring the young witch was a fold-out cardboard piece with a picture of a busy but serene city street on it.
Sitting around the desk and slowly filling out sheets of paper were Ranma, Tsukune, Moka, Kouma, and Kurumu.
"I think I have the basic idea, though it still seems strange to me," Tsukune mumbled as he dropped his pencil on the desk, "a roleplaying game where you act like a human and have to survive completely ordinary problems in an adult human's life? Doesn't that sound kind of boring?"
"Well, it would probably seem boring to a human," grumbled Kouma, idly chewing his pencil eraser into mush, "but it's new to us. Besides, some of this stuff could actually come in handy."
"Well, okay, fine, but you do know what this game is, right?" Tsukune asked. "I mean, 'Cities and Cyclists?' This is based on a roleplaying game where humans pretend to be powerful warriors that fight skeletons and goblins and stuff and hunt for treasure."
"If I wanted to kick around greenskins for pocket change, I'd join the handicraft club," Kouma said before scribbling on his character sheet, "we don't need to have pretend games for things you can easily do in real life."
"That's..." Tsukune sighed as he gave up the point, "okay, yeah. That's true. But it's not like these things are totally beyond our imagination, right?"
"Well, sure, but normally becoming a lawyer takes years of expensive schooling, not fifteen minutes with a source book. By the way, what are everybody's classes?"
"I chose a nurse!" Moka said brightly, looking like she was already enjoying herself greatly.
Kurumu grimaced. "Huh! Formidible! But you won't beat me! I'm a maid!"
"Beat you... at what?" Moka asked, clearly confused.
"In a contest of sex appeal, of course!" Kurumu said, pumping a fist into the air. "Also, you wouldn't BELIEVE how many skill points I get!"
"I'm sure any dust you encounter won't stand a chance," Yukari said, rolling her eyes, "Tsukune, how about you?"
"I chose an accountant," Tsukune said, holding up his character sheet.
"How like you to choose such a boring, mostly useless, and completely ordinary career," Kouma scoffed, incidentally annoying the author considerably.
"Oh, leave Tsukune alone! At least he chose a respectable profession!" Kurumu said hotly.
"Civil law is respectable!" the hellhound protested. "It's essentially stealing and humiliating people while explaining how you're completely justified in doing so! It's hard work!"
Tsukune, as usual, deigned to answer to the insults he had been subjected to, and turned toward Ranma, who was studying his source book with unusual intensity.
"So what are you, Ranma?" he asked, leaning over to glance at his roommate's sheet.
"Carpenter," Ranma said as he studied a table carefully, drawing one finger down a column.
"Oh, okay. And here I thought you'd choose something really unconventional, like-"
"A martial arts carpenter," Ranma mumbled, quickly writing down a note on his character sheet before returning to the book.
"... Like that, yes," Tsukune mumbled.
"Hey, you can't be a martial artist AND a carpenter!" Kouma protested, "you have to choose one!"
"Besides is 'martial artist' really a profession or useful trait in the human world?" Moka asked doubtfully.
"Of course it is!" Ranma replied to Moka, "you think I took up martial arts for the health benefits?"
"It might have worked out, if you didn't keep getting your ribs smashed in," Tsukune noted.
"As for how I'm using a martial arts carpenter, I'm using this," Ranma said proudly, holding up the book he was working with.
Everyone at the table could see that it was labeled "Nerima CnC Supplement: Bicycles of Death".
As the others looked perplexed by the title, Moka was suddenly startled by a voice emanating from her Rosario.
'Hey, hey. Roll me up one of those.'
The vampiress looked stunned. 'YOU want to play too?'
'Why not? It's boring sitting alone in your head with nothing but your suppressed libido to keep me company,' Evil Moka grumbled. As Moka's face flushed, she continued, 'by the by, some of the material in these little fantasies of yours are just WAY too advanced for someone of our sexual experience. You're setting yourself up for disappointment. Just FYI.'
"Hey, Moka? Are you all right? You look all flushed," Kurumu said.
