OOC INTRO ( JULY )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: JULY

State of the Game
Welcome, newcomers, and hello again to the oldcomers! June saw our adventurers take a much-needed break from their shenanigans back in May; killing a god will take a lot out of you! But now, the latest voting session during the Storytelling must be taken into account. It was a close call, but islanders voted in favor of the island that contains ore.

You can look forward to more information regarding the island you've chosen appearing in our OOC comm soon!

We've loved the feedback we've gotten about the game thus far, positive and negative, and encourage you to contact us whenever you feel it is necessary!

Our intro log will be going up on the comms on July 5th. Until then, a few quick points:

1. Deaths. Remember that, in the event that your character perishes, to let us know so that we can take a note of it, whether or not it counts for your character's total death count! If you're having trouble thinking of a penalty, we can definitely provide one for you. Remember to use the Deaths page for Death Penalty removal as well, once that time is up!

2. AC. We've recently switched to the ACSavior tool! This means that, while we no longer require that you tag your characters in the comms to have your AC counted, we strongly recommend it for housekeeping purposes! Characters who fail AC will be swept. We will also be following up with players who are getting consistent strikes or regularly passing with the bare minimum. An additional reminder, also, to make use of the drop post should your time with LifeAftr come at an end instead of simply idling out; it helps us out a lot!

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of July - for new players to introduce themselves, for old players to meet and greet, and for general plotting to occur! If you want to chat or keep up with game updates, we also have a plurk for the purpose of making mod announcements. We also have a game discord channel, which you are welcome to join!

Go ahead and use the template below if you haven't introduced yourself already!

Say Hello With This Handy Dandy Template!

<b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use, as well as if you mind if people add you! <b>Tell us about yourself:</b> Timezones? Preferred pronouns? Favorite dank memes? We’re all ears! <b>Character:</b> Character name and journal here! <b>Permissions:</b> If you have any permissions posts for character interactions or powers, here would be a good place to list them! <b>Tell us about them:</b> Nothing too fancy is required, but here's where you can list things like permissions posts and inventories, as well as a brief introduction/overview of your character and how they're adjusting to LifeAftr. <b>Current plans:</b> Looking for positive/negative CR? Been up to any exploration? Need to get out more? Remember that forming groups is the best way, ICly and OOCly, to start getting CR and affecting the setting! <b>Anything else:</b> You’re just going to use this section to post an awful gif, aren’t you. Well have at it, you shitposters.

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[lightlessfuture]

Player: Ruka
Contact: I'm rukafais on plurk! FEEL FREE TO ADD ME
Tell us about yourself: backwards australian time, +9:30 GMT tho my sleep schedule's a bit weird sometimes so i can be up at all hours
Characters:
The Knight (lightlessfuture)
aaand NEW THIS ROUND, Papyrus (fontofkindness)!!!

Permissions: The Knight and Papyrus both have them in their journals if you need em, but they don't need much.
Tell us about them:
- The Knight is very small and tired and a literal mute and Ready To Fight if the need arises, which is apparently like all the time. They're learning how to be a person after someone finally thought to ask them questions about like

anything. So that's exciting!! They're always ready to make new acquaintances too because sharing is caring.

- Papyrus is the EXACT OPPOSITE of the knight except in his enthusiasm to make friends with people. He is VERY tall and VERY loud and VERY enthusiastic and has more than a few people here he'll greet with EVEN MORE ENTHUSIASM THAN NORMAL.
(Sorry I am not making him eight feet tall, he's gonna be about six feet so still tall but not ridiculously so)
And also he actually has casual clothes, which is a shocker. (Ignore the delta rune patch i'll make a proper ref for him later.) I'm gonna be a bit wobbly with him until i get used to his voice, so please bear with me if he sounds weird, let me know if i do anything horribly wrong. I'll be setting up a HMD for him in a bit.

Current plans:
For the Knight: nothing much, just continuing to greet people and explore and figure out who knows how to speak ASL. And fight things, that too.

Papyrus: Settling in, mostly! Getting used to the place and wandering around and greeting all the people he knows with ENTHUSIASM. Do you want a super gung-ho skeleton on your hands? Well, you're gonna get one.

