Ask the Despair Bear (Saibankan's Q&A)

[Kaiu Kunio]

I would be more than happy to bring a character with the same build to a legionnaire game!

[Matsu Inori]

One more question I forgot:

Did you play Kojiro to be intentionally rude and gradually ramped it up until you got a reaction, or was that just an affect of how you felt that character should be?


Also: Where you surprised when Nadeshiko confronted him and half that Day 8 commentary thread seemed ready to gang up on him?

[Saibankan]

One more question I forgot:

Did you play Kojiro to be intentionally rude and gradually ramped it up until you got a reaction, or was that just an affect of how you felt that character should be?


Also: Where you surprised when Nadeshiko confronted him and half that Day 8 commentary thread seemed ready to gang up on him?

I don't think I ramped him up, you just got exposed to more and more of his rudeness. I was surprised by people wanting to gang up on him. Actually, I think it's a good thing, since I know a lot of people loved his antics.

[Matsu Inori]

I don't think I ramped him up, you just got exposed to more and more of his rudeness. I was surprised by people wanting to gang up on him. Actually, I think it's a good thing, since I know a lot of people loved his antics.

I mean I enjoyed it - initially I shipped him and Curse-chan, but at some point it switched over and thought he deserved a stabbing or at least a beating

Good character. Kinda like a douchy mostly-heel tweener in the mid-card. Useful to have around

[Doji Nadeshiko]

Underutilized locations? Maybe the koi pond? No one fell in after all XD

If dog-bear has enough time to finish that RP we started Nadeshiko might XD Keep your dreams alive, Sai!

[Horiuchi Sriyani]

Always interesting to see experiments in game and event mechanics. Thanks for all the work setting this up and running!

I do wish I'd had the energy (and political acumen) to chase down Utemaro's mystery. Would love to hear what was going on there, since he won't be used in another game. Should also probably on or offscreen expect that she's chatting with him D10 to find out what in the world is actually expected of a Sapphire Champion. Does she suddenly have staff? Will people shine a blue light in the sky requesting an Ambassador be dispatched to their court STAT?

Did you have a favorite location to design?

Oh, and were there originally plans to set up the usual roster of plays at the theater that fell through? Poor theater didn't get much love without them (which is, I suppose, a lesson).

1. What's up with Utemaro?: In a previous Naishou game payer Doji Kaori got a sworn enemy in the Scorpion. Scorpion kidnsapped a bunch of her family and told her to behave. Kaori told them to get bent. (Leading me to realize Tassu does sworn enemy better. Just have an assassin go after them for the kill, don't try to build drama and story with them.) Instead of just slaughter them all, they kept the younger one's as hostages. In last Naishou game, Utemaro, one of her relatives was instructed to get Kaori to retire.....Kaori ignored this (Lesson 2: Do not spend excessive amounts of bandwidth weaving plot for uninterested players.). So Utemaro's daughter is still a 'guest' in Scoprpion lands, which Otoko knows about, which provided me a useful gm tool of explaining why the Crane would put up with Scorpion silliness here

Poor guy. I knew he'd be at least interesting to chat with after interacting with him at WC (with a very different character). I hope they'll somehow manage to finagle those hostages free...or just have the closure of some funerals. I'm not sure Sriyani would have the ability to do much there. But a definite pity Hatsuki didn't know, as I imagine her maternal instincts would drive some variety of push.

2. Probably best to do that meeting with Utemaro off-screen since it'd be a lot of details to try and hammer out in 3 days and we're not continuing the setting so seems like a lot of work for little payoff.

Yep. Got the main question affecting immediate timeline dealt with.

3. I liked making the tea houses. Maybe not the most creative with the seasonal themes, but I liked figuring out the little touches as far as menus and pets went.

A lot of Asian art (heck, art in general) is about what you do with the theme, even if repetitive. I liked the details on this bunch a lot.

Thanks again for the game!

[Horiuchi Sriyani]

Underutilized locations? Maybe the koi pond? No one fell in after all XD

If dog-bear has enough time to finish that RP we started Nadeshiko might XD Keep your dreams alive, Sai!

Watching this with great interest! IC and OOC. XD

[Doji Nadeshiko]

Underutilized locations? Maybe the koi pond? No one fell in after all XD

If dog-bear has enough time to finish that RP we started Nadeshiko might XD Keep your dreams alive, Sai!

Watching this with great interest! IC and OOC. XD

I'm just vibrating over here, I wanna know how it goes SOoooooo Bad. And/or want the falling in the pond (silly end) or patting a koi fish on the head (happy end)

[Asahina Asano]

Deep thanks to Despair Bear, who is not very despair inducing outside of the puns.

Was there anything you would have liked to see from Asano or more of? I didn't get much time to explore her, and I'm curious after my discussions with you and such if I missed anything.

[Saibankan]

Deep thanks to Despair Bear, who is not very despair inducing outside of the puns.

Was there anything you would have liked to see from Asano or more of? I didn't get much time to explore her, and I'm curious after my discussions with you and such if I missed anything.

Just more in general I know that rl no oni comes first, but I did appreciate your participation in the ritual.

[Fukurokujin]

Turnabout for you:

1. Did you have fun?
2. What thing from this game would you like to see in future games?
3. What thing from this game would you like to not see in future games?

[Saibankan]

Turnabout for you:

1. Did you have fun?
2. What thing from this game would you like to see in future games?
3. What thing from this game would you like to not see in future games?

1. Yes, because we have awesome players and a great co-gm who makes everything run smoothly.
2. More use of the panic rule to offer a wide selection of player factions that then narrow into what player's actually want and keep things interesting.
3. Unnecessary generation of negative vibes.

[Doji Nadeshiko]

Oh! Who was Kumaji pretending to be during the game? If we saw him and didn't know...

[Saibankan]

Oh! Who was Kumaji pretending to be during the game? If we saw him and didn't know...

You'd need to ask GB about this one, I left Kuma-kun in his hands

[Doji Nadeshiko]

Oh! Who was Kumaji pretending to be during the game? If we saw him and didn't know...

You'd need to ask GB about this one, I left Kuma-kun in his hands

Okay! theeeeen...

What was the painting Mikan was gonna debut on Honesty? O:

[Bayushi Choudai]

What was the painting Mikan was gonna debut on Honesty? O:

I can answer this one...