Tokyo: Dreams in Springtime

This is a mage game.

Basics

It's the beginning of the last year of Higashigawa High School, a perfectly normal school with perfectly average academic results and a good girl's basketball team. Set in the Ueno neighborhood in Taito Ward, an unlucky part of town near the Imperial Palace's demon gate, with many museums and homeless people.

You're just back from holiday. After you're done they'll be college, and then marriage and work until you're dead. An endless expanse of featureless time lies ahead.

Only something has changed over the summer.

Maybe the future isn't so set after all.

Chargen and rules stuff

You are all orphans, and high school age, but know you're doing something supernatural when you do magic. This can take the form of high technology, mystical books you found in your old aunt's house, whatever. However, you should have at least 3 defined foci.

Each character should have a dream a world they're striving to reach to. Each character should also have a Teather an aspect of mundane life which is preventing them from getting where they want to go. For instance, Joker the Phantom Thief has a dream (A world where heroism is supported) and a Teather (on probation).

Characters who can get along and work with one another easily are preferred. Knowing one another already is encouraged but not required.

Anime alert level is set to elevated.

crunch

Build using XP Based Chargen: Mage with 75 freebie XP rather than 105. You can buy arete up to 4 at chargen if you want.

• Dodge is subsumed under Athletics.
• You get a free -1 (3 xp) flaw for being highschool age
• Flaw limits are flexible.
• The 'Esoterica' skill is added. Define a paradigm and it packages niche occult knowledge for that paradigm, such as alchemy, numerology and the names of angels for Esoterica [Hermetic].
• Computer is a skill
• Knowledges are still half cost because w/e
• Casting with one of your foci is -1 difficulty. Casting without them or when they are hampered is -1

Inspirations

• Persona 5
• Garden of Sinners
• Durarara
• Tokyo Drift
• Boogiepop
• Terror of Resonance
• Fate/Stay Night
• Hellboy
• Ancient Magus Bride

Higashigawa High

Higashigawa High is a somewhat dilapidated 4 story structure of which three floors and the gym are in use.

Each year occupies rooms on one of the floors, with staff sharing the 3rd floor with your year.

Students are not permitted on the 4th floor, and the doors are kept locked at all times. Going out on the roof is not permitted, a source of annoyance to most of the student body.

The Gym, as well as the club rooms, are in their own separate building a little away from the main building.

As part of giving students a broader and more balanced education, all students must participate in at least one club.

Uniform colors are black and sky blue.

Staff

Principle Kobayashi

Fat

Sad

Glum

Miserable

Rumoured to be a former stockbroker who lost everything in the 1990s

Rumoured to be gay

Rumoured to be having an affair with Ms. Taira

Light touch when it comes to discipline

Ms. Taira (PE)

Slim

Muscular

Short Hair

Ex-JSDF

Rumoured to have been part of some special public safety unit and to have "killed more than 10 people."

Intense

Schools disciplinarian

Ms. [Name to be added] (Home Room, Japanese Language)

Fatigued

Casual

Phones it in

Actually a pretty fun teacher if she's doing stuff that motivates her, primarily Meiji era literature

"Whatever" approach to discipline

Mr. [Name to be added] (Science)

Sinister

Shiny Glasses

Smiles a lot

Frequently ends lessons early when they're the last one of the day

Rumoured to deal drugs on the side "like that American show."

Everyone to scared of him to misbehave

Mr. [Name to be added] (English)

Everyone's friend

Most of the school's favourite teacher

Frequently brings in foreign food

Handsome

Seems strange someone this handsome works in our school. Shouldn't he be a model or a movie star or something?

Often seen eating but never gets fat

Doesn't mind how you behave providing you don't bully people and get the work done.

Mr. [Name to be added] (School Counsellor)

Friendly

Charming

Sometimes stares off into the distance

Always seems to know how to help his patience

About a 50/50 chance that you'll find him creepy or think he's the best ever

Tries to help pupils not need discipline

Rumoured to own a pistol