Potential newbie trucking in with ideas o/

[aozaki]

Hello everyone! My name is Ruki, I'm complete fresh meat so fresh I'm not even on the market of this place yet, but I do have in mind to app this girl here very soon to Imperial Saga! To the TYPE-MOON savvy people, this is indeed Touko Aozaki from Kara no Kyoukai: Garden of Sinners. I'd normally just run with the punches, but there are two ideas I had with her, which is why I'm posting here to see if they can gather interest and get off the ground. That said!

1. An investigation agency
Back home Touko ran a small paranormal detective agency called "Garan no Dou". She would get requests from a clientele that would ask her to investigate supernatural things, and more often than not, remove the source to stop it from existing. Admittedly a "kill the problem" approach is less workable in RP, so I thought to just knock it down to an investigation agency where a client would ask her to look into something and she will provide information. Like finding a missing object/person, gather data on something, and so on. ICly it could be handled with all 3 parties coming in agreement with what sort of info the agency would successfully unearth on a job, which should be of some worth because the agency is an efficient and competent one. It is however going to be a hidden one, so a character ICly needs to find out about its existence first.

That said, I'm wondering about two things. Would people A) be interested to have a "service" like that in-game and see future plotting potential with it on an OOC level, and B)have characters ICly that would be interested, to make use of it or more importantly, join it? Back home it was just Touko, her errand boy coffee maker secretary Mikiya who helps investigation and Shiki, who did... the physical work/AKA "killing". There is a risk factor investigating dangerous matters, so people who can handle themselves on the field would be needed too. But as Shiki and Mikiya already prove, we can both have a completely normal guy and a chick who claims capable of killing god in the same setting. So yes! Thoughts?

2. An oddities shop
Also known as that one NPC store you find yourself constantly running back to in RPGs to look for better magical trinkets/accessories to gear up your character and boost their stats. Touko is canonly an excellent craftress who makes things unlike her younger sister Aoko who's only capable of destroying things, she can craft prosthetic limbs superior to ordinary human ones capable of withstanding extreme pressure and grab spirits - this goes so far as to completely copy down another person's whole body to the last detail, making an exact clone of artificial flesh that's impossible to distinguish from the original. People familiar with "Tsukihime" would also recall that Touko is the one who made the glasses that nullify the Mystic Eyes of Death perception. Giving "Fate/Extra" a nod, Touko supervises the Chapel over Soul Alterations to raise the stats of a Servant through spirit hacking their link with their Master, underlining once again her aptitude in manipulating, adding, and reinforcing magical properties on things.

IN LIGHT OF THAT I toyed around with the idea of opening a small store. I gave the example of your NPC magical accessory slot shop, but it could also have functions like the Antique shop in Persona 3 where you fuse a Persona into a weapon to strengthen it and give it extra properties - so in short, general tampering with items/magical artifacts to enhance them. What she sells won't be ground-breaking, it'll be the same sort of small things that gives you a +3 to STR or +200 to SP, but I think it's neat and maybe could make a small difference.

So again going back to above; would people be interested in seeing something open in the realms of Imperial Saga? Characters who would frequent it, be willing to work there, whether as store clerk or another craftsman/woman. The latter could also take on other creative jobs, Touko's overseen art gallery displays and has been hired as an architect in the past. The shop can be used to seek out freelancer craftsmen in general, but on the surface it's a miscellaneous magical accessories shop - which might or might not use a cafe or antique shop as a cover depending, haha.

...An oh boy that was way too much text for a short run-down, sorry o\;; But um yes! I'm going to app her hoping to be able to start these two businesses, so to speak. Would anyone be curious to plot with/around that to make it happen, possibly? ...Oh and as a side note, the "HQ" of these two places will likely be located in Sawa. I'll still app her a a magus on the run, so she'd want to avoid "Europe" as much as possible - plus Sawa is Eastern and KnK does take place in Japan, aha. It'll also remain neutral&independent and purely operate on a business level, meaning morally good and bad guys should both be able to frequent and request services. But these are details that can be hammered out later, so for the time being, I'm just throwing more ideas out and around.

Thank you for your time and interest! Quietly rolls self out with her TL;DR...

(Also Ryougi here is a Servant when did that happen--!)

Comments

2. An oddities shop

[greyerrant]

oh god this yes.

Also hey. Sup.

Garviel is uh... different in this game. SO MUCH AU GOING ON.

