OOC INTRO & CR MEME #18

[abraxasmods]

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:

<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>TERRITORY:</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.)

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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Comments

Re: PATRON INFO / PLANS

[tedandroses]

Ooh. Can't do much planning with Gale outside of the AU since opposite territories but -- especially in the earlier days when Teddy is not like, completely nature elemental -- his knowledge-obsessed vibe totally works with their academic side. "All things can be Questioned and All Questions must be answered" is ...yep.

Also I feel like Teddy's experience with hallucinations and distortions via a life full of focal seizures would make her kind of unimpressed with his illusions, which could be a point of conflict or could just be funny. Like, give me some good shit to research/help you research. Slash, I have some conspiracies, you want? If not I'm here to pet your cat. HI YOU'RE A KITTY!

(The animal loving side is also appealing.)

They'd be friends with regular Gale too, for similar reasons, but given the total impossibility of meeting up it seems legitimately easier to establish CR via 800-year-godhood and then wake up like "wait who are these people".

[As a total side note, I played a character in Monster of the Week who was a Hex (basically, a self-taught magic user who has gone about it via unorthodox methods, leaving them super chaotic) whose Temptation was Forbidden Knowledge, and it's actually incredibly easy after a while to have characters that are otherwise good, caring, etc justify going after it, *especially* if they're obsessive learners -- so if you want any anecdotes...I can definitely ramble about Pen and his methods.]

[karsiteweave]

I'm chill with motivation! Gale does this stuff canonly so it's not really a leap, my 'decide' bullet points are just me literally trying to decide which I vibe more as a choice! Whiiiich may come down to some more event detail.

That said, Gale would always be down for friends! Especially cat friendly people interested in research! The question I guess really is if Teddy gets to know him pre or post Depression Tower and maybe what the specific hook is -- like is there a specific thing Teddy is interested in him helping with or is it just nosiness? If just nosiness you could go for the Tower itself being the original source of nosiness, since it's radiating bad vibes and doing bad things to the area, then maybe have Teddy pick up him/the Tower as a project tbh.