Tezuka Role Play - OOC posts only

[mippa]

[mippa]

Curious, are we planning to get this thing started any time soon? We have several new members now, and I can't think of any better time to start!

[putrocca]

I'm relocating from the US to Italy this week so the next few weeks will be chaos for me, but if you want to get started now I'll happily join in when I have time again, otherwise we can wait.

What do others think?

[Ataru Moroboshi]

[putrocca]

[putrocca]

OOC: Ataru Moroboshi, I made a Lamp avatar if you want to use it. Just enter this url in the "outside avatars" box in your profile. It's a manga shot but a very good one - if you'd prefer an anime one I can try to make a new one later.

http://www.geocities.com/putrocca/Lamp.JPG

And Sundog, here's one of Kisaragi Kei:

http://www.geocities.com/putrocca/kei.JPG

More icons for a variety of characters may be found on the icon page. Right click and copy image location to get the url:

http://tezukainenglish.com/?q=node/139

If anyone else wants avatars of other characters, let me know and I'll make them and load them there temporarily, while we are waiting for the avatars gallery to work.

[Ataru Moroboshi]

OOC: Thanks Putrocca!

[putrocca]

OOC: How do people feel about one person playing multiple characters? I'm ready to start but things don't seem to be really ready for Rock yet, since they're still just getting started, so I was thinking of playing another character for now and adding Rock when the time is right.

For choice of temporary characters, I was thinking of doing Wato. I would do something between the Black Jack TV version and the original, so she and Sharaku still live in BJ's hometown and know BJ and Pinoko and everyone, but rather than being siblings, as they are in BJ, they're classmates, as in the original Three Eyed One manga, where Wato acts like a controlling big sister toward regular Sharaku but has an awkward romance with Three-Eyed-One Sharaku. Does that sound OK to people? Presumably BJ & Pinoko don't know about Sharaku's third eye.

Unless anyone objects I'll post Wato's entrance tomorrow.

[putrocca]

OOC: I'm going away for a week (bad timing, I know). I should have occasional e-mial access so will try to keep up, but if I'm slow, that's why. Glad this is finally picking up steam!

[putrocca]

This thread has now been split into two. This thread contains only 100% out of character posts, which discuss the RP but don't affect its continuity at all. People should continue to use this thread to propose and discuss ideas pertaining to the LARP's chronology, characters, rules etc. All in character posts shuld go in the IC thread.

Be sure to also check the Tezuka Roleplay Information sticky thread which has a general tally of characters and events so far, for reference.

Thanks!

[putrocca]

We should probably work out what's been established so far about who knows whom, and work out a chronology of which Tezuka series are "canon" (i.e. that people remember) and which are "out of sequence" i.e. no current characters remember them (except people like the Phoenix, Buddha, Yamanobei or Sharaku who can see into multiple reincarnations). I know not everyone has read/seen all of these, but that should be fine since you can simply decide your character isn't the version that appeared in any that you haven't read. Sound good?

ESTABLISHED SO FAR:

Lamp is the detective version from Black Jack so he knows Black Jack and Pinoko.

Wato is the Three-Eyed-One version, so is Sharaku's classmate/girlfriend not his sister, but she and Sharaku still live in BJ's hometown and know BJ and Pinoko, as in the BJ TV series.

So far Sapphire is not established as having known anyone except Wato.

Ochanomizu, who is in charge of the dig, is presumably the Astro Boy version, thus the head of the Ministry of Science, but it's probably best if we take the Astro Boy GBA game version and also say that Ochanomizu and Black Jack know each other too.

Black Jack, do you want to include the events of Black Jack 21 or not?

Rock is a combo. He is mostly based on Makube Rokuro as he appeared in Vampires and Black Jack, so Lamp would know him as an infamous wanted criminal escaped from Death Row, and Rock and Black Jack have known each other since they were kids. Sound good, Lamp?

HERE IT GETS COMPLICATED: Rock and Kenichi...

As for how to handle Rock and Kenichi, it's up to Kenichi whether he wants to be Metropolis Kenichi or a different Kenichi. If Kennichi wants to be a different Kenichi then it's easy, but less fun, we just say he's new and doesn't know anyone. If Kennichi wants to be Metropolis Kenichi than we can say that Makube/Rock (who we know was an orphan) was adopted by Duke Red in Metropolis for a while, but then survived and went on to be the Makube of Vampires after the fall of the Ziggurat (the Black Jack manga established pretty clearly that "Print Proof" took place after Vampires so that is compatible with Black Jack too). It's also fairly clear that the Metropolis movie is sort-of supposed to take place after Nextworld (since Nextworld ends with Duke Red adopting Rock) so if Kennichi wants to be Nextworld Kennichi as well as Metropolis Kennichi that is still compatible. On the other hand, if Kennichi doesn't want to be Nextworld/Metropolis Kenichi then we can say Rock isn't Nextworld/Metropolis Rock either - Kenichi, what do you prefer?

