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OOC INTRO & CR MEME #18

OOC Intro and CR Meme

Welcome to our OOC intro and CR meme. We encourage you all to get out there, plot, and introduce yourself!

There is no formal introduction log for characters joining the game. Players are free to introduce their characters however they like.

Since the upcoming event is fairly large, we've provided an EVENT BRAINSTORM section for new arrivals to receive offers from existing players, who can invite them into their AU histories and help establish potential connections.

Only new characters may fill out the form for this section, but anyone can reply with suggestions. We encourage current players to reply with ways new characters can be incorporated into the event!

To participate in the standard CR meme, fill out the form below and post it as a comment:

Important Notices

This month contains some important in-game occurrences. Be sure to review the details below!

IC Items

◎ Beginning APRIL 6, shortly after the new arrivals, the storm worsens. Lightning now strikes the ground, and heavy rains have led to flooding - including in the normally dry and arid Free Cities. Conditions have grown from troublesome to outright dangerous. While the major cities are better protected, the effects can still be felt. There will be a mounting death toll (moderate), and water damage to homes and businesses.

◎ Portals between cities are CLOSED in every territory. Because of the instabilities, portal travel has been shut down. Characters can still travel via horse or wagon, but authorities suggest limiting any long journeys due to dangerous weather conditions.

◎ Nocwich is CLOSED this month. Characters from opposing territories will only be able to see each other in the Horizon, which continue to undergo some disturbances.

OOC Items

◎ The upcoming event requires players to sign up for an assignment. Please read this post for more details. New players are encouraged to participate! Signing up only requires putting down your character's name.

◎ We recognize the next event has a lot of elements to consider, especially for new players. We encourage you to contact us if you're feeling a little lost! The goal for our events is to let players be as creative as possible. If you have an idea but are unsure of how to implement it or what the limits are, we're happy to guide you.

A Look Ahead

The OOC Plotting is scheduled for the 12th of this month, while the IC Event Log is scheduled for the 17th. The event will involve a glimpse into the future and will go until May 10.

We have some climatic plots planned into summer due to the domino effect that began with Event #17. However, to make sure characters (and players) have some room to breathe, May will be a quiet month with pieces moving in the background before things pick up once more in June.

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Hmm! Crane is friends with Garrus so if his player thinks he would have told Shep about him that could work? If they're okay with that of course! I do have plans for a network post saying he's now able to see people in person if that helps. I just need to get my AU info done first.

But by the time I've done that it might be event time so I'm thinking a network post might be better after the fact. Which means the event could actually be a good start?

!! Julia my love.

Idk how heavily you pull from the books, I only watched the show but Julia is one of my favorites of a fandom I was ob.sessed with for a very long time so. I'm very glad she's in Solvunn!

From a Teddy perspective, Julia being especially good with life magic will intrigue them almost immediately, but also just...having been here. They really want to meet all the Solvunn people! ~~They totally will want to learn Magicians magic though. And will probably try to be cool about it.~~

They're also someone who's been on the outside (and has been on the outside of a place much more like Solvunn, really) for a lot of their life, so they may get that need for community even though they haven't been here for long. Teddy's pretty stubborn but more than being stubborn they love learning ...and that very much extends to about people so I can absolutely see them trying to very slowly chip at Julia's walls a bit in response to Julia asking questions (which they're happy to answer, for the most part ~~and when they're not it's fun for me~~).

(Also, they offer a fist bump on anti-authoritarian impulses. Haha. Teddy is not Kady-like in most obvious ways, but as a reference point, I've considered playing Kady numerous times, so...they have overlaps and some of those obviously overlap with Julia.)

Her AU info just about broke my heart. Oh Julia. It makes total sense AND YET. THE FOX. Definitely, definitely need to get Teds involved in her CR somewhere enough to, y'know, do...something there even if it's not all that influential. I'm playing with some vague idea re: Teddy being an entity that has to do with ecological restoration and Julia's existing powers, idk, some... allusion to the decision to restore the forest ~~that I'm totally forgetting the name of~~ in Fillory that doesn't ever really have to be actually textual??

