ooc Persona: Shadows of the Crystal Mirror

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Accepted, the illustration is awesome btw

I actually... now understand most of what folks here are talking about! Heh, glad I picked up the game now - though the 'shoot yourself in the head' symbolism of p3p is a little... unorthodox.

 

Thanks by the way, I'm pretty proud of how she turned out.

[supersonicfan91 55]

I actually... now understand most of what folks here are talking about! Heh, glad I picked up the game now - though the 'shoot yourself in the head' symbolism of p3p is a little... unorthodox.

 

Thanks by the way, I'm pretty proud of how she turned out.

shooting yourself symbolism? i played a bit of P3 but i didn't notice the sybolism for that i always thought of this for the first time you summon the persona 

 

you: Well we are so dead i won't let them take me *shoots himself* persona appears

[Eternal Night 61]

@,@, @@supersonicfan91, @@Yoshikupo, @@Drago Ryder,  

 

The rp is now up here's the link 

 

http://mlpforums.com/topic/123824-persona-shadows-of-the-crystal-mirror/#entry3579436

 

Sorry for the massive delay, I kinda of forgot to post it yesterday my bad...

Oh before I forget to ask, what's everyone's time zones? I don't want to advance the story too far by mistake.

I'm EST myself.

[Star Saber 114]

PST here. Though I may have just slept through my entire day. Just let me know when and where you want my guy to show up.

[Eternal Night 61]

@, @@supersonicfan91,@, @@Drago Ryder,

yea i'm going to mail you soon with some details as soon as I can, i'm a little busy at the moment with some issues.

And another thing, if you all hadn't noticed there was a date at the top of the initial post. The Rp began on a sunday so there is no classes today, today is just the orientation day which is something a lot of colleges do where they just show freshmen around for a day and then begin classes the next. Actually most universities, mine in particular do a "week of welcome" where it was just tour groups and campus policy stuff for a week. I figured that's NOT FUN AT ALL so I tried to compress it down to a full day. Also this rp will be using a day to day system like the persona games and i'm going to post an "academic calender" eventually so that no one gets confused and to make it feel more personay. I'm going to start the tour here in a bit, i'm at work right now so I can't post it obviously but I will when I get home. This orientation day was kinda designed in mind to teach some of the day by day mechanics we'll be using for this rp without overwhelming anyone. It isn't actually complicated but it seems so, and I hoped this would explain it more simply. Classes with start the next in rp day, however long that takes.

I hope this clears up any confusion
A few more things now that we are kind of moving along now. First thing first is how we are doing the time cycle and transitions. In true persona fashion we are going to do a day by day cycle. During each cycle you can choose what you feel like doing that day kinda like how you did in the games. The time of day kinda determines what you can do, but since this is to its not entirely restricted. The reason why I'm doing a system like this is to kinda of recreate the same feel as the games and so that we can keep everyone on the same time frame and allow everyone to do whatever.

Basically you can pick whatever it is you want to do for that particular time of day. You get up to two actions per time frame, except if you attend class, club meetings or if you decide to study.

Morning: assume all your classes happen here. You can go to class for the day or skip and do whatever. Stores aren't really opened yet so no shopping trips. (Protip: go to class, both in this rp and IRL)

Afternoon: assume classes are over for the day, you are free to do whatever. Club meetings will happen exclusively at this time once they are available with the exception of one. Stores are open.

Evening: free to do whatever IDC. Stores are open.

Night: the limited clubs meeting are available, you can attend parties when they are available. Stores are closed.

This format will go into play the next in rp day just as an FYI, to keep with the rather disorganized theme here of orientation day.

If this is at all confusing or if you think this dumb let me know. I'm trying to do something completely different here so I do appreciate feed back. I'm trying to find a balance in not making this feel to constrictive, while trying to set reasonable boundaries and keeping in theme with persona.


Thanks

(Also the schedule will be done later, I'm doing a million things right now)

Edited March 17, 2015 by Eternal Night

[NinjaCPU 270]

Wall of text

 

I'd say it's a problem because there will be a lack of interaction with only having two posts to work with time frame. Plus, it'd be a waste of time to have a post like morning or afternoon if you're going to 'study'/go to class. Game doesn't always transition well with roleplay at times. If you look at the game, Morning are usually used for a variety of reasons:

 

1) To introduce a new items such as clubs, people, or things to do.

 

2) Questions to help improve knowledge/charm

 

3) Plot which might include interactions with players about what is happening, etc.

 

You can follow this theme(and take out 2 since it's useless in this) and avoid having morning transition. If you want to keep the pacing and they are talking too much, you can try to transition it to the night time and or morning if needbe.

[Eternal Night 61]

(Hehe, well to be fair I did warn before the rp started it could be complicated. I'll try and keep things short, but no promises.)

 

Well I knew not going to perfectly emulate the game or get anywhere near close (far from the intention, I've gutted a lot of it already). I just feel this way everything would feel a lot more routine. Routine is like the center of any persona game, and it will be the center if this rp too. The system I purposed was going to kind of emulate that, and I see at times it could be redundant. Though the implication was you can do whatever you wanted, the only absolute is that stores would be closed along with certain club meetings.

