ONLY FOR NOW: A Crankshaft Rafflesian One Shot Side Story.



You're Lex, age 19. Your college is closed for the day so you decided to take advantage and go on a tiny outing to the local arcade. Your best friend is working so you can't really hang out but you don't mind a little alone time.
You're settled in on a arcade cabinet for your current favorite fighting game. You got abut 10 bucks of quarters to make for a nice afternoon.

You're approached by your old bud from high school.

Kurt: Hey!
Lex: Yo! I haven't seen you in awhile!
Kurt: I've been busy with school!
Lex: Same! You take classes in the morning?
Kurt: Nah, evening. Probably why we don't meet up much.
Lex: Yeah...
Kurt: You playing right now?
Lex: Yeah!
Kurt: Nice. Let me scoot in for a quick round.
Kurt slots in the quarter in the middle of your round. The screen flairs and flaunts that a challenger has approached.
You both pick your characters and colors quick, you've done this a million times.
Kurt: Kid Wizard?
Lex: Course, like always. You okay?
Kurt: Just not used to seeing them, they're not too good in the newest build so nobody plays them much.
Lex: Yeah but.. I think I can still get something out of them. They're my favorite you know? I wanna make them work.
Kurt: Character loyalty is cute but it doesn't get that far you know?
Lex: Yeah but.. there's a bit of glory in taking it past what people thought you could.
Kurt: Low tier hero?
Lex: Champion of the meek.
Kurt: Strong in its own way. Underdog picks like that make for a good crowd pleaser. People just wanna see more of you even if you're probably not gonna get first place.
Lex:  I want that I think.
Kurt: Course.. you think you'd be remembered long after?
Lex: If it's a good enough story yeah.
Kurt: It'd be hard. You're actually pretty good though.
Lex: Think so? I'd play a event if I had the time.
Kurt: Yeah. You play like you got nothing to worry about.
Lex: God, I wish. Course are rough right now... 
Kurt: Whatcha been majoring?
Lex: Dueling.
Kurt: Nice. No trouble at all with your arm?
Lex: No, why?
Kurt: I mean.. you've broken it a couple of times by now.
Lex: You only need one good arm to fight you know.
Kurt: You're right handed.
Lex: I can re-learn with my left if it becomes a problem.
Kurt: Bold. Missed talking to you honestly.
Lex: Same. You're a little different.
Kurt: You haven't changed much.

You lose your first game closely.
 
Lex: Aw shoot.
Kurt: We gotta do the set proper.
Lex: Yeah, don't continue without me.
You shuffle through your bag for a pair of quarters and slot them in.
Kurt: Nice. Staying the same character?
Lex: Yep! So what's up with you?
Kurt: Moving off island soon. Joined the expedition team.
Lex: Oh... you're being deployed?
Kurt: Yeah, it'll cover education and I'll get to see a bit of the world.
Lex: When are you going?
Kurt: Winter... you alright?
Lex: Guess its just been awhile you know? Thought I'd keep in contact with everyone but.. I don't know.
Kurt: Don't see too much of anyone old either. All either went to follow art or music or acting or something. Plenty went expedtion too.
Lex: Yep.
Kurt: Figure I may as well too.
Lex: You're not worried? Oceans are rough.
Kurt: I got offered a tech job, not gonna deal with fighting monsters. You're worried I won't be safe.
You go silent. You manage to close off the game with a tight win. Kurt slides in two quarters.
Kurt: Round three. Can't believe anyone thought you were cool.
Lex: Same.
Kurt: With the right look, people mistake shy and quiet for calm and collected.
Lex: Didn't stop you from hanging out with me.
Kurt: I mean you weren't cool but you were fun.
Lex: Can I be real for a sec?
Kurt: What's up?
Lex: I kinda wish I did more back then. I feel like everyone knew each other so much better than I got to know anyone.
Kurt: It was high school, it's just the start you know? Like, personally I got no issue getting off this rock for awhile. Nothing much happens and I wanna do plenty before I actually gotta slow down.
You want to say something.
Kurt: I gotta get strong before I can't anymore you know? I wanna live a lot even if I don't live long.
Lex: You wanna prove that all the tiny cats and bees are some sort of conspiracy yeah?
Kurt: Just a little bit? Aw shoot, Dang. Your main is hell annoying.
You lock in the match and take the set win.
Kurt: You know you got a lot better. Made me munch quarters but glad I got to play a bit.
Lex: You wanna go another set?
Kurt: Nah.. I mean I do but I got places to go you know? Bus comes soon and I gotta get home to prepare for work. You should be almost done with school by now, yeah?
Lex: Yeah...
Kurt: Degrees help.. personally though not sure if I wanna deal or not. Might just take a trade school of some kind. Maybe a artisan apprenticeship deal. You get lots of those after you serve.
You can't help but feel like you're being left behind here.
Kurt: You got the time?
Lex: Yeah, 4:15.
Kurt: Shoot, leaving in a couple of minutes.
Lex: We're gonna do this more before you leave for adventure though, yeah?
Kurt: Of course. Time's weird though... like You know Jane and Russel? Got married.
Lex: Already?! What the fuck?!