"Oh, uh... Would it be okay if Evil Moka had a character too?" Moka asked, feeling incredibly foolish. That feeling wasn't helped when everyone else in the room stared at her inaskance.
"Wait, so... you'd run two characters?" Yukari asked, scratching her head. "Well, I don't see why not..."
"So one person would be controlled by the voice in your head?" Ranma asked as he put the finishing touches on his character sheet.
"She's not going to spend the entire game trying to kill Ranma's carpenter, is she?" Tsukune asked suspiciously.
"She says no, she just wants something to do," Moka explained.
Then she suddenly recoiled. "NO, I'm not going to borrow Ranma's source book!" Moka yelled at her Rosario as the others sweatdropped.
Yukari clapped her hands to regain everyone's attention. "Okay, that's fine. While Moka's making a second character, the rest of you should choose alignments."
"What's that, exactly?" Kurumu asked, frowning at her character sheet.
"Well, in human society, all people are assumed to believe in a basic set of principles that establish 'society' as they know it. This includes belief in law and order, certain universal rights, and a natural inclination to favor the betterment and advancement of civilization as a whole. Beyond these 'core', beliefs, any variations in beliefs between individuals are accounted for by your political alignment," Yukari explained at length.
"So... your asking for us to choose a political stance?" Tsukune said, looking somewhat ill, for some reason.
"Yes, that's basically it."
"Neutral," Tsukune said immediately.
"Neutral," Kurumu echoed.
"Neutral," Moka agreed, "and neutral again."
Kouma scratched his chin. "I think I'll go ultra-conservative, actually."
Tsukune groaned. "Why?"
"Well, I am from Hell. I should stick to what I know about ethics and philosophy," the hellhound reasoned.
Ranma nodded thoughtfully. "I think I'll be a radical liberal."
"Because Kouma is the opposite?" Kurumu asked.
"No, because my character has an intelligence score of 7," Ranma admitted, "does that mean I believe in crazy conspiracy theories or anything?"
"We'll roll for that once we begin," Yukari confided. "Moka, are you done with your evil character?"
"She's not an evil character... necessarily," Moka protested weakly, "she's a corporate manager for an IT firm."
Kouma clicked his tongue as he leaned back. "Too easy. Don't even want to waste my breath..."
"All right, is everyone finished?" Yukari asked, dumping several dice out of a small cloth bag. "Are we ready to start a perfectly normal day in the human world, full of petty social conflicts and minor inconveniences?"
"Yeah! Let's start!" Kurumu cheered.
"As ready as I'll ever be," Kouma said.
"All set," Ranma gave a thumbs-up.
"We're ready," Moka offered, though she looked reluctant about it as her eyes glanced back and forth between her two character sheets.
"Then let's go," Tsukune offered, picking up a handful of dice.
"It's Saturday morning. Those of you that have professions with ordinary working hours have the day off. By coincidence, you all emerge from your rooms more-or-less simultaneously from the house you all rent rooms in," Yukari began, setting the stage.
"Wait, we all live together? Why does my lawyer have to be housemates with a hippie carpenter? Don't I make way more than the rest of them?" Kouma asked.
"You're only level one, Kouma. That puts you in the same income bracket with the rest of us," Tsukune explained.
Ranma stuck out his tongue. "Ha! I make as much building useful things as you do ruining people's lives!"
"That's totally unrealistic!" the hellhound complained.
"Oh, get over it! Now hush, I've barely started," Yukari groused, "as is normal first thing in the morning, you make your way to the shared kitchen for breakfast, where you find the first obstacle of the day: the fridge is completely barren!"
Moka winced, and her expression darkened as she spoke. "My, uh, manager suggests that we eat the hippie carpenter."
Tsukune chuckled weakly. "Ah, Moka, you're not a vampire in this game."
"Evil Moka is aware of that, yes," Moka deadpanned.
Kurumu rolled her eyes. "Then that makes it cannibalism, Moka. Humans don't do that."
Kouma was quick to interject, "Actually, my lawyer cites precedence in the case of the Donner Party, in which humans devoured each other in order to survive an emergency situation."