 

I think the "morning" time would definitely cut social interaction a bit like it honestly should. Even in the game you didn't really talk to your friends during the school day. Which is why I made both an afternoon and evening two different times so you can be "your time" to do whatever. You also don't even have to go to class in the mornings and go goof off and hang with someone. Also an action isn't limited to just one or two posts, it can go on for however long you need it to. Like a conversation for instance where two or more people would need need time to talk and discuss things. I figure this it avoids people from feeling completely confined.

 

Oh and I figured picking study could be used to imply if you're studying all day or for however long you want. Everything up there is listed as an example except mornings and nights where things would be a bit more compressed which would be so for good reason. Either way we would need to run this to differently due to the nature of the source material, otherwise it might fall completely flat. There is method to this madness, but over all I'm open to whatever the rpers want to do. Its not just my to its everyone's, why I posted that so I can get opinions and feed back on what they want to do.

 

(TLDR; mornings are designed to do all the boring stuff which is why interaction is limited. It is up to the role players what determines an action I just listed some ideas but its ultimately up to then, unfortunately not everyone is going to be able to do everything they want to in one day just like real life and the games. If this proves to be too overly complicated or actually turns out to be a mess then I will fix it according to what the rpers want)

 

That's all for now.

Edited March 17, 2015 by Eternal Night

[Dust and Memories 557]

Hello everyone!

 

Name: Wilhelm de Winter

 

Pony Race: Pegasus

 

Age: 15

 

Cutie Mark: A swirling galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

 

Appearance: Reference the link

 

Personality: In the OC

 

Brief Back Story: The same as his OC backstory, but he's 18* (sorry about that, didn't see the timeframe bit. Let's just kind of imagine that it's changed so that he was accepted when he was 17, I s'pose.)

 

Human Appearance: Pale skin, same hairstyle and hair color, wire-frame golden glasses with slightly blue-tinted lenses, a black trilby hat with a white band, and a grey pinstripe zoot suit from the '40s.

 

Weapons: A saber, long and thin, made of silver and inscribed with ancient runes. Will never break and never tarnish, no matter how much blood soaks its blade.

 

Persona: I'm not familiar with Persona, so if you can explain this to me, I'd love that.

 

Element: Darkness

 

Major/Concentration: Pure mathematics and astronomy.

 

OC Link: http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/wilhelm-de-winter-r8025

Edited March 18, 2015 by Orion Caelum

[The Elusive Cinder 1,328]

Just to let y'all know I'm still here. Been busy at work, and playing Persona. Ehehe...

 

I'll probably get a post up tonight

[Eternal Night 61]

Hello everyone!

 

Name: Wilhelm de Winter

 

 

Pony Race: Pegasus

 

Age: 15

 

Cutie Mark: A swirling galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

 

Appearance: Reference the link

 

Personality: In the OC

 

Brief Back Story: The same as his OC backstory, but he's 18* (sorry about that, didn't see the timeframe bit. Let's just kind of imagine that it's changed so that he was accepted when he was 17, I s'pose.)

 

Human Appearance: Pale skin, same hairstyle and hair color, wire-frame golden glasses with slightly blue-tinted lenses, a black trilby hat with a white band, and a grey pinstripe zoot suit from the '40s.

 

Weapons: A saber, long and thin, made of silver and inscribed with ancient runes. Will never break and never tarnish, no matter how much blood soaks its blade.

 

Persona: I'm not familiar with Persona, so if you can explain this to me, I'd love that.

 

Element: Darkness

 

Major/Concentration: Pure mathematics and astronomy.

 

OC Link: http://mlpforums.com/page/roleplay-characters/_/wilhelm-de-winter-r8025

Sorry but I'm not accepting anymore people right now.

 

Also its fine, I work too so I understand.

Edited March 18, 2015 by Eternal Night

[Magnum Flare 553]

Hey guys, I wanted to join (Spring Break has come), is it too late now?

[Star Saber 114]

@, I believe it is too late, sorry.

[Magnum Flare 553]

*insertt obligatory sad violin song here

 

Okay then, I'm not so good at creating pony OC anyway

[Eternal Night 61]

*insertt obligatory sad violin song here

 

Okay then, I'm not so good at creating pony OC anyway

 

I'm sorry friend, I might open up more slots later as needed but for now till we get things going I'm going to limit it to the people we got. 

 

Oh and to the rpers I apologize for the delay in getting things going, a long time family friend just her baby so I've been at the hospital for awhile (it's a girl in case anyone cares).

 

Anyway here is the academic schedule for the first half the in game semester, been procrastinating for far too long it.... (I based all the dates from August 2015- 2016 for this rp so I could be lazy.)

 

August

 

August, 16: Freshmen Orientation day / freshmen club sign-ups

 

August, 17: First day of Classes

 

August, 24: Clubs begin meeting

 

August, 30: First Full moon

 

September, 7: Labor day no school (it's labor day till I think of a "more pony" name)

 

September, 14 - 18: First round of exams

 

September 28: Second Full moon

 

October, 6: Homecoming event

 

October, 12 - 16: MIDTERMS 

 

October 26th: Third full moon

 

November, 9- 13: Third round of exams (also friday the 13th event)

 

November, 26: Forth Full moon

 

December, 4: Last day of Classes 

 

December, 11: New moon event

 

December 14- 18: Finals

 

This is as far as I've gotten and it's a little overboard but whatever. Copy and paste this or do whatever you want with the information, I don't care but this is a brief outline to how important events are going down in the rp. This doesn't cover some of the other stuff I have planned so keep on your toes and make your days count!