Note: Phoenix: "Future" presumably took place 5 billion years in the past or future, depending on how you interpret Phoenix, so that can't be the same version of Rock as this one. Same goes for Buddha Rock.

To clarify, here are some proposed chronologies:

LARGEST AND MOST COMPLICATED (if Kenichi wants to do Metropolis Kenichi):
Extremely ancient past: Events of Phoenix: Future - separate reincarnation
Very ancient past: Destruction of the race of Three Eyed Ones, Sharaku last survivor
Ancient past: Kingdom of Mu (as appearing in Astro Boy & Marine Express)
Past: Buddha, other historical events
Within living memory:
1) Rock& BJ backstory as kids, both orphans
2) Events of Nextworld, ends with Duke Red adopting Rock
3) Events of Metropolis
4) Events of Vampires (Rock, still young, is back in Japan)
5) Other BJ stories and events of The Three Eyed One go on roughly at the same time. We could probably also throw in Astro Boy in this period, including the Astro Boy 2003 episode with Rock and the Phoenix. That way if anyone wants to play Astro they can do so.
7) BJ "Print Proof" ending with Rock (now an adult) on Death Row
8) Events of Black Jack 21 (if BJ wants)
9) PRESENT DAY WHEN RP TAKES PLACE
Distant Future: Events of later Phoenix volumes
Very Distant Future: Events of Phoenix Future again - yay cyclical time

Or we could simplify by saying that Metropolis and Nextworld were separate reincarnatins that will take place in the future but haven't yet, so we don't have to worry about the characters remembering them:

LESS COMPLICATED:
Extremely ancient past: Events of Phoenix: Future - separate reincarnation
Very ancient past: Destruction of the race of Three Eyed Ones, Sharaku survives
Ancient past: Kingdom of Mu (as appearing in Astro Boy & Marine Express)
Past: Buddha, other historical events
1) Rock& BJ backstory as kids, both orphans
4) Events of Vampires (Rock back in Japan)
5) Other BJ stories, events of The Three Eyed One
7) BJ "Print Proof" ending with Rock on Death Row
9) PRESENT DAY WHEN RP TAKES PLACE
Future (not yet happened) Nextworld, Metropolis, Phoenix volumes etc.

What do people prefer? A combo of the two? Have I left out anything important? We should work together to get this somewhat clear before we confuse ourselves over which character remembers what.

[putrocca]

Rather than re-posting it every time, I'm going to revise this post when people suggest alterations to the timeline. Recently-changed items are in bold.

After a conference between Canti/BJ and putrocca, a new timeline is proposed, setting the Black Jack stories in better order. Remember, if you haven't read/watched some of these that's fine, just assume your character doesn't know about them:

Extremely ancient past: Phoenix: Future - separate reincarnation
Very ancient past: Destruction of the race of Three Eyed Ones, Sharaku last survivor
Ancient past: Kingdom of Mu (as appearing in Astro Boy & Marine Express)
Past: Buddha, other historical events, Rock's old samurai reincarnations in Vampires III
Within living memory:
1) Rock& BJ back story as kids, both orphans
2) Events of Nextworld, Kenichi boy detective, ends with Duke Red adopting Rock
3) Creation of Astro Boy (Astro and Kenichi are classmates in Shunsaku Ban's school)
4) Events of Metropolis (Kenichi still a boy detective working with Shunsaku Ban)
5) Events of Vampires I, II and III (Rock, still young, becomes infamous criminal)
6) Astro Boy 2003 episode w/ Rock & Phoenix (Rock is a young criminal; Dr. Saruta still alive)
7) Black Jack story: Nadare the Deer (Rock now young adult, looses first fianc

[putrocca]

You know what's odd? I just looked back over all sixteen or so times that Rock has met Black Jack and guess what... Rock never once met Pinoko! Not once! That should be fun the first time they cross paths. I doubt she's even heard of him.

[mippa]

I could post her reaction according to what I have seen in several doujinshi...


...and where in this timeline does BJ save Pinoco? Let's put that in somewhere too. <3

[putrocca]

Now that the Detective has left the hotel, we have action going in multiple locations. To keep things from getting confusing, I'd like people to please start each post with a line in all caps stating the location in which their character is, for example:

LOCATION: HOTEL LOBBY, OUTSIDE OPERATING ROOM
LOCATION; OPERATING ROOM
LOCATION: DIG SITE

This will help keep things clear in future. Thanks!

BTW, I'm writing Sharaku for now to go with Wato, but if someone else wants to get involved in writing him let me know.