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Hello, lovelies, and welcome to DRRP's second annual Mock Trial! Congratulations on surviving the reserveucopia! We have an entire crop of newbies this cycle and all three of us mods are ecstatic to have you.

At some point today (4/21) the IC mingle post will be going up in the main comm (

danganroleplay ). If you have any questions in regards to the game please feel free to hit up the mod plurk (

monomods ) or one of our personals (

resplendentri ,

winterbolt and

frickninja) and have a look at our last official round's FAQ for how the game/trial mechanics work! The mock trial investigation will be going up Friday, April 24th between 12 pm and 2 pm EST and the trial will be posted Saturday April 25th between 12 pm and 2 pm EST barring any OOC circumstances that might delay them.

In the meantime feel free to use this post to get to know your fellow ~~tributes~~ students and introduce yourselves. Make friends and then suffer gleefully as you wait to see if they'll end up going to the big murder train in the sky! That's the name of the game after all!

Have fun, everyone!

"The Hunger Games - "Hope" Clip" (Watch on YouTube)

The motive post this week is a little different from what you may be expecting from us. We said that endgame was coming, which if you've watched rounds 1 and 2 usually means to expect some kind of staged/botched/otherwise unwinnable trial.

But, well, that's not very Disney, now is it? So instead, in addition to the normal encouraging investigation, we've done the death roll and have the murder all plotted out except for one thing.

( It's not guaranteed to happen. )

Players have until Wednesday, March 11th to post their guesses.

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment (cumulative) threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 5). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Friday at 12 pm EST.

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment (cumulative) threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 4). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Saturday at 12 pm EST.

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment (cumulative) threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 3). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Saturday at 12 pm EST (because Monomom continues to be forgetful trash).

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment (cumulative) threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 2). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Saturday at 12 pm EST (because Monomom is a forgetful poop).

Hello, darlings, and welcome to Week 2 of Disney Ronpa~! First off let me just say how pleased we are with your eagerness to explore the castle and the amount of activity and CR building we've been seeing this past week! You guys are top!

Now let's see what we can do to tear all that down because with the second week starts the motives!

This week we're taking off the kid gloves and jumping straight into a fun little doozy. What does this mean? Well, kids, it means we're cursing away everyone's greatest strengths.

"But, Monomom!" You ask. "We've already lost our magic!" Oh, darlings, who said anything about your greatest strengths being your majycks? We mods have spent quite some time discussing it and devising personalized curses for everyone that will begin Tuesday morning. Let's get started, shall we?

Anna Borealis will be rendered invisible to her classmates. They will not be able to see or hear her however she will still be able to physically interact with people and objects.

Jack Skellington will become alive and human.

Sora Flyin will be unable to be understood by his classmates. Anything he says will be understandable to himself but to others it will sound like jibberish.

Bill Cipher will be mute. All attempts speak or make verbal noise will only result in silence.

Ariel Strand will lose her human legs and become a mermaid.

Perry T. Platypus will become a photorealistic platypus and thus be unable to move and act as he usually does. He will retain his personality for the purpose of playability however.

Gaston LeGume will lose his impressive muscles and be left with weak, limp noodle limbs.

Winnie T. Pooh will become an actual grizzly bear. This transformation includes bear strength and a hunger for meat. He too will retain his personality for playability purposes.

Iridessa O'Rinn will lose her pixie dust and be effectively grounded as well as unable to use her light magic.

Donnie Maybeck will become a hologram. He will be intangible to his classmates.

Maleficent Ravenscar will be shrunk down to Iridessa's size.

Naveen Granota will become a frog once again.

Howl Jenkins will lose his handsome looks and become a monstrous black raven-creature.

Donald Duck will see his classmates as either Heartless or Nobodys.

Elsa Borealis will lose all memories of her sister. As far as she'll be concerned she was raised an only child and has never been asked if she'd like to build a snowman.

Questions, comments and concerns may be directed here or on the mod plurk!

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with a link to two ten-comment (cumulative) threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 1). This can be in the weekly log, the opening ceremony or the intro log. Remember, we'll be awarding 3 monocoins for successfully checking in and every ten comments over the minimum (at the time of check-in) will land you 1 additional monocoin.

You have until Friday to comment.