"This isn't an emergency, it's breakfast," Tsukune protested as Ranma perused his character sheet silently.
"These things are all relative. I'm sure I can swing it in court," Kouma said, almost giddy. "My lawyer reaches for a kitchen knife."
"My carpenter draws his chainsaw," Ranma said, leaning back in his seat.
Silence reigned around the table.
"Ranma... you're a carpenter, not a lumberjack or gardener class. Why would you have a chainsaw?" Tsukune asked.
"Because I took the right feats," Ranma said smugly, holding up his character sheet for all to see, "and I have the required proficiency in Power Tools, so bite me."
"And you just carry a chainsaw around with you?" Moka asked incredulously.
"It seems like a good idea when you room with people who'd rather kill and eat you than go to the supermarket," Ranma said with an eyebrow raised, "my carpenter revs up the chainsaw."
"All right, knock it off," Tsukune said, rubbing his head with his hand, "this isn't that hard a problem. GM, the fridge is absolutely bare?"
"Nothing but a milk stain and a slightly bloated cockroach," Yukari affirmed.
"Ooh! I take the roach!" Kurumu said eagerly.
"Why?"
"I think they're cute! Not as much as spiders, burt still..."
"Well, unless your maid knows a recipe for cockroach, we still have to get some food," Tsukune said, "my accountant steps out the front door and searches for transportation."
Yukari nodded. "You find a large SUV. It belongs to Kouma, and he's still making payments on it, as a retroactive explanation of your income disparity."
"Great. We'll just drive to the supermarket and get some food," Tsukune said, feeling a little bit silly in having to lead the other players in accomplishing something so mundane, "so who's driving?"
Kurumu shook her head. "I spent all my points and feats maxing out my sex appeal."
Moka flushed. "Actually, my nurse is very environmentally conscious, so she takes a bicycle to work... And apparently my manager thought that she'd have her own limousine and driver when she chose her class."
Ranma shrugged. "I'm no help. I set up my stats so I could run everywhere on the rooftops."
Kouma scratched his head. "Me neither. I had to use my feats to expand my legal expertise."
Ranma blinked. "What? But it's your car!"
"You bought a car without even being able to drive it?" Kurumu asked, rolling her eyes.
"That was decided for me! I didn't actually do that!" Kouma protested.
"So NONE of you have the driver's license feat?" Yukari deadpanned.
"I didn't think it would come up!" Ranma said sheepishly. "I mean, I've never needed to drive in the human world!"
"Yes, well, not all species can just leap on top of buildings," Kurumu pointed out.
"It's not a matter of species!" Ranma said hotly, "I'm a human! Any human can do it with some practice!"
All eyes turned to Tsukune, who did his best not to make eye contact. "Yes, well, none of us have had the practice to do that other than you. GM, is there a bus stop nearby?"
"YES. Now for the love of the gods, get to the damn store," Yukari said impatiently.
Moka massaged her forehead as she mumbled, "While we're waiting, my manager inconspicuously moves directly behind Ranma... behind the hippie carpenter. Also, Evil Moka wants to prepare an action."
Tsukune groaned as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Moka..."
"You know, it's not like his character's likely to die from anything a middle manager can do to him," Kouma pointed out, "I mean, we HAVE a nurse in the party."
"Kouma, that is not the point," Tsukune groused.
"My carpenter draws his chainsaw..."
So would someting like <a href='http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p37/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>this</a> <a href='http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p38/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>be</a> a possible future of Rama's character? And does anyone else want an omake where Ranma had joined the nursing club, learned from Fran, and changed his name to McNinja?
This was being discussed earlier: a series of short "omake chapters" to just basically go off on entertaining tangents in ways that would take too much time were they to be part of the main story, but are too long for end-of-chapter omakes.
This would be in the sort of vein as Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, where they stuck all the stuff in the manga that was hilarious but didn't pertain to the main story (animes being keener on moving along the main plot).
This would be in the sort of vein as Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, where they stuck all the stuff in the manga that was hilarious but didn't pertain to the main story (animes being keener on moving along the main plot).