Anything else:

[catpiper]

Player: Lexy
Contact: drowninginpears | pillowcased#3068
Tell us about yourself: CST, SHE/HER
Character: Ren catpiper
Permissions: Empathy opt out

Tell us about them: She's a terrible dying child that comes from a post apocalyptic world. All she wants to do is hold hands with people and learn about every single ding dang person on this island. Would probably die for someone if they smile at her. She's childish, kind and scared of her own shadow, but does her best being the raccoon that she is. Also has a cat friend and would trade anything for a shiny rock or two.
Current plans: I'm always always game for everything! Positive/negative CR, search requests, playing games, flower crowning, cat doting, stealing someone's fork-sign her up.
Anything else:

[catpiper]

GIVE ME THE SKELE

[lightlessfuture]

THE COMBINED FORCES OF PAPYREN IS GOING TO BE A WHIRLWIND OF FRIENDSHIP. THE ISLAND ISNT READY BUT IS GONNA GET THEM ANYWAY

[postictal]

Player: Zero
Contact: arrpee, zero#8942 on discord; feel free to add my dudes mostly i yap about rp! i tend to mass-add all the players tho.
Tell us about yourself: PST, they/them, one third of ur modteam
Character: Tim Wright (postictal) from web series Marble Hornets, the Drifter (hyperlit) from indie game Hyper Light Drifter, and Agent Washington (counterblows) from web series Red vs. Blue
Permissions: TIM | DRIFTER | WASH
Tell us about them:

TIM is a some dude from a web series called Marble Hornets (aka that one slender man webseries that Started It All) and a CRAU from sol_raveh. Depressed chain-smoker with arsonist tendencies that have now become less "tendencies" and more "default survival mechanisms." Has somehow become the island's Birthday Distributor if you happen to not know what your birthday is, and is in the process of unwittingly adopting a great deal of children. He's chock-full of mental health shit so feel free to give me a poke if there's anything that gets a little too Real. In general he's just...very tired, very hard on himself, but he means well, usually. He's also taken to setting things on fire when he doesn't know how to deal with them, so that's good.

THE DRIFTER is from an indie game called Hyper Light Drifter because obscure canons are, apparently, My Business. Silent, blue-skinned wanderer who communicates via sign language and/or a little bobbing sprite thing that hovers by their shoulder and projects text. They're suffering from an incurable terminal illness and learning what it is to live in a world where people Aren't Fantasy Racist. They've made a lot of wonderful friends tho, and are...perhaps more impressionable than they realize, picking up certain forms of speech and body language from the people they trust and hang around most often c:

AGENT WASHINGTON is from a web show called Red vs. Blue, which is a halo-based machinima about colorful space soldiers thats funny until it stops being funny and starts being really fucking sad. he's a space marine who just needs a fucking nap, honestly. in general, he's pretty dependable in a crisis, is a highly accomplished killer, and has a hell of a Traumatic Past. but he's getting better, kinda. he's not happy that he's not with his team anymore, but he also has faith in them to make it just fine without his interference at this point. ain't that a bitch?

Current plans:

TIM has just opened Denny. LifeAftr's one and only restaurant. Let me know if you wanna work there! Mostly he’s just trying to be weirdly social? ITS STRANGE. he’s bad at it.

THE DRIFTER currently has no outstanding plans. They’ll be first in line to explore the new land when it pops up though! They are also teaching sign language for anyone who's interested in learning that. Might be useful. You never know.

WASH is still adjusting? I haven't really got any plans for him yet lol. He’s living with cast mate CT atm. You can probably catch him like patrolling semi regularly because you can take the man out of the space military but you can’t take the space military out of the insomniac disaster, as it were.

Anything else:

[catpiper]

it's gonna be so dumb and so great and i can't wait to make everyone suffer

[taxusbacatta]

Player: Wolfy
Contact:
Plurk - wolfyttwisted
Discord - Quesadilla Wizard #7332
Tell us about yourself: 30, he/him/his, perpetually exhausted, grocery store drone, lives in The South, big gay furry. if i dont tag you back for a week, it's not you it's me. im just so tired yall
Character: Yellowfang taxusbacatta

Permissions: Yellowfang has some BULLSHIT CAT EMPATHY MAGIC that was literally never mentioned throughout the entire first arc but the Erins saw fit to give her in her Super Edition for some reason. Its a simple opt-out form if you don't want her being nosy and feelin your characters' physical pain.

