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I've seen it done so I know there's built in code for it. It's very neat!

I've seen it done so I know there's built in code for it. It's very neat!

Character pictures yaaaay!

Yay, Rikishi portrait! Now I have a better grasp of how some scenes looked and how to react.

Oh, I'm glad you guys liked it!

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@Gluttony___I, are you coming back to the campaign? What happened?

Every other ttrpg game I’m in runs off of discord. Eventually—for some reason—I stopped getting the notification emails for the forum and just forgot about it.

Maybe you're not subscribed to the forum where the new threads appear? Or there's a spambox issue?

Yeah, no idea. I only started getting them again the other day. It doesn’t help that for every new scene, I have to subscribe before I can get reminders 😂

You should try subscribing to each existing subforum (not thread!) in the game. Then all threads will be treated as subscribed and provide e-mails when a post is made.

I'm wondering: I dropped the 'Triad Princess' line (at one point OOC, then once IC) largely as an easter egg/media reference, but it's curious that the dragon seems to be taking this title seriously, especially given that Lín Jìng's cuteness level is probably somewhere around zero. @BlondeDragonGenie

What are you wondering?

I would assume that, without a flaw, Lin is above average in the cuteness department, since she is essentially a manga character.

Also, Sumeryu has both Naive and Obsession: collect princesses as 2-point Flaws. So she does believe that Lin is serious, at least in thinking of herself as a princess.

I was wondering about the whys and hows of that, yeah. Because I consider her visually average overall, and and not at all visually cute. Additionally, given that I'm trying to play her as a bookish-but-not-smart wallflower that aspires to be a rough-around-the-edges ladette (and mostly fails), Sumeryu's mental notes seem to at times be flattering in 'the wrong department'.

As for beliefs, she's serious but not literal when using the title - it's meant to be metaphorical, referring to being a scion of a powerful shadowy Lín family.

With all that said, I'm wondering about the ways this aspect of the character interactions may go, and whether it's worth for me to make any adjustments on my side.

I admit to some metagaming. I didn't want to just have Sumeryu ignore Lin, and that was something to grab onto. I can have her be more indifferent towards Lin if you would like. I intended for Sumeryu to be flattering, charming, and engaging for the wrong reasons, overall, at least to most people.

Oh, about that, sorry that I went for a concept that relies too much on others proactively 'pulling' her in. It was largely driven by avoiding having two similar PCs in parallel in similar situations, so since the other PC was very attention-grabby, I ended up picking this one as shy. I'm trying to mitigate that by now steering the PC into aspiring to a different kind of image, with some of the internal conflict spilling over through the contradiction between the innate and the wanted variant of the self.
Oh, I'm fine with anything, but I'm trying to make sure that there aren't OOC misunderstandings and that I'm not pushing people into trying to force a certain kind of view of my PC (that probably doesn't even make sense objectively). If it's a case of Sumeryu misinterpreting a lot of stuff and doing stuff for the wrong reasons, that's actually cool.

Lín certainly would be puzzled and annoyed to find out she's perceived as cute-ish because she's trying for almost the opposite (which is all the more reason to keep doing that, heh). She did try to go for princely gallantry at one point, which I hoped to make funny, but apparently it came off as confusing instead (the jacket post).

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Oh, and I'm waiting to see Hanami's reaction before concluding what's the situation with Rikishi, and thus whether to get a separate scene or get tagged along.

Sorry for the wait! I was waiting to see Rikishi's reaction to Hanami's attempt to extort him, but I decided to just move it along.

It's OK. The common PbP race condition problem. Anyway, now that the blocker is out of the way, I made a post, and now I am waiting for Rikishi's reaction.

It is in fact a case of Sumeryu misinterpreting signals. She's kind of a mooncalf. Lin called herself a princess, loudly as part of a special attack, so Sumeryu just ran with it. Her brain hamster overstresses its wheel.

Sumeryu is princely and gallant nearly all the time, usually without meaning to be. Other people being princely and gallant towards her is easily missed.

I think the characters going to the cafe are:

Ibuki
Hanami
Luna
Konomi
and Sumeryu

Is that right? Did I miss anyone? I'll edit my post if so!