Also he's the lolzerker and actually has the lowest stats of any of the extant Servants because they figured out how to turn off his mad enhancement (His stats boost tremendously if they zerk him but he's just an absurdly tough dude with a thousand plus year old myth here.)


As for 1, that is also excellent, we have several investigation-ish characters including the daughter of 20 faces or whatever her name is because I'm bad at titles and bloo bloo.

Also I just have fun tagging with you for whoever so it will be all kinds of <3.

[aozaki]

It's not like Touko ever knew him well in Mayfield, haha. I'm hoping to get in touch with these characters then! It could definitely be an interesting aspect, I'm just hoping it won't be one of these "sound cool on paper but actually terrible when executed in action" ideas.

o/

[greyerrant]

I can vouch for the player, Hedge, he's a total bro.

You already know Kiyuu and Fron and most everyone involved in the grail war, if there are people you don't know just lemme know and I'll get you up to spec.

[aozaki]

For Daughter of Twenty Faces? I think I remember them, did they used to play at Mayfield for a bit?

I know Minki only, really, Kiyuu in passing (though I should add her/speak to her more often whelp). It's probably best anyway if I speak to the others in person. That said the Grail War is Fate's story, Kara no Kyoukai doesn't have anything to do with it. Depending on what I work out with Ryougi-mun, Touko's interest in the War won't go beyond that. Maybe the Masters could make use of the shops I've proposed, which is the focus for my post, but otherwise Touko wouldn't really care about it as a whole. She doesn't generally like to get personally involved in anything and looks after her own interests, sticking her neck into a Battle Royale has no benefit whatsoever.

[greyerrant]

They did indeed!

And I know, I was more addressing the possibility of it being the thingydoo you talked about for the master/ servant improvements and stuff.

Out of curiousity will Touko have any interest in Riftspawn or Rift artifacts?

[ Definitely isn't planning anything. At all. ]

[aozaki]

Will have to look into that...

I brought it up to Minki, it's too risky. The context is completely different than F/E, there's no telling if people wouldn't try killing her if she can give Master/Servant pairs that sort of advantage. In F/E we can say the Moon Cell interferes if a Master tries anything because it's a deal the Moon Cell has struck with the Aozaki sisters, there's no such protection in IS - not to my knowledge, anyway.

Not sure what the Rift is, but she'd take anything that catches her fancy. :|b so it depends!

[greyerrant]

Good point, the only protection here would be the church monitors like Ky.

The Rift is basically a huge rip where bad magic and evil things come out, like vampires and zombies and skellingtons and daemons. It is fairly plot-important but I thought the artifacts might be intriguing to you.

Also there are the Zodiac stones floating around and you should definitely talk with Minki about those.

Oh and we have an Indiana jones! Maybe someone else for the investigation group for you~?

[killed_shiki]

HAHA YUP babby Shiki is all grown up, and LITERALLY an elemental magical engine of murder stabbing.

Odds of her surviving the Grail War are pretty low right now, though, so they might not even meet.

[aozaki]

Oh CRIES hi person ;A; I was waffling a bit on her AU history too since I wasn't sure how to work around the fact that there's a Ryougi who may or may not know her, I've kept the history section to "magus on the run from the Association and set up shop far from Europe living like a hermit" so far. Aaaah maybe Touko can help? ;_; But yes it depends on what plans you have for Shiki and where she's headed... And why are the odds low...

But yes it's nice to meet you because it's always a nice surprise to catch other KnK RPers! o/

[killed_shiki]

Yeah I'm actually in the middle of the process of phasing out my active participation in the RP, and becoming some guy who only plays bit characters in other people's logs. I'm just not really feeling like I'm up to the heavy plot of the game these days.

[aozaki]

Okay, makes sense. Still, Shiki is a close castmate. Do you have any preferences in whether Touko would know her or not, since Shiki's still in the game even if you're planning for her to faze out? Like also in terms of interaction, would you like to do anything or would rather avoid it if possible? I could work both ways, I just also thought of her maybe having memories of Shiki, Mikiya and Azaka but AUing it as if it's after she moved out of their town to set up shop elsewhere. What's more convenient/easiest for you?

[killed_shiki]

The problem with them knowing each other is one of timeline - I established Shiki as a Servant without any expectation of getting a Touko. She's a future Heroic Spirit, and her entire backstory takes place about 200 years after the events of the game. So, if you're open to either, it's probably be easier to work it as them not knowing each other.

