OOC INTRO & CR MEME #5

[abraxasmods]

OOC INTRO & CR MEME

Hello and welcome, new players and old! This is our fifth OOC intro and CR meme, and we encourage you all to get out there, plot, and introduce yourself!

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<font style="font-size:20px; color:#1b5684;">OOC INFORMATION</font> <hr style="border: 3px solid; width:100%; border-color: #1b5684; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>NAME:</b> <b>CONTACT:</b> (Plurk/Discord/PM) <b>ABOUT YOU:</b> (A personal introduction, your fandoms, what's usually on your plurk, etc., feel free to delete this section if you'd rather not fill it out.) <font style="font-size:20px; color:#1b5684;">IC INFORMATION</font> <hr style="border: 3px solid; width:100%; border-color: #1b5684; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> <b>CHARACTER NAME:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>SIGN:</b> <b>FACTION:</b> <b>CHARACTER INFORMATION:</b> (Give us a blurb about your character! As long or short as you like.) <b>CR YOU WANT:</b> <b>CR YOU DON'T WANT:</b> <b>PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> <b>ANYTHING ELSE?:</b> (A gif or a meme or anything else you want to say.)

There is no formal introduction log for characters joining the game, which means that players are free to introduce their characters however they would like.

Upcoming modplot will be announced on the OOC community, signal boosted on Plurk and listed on the Calendar! Please be aware that Event #6, scheduled for the 18th of this month, will offer opportunities for characters from different factions to meet up in a (mostly, and temporarily) friendly environment...

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[techmaturgy]

OOC INFORMATION

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NAME: Whit
CONTACT: whitticus OR discord at whitticus#8139.
ABOUT YOU: HELLO I'm Whit and I’m BRAND NEW (maybe I know some of you). I live in EST land and plurk about rp and video games and work. Things I enjoy include ttrpgs (blades in the dark), various nintendos (metroid, animal crossing, splatoon), elder scrolls, valve properties (portal, half-life) and in about two weeks I will be really jazzed about Horizon: Forbidden West. Sometimes, occasionally, I draw a thing. Please feel free to add me I love to make new game friends.

IC INFORMATION

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CHARACTER NAME: Viktor
CANON: Arcane
SIGN: Death
FACTION: Free Cities

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Viktor is a scientist-slash-genius engineer-slash-big nerd. He's spent the last few years developing basically magitech, which has not necessarily played out as he would have hoped, with much of his work being co-opted by rich people who are only interested in doing rich people things. He comes off as a fussy academic but is actually an agent of chaos who loves to break rules and do weird science and ponder orbs. Despite his general penchant for putting himself in danger by screwing around with unknown forces he does not fully understand and can't control, he is an idealistic, highly principled individual who believes that the purpose of scientific advancement is to improve lives. He’s soft-spoken but quietly ambitious, intellectually curious, and kind of an obsessive workaholic who is increasingly preoccupied with his own legacy. He's pretty sure becoming a wizard will fix all of his problems.

I have an info and permissions post here and his app is here. Also a general heads up that Viktor is terminally ill—it's vaguely defined but is more-or-less The Consumption™. I don't imagine this will come up frequently (he will probably not actually talk about it) and I plan to content warn accordingly when relevant, but here is a screened opt out if you’d like me to avoid mentioning this in tag meta, etc. or you would rather not interact with him at all.

CR YOU WANT:

✷ Science types, baybe. He’s interested in the Cadens academies and the general scientific goings-on of the city so if there’s anyone who can get him an In, he would be keen on that. Also, you know, people to do weird magitech experiments with?? Technologically-inclined people to mentor???
✷ BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS. He’ll want to make friends with people who can do things that he cannot, like go out on dangerous adventures and acquire exciting resources and bring him cool things. IN RETURN: He can fix your shit. He can make you stuff, or upgrade your stuff, provided it's not guns! Please let him do this he needs to fund a workspace
✷ idk. friends. People to get him out of his comfort zone, which is working until 4am and then falling asleep at his desk.
✷ Possibly he needs a medical intervention. Or a magical one.
✷ He is new and needs to settle in so just throw whatever at me. Also totally cool with keeping TDM threads canon, if that is of interest.

CR YOU DON'T WANT:
I’m all good let’s get dangerous

PLOTS/THREADS/THEMES YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

✷ All of his work involves faking magic via technological methods so he’s actually going to be excited about the real thing. He wants to know 1. how magic here works, and learning it, and combining it with technology 2. about the Singularity and 3. the Horizon’s whole deal. The sooner he takes care of that the sooner he can become a wizard.
✷ Before arriving here Viktor was about to, uh, do some light human experimentation (on himself) with a somewhat questionable magic conduit he built. He is going to try and do this or similar with whatever he can get his hands on around here. He HATES politics but I like the idea of him having to suck it up and align himself with various NPCs or groups or other established PCs that might help him accomplish this, mostly because he doesn't want to die. do NOT judge him for blood magic/dark rituals he knows what he’s doing (no)
✷ He’s going to be incredibly obsessed with how Cadens is, like, right on the cusp of a bunch of technological breakthroughs and he’ll be interested in moving those along, especially if said breakthroughs have obvious humanitarian benefits. The hope is to get him established in the Cadens academia/inventor scene, because, you know, that is what he is good at.