Welcome to Dangan Roleplay's first official gimmick round, Disney Ronpa! You've arrived in the not so scenic Tragic Kingdom and will be spending your days, nights and everything in between locked in the magnificent Castle! The three of us mods are ecstatic to have such a lovely range of Disneys ~~up for slaughter~~ here to play!

But before we send you all off on a murder vacation, let's get to know each other a little better, shall we? Feel free to use this post to introduce yourselves as players, plot with each other, screech incoherently, wonder what your characters did to deserve this, the whole nine yards. And don't forget to leave your contact information, should you want to give it! AIM, Plurk, what particular shorthand you use when sending out smoke signals, whatever's good.

Again, welcome to the game, and have fun!

Goooooood day, dearies! It’s been a long 3 months since the triumphant ending of Dangan Roleplay Round 2 and goodness gracious have we missed you all! The vacation has been great but now we’re back with some very important (and despair-inducing) announcements!

Firstly, with RL obligations intensifying for your loving Monomom and Monodad and based on how well the previous round went with another set of hands, we’ve decided to bring a third permanent mod in! After two rounds of breaking hearts as a player please welcome R1’s Jimmy Two-Shoes and R2’s Tobias player, Chi! Adore and fear her as you do Ri and Lynny. Love this Chi.

Now, there’s been a lot of talk on plurk about smaller, shorter gimmick rounds and we’re pleased to announce the first one, Disney Ronpa, will be happening January 2015. The official start date and app openings will be announced later this month. For those unaware, this is a round where only Disney/Pixar characters may be apped. This round is also out of continuity for the greater DRRP universe meaning any previously apped/invited Disney characters (ex. Anna, Elsa and Jumba) will not have murder school memories. We’ll have 15 available spots for this round.

As for Round 3, we know a good lot of you are chomping at the bit for dates and details so here you go: round 3 of Dangan Roleplay will be happening June 2015. The reason for not having another winter main round was because round 1, while delightful, had a lot of conflicts with people who were still in school or who were going to be out of town for the holidays, while we found as mods that the time conflicts in round 2 during the summer round tended to be more easily resolved and easier to work around. This also gives us more time to use Disney Ronpa to try out a couple new rules and work a couple remaining kinks out of the trial system.

Obviously, Round 3 is a ways out, so there's not much to say about it just yet. But, given the success of the last time we did it, we're going to have another Dangan Roleplay Mock Trial in preparation for it. The Mock Trial is a chance primarily for new players to experience the way that trials work firsthand, however while we would like to keep it majority newbies, we also like the balance of having a couple veteran players to keep things on the rails (mostly). This mock trial will have 20 openings, and will run similarly to the last one. It will also be entirely non-canon to the main storyline of the rounds.

Additionally, after talking about it amongst ourselves, we have decided to make Round 3 also only open to 20 participants. The reason for this is twofold - firstly, with Round 2 we actually had a problem getting to 30 participants; and secondly, as much as we loved all of you, 30 characters was just too many to trim down to the final 9. Keep in mind that the canon murder games only take place over a matter of two, three weeks at the most. Round 2 was 12 weeks long, and all the surviving characters (as well as some of the ones who were on the deceased side of the final trial) were definitely showing it by the end. So in the interest of shorter future rounds, we're dropping the character cap back down to 20.

Along with this, we will not be instituting any further restrictions with regard to reapping. The only rule is that a single character (not player) can only participate in two murder games, maximum. This is because while we do encourage new people to app, round 2 proved that having a healthy balance of veterans vs newbies overall makes the experience smoother. Since the reserves are filled on a first come, first serve basis, we feel like this is the only way to remain fair for both old and new players.

TL;DR:
- Round 3 and its mock trial will be restricted to 20 participants each.
- Disney Ronpa will be opening for 15 participants in January 2015.
- Round 3 is slated to begin early June 2015, exact dates pending.
- Chi has been appointed a permanent third mod, all hail Monosis.

As with last round, we've decided to have a feedback post for round 2! Thank you all once again for participating, and for those of you who didn't get a chance to participate thank you for coming along on this wild and wonderful ride with us anyway. While we're especially looking for feedback from players to see what we can do to improve and upgrade the workings of the game itself, anyone can comment with anything in particular that you noticed. As with last time, the only thing that we require is that you put a name to your critique - to that end, anon commenting is disabled.

