Post by SIFR on Dec 25, 2014 11:06:08 GMT -8
Well fuck. pascaline got me thinking about making a site for this series the other day, and I told myself that I didn't want to do it, and that I was too busy, but then I got to thinking of how to do it, and now I've got a clearer point in my head than before of how to work it.
Noragami, first of all, if you haven't read the manga or watched the series, is great. Like, one of the best anime to come out in 2014, IMHO. The plot revolves around the gods of the Shinto pantheon and their servants, the Shinki. Most of these gods are going about their lives, doing their thing, but some of the gods, like the protagonist Yato, also have a goal in mind; to get into the hearts and minds of the populace, so that they too can become family names in their own right and have thousands of followers worshipping them and asking them for blessings. The other task of some of these gods is to strike down the corrupted spirits of the dead, called Phantoms in this case, but not all Phantoms are corrupt. The point behind striking them down? They can cause chaos and calamity amongst the living, and even blight and destroy the uncorrupted spirits of the dead. At any rate, to learn more about the plot, I recommend [reading the manga], or [watching the anime], although the anime (for the time being) only covers the first arc. However, the anime's fun as hell, has a great soundtrack, a great voice actor cast, and a great script. So who knows.
Anyway, the idea I had last night was to create sort of an AU site, basically starting the site from the beginning of the manga series. I'm debating whether to make it a purely AU setting, with people selecting their own representation for the different major gods of the Shinto pantheon, or making it so that Canons can be played, and the only original characters can be those that aren't in the manga series. Honestly, as much as I would like to play one of the characters specifically, it'll probably be the former. I can get my entertainment with Kazuma elsewhere.
Characters will be split into six member groups; Major Gods, Minor Gods, Shinki, Phantoms, Half-Phantoms and Humans. Major and Minor Gods are somewhat self-explanatory; Major Gods are the names that we're all familiar with as being a part of the shinto pantheon, and Minor Gods are the Gods trying to struggle their way to the top. Shinki are Phantoms who have been claimed by a God and are used as their instrument in whatever item their soul happens to represent; whether that be a sword, a gun, an earring, a fan, whatever you please. Phantoms are UNCORRUPT spirits that have been claimed by no God, thus making them more vulnerable to corruption. Half-Phantoms are the souls of Humans who have been in situations where they really should have died, but divine intervention got in the way to stop the death from happening (got hit by a bus and a God was nearby to save you, nearly died from some attempt on their life but a God made you live through it, etc). Humans, of course, unless they have some kind of psychic power, are simple Humans who have no idea of what's going on in this world.
I'm debating whether corrupt Phantoms are going to be playable or not. I would almost say that people are allowed to manipulate corrupt Phantoms in their thread if they so wish, but they seem more like an NPC or a story element than a character that can actually be played. However, with the right concept, I'm willing to consider it.
The setting would be based in some major city in Japan. I might make the city from scratch, I don't know, or I might just base it off Tokyo or Kyoto. The secondary settings (should we ever have a reason to go there) would likely be the series' equivalent of Heaven and Hell.
Otherwise, it would be run as a sandbox with staff injecting plots into it every once in a while. I want all kinds of mixtures of characters; pure motives, evil motives, selfish motives, neutral motives, and everything in between. We're not all good, we're not all bad, and we're not all neutral either.
So, am I crazy? Do you need more information? What do you think? Comment below.
[[PLEASE NOTE. IF SOMEONE HAS A CONCEPT ALREADY BASED OFF OF THIS, PLEASE JUST LINK ME THE SITE. I WOULD MUCH RATHER JOIN SOMEONE ELSE'S CREATION THAN MAKE YET ANOTHER CONCEPT BASED OFF OF THE SAME THING.]]
Noragami, first of all, if you haven't read the manga or watched the series, is great. Like, one of the best anime to come out in 2014, IMHO. The plot revolves around the gods of the Shinto pantheon and their servants, the Shinki. Most of these gods are going about their lives, doing their thing, but some of the gods, like the protagonist Yato, also have a goal in mind; to get into the hearts and minds of the populace, so that they too can become family names in their own right and have thousands of followers worshipping them and asking them for blessings. The other task of some of these gods is to strike down the corrupted spirits of the dead, called Phantoms in this case, but not all Phantoms are corrupt. The point behind striking them down? They can cause chaos and calamity amongst the living, and even blight and destroy the uncorrupted spirits of the dead. At any rate, to learn more about the plot, I recommend [reading the manga], or [watching the anime], although the anime (for the time being) only covers the first arc. However, the anime's fun as hell, has a great soundtrack, a great voice actor cast, and a great script. So who knows.
Anyway, the idea I had last night was to create sort of an AU site, basically starting the site from the beginning of the manga series. I'm debating whether to make it a purely AU setting, with people selecting their own representation for the different major gods of the Shinto pantheon, or making it so that Canons can be played, and the only original characters can be those that aren't in the manga series. Honestly, as much as I would like to play one of the characters specifically, it'll probably be the former. I can get my entertainment with Kazuma elsewhere.
Characters will be split into six member groups; Major Gods, Minor Gods, Shinki, Phantoms, Half-Phantoms and Humans. Major and Minor Gods are somewhat self-explanatory; Major Gods are the names that we're all familiar with as being a part of the shinto pantheon, and Minor Gods are the Gods trying to struggle their way to the top. Shinki are Phantoms who have been claimed by a God and are used as their instrument in whatever item their soul happens to represent; whether that be a sword, a gun, an earring, a fan, whatever you please. Phantoms are UNCORRUPT spirits that have been claimed by no God, thus making them more vulnerable to corruption. Half-Phantoms are the souls of Humans who have been in situations where they really should have died, but divine intervention got in the way to stop the death from happening (got hit by a bus and a God was nearby to save you, nearly died from some attempt on their life but a God made you live through it, etc). Humans, of course, unless they have some kind of psychic power, are simple Humans who have no idea of what's going on in this world.
I'm debating whether corrupt Phantoms are going to be playable or not. I would almost say that people are allowed to manipulate corrupt Phantoms in their thread if they so wish, but they seem more like an NPC or a story element than a character that can actually be played. However, with the right concept, I'm willing to consider it.
The setting would be based in some major city in Japan. I might make the city from scratch, I don't know, or I might just base it off Tokyo or Kyoto. The secondary settings (should we ever have a reason to go there) would likely be the series' equivalent of Heaven and Hell.
Otherwise, it would be run as a sandbox with staff injecting plots into it every once in a while. I want all kinds of mixtures of characters; pure motives, evil motives, selfish motives, neutral motives, and everything in between. We're not all good, we're not all bad, and we're not all neutral either.
So, am I crazy? Do you need more information? What do you think? Comment below.
[[PLEASE NOTE. IF SOMEONE HAS A CONCEPT ALREADY BASED OFF OF THIS, PLEASE JUST LINK ME THE SITE. I WOULD MUCH RATHER JOIN SOMEONE ELSE'S CREATION THAN MAKE YET ANOTHER CONCEPT BASED OFF OF THE SAME THING.]]
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