Anytime you hear about old friends, so much has gone on for them. Nothing exciting really has happened with you. You haven't done shit and yet you feel like you've seen all you can.

Kurt: Yeah.. starting to see plenty of weddings. Soaking those in you know? Don't know how long til you see less white dresses and more funerals.
Lex: Mm.
He was never this serious in high school.
Kurt: Gotta start running for real though, don't want to miss my ride.
Lex: Lets do this again yeah?
Kurt: Yeah, sounds good. I'll call you if a get together happens, sure you wanna see everyone else too right?
Lex: You still do those?
Kurt: Not really but.. I can talk and see how it goes. I mean it though, gotta rush now. No more chatting.
Lex: Yeah, take care alright? See you soon.
Kurt: Yeah, you too. Missed it. This sort of goofy shit.
Lex: Same, good luck with work!

You wonder if your friends ever think about you anymore.
You can't help but feel like you miss them more than they miss you to be honest.
You're not even sure you were that close.
You don't really feel like playing anymore.
You sulk around the nearby shopping center for awhile trying to get your mind off of it.
Honestly all this is clinging to you like moss with teeth.
Why is this a big issue for you anyway?
Nobody else feels like this right?
Is it selfish that you want someone to go "I hope she's doing good."?
Probably.


"Lex!"
Your friend spots you, you're at your usual spot where you wait for her.
"Dotty!"
You try to play it cool.
"I'm off shift, you wanna go out and eat?"
"Yeah, please."
"You brought cash?"
"Yep. You okay?"
"Just tired you know?"
"Feel it though. Fall is fucking like that. Makes you wanna sleep."
"For real."
"Might crash after we're done.
"Same."
You're worried what you have now is just gonna be another intrusive feeling down the line, wondering how everyone is doing.
"Hey Dotty, you mind walking home with me after? It's a little out of the way but..."
"Don't sweat it too hard, I gotcha. Something wrong?"
"I'll explain over dinner. That okay?"

You look forward at least to get a few last hoorahs with your old friend before he leaves town.

"Mm."

For now you'll enjoy the evening with who have now.

You pray to god that it's not another situation like this in the making.

"Thanks."

He never tried to contact you.

Nobody from back then did.

Casper wakes up in a strange place surrounded by other tcps. The remains of a boat from solitude that was heading to hoopla lay all around. He gets up and shakes a mitt at the sky, he looks at the other tcps. Y’all are shipwrecked on this island with no way to get off

At a quick glance it looks like any other island tropical like place. But if you look closely you’ll see an eerie fog that seems to be incroaching soon you and the others around you. It makes you feel uneasy and terrified

This is a fast, fun game that is played between 2 or 3 people. You play as injured samurais, fighting out to the death. If you land a hit on your opponent, you win, unless they hit you at the same time, in which case it's a draw.

The game works like this:


You both start in the middle. Each player has 10 actions, and each round everyone picks one and tells me (forum PMs are typical for this kind of thing, but honestly it's probably easiest and fastest if you just message me on Discord). All actions are then carried out, and if neither player has landed a hit on the other, the game continue into the next round. Once you use an action, you cannot use it again in the same game. If the game goes to 10 turns without a winner, the game ends and its a draw.

Each player has:

-5 Wait actions

Waiting does nothing.

-2 Move actions

Move either 1 square up or down. Movement happens before attacks.

-1 Slash action

Attacks all players in the same square as the attacker.

-1 Lunge action

Attacks all players in a square adjacent to the attacker.

-1 Block action

Prevents attacks from hitting the blocker.

Game summary: You have 2 attack actions, which you win if you hit your opponent with. They have a number of ways of avoiding an attack, and if you miss, you can't use that attack again, so you need to time your attacks carefully.
Also this game is technically playable with more than 3 people, but that greatly increases the chances of everyone dying on the first turn.

