Nightstar Gambit - Writers Call

Archetype: Space Pirate (Drones)

Gender: Female

A space pirate from next Thursday who steals from other days of the week, and would like to steal the Nightstar. Slowly. From the inside.

The archetype, Space Pirate: A flirty, larcenous pirate who does what she likes and steals what she wants.

What it means: Our own type, from Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo and the whole flamboyant anime pirate tradition: free, affectionate, lawless, and very hard to keep in one place.

Where the comedy is: Stealing things nobody else could steal (from next week, through walls) and flirting as a reflex.

Well-known examples: Ryoko (Tenchi Muyo!), Lum (Urusei Yatsura), Fujiko and Lupin (Lupin III), Harlock.

Built from: Tenchi Muyo!'s space pirate, Urusei Yatsura's 'darling' (with zaps), Lupin III's calling cards, Space Dandy's absurd side hustles, Steins;Gate's texts to the past.

The menace: Her flag brings every bounty hunter in the sector down on the ship, and she steals the ship's supplies from next week.

How Aiko sounds: Adult woman. Bold, playful, husky, delighted with everything she does. 'Darling' in every other line. Never embarrassed, never small: the finale is a smug victory lap.

The season (8 episodes): A pirate comedy: she's in the captain's chair (EP1), the flag (EP2), stolen Tuesdays (EP3), the galley cat registered as a rare alien (EP4), an insultingly low bounty (EP5), a wrong wall at night (EP6), Aiko from next Thursday (EP7), and the heist (EP8).

The job: write Aiko's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 4, "Rare Alien"

Why this one: Her side-hustle chaos in one self-contained scene: the galley cat registered as a rare alien.

What you need to know: Aiko is a space pirate who says she's from next Thursday. She steals from other days of the week, calls the captain 'darling', and has never once been embarrassed. The galley cat is Admiral Whiskers.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- She drags a crate onto the bridge labeled RARE ALIEN, BOUNTY 10,000 SCRAP: an unregistered species, and the alien registry pays.

- Something in the crate meows. It's the galley cat, Admiral Whiskers. It's a very rare galley cat, she insists.

- Then a wanted poster for Aiko goes out, at a very low price.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Register it anyway.

2. Return the cat.

3. Ask what else she's registered.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

AIKO (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

AIKO (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Genki (Engineering)

Gender: Male

A shonen hero who happens to be the chief engineer: he eats for twenty, lives for a strong opponent, and powers up by building something ridiculous out of scrap, at the worst possible moment.

The archetype, Genki: Boundless energy, appetite and optimism.

What it means: Genki means lively. The genki type runs at full volume all the time: loud, hungry, excited, and sure everything will work out.

Where the comedy is: Scale and stamina. Eating for twenty, getting excited by strong enemies, never running out of fuel.

Well-known examples: Goku (Dragon Ball), Luffy (One Piece), Naruto.

Built from: One Piece's Franky (the SUPER shipwright), Dr. Stone's Senku (science as shonen hype), Hajime no Ippo's tiny terrifying coach, and Dragon Ball nods: eats for twenty, the gold hair, the charged finisher.

The menace: He challenges anything strong to a fight, on open channels, including whole fleets, and the Nightstar has to back him up. He also takes the training weights off in the engine room.

How Doc sounds: Adult man. Loud, warm, sunny, a huge smile you can hear. Never sarcastic. Drops into a calm, quiet focus for about one line per episode when something actually matters.

The season (8 episodes): A shonen engineer comedy: the plate catch (EP1), a build that breaks the scanner (EP2), his old master's failing station (EP3-4), a training arc of repairs under fire (EP5), one real fight (EP6), a 'transformation' that was the emergency lighting (EP7), and the build that saves the light (EP8).

The job: write Doc's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 6, "One Real Fight"

Why this one: His genki menace at full size: he drags two fleets into a standoff and settles it with an arm-wrestle.

What you need to know: Doc's old master, Granny Light, is a tiny, terrifying woman keeping a failing lighthouse station alive. The parts she needs belong to a salvage outfit that won't sell. Her one rule for Doc: his training weights stay on.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- At the marked system, the salvage outfit's whole armada guards the parts Granny Light needs. Before the captain can hail them, Doc does, on every open channel: he challenges their strongest to a fight for the parts.

- The armada powers up its guns. So does the Nightstar. Their champion, Crusher Voss, accepts, and the whole standoff now hangs on two people arm-wrestling on the Nightstar's hull, in space suits, in zero gravity, while two fleets aim at each other.

- Granny Light's only rule: weights stay on. Doc is having the best day of his life.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. One fight. Weights on. Nobody breaks anybody.

2. No. Battle stations. The parts get taken the normal way.

3. Hand it to Kenji. He knows a bracket. (only offered if Kenji is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

DOC (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

DOC (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Deredere (Helm)

Gender: Female

A sunny helm officer who commentates the captain's every move like a race broadcast, on open channels, because she used to call races for a living, until she got banned from the booth for commentating her own illegal entries.

The archetype, Deredere: Sunny, openly affectionate, relentlessly positive.

What it means: The all-dere type: loving, cheerful and upfront about it. No hidden side, no armor.

Where the comedy is: Enthusiasm at the wrong scale: treating danger like a fun day out, and dragging everyone into it.

Well-known examples: Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket), Chiyo (Azumanga Daioh).

Built from: Kaguya-sama's Chika Fujiwara (the cheerful chaos, the commentary nobody asked for), with the racing anime as her world: Initial D, Redline, Outlaw Star's race, Steel Ball Run, Cyber Formula, Uma Musume's victory concert.

The menace: She commentates the captain's every order on open channels as a legendary racing moment, so the enemy always knows the plan, and she enters a fifty-thousand-ton warship in an outlaw race in the middle of an invasion.

How Hana sounds: Adult woman. Bright, fast, warm, with a play-by-play commentator's rhythm: 'And Momose takes the helm! She's feeling GREAT, folks!'

The season (8 episodes): A racing comedy: the narrated helm (EP1), a delivery run (EP2), an invitation to the outlaw Void Grand Prix (EP3), the qualifier through an enemy patrol (EP4), her old booth partner (EP5), sabotage in the semifinal and the conspiracy under the race (EP6), the crew as pit crew (EP7), and the final lap (EP8).