[aozaki]

Makes sense, things can always be changed after but not before. Got it, thank you for answering! o/

[get_off_my_lawn]

Heya Ruki! I like the shop idea the best, especially if Touko is also interested in finding lost artifacts that might be around because...

'THIS IS A USELESS OUJI BOARD, LET ME BUY IT AND HAVE NO MONEY TO PAY MY GOPHER'

Yeah. That.

[aozaki]

YES I AM HOPING TO DO THAT


no this seems like a complete legit line of reasoning honestly and I really would love to play something so ridiculous out ICly, haha. Though we need to establish things first, she would definitely be open to buying random artifact junk and exuberant prices. Kiiiiiiind of why she needs to keep a business around of some sort, find a good way of income to at least get SOME money instead of drowning in debt, XD;

[get_off_my_lawn]

Maybe you can do - dun dun dun - BOTH ideas.

Start with the shop as the front for the investigation agency since people spending money/selling to get money tend to talk a lot. Getting leads and... useless stuff, too!

[aozaki]

Sounds good. Aren't you guys freelancers sort of? WE COULD ESTABLISH AN ALLIANCE, MAYBE?

Also hush, these things will be useful...! At some point later, once she's messed with it.... Maybe...

[get_off_my_lawn]

Luna's Call isn't freelance in the conventional sense, but they aren't affiliated with a kingdom. But looking for certain types of artifacts is one of Taryn's goals.

SO WE CAN DO SOMETHING.

[aozaki]

>Not affiliated

Close enough. :|b Where makin this happen! /punches caleb in rejoicing

[godofthearena]

Touko can put a satellite shop up in Lerrian sometime!

[wisdomwithin]

You know, now that Touko is coming here, and I can easily get myself an extra slot in this rp... How would she feel about having CR with this wandering monk? 200 years later, he's going to be responsible for so much bad shit, you know. But he's pretty quiet these days.

I think both can work. We don't have either shop or investigation agency yet, but actually, having a shop does encourage more people to make journeys for artifacts and whatnot inside ruins or mountains... we need to play up that part of the game a lot more. And I like the thought of Soul Alterations here... Touko is the more skilled sister when it comes to this. In her words, Aoko's pretty sub-par, but... how would that work on humans, by the by?

[aozaki]

Depends on how we work the AU? The only reason they were antagonistic really was because Araya went ahead and took Shiki. Without that factor here it'd be more like the old days, though Touko might chide him for a thing or two. Heck if he has nothing better to do and isn't off running cray-cray experiments she might even try to recruit him for her businesses.

Hmm that would be nice, Touko can be like an appraiser and powerful artifact restorer. I brought up the Soul Alteration as an example, but whether to make use of that system would heavily depend on the players of the Masters and Servants involved in the Grail War. The circumstances are also completely different from Fate/Extra, she would need to take extra precautions so that she say, doesn't get killed after performing the services to X Master and Servant pair because they don't want her to bestow that advantage on anyone else. It sounds too risky, and haha yeah... Though if we're to take it outside of the Grail War context, it'd apply to... People and their spiritual familiars? Soul Alteration hacks the soul to deepen the connection between Master and Servant to boost the Servant's stats, so I don't think it's viable on just a normal human.

Although I do see Touko being able to do things for characters like Shirou - Rin made him swallow a gem to awaken inactive magic circuits/flip on the "switch", Touko can probably do it much smoothly and painlessly with her mastery over the human body? I also actually imagine Araya being better at "Soul Alteration", given that his whole field of study is the Soul, aha. Does that make sense? and i need to stop tldring, sob...

[revanisms]

Revan will visit the shop everytime something new comes in

so

open a shop.

[aozaki]

if it's another excuse for quality and me punching you, I'm down

[devilsphysician]

Heya, I'm the Indy and Ky mun. Ky's doing what basically Kotomine should've done, and he's basically being the stupidly idealistic good guy of the war.

But Indiana would appreciate appraisers and such considering his line of work.

[aozaki]

Hello, and nice to meet you! o/ My apologies for the late response, midterms and Tales of Graces f ate me, aha;; IRONICALLY I ALSO HAVE A ~MEDIATOR~ muse... but no don't compare Ky to Kirei that's horrible to the poor blond ;-;

I probably won't intro until this week-end, but I look forward on Indiana and Touko hammering something out about artifact appraisal/possible restoration and so on!