ANYTHING ELSE?:

[priestified]

HI WHIT I'd be down for keeping tdm canon and maybe working the thread towards offering Viktor the space and materials to do some mad science??

[techmaturgy]

MAXWELL....HOW NICE OF YOU...please ignore the blood sacrifices everything is fine and normal here

[falcony]

hello hi i just finished the arcane and i love viktor so SO much and I absolutely would LOVE him and sam to have some cr!!! also because sam is in extreme need of some tech if. viktor wants to make some cool tech at all. c: ever. c: maybe c:

[techmaturgy]

oh good i hope you are dead inside now, as I have been, every day since i finished

BUT YES, PLEASE, I would love this. he wants to make everyone a lot of super cool tech you just have to deal with it being all art nouveau, for some reason

[endcaller]

So these two are both in Free Cities and are almost guaranteed to run in some of the same circles as magical science nerds...

[techmaturgy]

look he's willing to put up with a lot in the name of scientific collaboration

[supersoldier]

HELLO I had fun with their tdm thread and would like to keep their CR rolling if you’re interested!

Let him side-eye Viktor’s weird science and maybe quietly judge all a scientists until given a reason not to. ALSO: send him out to stab things with his sword and bring him back materials to work with!

[techmaturgy]

OH GOOD ME TOO...look...who amongst us has not done or been accessory to weird science. he WILL actually pay for these services (as soon as he has money) so there's that at least

also unless you've totally had enough of me I NEED wizard nonsense at some point, eventually

[fourarmedandangerous]

Once Goro catches wind of Viktor's expertise with hextech, he's gonna be interested! He's currently the face of the "anti-Solvunn" crowd in the Free Cities and going to be gone for a chunk of February, but when he gets back, he might be willing to use his clout in Viktor's favour. Naturally, he has less than humanitarian reasons in mind for wanting to see Viktor succeed, which could play into that forced politicking you mentioned.

[techmaturgy]

YEAH TOTALLY once he gets a little settled and learns that magitech is Not Heresy round these parts he'll probably be pretty open about his area of expertise and would definitely appreciate some support in that department.

he is LESS of a fan of ppl co-opting his work in ways that he doesn't approve of but I want that Delicious Conflict so I'm totally open!

[speak_n_spell]

Oh hello, nerd with a keen interest in combining magic and science! How would you feel about a nerd with similar interests but enough extrovert energy for five people?

[techmaturgy]

extroverts are fine extroverts can go schmooze with people while he works

VIKTOR HAS NEVER MET A REAL MAGE THO he's going to be super excited about this...tell him EVERYTHING...

[unnecessaryflourishes]

Magitek, you say? Emet-Selch here is responsible - in large part - for the development of FFXIV's version of magitek and would be more than willing to talk tech besides! The only real problem is that he's in Solvunn, which means it's have to be over the network, or in the Horizon, whenever Viktor manages to get there.

[techmaturgy]

HEXTECH BABY....I know Emet mostly through osmosis but suffice to say I am eyes emoji at the potential similarities. Viktor will probably want to compare notes because he is a nerd

Horizon is no problem! He is probably going to like it there so I am sure we can figure out a meeting as soon as he finds his way in

[wiedzminka]

yesss whit!!! nice to be in a game with you again! :>

I'm already hype for how their first interaction has gone and BUSINESS. Ciri will definitely be down for having a Science Ally and in return she can do some good old fashioned monster killing and possibly minor crimes. as you do.

she's pretty well-established in the free cities as a supplier of monster bits and apparently killer of bandits so he's welcome to have asked around after or whatever and found out she's potentially Shady but Competent.

I'll definitely keep an eye out for cr expanding opportunities! excited to tag more with you!

[techmaturgy]

*~*~*~*POSES*~*~*~* it's been 10,000 years.....

Please be his business buddy he needs buff adventurous people to go do buff adventurous things. minor crimes are fine. he'll build her cool stuff in return. I think some people are helping him get set up with work/a space so probably he would ask around for her once he knows what he's doing!

[piqure]

hey stranger!

peter's gonna come for the science stuff but stay for the friendship

[techmaturgy]

PETER!!!!

I want V to be really smug about teaching him science stuff and then one day Peter's just like "oh yeah i've been to space and wear a nanotech super suit" and Viktor just has to go stare out the window for a while

[cryptsleeper]

Alucard could potentially be excellent CR for the last part about technological breakthroughs with humanitarian benefits. His massive depressive episode aside, that was very much his mother was trying to push for before [gestures at the entire plotline of Castlevastle]. He's currently wrapped up a cemetery restoration project and may be moving onto something similar, meaning that research paths could easily cross.

[techmaturgy]

oh that sounds like a great jumping off point! Viktor is definitely keen to rub elbows with like-minded individuals, and if he already has a project going even better. TELL HIM HOW TO HELP he will be happy to do so

[exoterminator]

hey nerd. whatcha pondering.

[techmaturgy]

orb

[carmesi]

HEY WHIT i absolutely loved their tdm thread. this one cr made me really consider putting wanda in cadens, but solvunn won out for me. that being said, i would really love to have them interact with each other in the horizon or through some other circumstance.

i find the whole magic+science concept of their relationship would be really fun to explore!!

[techmaturgy]

THEY WERE SO CUTE I totally understand tho, plus they can always meet in the Horizon! I think they definitely have a lot to talk about 8)))