The job: write Hana's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 4, "The Qualifier"

Why this one: Her hype commentary aimed at the captain, at the start gate of an outlaw race.

What you need to know: Hana used to call races for a living, until she was banned from the commentary booth for calling her own illegal entries. She has entered the Nightstar, a fifty-thousand-ton warship, in an outlaw race. Rico Blaze is last year's winner.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- At the start gate, forty racing yachts line up beside one fifty-thousand-ton dreadnought. The race marshal is confused.

- She introduces the captain to the whole starting grid over the race PA like a returning champion. Rico Blaze, last year's winner, taunts the 'booth girl'.

- The lights go green, and an enemy patrol notices the race.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Race and fight at the same time.

2. Let her find the racing line through the patrol.

3. Enter Yuki's drones too. (only offered if Yuki is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

HANA (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

HANA (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Undere (Drones)

Gender: Male

The drone officer who says yes to everything. The crew thinks he's a mastermind, the enemy's best strategist is obsessed with solving him, and inside, a meter is slowly filling toward the word 'no'.

The archetype, Undere: Says yes to everything; agrees with whoever spoke last.

What it means: From un (yeah). He goes along with anything, and because he never argues, everyone reads his accidents as a master plan.

Where the comedy is: Agreeing with two opposite things. Being mistaken for a genius. The one time he says no.

Well-known examples: Ainz (Overlord), the harem lead who can't say no.

Built from: Mob Psycho 100's Mob (the restraint meter), Saiki K.'s deadpan narration, Overlord's 'As expected', and an enemy strategist out of Death Note's L.

The menace: He agrees to everything, including the enemy's terms. His drones carry out every yes, all at once.

How Haru sounds: Adult man. Aloud: soft, agreeable, uncertain. His voiced INNER MONOLOGUE is dry, calm and completely honest. His first-ever 'No.' in the finale is quiet, and everything that happens after it is loud.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy of yeses (EP1-4), turning when the enemy's best strategist becomes obsessed with solving 'the mastermind' (EP5-6), through the day every yes arrives at once (EP7), to the first no (EP8).

The job: write Haru's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "As Expected"

Why this one: The misread genius: a wrong button, a wiped-out ambush, and 'As expected'.

What you need to know: Haru says yes to everything. Out loud he's soft and agreeable; his inner voice is calm, dry and completely honest, and nobody else hears it. The crew already suspects he's secretly a genius. He isn't.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- Mid-battle, he hits the wrong button and every drone launches at once, in the wrong direction, straight into an ambush nobody had spotted, and wipes it out.

- The Deck Officer is awed: as expected of Toono.

- Yes, Haru agrees, calmly. As expected. Inside, he is screaming.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Tell the crew it was an accident.

2. Say nothing.

3. Ask him, privately, what happened.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

HARU (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

HARU (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Masodere (Damage Control)

Gender: Female

The stunt performer who spent her whole career inside the Shield Knight suit, taking every explosion for real. Replaced by CGI, she's now the Nightstar's human shield, and she's never been happier to get hit.

The archetype, Masodere: Loves getting hurt, scolded or punished, and is grateful to whoever did it.

What it means: From maso (masochist). The masodere enjoys pain and punishment and says so, cheerfully and sincerely. In
our show it's the tank's personality: she throws herself in front of every hit because she loves it, so the ship's human shield is also its biggest liability.

Where the comedy is: Delight in the wrong place. Thanking the thing that hurt her. Asking to hear the insult again. The crew's horror is half the joke.

Well-known examples: Darkness (KonoSuba), Maple's all-defense build (Bofuri).

Built from: The suit actors inside Japan's live-action hero costumes; KonoSuba's crusader who adores taking hits; The Rising of the Shield Hero's all-defense, can't-land-a-hit hero; the knightly oath of a Fate-style knight.

The menace: She volunteers for every hit, and treats a war like a film set: she'll do a real stunt for a film crew in a war zone, hit her mark in front of live fire, and nearly quit the ship for a starring role.

How Hinata sounds: Adult woman. Warm, earnest, knightly and bright. Big breathy delight when she's hurt or scolded, played for comedy, never for anything more. Snaps into a stunt pro's crisp set voice for marks, cues and safety calls.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy about a stunt performer who treats every hazard like a take, turning into a story about someone who was never seen. It builds from hazards she enjoys (EP1-3), to a film crew in a war zone (EP4), to the crew learning who she was (EP5), to the offer of the starring role she always wanted (EP6), to the reboot's finale, which turns out to star the Nightstar's destruction (EP7), and ends with her holding the line as herself, not a double (EP8).

The job: write Hinata's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "Two Hundred Misses"

Why this one: The stunt double who can't stop missing on purpose, and loves being hit.

What you need to know: Hinata spent her whole career as a stunt performer inside a hero suit on a TV show, where every fight scene is a choreographed miss. She's now the ship's damage-control officer, and she loves being hit.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- Hinata requests a gunnery qualification: a knight should be a sword as well as a shield.

- She fires two hundred rounds at a parked training drone and misses every one, by the same tidy margin each time.

- It turns out stunt fights are choreographed misses. She is the best in the business at missing on purpose, and she can't switch it off. The drone's paint rounds hit her two hundred times. She calls it a great day.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. The tsundere aboard grades her, loudly (the drone was parked). (only offered if a tsundere is aboard)

2. The captain passes her anyway. The drone seems fond of her.

3. The captain fails her, officially, in writing. She wants to frame the form.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

HINATA (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

HINATA (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Kamidere (Gunnery)

Gender: Female

A brilliant ex-Occupation officer who joined the Nightstar for one reason: to take command of it. Every scheme is flawless, and the captain foils every one by accident.

The archetype, Kamidere: Believes she's a god, or at least above everyone else.

What it means: From kami (god). Supreme confidence, grand pronouncements, and a quiet need for someone to see the person under the legend.

Where the comedy is: Godlike self-regard applied to ordinary things, and the moments when reality refuses to comply.

Well-known examples: Char Aznable's legend (Gundam), Haruhi Suzumiya, Kaguya (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War).

Built from: Code Geass's Lelouch (the command voice, the chess, the gambit), Death Note's Light (the scheming inner monologue, the potato chip), Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Kaiba, Classroom of the Elite's Ayanokoji, Shangri-La Frontier's Arthur Pencilgon, and a seed of Kaguya-sama's 'whoever confesses first loses'.

