Black and red are definitely the good guys' colors – Kaoru Q&A

[Shosuro Kaoru]

As usual.

[Yukikaze no Kasumi]

Biggest curveball the game threw you?

Biggest curveball Kaoru threw you?

Biggest missed opportunity for you in this game?

Favorite scene in this game?

[Isawa Natsuko]

Thank you for the esoteric study scene and a glimpse at just how different our kids' areas of study here are across the board.

Being Scorpion, I always do want to ask if there were agendas beyond the basic 'go do a Topaz?' Were there characters whose secrets you had an eye on?

[Shosuro Kaoru]

Biggest curveball the game threw you?

Biggest curveball Kaoru threw you?

A curveball is a surprise right? Sport metaphors are like a twelve point corner strike to me.

Not sure is the term is appropriate but I struggled all game trying to give a more "teen" feeling to Kaoru to no avail. I actually changed character concept at the last minute because I felt the old one didn't feel "teen" enough but the new one (Kaoru) didn't fare much better on that front. Unsure about the exact reasons behind such a roadblock, but one lead is simply that I haven't read a Young Adult novel in a long time, and imitation is the base of good writing.

The main surprise storywise was that the championship went as expected instead of being interrupted by a greater plot.

Biggest missed opportunity for you in this game?

Favorite scene in this game?

According to my tracking thread, I have a great total of six scenes that played out from beginning to end, and maybe twice that that were meaty enough to be relevant. I honestly don't know how I ended up with 300+ messages. Shitposting a lot? In all cases wrong management of my energy that ended up squandered all around instead of making the engines run.

My favorites were maybe the one with Jiro/Urusai/Natsuko due to having a relatively strong central theme most others were missing.

Being Scorpion, I always do want to ask if there were agendas beyond the basic 'go do a Topaz?' Were there characters whose secrets you had an eye on?

Kaoru is obviously of the spy archetype but more of the kind looking for skeletons in accounting books than in closets.

As I described her somewhere OOC "the kind of gal that was disappointed Way of the Merchant wasn't really about economical manipulation but instead digressed on boring assassins".

I think Aihru had some financial issues that might have matched, but our characters never truly interacted inn a meaningful way because IRL-no-oni. But in general turns out, despite all these ronin and Mantis around, people aren't that interested into discussing the complex socio-politico-economical consequences of tsunami.