A Tale of Destruction and Friendship - Discussion

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Welcome to the discussion for a Tale of Destruction and Friendship!

This is where out-of-character discussion takes place. Feel free to ask for a recap, ask questions, etc. For anyone who desires it, we also have a Skype chatroom for live discussion; contact D.L. Yomegami on Skype if you'd like to get in on it (MAKE SURE YOU TELL ME WHO YOU ARE).

This is also where potentially useful information about the RP can be found.

• If you want to suggest a world to visit, you can do so here. If your world is selected, I'll work with you to figure out just how it fits into the overall story.

Hikaru's Refuge is the main base of the RP, and where the player characters will normally be residing. For easy reference, here's what can be found there.

On the whole it's a very small area, consisting of Hikaru's house, surrounded by her garden. This, in turn, is surrounded by grassland that seems to go out forever. No matter how far one walks out into the grassland, they can turn to have Hikaru's residence right behind them. It's always daytime, although it's not always clear; sometimes there are rainstorms. There isn't anything resembling a sun; light just seems to come straight down.

The garden consists of a wide variety of plants, with no real rhyme or reason to their organization apart from what Hikaru thinks would look nice. There's an equal mix of flowering plants and other flora, with a few groves of small trees here and there. One grove of trees right next to the house's left wall has a swinging bench hanging from it. Most of the plants are purely decorative, although one section of the garden to the house's front right grows a wide variety of edible plants, including fruit trees. Pathways made of dark, square-shaped pieces of stone criss-cross through the garden, with one such path leading straight to the house's front door.

Behind the house is a dais made out of white stone, with a stairway of a similar material leading up to it. There are seven indentations in it around its outside, apparently meant to fit some kind of pole.

The house itself is a two-story building painted white that wouldn't look out of place in a typical suburb. It has no porch, but all of its rooms sans the bathrooms have windows.

The first floor^note Floor Plan◊ has four main rooms: an entry hall, a kitchen/dining room, a living room, and a utility room. There is also a bathroom.

• The entry hall is the first room past the front door. The walls are painted brown, coupled with a gray carpet covering the floor. It has a few paintings hanging on the walls, and some potted plants, but is otherwise rather sparsely decorated. Two entrances to the left and right lead to the kitchen and living room, respectively.
• The kitchen and dining room are technically one room, with the kitchen at the front and the dining room at the back. The kitchen part has white tiled flooring, with the same wall color as the entry hall. The applicances include a refrigerator/freezer combo, a microwave, a toaster, an electric stove, and a dishwasher. There's also two sinks and a counter, with multiple cabinets. A window sits above the sinks, with some potted flowers sitting on the windowsill.
• The dining room part has a hardwood floor, with another window. The furnishing consists of an ovular table with enough size and chairs to seat a surprisingly large number of people. To the left is another window, while to the right is an entrance that leads to a hallway.
• The back hallway looks more or less the same as the entry hall. To the right as one comes from the dining room entrance is the first floor bathroom along with stairs to the second floor, and to the left is another door that leads outside. Going straight leads to the utility room.
• The utility room is a barren room with no decor except a window on the opposite wall to the hallway entrance. There are two washer/dryers, as well as numerous black storage bins. There's also a desk with a number of tools and gadgets hanging above it. On the right wall from the hallway entrance is an entrance that leads to the living room.
• The living room is a little more vibrantly colored than the rest of the place, with abstract patterns covering the light blue walls and green carpeting. There's two windows on the far right of the room, opposite the entrance from the entry hall. There's a number of coffee tables, as well as plush chairs and sofas, some of which face a television next to the entry hall entrance.
• The bathroom has running water and all the facilities expected of a bathroom, with a mirror over the sink. The shower is sizable, and is equipped for both showers and baths. It is not decorated and is largely plain white, apart from some of the handles being somewhat more ornate than necessary.

Going up the stairs in the back hallway goes up to the second floor, which mostly consists of bedrooms and another bathroom. On the whole they look more or less like the entry hall and back hallways on the first floor.

• Each bedroom is relatively barebones, but reasonably sizable. Each one has a window, a bed with sheets and a pillow, a nightstand, a dresser, and a closet.
• Hikaru's own bedroom is the first one to the right of the stairway. If Hikaru's not using it, the door is locked.
• The bathroom is to the left of the stairway, and is identical to the one on the first floor.

• Hikaru: The person responsible for summoning everyone to help her save existence. A sixteen-year old summoner and survivor from the first world destroyed by the Zero Collapse. She tries to do good, but tends not to think her plans through all the way and has a massive lack of faith in herself.

• Main Theme: Glitchtale OST - Bring It On
• Hikaru's Theme: Eternal Shrine Maiden (Piano Arrangement)
• The Zero Collapse's Theme: W.D. Gaster's Megalovania

edited 19th Apr '17 2:50:33 PM by Yomegami

Nothing here yet; will be filled in as the RP progresses.

The RP has officially begun.

No one seems to have adressed Fate's question about the mysterious black spot in the sky. Bardiche is currently in standby mode, which would like a triangle-like yellow acessory, instead of an axe.

edited 2nd Apr '17 10:14:44 AM by JamesShields

Before I post again, there's something I'd like to bring up.

The main reason I decided to bring this RP over to TV Tropes from its original forum was because it was starting to drag and I thought a reboot and some fresh new players would help bring it back to life.

While I personally feel I've been writing a little better for this attempt than my previous one, things are still dragging. So what I'd like to ask is if this actually helped at all (or for the newcomers if this has actually been enjoyable or not). Granted, I imagine at least part of the slowness is due to the fact we're in Exposition Land and that tends to be kind of boring.

In all honesty, I'm perfectly fine dropping this if no one else is really into it. I'd like to continue, if at all possible, but I'm not going to force people to stick around if they aren't feeling it.

I'm enjoying it, just currently in Testing Hell, hence lack of posts.

Still rather invested in this and despite the current slowness, I think it did help at least a little. For myself, I'm just currently waiting on others.

Yeah, same here. Still interested, just lacking on free time.

It's up to you whether or not the device Hikaru summoned works, James.

I edited in something for the cat into my last post just in case someone was waiting on me.

On a bit of a random note, I'm guessing you probably didn't mean to put Hikaru's name here, James:

Yeah, it was meant to be Hayate ... It was pretty late, OK? =V

Anyway, fixed and will post again later.

edited 22nd May '17 11:36:54 AM by JamesShields

You don't need to wait for Nman, James; he's all right with waiting until Fate's done communicating with her home world.

I'm probably going to hand wave the rest of the communicator business in my next post so we can get to the first world, as it looks like things have slowed down a bit.

Is everyone all right with this?

Sounds good to me!

ok

Aye aye, Cap'n!

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I'm cool with that.

And just to confirm the unanimity of such a decision, sounds good to me as well. I'll just a quick post in response to Inori shortly and then you may proceed.

EDIT: And done.

edited 5th Jun '17 6:08:27 PM by JamesShields

As you can see, it's been a while since anyone's posted in this RP, much less myself.

In my case...to be perfectly honest, I'm about ready to just let this die. I'd love to try to keep going, and maybe actually finish it. That's why I actually tried giving a revival here after the private attempt fell through. But it honestly doesn't feel like much has changed for this particular story.

Maybe the rest of you feel differently, but as it stands unless I get a sudden burst of inspiration for it chances are I'm not going to be posting again anytime soon.

edited 5th Jul '17 10:21:21 AM by Yomegami