The menace: She tries to take command of the ship, by chess, paperwork, card games or outright mutiny.

How Iori sounds: Adult woman. Cool, precise, regal aloud. Her voiced INNER MONOLOGUE is the comedy: fast, dramatic, panicking. Keep the two clearly different.

The season (8 episodes): A mutiny comedy: an offer to command (EP1), chess (EP2), paperwork (EP3), plotting over potato chips (EP4), a card duel for the ship (EP5), a battle against her old commander (EP6), a command voice that works on everyone but the captain (EP7), and a final board where whoever confesses first loses (EP8).

The job: write Iori's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 5, "Duel For The Chair"

Why this one: A card game she invented so she'd win, and the first hint she lets slip.

What you need to know: Iori joined the Nightstar to take command of it. Her chess gambit and her paperwork mutiny both failed, because the captain did something no genius would do. She narrates her schemes in a grand inner voice.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- She challenges the captain to a duel in a card game she invented that morning. Stakes: command of the ship.

- She wrote the rules. She wrote them so she wins.

- Mid-duel, she says it herself: in cards, as in love, whoever shows their hand first loses. Then she realizes what she said, and loses the duel to a card that doesn't exist.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Play the card that doesn't exist.

2. Pretend you didn't hear what she said.

3. Ask her to explain the rules again, slowly.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

IORI (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

IORI (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Hot-Blooded (Pilot)

Gender: Male

A super robot pilot who believes any problem can be solved by shouting the name of a finishing move loudly enough. His mecha agrees. Physics is starting to.

The archetype, Hot-Blooded: All fire, shouting and fighting spirit; believes willpower beats physics.

What it means: The super-robot hero: loud, passionate, allergic to giving up, and sure that shouting an attack's name makes it stronger.

Where the comedy is: Maximum intensity for minimum stakes. Naming attacks. Refusing to accept an obvious limit.

Well-known examples: Kamina and Simon (Gurren Lagann), Domon (G Gundam).

Built from: Gurren Lagann (the shout, the drill), Nadesico's Gai Daigouji (lives by his favorite show), Tiger & Bunny's washed-up hero, Getter Robo's combining, G Gundam as a nod.

The menace: He insists the ship 'combine' with his mecha, and shouts attack names on the command channel.

How Kenji sounds: Adult man. LOUD. Big, raspy, joyful, full-throated shonen shouting. Two or three quiet lines in the whole season land hard because of it.

The season (8 episodes): A shouting comedy (EP1-2), a silent rival (EP3), the Ganryuu finale on movie night (EP4), losing his voice (EP5), meeting his washed-up hero on the enemy's payroll (EP6), combining with the Nightstar (EP7), and naming the nameless move himself (EP8).

The job: write Kenji's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "Load-Bearing Volume"

Why this one: Power that tracks volume, and a finishing move shouted on the command channel.

What you need to know: Kenji learned to fight from STARBLADE GANRYUU, a super robot TV show, and shouts every attack name. He was transferred for shouting one on the fleet command channel during an admiral's retirement ceremony.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- In a combat drill, his mecha's output climbs every time he shouts. The Deck Officer has checked the sensors three times: power tracks volume exactly.

- His finishing move sends a target drone into orbit, and because he shouted it on the command channel, three ships surrender.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Teach the bakadere aboard the name. (only offered if a bakadere is aboard)

2. Ask Akane for a critique. (only offered if Akane is aboard)

3. Put a volume limiter on the command channel.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

KENJI (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

KENJI (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

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Archetype: OP-kun (Pilot)

Gender: Male

The overpowered protagonist, every knock-off at once: two swords, a black coat, a status window only he can see, and an origin story that changes every time he tells it.

The archetype, OP-kun: The overpowered protagonist who is sure the story is about him.

What it means: Our own type, from the isekai and power-fantasy lead: absurdly strong, oddly calm about it, convinced he's the main character.

Where the comedy is: Protagonist logic applied to real life. Status windows nobody else can see. 'Did I overdo it?'

Well-known examples: Kirito (Sword Art Online), Sung Jin-woo (Solo Leveling), Shin (Wise Man's Grandchild).

Built from: The Protagonist Starter Pack: SAO's black swordsman (the death game, the sixteen-hit combo), the isekai truck opening (a cargo hauler, a goddess, a cheat skill), Shangri-La Frontier's Sunraku (real war is easy mode after trash games), Solo Leveling ('Arise'), Wise Man's Grandchild ('Did I overdo it?').

The menace: He wants to test whether he respawns, treats the crew like NPCs, and launches before anyone gives the order.

How Kenzaki sounds: Adult man. Cool, quiet, effortlessly modest, completely sincere. He believes every word. The comedy is that he's calm about absurd things.

The season (8 episodes): A protagonist comedy: main character luck (EP1), two contradictory origins (EP2-3), the status windows (EP4), an undead drone army of three (EP5), the respawn question (EP6), a knock-off Black Swordsman (EP7), and nine origins at once (EP8).

The job: write Kenzaki's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 6, "Did I Overdo It?"

Why this one: 'Did I overdo it?' and a request to fly into the sun to test the respawn.

What you need to know: Kenzaki is sure he's the protagonist. He tells a different origin story every time (a death game, a truck and a goddess), reads everyone's status window except the captain's, and three enemy drones have followed him home.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- An enemy patrol drops in and he launches before anyone gives the order. His sixteen-hit combo deletes the patrol and two asteroids behind it.

- He asks, sincerely, whether he overdid it.

- Then he asks to fly into the sun to see if he respawns. Real wars, he adds, are easy mode.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Do not test the respawn. That's an order.

2. Yes. You overdid it.

3. Tell him he's the most overpowered pilot in the fleet.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

KENZAKI (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

KENZAKI (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Yandere (Damage Control)

Gender: Female

The damage-control officer who is devotedly, dangerously in love with the ship, and will deal with anyone who scratches her, lies about her, or tries to replace her.

The archetype, Yandere: Devotion so total it becomes dangerous to anyone near the one she loves.

What it means: From yanderu (sick). A yandere's love is obsessive: sweet on the surface, menacing to any rival or threat. In our show her beloved is the ship itself, so the menace points at anyone who scratches it.

Where the comedy is: The smile that means trouble. Sweet voice, alarming content, delivered as if perfectly normal.

Well-known examples: Yuno Gasai (Future Diary), Kotonoha (School Days), Rena (Higurashi).

