potential pacific rim game, au-based. looking for your thoughts and ideas
yESSSSS
yes it would
yes ye s yes it would.
... i also scored "the breach"
or well "thebreach"
nnnice
anyway yeah SHARE... PASS IT AROUND... I WANNA HEAR WHAT PPL WANT... i wanna be where the ppl are...
i wanna see
wanna see them...
dancing
walking around on those what do you call em
oh,
feet.
replurkin the hell out of this
owo thx
also replurking
no characters come immediately to mind to throw in but I also tend to not play characters who would play well with others
I'd have to sit with it
but I'm 
oh, i'd roll with that! dang. haha
stares at this
idk as a Modly Type i haven't got any real ideas but lbr i'm going to roll with "obscure characters" as usual, and also so other people can snap up the popular folk.
stares at you
tbh,
i'm most invested in playing charlie kelly
as a janitor in the shatterdome.
who would I even play he whispers, forlorn
i want it so bad
...oh fuck, duh, dist
giant robots are his life love
so
I would kill for this as an au game
he would design jaegers with horrid names
I third fourth fifth whateverth this setting needing an AU game
yeah an AU game would be worlds better than a jamjar for this setting tbh
I have like two characters I know I'd take already
knowing me I'd probably just go with Klaus because
he has canonically punched a dinosaur to death
so.
hey duders, I can't really offer any characters or ideas at this time but I thought I'd leave this here. It's the novelization and it apparently has tons of extra info
and tidbits in case it would help at all? so yeah
there's precedent for him beating the shit out of kaiju
this sounds really cool btw good luck!!
eviscerator thank you so much!
np! I will be watching this with interest.............
eviscerator i'd especially been interested in picking up some more of the lore, since that's what i'm most interested in-- so this is very handy
the novelization takes liberties with the plot
but optional canin can really help with mental images of a world
*canon
I should have tales from year zero and the artbook in soon so I will just be all up in with pacrim times
ha! well, as i've mentioned, this would take place before canon proper-- and perhaps also take liberties, especially since the appeal of an au game is seeding it with ideas/characters native to other canons
yeah
earlier i'd jokingly mentioned a cityface or ice king kaiju to my gf and hey why the hell not
hey, why the hell not
ON TOPIC with discussion of how this would work -- how would partner selection work for those who wanted to be pilots? Would we choose ooc and just retcon it in, would there be tryouts for newer characters?
oh god tryouts
ink, you do klaus, i will do usagi
Also would there be a team cap? Since you wanted to keep it fairly small (which is smart, because ifwe had a game of nothing but pilots it would get kind of boring and difficult for the mods who npc the kaiju)
i believe a mix of the two. people applying to be pilots as they apped into the game would, likely, be under heightened scrutiny
klausagi frands
I'd kill for a Bill ngl but that's wishful thinking 
*A*
thissssssss /rolls in it
i don't think there would be a whole lot of restriction on who could be a pilot and why, i'm not gonna say NO U CANT after someone played for a while
it would be an amazing AU yes yes yes good
but basically it'd be a decision to be made with due consideration?
this might be a game that would work best if kept small maybe?
and yes, small is what would work best, i believe
Definitely small
Even if this pre-'we are the tiny resistance' times in canon
and i'd encourage people to app outside of the pilot corps
I have... an OC who is half cuttlefish... who would work well AU'd as a kaiju biologist so I will
consider
there's scientists, marshalls, there's politicians, mechanics, what about all those communities that grow around kaiju skeletons, etc.
would it be set in canon pre-Resistance?
probably
or maybe go a little AU with the storyline also?
and yes, to the second
I'm not sure how but I was looking at the link and the problem of the scattered Shatterdomes and stuff
oh my god
even if it butted up against canon, there would be change to what happens and how-- since mako and raleigh, etc. would not be the focus, by necessity!