In terms of actual handwaved CR...up to you? I feel weird being new and being like "oh, they could do XYZ" when I don't know anyone, but I would love them to have some fascinating connections or even for Teddy's foresty hangouts and/or form to be a safe place. An aspect of Teddy's character that I enjoy is that they really are someone who will continue to protect and help friends they don't agree with (up to a point, of course)? So I can see them providing that even if they're like "okay but humans deserve more grace than you're giving them" [and conversely, perhaps inheriting a bit of that jadedness, which I do want to play with])

SIDE NOTE: Julia/Eleven is such a good ship wtf. I love jamjars so much.

Edited 2024-04-08 20:00 (UTC)

(I have already given you too much to read but I'm just here to say:
1. A GIANT MYSTIC LIBRARY??? at some point Teddy has to meet this dude just to wander into his Horizon accidentally and have to be gently reminded to leave because their body needs food ~~to be fair, they kind of have to be reminded about that sometimes anyway~~

2. I'm pretty sure your other two characters mean I'm probably gonna like Istredd, just ...QED. Somehow I haven't gotten to the Witcher. IDEK.)

Ikr LMAO

She's ready to be his COOL WINE AUNT okok everyone needs one!

I only pull from show Julia, I haven't read the books!

They can absolutely learn Magicians magic and since you have seen the show you'll know what kind of cool things they can start learning how to do. Julia is pretty friendly in Solvunn, but as you know she can come off reserved at first. She hasn't been hiding herself being a goddess though, at this point it seems pointless to pretend so she might bring it up. She is careful with talking about the hows in detail as you have seen on her opt-outs.

I KNOW I AM SO MEAN WITH THE FOX SHE IS GOING TO BE SO MAD WHEN SHE'S BACK TO HERSELF. It's the sentient tree forest that Julia brought back leading her to be Our Lady of the Tree. So she definitely would be interested in AU Teddy's ecological stuff. Just because she's annoyed with humanity doesn't mean she's annoyed with nature.

They can definitely remind Julia that she's being hard on them because she is definitely being very hard on them lol. SHE IS JADED. She probably does rub off on other people, negativity can do that. Sorry Teddy.

HA THANK YOU. We love them obviously.

Edited 2024-04-08 21:14 (UTC)

I too love most things Bardugo! Jesper is from the books not the show so if you know both, that's where he and Kaz are from. I love the show but not as much as I love the books haha. It is pretty perfect he's becoming a god of love, SO LEGIT OF HIM.

I think Jesper would absolutely have been like HEY you're hot. He's like that in general but if he thinks there's any option of an 'unless?' he'll take it. So they definitely could have been hook up buddies in the AU and also friends. Jesper is friends with all of his lovers and very sweet to them. I like the idea of blessing of community and his inspiration for love works well together.

Yes! Istredd actually does have a giant library already in game so Teddy can eventually see the normal version of it, but in the AU it'll be SO LARGE AND INSANE that it seems like the shelves go on infinitely. Istredd is fairly good at reminding people they have to go exist and eat mostly because he keeps being reminded by others lol.

Istredd's a side character so he's only in a few episodes of each season but he's a cute little loser. and I say little for fun because he's 6'3, he is huge haha.

Helll yes, haha. I wasn't still watching Stranger Things (*waves hand* reasons, mostly annoying) by the time Eddie came around and literally his character makes me want to go back and check out at least that season. Also the AU info made me cackle. Metallica. Fantastic.

ANYWAY
As a fellow music-lover (understatement: they miss their band!!) and brand freaking new Solvunnite (please help them D:) Teddy definitely needs to meet Eddie.

Music: They'll definitely know some of his faves (I just realized he and Teds' dad are probably not too far apart in birth year and I'm going to IGNORE THAT STUDIOUSLY as will Teddy if they do the math...except maybe as fodder for teasing if the CR gets close enough for affectionate teasing). And they're always interested in people to jam with, listen to, swap tips or songs with, just love music -- it's one of the things they love more than anything else.

