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BluePenguin
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Okay. I'll admit that this concept has been used before, but it would be very fun if we made a roleplay out of it. Due to a space-time distortion, some people get transported into <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Japan </st1:country-region></st1:place>during a time when there were still Samurai, Ninjas, and all that awesome stuff. The exact time can be open for debate, but I'd probably go with the Sengoku Period. There will obviously be some changes taking place from what really happened, so we won't know all of the plot twists in advance. These changes will be because some other people had gone into the past before our characters and messed with some stuff.<o:p> There can even be brand new Daimyo's important to the plot, other then Oda Nobunaga (who basically needs to be involved in some way).
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The roleplay will be realistic, at least in terms of our characters not suddenly becoming awesome ninja/samurai and knowing Japanese fluently (unless you already are fluent). I'm thinking it would be a cool idea to only have our characters know what we actually do in real life, so we have to learn as our characters do. It may seem hard to have our characters not understand what people are saying a lot of the time, but that can help with emersion if we're in the same situation as them. Don't worry about a lack of communication all the time, however, because our characters can still talk to each other in English. For learning Japanese, we can help each other with sentences, such as when you post a sentence you can translate it for us and we can ask questions about grammer and stuff like that. It would be really fun if we could know a lot more by the time the roleplay ends then when we started, which would make this roleplay seem like it has an even greater purpose then just being fun, which I hope it will be as well. You don't need to know any Japanese at all to join, you just need a willingness to learn.
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The plot will mainly be us trying to survive, figure out how to get back to our own time, and fix the changes in time that someone from the future had caused.
EDIT
Here's the discussion thread
http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=16987&p=455623
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The roleplay will be realistic, at least in terms of our characters not suddenly becoming awesome ninja/samurai and knowing Japanese fluently (unless you already are fluent). I'm thinking it would be a cool idea to only have our characters know what we actually do in real life, so we have to learn as our characters do. It may seem hard to have our characters not understand what people are saying a lot of the time, but that can help with emersion if we're in the same situation as them. Don't worry about a lack of communication all the time, however, because our characters can still talk to each other in English. For learning Japanese, we can help each other with sentences, such as when you post a sentence you can translate it for us and we can ask questions about grammer and stuff like that. It would be really fun if we could know a lot more by the time the roleplay ends then when we started, which would make this roleplay seem like it has an even greater purpose then just being fun, which I hope it will be as well. You don't need to know any Japanese at all to join, you just need a willingness to learn.
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The plot will mainly be us trying to survive, figure out how to get back to our own time, and fix the changes in time that someone from the future had caused.
EDIT
Here's the discussion thread
http://www.iwakuroleplay.com/showthread.php?t=16987&p=455623