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September 2022 Substories!
SUBSTORY #1 | SUBSTORY #2 |
 The Left Swiping Shall Continue Until Morale Improves Ember 3.0 is still going strong. Some minor patches here and there, so you're encouraged to take another glance at it and see what, if anything, is new! This is a continuation of a Player Submitted Substory/Plot by Pine, player of Ydris. Here's a link to it! All threads conducted on this topic count as Substory threads. |  Can't Download a Clue "Please don't browse porn on these, sir" Jigoku-cho is home to many internet cafes of varying quality. Most of them are located in the Sutoku Alliance's territory. A new one has popped up recently, run by an executive's son who has too much money, not enough sense, and a dream. He rented out a garage, bought a few computers from the closest used electronics store, and decked it out with the cheapest desks and chairs money can buy. It's truly a paradise. Except it isn't. No one wants to come to this cafe and the owner can't figure out why! He's done everything right, hasn't he?! People like it enough to come in and try to steal everything that isn't nailed down! That has to count for something, doesn't it?! His father will pay you a considerable amount of money if you can help get his idiot son's business back on track, or at least stop the thieves from draining his wallet. Unfortunately, Daddy doesn't seem ready to give this idiot a true reality check and pull the funding, what a softy. |
SUBSTORY #3 | SUBSTORY #4 |
 Drifter Grifter A man dressed all in black stumbles in on the edge of the city. He says he's come from the Wasteland and has important information about Iron Bear. He's dusty and disheveled enough that it's easy to believe him. All he asks in return is for some hospitality: a hot meal, a stiff drink, and maybe a few thousand yen to send him on his way. Once he has all of that, he goes to the bathroom, never to be seen again. If you ask around town about this man, you'll notice that everyone seems to be looking for the mysterious drifter in black. The Department of the Enma wants him taken in for scamming people, members from every faction want to shake him down for daring to pull this on their turf, and the people he's scammed want retribution. Team up, track him down, and deal with this grifter drifter. |  Dogged the Bounty Hunters (plot-relevant) With a massive bounty on the line, every faction wants to claim that cash reward and to finally have business settled out in the Wastes. The factions have not made an alliance, and their goals conflict in places. Something every faction agrees upon, however, is that it will be easier for them to get theirs if they knock out any unaffiliated competition. For those independent forces out there gunning for the prize, they will be met with faction-allied obstacles. Everyone has been ordered by their respective leaders to sabotage the crap out of them. The Department of the Enma frames this as though it is a matter of public safety. The other clans? They're a bit more honest: this is about eliminating unnecessary variables. Each faction has their own methods for discouraging, muscling out, or otherwise getting rid of would-be bounty hunters. Whether through fights, bribes, or other seedy means, swear-ins are expected to keep the competition under their thumbs. Art by Samuel Silverman |
code bases by tricklet
QUESTIONS!
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As for any information he might be able to get, would any of it be useful? Obviously given the grifter substory there's sure to be some duds lmao
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i brought this up in the enma faction disco channel for a substory related thing. my question is is there a location they can use to trap these people and detain them en masse? or will it need several locations (and if so, where)
thanks!
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— First what type of location is it settled in? How much traffic is there around the area of the garage? And what other businesses are there around? What state is it in? Was it renovated at all before all the equipment was settled inside? Further, since it is the owner's father seeking assistance for his son, would it be possible to directly make proposals to him? For example, if the cafe is in a bad location would finding a different locale be a welcomed proposal?
— How many changes can be made? As in, how much more money can be sunk into this business before the brilliant entrepreneur's father decides to pull the plug on the whole operation? Would finding new, high-end equipment be on the table? How about offering other services?
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It's not like Xingqiu's jealous or anything — but imagine having a father supporting you even if you make questionable choices!no subject
as far as changes go, we feel like the fun of the substory comes from working with the terrible conditions presented, BUT so long as you can still have fun with it, we won't limit you on what solutions you can come up with.
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Hm. Okay. Let's dig into daddy's deep pockets for this one.
I may have some idea, so I think I can down the route of change while still utilizing the initial setup because it is almost important to capture the thieves and see them locked up. A solution is a solution, right? But I'll wait and see how others cover this in case someone else wants to take a swipe at it.
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a) can characters create fake profiles with fake information? (ie, falsified name, photo, age?)
b) can they register multiple profiles? (ie, a real one and then a fake one?)
(Apologies if this has been asked before, I read through everything I could find but there's a lot of posts!)
