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 Heaven, A key part of the balance of the world. Staffed by countless hard-working angels working tirelessly to ensure all is good and just, always striking the balance against the usual workings of the demonic Netherworld. A brand new class of our wonderful Winged Paladins graduates today, ready to join the front line as true paragons of justice! Isn't it exciting? Oh, you? Pff, right. Well, even Heaven has its misses. Sure, your job might be a bit less glamorous, but it's definitely just as im-pff, hahah... uh, important. You all will be tasked with cleaning up after the more ridiculous messes the Netherworld and humanity leaves in their wake, and picking up the pieces that our best and brightest are well above to ensure they can get right back to doing the real important stuff. If you aren't happy with your lots in life, perhaps you shouldn't have been such a bunch of layabouts and clowns! Now get to work, cleanup crew!  Welcome to an anime disaster, because that's usually a good excuse to get people in the 'whatever goes, just make it up' mood. You'll be part of Heaven's Cleanup Crew, a group of the celestial world's dropouts. Plenty of ridiculous nonsense goes down all the time because the powers that be in both Heaven and the Netherworld are a bunch of idiots with terrible ideas and zero inhibitions, and it's your job to make sure the world doesn't explode just because someone wanted to reinact Godzilla with excessive magical force or something. Whether you're any good at your job remains to be seen, but failure's probably the I'm going to be running with a weird scooped out shell of PBtA, because I like the simple resolution and it gives me dice to let y'all roll without me having to do math and figure that out myself, but I want to see how well it can run on the basics and hopefully have that enforce more focus on telling a story and rolling when poo poo goes awry and less focus on scanning the moves to see which one you could plug in at the moment. You'll be rolling 2d6+something when conflict arises and you'll have a way to give yourself a boost when you need it, if you're willing to take a bribe. This might devolve into system Calvinball but this is probably the right setting for that to happen anyways. I don't want a character sheet from you, instead what I want is an elevator pitch on your angel. Think along the tone of Disgaea or Gabriel Dropout, you have pretty serious power because you're an angel but you're either an idiot, too lazy to make the most of yourself, or just have no sense of right or wrong. While you're at it, tell me how you're actually kind of a big deal and how you manage to keep loving that up so hard that you never truly succeed in life. Those will make up your 'moves' so to speak but we can workshop them out later if need be, I'm more interested in a good pitch that fits the tone. Have a character willing to involve themselves in the terrible fuckups the group will certainly make, even if they are a lazy jerk. I've been out of this subforum while Discord got popular, but I like the idea of running a play-by-Discord enough that I'll worry about hashing out the details as I go. Join the Discord channel, write up your pitch and post it both here in the thread and in the #charactersheets channel. When you do so, send an @message to sentrygun on the Discord letting me know. Given we're coming up on the end of the year cluster of holidays, I'll have this open until the start of the new year, probably the 2nd. If you've got questions, feel free to post them here or in the Discord, but it's probably better off in the Discord. sentrygun fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Dec 20, 2017 |
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Sounds like you already have a plan wrt system, but have you checked out Avery Alder's Simple World? -----  Shamshel lives underneath every mall fountain and village well on the planet. She also listens at the other end of obscure helplines for those desperate to call for divine intervention. She's a wish-giving angel, one of the few left in the world, who appears before humans to spin pennies and hopelessness into miracles. It's good gig to have. But it's also a busy one. See, wishes come in waves. Finals Week. Christmas Day. Lottery drawings. And there's a lot to go through at any given time. The bad wishes