Kazama
Definite Crook
The Premise
The Spiel
tldr (But you really should read.): The magic world lives right under our noses and our job is to keep it that way. Sometimes, someone screws up and makes a mess. Gets seen. Gets in trouble. Gets someone killed. We fix that. Simple. The supernatural world creates a problem, we solve the problem. Whether they like it or not.
This RP takes a lot of elements from things like Hellboy's BPRD and franchises like Bill Willingham's Fables.
Players will take the role of Investigators under the B.A.R.C.'s Civic Protection department. That means you'll mostly be handling cases in the areas where the supernaturals are most likely to cause them. Cities, towns, and other highly populated areas. The RP will focus on overcoming problems through investigative methods. Combat may still arise, but won't be a huge focus (that doesn't mean your character can't be good at it). Ask questions. Dig around. Get information. Solve the case. I will literally encourage players to take notes and then use their characters to share these with each other IC.
Characters may come from a variety of backgrounds both mundane and supernatural; variety is encouraged.
The group will be kept small so some manner of scrutiny will be taken with characters that sign up. That means that not everyone who signs up will accepted, but if someone who IS accepted drops, those who weren't may take their place. If a large amount of applications come in, I may look for a co-GM and have two small groups instead. I don't have the exact number of players that will constitute a group, but it will most likely be less than 7.
The reason for the small group is that I prefer tightly knit groups of players who interact often over a small army of players. The cases are also designed to be tackled in small groups, and a large party would leave many players with nothing to do or with 6 people sharing a single lead. Smaller groups tend to function better, both socially IC and with problem solving of this kind. Furthermore, I highly encourage players who sign up to contact each other and myself. Set up pre-existing character dynamics with each other, work together, etc. Small group dynamics are some of the most fun in RP.
Structure will be somewhat episodic, with each new case taking us somewhere else and introducing us to a new situation; but many elements will carry through a central storyline will act as a thread on which to string these "episodes."
Throughout the RP I will encourage interactions between characters, growth between characters, and within characters. I'm likely to take some aside here and there for little growth arcs while the rest of the group continues on something else.
Hopefully there's interest and I looking forward to setting a fun and riveting RP with you all.
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I'll wait for the CS