or we'd only see them at a distance (unless of course we had them playing in game, idk how that would end up working out)
what would happen to people who wanted to app characters from pac rim --
yeahsdfjdoi
i think that's going to be a problem to consider a little later!
well, we know from canon that a lot of the Jaegers used to team up so there's that to consider!
right now i really want to figure out setting and other possibilities
like, it could work with a couple different Shatterdomes
I'll probably get back to this after I look through the novelization some more
yeah! maybe focus on two or so
Two would be good
That gives both mods and players more setting to work with without being overwhelming
so it would very likely have a heavy focus on shatterdome personnel, but like i said i want to see less rangers, more everyone else
It does kind of make in-person CR more difficult if the characters you want to meet each other are in different shatterdomes but I assume since it's modern day there'll be some kind of network
as i mentioned before
i... really want to play
a janitor.
since it's modern day there's probably internets
Yeah I'd be apping a researcher
aight folks i'm going to take a break from this plurk so i can do my daily drawings! i fully expect it to get away from me, but go ahead
share, comment in-thread, comment on the plurk, etc. remember nothing is decided, just sort of throw around what you'd like to do and what you'd like to see
Aaaah! 
dist is def. an engineer because fuuuuuuuu you know he wants to make robots bigger than buildings :I
this looks so good
daintily get in here we could have that signless n' psii pilot dreamteam
+1 to the "would play here" parade.
AS TO THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE mostly cool kaiju designs. Which coming from you I'm not worried about lacking.
oh my god A+
But unique and interesting designs for the kaiju would make great rp not just for the pilot players but also the non-pilots
like the biologists and the strategists
If I wind up playing my biologist you can bet I will want cool shit for him to poke at
haha god yes i'd almost certainly try drawing some kaiju
kaiser epsilon guys :I watch for it
but oh shit kaiju
luckily kat is also SUPER INVESTED in the biology of various marine critters otherwise you'd have a preponderance of
lovebird-like kaiju, which makes no fucking sense at all.
codename 'papaya'
I was proud of myself for picking goblin shark out of knifehead
"squawkfucker"
mister and lady as a twofer kaiju attack
macaw
i wanna see a horseshoe crab one
OH GOD
MAKE IT SO
especially since... blue blood...
also more tentacles
there's no reason why they wouldn't try making a flat kaiju that wrecks horizontally, right?
you know what else has blue blood cuttlefish that's what
and they have that cool mouth thing that shoots out and grabs prey
horseshoe crab kaiju
that's a great innovation right there
oh man a chromatophore kaiju wouldn't serve much purpose as an attack or defense mechanism but it sure would be cool
sea kitten kaiju
but yes mostly I just think it's going to be difficult to make the main focus be non-combatants and keep the number of pilots relatively small, when the entire canon is about monster punching and that's
proooobaby what most people apping will be interested in
so finding cool ways to make being a non-pilot sound awesome are def something to focus on
actual kaiju attacks weren't daily events back then either
they were spread out
so being a pilot actually doing some monster punching won't actually happen very often
(which is good for game pacing because it'd be like having an event every day unless you slowed in-game time waaaay down)
probably lots of training and simulations and dude
the science types get to wade around in monster guts
AND THE BLACK MARKET
I'm really interested in seeing the black market in this too 
please please make the black market already a thing by the time this game is also a thing
and the cults! the cults
and dude, what about the Jaeger junkyards? I bet you anything there's at least one or two crazy people trying to build Jaegers out of scra
or drift interfaces
hi Newt
well if we're doing it in the glory days of the jaeger pilots there's a lot less of that stuff set up, i'm assuming
this was back when LOL STUFFED KAIJU was a thing
it could be the starting point
and besides, there could be LOL STUFFED KAIJU on the surface level and dirty dealing going on inside
there's always a black market
MANTIS SHRIMP kaiju.
spider crab kaiju.
as long as there's stuff and illegal ways to use that stuff there will always be a black market
walrus kaiju......