Tell us about them: She's a feral cat from a society of feral cats that have an intense cat religion and sometimes actual magic. She used to be the cat equivalent of a cleric (receiving visions of the future, communing with the dead, and healing other cats with herbs) but in LifeAftr she's cut off from her ancestors and no longer receives visions from them. This has made her really salty considering she's from her death point and is obviously not in Cat Heaven or Cat Hell.

She's also super weirded out by all the Twolegs that can now speak perfect cat language but still say all their stupid Twoleg words. Yellowfang's slowly being introduced to concepts like "a backpack" and "planets" and is trying to distract herself from how upset she is over no longer having access to StarClan by putting these concepts to use.

Current plans:

I WANT:
- someone to alter her backpack so she can more easily open and close it
- someone to introduce her to writing
- her to meet the other cats on the island (you can decide if she can understand them or not, they're your characters)
- a small group of CR that she gives terrible cat names to (she's already named a few of you! keep your eyes peeled)
- positive cr
- negative cr
- for the love of god someone BRUSH HER
- someone to teach her to say FUCK

Anything else:

[flower_of_innocence]

Player: Azazel (I'm baaaaack)
Contact: azazelbunny or @azazelbunny#3388 on Discord! Feel free to add me on either platform!!
Tell us about yourself: EST, he/him please!

Character: Lillie (flower_of_innocence)
Permissions: I should probably make one...It's not like she has any powers or anything but a general interaction one would be good probably...
Tell us about them: Lillie is a smol nervous child who just really wants everything to be alright, you know? She has a very uncooperative little pokefriend (Cosmog, aka Nebby!) who refuses to stay in the bag. You are 100% always free to say that Nebby has escaped and crashed into you if you need an excuse to start talking to Lilli because quite frankly it probably has and she's never far behind. I'm taking her from before her big personality shift, so she's still very timid right now.
Current plans:
- Get her settled in and find her a place to live!
- Make all the friends forever
- Get lost at least once

Anything else:

[flower_of_innocence]

hello yes, Lillie would like to adopt this cat and will definitely brush her if she can find a brush

[vagabone]

Player: Naz
Contact: Plurk is nazitra, Discord is... also nazitra#5466. Feel free to add either.
Tell us about yourself: CST timezone, he/him, help me I work too much
Character: Héctor vagabone
Permissions: Here

Tell us about them: Not at all happy to be yanked away and dumped on some island, but he's a good guy, he won't take it out on anyone else. It also helps that everyone else is in the same damn boat. Friendly and chatty, good with kids, the master at pretending Everything Is Fine.

Current plans: I don't really have any plans yet! I want all the CR and jesus christ maybe get him some better clothes.

Anything else:

[yallstupid]

Find a place to live

Lol u cute. /DRAGS TO CASA LA SKULLTHUGS

[flower_of_innocence]

LOOK I DIDN'T WANT TO ASSUME

[holdmyhand]

ALSO DRAGS YOU TO CASA LA SKULLTHUGS???

[hellawrath]

DID YOU SAY LET YELLOWFANG SAY FUCK

[fireindreams]

Player: Zee
Contact: PM either this journal or funfire!
Tell us about yourself: My time zone is EST and I currently work as a school custodian so the time I take to answer tags may fluctuate on occasion. I'm also fairly new to Dreamwith RP so if I make a mistake somewhere please let me know :D

Character: Troupe Master Grimm | fireindreams

Permissions: Here. There is also a spoiler opt-out if you don't want to be spoiled for Hollow Knight, the Grimm Troupe DLC or both.

Tell us about them: The theatrical Master of the Grimm Troupe and one of the more rage-inducing boss battles of Hollow Knight. He has a flair for the dramatics and is basically a bug version of Dracula without being up to his eyeballs in Belmonts. It's also heavily implied Grimm knows a lot more of the world of Hollownest then he is letting on and has connections to nightmares. Many connections. Grimm Background DLC please Team Cherry.

He will be arriving in LifeAftr just before the Knight uses the Dream Nail on him to begin the Nightmare King battle. Grimm also has a child with the Knight called the Grimmchild but he'll have to talk to the Storyteller to bring that in.