don't see the light of day, sure, but what about two sports teams who both want to win the championship? Or someone who wants to date another person already in a relationship? You gotta spend all that time to vet those, make the right call, all that busywork... ...and that new expansion to World of Stars came out yesterday, didn't it? She ordered the Deluxe Edition and it's still unboxed along with the item set that came with it! And she still needs to watch to the tie-in anime before that! But not before she catches up to the director's other anime project, so she can better appreciate the craft. The forums are just gushing about it, too. She doesn't have to scrutinize every little wish, she just has to make people happy. Just approve them all, and it should all work out, right? Or she would love to think. Remember that time in Starport City when half the city won the lottery and it was a really big mess? Yeah. A reassignment to the Cleanup Crew is probably some divine's roundabout way of teaching her priorities. Let's see how that works out. Mitama fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Dec 21, 2017 |
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Akrasiel, Former Angel of Vengeance There was a time when Angel of Vengeance was a prestigious job, an office held in high esteem. Those days are long gone. Wielding the fiery sword of justice with reckless disregard for collateral damage just isn't the way things are done these days. A more subtle approach, a more respectful and inclusive form of mediation, is called for. And Akrasiel is totally okay with that! Times change, and probably for the better! She'd been good at her job, but it'll be nice to try something new. Unfortunately, unlike her fellows in the Office of Divine Wrath, Akrasiel didn't exactly have broadly applicable skills. Guardian the gates of paradise and smiting the wicked are kind of narrow skill sets. And it wasn't like she'd be involved in target selection or post-affliction assessment - no, she'd been a specialist in direct action. That left her in a bit of an odd spot when the department got downsized. So she'd ended up with the Cleanup Crew pretty much by default. The Crew could use some punch just in case, but really Akrasiel is looking forward to expanding her horizons. Things have changed so much since she was last active in the mortal world! She never totally got humans, even back when they'd been doing the knight in shining armor thing, and from what she'd heard they'd come a long way from that. Akrasiel was really looking forward to trying out all the new things, like the telegraph and electric music and fast foods. And her friends in other areas were always talking about video games - though maybe she should just start with video, whatever that is. Regardless, it should be fun!
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 There’s a special division of Heaven that’s not so much talked about as complained about, except by those in it and those using it. The Department of Love and Companionship, or the “Cupid Corps.”, are in charge of making those longed for friends, those prayers against loneliness, and those wished for dream boyfriends and girlfriends, come true. Understandably, an entire division of matchmaking yentas working on a worldwide scale doesn’t exactly lead to a lot of trust and faith, because the job practically requires being a gossip hound and know-it-all. Even though he was named after his Uncle, the archangel of death, Samael was very, very into the idea of romance, and takes it very seriously. Probably a bit too seriously... It’s one thing to answer the prayers of a young woman who is looking for love and find her the person she’s looking for, or get a young child the puppy they need to get through a rough divorce and the parental consent to leave well enough alone; it’s quite another to successfully pair off every single student in a large high school just to prove that you can do it, or make the Presidents of Restoria and Malclavia declare their mutual love for one another on the floor of the UN. All it takes is a little observation and a couple arrows and “Boom!” instant love! Why does everyone else act like this job is so hard? Not understanding what he did wrong (these people were perfect for each other!), Director Jhudiel transferred Samael to the Cleanup Crew, where hopefully he’d be someone else’s problem.
