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Does Ray/Wiseman like cookies? Particularly some with delicious sprinkles on top?

Schee was thinking of baking him some but he has no baking skills nor does he have any idea if his 'friend' would even like cookies :< But he'd totally buy some and leave them out with his next set of notes, but is vaguely worried a bird or other random thing might eat them. He'll just make sure to leave lots <3

codalion: Ray loves all cookies and people who give him cookies. The more colorful unhealthy s**t on top the better. Come one. Come all. He will be utterly charmed and feed some to Perry Westerman to make sure they aren't poisoned first before feeling comfortable to eat them. I also nominate this for best MQ&A.

Wiseman's next package from Schee is SO going to have cookies laden with sprinkles and god knows what else. His day has been made, thank you! <333

Would Mr. Gordon really use Dr. Westerman to test for poisoned cookies? sad

Shazari: Sure he would. He hears Doc Wes spent years in Australia developing an immunity to iocane powder.

codalion: Mr. Gordon assumed Doc Wes was as swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon. Is he mistaken.

Witchneko's question made me think:
DO a** WINGS ENABLE THE POWERS OF FLIGHT? 8D? 8DDDDD?

Shazari: That's been asked and answered in Management Q&A before! No, the Eternal wingbow does not enable flight. <3
-WELL Uh.....Maybe I was hoping you guys would stumble and say it was possibe! |D /didn't know it had been asked


But SRS BSNS TIME:
1- Say I want to bring back my BP kid. In order to bring them back will they have to go through some plot to explain it? Or would it just be ~the magic of Destiny City~ *jazz hands*.

Cuter: Not the word of God here but I believe if you bring back a BP student, it will be played out as if they had survived the ordeal (with no memories or recollection of the event they were subjected to). Retcon ftw!

2- Say the soul of a parallel senshi enters a body of a person, could this person overthrow the soul and 'cast them from wince they came?' Doubt you'd want to do this but I am curious how the two souls interact on a 'who gets to ride shot gun' for the most part.

Shazari: By 'cast them from whence they came,' do you mean "could the host temporarily override the parallel's control" or do you mean "could the host get rid of the parallel soul entirely?"

-Both. Sorry for not being clear. But, in battle, say the soul wants to attack the monster, but the host wants to go save civilians first, could the host override the soul? And yes, if the soul wasn't a match would the host be able to keep the soul from entering or expel the soul?

Shazari: In the first situation, yes -- if the host personality feels deeply, profoundly strongly about what they want to do in a given situation, they can certainly exert their will more strongly and resume control of their actions. In the second situation, the answer is no -- the host can no more "expel" the parallel soul than Rea can "expel" Helios. Host-parallel friction is dangerous in general, as the short answer is that too much of this would kill your character (somewhat detailed on p.1 of this thread). However, full-out rejection of a soul by the host isn't possible -- otherwise almost every parallel character would be doing it. <3

3- If a senshi held their phone to a negaverse solider what would happen?

Shazari: They'd register as 'not a sailor soldier.' The cellphone communicators aren't more sophisticated than they seem; more sophisticated information-gathering is really more the province of Sailor Mercury's Nintendo DS mini-computer.

4- What would happen if they scanned a solider as they were civilian?

Shazari: Again, they'd register as 'not a sailor soldier.' This includes corrupted senshi who are powered down, who are glamour-masked.

As Sailor Izar is now Sailor Gaia, is the name Sailor Izar available, as well as the sphere of Oak? The name Iodyrite was also mentioned as a Negaverse Captain who was killed by Wiseman-could someone quest for a Negaverser with the name of Iodyrite, as she was never officially taken?

Shazari: This really depends from case to case. In general, with "killable" characters, we try to choose names and spheres that wouldn't be in high demand in order to avoid having to make these kinds of overlap/retroactive continuity decisions. However, it can still happen on occasion that someone wants something that's been 'taken.'

In the specific case of Sailor Izar/Sailor Gaia, I'm going to have to put a firm "no, that name and sphere are not available" next to it. Gaia is an actual player character, so her having a particular senshi name and sphere before her turning aren't things we'd like to casually write out of the picture. There are so very many possible senshi names and spheres that the loss of a few isn't irreparable.

With regards to Iodyrite, while this is more of an offhand naming choice for a character, again there are so very many minerals out there. If there's a crucial reason why you need a certain, particular name, that's one thing, but otherwise, it's slightly bad form to knowingly want to have something that's already been used -- since this means that your friendly neighborhood GMs have to go back into older stories and rewrite history a bit in order to 'free up' that name for you to use.

In conclusion, the answer is, if something's already been taken, how badly do you need it? We'll weigh that need against the costs if implementing it and make a decision from there. <3

Thanks, Shaz-my question was just in case a future newbie decides to go with a name like that.

So the Meta characters like these don't have a presetish personality? Or will there be a general direction the staff might want people to go with the characters? Like say for example we win a character but haven't seen the shows that these characters have been in or we need a little help coming up with a personality. Would you guys nudge us a general "overview" like say "We'd like this character to be grumpy" and let us to go with that?

Sorry just trying to cover all bases. ^^;

rosemilk: Although there's a possibility that we may say, "character X may lean towards Y behaviour," it's up to you in regards to what personality you set with most of these guys. Only the Amazons and Diana are canon characters, and honestly, Sailor Moon didn't exactly grant characters stunningly layered characters -- we'd like you to look at the profiles for the Amazons and Diana (will be given in letters) and not do the opposite, but Diana's older than in Sailor Moon and the Amazons themselves have been reborn.

If you need help coming up with something it can be sorted out as you try to get your stuff stamped.

Shazari: This varies from character to character -- the important thing is that whatever personality you come up with, it meshes with whatever backstory/plot role is in place for that character. For example, Zirconia's personality should make sense given the backstory which is noted for her in the story Passed Pawn. Anything you need to know in that vein will be provided in the metacharacter letter we'll issue to you. <3

Just a quick raffle question; will the raffle be drawn at the time it ends or sometime later - or does it depend on how many tickets people buy last minute, etc?

Shazari: It depends on last-minute ticket sales as well as how long it takes for Cuter to finish compiling the ticket list. I believe it'll also depend on how long it takes for ticket payments to complete, but I'm unsure. <3

Annnnd is the 'full custom' mentioned in the raffle prize list only for Negaverse/Senshi or are cats applicable as well?

Natsube: Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the prize would be just for things normally available, such as senshi and negaverse.

Awesome, thanks a bunch for the quick answers. <33

Is there a limit as to how many characters in this shop a person can have?
I've noticed a lot of the people here have multiple characters and I'm wondering if there will ever be strictly newbie only events just to make it fair.

Natsube: While we don't have newbies-only contests slated, most people with multiple characters purchased them through RL slots. Not saying we won't in the future, just that there are no plans right at this moment.