Questions! General: How many characters can someone app at one time? How many overall? Can we earn more characters past that limit with extra activity/proving we can handle more?
Can multiple characters share a single journal?
If everyone in the thread is amenable, can two or more of one person's own characters be involved in the same scene?
How do weapons that can vanish and reappear work? For example, if someone tries to take a Keyblade wielder's keyblade, it goes back to its owner (with of course a few exceptions, thank you, Riku) Would that get security on their case if they arrived with the keyblade and someone tried to take it from them?
What about characters who could teleport and/or time travel?
Specific: Kaylin: Okay, so I have Kaylin here, and she has a familiar, Hope. It is sentient, but linked to her, and is HERS, and I do not think he could be played separately from her, and often he acts as though he isn't sentient. He likes to be underestimated, even by Kaylin. He is massively powerful, but almost never taps the stronger powers he has access to, telling Kaylin he only can if she is willing to give up something of equivalent value - to her. For example, they were fighting a huge ancient foe who seemed almost unkillable. And Kaylin's friends were being injured, might be dying, and she begged Hope to help. Hope said he could, he could destroy the ancient. but the cost would be the life of every friend there that she was worried after. It would stop the ancient from destroying the city, but her friends were the cost. Kaylin said she'd rather just give up an arm, and Hope said that was exactly why taking an arm wouldn't be fee enough. So he has extreme power, but always asks more than Kaylin is willing to use for the strongest stuff. So I don't think the HUGE stuff would ever come up, but he does still do some things that would seem powerful absent that context. So I would probably have to discuss power limits with you guys, on/before the app. Again, he almost never BOTHERS to use his powers, except for small mischief, so hasn't ever been an issue in any games she has been in, but this would be the first app I'd be doing for her in a canon point where she knows what he CAN do...
So with Hope - as he is sentient, but wouldn't act for anyone else, and usually acts like he's a living irritated scarf. People often think it's funny how freaked out Kaylin gets when he looks like he's going to act, because she knows what he can do, even when others don't. There is a lot of "No. don't you DARE breathe on that!" and "Isn't he your familiar, shouldn't he listen to you?" "That's what people keep telling me...."
Would Hope be allowed to come with her?
For Nadenagi:
Okay, so I have cross dressing magical boy/magical girl who has a pair of shugo charas. Shugo Charas are sentially bits of the children's souls that only some people can see/hear: Children under 4 years old Animals People who have/had had shugo charas Random bad guys in the anime/manga (it is never explained why half of the adults in Easter can see the charas) For RP purposes I've also said anyone who can see magic/spiritual things can see them.
They are inexorably linked to their child, in that if their child stops believing in them they fade away and die, killing a part of the child's spirit. However, they can act independently, and travel. Amu's charas are especially known for this as Su is constantly getting lost, and Dia actually swapped sides and stayed with Utau for a while to try and teach Amu a lesson in believing in herself. (Dia is weird, okay?) and Utau's charas wound up going over to Amu's side as well. So they can act independently, but cannot EXIST without their child in play.
To further complicate things.... Nagihiko works very hard to keep secret that his twin sister Nadeshiko is actually himself in a dress. They are disturbingly good at the act, each having their own chara, mannerisms, vocal patterns, and personalities. But having to share a room, or having only one comn badge between them could jeopardize this. So:
Would the charas be allowable? Would whichever "twin" shows up first be able to request and get a private room? Would the EMH notice/care when doing the scans that the one on the dress and ponytail is male? Would that wind up in records anywhere? Once one twin is in, and changes clothing and fakes passing out and being brought in as the other twin, would he/she be able to get a comn badge and be put in the computer as a separate person?
Agatha Heterodyne: So... Aggie is A Spark. What that means is that she is a genius inventor who can bend the laws of physics when she is in the "madness place". http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Spark
She is like Macgyver meets Tony Stark, without being bound by common sense or physics. She also has a mania for making weapons. I had her in another trek game and while obviously the replicators wouldn't give her weapons, she was able to get the parts she needed to make weapons, because they weren't things anyone would ever think to list as contraband in the computers. So there is that.