(They're also down to introduce him to some post-80s rock/metal/emo/punk/whatever, haha, if he'd like....Albeit presumably an acoustic version on whatever instruments are available, so, you know, get ready for that lute version of Welcome Home that you've always really wanted >_>. Although now Teddy's like "has anyone invented magical amplification/distortion/effects? I mean. If you can manipulate energy, you can manipulate sound waves." So if this doesn't already exist in Abraxas, clearly these two need to sit down and have a discussion about recreating gear.)

Random other stuff: Solvunn just, generally provides a pretty good reason to hang 1out I would think! Goatnados! Gods! Gossip! Who to barter for what! You know.

Also Teddy is not actively a tabletop player buttt I feel like they've almost certainly watched friends/bandmates play in high school and would probably appreciate it more now, honestly. They'd easily get sucked into a game if someone explains how to play. Plus they do need someone to explain the Horizon to them.

AU: I can definitely see them having reasons to interact! (I don't have a proper page up yet but I was spitballing over here.) For one thing, I also think Teddy would try (with more and less success over the years) to stay connected to the people of Abraxas and/or CR they develop rather than feeling distanced and/or superior. I do imagine Teddy getting jaded and/or a little distant as they realize humans can kind of suck at being good to each other and the world no matter how many years you give them, but if they were to develop an over-the-centuries friendship I kind of like the idea of him flying in like a flock of bats like love the lichen and all but get in, loser

(All this is totally up to you of course! I feel so weird suggesting AU friendships as a new person haha, but also eight hundred years. That's enough time for anything.)

[Edit: I had to add this. I made myself curious if there was a bardcore version of Welcome Home -- there is not as far as I can tell -- but there is quite a bit of Metallica including this kind of epic video of One and/or on otherwise medieval instruments (Nothing Else Matters on hammered dulcimer, which is an instrument Teddy actually knows). Love it, thought I'd pass it along.]

Edited 2024-04-08 21:45 (UTC)

A MA ZING. Also, completely fair. (Do you know the Locked Tomb books? I feel like he and Palamedes would get along, haha.)

Hey, I'm a side character enthusiast, so I get it :D And lol, love it. Also entertaining for Teddy friendship purposes, they're 5'1 and I quietly enjoy when they end up befriending especially tall people -- partly just the contrast but partly because they have a bit of a "big dog" personality.

CRIES O NO THATS SO CUTE pls everyone does need one, and i don't even think percy's had that particular necessary influence in his life.

in other words: YES PLS

ready for these losers!!!!!!!

midway through typing it i remembered it was a GIF

maximum gross!!!!

ccc: yesss!

we can wait for plot deets to drop before we start crafting a more concrete plan of action, but OH BOY i'm so excited, this is going to be great. 👏

Omg, you’ve offered up so many awesome things here and I honestly want ALL OF IT??? It sounds like these two definitely need to meet when the opportunity arises! The music stuff alone…right now, Eddie is kind of a solo act (except when he gets Nanaue to join him but that’s more for Nanaue’s benefit than anything else) and he would be so, so happy to have someone else to jam with. They can obviously only do the acoustic thing in the real world but IN THE HORIZON…anything is possible. He’s already been introduced to some of the music he’s missed out on by Dean Winchester (and no, he’s not ready to discuss St. Anger), but even with that selection, he still hasn’t quite made it out of the 90s, so there’s plenty for Teddy to catch him up on! Also he’d probably beg them to teach him to play the hammered dulcimer.

As far as the AU goes, 800 years is A LOT and there’s so much room for AU friendship so PLEASE, I’M TOTALLY OPEN TO IT, especially considering that it sounds like they’d get along super well anyway. His AU version is going to be so annoying, he would absolutely refuse to let them distance themselves too much. That cloud of bats isn’t going anywhere.

NOW, just between you and me, I admittedly have a lot of problems with Stranger Things (I nearly threw in the towel after season three lmao) and I’m not necessarily gonna say I recommend season four as a whole…but if you have the ability to skim through…Eddie is a lot of fun. 👀

your needle slug son requires child support

send one million gold to solvunn immediately

Hello me again quick question: did you want them to have that Horizon interaction Astarion asked about before the event kicks in? About to throw myself around the Thorne mingle and I note people are offering to teach Horizon stuff!

