>>32468942I think it would be better to join a quest before casuals, as it gives your character a free excuse to interact with strangers and get to know them and form bonds.
As for contests, we need a concrete system for how to score them, but also sheer numbers. If we use three judges, which we should, we'll probably need at least 11 people to participate in the contest RP total for it to be interesting.
The biggest difficulty so far is the battle phase. The Appeals can be more or less a judged creative writing exercise on a timer, but we haven't figured out a good way to make the appeal score matter in battles, or how to implement a consistent and fair system for moves getting boosted by presentation value.
>>32468866I don't think I ever wanted her to be perma-slimegirl, I think from the beginning I wanted to avoid making her seem too fetishistic or anything. I don't think I wanted her to be capable of sustaining a humanoid form even in the beginning, but I might be remembering wrongly.
