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I have a question about including IC shop events in backstory for a quest character.

My knight concept is, as a civillian, a member of the Destiny City Police Force. Would it be feasible to have had her as a responder to the after effects of the Ball, during the clean up and emergency efforts? It would purely be for historical purposes, building up to her own awakening, in face of the way the senshi and nega factions are tearing up the city, not for any req's.

Thank you, in advance!

Akina: You can definitely tie in past DC events to your character's back story. She should only know the bare minimum of it, just the civilian side of things, but it is certainly allowed.

If I am remembering correctly, a Captain can corrupt someone's starseed and recruit them into the Negaverse with the assistance of a General. Is it possible to NPC both roles in a solo?

Akina: A Captain could corrupt with the assistance of a General-Queen/King, not just a regular General. It would be incredibly draining for them. In terms of rank, a Captain could not decide to corrupt someone either. It would be a call that a higher-up would make.

Is it also possible to just NPC the General providing that said General never comes up again? Or would it be best to discuss with a GM exactly what I have in mind?

Akina: To be safe, I'd shoot the idea over to the mule.

Or is it preferable to find a General-level player and ask them to RP it out?

Akina: This is personally my preference. Always less messy! But again, a Captain would need a General-Queen, not a General to do this. This was a little unclear in the beginning before we had too many fourth stages, apologies.

My memory is completely failing me, but, er... I have Alexander's art of his corrupted form, Lt. Ajoite. When I finally clear out all my questions and write out his corruption plot, would those solos count towards his growth or will they only count once he's officially corrupted IC?

Akina: They would count before the corruption, yes, since he is a brand new character who was received as a powered one. I would err on the side of corrupting him sooner rather than later though.

For Negaverse teams, is it possible for a lieutenant to form one? Or because of their low rank, would it be ideal to have an NPC'd disposable captain OR a Captain-level player running the show?

Akina: Lieutenants cannot have their own teams. The Negaverse assigns Lieutenants to Captains/Generals for official teams.

For the Destiny City Police Officers, what's their focus? Are they on the prowl for the terrorists running around causing destruction or has looking for said terrorists been added to their normal priorities of responding to 911 calls from domestic disputes to hostage situations to etc etc?

Akina: Added to their normal duty list. They are responsible for keeping the peace, even if they have no idea what is going on in the city. Obviously this is a terrorist attack of some sort, or some brand new form of terrifying warfare! There are lots of rumors surrounding the truth of what is going on in Destiny City, and officers might have varying degrees of belief when it comes to that. So they do everything from writing speeding tickets to shooting bullets at mysterious shadow monsters.

I have Merope's Super art, but he hasn't ICly ranked up yet. If he were to go into space, would I be bound by the senshi 3-week wait period or could I use the 2-week Super wait limit?

Akina: He would have to stick to the 3-week period if he stays a regular senshi between now and his next trip. If you send him to space and then rank him up in your very next RP, then it could only be two weeks.

Is there a limit to how many 'visions' a sensh can see per trip?



Akina: As a regular senshi, he should see only brief flashes of things. As a super, he might get a partial scene of something. At eternal, he can recall entire memories of certain things. So, the jist is... not too much as a super. He might see three-five different little moments, but they would be just that: tiny moments, partial blips of a longer scene.

Just a comment on basic law enforcement, in reading the response above.

I'm not sure where you're going with DCPD canon, but any law enforcement agency would have a unit specifically dedicated to terrorism, and, in the event of a 'new type', they would certainly set a Problem Oriented Policing unit on it. Basically, a group of police officers whose main patrol efforts are centered on locating, tracking, and doing what they can to understand and stop the problem.

That's not to say that your average patrol officer wouldn't roll up on a 'suspicious person' call, and find themselves dealing with a youma or something [aka, regular duties], but, whether they 'officially' admitted to it or not, they'd probably have an undercover team working on it.

From a realism perspective.

Akina: If you wanted to quest for a police officer and organize this specialized task force, go for it! The assumption would be that police officers would be required to respond to crimes in progress, regardless of whether they were on that force or not. We will likely keep those details vague for now. So you could say that your character is on some rapid-fire response team, or you could say that they just respond to calls when they are in the area. Our normal idea has been to allow the PC characters to shape their jobs. For example, people create restaurants where their characters work, and I created DCNN as the major news station that broadcasts in Destiny City.


Fantastic! Thanks, Akina!

I am totally not doing this yet, nor plan to for a while, but i wanted to get an answer so i can ponder things to possibly happen in the way future.

I remember that corrupted senshi at one point, if they were awakened and then corrupted (AKA- mind wiped), as time grew on they would slowly get glimpses into their past. Just small blips, faces.. pictures. Etc. Nothing major just flashes here and there.

Does this still apply?

Akina: The blips and flashes only apply to her POWERED side, and they develop very, very slowly over time. It will be triggered similarly like how memories are triggered on senshi home planets. As in, Lyra might enter the warehouse where she was part of Operation Rota and get a flash of speaking with Ares in it. Or she might bump into Ares somewhere in the street, and then as they fight, get a random blip of a time when she and Ares fought side by side. She will never remember a single thing, not even the tiniest bit, of her former civilian life. I'd recommend chatting with Felyn about this as she plays one of our resident senshi-who-lost-their-memories.

This is my understanding of it. Another GM can probably elaborate!


Mouse: Going to agree with Akina in this case: one of the prices your senshi character pays in exchange for joining the Negaverse is the memory loss that comes with corruption. That in mind, we would rather see your character integrate themself into the Negaverse a bit before you tackle the idea of them getting glimpses of memory of who they were before joining.

This should be used as a method for character development only, and not for metagaming. Please do not use any recollection plots as an excuse for your character to regain knowledge about the other faction -- that would give you a pretty unfair RP advantage.

Natsube: I agree with the two above me, and I mostly used it as a "i recognize you but I have no idea why" muscle memory type thing, rather than suddenly remembering what went on in a planned attack, as there would be NO information available to you that would put your corrupted in a better position than other corrupteds; the Negas can torture and kill Senshi, or corrupt them. We have it set so that the Nega's WOULDN'T gain anything factual from the Corrupteds, so we really need to keep people clear on the no memories on things that have nothing personally to do with you, no memories about conversations you had this one time, but totally memories about those you felt strongly about.

Are guardian cats required to be teenagers/adults? Or can you quest one that is chibi age? Like 10?

Nessy: You may absolutely quest a cat that young but be aware they would be a very inexperienced cat. Also cats appearing that young will be very rare as well.

I have a growth/rp question, just for reference and because I'm not sure about the rules.

Let's say someone has done all their requirements and has posted for growth. While waiting, they start a new rp as a civilian. In the middle of that rp they get their new art, and said rp is finished a little while later. Would that reg be able to count toward the next growth?


Mouse: It's the start date that factors in, not the finish date. You can only count an RP for your next growth if you started it after you recieved your new art.

What's the official, DCNN/Destiny City governmental explanation for the Great Youma from the BMC metaplot?

Akina: Weather balloon malfunction. People speculate about seeing a large animal, but since it was in a closed off part of town, there were no regular ole civilians close enough to the action to actually see anything up close. Besides, dragons aren't real... right? RIGHT!?