Otome Row

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Otome Row is a relatively freeform gangster game roughly at the crossing point of the Saints Row games, No More Heroes and Black Lagoon. The game will run in the Mage format with session and story arc parties drawn from the pool. As such, there is no hard limit on character creation and at least eight open slots, though sessional party size is much more limited. In terms of Amahara canon, the game runs on an extension of the "WARP Zone" alternate timeline that Student Council Amahara previously ran on and other branches of the world can be referred to if desired.

Otome Row: System (Character Creation)
Otome Row: Appendices

Story

Welcome to Otome Row, a small enclave of relative peace near the edge of the dark world that is the Jura Megalopolis. You are the ones who kind-of-sort-of stand guard over this place: the Angel Street Otome. For many years, the Angel Street Otome have been both led and held in check by Omoi Kanako, landlady of QB Terrace and former headmistress of St. Zoharia Orphanage. Last week, she finally died in middle age after a long battle with cancer and the funerary proceedings concluded yesterday. As you, the remaining core of the Otome sift through her belongings, you ponder how little you know of your mentor and the future of the gang.

Characters

Aria 'Sparks' Yukeisen (Shrike)
Kuro 'Neko' Nishimura (Exhack)
Mio 'Moe' Modegi (FBH)
Hitomi 'Bake (NOT BAKA)' Yamagachi (BM)
Shiden Agito (Ford)

Hoods

Otome Row

St. Zoharia Orphanage
The defunct orphanage is a pair of old stone buildings standing on a pear-shaped hunk of land at the heart of Otome Row. The buildings belonged to a christian mission with the older's foundations reputed to date to the 16th century though it's hard to tell with the most recent of numerous remodelings dating a mere two or three decades. Following a period of abandonment, it became an orphanage for war orphans of both genders in the 1920's until a shady world war program scooped up all the boys, leaving the institution to evolve and then decay as a girl's facility and alternative education center. This lasted up until five years ago when Headmistress Omoi became unable to administer it any longer.

The orphanage's land is shadily wooded and rather creepy during the day since ironically it is the current hangout of the Angel Street Otome by night and thus not that creepy then. It is surrounded by Angel Street, which runs approximately north-south and splits into opposite lanes of traffic going around the orphanage land (fyi, normal people drive on the left here).

The Row
The eponymous Otome Row is a line of big housing project highrises that dominate the southern side of the neighbourhood. Shitty, though far from the shittiest around.

QB Terrace
QB Terrace is a small set of newish apartments ringed around a little parkette occuping the northwest quadrant of Otome Row. Compared to the row, it is at least painted and has clean, reliable power.