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Yesterday, when poking through the links to the silly zanpakuto generator, I ran across someone who commented, after receiving theirs, that they now wanted to play a Fourth Division Irregulars RPG.

...and now, no matter how much I tell my brain that this is a bad idea, it keep trying to come up with one. :/

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Telophase's Zanpakutō:
(Fourth Division Irregulars)

Off-Key Sausage is a rotten, jealous set of bolas. When you activate it with the command "Print!" it begins to vibrate with increasing violence, until eventually it erupts into a geyser of champagne.

What's Your Zanpakutō?

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I haven't watched the anime at all - my fixation is all about the manga, baby! I haven't even yet read ahead in the manga yet (vol. 20 should be out in a week or two!). I'm not really fanatical about spoilers on my own behalf, though - I reread stuff I like so often, it hardly seem to be something to worry about. (The Mr. says he's less worried about my manga expenditures now that he sees how much use I get out of them ... .)

As noted, I'm not used to this style of RPG ... as a referee in a trditional RPG, 12 was about as many players as I could handle. In this sort of more free-form game, I'm not certain what the ideal pool of players would be. 30? 50?

There's also the issue of online time availability. I tend not to be online a lot at all during the weekend, when we do errands and family-oriented activities. I hate the idea of my slowing anyone else down, though. The online RPGs I've played previously (at www.dreamlyrics.com, which grew out of CompuServe's game board) often had people posting as seldom as once per day - in fact, many refs/mods specified a minimum to keep the games moving. But CFUD seems to run almost in chat mode ... .

Yeah, I have a feeling that things were pretty static in Soul Society before Ichigo & co. showed up - it would be far more interesting to be a character in the more chaotic situation that develops afterward. "May you live in interesting times" is a curse for everyday existence, but a blessing for a roleplaying game!

CFUD seems like LJ-based IRC, but IIRC the only requirement is that you post or comment once every two weeks. No activity for a month, and your character is retired. So I guess the ideal number of players would be dependent on how busy it was.

I spent some time poking about the Web for ideas but so far the games with the most info seem to be highly-structured ones like

tabula_rasa and

fandom_high, which are far less cracktastic than I'm expecting this to be.

milliways is another fairly free-form one, I think, but not much info on how it was set up at the beginning.

* (and let me tell you, it's quite a job to poke around while avoiding HP spoilers - every link I click, I'm not sure if it's going to have been hit by a troll of not...)

It's at time like this that I'm just as glad my online activities are limited to a very few places ... neilgaimanboard is well-mannered and has vigilant, active board mods, and shejidan is small and well-mannered.

For myself, I just get angry at spoiler-bearing trolls - it doesn't bother me personally about the spoilers themselves, but the nastiness of the intent makes me froth at the mouth. I guess these folks kick kittens and take candy from babies, too.

I engaged a ~~nimrod~~ troll over at fandom_wank a year or so back, in a thread about Death Note. I was originally talking with someone who hadn't gotten very far in the series yet, and a few days after the conversation had ended the troll - an anonymous poster - popped in and informed her of the Big Spoiler.

Only this troll was an idiot, because instead of replying to the person I was talking to, who would have gotten the comment notification, they responded to me. So I replied, calling them an idiot and a coward for not signing their name, and the replied to me, and so on. I asked them why they liked bursting someone's bubble over something as simple as respecting the author's pace of revelation and they never gave a really satisfactory answer. They also never quite grasped that the person they were attempting to spoil never got any comment notifications, since they replied to me and not them, and thus was never actually spoiled. Idiot!

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