April Updates | Taurus Event Start, Extra Details and Planning

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April Updates

 

▼ And it's time for another round of...

 

WELCOME TO...DESTINY STRIIIINGS UUUUUPDATES!!

▼ Good Luck on your exams

 

▶ We know a lot of you are now entering exam times at school, so on behalf of the entire mod team, we wish you good luck!

▼ Open Logs

 

▶ This is the lists of open logs, pre-event where you can toss your characters into and make brand new CR!

APRIL 18TH
After wandering around Hinoto-Ri, Minako and Shinjiro finally arrive in Capricorn to try and attempt to resolve the issues with Shinjiro's persona. (Shinjiro & Minako)

APRIL 17TH
Come Bother Brainstorm the Giant Robot: The Entry. (Brainstorm)
Orihime learns the ropes about this weird new world. (Orihime)

APRIL 15TH
Hoshi Takeda arrives in Hinoto-Ri, lost and confused and also sad. (Hoshi Takeda)

APRIL 12TH
Joshua continues his mission of doing nothing productive with regards to anything he's supposed to do in the city (or is he) (Joshua [OU], Kairi [AU3])
Junpei is no longer in Iwatodai. What do? (Junpei Iori)

APRIL 10TH
Akane is looking for a job. (Akane Awakusu)

APRIL 9TH
There's a new arrival in town and his priorities are questionable (Dante)

APRIL 8TH
Hizumi has obtained a job at a game arcade and is hunting down alternate versions of people both while on and off the job! And later in the week, he treats a certain lady to yakiniku because this is an important dish to experience in your life. (Hizumi Mizushiro, Miyako Hotsui)
A new arrival has a bit of unfortunate luck...(the Courier)

APRIL 7TH
There's a new arrival and he looks like a Sora... (Sora [AU3])
Philip stumbled into a room, he was given a request, and well- ( Philip / Raito Sonozaki )
Nikolai is catching fireflies! And he needs some folks to help. ( Nikolai Volkov)

APRIL 6TH
After gathering answers on her anonymous post, Miyako set out to do some hands on research into a number of "hobbies"...with her brother's help. (Miyako Hotsuin & Yamato Hotsuin)

APRIL 4TH
Work, chores, battle. The routine of many in Hinoto-Ri. Naoya's starting to get sick of it, though. (Naoya)
Senri was asked to get a toy bear fixed. And he's gonna ask everyone in town if he has to. Senri

APRIL 1ST
General School Post! (Open to all)

We hope one of them catches your eye! Remember, it's a great way to level up your Personas as well if they are used during a log!

▼ TAGS

 

▶ This is a friendly reminder to Tag your posts!
▶ When we add a tag, we go by what is given to us in the application. From now on, we will ask for the name to be given in Western naming order(first name, family name) so that our tags are all done the same way. If you see any tags that do not follow this setup, or if we missed a tag, please mention this to us so we can fix it as soon as possible!

▼ Activity Check

 

▶ The first round ends today! Tell everyone to make sure they've posted in it!

▼ Taurus event!

 

▶ Event starts tonight for all Taurus who are affected.

▶ For all the information about the event, please go to this link; however, you can use this new post to prepare even more if you'd like, or ask additional questions.

CURRENT TAURUS CHARACTERS WHO HAVE REPORTED IN (and their Planning Threads):

▶ Kairi [AU3]
▶ Io Nitta [OU]
▶ Terra [AU1]
▶ Noda [OU]
▶ Ryotaro Dojima [OU]
▶ Madotsuki [OU]
▶ Senri [OU]

If you are a Taurus and haven't reported in, please do so if you want to plot!

CHARACTERS INVOLVED IN THE BOSS BATTLE::

▶ Latooni (With Zero as backup)
▶ Elzam (With Samus Aran as backup)
▶ Sora (AU3) (with Hoshi Takeda as backup)
▶ Fumi (with Eiki Hino as backup)
▶ Xellos (with Garviel Loken as backup)

As mentioned previously, backup characters do not participate in the log unless the first-picked character has to back down and/or takes more than a 24 hour timespan to tag back (at which case, the monster will knock them out for the rest of the battle, and the backup will take over).