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 Heaven has a habit of making angels based around some kind of virtue. Innocence, Love, Justice, usually something positive in connotation unless they're looking to whoop some rear end with an angel of Vengeance or something. Unfortunately, sometimes they pick something too open-ended to make an angel based off of and the result is the concept taken to its logical conclusion. Enter Anarchy, Angel of Freedom. Freedom as a concept in and of itself makes sense: it's an angel in charge of setting people free from the shackles of an oppressive society and giving people that boost in confidence they need to truly break out and do what they truly want to do. The problem is you've given someone a divine, non-aging, disease-proof, and drat near indestructible body the virtue of Freedom, so they're going to treat it like they can and should do anything they please. Cussing like a sailor, wielding highly dangerous heavenly firearms, going into situations like a loose cannon cop not afraid to lose her badge, and supporting any and all dumb ideas. After all, unless it directly inconveniences her, why should she care if you get yourself hurt knocking yourself out with your weird plan? She's an angel, she's literally above those sorts of concerns. Now, to her credit, when you pair her up with a super straight-laced angel to get her rear end firmly pointed in the direction of what you want obliterated, she's does a fantastic job as an exterminator, instigator, or distraction. Being free from inhibitions means Anarchy's got no fear of death or harm, and thus can blow something's unholy brains out with zero hesitation. Not to mention it makes her exceptionally slippery considering Freedom also applies to Freedom of Movement. There isn't a set of handcuffs in existence that can keep her restrained. In fact, Heaven's tried to Houdini her before as a test, and sure enough she slipped right out in about a minute flat. ...Though slipping right out is a pretty good way to describe Anarchy's average day, too, consisting of just wandering off and ignoring her duties to go play video games, make out with that cute boy angel who's obviously crushing on her, or go shopping. It turns out the only way to keep Anarchy in check is, fittingly enough, assigning an overbearing and aggressively lawful parole officer of an angel as her superior, someone willing to sass her right back when she steps out of line. Of course, this only works when Heaven's got an actual job for the Angel of Freedom. If she's not on-duty, gently caress what this old guy says, she's gonna hang out with some cute earth boys. Which is exactly why she's in the Clean-Up Crew. As what amounts to a disposable asset sent on cases where the result is the only thing that matters, Heaven's got a pretty good deal with Anarchy; they get to throw one unstable gently caress-up at another unstable gently caress-up and hopefully get rid of both at once. Alternatively, maybe she'll actually learn something about responsibility by working with a team, but they won't hold their breath. Not that they can, since they're angels and thus don't have to breathe.
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 Zebulon was a shining example for everyone in Heaven's Supply and Accounting Division. It was a small group with the very difficult task of tracking all of Heaven's assets, and it was the most thankless job you could have, but Zeb was more than happy to do his part. Counting coins donated via wishing wells was very zen, really. Zeb was without vice until video games were created. They were things like chess, or boardgames, but flashier! Good stuff. And then MMOs came around, but a flat monthly rate didn't really cost much if you thought about it. After all, other angels had to spend bunches of money on things like gear upkeep and what have you. Then mankind created microtransactions. Gatcha games, MOBAs, free to play, World of Whatever, online poker, he was doing it all. Angels didn't need money, and he was definitely the only one who was really counting, so who would miss a couple bucks here and there? What did everyone else need with all that money, anyways? Nothing, that's what. And the books were totally good. No problems there, all just responsible spending out of an expense account. Or a few peoples' expense accounts. Then his air-headed supervisor remembered that she hadn't done an audit in 100 years. Now he's the Cleanup Crew supply chief. He still has access to everything in Heaven's armory that's not money, and still knows where everything is, but those limited time seasonal skins aren't going to pay for themselves...
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 Laniel, the Angel of Computers aka “Ange1us” It's rough, being an angel assigned to a fairly new concept. Love, War, Death, all those have been around for eternity! But "Computers"? Laniel is a bit tired of pranksters sending him coupons for diapers and pureed food, thank you very much. Seeking to try and make a name for himself, and hewing to his concept, Laniel began a project of trying to improve things. Streaming video was a success, and he has a framed photo of the first picture ever posted on Facebook ( It's a Golden Retriever napping on a couch, if you must know). However, pride goeth before a fall, and Laniel got a bit too ambitous for his station. All the files pertaining to his "Humanity 2.0" project were deleted, and he's under a divine gag order not to talk about any part of it. However, rather than be cast out like the last guy who tried to one-up The Boss, Laniel has been assigned here to the Cleanup Crew. "Hopefully some centuries spent here will temper your brash exuberance" they said. He knows he's really here because half of the Tetrarchy still need help opening their email, and his accumulated knowledge is too useful to just be thrown away. He's just trying to do his time in relative peace (and keep on experimenting in secret!).
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And it's closed!
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