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NEW MOON HIGH: It Begins

It is a clear, warm September morning; a rarity if there ever was one. A new year at New Moon High School has begun. The students are arriving, and a good few are simply hanging around the entrance hall and waiting to be led to the induction.

The school, a large, one could say sprawling, building, happens to be quite a ways out from the town, a common complaint for the local students, but that's how it's always been. As it is, unbeknownst to them, there's a good reason for it.

I'm sure we all know what that is.

Welcome, new students, to New Moon High School for the Paranormal.

Your bags, such as they may be, have been taken to your dorms. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves until a member of staff arrives to take you to the main hall, where the Headmistress will introduce you to the school.

And please, don't discuss that particular subject around the mundanes. The Headmistress will not be happy.

OOC HERE (once made)

Oh, word, I'm making a terrible mistake.

Well.

This is an interest check for a 'generic shounen RPG'. So generic, in fact, I haven't bothered to come up with a story, only specific details.

The basic idea is that people will be able to do... pretty much whatever. Using the universe's native Universal Power Source/Plot Filler, you can do all sorts. Naruto had flying wizard ninjas because of chakra, we can have flying ninja wizards because of *insert completely inaccurate power source name here*.

No more details, because that's the other reason this thread is here: building the universe.

Who's interested?

Has this been done already?

Just a few ideas on fleshing out dwellings and the like.
Bandits
Seeing as for some reason random travellers have tents while bandits have nothing but a pile of goods and a few campfires, I think bandit camps should be given a little more depth during generation.
A few examples:
-Adding tents for bandits to sleep in
-Adding weapons racks and storage tents rather than the unorganised pile of chests and bags in the current camps
Human sites (towns, hamlets)
At the moment peasants live in dirty little huts: that's only to be expected. However, perhaps giving blacksmiths, doctors. tanners and the like their own places of work within a town (for instance, the surgeon's home having a few 'surgeony' things like a bucket, a few beds, knives and threads/needles). Other things include:
-If a peasant or otherwise has, say, killed an animal (a wolf or wild bear or something) perhaps putting a trophy in their house (if ethics allow) such as a 'black bear bone figurine of Tiqua Knifewashed'
-As mentioned above, giving humans with professions profession-specific items (or perhaps their own 'shop', like a metalworker having a forge (or even sharing one with another person of the same kind of profession)
-This suggestion is for most sites, not only humans: perhaps adding aspects to peasant life that actually show (for instance, a farmer being out in the fields planting/harvesting, a metalworker working at a forge, a normal peasant walking to a shop and getting some food/clothing, and the like)
Dwarven sites, mainly hillocks
Seeing as fortresses already have a fair amount of organisation and the like (although the trade depot is the only place I ever see dwarves: perhaps spreading them out a bit more would help, unless I'm looking in the wrong place) hillocks are the main place I'd consider changing, although they're also pretty developed, if not complex. Examples of work that could be done are:
-Again, dwarves having their own equipment etc. based on profession (perhaps in another, larger, 'Work Mound' or the like)
-Ways of distinguishing between the type of mound (perhaps just something as simple as signs)
-As mentioned before, the visible aspects of peasant life
Elven Sites
Elves all live in trees. The only suggestion I can make is perhaps making it a bit more evident which trees are lived in, and a 'mead hall equivalent' in which to find elf warriors and leaders, as I can't seem to find any anywhere (at least not on purpose).

Also, bar brawls are something I'd love to see if inns and taverns are implemented.

Being an inexperienced modder, is there any way to make a creature that can be crafted (as in, made in a workshop or the like)? Something I'm fairly certain could be done is a golem (as in, animated creature, not undead) and I'm curious as to how one could achieve this. Also of interest, could one (without mucking about with loads and loads of files) make it so that in worldgen one could have historical figures create golems/whatever? For example, 'In the mid spring of 13 Ted Bowlsnatched gave sentience to Knifewash the golem.' ?

If it'd be incredibly complex, I'm not really able to do that kind of thing so kindly mention thus. Still be interested in any answers, though

Just noticed that when playing as an outsider on Adventurer my name isn't visible unless I greet someone: (l)ooking at myself only says 'recruit'.
Is this just an eccentricity of being an outsider? Are there any other things I should know?