If you want to play, post in this thread (along with your discord username if it is different from your forum username), and I'll message you when we start. As long as all players are active, this game can finish in a couple hours, and it definitely shouldn't take more than a few days at the most.
If people like this game, I'll keep running it and keep track of wins, and I promise to write the person with the most points a short fanfiction of something of their choice.

If you have any questions please ask them, I have no idea if this is a good explanation or not.

Hello, call me Dzib. i'm a sarcastic person who has a hard time talking to people.
I don't really have/want any pronouns but if it make things easier on ya, use they/them.
my interests are video games, tabletop RPGs, memes, and trying to be entertaining. I fail at that last one a lot.
I have a bit of tendency to just fade into the background and just lurk, not really saying anything...

Someone wanna talk to me rn? Can't sleep, got spooked by this ad. Need to get my mind off.



Took a picture with my camera, sorry for bad quality and getting reflection glare on it. Think it's for a cartoon movie but it's all 3D? I dunno why, freaks me out a little. Sorry if there are any mistakes in my writing, this isn't my first language.

okay heres how it works
como and i write character shit all the time and now we wanna get some practice in that yall can request! we got two lists here, one of como's characters that he writes for, and one of ours (the skinstealers). you pick one from each list, and give a prompt, and we'll pick some to write for. we've got a soft 45 minute time limit on what we can write for the scene, with 15 minutes of editing. at the end of the hour, we'll post what we've got and move onto another one!

(also keep it sfw for now pls)

some characters exist in different time periods than others, or have different settings that prevent them from ever meeting- characters that can meet/have met in canon will have a chance of these requests becoming canon! 

COMO CHARACTERS
Charon (Masa Con Papas, 12-14 yrs old ambiguously, 303 RE)
Geezer (Masa Con Papas, 12-14 yr old ambiguously, 303 RE)
Geezer (Crankshaft Rafflesian, 25-27 yr old ambiguously, 316 RE)
Lex (Crankshaft Rafflesian, 21 yrs old, 316 RE)
Dotty (Crankshaft Rafflesian, early 20s mentally, old as balls but brain rebooted, 316 RE)
Flynt (Sleepwalker, 30 yrs old, 301 RE)
Flynt (Pre-Sleepwalker, mafia era, 26 yrs old, 297 RE)
Flynt (Homebrew, 21 yrs old, 291 RE)
Bucket (PCA, during Rein, 25-34 yrs old, frozen at 25 due to immortality, 286-295 RE)
Bucket (PCA, post-Rein, 34-50 yrs old, frozen at 25 due to immortality, 295-onward RE )
Grandma Judgment (Masa Con Papas, old, 303 RE)

SKINSTEALER CHARACTERS
Chelsea (can exist at any timeline point, will follow whatever the timeline of the other character is, 70-90 years old, frozen at 20ish due to immortality)

Philly (Homebrew, 21 yrs old, 291 RE)
Wretch (TCP (315 RE) or will follow other timelines)
Voidsy (TCP, all will be noncanon due to Voidsy not existing on Morbit yet)
Eastwood (TCP (315 RE) or will follow other timelines)
Carrie (TCP, 27 yrs old, 315 RE) 
Dropdead (TCP Gauntlet/a bit of time before it, 20 yrs old, 315 RE)
Dysthanasia (can exist at any timeline point, will follow whatever the timeline of the other character is)
Wax (can exist at any timeline point, will follow whatever the timeline of the other character is)
Leo (Pre-Sleepwalker, mafia era, 32, 297 RE)
Ashton (Pre-Sleepwalker, mafia era, 35, 297 RE)


(ill add more hardcore villains when im feeling up to it that'd just get nasty fast)

go nuts, let's go

A large castle looms on a nearby hill. Legend tells of an unimaginable treasure deep within the castle's walls. You and your friends are determined to obtain this treasure at any cost. Gathering up as many of your fellow TCPs as you can find, you form a raiding party and embark on a quest to uncover the castle's secrets...

This is a fundraising project for Mraof + Garde! Here's how it works: The adventuring party will move through a series of rooms, each one with different obstacles in them. In between each room, people will have a chance to give items to the adventurers or add traps to the room. Once the room's all set up, I'll write a short blurb about how the TCPs manage to get through it!

Here's the prices for all the potential player actions (please PM mraof or garde to get them the money before making your post):
$5- Add a new TCP to the party (please specify a NAME, a BASIC PERSONALITY and WHETHER IT'S OKAY FOR THEM TO DIE when spawning!)
$2- Add a monster/NPC to the next room
$1- Add a trap or feature to the next room
$1- Give an item to a TCP

If you have any questions, PM me on Discord. Have fun!