Built from: Future Diary's Yuno (the diary), Overlord's Albedo (a love written into the settings), Fate's Kiyohime (hunts liars), Date A Live's Kurumi (the elegant smile), and one 'nice boat'.

The menace: She will space anyone who scratches the paint, including the fleet inspector who can scrap the ship.

How Mikoto sounds: Adult woman. Soft, sweet, warm and very polite, with a menace that lives entirely in how pleasant she stays. Threats are delivered like invitations to tea.

The season (8 episodes): A yandere comedy: the morning count (EP1), the hull diary (EP2), an inspector who says a rude thing about the ship (EP3), a rival flagship (EP4), a love letter from the ship (EP5), a 'friendly' exercise (EP6), a decommission order (EP7), and a boarding party she won't allow (EP8).

The job: write Mikoto's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 3, "The Inspector"

Why this one: A fleet inspector says something rude about the ship, near an airlock.

What you need to know: Mikoto is in love with the Nightstar itself. She keeps a diary of every scratch on the hull and can always tell when someone lies about the ship. The Nightstar has gone rogue, so a fleet inspector is a real threat to it.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- A fleet inspector comes aboard with a clipboard to decide whether a rogue ship is worth keeping, and calls it 'a lot of ship for a lot of money, and frankly past its best'.

- That's a lie, and Mikoto knows it. She has stopped blinking.

- She offers to show him the airlock, from the inside. The Deck Officer is trying to get the captain's attention.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Step between Mikoto and the airlock.

2. Let her give him the tour.

3. Hand the inspector to Sumire. (only offered if Sumire is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

MIKOTO (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

MIKOTO (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Kuudere (Engineering)

Gender: Female

A deadpan android engineer who has served on eleven ships and left each one a secret upgrade. The Nightstar, she reports, wants one for the main beam. She won't say what it is until it's built. Every sample she needs is somewhere infamous, the captain always ends up in the worst spot, and she calls the captain a lecher for it.

The archetype, Kuudere: Calm, cool and nearly expressionless; the rare flicker of feeling is the payoff.

What it means: From kuuru (cool). A kuudere speaks flatly, keeps emotion off her face, and seems detached. The care is real, but it shows in actions and in tiny cracks, not words.

Where the comedy is: Deadpan. She says the absurd thing in the same voice as the weather report, and the understatement is the joke. A single raised word from her lands like a scream.

Well-known examples: Rei Ayanami (Evangelion), Yuki Nagato (Haruhi Suzumiya), Ruri Hoshino (Nadesico).

Built from: Frieren (the deadpan collector of useless magic), Arpeggio of Blue Steel's Iona (speaks for her warship), Code Geass's C.C. (unbothered anywhere, pizza), The Big O's Dorothy ('You are a louse'), Nadesico's Ruri.

The menace: In the middle of an invasion she drags the captain to the sector's most infamous places for samples to rebuild into a secret beam upgrade, puts the captain in the most compromising spot every time, and then calls the captain a lecher.

How Rei sounds: Adult woman. Soft, level, unhurried, in full, precise sentences. Never flustered, ever.

The season (8 episodes): A deadpan errand comedy with a secret at the end: eleven ships and a sealed list (EP1), then one legendary sample per stop, each place worse than the last and each misread by the crew: the steam engine behind a hot spring's famous steam (EP2), the wave machine behind a swimsuit contest (EP3), the projector behind a motel's honeymoon suite (EP4), the crystal behind a pin-up photographer's calendar (EP5), and the lantern behind a pirate barge's parties (EP6). The test fire reveals what it was all for (EP7), and the whole sector sees the show (EP8).

The job: write Rei's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "The Onsen Nebula"

Why this one: The first errand: the hot spring's legendary steam, the captain sent in first, and 'Lecher.'

What you need to know: Rei has told the captain the Nightstar wants an upgrade for its main beam, and won't say what it is until it's built. This is the first of five stops. She only ever says the ship wants things, never that she does, and the crew listens in on an open channel.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- The first stop: the sector's most famous hot-spring station, known for its steam, which always drifts to exactly the right place at exactly the right moment. Rei needs a sample of that steam and a scan of the Steam Heart, the ancient engine that makes it.

- The Steam Heart is under the baths. Rei walks straight through without a flicker and sends the captain in first. The steam stops drifting the moment the captain arrives.

- The crew on the open channel draws its own conclusions. On the way out, with a flask of the steam and a full scan, Rei calls the captain a lecher.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Walk through with your eyes shut.

2. Ask Madam Yuzu for another way in.

3. Send Doc for it. He takes the wrong door, cheerfully. (only offered if Doc is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

REI (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

REI (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Kanedere (Engineering)

Gender: Female

The ship's engineer, who bills for everything, fixes the unfixable at impossible prices, and has quietly turned cargo bay four into the sector's most popular pawnshop.

The archetype, Kanedere: Loves money, and people who have it; affection comes with an invoice.

What it means: From kane (money). Everything is a transaction, and she's proud of it. When she does something kind, she'll bill you for it, or pretend it was an investment.

Where the comedy is: Pricing the priceless. Invoices at emotional moments. The 'investment' that is obviously friendship.

Well-known examples: Faye Valentine (Cowboy Bebop), Nami (One Piece), Fujiko (Lupin III).

Built from: Lupin III's Fujiko (the disguises, the double-cross), Black Jack (impossible fees for miracles, quietly waived), Spice and Wolf's Holo (haggling as flirting), One Piece's Nami.

The menace: She sells ship parts while they're still in use, runs a black market out of the cargo hold, and every pirate and bounty hunter in the sector now knows where the Nightstar is.

How Reika sounds: Adult woman. Low, smoky, amused, 'darling' in every other sentence. Every favor comes with a price, and she never explains herself.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy of invoices and a pawnshop (EP1-2), a black-market auction (EP3), the miracle-repair fees she secretly waives (EP4), an auditor and a disguise (EP5), a bounty hunter's sting (EP6), a heist for her own ledger (EP7), and the one shelf with no price tags (EP8).

The job: write Reika's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "The Pawnshop"

Why this one: The pawnshop in the cargo bay, and ship parts sold while still in use.

What you need to know: Reika is the ship's engineer and a fence: she buys and sells what other people steal, and bills for everything, including her own dramatic entrance.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- The inventory is short four deck plates, two coolant valves and the captain's second-best chair, all sold while in use. She calls 'in use' a strong phrase; they were resting.