!! I was feeling a bit like omg calm down you’re being overwhelming so I’m THRILLED you’re into it. Yes, absolutely! Give me all the CR.

Haha omg Eddie being caught up by Dean is perfect, I have to admit.

Teds would be happy to try and think up a quick ‘what do I know and think are necessary rock songs’ going further into the 2000s even if it’s all weird acoustic versions. Plus, I don’t know how into other genres Eddie is but Teddy grew up on Appalachian folk and oldschool country/blues, so there’s a lot of room to swap songs and techniques!

(Ooh good point about the Horizon. Teddy def needs an intro to that, as well. Which I think I’ve said to four people now so it’s gonna be a dice roll (heh). Is Eddie at the mingle? I need to tag in.)

They’ll be SO happy to have someone to play with — even though they write solo music too, they really love playing with other people, whether that’s just riffing or belonging to part of something. I’m psyched. And they’d be really pleased to have someone interested in dulcimer. Like. That’s not a ‘cool’ instrument! Which gets Eddie tons of points. (I do love that about his character: he looks like he SHOULD be The Cool Guy but he’s from what I can tell kind of a huge nerd? Which…is also where Teddy’s at a lot of the time. At least, when feeling confident, haha.)

Speaking of: she’ll also just be relieved to see someone else with a bunch of tattoos lol.

Aww I love it! Yes good, let's absolutely have them be friends over the centuries and have Eddie come get Teddy out of being a hermit during times he’s drawing away. It’s a good dynamic — I was talking to Dee about Teddy trying to hold space for fox!Julia but also remind her that regular humans are worth helping …but also ending up a bit more negative in the process. So it’s like a chain of friends trying to keep each other from going darkside / totally isolated.

…with the goddess of life on the dark depressed end and the vampirey bat boy on the grounded chill ‘let’s stay close to each other’ side. Obviously. I love it. Every part of that is amazing.

But yeah, I’m EXCITED. (And more than happy to hash out anything more detailed you want to do with the uh, intervening eight centuries.)

Ooh, good to know! That makes me feel less bad about missing it? I may still skim though XD I have DEFINITELY gotten into that situation with characters before where the overall show/series may or may not be worth it but THIS ONE CHARACTER…

Aww, thank you so much! I was having a lot of fun despite being incredibly slow — between life and apps and being new I feel a bit out of my depth the past couple weeks but i’m settling!

I’d love to make it canon! (Do you want to keep threading it? Or just go with it, haha?)

Lolll GOOD POINT. There are SO many Greek gods and demi-gods right now, I think the NPCs of Abraxas are going to look around and realize they have another pantheon 😂

And it’s a very strange, sort of new experience for gods to be really real, for Teddy; Like, they grew up with a Christian notion of faith and an unknowable god who isn’t at all tangible, and then there’s Zagreus: who is clearly not human or bound by natural physics but who is definitely standing there making snarky jokes and like, who Teddy could reach out and poke if she wanted to.

Which I love. Does that have an answer? Nah prolly not but it’s fun to write Teddy trying to comprehend.

Oooh! I love that. He’d be happy to talk nature — at least, the parts of Abraxan (Abraxian??) nature that he’s familiar with. And the general concepts. That could be a really fun relaxed thread sometime: just going for a walk between storms and pointing things out. Or handwavable, but it’d be cute I think. (Could tie it in to the TDM thread for that matter.)

Awesome - and yes, we can definitely keep threading!

Haha yes, we have had a sudden Greek myth explosion happen! And yes, Zagreus definitely has a very different view of gods and their place in the world (he would find the idea of the Christian god so weird, how can you expect one deity to be in charge of everything like that, clearly that is ridiculous).

At this point since Zagreus has been in game for two months now, he's not completely new. He is slowly getting accustomed to the sun going up and down all the time. He sort of knows what birds are. He's learned that many things are flammable and he needs to be careful what he stands on. But there's still much to learn! But yes, I think that would be a great thing to thread out sometime. We can see where the TDM thread goes!

aaah it is 4 in the morning so I apologize for the probable incoherence but. I am so excited that there’s a Viktor; I love Arcane generally but Viktor is like my personal feels generator (along with Jinx: look we’re all very hinged and also super normal about hextech around here).