Congratulations on those chosen and see you on the 24th!

OPTIONAL ATLUS BOSS FIGHT (STILL OPEN TO ADDITIONAL PLAYERS!)::
Due to the interest shown in the Taurus Event announcement, here's an official plotting thread below for it! Here are the list of people so far who are attending this battle:

▶ Lash thewunderkind
▶ Desco tyrantball
▶ Naoya meaningdies
▶ Otoha bakegarasu
▶ Midori prettytamer
▶ Meetra echo_of_a_jedi

Plenty more can join in if they want, of course! There is a lot more information on the thread below, so go read it if you are interested, it's going to be fun!

DAICHI'S SUPER ADVENTURE!! (STILL OPEN TO ADDITIONAL PLAYERS!)::

Daichi is gonna get kidnapped by Kairi and locked up in her fungeon of friendship, along with Eikichi, AU and OU Yosuke. Eikichi's basically gonna bust them out of there when he regains his sanity, and because Eikichi has a water persona, they're going to discover that water attacks are super effective. Given the fact that the city is gonna be overrun by psychos of not only one but ~three~ different zodiac signs, their absolutely flawless plan is to steal a firetruck. These shenanigans have nothing to do with the main Taurus boss fight.

So far those participating are:

▶ Daichi
▶ Junpei
▶ Eikichi
▶ Yosuke [OU and AU]
▶ Elaine

To be later joined by:
▶ Sora [AU3]
▶ Blues
▶ Rock
▶ Rise

Then later on:
▶ Yamato
▶ Miyako
▶ Alcor [AU]
▶ Io
▶ Fumi
▶ Kaito

You can still join this using the information post below, if you'd like!

Again, go to the previous post for additional information about the event and if you would like to do additional planning!

▼ Thank you!

 

And as always, thank you so much for being part of this game. We hope the Taurus event will be as exciting for you as it was for us to plan!


Love you guys.
-Strings Mods

Comments

Q&A

[stringmods]

Any questions you may have about any part of this update.

[all_wound_up]

If you elect to give a character Zodiac Rejection Syndrome, does that mean you're not even allowed to respond to network posts and just talk to people? Or is the 'you cannot participate in the event' thing just so people don't use it as an excuse to powergame the monsters and affected characters?

OPTIONAL ATLUS BOSS FIGHT INFORMATION, PLANNING AND SIGNUPS

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FIRSTLY we'll need to have a colour from everyone! The three colours are GREEN, YELLOW, and RED. What do these colours represent? Well for those of you who were here for the Anoli Tournament at the beginning of this year, you'd recognise it as Damage Code. Basically it's this:

GREEN = Light injuries - scrapes and bruises, no loss of consciousness
YELLOW = Moderate injuries - broken bones, possible scars, loss of consciousness
RED = loss of limbs, heavy bleeding, near death experiences, scarring, broken bones, loss of consciousness.

This is just to help us have a guideline on how heavy we can have the damage! However, if you want to specify something you're against, like, dismemberment, or scarring, just put it down in your comment. It's no biggie!

Now onto the second thing: ONLY THOSE WHO CHOOSE RED AND YELLOW CAN FIGHT AGAINST SHURA AND KAZUYA. If you choose GREEN, you'll have the dubious pleasure of battling against their very high levelled Demons instead (how high levelled you ask? Oh about level 80-90!). This is because those that engage Kazuya and Shura will have a HIGH CHANCE of injury.

Which brings us to our third thing: Kazuya and Shura are ridiculously strong. If you want to join in on this fight, you will have to be aware that your character has a HIGH RISK of being injured in this battle, perhaps even hospitalised afterwards. This battle though, is winnable. It'll just take a lot of teamwork and moxie.

Those are the three main rules here, so that much is covered. Now onto how the fight will pan out.