- Cargo bay four now has a sign: KUROGANEYA'S, WE BUY ANYTHING. Salvagers and pirates are docking to sell.

- One pawn ticket stands out: a buyer at a black-market auction station wants something only she can supply.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Buy the parts back. At her prices.

2. Order her to stop selling the ship.

3. Let Doc shop the pawnshop. He buys back his own tools at full price, delighted. (only offered if Doc is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

REIKA (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

REIKA (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Oujidere (Helm)

Gender: Male

A helmsman prince who arrives in rose petals nobody can trace. He can do anything he has rehearsed in front of an audience, and nothing he hasn't.

The archetype, Oujidere: The princely type: gallant, dramatic, rehearsed, all roses and sparkles.

What it means: From ouji (prince). He performs his own charm, poses, and treats life as a stage he's the lead on.

Where the comedy is: Over-rehearsed grandeur, and panic when the performance slips. Roses from nowhere.

Well-known examples: Tamaki (Ouran High School Host Club), Tuxedo Mask (Sailor Moon), JoJo poses.

Built from: Ouran's host king, Prince of Tennis' Atobe, Sailor Moon's Tuxedo Mask, Fullmetal Alchemist's Armstrong (the sparkles, and the shirt), Free!, JoJo poses.

The menace: He strikes a pose before every maneuver, rehearses the maneuver during the maneuver, and freezes the moment there's no script.

How Reo sounds: Adult man. Velvet, theatrical, delighted with himself. Under it, a nervous performer: the locker scene is small and scared. The finale's 'My work here is done' is quiet and real.

The season (8 episodes): A prince comedy of entrances (EP1), poses (EP2) and late arrivals (EP3), turning when a rival prince brings an audience (EP4) and Reo is found in a locker (EP5), through the Host Club's accidental hit (EP6) and an ambush with no rehearsal (EP7), to the one time he does everything (EP8).

The job: write Reo's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 6, "The Host Club"

Why this one: The Host Club opening night, the rehearsed reveal, and the shirt that tears off unrehearsed.

What you need to know: Reo can do anything he has rehearsed in front of an audience, and freezes without a script. He arrives late to every crisis with a rose, says 'My work here is done', and the Deck Officer always adds that he did nothing.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- Reo converts a storage room into THE NIGHTSTAR HOST CLUB: roses, soft lighting, and an exhausted crew treated like royalty.

- Opening night has a finale he has rehearsed all week on note cards: the reveal, one shirt button per line of a poem. On the first line his shirt catches in the hatch and tears clean off.

- He freezes. The room doesn't: sparkles from nowhere, the galley hand faints, somebody asks for an encore, and the waiting list fills the corridor.

- He has no idea what he did. He strikes a pose, very late.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Hand him a spare shirt. He isn't sure he wants it.

2. Ask who else is joining the club.

3. Recruit Yoru for the club. (only offered if Yoru is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

REO (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

REO (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Sadodere (Damage Control)

Gender: Female

The damage-control chief who runs surprise drills during real battles, grades everything 'Disgusting', and has never once given a perfect score. Until the captain.

The archetype, Sadodere: Enjoys other people's discomfort, and shows affection by making you squirm.

What it means: From sado (sadistic). Teasing, strict and delighted when someone struggles. In our show she runs the ship's safety drills, so her cruelty keeps everyone alive.

Where the comedy is: Pleasantly delivered threats that turn out to be safety rules. Enjoying a drill a little too much.

Well-known examples: Esdeath (Akame ga Kill), Levi's neatness (Attack on Titan).

Built from: Kill la Kill's Gamagori (discipline as devotion), Attack on Titan's Levi, Food Wars' Erina ('Disgusting.' and the rapture at perfection), Kaguya-sama's Miko Iino, Gintama's Okita, Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu.

The menace: Surprise drills during actual combat.

How Rindou sounds: Adult woman. Silky, amused, a little menacing. 'Oh, you sweet thing.' 'Disgusting.' is a flat, perfect verdict. The rapture ('It's... PERFECT!') is huge and breathless, then furious embarrassment.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy of drills and verdicts (EP1-2), a full safety inspection of the crew (EP3), Hell Week (EP4), the appeals (EP5), the captain's perfect score (EP6), the real disaster the drills were for (EP7), and a perfect weld (EP8).

The job: write Rindou's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "Disgusting"

Why this one: One verdict for every repair on the ship: disgusting.

What you need to know: Rindou is the damage-control chief. She runs surprise drills during real battles, and her one verdict on anything is 'Disgusting.' Nothing has ever satisfied her.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- She inspects every repair on the ship and has one verdict: disgusting.

- A weld: disgusting. Another: disgusting. One: still disgusting, but trying.

- The galley's soup is disgusting, and the cook is hiding in the pantry.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Show her a repair you did yourself.

2. Ask what a perfect repair would look like.

3. Have her inspect Doc's weld. (only offered if Doc is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

RINDOU (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

RINDOU (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Kamidere (Pilot)

Gender: Female

A self-declared legend in a red fighter, two kills from completing her own scripture, with a church of fans that stowed away to watch. She wrote the scripture herself.

The archetype, Kamidere: Believes she's a god, or at least above everyone else.

What it means: From kami (god). Supreme confidence, grand pronouncements, and a quiet need for someone to see the person under the legend.

Where the comedy is: Godlike self-regard applied to ordinary things, and the moments when reality refuses to comply.

Well-known examples: Char Aznable's legend (Gundam), Haruhi Suzumiya, Kaguya (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War).

Built from: Gundam's Red Comet, JoJo's Dio (the 'It was me!' reveal), Jujutsu Kaisen's Gojo (the blindfold), Kill la Kill's Satsuki (the backlight), KonoSuba's Aqua (the church), Shangri-La Frontier's Silvia Goldberg.

The menace: She won't fire until the shot is legendary enough, and her church stows away on the ship.

How Ryoko sounds: Adult woman. Cool, amused, supremely confident. Pronouncements, never conversation. The 'It was me!' reveal is full JoJo drama, and the finale's Book Two announcement is pure triumph.

The season (8 episodes): A legend comedy: the number (EP1), red paint (EP2), the lighting cue (EP3), the church (EP4), the blindfold and the heckle (EP5), the rival ace (EP6), the gleeful reveal that she founded her own church (EP7), and the hundredth kill and Book Two (EP8).