+1 on walrus kaiju
lanternfish kaiju
kinda looks like one already
frilled shark kaiju
just stick some legs on it
...youre gonna have to have a Kaijunado at some point.
KAIJUNADO
that's the blockbuster film when the game starts
THRILLING SEQUEL OF KAIJUNAMI
wgyvkubfdk
AND KAIJUQUAKE
AURORA KAIJUALIS
(they'd find some way to make that threatening)
sharktopus kaiju.
^ that actually sounds like a reasonable kaiju design
get the hook suckers that giant squid have on the tentacles
the rows of backwards-facing teeth
starfish kaiju tho
SO MANY ARMS
REGENERATION
STOMACH FLIES AT YOU
GOOD
helium-filed kaiju man-o-war?
floats on the clouds?
that one's reachine
reaching
oh shit yes flying jellyfish kaiju
lionfish kaiju
venemous spines
all of these kaiju are great
mantis shrimp kaiju
the regular mantis shrimp punches so fast it boils the water and that's how it kills its prey
I'm a terrible person but I want a sea cucumber kaiju
where if you squeeze it another kaiju pops out
like a russian doll
wasn't that otochi
I think this sounds wonderful.
Otachi was like some weird bat-ankylosaur-spitting lizard thing
but if you squeezed it
hahaha yes
another kaiju would pop out
man that was weird in the context of how kaiju are made
but fuck it
I wonder if it was supposed to be some sort of prototype kaiju carrier
that's what I assumed
just like shack up all the units inside it and after it's dead it explodes in tiny kaijus
That or they're grown but don't actually lack the ABILITY to reproduce and idk.
and then those kaijus explode into tinier kaijus
...also, one jillion points to anyone who can figure out how to make a blobfish a legitimate kaiju.
... I WAS JUAT BOUT TO SAY
BLOBFISH KAIJU
it just
smothers you in its disappointed frowns
omg yes to all of this +1, and I'd also like to say I'd think about apping a Marshall for reasons so yes.
BLOBFISH DLFKJDFK
no matter how much you punch it more rolls of fishfat keep rolling out
until it just literally buries the Jaeger
it just wanted a hug
the deadliest of embraces
I'm just picturing... akira
that part
you know that part
I forget the actual character's name because I suck at anime
I haven't watched Akira so I possibly suck at anime more than you
yes
...a Fate/ cast would be good for this game
what with the synchronization thing and all
yes
ughhhhhhh do want
if you drift with Saber do you just see a terrible CGI dragon
i'd be so up for playing half a pilot team, like oh my god.
my main muses rn are Aragorn from LOTR and Ichigo from Bleach and both would be splendid
sg!Megatron might be p. sweet too actually
omg Megatron
and Aragorn and Ichigo, man
good thing this is AU I'm not sure how anyone would feel about drifting with Ichigo depending on his canonpoint
well, goodguy mirror bizarroverse megatron
but yeah this ichigo wouldn't have an inner hollow
to be perfectly honest I'd love to have him and his hollow end up a pilot team
twins I guess
Ohhh man
but with all of the personality conflict and drama vs. when they actually work well they are so badass
eheheheheh
I would love a game like this BUT what are you thinking in terms of Kaiju
Because there's actually a lot of cool stuff you could probably do with what the canon did without having to squeeze them between the first Kaijuu attack and the events of the movie
oohhh yes I liike this
FOR INSTANCE you could actually run with something very Gojira-like and
make it so that the Kaijuu Blue is a mutagen and creates monstrocities out of the native creatures on earth, first
A PLUS
and even allow for superpowers/mutations to happen to humans since they have been EATING Kaijuu like crazy
alternatively there could be a mission to find that other universe and engage it towards the endgame
there's a ton of stuff the Pacific Rim universe has to offer, so much potential for coolness
I just went on about pac rim aus on tumblr and everything
....god I want this
someone on tumblr asked about playing PacRim characters, something to think about
since it's going to come up eventually
Also with the wanting of a PacRim based game * A*
ahaha oh my god this blew up while i was drawing
god bless you all
Man I'd want to be a mod at a game like this just so I could design the kaijuu
oh i am looking forward to that most of all, ngl
kt (potential co-mod), her focus for a while as an artist was basically vert biology & abyssopelagic critters so the both of us are huge bio nerds.