It's taking place in the Gemini District, near Mictlan. So there are going to be a lot of hostile, local demons, as well as the demons Kazuya and Shura can summon. Your opponents will be Kazuya, Shura, and NPC demons - you can NPC demons yourselves as you get to Kazuya or Shura, or we may mix it up a little by tossing NPC demons at you ourselves.

Simply put it's going to be crazy and out of control, so you'll have to stay on your toes throughout this fight!

Once you manage to tango your way through the mob of demons, you'll be faced with Kazuya and Shura. So you know their roles, Kazuya will be the front line fighter, or the tank, and Shura will be the buffer/far-range fighter. This is why it's highly advised that you join up with your fellow players to take these two on - if you go at it alone, well, sorry to say, but your character's going to have a very difficult time in surviving, let alone winning.

And what is winning? Well, to detain both Kazuya and Shura before the 13th Hour ends. You can do this by imprisoning them somehow, by breaking their legs or limbs, or even knocking them out - you can damage them as extensively as you want. They can take it. BUT DO NOT KILL THEM.

Well this post is dragging on for quite a lot, SO TO SUMMARIZE!

- TEAMWORK IS ESSENTIAL TO WIN. IF YOU GO AT IT ALONE 99.999% CHANCE OF LOSING.
- PLEASE USE THE COLOUR CODES SO WE KNOW HOW FAR WE CAN GO WITH YOU.
- ENGAGING IN THIS BATTLE MEANS YOU'RE WELL AWARE THAT YOUR CHARACTER CAN BE INJURED AND MAY BE HOSPITALIZED.
- WINNING IS DETAINING KAZUYA AND SHURA IN WHATEVER WAY YOU MANAGE.
- THERE'S GONNA BE A FUCK OFF AMOUNT OF DEMONS EVERYWHERE.
- HAVE FUN!

[otakuro]

Didn't know there were sign-ups involved! But Atsuro will attempt to slap some sense into Kazuya. Kazuya won't attack Atsuro, but Shura is free to inflict Yellow leaning towards Red damage.

[belfire]

Eheh, yeah, sorry, I decided to make it a sign up at the last minute when I realised how many people were interested in it! But awesome! That is fine \o Although we would get the interesting internal strife of Kazuya Vs Shura if Shura attacks Atsuro!

Maybe you could use that to your advantage...? Ho ho ho~

[otakuro]

Atsuro will just be the damsel in distress and awkwardly insert himself into every attack so they knock each other out perfect strategy =O

[belfire]

Perfect planning! No way this'll end badly!

[not_heavens_adam]

Since the other two members of Johnny's family are in on this, I'd like to have him participate. He gets a red level since he's shown to be able to regrow limbs and such. Really, his only limitation is decapitation since...he kinda can't put his head back on...

[belfire]

Huzzah! That's one more party member added to the roster! Not to worry though, we tend to err on the decapitation side of things, so if there is dismemberment, it would most likely be arms and legs and everything in between uvu

[not_heavens_adam]

Sounds like a good plan to me :|a Also I need to talk to you about something regarding this, would you rather do that here or on plurk? :|a

[belfire]

Plurk's probably easier to catch my attention to be honest!

[prettytamer]

Yellow sounds good for me!

[belfire]

Oh! I forgot to say - Kazuya will hesitate to attack Midori, although he will eventually attack her if she initiates a fight against him! Alas, only Atsuro gets immunity due to broship. But that means that if Midori plays her cards right, Kazuya may strike out against Shura if she attacks Midori.

[prettytamer]

I'm not sure that she's that smart buuut we'll see how it goes!

Kazuya whyyyyy

[belfire]

Yup, that's fine! Just informing you that the possibility is there if she gets a flash of insight \o

[tyrantball]

Desco is ridiculously OP, as always, so I am once again going with Red.

That's kind of the thing about Disgaea characters - they're tanks against anything weaker but glass cannons when facing off against things in their ballpark.

