Hello, and welcome everyone, to the Anus of Gaia.<br/><br/>I rolled around on my chair for dramatic effect after typing. You should have a rough idea by now what this game will entail. There’ll be GM guided monsters and perilous situations to lose to or even win and struggle through. There will also be 11 other player characters.<br/><br/>Group 1: JoanieSappho (Anahita), Pdragon (Sparrow), Nastara (Chains), Lynnette (Maya), Kimera (Mei), Shilue (Alexander)<br/><br/>Group 2: Knarfy (Moxie), MiraMirror (Xia), Starcry (Ishmael), Faeli (Kyoko), Moon Hound Hati (Jon), Phaia (Candi)<br/><br/>I tried to balance the parties a bit by character sexuality. Don’t worry though. The way I am planning on running this is by splitting the group as you go down deeper into the Anus and occasionally have those smaller groups meet to mix and match. Therefore I encourage players to also come up with at least one relationship with some character in the other party. It can be negative too (nothing quite feeds RP like IC drama). Discuss this with the other person. One is minimum. You can make relationship with every other character if you wish. I do heavily encourage also having negative relationships within the party up to the point that the characters might want to betray one another (of course, to both player’s unanimous amusement).<br/><br/>In addition you’ll need to figure out your bonds. Bonds are kind of short relationship hooks with the other characters. You only have a few of them because they’re also how you get experience points. You can re-word or remake them if you come up with a way to make them more interesting/exciting or more fitting to the character. However, keep in mind that their purpose is to drive the narrative forward, not be lukewarm easy to achieve milestones for XP grinding.<br/><br/>I will give you guys until Friday to start sorting these out, though no worries, you can continue to do them later. Priority should be given to figuring out the bonds and one link to the rival group. I know this can take a while so I will probably extend the plotting time as I see fit, but try to start working something out.<br/><br/>My plan is to throw the PCes right out of the gate into the Anus sometime next weekend. As mentioned in the recruitment thread my access to internet and time to sit down will be very sporadic/nonexistent on 9.10-10.10 12.10-13.10 and possibly on 14th. But no worries. I know we have a few experienced players here who can probably help you with bond or rule related questions.<br/><br/>A word of how I will run this game in respect to the rules. The stakes will be very high. Even partial failure will often result in me using some hard moves to accelerate the narrative towards sexy times :P<br/><br/>Anyway, welcome all. I am excited to run the game for you!