There are a few things that we as a mod team are aware of, and things we've been working to change! Those issues and changes are the following:

First of all, you have our sincere apologies for the way a few trials and situations played out this round - there were a few things that were accidentally set up in such a way that was completely unwinnable, and while it was unintentional on our part that doesn't excuse the fact that it was frustrating and unfair to our playerbase. We're sorry, as a lot of that was on us from an organizational standpoint, and we should have implemented changes to our system a lot more firmly than we did, more quickly than we did.

On that note, a few details regarding the way we set up trials have been changed. From here on, there will be no more asking Monobear to conceal crucial evidence, nor will the mods be issuing "saves" from the bear for any reason outside of "We completely screwed up in giving you guys sufficient evidence."

Don't worry, however! We have also changed evidence protocols to streamline the entire process. This is something we received crit on in the last round, and while we had rough patches in this round as well, we've worked out an organizational system that will allow us to see immediately whether a trial is solvable, both with regards to the culprit and figuring out what happened.

From here on, we'll do our best to ensure that there are no more trials that are accidentally unwinnable. Again, you have our apologies, as well as our gratitude for your patience and understanding.

The other things we've been working on improving with this round include:

Increased efficiency and clarity in handing out evidence during investigations: This is something that really came to our attention this round, and we've been trying to improve the way the mods communicate with the players during the investigation in order to prevent confusion or overly-startling "The room is covered in blood" moments.

Improved pacing: The last few weeks of the last round were said to drag quite a bit, and this time we really tried to focus on keeping the energy of the game up. (We would like to add the caveat that while there was a lot of slowdown during the few days before the trial, that was more or less inevitable, because that week is an incredibly busy one on our end while we prepare to roll endgame out.)

Increased player autonomy: We wanted to avoid an overly-scripted game in which the plot was handed to you. As such, we worked toward allowing for more player-induced sidequests, more "rewards" for taking initiative where appropriate, and actually letting the players themselves decide exactly what sort of ending they wanted to the game. (There's another caveat here: the Golden Ending was an option, not a guarantee, and choosing to gun for that ending and not giving up until they got from it everything that they wanted was entirely a player-made decision. They earned the hell out of that Golden Ending, and it was entirely their choice as players to do so.)

If there's anything else you can think of that didn't work, or anything that did work that you particularly liked, we would like to hear from you! All feedback will be read and taken into consideration, though we may not respond to every one or implement all suggested changes. Of course you're free to discuss amongst yourselves, as well, as long as you keep it civil.

Once again, thank you so much for participating in this round of Dangan Roleplay - it's been a pleasure to work with you as a mod team, and we hope that it was as enjoyable to play in as it was to run. You all did so well, guys - thank you all, and hopefully we'll see you again for Round Three!

CONGRATULATIONS ALL 30 PLAYERS OF DANGAN ROLEPLAY ROUND 2! Because of your mighty thirst and exquisite playing, you unlocked the Golden Ending and saved everyone.

...you also ended the game a full two days earlier than originally scheduled. But we promised that you'd get an epi-log on the 6th, and even though you've already technically gotten it, that just means we're giving you one that's even better!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT, MONODAD?

It means, we're having DRRP's first official Open Log, to close out a fantastic round! Basically, for this last log, everyone's going to party at the Future Foundation, with all their missing memories from the assembling of Hope's Army.

"OPEN LOG?" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHO IS IT OPEN TO?

EVERYONE! We're not kidding. The characters welcome in the final log include not just the Round 2 participants, but also
- Round 1 participants
- Dangan Ronpa survivors (Naegi and co.)
- Super Dangan Ronpa 2 characters AND
- Friends and family of Round 2 participants from their own worlds.

Edit for clarification: Aside from Sycamore and Serena (and Prince Genocide, ofc, but Prince Genocide is staying put), Pokemon characters are not eligible to participate. The other regions are all a little uuuuuuUUUUHHHH... about an entire region being effectively nuked, and Kalos is busy rebuilding.

...OKAY, THERE'S GOT TO BE A CATCH. RULES? ANYTHING?