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I believe that I've allowed fake/additional profiles purely on a case-by-case basis in the past. In an effort to be more consistent and fair, I'll say this is what applies to the current patch of EMBER (Sept);
a) yes, characters can create outright fake profiles, but Ydris will immediately purge any they deem as "harmful" to the app. They would consider harmful profiles to be; impersonating other Lost Souls, accounts which anonymously harass other users, or accounts that pretend to be any of the Faction Leaders/Authority Figures/Celestials (any NPC, basically). The social aspect of the application is only for Lost Souls, so anybody who isn't a lost soul is likely to get booted.
b) yes, characters can register multiple profiles, but see above on what would be disallowed. Ex. If a character just wants to make a secondary profile to keep a food blog on, Ydris isn't really going to mind that. Ydris also does not really have a way to confirm fake vs. truthful information. So, character lying on their profile about name/age/photo is likely going to slip by them. They don't even tell the truth about their own age on the app... "Immortal" is suspiciously inexact and they allow it for themself, hah.
I hope that helps! If you have a particular situation you want to run by me, absolutely feel free.
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This sounds very workable to me! Kim (and Jimmy
When they do scam, they're generally pretty silly things like convincing someone to invest money in their company, or pay for an expensive bar tab. Obviously that's pretty difficult to do on Ember –– both of them are from 2004, so they aren't exactly app-savvy, and fake pictures wouldn't let them meet up with people in person easily. That should limit any potential damage, and pissing people off/upsetting people is something they'd actively be trying to avoid. They'd want you to willingly pull out the payment card, you know?
If this idea sounds fine by you, we're happy to let you know if they get into anything that veers towards harassment or anything that could reasonably be read as ill intent, and Ydris is more than welcome to shut it down at any point. If this goes beyond the scope of what you were originally planning, no worries there either, we can just play with multiple profiles that are a lot more subtle than a whole invented character :)
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I would say that EMBER accounts are probably locked to one per device, so if the two are grabbing burner phones to keep these accounts separate from their identities, that's probably a reasonable limit on how many accounts they can even afford to create and operate. I doubt they can afford to flood the place with hundreds of spam users like most social media struggles with...
SO, yeah, feel totally free to go around trying whatever schemes your characters would like to get up to. If you think anything might be excessive, feel free to reach out to me, or if you want Ydris to notice and reprimand them (or just... get in on the grift, if it's good enough), that might also be fun! They would just keep an eye out for outright identity theft and harassment to purge those sorts of accounts immediately.
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Since it sounds like a lot of the youkai are more monster than human and they become more violent and stuff... Hizen would wonder if this is natural or not. "Could something like the haniwa curse energy be in the Wasteland... Could there be worse curses out there… Should some of us be more careful so we don't change too..."
I think Hizen would do some general snooping around in shady places, bars, the arena, and ask around if/when people come to the arena to train/get weapons to prepare. He might ask Jiro if he's ever heard of anything too since he is an old soul.
Totally get it if you don't want to share answers about this or anything yet! But it's just something Hizen would wonder about in particular because he comes from a canon where... spirits can become corrupted, more powerful, and become less human, too. He considers himself strong but he knows his nature as a spirit makes him vulnerable to other things. u_u
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He mentions that he doesn't think there's any kind of cursed presence out there that drives people to violence, he just thinks that's what happens to people who are left with no choice but "survive" and little else. He says that having a network of people you care about, who care about you, the singular building block of "society" being bonds formed between individuals, is what keeps people from turning into those monsters you hear about out in the Wastes.
He gets a little sentimental about it, comparing it a bit to the way minerals of iron and carbon bind together, forming steel, becoming stronger and grander, whereas just a chunk of iron by itself in an environment like that is doomed to oxidize, to rust, and crumble away. He stays on this blacksmithing metaphor for well too long, of course, because it's Jiro, but you get it.
He thinks Hizen shouldn't worry; so long as he goes out there with people he trusts, people he knows will keep him "him", he should be fine. He's got friends here.
On an OOC level; yeah there's no force that drives them to becoming monster, it's just what however many centuries away from civilization in an environment that is extremely difficult to survive in has driven them too. There are exceptions to this, though, and it'll become relevant during the event.
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friendsacceptable CR. 😭He'll even listen to the whole blacksmithing metaphor like a good sword boy. Help out extra around the armory. Try to think of a way Jiro can meet his cooler sword friends u_u
Thank you, mods!
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... But if it does get damage, that's a big cost he'd be inheriting, so it's up to him if it's worth the risk. But it'd be able to make at least him invisible, or a small vehicle he's inside of.
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Yuri will sign for two. One for Ringo's getaway in the event Sutoku finds her, one to enable his black market smuggling business, consequences TBD.
Thanks mods!