Devils of Mortechaîne: A Mystery Discussion Thread

I got it. It's a very simple process.

Here's the link, Motree. Click the edit button, and start writing.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DevilsOfMortechaineAMystery

Should I add my characters to the character sheet?

Motree's adding in headings for all of the characters and possibly townspeople as we speak.

I mean, like, right now. She's sitting right next to me. You'll have to wait until she's done, though.

edited 9th May '11 8:33:14 AM by CrystalGlacia

Character page is up. Everyone go bananas while I'm at band. Just add personality summaries, tropes, all that jazz.

edited 9th May '11 10:01:43 AM by Motree

I have two suggestions:

• We could just post our character sheet under our names on the character page via copy-paste to make it easy.

• Another RP i'm in has a sort of meta-game where you comment under the bios of each character as the character you play as. For example, Sebastian might comment "A good man, although i fear for him and his addictive hobbies." under Ryans profile. We would need an in game reason to signpost that our character is adding their comments in, though.

Motree, did you erase what i had put in the character page? My character sheet and the most obvious trope applying to Sebastian were just there, then it was replaced with the townsfolks names.

Or was that an editing problem?

edited 9th May '11 10:06:59 AM by InfiniteParagon

We'll discuss that later.

Aggh, so many residents in the town... List still unfinished. Most aren't plot important, but are open to be killed by the killer and the Corrupted individual.

Question: Would Sebastian be considered a Battle Butler? He fits the overall description almost perfectly, except he isn't actually a butler. I'm wondering if that means its a subverted version of the trope, an averted version or not it alltogether. I read the page that explains subversions/avertions but i ended up getting more confused.

Bottom line: I know the trope isnt played straight, but is it something similar yet slightly different?

edited 9th May '11 10:18:56 AM by InfiniteParagon

It would be a subverted trope at best.

I wouldn't suggest mentioning it.

The whole point of being a battle butler is that you're, well, a butler (Or other form of domestic servant) who does actiony stuff. Sebby is not a butler. He might act in a manner similair to one, but he isn't.

I'd leave it out if I were you.

edited 9th May '11 10:26:54 AM by FakeCrowley

Yeah... If he's not a butler, he's not a Battle Butler. Just a dude that acts like one.

Yeah, i figured out why i thought he was a Battle Butler. My basis for him is the trope namer for... actually, scratch that, IS the Battle Butler, but my actual character is not acually one. I just thought he was because of his inspiration.

edited 9th May '11 12:16:02 PM by InfiniteParagon

Ah, gotcha.

Question: Can I have a date for when they wake up?

Sorry, but I referrence the date in one of my posts...

Er, let's make it... How does June 1, 2011 sound?

edited 9th May '11 3:44:39 PM by Motree

I'll just say June 1st. Might as well leave out the year.

Again, sorry—it's just...well, you'll see in a few second.

ADDENDUM: Posted.

edited 9th May '11 3:52:29 PM by FakeCrowley

Oh, and it's not medieval... Just rural and the architecture's old. It's out in the country, and it's technically a small town rather than a village. It's just small enough that pretty much everything's within walking distance, and the equipment in the clinic is all fairly recent and everything.

Sorry if that wasn't obvious. Or was Remy just exaggerating?

Remy was just bitching. Sort of hyperbolizing. She doesn't really mean medieval.

Mostly, she's just upset about not having internet (Which I'm going to assume the village doesn't have in order for the closed circle thingy to be complete) and whatnot. Also, it being...Europe, I'm guessing, if it has electricity (Which I'm assuming it does) it doesn't have the right power outlet for her laptop. (I mean the village having electricity, not Europe.)

edited 9th May '11 4:00:07 PM by FakeCrowley

There ARE computers there, but you'll usually have to go to the next town to get them and if you're lucky enough to get a connection it's shitty. So most people don't bother. Like, most of the businesses have computers for file and data storage and whatnot, but... yeah.

Computers, yes. Reliable interwebs? I doubt it.

Remy doesn't care if they have computers. She wants to go online and do...whatever it is she likes doing on it.

So yeah. I'm not calling them barbaric or anything. Just, if it's a closed circle then they won't be able to go onto Facebook or whatever and blog about the murders. Meaning that, be they twenty third century style tech or sixteenth, there'd be no internet, be it on account of some space-time anomaly or it just being too expensive to set up.

Yeah. That's basically it.

Oh, yeah. Being the page Nazi that I am, I took the liberty to add everyone's character profiles for them, since it requires about four keystrokes per entry. I also overhauled the NPC section.

Thank you. Also, is Engel the coovert pervert we all know and love?

edited 9th May '11 8:51:02 PM by Dragon573

Yes. X3 Almost all of my characters are sort of... Well, recurring in everything I do. Engel in particular, being one of my first. A good amount of NPCs were made specifically for this RP, but a good amount are these sort of recurring characters... Such as Engel and his kids, Alice, the Carsons, Joseph...

Oh, and expect a lot of fantasy and sci fi weirdness. Let's just say that some things you learn about some of the townspeople may not lead to the solution of the mystery, but what you do learn may be really unusual.

Also, note to whomever it is that's Corrupted; feel free to kill off NPCs as the insanity sets in/gets really severe.

She's using three of my characters, four if she ends up using Lucio Alessandri.

And since all of my characters are from an Urban Fantasy 'verse, absolutely nobody is normal. Exactly how...?

Five, because I'm putting Anaru in there with Noah, naturally.

God, why do I always forget about him.