Remember to do what del Torro told his design team to do: draw them as though they're rubber suits meant to fit human actors inside! 
HOLY WOW
I'm not apping anywhere right now but this would be an epic idea.
well it's prob gonna be a month or so before you see much in the way of finished concept and such from me, so keep that in mind!
since i'm going to be apping to changed and i've got irl projects going on
but: KAIJU BLUE... ITS COMIN... TO U. sometime. soon.
There should be Hannibal Chau-esque characters in the Kaiju black market 
i will die for this
Yes. Yesyesyes.
AU pls.
A PR game just ain't complete with sum black market trading
*without
if y'all want to keep track of progress on this, i advise three things-- 1) watch this specific plurk (though i am slow, on occasion) 2) keep an eye on the rpanons thread 3) track kaiju blue tag on tumblr?
3a) i'll be posting stuff on my personal tumblr, but i don't advise following it unless you want to bc it's a bunch of inane bullshit.
mods as they stand right now are ehhhn no idea except for me and anoteinpink, probably going to bring someone else in so we can have a different timezone covered
omg
this sounds amazing do want
Interesting.
Very interesting.
I have my worries about a game based on a very recent canon because the hype wearing off could kill it pretty dead, but I like the idea.
yeah, that WAS a concern of mine, but i think focusing more on the lore/worldbuilding rather than the brunt of the action like the movie does may help stretch it out?
i think, also, that the game itself should have a time limitaround a year or so just so things do keep fresh
I think that the concept itself could work out pretty great
so long as, yes, the worldbuilding is put together with longevity in mind
/peeks in here.
/probably late.
The best thing about this canon
that they've established the beginning, some of the middle and the end.
So, we can build up what we want.
There's already talk of a sequel, too, so hype may bubble up again in the future.
A sequel not set in the past, too.
Yup! Oh man looking at what they were hinting at aaaah
Yeeeep.
As you can tell, I am one of the ones drowning in feels.
So, I'm trying to contain myself.
Me too AAAHH and I hope we get Newt again, given one of the things they were hinting at it would be so awesome if he took a major role goddamn
I just want more Herc, tbh
hot dad
....Yup. :3
And he moved into my head and won't move.
this is an excellent occurrence you should celebrate
I have.
By tossing him on all the memes.
And I found the best TFLN
oho?
HAHAHA YES GOOD
I have no muses from the series but I really enjoy the world and robots and stuff
I'd be interested in a PR game myself
...kinda interested in the good Marshall once I find a way to read Year Zero
Newt did the same thing to me. Just moved on in and made himself right at home
one thing i'm interested in doing as mod is populating the base and environs with more accessible npcs than in other games-- like, you see a lot of MYYYSTEEERIEEEEES which is not going to be the point here
i think pacing/plot-wise, we'll be looking at day-to-day operations between kaiju attacks as well as maybe monthly plots dealing with bigger problems--
some of which have been mentioned in the rp anons thread, some im thinking of, etc
so, like, not an overarching CONSPIRACY or something but more what is this world and who are the people in it?
with the conclusion of the game probably leading up to the movie proper, idk
If you are doing it before hand instead of after, are jeager pilots going to be periodically killed off?
once things start changing
i'd like for that to happen.
applying a character AS a pilot or having them become a pilot in-game is going to mean you have to take some responsibilities and restrictions on, probably
as a mod, i am NOT going to tell anyone "okay, you have to die NOW"
but ppl who are piloting should be prepared and willing to kill off a character, or to have them get seriously injured and not be a pilot any more. there's going to have to be consequences!
