The OOC Community of Mutual Killing!

Well hello, m'lovelies! With the number dwindling and horrible, horrible clues about the story behind Monobear's Home creeping toward the light of day, we mods have decided to bring back an old staple as far as motives go:
In the past we've been pretty handwave-y as far as this motive, letting you guys do your own thing and so on and so forth. This time however we're doing things a little differently! 

Starting Tuesday (6/28), Monobear will pick the name of a surviving member of Monday's challenge's losing team at random and read their secret out loud to both sides. What we need from you all, the players, is this: give us your milk secrets. The comments on this post are screened so only the mod team will be seeing them so make them good, ya'll. 

Feel free to list multiple secrets for us to choose from but be aware we'll either go for the absolute worst or the most hilarious, there is no in between with us. Make sure your secrets are submitted by Monday night (6/27) at the latest! 

Introducing Smash Ronpa, an upcoming gimmick round, with official dates to be announced at a later time. This Super Smash Brothers-inspired round is open to characters from first and second party Nintendo series, as well as third party series that have playable characters in Smash. As with the previous gimmick round, there will be 15 slots available.

This is also Dangan Roleplay's first spin-off round, meaning that not only will this game be out of continuity for the great DRRP universe, it will be run by a pair of brand-spankin-new mods! This round will be run by Ran, who played Cynthia in Round 2 and Lepo, who will be playing Wario in the upcoming Mock Trial. They'll be overseeing everything like a pair of god-like Hands, and hope to entertain you to the Master Core.

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!

Gooood evening, sweet players! It’s motive day again tomorrow and we have another big one for you.

Tomorrow, once everyone is good and scattered for the day, the gates between the floor are going to lock tight. For the rest of the week everyone will be trapped on one floor until someone dies.

In the interest of keeping things fair and even and terrible, we’ve taken the liberty of pre-organizing what floors everyone will be stuck on.

Floor 1
Sycamore
Kirei
Cammy
Beat

Floor 2
Schuldig
Betty
Adachi
Naomi

Floor 3
Lysandre
Hanbei
Anna
Cecil

Floor 4
Archer
Cynthia
Goku
Dan

Floor 5
Fujimoto
{...}
Sonico
Inaba
Simon

Oh, and the “no sleeping outside the dorms” rule is still in effect. Have fun~! If you have any questions, drop us a comment here or on Plurk. Unfortunately we're not taking requests to switch floors this time around, since unlike Monkey Fever this motive doesn't really contain sensitive material.

Hello, dearest darling Dangan Roleplayers! We apologize for the lateness of this but your mods are a wee bit forgetful.

With the first murder creeping up on us, we want to know what times would be convenient for all of you when it comes to investigations/trials! Quick reminder that investigations/trials/executions run on a 2:1 day system for the game and and your hard working mods are in an EST timezone. We will also be sticking to Friday/Saturday for posting days. Sunday is both a day of rest and the return to the normal 1:1 day ratio.

We're offering three options for posting times. Please pick one or, if you have no preference, let us know!

A) Between 12-2 pm EST

B) Between 5-7 pm EST

C) Between 9-11 pm EST

First of all, we want to say thank you to our participants for making Dangan Roleplay’s first mock trial an overall success! We hope everyone’s excited for round 2, because I know we are, but first we’re going to talk about some things that came up in the Mock Trial that need to be addressed.

[Conduct]
We had hoped that we wouldn’t have to address issues like this, but while observing the Mock Trial there were some troubling instances of sensitive subject matter being made light of. We, the moderators of Dangan Roleplay, have a zero tolerance policy for inappropriate conduct. There was no policy in place during the Mock Trial, and because it was a one-off event everyone who comes into Round 2 will be given a clean slate. The first time that inappropriate behavior is reported to or observed by the moderator team, the thread in question will be frozen and a warning issued to the player or players in breach of conduct. If the behavior persists, the player will be notified of their removal from the game and their character will be mod-controlled into a “punishment” by Headmaster Monobear. Players who are booted from the round for conduct reasons will not be allowed to reserve or apply to any future rounds or Mock Trials for Dangan Roleplay. We don’t expect this to be an OOC problem, so don’t make it one. Don’t harass each other and, while we can’t police your own plurks or blogs or whatever, keep mod plurks a friendly and trigger-free space.

Now, what do we mean by inappropriate conduct? Given the murder-happy nature of the source material, we’re obviously not completely against sensitive topics being discussed between characters. As long as the subject is handled with maturity, and properly warned for if necessary, characters can discuss whatever they want. However, inappropriate jokes about sensitive subject matter will not be tolerated. We don’t care how IC it would be. We don’t care how edgy you or your character are. Before you hit send, think to yourself “is it possible that someone in the playerbase has experienced what I’m about to make a joke about?” and if the answer is yes, don’t make a joke about it. This includes (but is not limited to) subjects like rape, incest, pedophilia, abortion/miscarriage, or abuse (emotional/physical/verbal, child, animal, elder, spousal, ANY KIND OF ABUSE). If you want to make a comment that starts with “but what about _____,” assume that whatever it is you’re asking permission for is off-limits as well.

Our first concern is the comfort of our playerbase, and while we encourage players to work out disputes amongst themselves, we also want our players to come to us if they’re having problems with another player’s IC or OOC conduct. All of this information about conduct will also be added to the FAQ before the beginning of round 2.

[Trial Minigames]
When this suggestion was brought up way back in the feedback post, we were incredibly eager to give it a try. Putting at least “Hangman’s Gambit” as a mod-run mechanic was something we wanted desperately to work in because it seemed like an interesting way to get characters out of a trial rut and make the game feel more Dangan Ronpa.

Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a way to incorporate trial minigames into a roleplay environment. There are many factors that went into this assessment, trial speed and trying to preserve the organic decision-making process being among them.

[Consistency]
Try to keep your motivations consistent with what you’ve plotted with the mods! Not everyone is going to have an altruistic motivation for murder and that is perfectly acceptable (and encouraged, given how much of the game is based around despair); if you’ve plotted out one thing with the mods and those involved in a case with you, please try to adhere to it as much as possible during the trial itself. Trials can be hectic at best, but that’s why we encourage you to take the time to plot out as much as possible beforehand so that you have your story straight on the stand.

Anyone is free to comment and discuss on the points outlined in this post; however, mock trial participants who are planning to app into round 2 must leave a comment on this post so that we know that you read it. Your round 2 reserve will not be processed if you don’t do this.

Reserves for round 2 will be opening May 3, 2014, and applications will open a week later on May 10, 2014. More details on this will come out next week. A RESERVE FOR THE MOCK TRIAL DOES NOT EQUAL A RESERVE FOR ROUND 2. Bye, have a good week!

-The Dangan Roleplay mods

As you all are aware, the only AC for this game is a weekly check-in and a link to a bit of activity from the previous week. For example, a thread from Week 2 would be used for Week 3 and so on and so forth.

Well, we're giving you all a free pass for the first week! Not that any of you really need it because wow, all of you did amazing with activity for Week 1. Keep it up through the next few weeks, dearies! When regular check-ins do start they'll be posted along with weekly logs on Mondays with Monobear announcing motives Tuesdays.

Also a small general reminder from Monomod to keep your hope shard links updated! It makes it a whole lot easier for us and if you don't provide the links you don't get the hope shards. Remember, threads in any log count toward hope shards except trials and investigations/body discovery logs!