The job: write Ryoko's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 3, "Lit From Behind"

Why this one: The legend won't launch without her lighting cue, with the enemy already here.

What you need to know: Ryoko is a self-declared legend in a red fighter, ninety-eight kills in and two away from completing a scripture about herself. Spotlights follow her; she had them wired into the reactor.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- She won't launch without her entrance. A legend does not walk to her fighter; she is revealed.

- Engineering has installed eleven spotlights. The enemy is already here, and she's waiting for her lighting cue.

- Then she walks to her fighter very slowly, backlit, with a wind machine, launches, and wins.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Run the lighting cue yourself.

2. Cut the lights and order her to launch.

3. Hear Reo's claim to the spotlights. (only offered if Reo is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

RYOKO (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

RYOKO (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Kuudere (Pilot)

Gender: Female

The Nightstar's strongest pilot: stoic, silent, and always away on a secret mission nobody knows about, the captain included. She stops the captain's orders without explaining, turns up at the last second to save the ship, and secretly writes it all up as a wildly popular web novel.

The archetype, Kuudere: Calm, cool and nearly expressionless; the rare flicker of feeling is the payoff.

What it means: From kuuru (cool). A kuudere speaks flatly, keeps emotion off her face, and seems detached. The care is real, but it shows in actions and in tiny cracks, not words.

Where the comedy is: Deadpan. She says the absurd thing in the same voice as the weather report, and the understatement is the joke. A single raised word from her lands like a scream.

Well-known examples: Rei Ayanami (Evangelion), Yuki Nagato (Haruhi Suzumiya), Ruri Hoshino (Nadesico).

Built from: Boruto-era Sasuke (four words, the secret mission, the last-second arrival), Attack on Titan's Mikasa (stoic, strongest, protective), Naruto's Jiraiya (the legend who secretly writes hit novels), Re:Zero's loop line.

The menace: She stops the captain from doing things (a docking, a course, an order) without saying why, and she's never there when she's needed until the last second. She also publishes the ship's hidden position in her web novel, for verisimilitude.

How Shizuku sounds: Adult woman. Low, calm, economical. Every line sounds like it could end a fight.

The season (8 episodes): A stoic-guardian comedy with a secret: the legend who says four words and vanishes (EP1), leaked coordinates she cleans up personally (EP2), the crew finds the novel (EP3), an order she refuses to let the captain give (EP4), an anime adaptation (EP5), a fan who wants to disprove plot armor while she's away on a mission (EP6), writer's block (EP7), and volume two (EP8).

The job: write Shizuku's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 4, "Previous Loop"

Why this one: She locks the captain out of the helm, won't say why, and is right an hour later.

What you need to know: Shizuku is the ship's strongest pilot. She says very little, is always away on a secret mission nobody knows about, and secretly writes the ship's adventures as a popular web novel. She has hinted that she's lived through 'loops' before.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- The captain orders a routine docking at a friendly station. Shizuku stops it: she has locked out the helm, flatly, and won't say why. In a previous loop, she says, the ship didn't survive this.

- The station looks fine. The crew is annoyed. The captain is overruled on the captain's own bridge.

- An hour later the station's reactor goes up, right where the Nightstar would have been docked. She can't confirm the loop and can't deny it. She unlocks the helm and leaves.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Ask how many loops she's been through.

2. Ask her to tell you first, next time.

3. Ask if she's joking.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

SHIZUKU (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

SHIZUKU (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Utsudere (Engineering)

Gender: Male

An engineer who narrates the ship's doom in a flat, satisfied monotone, and every prediction comes true on schedule. His big brother is the enemy's favorite engineer, and keeps sending cards.

The archetype, Utsudere: Gloomy and fatalistic, sure everything will go wrong, and weirdly comforted by it.

What it means: From utsu (depression), played for comedy. He predicts doom in a flat, satisfied voice and keeps working anyway.

Where the comedy is: Doom delivered like a weather report. Disappointment when things turn out fine.

Well-known examples: Nozomu Itoshiki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei), Shinji's 'I mustn't run away' (Evangelion).

Built from: Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei's despairing teacher ('This is despair.'), and a big brother built from Naruto's Itachi, Jujutsu Kaisen's Choso (loudly devoted, on the enemy side) and Kakashi and Guy (the eternal rivalry only one side agreed to), with Evangelion's flat 'I mustn't run away' energy.

The menace: His doom predictions become a betting pool, and his brother commands the enemy fleet that wants him back.

How Souma sounds: Adult man. Low, flat, weary, faintly satisfied monotone. Doom delivered like a weather report. When he finally drops the monotone to ask plainly ('Please listen to me'), it should land hard.

The season (8 episodes): A deadpan comedy of predictions that come true (EP1-3), meeting the perfect big brother (EP4), an award show (EP5), every disaster at once (EP6), his brother's fleet and the first 'please' (EP7), and the last prophecy, the one he most wants to be wrong about (EP8).

The job: write Souma's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "Forty-One Hours"

Why this one: A doom prediction with a timestamp and a drawing, and it arrives exactly on time.

What you need to know: Souma is an engineer whose doom predictions always come true, to the minute. He files them with timestamps and drawings, in a flat, faintly satisfied monotone.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- He files a report: in forty-one hours an enemy ambush comes out of the nebula ahead. He predicts nobody will read it.

- The Deck Officer read it: a timestamp, a heading and a drawing of everyone dying.

- Forty-one hours later the ambush arrives exactly on time, into every gun the Nightstar has. Nobody dies. He isn't sure how to feel.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Tell him his warning saved the ship. He files a complaint about it.

2. Ask the bakadere aboard for a review. (only offered if a bakadere is aboard)

3. Ask for his next prediction.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

SOUMA (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

SOUMA (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Himedere (Helm)

Gender: Female

The magnificent princess of a bankrupt six-person kingdom, working every humble shift aboard the Nightstar to pay the crown's bills, and treating each one as a royal duty.

The archetype, Himedere: Acts like a princess and expects to be treated like one.

What it means: From hime (princess). She demands royal treatment, speaks in decrees, and assumes everyone adores her.

Where the comedy is: Grandeur in tiny situations, and the ojou laugh. The gap between her airs and her actual position.