but that makes it more interesting
to see how a character handles not being able to do this thing any more
that is something i'd love to see someone do
it'll be difficult, but it can be done
fun, too
since we do like breaking our characters
^ this
they die, theere is no magic temple to bring them back
since death was fairly permanent in the movie
a memorial wall
list the characters/jaegars that bit it
like Oblivion bay
which became the Jaegar graveyard
that in turn serves as a list of unappable characters/unavailable jaegar names
ooooh yes
well, what about refurbishing Jaegars?
since obviously they're big expensive bots
if they are capable of refurbishment
mhm
I mean Gipsy just needed a new arm, and to fix her conn pod
and a few upgrades besides
yeah
Consequences are beautiful
nods
and that wall didn't do jack
I'll gladly volunteer to show off permanent injury if not death >_>
as shown by Sydney
As someone running a sorta at ISP game based on a canon, I would recommend either going in the future, or picking a point and spinning off into your own PR at from there
Au not ISP wtf
that would be wise, i think
It gives you more room to adapt to the player needs if you're not going " we have to bet to this canon point in one year."
to make it an AU/AR
My au is finite, some day it will end...but when I started it I assume it would end right about when the game really got going.
agreed that's sort of what I was getting at earlier! not locking it into a canon timeline seems best
pick a point, and from there things can proceed at a slightly different way
Like I suggested one option on rapids, another could be saying when the wall failed, they scrambled to restart the system.
yeah! i'd assumed things would end up different anyway-- since, hopefully, there would be a lot of player contribution with how various events get dealt with?
The kanji seeing this, slowed down a bit
Something like that.
since they needed to adapt to the change
I think it would be interesting to have major political shifts in-game with NPCs
oooh yes
for example, who says the wall has to happen at all?
the politics would be lovely to see
what if they found some other way of trying to deal as a Jaegar alternative?
what if someone interfaced with a kaiju earlier?
OwO, skitters from side to side like a crab, tries not to say too much about her plans there
lots and lots of wha ifs
wrt npcs, that is
oooh!
I also think permanent death works well with heavy modding. Just have lots of limits clear so people know.
nods yes
like i said, i don't want the world to be inaccessible-- this isn't like a jamjar where for PLOT REASONS an npc is going to be totally mum or cagey
I know the sequel discussed something that could be an interesting thing to run with politically. Don't wanna spoil her but pm me if you want
i don't want to spread myself out too far, but characters should be able to interact with all sorts of ppl
and then you get the fun of seeding the world with references to lots of other continuities and media
yes
I like that
the met aspect
meta*
kat and i are very storytelling-based, so of course we're bouncing miniplot ideas back and forth, but i'd hope that player reactions to things could seed further, bigger plots/avenues to go down--
like, the first plot we'd be considering would be the aftermath of a disaster that's unusual even by PR standards, and how the players would respond to it
in terms of, what do they do? where do the people affected by this go? what sort of help do they provide? were they involved? do they want to explore what happened?
the challenges i'm anticipating here but also the benefits are basically, like
having a very tightly-controlled, moderation-heavy game, that's simultaneously very open to exploration and player control
and using the pr world as a kind of sandbox
/chinhands
sometimes difficult things make for more rewarding play
of course this needs to be laid out very clearly in several places
MMM HMMMMMM that's the majority of the work ahead of me, i think
is bear
is
making these things transparent, and accessible, and CLEAR
I can help, if you need?
add the journal kaijublue!
I would love to help with this. 
/does so
/can do so?
i'm not sure about who i'm going to be modding with yet, and it's going to be something i have to think about some more, but i would really encourage people to get involved in setup/design, etc.
focus group or smth.
I can probably help more with setup. Maybe. :|
there is one person i have in mind for modding just because i know she is very organized and VERY good at carrying things through but i don't think she's seen pr yet
thats the thing though, its a movie, its a pretty easy canon to give a onceover and absorb the basics
It iiiisss.
