Voidy Wierdo - Isawa Natsuko Q&A

[Isawa Natsuko]

Before I go start reading all of these... Here's this one.

Definitely a lower energy game on my end with work picking up again and holidays adding bits and pieces. So there are definitely a few folks I meant to reach out to that I just didn't. Meant to manage more than one pop-up too!

Well, I enjoyed watching the stories unfold all over the place, and thanks to those hanging out with me and bouncing off what I knew was going to be a tougher character to interact with than I've had in the recent past.

Thanks to Ender for running the game! I'm enjoying seeing 5e get knocked around into something that suits PbP. I think we'll have a few more games before there's a feeling of 'standard' house rules.

I really enjoyed getting the weird little void person out of my system here. I don't think there's a lot of real secrets in her, so feel free to ask about stuff.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Form questions, awaaaaayyyyyy!

Biggest curveball the game threw you?

Biggest curveball Natsuko threw you?

Biggest missed opportunity for you in this game?

Favorite scene in this game?

[Suzume Rin]

Natsuko was a lot of fun to RP with and I really enjoyed what a good job you did of crafting her character!

What does the future hold for the lady of the void?

What did she make of the whole tournament start to finish?

[Shiba Jiro]

I had a lot of fun exploring the problems and ideas related to their oddly arranged betrothal and the two characters. Thank you so much for the chance to do so with you

Return question, any scene that you think we should have gotten too?

[Isawa Natsuko]

Form questions, awaaaaayyyyyy!

Biggest curveball the game threw you?

Hmm, probably the Jiro/Kasumi bit happening and *not* being an actual triangle.

Biggest curveball Natsuko threw you?

Honestly not much. My character design process involves a certain amount of subconscious fermentation such that things tend to flow without too much fuss once they've gelled.

Biggest missed opportunity for you in this game?

Cornering Seto for a smoke behind the teahouse or something. Yes, once you're adopted, those ties are supposed to be nonexistent, but it seemed that being raised as a ward of the school vs. a family would leave a lot of longing open there.

Favorite scene in this game?

Honestly? Jun's failpost with accompanying blowfly art is going to stick with me a while, so I'll go with that.

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Natsuko was a lot of fun to RP with and I really enjoyed what a good job you did of crafting her character!

What does the future hold for the lady of the void?

What did she make of the whole tournament start to finish?

Well, that last GoL is her poem for Yuji about how it started/how it ended. In which my limited poetry skills attempt to answer that question with a surrealist Renga cycle.

Otherwise, for her it was an interesting way to step out of her fairly sheltered school bubble. She met friends, her betrothed, and-at a distance-the Emperor (also that wicked Unicorn lady)--so pretty busy and important in the scheme of her short life.

For the future: There's marriage in the mix. Otherwise, ishiken seem to be a bit like math majors where they are being trained to become the next generation of math professors and/or fix the mistakes of previous mathematicians. (I kid, but that was how a couple of my math major friends described it while still in school.) School curriculum says to me that she will meditate a lot (it's a school skill at every rank) thus hopefully picking up useful warnings about the shit that is undoubtedly about to go down in this timeline since there are PCs present. Jiro, as an artisan, seems more likely to garner assignment to court delegations. And since you can meditate and theorycraft ways to fix that pesky 'oops I stuck a village in a time bubble back in the year 712' problem anywhere, she'll likely tag along.

I wonder if she can convince anyone to serve yams at the wedding feast so Rin feels comfortable with the food? Oh, and didn't you get a consolation Topaz tea set? Natsuko definitely wants to see your pretty new tea stuff.

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I had a lot of fun exploring the problems and ideas related to their oddly arranged betrothal and the two characters. Thank you so much for the chance to do so with you

Same! This was always going to be a bit of a rough character for making connections, so having one bolted on that absolutely required poking at was really useful in exploring the character. Then adding in a bit of the logic of 'so why this match and why just kind of drop it on them?' offered some more to work through. It's definitely been fun.

Return question, any scene that you think we should have gotten too?

I do think I should have found the communication frustration point in some scene to break out the "we're just going to communicate directly between brains" inversion, both because it would be a fun descriptor and because it's something I think would happen at some point and is likely to shift some understandings between them.

Given the Passion for tea and his skill at tea ceremony...I think a scene nerding out about tea, teaware, the ceremony, etc. would be fun.