[belfire]

It'll be the Ultimate Battle of Ultimate Destiny between the three of them. HINOTO-RI WILL BE LEVELLED

[tyrantball]

Desco is kind of fond of Shura so she will mainly be sticking to her Persona skills instead of just leveling everything in her Godzilla-scale True Form.

In other words: there's probably just gonna be impact craters everywhere.

[belfire]

Godzilla-Scale True Form... it would quickly turn into a Shadow of the Colossus battle wouldn't it.

But nothing wrong with impact craters! Tbh Kazuya's abilities are restricted due to Taurus event, so he'd be using his element plus Deathbound. Deathbound everywhere.

[meaningdies]

Actually I think I'm going to drop Naoya out of this fight! He'll be around though. Watching. Because creeper interesting.

But he can fight off some demons if people want, idk. I have Otoha signed up for this so uh. Yeah. |D

[belfire]

Aw, okie, that's fine \o We can have an after-battle thread between these two if you'd like! Or, as you said, tank the demons while everyone goes after the main two. As you said there's still Otoha to maim fight!

[meaningdies]

That works. Also yeah Naoya still has his demons so. Tanking. /o/

[bakegarasu]

Otoha will be at red level because he can't feel pain so you know. What is self-restraint. He does have a brief time stop ability - do either of them have a way to counter that? (It's only for four seconds or so.)

[belfire]

Not to my knowledge, no. Kazuya can't mess with time yet, and although Shura destroyed Time itself, I doubt it would give her immunity to time stopping powers 8Ua For now the verdict is Otoha can spam time stop powers however much he wants against them, they'll be effective!

[meaningdies]

Aye. It's - are you familiar with Okami? It's Veil of Mist. He got granted that power in Vatheon.

[belfire]

Oh thanks for not giving me this notif dreamwidth.

Yes, I'm very familiar with Okami. Yup, those will work on Shura and Kaz fine. To be honest, it will probably be needed :'|

[echo_of_a_jedi]

Meetra's in at Yellow level. Her soul persona's Light skill and Lakshmi's elemental damage will be sealed by the event, but she still makes a good frontline fighter/healer, and she knows how to lead a group if other people know how to listen.

[belfire]

Yes, assemble the ragtag team into an unstoppable force! It's okay though, knocking together these dumbasses's head the old fashioned way is way better than blasting them with elemental magic uvu

[daswunderkind]

I'm going YELLOW for lash since she's never usually joins a battle herself before, just orders peons I mean soldiers I mean toys I mean...something...around.

DAICHI'S SUPER ADVENTURE INFORMATION, PLANNING AND SIGNUPS

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Daichi is gonna get kidnapped by Kairi and locked up in her fungeon of friendship, along with Eikichi, AU and OU Yosuke (and probably other peole I haven't confirmed or don't remember right now), and you know a bunch of other people. Eikichi's basically gonna bust them out of there when he regains his sanity, and because Eikichi has a water persona, they're going to discover that water attacks are super effective. Given the fact that the city is gonna be overrun by psychos of not only one but ~three~ different zodiac signs, their absolutely flawless plan is to:

Steal a firetruck from the city so they can get access to the fire hydrants and use the hose to attack monsters. And possibly people, but they'll probably be really careful and turn down the water pressure if they can because damn that shit hurts. Daichi is of course gonna be driving--

Now, eventually Daichi's gonna have to sidetrack so he can take care of his stupid cast, so their zodiac crew may be disperse at some point, they may not, we'll see! This'll give anyone who needs it the chance to go deal with their own other shenanigans, or go to the boss fight. They may regroup, I have no idea yet, but they will definitely not be involved in the boss fight directly.

NOW THE QUESTION FOR YOU BECOMES:
Do you wanna ride around the city in a firetruck full of idiots stopping crazy bull monsters and zombies?
Do you wanna have your character/characters encounter said firetruck full of idiots, whether they join along the crusade or not? It's up to you!!

Keep in mind though that anyone that ends up coming with them on the firetruck will probably get in trouble with the city since y'know this is highly illegal and all that stuff. As it is right now, since they're doing it in defense of the city and probably won't get too many people injured, we're all gonna end up with about a month of community service. Sounds like great bonding time to me.

