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realitymods ([personal profile] realitymods) wrote in [community profile] shifted_ooc2011-09-08 05:43 am
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...and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.

"It always started in September."

Have you heard the gossip lately? Have you seen the news? Samantha from down the street has gone missing. Timothy from next door up and disappeared.

Granted, those might not be their names. Your character might be from a world where a minimum of three xs are required in a name! But the above is still the same. If your character keeps up with town gossip, or keeps an eye on the news, they may see/hear reports of one or two people having gone missing.



"We were braver and bolder then."

So what does this mean for you? Nothing, not really! Not unless your character wants to investigate. Or maybe whoever went missing was someone they vaguely knew; a co-worker, their favourite server at Starbucks, a librarian friend they discussed literature with...

Participation (read: acknowledgment) is entirely optional. Don't want to get involved? Your character just hasn't seen the news or heard any gossip, simple as that.

As well, while I mentioned what seems to be only minor characters above, you may use important NPCs if you like. But be warned: whatever might happen to them while they're missing is permanent. If you don't want to risk something happening to a character who exists canonically/is an important NPC, feel free to run with some of the examples above (or anything else you can think of).



If you have any questions, feel free to ask away.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I am excited for this. Haibara? Aoko? Let's plan!

[identity profile] asmallamoroso.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Planning is good!

Wow, sorry this is so late.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
We have so many expendable bit-characters!

I'm thinking of the girl who works at Poirot's brother as someone whose disappearance Conan would definitely hear about, but who won't leave me heartbroken should he never come back.

[identity profile] asmallamoroso.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
This series is nothing BUT expendable bit-characters!

That sound like it would work just perfectly!

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
I think we should have two more people -- one with a greater connection to Haibara maybe, and someone for Aoko if she wants to take part.

[identity profile] asmallamoroso.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I... may have to do a re-read or something because no one is coming to mind for Ai save for Kobayashi-sensei or the Professor. And those are both no-nos.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
We could invent a substitute teacher or music teacher, or there is the Professor's first love or one of his friends maybe?

[identity profile] asmallamoroso.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man his first love. I think one of his friends or maybe an acquaintance from a university he helped or lectured at would be best.

[identity profile] holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Or that annoying father and son combo who came to look at the vase, and I'm also tempted by the guy at Yomiuri television who dragged Mouri, Ran and Conan into the Seance murder case -- geez, I watched it just last night and have forgotten the name already.

Anyway, for my memory as much as any other reason, girl who works in Poirot is Azusa Enomoto, and her brother is Sugihito Enomoto. The obnoxious father and son don't seem to have been named, although Haibara never met them, so maybe we should forget them and go with an acquaintance of the Professor's, and the TV dude is Yatsukawa-san.

[identity profile] asmallamoroso.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
An acquaintance of the Professor's it is then! This is an excellent plan.

[personal profile] semantics 2011-09-08 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone who shares a reality with meeeeeee: I'd prefer for our missing people to not be too important. NO NATALIA VANISHING FROM BATICUL.

[identity profile] guyexplains.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't want to vanish Ingobert?!?

[personal profile] semantics 2011-09-08 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
...tempting. But Jade claims to be too old to deal with succession crises. so why don't you go and PREVENT one of those by NAMING A SUCCESSOR, Peony

[identity profile] guyexplains.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess Natalia still needs some time for her claim to the throne to be solid, huh...

Can Guy call Not It?

[personal profile] semantics 2011-09-08 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Start poisoning Ingobert regularly but moderately, forcing Natalia to take the throne while keeping him alive enough to stake her claim properly. Then get it to the point where she is named regent as well as heir apparent. With that, popular support, and the knowledge of political juggling, she'll be sold. It'll help if she is married before then with her own successor established in her children.

[identity profile] guyexplains.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
That means we have to keep Ingobert alive for at least a few years. What a pain.

[personal profile] semantics 2011-09-08 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the game of thrones, man. You've only got two options, and we're not letting Natalia pick the second one.

[identity profile] guyexplains.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
More seriously do you guys want to disappear a minor named NPC at all, or just make up some poor unfortunate souls?

[personal profile] semantics 2011-09-08 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm okay with either things. Or we could use combinations. If I'm reading right, it's not like only one person goes missing.

[identity profile] guyexplains.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Do we want a Named NPC we'd be sad over? (Rose, the Good JC, Ginji?) or someone like Alpine or Goldberg?

[personal profile] semantics 2011-09-09 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
...uh tell Mel to decide. But not Noelle or Ginji! I'd feel really bad about them...
sosweet: (Oh I see)

[personal profile] sosweet 2011-09-09 12:25 am (UTC)(link)

lamb_of_gold: (stomping hooves)

[personal profile] lamb_of_gold 2011-09-10 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
DON'T YOU DARE LOSE HALF THE FUCKING TRAINEES, BOY.

[identity profile] traitorsaint.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)

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lamb_of_gold: (*Alta 4*)

[personal profile] lamb_of_gold 2011-09-10 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
i used to have tht as an icon.
sosweet: (your friends still have hope to save)

[personal profile] sosweet 2011-09-10 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You should have it again |3

[identity profile] onperfectlips.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I am intrigued.