Teddy wouldn’t be able to build CR outside the AU but!! Aside from you neatly breaking my heart in an absolutely in character way with the ‘just remove the brain bits’, I think it would be kind of NEAT to throw them at each other somehow during the …eight centuries and see what happens. This is what really caught me:

is known to pay particular attention to the disadvantaged, or those otherwise sickened, damaged, or stifled by industry, pollution, capitalistic exploitation, environmental factors, social injustices, etc.

This is EXACTLY Teddy all over, and yet, with her abilities (I don’t have a post up but I went WAY too far into depth over in this comment) she’s coming from a totally different angle. But, that doesn’t mean they necessarily disagree with each other!

Teddy (Needs Better God Name) isn’t a Luddite; they know technology can be used for good (though this may become a thing they’re less sure of over time just as they become less sure of human goodness over time).

Like: he might be dubious of focused technology because so often new technology is taken and used in terrible ways: weaponized, mass produced, requires resources that destroy the environment and abuse workers to extract — but Viktor’s values are ALSO against that: it’s not Viktor or the tech, it’s the way it’s developed.

Ugh rambling. Anyway I have this sort of idea of them maybe ending up with a back and forth sometimes-collaborative-sometimes-argumentative relationship? Like: maybe Teddy could start out snarling up something destroying or poisoning land that in some way makes them feel that Viktor’s involved; but then actually confronting each other or just sending that message spawns a conversation about industry and a realization that no, they’re on the same side in this instance and working together for a bit.

But there’s also argument or at least debate: Can technology and New Magic overcome those systemic problems or will they always be turned back toward them and is it better to encourage community, respect for nature, humbleness? // Is encouraging balance and harmony even plausible or is improving the agency and power of individuals the best way to fight systems?

Annnyway this is just me spitballing and I don’t know if you’ll like this idea at all. But I sort of love them having the same things they oppose from (at least in the AU) opposite angles. And I think it could kick off more reasonable and interesting CR when they wake up and aren’t both uh, gods, lol.

(Total, total side note: idk if you read the Locked Tomb books at all, but if you do: I play Cam in another RP and Victor’s lack of self-preservation really makes me want to throw her in here to be like STOP WORKING AND EAT A THING lol. Someday maybe.)

Edited (IOS is gonna kill me w curly quotes ) 2024-04-09 09:42 (UTC)

Ahhh I'm always excited to find another OFMD fan! And equally excited to introduce yet more Witcher bits to you via osmosis.

I agree Ed and Teddy would get along well. Weighing my bandwidth (even tho I would love to do All The Things), I'm gonna say Ed and Teddy should meet in regular game space seeing as they're both in Solvunn and have a high chance of catching one another + Ed is...more outgoing, as a person, and easier to get to know. (He's also working on building an inn in Solvunn. Functionality as a real business debatable but it will Exist.)

Something with Teddy and Geralt in the event would be fantastic since Geralt plays things much closer to the chest, so the added history/context could help break down some barriers and jumpstart their CR.

If you're leaning into ecological protection for Teddy and Geralt tends to protect people, maybe there could be an incident at some point where they semi-accidentally work together? Geralt doesn't have the ability to restore or heal, but he can shield people caught in danger. Their abilities complementing each other, basically.

Could be a natural disaster, could be malicious intent (war/conquest/dangerous experiments??). I can go either way here; the latter might result in Geralt doing a little murder if there's someone very clearly responsible for the destruction if you wanted to fold that in.

Very here to chat further on plurk or discord if that's easier for you! I'm available on all platforms.

Edited 2024-04-09 14:54 (UTC)

Yeah, let's do it! Feel free to hit up his inbox and we can switch to action.

Here to shriek about LOCKED TOMB!!! I love Cam and Pal, sweet kids...

JERALD

hey what's up it's Cadens' resident tech guy™ and he's here to be excited about new magic and also the telephone. I think they're from a similar level of tech advancement so it would be fun to have them compare and contrast! and Viktor is happy to tell him all about how magic and tech work here.

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