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Any characters or threads you're enjoying?

Any CR you're liking or want to see more of?

We have ships sailing?

zero/yuuki seems pretty obvious

lot of ship tease around otherwise

steph and sumireko are dating, and wendy and kurt are mutually crushing on one another.

Labrys and Keiichi are a couple, so are Haru and Makoto IIRC

Thinking of possibly applying here. What's the pace and playerbase like?

is about midrange and we normally get a few new posts a day. the intro and event logs are normally busy with people both top-levelling and tagging around. our last event post is currently at 1000 comments and rising.

since the game is mostly SoL (horror SoL, sure, but SoL none the less), play is as busy or as laid back as you want it to be, within reason. slower players can get by tagging into fewer things, but there's a lot to do if you like more on your plate. characters can join or run clubs, investigate the school's mysteries, go to class... you have to be proactive as most of what happens outside events is player initiated, but the characters in game are good at arranging things so personally I never find myself at a loss for things to do.

Agreed on most counts, except for investigating the school's mysteries. I have a character who would realistically be expected to look into that kind of thing, but in between plots it's just a whole lot of nothing.

agreed, anon. there's just nothing in the game's mechanics or setting that encourages seeking out plot yourself, unless you count the NPCs, though I personally wouldn't as the mods seem more interested in treating them like PCs. even then you're barely given anything to work with. as far as the environment goes, everything that *might* be worth investigating or plotty is basically inaccessible. hence where a lot of the SoL comes in. PCs can't do anything unless the metaplot demands it.

There's no problem with a "make your own fun" kind of approach. The mods never claimed it would be a character-driven game. If they did it on purpose then it's just the nature of the game; the PCs are held at the mercy of the unknown. It's a conflict between the characters' IC desires to figure out All The Things and the mods' plans for the game. That in itself can create IC tension. Good times.

Trouble is, to me it's not clear if they made it unsolvable by design or by accident.

I'd say the pace is medium fast. There's a wide range of tagging speeds, so it's easy to find thread partners who suit your speed, but events can go fast. I wouldn't recommend Inugami to anyone who's looking for a slow or laid-back game, even though the AC is still not super high.

In my experience, the game doesn't have a strong ooc presence. Getting relatively little response to your ooc intro and not being friended on Plurk until you have existing CR seems to be the norm. That said, I wouldn't call Inugami unwelcoming or cliquey, because I've also had no trouble getting a ton of threads and planning things IC, despite playing less well-known characters with no castmates.

Basically: you aren't likely to see a lot of ooc enthusiasm, but don't mistake that for meaning that people don't want to play with you.

cliquey as all get out

you're better in holly heights to be honest

What are some of the cliques? I understand casts and people who apped in as friends tend to want their characters to be together.

no ty that place is boring

any1 in particular?

i appd in without a castmate and haven't had problems getting cr or tagging out

apped a lone canon warrior, had no problems. I have a good handful of friends who also apped lone canon warriors or OCs, and they haven't seemed to have problems either.

Both my characters are lone canon warriors and I haven't had problems myself.

in what way? I rarely see toplevels or posts go untagged in this game, and while some of the larger casts tend to spend more time and energy on cast-related things, I've never had issues reaching out to any of them for things.

please give us more details as to who is being cliquey and how, because otherwise we can only assume the problem is you.

wow, holly heights players must be desperate for new blood.

they couldn't attract new blood on their own so they shitstir in a thread about a different game out of desperation

it's sad

well, all their best players left for either here or cerealia with a few at fc before it went the same way as hh and they all abandoned ship. maybe if they put forth effort and didn't suck they could draw them back. i know people who left the game and are in inugami and other games that would come back in a heartbeat if there were child character caps put up. having a mod team beats kiss any day, but the npcs (and the lessor not being nic cage even after 99% of the game said they wanted his pb to be nic cage) also sours it.

it's too bad. i'll just stick to inugami where the mods are on top of shit and i don't have to play m/m love hexagons to get tags.

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