State of the RP: March 2015

[punintentions]

Haven

character: Haven!Rock Lee (niceguypose) series: Naruto tagging priority: ■■□□□: I've sadly been losing a lot of investment here, so I haven't been getting to a lot of his tags that often. muse strength: ■■■□□: Rock Lee is probably my most reliable muse overall, but he has been suffering here. He has had some great new CR but he's also lost or lost touch with virtually all of his old CR, and sometimes I'm not sure if I'm reflecting well enough everything he's been through. I also have to think about storage (because I think that's become common knowledge now?) and whether or not this will break Lee's playability. cast strength: ■□□□□: It's just Sasuke now and they almost never talk as it is. Although that's my fault more than any because this is always a particularly tough CR for me to brain without a third party. plotting capabilities: ■■□□□: He is kind of hampered here because he's more of a follower than anything and so it's hard to come up with things for him to do by myself. Especially because most of what he likes to do are training and sparring, and I'm horrible at keeping up with those kinds of threads. So often I will rely on events to get him jump-started in that department, but that's tricky because sometimes I can get burned out of event effects tricky. general fun level: ■■■□□: He can be fun when I get on his tags at least! likelihood of drop: ■□□□□: It might be a possibility, but I'm not sure. Some of his new CR has helped me to have some fun, and I can still thread enough for AC, but I think I need to work on getting myself more actively invested in order to stay in the game. In the scenario that I do let Lee go, I might try to look into another character to replace him.

Cerealia

character: Rock Lee (niceguypose) series: Naruto tagging priority: ■■■■□: I usually can get through his tags fairly quickly and have quite some fun at the same time. muse strength: ■■■■■: Rock Lee's youth is at full power here. Taking him from a post-war canon point is helpful I think in helping him not to worry too much about the situation at home, and Lee does fit in well with some of the sillier aspects of the game, so things work out well. cast strength: ■■□□□: It's just Lee and Naruto. But Naruto is good to have and always fun to play with! I will yearn for more ninjas - a Haku is currently apping in at the very least. plotting capabilities: ■■■■□: It's really fun to plot with him in this setting so far? It's great to poke at player plots with him and I also have a lot of fun with the job system too. Rock Lee has three different jobs, so that opens up opportunities for fun scenarios, although I'm thinking of getting him fired from his sporting goods job. I have a number of fun little ideas to play with, in addition to looking forward to whatever future events might bring. general fun level: ■■■■■: It's very easy to have fun with him here. likelihood of drop: □□□□□: He's sure to stay!

And Phoenix isn't in yet but I'll count him anyway:

character: Phoenix Wright (bewrightback) series: Ace Attorney tagging priority: ■■■■□: He has been one of my highest priorities and presumably will be as well once he's in the actual game. muse strength: ■■■■□: One of my most confident muses lately too! cast strength: ■■■■■: He's coming in to a huge cast that should essentially have pretty much all of the most important people to him so that should be something... and everyone is stellar! plotting capabilities: ■■■□□: He's not in yet but I have fun thinking of hypothetical things at least? Including dumb mundane ideas like trying to get someone to do a carpool. Plus having the whole Wright Anything Agency surely opens up a lot of plotting avenues as well. general fun level: ■■■■□: He can be ridiculous fun. likelihood of drop: □□□□□: Geez people, he's not even in yet!!

Ruby City

character: Dick Gumshoe (trenchdoting) series: Ace Attorney tagging priority: ■■■■□: It might partly be the intro high, but I have been pretty on top of his tags so far. muse strength: ■■■■□: He's definitely among my most confident voices lately. cast strength: ■■■■□: There's three of the main characters here and they're all awesome! I'll always wish for the likes of Maggey Bryde and more AAI characters but I'm definitely having fun with those already here. plotting capabilities: ■■■□□: I haven't really openly tried plotting much so far because of his intro, but I have been accumulating ideas and will likely post something for the event, too. general fun level: ■■■■■: I have been having too much fun with how ridiculous Gumshoe can be and how his initial assumptions about this place snowballed. likelihood of drop: □□□□□: No regrets about apping him!

Luceti

I won't do the boxes here since most of my characters here are in similar boats. My motivation did die out enough that I've more or less dropped most of my old threads and things here have generally been on the backburner. I've only been poking at a few of my more recent things. But apparently endgame is finally right around the corner, so I'm going to try to motivate myself for that. A few things that are on my mind:

-Try to wrap up Kurt's unfinished business and figure out where he stands with Wanda and Mystique.
-Decide whether to officially drop Ralph or try to keep him around in a low-key sense throughout endgame.

Otherwise, I'll see what motivation I can work up for endgame, but I'm hoping to work people towards conclusions with it. And afterwards? Lee already has other games to be in; Kurt, Jade and Ralph are likely being retired to the musebox for the time being; and Aang may join that fate, but I'm undecided on whether or not I want to try new things with him. That will be a decision for post-Luceti.

App Considerations

I've been trying to buffer out my apps as much as possible so that everything doesn't happen at once, but here's some of the current considerations:

-Enzo Matrix: Lucy has been enabling me into Reboot, and I have been trying to voicetest Little Enzo so far. If things go well, he'll likely be my second at Ruby City, matching Lucy's AndrAIa. Lucy also is apping the older AndrAIa at Cereal, but I'm uncertain about whether or not I could properly brain the older Matrix. I'll have to save that voicetesting and possibility for another time.
-Aang: I haven't completely given up the idea of playing Aang yet, but I intend wait at least until Luceti's done to try sending him somewhere. I do have potential places in mind, though. From trying out IJ, Kiseki seems like a nice enough place, vaguely reminiscent of the slice-of-life side of Luceti, and it's the one game with a Kya so I could finally seize a chance to be in a game with one. On the other hand, there's also the new DW game called The Home Tree, which seems small and non-demanding and it looks like a very cute and fun place to have Aang. I'm starting to think of it as "the game with the wings... that actually work!". I'm going to think more on either decision because of how nonexistent my Aang drive has been lately, but I have been wondering if it might be feasible for me to keep on playing him in a lowscale place like one of these two games.
-Drift Fleet has also looked like a fun and small game, but I'm not sure if I'm up to sending Lee to another game and otherwise I'm unsure of my character options, so I'll have to think this one over.
-Murdergaming! I actually recently did my very first short-term murder game, an Ace Attorney-themed Cry Wolf one named Cry Badger, where I played Phoenix Wright. In the next few weeks, there will be another AA one coming together which will be in prison and mafia-based, so I'm thinking of trying out either Valant or Acro there for variety's sake. Even though this isn't an actual game with an app, I'm noting it so I can keep it in mind as a factor for things that will vie for my RP attention.

So yeah, that's the general deal, leaving out even more tentative thoughts. Not all of those plans will ultimately pan out- a lot of things will depend on other factors such as what my Cereal load will be like in the future, what my future at Haven is like and how I feel once Luceti ends. And of course I'm taking my time thinking all of these decisions over so that I can try to keep myself from overloading myself. But right now, I do feel at a generally good place with RP and I'm having fun while also exploring these future options.