The question comes from what she would bring with her, depending on canon point. If I take her from Paris, she will have multiple companion "animals" with her. The Wasp eater which shouldn't be an issue, and will be part of what makes the EMH go "wha?" about her. she is so far beyond odd for someone who looks human. The Wasp Eater can sense Revenants (which is meaningless unless someone from her world is in game), and is biologically tied to her - they need physical contact every so often or they both get sick and weaken. It is a non-sentient, 6 legged wesel with metal implants and sharp teeth. http://store.threnodisthreads.com/products/15051099-standard-orange-wasp-eater-licensed-girl-genius-plush-doll
Not worried about the Wasp Eater. What I am worried about are the clanks:
Dingbot/Dingbot prime - Agatha makes these small clanks (They fit on the palm of her hand, usually) http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/girlgenius/images/b/b1/Deuce_dingbot_portrait_20090420.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090609202038 in her sleep. Prime is the first one she ever made. They have mechanical skills, and in the absence of assignments for Agatha, they tend to build more of their own kind. The ones she made are the best, the ones made by that first generation are the next best, and it goes down from there. The first gen ones, at least, have personalities and intelligence. But they can't speak. She's never thought to give them that capability, and again... mostly makes them in her sleep. So I figure these will probably be okay, and she'd probably only come in with Prime, though she would quickly have several.
The Castle - Agatha's "home" is a sentient psychotic castle. Manically loyal to her because of her bloodline, but always trying to push its limits... It always wants to kill and destroy. However, when she went to Paris she found that someone had spliced part of the castle's mind into a small clank, about the size of a dingbot. It still has the desire to kill and maim for her, but no capability. It is obsessively loyal to her, in its own freaky way.
The Demon Train - So... one of the Heterodynes built a train. A self healing, self replicating train. It didn't need rails, which was awesome. It also devoured everything and everyone in its path. Only Aggie's ancestor found this awesome. It took a lot of sacrifice, and a lot effort but the train conductors managed to get it locked away in a vault for generations.
Agatha was there when it escaped.
She fought alongside them to try and destroy it, but she wound up capturing it and they put its mind and personality into a small clank. http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b6bfcd2553b2be334bdc5fadcc8fa6fb.png. So like the castle, it is psychotic and murderous, but it has no capability to do anything with those impulses, and Aggie has every reason to keep it from having that capability.
So, what I want to know, with Aggie, is which of those companions could come with her, since that would affect cannon point.
A whole mess'o'pottage.... errr... questions.
General:
How many characters can someone app at one time? How many overall? Can we earn more characters past that limit with extra activity/proving we can handle more?
Can multiple characters share a single journal?
If everyone in the thread is amenable, can two or more of one person's own characters be involved in the same scene?
How do weapons that can vanish and reappear work? For example, if someone tries to take a Keyblade wielder's keyblade, it goes back to its owner (with of course a few exceptions, thank you, Riku) Would that get security on their case if they arrived with the keyblade and someone tried to take it from them?
What about characters who could teleport and/or time travel?
Specific:
Kaylin:
Okay, so I have Kaylin here, and she has a familiar, Hope. It is sentient, but linked to her, and is HERS, and I do not think he could be played separately from her, and often he acts as though he isn't sentient. He likes to be underestimated, even by Kaylin. He is massively powerful, but almost never taps the stronger powers he has access to, telling Kaylin he only can if she is willing to give up something of equivalent value - to her. For example, they were fighting a huge ancient foe who seemed almost unkillable. And Kaylin's friends were being injured, might be dying, and she begged Hope to help. Hope said he could, he could destroy the ancient. but the cost would be the life of every friend there that she was worried after. It would stop the ancient from destroying the city, but her friends were the cost. Kaylin said she'd rather just give up an arm, and Hope said that was exactly why taking an arm wouldn't be fee enough. So he has extreme power, but always asks more than Kaylin is willing to use for the strongest stuff. So I don't think the HUGE stuff would ever come up, but he does still do some things that would seem powerful absent that context. So I would probably have to discuss power limits with you guys, on/before the app. Again, he almost never BOTHERS to use his powers, except for small mischief, so hasn't ever been an issue in any games she has been in, but this would be the first app I'd be doing for her in a canon point where she knows what he CAN do...
So with Hope - as he is sentient, but wouldn't act for anyone else, and usually acts like he's a living irritated scarf. People often think it's funny how freaked out Kaylin gets when he looks like he's going to act, because she knows what he can do, even when others don't. There is a lot of "No. don't you DARE breathe on that!" and "Isn't he your familiar, shouldn't he listen to you?" "That's what people keep telling me...."
Would Hope be allowed to come with her?