Well, yes, there are some rules.
1) No Playercest. This means that Round 2 participants can't also bring in a close canonmate for this log (Goku-mun can't also bring Sanzo, Tobias-mun can't also bring Ax, etc). Use your common sense for this one, but if you're confused just ask.
2) Sign-Ups Required. While this is an open log, we don't want to have, like, four Elsas. So while people who didn't participate in Round 2 are welcome to bring in (or bring back) characters who fit the above criteria, we ask that everyone (Round 2 participants included) leave a comment on this post with the character names and usernames that you'll be tagging with, so that we can have some tenuous chance of moderating this without it becoming a complete clusterfuck.
2-A) First Come First Serve. This means not only the slots for characters who have yet to appear, but we also expect you to respect it for characters who have been NPC'd by people other than Lynny and Ri at any point in Rounds 1 and 2 (Naegi, Kuzuryuu, Nanami, Mikan, Komaeda, Saionji, Koizumi, and Gundam, as well as most of the DR1 ghosts if they come up).
3) Conduct. Yes, the rules for conduct still apply. If you show your ass on this log, we'll not only ask you to leave, but it will also be your last impression on us before future rounds, which you...probably don't want, if you intend to try to get in to future rounds.

SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE A TEST DRIVE?

Well, yes and no. If you're thinking of bringing in a character to a future round who fits the criteria to come party, then you're well within your rights to consider it a test drive. But our Mock Trial is still our only "Official" Test Drive.

OKAY, SO WHAT'S THE IC STORY HERE?

It's been a couple months since the end of the Bunker Life of Mutual Killing. Hope's Army and their rescuers were initially tasked with helping Professor Sycamore and Serena rebuild Kalos and find survivors, while Xerneas took care of fixing the egregious amount of bloodshed and death in the region.

But now there are pokemon and people in Kalos again. Not as many as there were before, and few so directly resurrected as Hope's Army, but Kalos is full of life once again.

And Hope's Army is being called back to HQ, with Lysandre and his desbear AI in tow. Sycamore and Serena are invited to return with them for a while, as a gesture of goodwill to make sure that the Future Foundation is making good on their promise not to imprison Lysandre, but it's up to them if they take it. The 28 members of Hope's Army don't have a choice, they have to return (at least temporarily) for their debriefing and to have their memories restored.

During their time rebuilding Kalos, the Future Foundation contacted Hope's Army's loved ones in their own worlds to inform them that everyone survived. They also willingly passed individual messages along. By the time that the log goes up, Hope's Army will have been debriefed, memories restored (including existing memory problems Simon), and either given new assignments (if they chose to stay) or preparing to be sent home. But the Future Foundation has one last pleasant surprise for them.

For some, they did a little more than just contact their friends and loved ones.

...THIS IS GOING TO BE A CLUSTERFUCK, ISN'T IT.

Most likely.

SO IS THIS JUST THE SIGN-UPS POST, OR CAN WE USE IT FOR PLOTTING AS WELL?

You're absolutely welcome to use it for plotting. Make sure that your top-level contains the names and usernames of the characters you plan to bring at least, but feel free to include a summary of the memories that they regained and what they plan on doing next (going home, going back to Kalos to help rebuild some more, or staying in DR-verse to work with the FF). Then, tag around to other people's top-levels and plot with them about how they got along before the Bunker Life of Mutual Killing, whether their plans for the future coincide, and all that good stuff!

We're not closing sign-ups or capping them at a certain number. As long as you sign up before you tag in and your character isn't already being played, go ahead and come on in!

MY CHARACTER WOULDN'T HAVE AGREED TO JOIN HOPE'S ARMY AT THE CANON POINT I PUT ON MY APP. CAN I INCLUDE MEMORIES OF A NEW ONE THAT THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER TO CONVINCE AT?

Yes. If you think there's a point in your canon better suited to update to, that canon update can be included in the memories regained from the FF. Just let us know if you do.

WHAT IF THERE'S NOT ONE/MY CANON'S ONGOING/I HAVEN'T FINISHED IT?

Then assumedly your character will be part of the "going home" faction. You can assume that they were originally taken from a point more appropriate for recruiting, but that Lysandre's brain-punching worked a little too well for the time being, if that makes it easier.

I WASN'T IN ROUND 2, CAN WE GET A SUMMARY OF WHAT HAPPENED?

