OOC chat

@Moyreau You might have forgotten to give Typhoonflame some feedback and guidance on their character.

I did it through PMs~

Ah, I hadn't considered that. Never mind then

Cool character, handle, I like the pictures that you used!

I've also added more details about Chimera's petalmark. In short, yeah, kind of like the Manticore mech in that it's got spikes and lightning, lol.

Hey Tickettbror, that wasn't a close one, when you roll the exact number of your rating, you gain 2 successes, so it's the best possible outcome!

With my last post I prompted for handle's character to make her entrance on stage!

I'd like to request a more detailed elaboration regarding how we were briefed about the long-term constraints of our mission, especially in relation to our legend for the media. Specifically, at least some of the PCs are (a) public persons and (b) known to be combat-competent. So what happened right now isn't exactly a surprising outcome, and presumably there is some sort of guidance regarding how to spin the media reports when (not if) the public sees something like what happened now.

(I'm expecting that Claude will be making a statement, and for that it would be important for me to know what the character knows about the expectations of making statements given the peculiarity of the job.)

Good point.

While some characters are public figures, the thing being kept secret is that a military group is secretly grouping girls with great spiritual powers to pilot the petalframes for the purpose of fighting the incoming shamon (the fact that their occurrences are growing is being attempted to be kept secret, for avoiding public panic).

Publicly, the girls should present themselves as simply the starts of the café, while they could be known to have combat capabilities, the sight of them fighting and defeating a shamon whould cause quite quite the astonishment of the public.

Though it isn't a necessity that the public knows their combat ability either: Abenanka is widely unknown to the public, Homura is locally famous as a model, I don't think the fact that she can make things explode would be public knowledge (and could, maybe, even damage her public persona)

As for the other girls, they're all from abroad, the average Japanese person wouldn't know them (besides Chimera, but she's using an alias).

I'm still not sure what's Shizuka Gozen's relation to the public, or how she will explain being a part of the café.

Hmm, if she's the daughter of the city's Chief of Police (or Magistrate, or whatever the correct word for that would be in this setting) then she would be somewhat known in an "important guy's daughter" sort of way.

Perhaps the cafe is so popular that they build a little police box across the street to deal with any issue and to look good. However, cop they stationed there was a creeper, so they replaced him with their most straight-laced female officer.

She'd also be placed there to keep an eye on the secret military operation going on, since there's probably a power struggle between the city and imperial military officials. Plus, if any combat or suspicious activity happens around the cafe, Shizuku would be the reputable source for the cover stories.

Just an idea! Or she can be put on administrative leave and forced to work at the cafe to generate "good publicity" for the city.

Hmm... I don't think even the police or the rest of the military are aware of what's going on though, this is top secret stuff (of course, her daughter could be involved, that would help).

I think we'd benefit from her having an occupation closer to the café (I. e. inside it, as to participate in all the scenes that will take place in it); while that could still have something to her police current occupation.

Hmmm. Nepotism scandal in other city areas causes the police to move her to a desk position. Safety Inspector for the building and weapons/props they use in the plays?

I guess I should have just wrote her as already be apart of the secret military thing, I can still change it if that makes it easier!

Sure, anything not yet displayed in the narrative can be modified.

Well, if Gozen has a Petalframe, that seems to imply being in the know.

We worked it out fairly simply, Shizuka's dad just has DEEP connections and got her recruited on the team to keep tabs on them. So she's 'undercover' in that she's a cop working as Steel Petal pilot who is pretending to be the cafe's barista. But she doesn't read mission files or anything so she doesn't know who the other pilots are yet.

Oops, seems like you posted while I was working on my post.

Can we add that, as she speaks with Shizuka and throws her oily thing, she's being dragged by Rika? She wouldn't have to worry with the small legs then!

Oh, I didn't notice, but sure! I also edited in some "secret technique" names, which I imagine as being animated in the same way as actual techniques would be (ex. technique name superimposed on the background).

Oh yeah I didn't have a good introduction plan or something, I figure we'll meet at the cafe when you see me working there eventually anyway. :P

I'm currently writing your opportunity to introduce yourself.