For Nadenagi:
Okay, so I have cross dressing magical boy/magical girl who has a pair of shugo charas. Shugo Charas are sentially bits of the children's souls that only some people can see/hear:
Children under 4 years old
Animals
People who have/had had shugo charas
Random bad guys in the anime/manga (it is never explained why half of the adults in Easter can see the charas)
For RP purposes I've also said anyone who can see magic/spiritual things can see them.
They are inexorably linked to their child, in that if their child stops believing in them they fade away and die, killing a part of the child's spirit. However, they can act independently, and travel. Amu's charas are especially known for this as Su is constantly getting lost, and Dia actually swapped sides and stayed with Utau for a while to try and teach Amu a lesson in believing in herself. (Dia is weird, okay?) and Utau's charas wound up going over to Amu's side as well. So they can act independently, but cannot EXIST without their child in play.
To further complicate things.... Nagihiko works very hard to keep secret that his twin sister Nadeshiko is actually himself in a dress. They are disturbingly good at the act, each having their own chara, mannerisms, vocal patterns, and personalities. But having to share a room, or having only one comn badge between them could jeopardize this. So:
Would the charas be allowable?
Would whichever "twin" shows up first be able to request and get a private room?
Would the EMH notice/care when doing the scans that the one on the dress and ponytail is male? Would that wind up in records anywhere?
Once one twin is in, and changes clothing and fakes passing out and being brought in as the other twin, would he/she be able to get a comn badge and be put in the computer as a separate person?
Agatha Heterodyne:
So... Aggie is A Spark. What that means is that she is a genius inventor who can bend the laws of physics when she is in the "madness place". http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Spark
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070608#.V2x8O5MrJnY (The last pannel)
She is like Macgyver meets Tony Stark, without being bound by common sense or physics. She also has a mania for making weapons. I had her in another trek game and while obviously the replicators wouldn't give her weapons, she was able to get the parts she needed to make weapons, because they weren't things anyone would ever think to list as contraband in the computers. So there is that.
The question comes from what she would bring with her, depending on canon point. If I take her from Paris, she will have multiple companion "animals" with her. The Wasp eater which shouldn't be an issue, and will be part of what makes the EMH go "wha?" about her. she is so far beyond odd for someone who looks human. The Wasp Eater can sense Revenants (which is meaningless unless someone from her world is in game), and is biologically tied to her - they need physical contact every so often or they both get sick and weaken. It is a non-sentient, 6 legged wesel with metal implants and sharp teeth. http://store.threnodisthreads.com/products/15051099-standard-orange-wasp-eater-licensed-girl-genius-plush-doll
Not worried about the Wasp Eater. What I am worried about are the clanks:
Dingbot/Dingbot prime - Agatha makes these small clanks (They fit on the palm of her hand, usually) http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/girlgenius/images/b/b1/Deuce_dingbot_portrait_20090420.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090609202038 in her sleep. Prime is the first one she ever made. They have mechanical skills, and in the absence of assignments for Agatha, they tend to build more of their own kind. The ones she made are the best, the ones made by that first generation are the next best, and it goes down from there. The first gen ones, at least, have personalities and intelligence. But they can't speak. She's never thought to give them that capability, and again... mostly makes them in her sleep. So I figure these will probably be okay, and she'd probably only come in with Prime, though she would quickly have several.
The Castle - Agatha's "home" is a sentient psychotic castle. Manically loyal to her because of her bloodline, but always trying to push its limits... It always wants to kill and destroy. However, when she went to Paris she found that someone had spliced part of the castle's mind into a small clank, about the size of a dingbot. It still has the desire to kill and maim for her, but no capability. It is obsessively loyal to her, in its own freaky way.
The Demon Train - So... one of the Heterodynes built a train. A self healing, self replicating train. It didn't need rails, which was awesome. It also devoured everything and everyone in its path. Only Aggie's ancestor found this awesome. It took a lot of sacrifice, and a lot effort but the train conductors managed to get it locked away in a vault for generations.
Agatha was there when it escaped.
She fought alongside them to try and destroy it, but she wound up capturing it and they put its mind and personality into a small clank. http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b6bfcd2553b2be334bdc5fadcc8fa6fb.png. So like the castle, it is psychotic and murderous, but it has no capability to do anything with those impulses, and Aggie has every reason to keep it from having that capability.
So, what I want to know, with Aggie, is which of those companions could come with her, since that would affect cannon point.