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Hihou FAQs; Information
Topic Started: Sep 13 2014, 10:36 PM (94 Views)
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1: General Questions:

1: What is Hihou about?
Ans: Hihou is a online RPG forum, basically, we create characters and role play them.
We are an anime-themed Fantasy Kitchen Sink RPG, which means, to a large degree, all Myths are true to us. This basically means we have very, very little limit on what characters you can create, well, we are still a few steps away from truly anything goes, since there are stuffs we do not allow, see below.

2: What can I RP as?
Ans: As above, almost anything as along as your character is:
1: Sentient and self aware, no non-sentient beings or natural phenomenons, such as a piece of rock or a tornado.
2: At least intelligent enough to have interaction with other characters.
3: Not over powered, read the rules on this one.
4: Does not contradict existing canon. This is rather easy because we have a very loss canon and background. Read up on 'The World' for details. Also note that, even for existing canon, there's still possibility of exceptions to work around, for example, over here at Hihou, Britannia (the site's counterpart to UK) is still more or less in the middle age. However, there's nothing stopping you from coming up with a town or city that's more advance then the rest of the nation, just don't do it to the capital. Just be reasonable and all is well. Remember, nations are very big, there will be some part of the land that will be different from the rest. Another example, you can have some part of Liberion (USA) being in the wild west even though our canon says it's very technologically advance. Exceptions can exist, just be innovative and use your imagination. We will try our very best to accept your character. ^^

3: Must my character be from Japanese Animes?
Ans: Not really, we do have people RPing western super heroes.

4: Does this story happen on Earth?
Ans: It happens on another planet also called Earth by it's residents, however, it is a different planet, the countries' names and history are somewhat different.
The reason is because we don't want to be limit by reality.
Another reason is the Strike Witches reference, this world is suppose to to be set in the SW world decades after the Anime. The reason for doing so is because the alternate nation name makes this Earth sounds more fantasy like.

5: Hasn't China sank into the ocean in Strike Witches?
Ans: If we follow that, we can't have Chinese characters in our site, we want to open up that choice for RPers.

6: Just how different is Hihou Earth from our real Earth?
Ans: Players decides, anything not set in canon yet is free for RPers to explore and imagine.



2: Our Eldritch Abominations:

1: Why Nyarko version instead of original Lovecraft version?
Ans: A few reasons:
We are Anime themed, Haiyore! Nyarko-san is an anime.
Original Lovecraftian Eldritch Abominations will be too powerful to make into player characters.
Original Lovecraftian Eldritch Abominations are mostly not sentient.
Original Lovecraftian versions are everywhere, we want to be different.
Nyarko-san's versions of the Lovecraftian entities are races instead of single entities, this means there are millions, billions or even trillions of members for each race. Which mean, for each being in the original Lovecraft stories, we can different players coming up with different members of that race, each with different personality and similar but different powers and abilities.
This is the reason why we can allowed players like you girls and guys to create and RP as Eldritch Abominations. It will be impossible if we are using the original Lovecraft versions of these beings.

2: I have not read or watch Haiyore! Nyarko-san before, what are the differences between this and the original Lovecraft works?
Ans: Well~
1: Eldritch Abominations are varies god like races, and not single entities. Except for the big 3.
2: They are sentient and are capable of communication.
3: A cosmic government exist.
4: They can take human from, though the human from is not their actual form.
5: They are weak against forks, all forms of dinning forks, to be exact [Nyaruko Canon]. Reason? Yog-Sothoth loves deserts and she eats them with a fork, so dinning forks is her holy icon. [Site Canon]
5: Site Canon, those cosmic beings under employment of the Planetary Defense Organization are not allowed to harm Puella Magis, under the direct orders of the second in command of the Organization, Yog-Sothoth.

3: Are all Eldritch Abominations Moe girls?
Ans: No
There are males and female members of any of the cosmic races.
The human from is not their true form.
Different members looks different.

4: So I can't create an evil Eldritch Abomination?
Ans: Yes you can. They can be criminals or wild Eldritch Abominations.
They can looked Lovecraftian as well.
It's all up to you.
You can also create cultist worshiping an Eldritch Abomination, just note to state that if they are worshiping a specific member, worshiping the entire race as a whole, worshiping one specific member without knowing that the Eldritch Abomination is an entire race instead of single entities, or whatever other situations you can come up with.



3: Powers/Abilities Issues:
1: What are the kinds of powers I can give my characters?
Ans: Refer to the rules.

2: Is Divine/Cosmic Powers overpowers Magic, which over powers Martial Arts Qi Blast, which overpowers Psychic/Mutant/Non-Cosmic Alien Powers, which overpowers bio-tech which in turns overpowers mechanical absolute?
Ans: Nope, only when dispute arise between players.

3: What is the logic behind the above?
Ans: The more supernatural a power's origins, the more powerful it should be as it will be less bounded by physics.

4: How about angels and demons?
Ans: Powers of angelic sources will be considered divine, devil and demon's will be considered magic.

5: Are all aliens characters considered cosmic?
Ans: No, only Eldritch Abominations are.

7: Are non divine or cosmic characters supposedly to be weaker than divine cosmic?
Ans: Not really, it's based on concepts of your character. But, you need to come up with good reasons to say why your Magic, ESP or martial arts is so powerful.



4: Characters Suggestions for new comers:
1: Ok, I can create any kind of characters I want, but any recommendations?
Ans: Well, yes.
If you have too many ideas, or a lack of ideas for a starting character, we would like to suggests the below.
These are just suggested character types that you might want to create if you can't think of what to create for the start.

1: An Expy, Shout-out or Original Character based on your favorite animes, mangas, light novels or games.

2: A Goddess/God or Eldritch Abomination. Hey, this is about the only site that allows such beings as PCs, so why not create one? We really hope to have more such characters here, so create them, please~ :P

3: A Witch, Pandora, Hime, Otome, Symphogear Senkis, Puella Magi or any other kinds of Mahou Shoujo. And by the way, if you can, we really need Pandoras, Himes, Otomes and Symphogear Senkis. ^^

4: A Youkai.

5: Someone from Mid-Childa or Gensokyo and worlds linked to it.

6: A male character, any male character.

7: If possible, create more chars, as many as you like, as many as you can, it's more fun that way. ^^

8: You can be as wild and crazy as you like, we have few limits here, so enjoy the freedom. ^^

These are only suggestions, and hope it can be a good start for many more characters from you to come. ^^
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