Current plans: Grimm is new so I'd be happy to receive any sort of CR you'd like to bring to the table :D

Anything else: I don't know how to post gifs, but here is a super cute video for Yume Nikki.

[crystallying]

Player: Molly
Contact: sonopants, feel free to add!
Tell us about yourself: AST (that's EST +1!), she/her, I am perpetually sleepy animator who is easily distracted by cute dogs
Character: Lucas Miller, crystallying
Permissions: here!
Tell us about them: Lucas Miller is a nerdy scientist who once tried to resurrect his mother with the help of an insanely dangerous magical item called The Philosopher's Stone. Long story short, it sort of worked, but he almost turned the entire world to crystal and unleashed a whole bunch of angry ghosts from the afterlife in the process. Whoops? Anyway, Lucas is a weaselly little dweeb who is Very Tired, but doing his best to make up for the whole 'almost crystallizing the entire planet and also causing a ghostly jailbreak' thing.

He, uh. He might've also brought a horrible talking elevator in with him. Sorry about that, Lifeaftr.
Current plans: Settling in, trying to make sure that Magnus doesn't punch him across the entire island, having an existential crisis since he's an inventor with no access to technology apart from like... a hatchet, and a couple of rocks.
Anything else:

[prettypurpleparlor]

Player: Echo
Contact: EchoDoctor
Tell us about yourself: She/her pronouns, theoretically on Eastern Standard Time but in practice a mess who does not have a consistent sleep schedule.
Character: Muffet at prettypurpleparlor
Permissions: Right here on her journal.
Tell us about them: You'd think her main power is being a literal magic spider monster, but apparently it's being one of the only people here with actual common sense. A helpful, practical businesswoman, adapting to the island setting and doing her best to keep her fellow castaways alive through all this mess.
Current plans: Muffet is, as always, here to Mom Friend at everybody within reach, and is happy to help anyone in need of it. She's going to be helping out at the Denny a lot, so you're likely to encounter her there, and also has a couple projects related to information gathering and recording that she's currently working on.
Anything else:

[prettypurpleparlor]

DID SOMEBODY SAY NEW UNDERCAST CR?

Also Muffet is still steadily progressing towards adopting the Knight. They're a very good bug and she loves them.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Get over here and let her sew you an actual shirt, Hector.

[vagabone]

HE CAN SEW HE JUST... stopped caring about anything but Getting Home a long time ago :')

[ohshitsweetflips]

i will FIGHT YOU for this opportunity

[savedbyasong]

Player: Katy
Contact: plurk: damua discord: damua#1089
Tell us about yourself: GMT so backtag forever, she/her
Character: Shion savedbyasong
Permissions: Here
Tell us about them:Shion was a naive elite child from a perfect city who got liberated by an overdramatic jerk, had an incident with a parasite bee which turned his hair white and his eyes red, learned about the Real World TM but before he could continue his journey of learning how everything was awful he got whisked away to a Horror Tower towerofanimus and spent two and a half years learning that... well yes everything was awful. The characters there achieved end game but instead of going home to fix things and save his friend he ended up here instead.

And here has been interesting. As it stands Shion has come to the conclusion that he is probably an awful person despite trying hard not to be and that he is dangerous and will end up hurting those he cares about. He is generally friendly though, can pretend to be not a messed up puppy long enough to have a decent conversation. The last month has been spent mostly taking part in wildlife preservation. He loves plants and animals, will babble on about science forever if you let him and will share theories about what might be going on.
Current plans: He will definitely be finalising the clinic he and Hinata have been working on this month. Probably more science (what does happen if you lure a flustercluck into a centre of gravity?) He is always up for exploring and a new island will mean a lot to explore.

[ohshitsweetflips]

i love their cr already, oh my god, this is the best cat. also Taako can magic her backpack better!!! send her to the store. that means i should make.......a store post i guess. OOPS.

[ohshitsweetflips]

[fireindreams]

Hello Ruka! I look forward to playing with you and the Knight in LifeAftr :D I saw that it was possible to keep the memories from the test drive meme so I was wondering if that was okay by you?

Also I would love CR with Papyrus. ENTHUSIASM and theater dramatics would go well together I think.