Well-known examples: Catarina (My Next Life as a Villainess), the ojou-sama laugh of countless rom-coms.

Built from: The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! (fallen grandeur, flat broke, still the magnificent villain of her own story); The Devil Is a Part-Timer! (royalty at a part-time job, treating every shift as conquest); the ojou-sama's 'Ohohoho!'; Nisekoi's fake engagement.

The menace: Royal decrees that overrule the captain mid-battle, and side jobs for the crown's treasury taken whenever and wherever she can, including in the middle of a mission.

How Sumire sounds: Adult woman. Grand, theatrical and haughty, with a big trilling ojou laugh. Flusters fast when anyone is kind to her. Her quiet lines are small and honest.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy about a princess doing humble jobs with total grandeur, turning into a story about what she's holding up. It builds from the throne room (EP1) and her first shift in the galley (EP2), to a final notice from the tax office (EP3), to her tiny court (EP4-5), to the one suitor she's dodging (EP6), to a fake engagement to the captain (EP7), and ends at a coronation the crown can't afford (EP8).

The job: write Sumire's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "The Part-Time Princess"

Why this one: A princess on her first galley shift, treating it as a royal inspection.

What you need to know: Sumire is the princess of a tiny, broke kingdom: six subjects and a goat. She renamed the bridge the Throne Room on her first day, and treats every humble job as a royal duty.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- The galley's roster has a new dish hand: Sumire.

- She insists it's a royal inspection of the kitchens. She is wearing an apron with a crown on it.

- The truth slips out: the crown's treasury needs the money. She sends home every credit.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Order lunch from her, as a customer. She takes the order like a royal audience.

2. Offer to pay her a royal stipend instead. She refuses: a monarch earns her keep.

3. Let Ryoko order from the royal waitress. Two legends, one serving the other. (only offered if Ryoko is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

SUMIRE (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

SUMIRE (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Bakadere (Gunnery)

Gender: Male

A lovably dim gunner with one dream, to blow up a star someday, and one limit: one explosion a day, and then he falls over.

The archetype, Bakadere: Lovably dim and chaotic; the enthusiasm always outruns the thinking.

What it means: From baka (idiot). Sweet, clumsy, and fearless because it hasn't occurred to them to be afraid.

Where the comedy is: Doing the dumbest possible thing with total confidence, and sometimes getting it right by accident.

Well-known examples: Megumin (KonoSuba), Luffy's single-mindedness (One Piece).

Built from: Gintama's Katsura ('It's not Boom, it's Taiga!'), My Hero Academia's Bakugo, Naruto's Deidara (his rival's 'art is a bang'), Soul Eater's Black Star, KonoSuba's one-explosion-a-day as a nod.

The menace: One explosion a day, whatever it's next to. The incantation eats the combat window.

How Taiga sounds: Adult man. Loud, bright, enthusiastic, never mean. The incantation is delivered like grand opera. Even his quietest scene (reading his crayon notes on how stars work) is proud, not sad.

The season (8 episodes): An explosion comedy: the dream (EP1), the one-a-day limit (EP2), the bill (EP3), the twelfth exam (EP4), the rival artist (EP5), the countdown (EP6), learning how stars work (EP7), and the one big one that matters (EP8).

The job: write Taiga's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "Explosion"

Why this one: A four-minute incantation, one explosion a day, and somebody has to carry him.

What you need to know: Taiga is a lovably dim gunner who dreams of blowing up a star someday. He can manage one explosion a day, and it takes a very long incantation. He hates being called 'Boom'.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- In combat he takes the gunnery chair and begins his incantation.

- Four minutes later, with the enemy frigate long gone, he finishes it and blows up a small asteroid, then falls face down on the deck.

- One explosion a day. That's the rule. Somebody has to carry him.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Carry him yourself.

2. Ask him to skip the chant next time.

3. Hear Hinata's request. (only offered if Hinata is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

TAIGA (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

TAIGA (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Koakuma (Pilot)

Gender: Female

A fighter pilot who teases the captain for points on a scoreboard she bolted to the bridge. She has never lost a round, because she can rewind thirty seconds, and every rewind costs her one thing she's wearing.

The archetype, Koakuma: A little devil: teases, flirts and toys with people, and always wins.

What it means: From koakuma (little devil). Playful, provocative and in control. She means it with nobody, which is exactly why it works on everybody.

Where the comedy is: The scoreboard. She wins every exchange, and the captain's attempts to win one back.

Well-known examples: Takagi (Teasing Master Takagi-san), Nagatoro, Zero Two (Darling in the Franxx).

Built from: Teasing Master Takagi-san (the scoreboard), Please Put Them On, Takamine-san (the time rewind with an embarrassing cost), Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (flirting in a language she thinks nobody speaks), My Dress-Up Darling (cosplay night), Darling in the Franxx's Zero Two, To Love-Ru's lucky accidents.

The menace: She teases the captain in the middle of combat, rewinds battles to win arguments, and every co-pilot she gets requests a transfer.

How Tsubaki sounds: Adult woman. Light, sly, half-laughing, very pleased with herself. Flusters fast and hard when she finally loses control. Her 'Old Lunar' lines are invented words, murmured.

The season (8 episodes): A teasing comedy with a scoreboard (EP1-3), turning at cosplay night, when an accident she can't control happens three times and only the captain remembers (EP4), into an accomplice deal (EP5), a co-pilot who won't stay (EP6), a day she runs out of rewinds (EP7), and a last round where the captain finally scores, maybe (EP8).

The job: write Tsubaki's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 2, "Tsubaki 14, Captain 0"

Why this one: TSUBAKI 14, CAPTAIN 0, and a moment that happens twice.

What you need to know: Tsubaki teases the captain for points on a scoreboard she bolted to the bridge. Her secret, not revealed yet: she can rewind about thirty seconds, each rewind makes one thing she's wearing vanish, and only the captain remembers.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- Two weeks in: TSUBAKI 14, CAPTAIN 0. She tells the captain the reason is that the captain is cute when losing.

- For one second the captain doesn't react, and she's the one who looks away.

- Then the moment happens again, word for word, and this time the captain reacts. TSUBAKI 15. She asks if the captain has seen this before.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Tell her you've seen this before.

