Mey Hem RPG: Sword & Sorcery After the End of the World!

[GodSentinelOmega]

Plus, as I write him, Kage can be very dense about stuff like that, even now. And yeah, I assume the comedy sidequest did happen. Not quite as we see them, but the events did occur.

And the idea of the Queen still pursuing Kages connection to her daughter, even when told otherwise, is just too much fun.
Also, those too side campaigns were a lot if fun and did a lot to expand the world. It was always fun to beat Stalebutter.

 

[Zamuel]

One of the planned things that I dropped but am not bothered by is the dragonwhale. I intended to have Dee's sword be a mild teaser but it never got any real setup. The original plan was for YPNR to have captured a dragonwhale and it would be unleashed during the final fight with Lucidas. But then Adapters, who had been quiet for a long while, would launch a full scale assault on YPNR with many combining and fighting the dragonwhale.

This was too much.

I was going "wouldn't this be cool?" without paying attention to if any of it made sense. A big scene that technically wouldn't interact with the main idea of YPNR's crash landing. What finally pushed the idea out of my head was a discussion about unused ideas in the Fiesta Caldera arc and the fact that it might have been too much. What I was planning was going to be way too much to GM. It's good I pushed it out of my mind because the party didn't even fight Lucidas outside. Also didn't have a physical fight with another of Moscareina's manifestations but that's a separate topic.

 

[Destron D-69]

I honestly wondered if a dragonwhale was going to be revealed to be what was keeping YPNR in the sky... like they secretly built the place around one

 

[MEDdMI]

Going through old sketchbooks and coming across stuff that I can't remember if I posted or not.
Also, Haru/e's alternate endings are turning into a VN now with all the routes... lol. Debating which ones are worth fleshing out.

 

[Destron D-69]

the gamer in me says DO THEM ALL! ... but the writer in me says "only do the one/s that feel the most rewarding in some way"

who was that person beside them in your picture? O_O where do they go from here? what was Dee's mom's theory on them, has she sent them a nicely worded letter asking if they want to help with her missing grandkid problem?

XD, she's likely asking everyone

 

[MEDdMI]

She could come to the Island or YPNR and adopt one (or more) of the kids there.

 

[Zamuel]

There actually aren't that many children born into YPNR. One of the unwanted side effects of Liquid Smile and a secondary reason why children taken.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

Ah. So Liquid Smiles suppression affects the sex drive, or the actual ability to have kids?

Either way, that fits very well with the rest of YPNRs creepiness.

 

[Zamuel]

Ability to have kids. And this is unwanted but the leaders don't know how to remove that and still keep the mind control side effect. A nutrition shake and antidepressant with various wanted and unwanted side effects. Never got to dwell on Elizilah initially volunteering for testing the stated benefits. Granted, I didn't actually have much more than her hair falling out and developing an immunity (which I think got mentioned in the campaign but I forget).

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

It did briefly. Your YPNR worldbuilding is pretty awesome Zam.

 

[Zamuel]

I guess one of the biggest unspoken mysteries of the final arc was "what was Moscareina up to?" Outside of the obvious temptation, there were several moments where Moscareina would force Patch to do something like scratch a wall but make no comment on it. Moscareina was trying to infect YPNR and create an environment akin to the outbreak in Merchant Javier's. Stobert's comments about missing members of the cleaning crew was meant to lead to the reveal that she was succeeding and part of the ship was contaminated. Moscareina saw that since she didn't get full control of Patch, her backup plan was the original plan of a mass sacrifice to push herself through to our world.

The main thing made this fall off was wondering if a disease plot would be in poor taste during the pandemic. The thing that truly killed it was the old site going down. There were some concerns about pacing since it was yet another doomsday timer. Also, there was the worry about speed as I watched the campaign slow down. I didn't think diverting the party to separate rescue mission and boss fight was a good idea when they had to rescue the kids and had boss fights against YPNR leadership and Master SAVAGE. But an emotional plea to Patch was probably better and less redundant than another physical fight with a spawn of Moscareina. I guess the only loss was that I never used the giant Trash Cobra, though it would have very openly focused on Night Cap during the fight.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I guess Night Cap should be grateful. Poor guy took more damage in Mayhem than any other game he's been in.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

And rose to greater heights as a true Knight as well.

I kinda see the hesitation with the disease thing. But I personally don’t think it would have been in bad taste. Since Moscareina is a demonic force if destruction. Not a play on a pandemic. If the hook had been YPNR themselves trying to spread something to kill magickers, but still. The site fall combined with irl for everyone did slow us up, but not by much. I didn’t catch the scrawling on walls and such, but I did wonder if Mossy was being set up to try and portal again.

That plot line could still have flown, even with more fights, since it would have been at least one way to hammer home to some in YPNR the difference between magic used for good and magic used for evil. Plus, an object lesson in the existence of demonic gods, thus proving that taking down a benevolent goddess would leave them (and the rest of the world) open to death.

Still, the actual ending was a blast.

 

[Zamuel]

Who would you be trying to hammer the point to, though? Cinniúint was chaotic neutral and YPNR had her captured. I mean, the higher ups didn't think twice about shooting a giant laser at the arctic so I don't see them listening to the argument that they couldn't handle a malevolent goddess.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

Fair point.

 

[Destron D-69]

not to mention that the goddess we had on our side... was until recently also not good

 

[MEDdMI]

I think it might've been overkill to have so many things going on at once.

 

[Patch]

Yeah, I can definitely see how the tendency of the campaign to slow down would have effected how elaborate it could ultimately become. While the length of the campaign allowed me to really refine Patch's character arc, once we crossed the climax, I was ready for things to wind down and finish up.

 

[Zamuel]

As the protector goddess of Viknadia, the range of Cher's powers are mostly centered on the kingdom itself. This can extend if a Viknadian is outside the kingdom. This is most obvious with her champion, Dee, but also applies to Night Cap...and Dra’Beht and Ral’Ochs. With Patch and Beathra invoking Viknadia in the guise of Viknadians, I had those guises take on a sort of spirit of their own. Mechanically, I had them take effect when one of the two players rolled a 20 in combat. I always tried to treat it as a surprise to play up the unknown quantity of magic. Patch becoming Moscareina's champion broke the connection to Ral’Ochs.

 

[Patch]

Aw, nuts.