We mods won't be providing an official summary of round 2. If you're interested in tagging into the log, presumably you've either been following round 2 or have been recruited by someone who was in round 2, so either way you should know what happened.

I STILL HAVE A QUESTION NOT ANSWERED HERE.

Then feel free to ask in a comment below, or shoot your question to one of our plurks:

ResplendentRi, or

frickninja.

We're closing in on our final investigation, and with it the graduation exam! It's been a great trip, but we're not quite at our destination yet. Here's how we're going to get there - please read the following for important information on how this is going to go!

( So don't you let it slip away )

Whatever knocked the power out during the mass execution seems to have affected the entire building; that said, the elevator is still working just fine, and will deposit everyone back on the first floor like it always does before the doors slide shut behind the last person to exit it.

There are more of those small white emergency lights along the bases of the walls, but otherwise the tower is shrouded in darkness…

WELCOME TO ENDGAME.

The power will be out for the next four days - you can still investigate and move around between floors (the gates haven’t come down between them, and they will remain open for the first half of the week) but there will be no electricity restored to the building until Thursday. The morning/evening announcements will be absent, and there's going to be no communication with Monobear whatsoever.

Sunday is a day of rest for the students and a day of preparation for the mods. If someone wants to put up a player-run log for that day they’re more than welcome to, but there will be no mod-run log that day. The Monomono Machine will be cleared out, however, so get your coins in if you haven’t gotten them already!

By Monday, everyone still alive will have regained their memories and been updated to their second canon point. There will be a mod-run log put up then, and it will cover the days from Monday to Wednesday.

After that, the final trial and investigation will begin - there will be a post with more information made when we’re closer to Thursday.

Thank you so much for your participation so far; it’s been a pleasure playing with all of you, and we hope you’re enjoying the game!

After today's Miriam sighting, it looks like the boundaries between the living and the dead may be getting a little thin. Whether that's optimistic or not is up to you to figure out, though it's possible your character will just think they're going insane.

This week, random top-levels will be pinged by

shsldeadpeople. The spectres, as it were, cannot be summoned to you - your character can try once they know the dead people are there, but it's up to those spectres whether they appear or not, and just trying to call to them won't necessarily mean they'll show up.

But they can hear you just fine, and they will understand your character's words if spoken to! Unfortunately, the tradeoff is that they can't speak themselves, neither out loud or via brainspeaky wordnoises - the first option will just get simple indications of "yes" and "no", also maybe awkward gestures, and any attempt to read their minds or speak to them with telepathy will be like yelling into a void: anything sent out will be absorbed and they won't send anything back, and there doesn't seem to be any way of reading them.

They also really don't like being touched; being dead comes with certain perks, and it looks like superhuman speed is one of them. Any attempts to make physical contact will just make them flinch, back away or otherwise dodge you, and may cause them to bolt and disappear if it's pursued enough.

So they're going to be completely silent and a little skittish - but given what happened to them, can you really blame them for it?

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 9). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Friday at 12 pm EST.

Strikes this week
Archer: X

Everyone has music they associate with their characters or CR. You hear a song on the radio and it strikes a cord (teehee) and the damn thing is embedded into your memory with that association. Why not have some fun with DRRP-flavored musical associations?

Da Rules

1. General OOC conduct rules apply.
2. Post your character, either with a blank comment or with a link to a song (or 3) you associate with them or with their situation in the game thus far.
3. Tag around and share songs you associate with other characters or songs for their CR.
4. ~~Secretly add songs to the official round 2 playlist~~ Enjoy!

This is, of course, open to all round 2 players, living or dead.

Or at least, the end of Round 2. It's been a wild ride, but now that we're about two weeks out from the end of the round it's time to lay out just how endgame is going to roll.

Note: this is just about scheduling, we will not be answering any questions about plot details.

DANGAN ROLEPLAY ROUND 2 ENDGAME SCHEDULE

( 7/25-8/6 2014 )

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 8). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Friday at 12 pm EST.

Strikes this week
Goku: X

It's that time, everyone! Weekly check-in!

Just comment below with links to two ten-comment threads with two different player characters from the previous week (in this case Week 7). These can be in the weekly log, investigation, or any character logs that go up this week. Dead characters need only pop in to say hello and let us know you're still here.

You have until Friday at 12 pm EST.

Strikes this week
Dan: X

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