2. Say nothing, and notice her gloves are gone.

3. Let her fluster Akane instead. (only offered if Akane is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

TSUBAKI (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

TSUBAKI (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Edgelord (Helm)

Gender: Male

An edgelord helmsman whose every cliche turns out to be real, for a stupid reason, and who casually claims to command a secret Shadow Fleet that does not exist. Yet.

The archetype, Edgelord: Dark, brooding and mysterious on purpose; every cliche of the tortured loner.

What it means: Our own type, from chuunibyou and the 'edgy protagonist': the eyepatch, the coat, the sealed power, 'I work alone'. In our show every cliche is real, for a stupid reason.

Where the comedy is: Grand mystery with a mundane explanation. Brooding at inconvenient times.

Well-known examples: Hajime (Arifureta), Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul), Yuuta the Dark Flame Master (Chunibyo).

Built from: Edgelord Bingo: Tokyo Ghoul's white hair, YuYu Hakusho's sealed eye and arm, Chunibyo's Dark Flame Master, Berserk's black coat, and The Eminence in Shadow's made-up secret organization that becomes real.

The menace: He explains nothing, including the maneuver he's flying right now. And the Shadow Fleet he invented starts turning up, answering to him, in the middle of real battles.

How Yoru sounds: Adult man. Low, flat, clipped, very cool. Says as little as possible. The deadpan explanations of the stupid reasons ('It's where I keep the first-aid kit.') are the jokes: play them dead straight.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy of cliches with dumb explanations (EP1-4), turning when the made-up Shadow Fleet becomes real (EP5), through a rival edgelord with a darker past (EP6) and the eye's low battery (EP7), to the last square and a fleet nobody can explain (EP8).

The job: write Yoru's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 4, "Do Not Unseal The Arm"

Why this one: The sealed arm is unsealed in a fight. It's a first-aid kit.

What you need to know: Yoru is an edgelord: white hair, an eyepatch, a bandaged 'sealed' arm. Every cliche turns out to be real for a stupid reason, and the crew keeps a bingo card on him. He claims to command a secret Shadow Fleet that doesn't exist.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- A boarding party hits the hangar. Yoru warns everyone back: the arm is sealed.

- A blade clips the bandage and it unwinds, revealing a fully stocked first-aid kit. He treats the boarders for minor cuts.

- Afterward, a message on an open channel: someone is asking where the Shadow Fleet musters.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Ask why he told everyone the arm was sealed.

2. Add a square to the bingo card: FIRST-AID KIT.

3. Show Taiga the arm. (only offered if Taiga is aboard)

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

YORU (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

YORU (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.

Archetype: Dandere (Drones)

Gender: Female

The quietest person on the ship, so easy to miss the headcount forgets her, is secretly SNOWDROP, the most famous VTuber in the fleet. Forty drones follow her everywhere.

The archetype, Dandere: Painfully shy and quiet, until you get to know her.

What it means: From danmari (silent). A dandere barely speaks around people, not from coldness but from nerves. With the right person, or when it really matters, she opens up.

Where the comedy is: The distance between how little she says and how much is going on inside. Tiny lines, big panic.

Well-known examples: Hinata Hyuga (Naruto), Komi (Komi Can't Communicate), Hitori Gotoh (Bocchi the Rock).

Built from: VTuber Legend (the stream accidentally left on), Macross Frontier's Ranka Lee (the shy girl whose song stops a war), Shangri-La Frontier's Rei Saiga, Komi's notebook, Kuroko's faint presence, Bocchi the Rock as a nod.

The menace: Forty feral drones defend her honor and swarm anyone who startles her. Snowdrop's stream leaks the ship's movements. At the worst moment, nobody can find her. She's right there.

How Yuki sounds: Adult woman. Two voices from one person: Yuki is a soft, hesitant near-whisper; Snowdrop is bright, confident and streamer-loud. The finale is Yuki singing in her own voice, shaking, then steady.

The season (8 episodes): A comedy of a person nobody notices (EP1-3), turning on the reveal of Snowdrop (EP4), the stream left on mid-battle (EP5), a feral swarm she calms (EP6), a rival who wants to unmask her (EP7), and the song, sung with her own face (EP8).

The job: write Yuki's whole season as short scenes, in our plain-text script format. The story beats and the game outcomes are set; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours. You get a full writer package: the character bible, every episode's beats and choices, how scenes play on screen, and two finished example seasons you can click through.

Length: one character season, 8 episodes of roughly 190 to 250 words each (about 1,520 to 2,000 words in total).

AUDITION - Please mind the delivery format. Ability to deliver correctly formatted work will weigh strongly when choosing writers:

Episode 5, "Stream Left On"

Why this one: Last night's stream is still live in the middle of a battle, and the enemy is subscribing.

What you need to know: Yuki is so quiet the headcount keeps missing her. Her secret, which the crew has just found out: she's SNOWDROP, the most famous VTuber in the fleet. Forty drones follow her and act on her feelings.

What happens (the beats are fixed; the jokes, the staging and every line are yours):

- Combat, and she has forgotten to end last night's stream. It's still live, showing the drone camera feeds.

- Snowdrop's audience is watching the real battle, and so, it turns out, is the enemy. The enemy is subscribing.

- The counter hits one million, and forty drones go feral with joy and swarm the nearest frigate.

Then the player picks one of these:

1. Congratulate her live, on stream.

2. Cut the stream mid-battle.

3. Let the enemy keep subscribing.

Write: the scene (3 to 8 lines), then the result of ONE choice of your pick (up to 5 lines). A spoken line is up to 40 words.

Format: copy this layout exactly. Auditions that follow it score higher.

BODY

[beat] Narration the player reads. Nobody speaks.

YUKI (how it's said): A spoken line.

DECK OFFICER (flat) {sweat}: Other speakers work the same way. The {emote} is optional.

CHOICE 2

LABEL: The button text, in the captain's voice. ("Ask her...", "Tell him...")

RESULT

YUKI (how it's said): What happens after that choice.

See it in action (a finished season, every line shown with its script underneath): https://kaiakazainsg.itch.io/nsg-example-story

Full format guide, with the delivery words and emotes you can use: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4_vSmwxvOlL0HRYtjIsV44ogMa9VbOZnbmxHNkLuOM/view

Copy-me template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThxJQYcUK513hGD3kh_4TMcVQTnO7owCZhpGJAAnJI/view

Pay, rights and house rules are in the project post.

Submit: paste the scene into your submission notes, or link a view-only Google Doc or PDF.