So yeah if you're interested in these shenanigans at all hit me up let's plot!!

[justanothermachine]

Far as I know, Rock's involvement was to have Daichi encounter Rock getting beat on by Blues and step in since Rock's gonna be in Super Duper Pacifism Mode™ and refusing to fight. (That is unless a human runs the risk of getting hurt by the situation, then there's AW SHIT THREE LAWS MODE ACTIVATE.)

My question is if Rock could like, use the Copy Chip to get a water cannon from the firetruck. >_>

[hetried]

It's OK I think Daichi will be OKAY even though he has to punch a robot again. But yes, I approve.

I'm not entirely sure how the Copy Chip works but I'm inclined to say "why the hell not" as long as it doesn't hurt the fire truck.

[justanothermachine]

In the comic, Rock touches a robot to interface with their system and download weapon data - it doesn't specifically say it's limited to Robot Master data, though. Wouldn't hurt the fire truck, just xerox the power and make it so Rock would have a limited-use water gun.

[hetried]

Oh then fuck yeah go for it

[justanothermachine]

Groovy.

[terminally_clever]

Since Fumi's involved in the boss fight, she'll be breaking off to go to that once the 13th Hour hits and she's suddenly lucid again. Up until that point, she's probably going to be running around doomsaying and trying to pacify the ancient bull-headed god Moloch (who she will be convinced is behind all of this) by looking for children to sacrifice (old Canaanite gods loved this kind of stuff). In other words, she is desperately going to need a blast of water to the face and probably to be restrained until she's normal again.

[hetried]

Bahaha jesus christ Fumi no no child sacrifices tonight.

You are so getting the hose.

Who knows maybe it'll make her sane enough just in time for the boss fight.

[travelingtheworlds]

Question. On what day/time are the fire truck shenanigans taking place, precisely? Because if it's on the 26th, Sasha will definitely want to join in because she'll be even dippier than usual (she's an Air sign and her exaggerated trait will either be her cheerfulness or her desire for adventure and fun) and she can't use her favorite Persona skills. If it's earlier... well, she'll at least want to observe or join the ride for laughs.

[celebrity_commentator]

HELL YEAH AIR SIGNS WITH EXAGGERATED CHEERFULNESS!!

[hetried]

Yep, it's happening on the 26th some time just after the 13th Hour starts and the entire city has gone to hell.

SO YEAH COME ON FOR THE RIDE LET'S GOOOO

Re: DAICHI'S SUPER ADVENTURE INFORMATION, PLANNING AND SIGNUPS

[destinedwaters]

[destinedwaters]

1. No, I couldn't resist.
2. is this the thing involving the majority of the KH cast because pretty sure kairi said she was going to lock them in the fungeon (in vain) too...

[hetried]

1. ~*r u d e*~
2. Sort of! A small handful of the idiots that are starting this endeavor are going to be stuck in Kairi's fungeon until Eikichi goes Wreck-it Ralph on the wall, and it's after they ollie the hell out of the castle that they go "hey wouldn't it be totally a great idea to steal city property." So not all of the KH-ers are directly involve as of this moment except for Kairi, I think Namine and Sora when they say "what's up" while riding around.

[destinedwaters]

1. DWI
2. I know but still had to make the joke outside of plurk. : P HAVE FUN YOU CRAZY KIDS AND FUK ALL Y'ALL TRUNK/TRUCK THEFT I GOT A KEYBLADE GLIDER.

[hasleveledup]

You lucky people get stuck with Junpei, who is a Capricorn. He'll be in 'hero mode'. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

[plunderbunny]

I should mention, on the 26th I've decided that I want Elaine's exaggerated trait to be her assertiveness, so she is going to be SUPER BOSSY. SHE IS THE CAPTAIN OF THIS TRUCK AND YOU WILL ALL DO AS YOU ARE TOLD.

Also she is going to find a jolly roger and tie it to the front grill.