Despite it's amazing complexities.
aight it is bedtime for me! the bulk of tomorrow i will be doing tags for jarjammed and working on job stuff, but ppl should feel free to contact me on aim @ ada.or.ardor
in the EVENING, probably sometime around 7~ central, i'm going to try to get a chatroom up
very likely it'll just be "kaijublue," annnd i'd encourage anyone to just drop by
yes.
good.
sleep well~
oh god it sounds awesome
you've had lots of offers for help but have another, even if you just need focus group capacity at this point
Doesn't it~?
I just
can't.
yes ye s yes! EVERYONE ADD KAIJUBLUE ON DW
Added and tracked~
we can be a thinktank \o/
added
I want this so bad
Hmm. I'm a member of a fanfic forum where the idea of a crossover was brought up - specifically, PacRim and X-COM: Enemy Unknown.
Thing about X-COM is, the enemies in it are people-sized. Throw them in alongside the kaiju as, say, infantry units, and you have something for all the punchy people to do.
Hnn
In the later stages of the game it even makes room for psychically active troops, which would be handy for explaining the abilities issue (if you don't nix them altogether).
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I can't say I'll be able to join this game, but wanted to put the idea out there.
It'd be interesting to see how this is handled in the realm of cross-canon Jaeger teamups. Obvious canonmate pairings are likely, but coordinated AUs and such— I'm not sure of a sturdy, graceful approach to the
concept, but I can think of a few potential, if tentative solutions, off-the-cuff.
I definitely wanna keep an eye on this, oh yeah.
personally i'd be super interested in cross-canon au temups '-' it's been a while since i played in an au game...
coordinated aus too aahhh challenges
I'm just saying, it's definitely possible, but the ruleset for such an attempt is probably going to have to be tested and go through some relatively large revisions.
It actually sounds super fascinating?
Micabean doesn't it? 
This is going to be an amazing project. I can feel it.
I'd be super interested in joining, dependant entirely on the ruleset
Just the mechanics, how it works.
I mean, on one hand, I get that the position of Jaeger Pilot would be pretty limited, you'd think?
On the other, the whole pilot/drift/partnership is kind of the best thing, really? I can definitely think of instances in which I would not want to play X character as a pilot, but— Really.
Really, it's the thing.
That is the unique mechanic the canon brought, aye.
I don't know how to get around that without nudging the lore a little. Maybe the Kaiju just keep getting bigger and more numerous so the robots have to get more intense and badass and that...uh....hmmm
....burns out pilots so they have to take turns?
I'd also like to see aftermath of incompatible partners, too.
I mean, it's not like an Eva or something where you can't switch out the dudes.
That'd kinda split the au pilots into teams, sort of.
:|9
that could be cool yeah
everybody gets the team jacket
watch out for the inter-shatterdome ping pong championships
shit's intense
They have to swap jackets if they get assigned to another Jaeger.
"This was Pentecost's Jacket when he piloted this Jaeger. Now I'm giving it to you. Wear it with honor, do us proud."
oh god
pentecost's radiation lined jacket yay
it's not cancer, its a patriot tumor.
You could also utilize the skin parasites as smaller creatures for human-sized people to gear up to fight (introducing soldier training, possibly bodily enhancement, and many other things to 'prep' potential
Jaeger pilots). It'll give a larger chance for people to get in on at least some combat that isn't fighting the main Kaiju; the Jaeger pilots take out the Kaiju if they can and every off-duty pilot/trainee goes
out and works cleanup with the parasites as quickly as possible. Though they died off quickly in the movie, it's also entirely feasible for them to be made and utilized by the alien forces as a weapon since
their kaiju are regularly taken down.
....... s.. spambot...?
thank you spambot your contributions were invaluable
ah.
AU where a Jaeger is infected with a spambot worm and spits adverts into the Drift the whole time
sponsored by Betty Crocker
the Kaiju becomes an advert for the new Godzilla film
/peeks into conversation with interest o.o