OOC INTRO ( SEPTEMBER )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: SEPTEMBER

State of the Game
Hello all, and thank you for an amazing inaugural month! We've been loving the response the game has been getting thus far and are hoping you all enjoy September just as much, if not more! We absolutely welcome and encourage you to share your insights as far as how you've found the game so far, positive and negative, and offer whatever feedback you feel is necessary!

Our intro log will be going up on the comms on September 3rd, but there are a couple important things that we want to cover before then:

1. Housing. By the time the intro log rolls around, the Storyteller will have amassed enough power to provide characters with housing, which will open up our Housing page for players to fill out depending on who they're rooming with. Said housing will be based around the vicinity of Ensō on a series of islets. You will find more information on the intro log and on the housing page!

2. Transportation. The mana pools double as a means of transportation. All your character must do is pick one of the narcissus flowers that now grow in abundance around the pool and toss it in, as per hinted at by a helpful limerick engraved nearby. Upon speaking their intended destination, they shall be whisked there with a flash of white light! At this time, as the islets are currently the only other locations with a mana pool, even failing to speak the destination will simply plop characters onto one of them at random.

3. Trigger Events. As more of the island is uncovered, we will be implementing this as a new mechanic! Certain squares may be likely to yield certain creatures or occurrences of note - which will then become an island-wide event, depending on the severity of it. There is no knowing when these sorts of events may crop up, but we will be trying our best to stagger them between larger events so there's not too much going on at once! Since, like the exploration squares themselves, they are RNG-based, these events have a random chance to occur at almost any time.

4. Item Requests. We've received a few questions regarding how Item Requests work! In general, we have to take into account what the Storyteller is capable of for any given request. You have until the end of the month to fill out non-compulsory AC. The OOC form is the only one necessary, but IC storytelling might be a nice way to get CR with people you're physically separated from. Those who use non-compulsory AC to make their requests do not need to use their AC immediately. You can instead regard the AC as a sort of coupon to cash in at your leisure.

5. AC. We would also like to take this opportunity to remind people to tag their characters in the comms. This is the only compulsory form of AC we have, but after the first few months, we are going to stop warning people for forgetting to tag their character. Characters who fail AC will be swept.

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of September - 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 both a plurk and a discord channel!

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> Do you mind if people add you on plurk/discord/what have 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>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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Comments

[scourgingstars]

SO IT GOES but i'm down with that, odds are there'll just be another sassfest entirely, lbr.

[hellawrath]

OF COURSE PONIES ARE MANDATORY duh. also the answer is yes??? like, who is gonna teach her the choicest trash to eat?? I mean the even bigger question is, does this poor innocent goblin want to be around two dumpster fires who under no circumstances should be in any way responsible for a literal child.

[ichininyaanshi]

Oh my god yes please... there is like a 90% chance if he finds a cat he will try and get one for her first. Also maybe try and keep tabs on her when the housing is established?? Like he at least wants to know where she's going, how's he gonna keep track of her grass-whistling progress otherwise

[souldeterminant]

Hello Maggie, welcome to the game! If you don't mind me asking... have you played Ginko elsewhere in the past, aside from Ryslig? I mentioned to the other mods that your journal name was super familiar to me, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't place it...

I am very pleased by all the lowkey dads accumulating in this game. I've never watched Mushi-shi, but I have some secondhand canon knowledge of it through RP and I've always loved Ginko. I hope you have a fun stay here! Be sure to let me or any of the other mods know if you have any questions <3

[prettypurpleparlor]

Player: Echo
Contact: I'm Echo on plurk, feel free to come talk to me there.
Tell us about yourself: She/her pronouns, Eastern Standard Time, attention span of a gnat. ...Actually, that's unkind to gnats.
Character: Muffet, at prettypurpleparlor
Tell us about them: Muffet is a spider monster who makes her living running a bakery with ruthless efficiency. She's willing to be terrifying if necessary, but is generally pretty kind and helpful to those she regards as 'her people', and is including most of the rest of the game in that at the moment because they're all stuck in this situation together. I have a permissions post and HMD on her journal, if anyone needs them.
Current plans: Muffet is mostly trying to get out there and do stuff, keeping herself busy to avoid worrying too much. I'd love for her to meet new people, she's the type who likes knowing everybody. She also has some suspicions about what might be going on with their arrival on the island, and will be keeping an eye out for anything that might confirm them, so anybody investigating metaplot stuff can absolutely come talk. :D
Anything else:

[justribbing]

Player: dawn
Contact: Dawn#4105 on discord, hit me up!
Tell us about yourself: EST Timezone, she/her/whatever pronoun you're feeling idc
Character: Sans the Skeleton (justribbing
Tell us about them:

It's a skeleton wearing some rad light-up wheelie sneaks with velcro straps, shabby track shorts, a t-shirt with faded condiment stains, and a galaxy-print hoodie. He takes roughly three times the naps any reasonable person needs to get through the average day, and yet still manages to look perpetually tired.

But seriously, Sans is a monster from the Underground, a civilization trapped under a mountain in the game Undertale. Sans loves bad puns, dank memes, junk food and passively waiting for the sweet embrace of-- I mean. He could really use the oblivion that comes with the heat-death of the universe a long nap. He's regained a Reason to Do Something Maybe(TM) so he's marginally less useless than he was last month.

He's super unmotivated, lazy, and very unreliable for just about anything except cheap laughs (and bitter disappointment?). Still, if you enjoy silly deadweight he is absolutely your guy! Also he has a permissions post (with opt-out if you want) over here: https://justribbing.dreamwidth.org/408.html

Current plans: Any and all CR! Though let's be real, you're going to have to pretty much drag Sans into doing anything like exploration missions and the like, because like I said, he's lazy. Yell at him, bribe him, anything to get his tailbone off the ground. Or, you know, just hang.

Anything else:

this gif is too large to justify embedding it

[relieable]

Player: Junebug (June or JB is fine!)
Contact: lovebakery or galacta#0330 @ discord
Tell us about yourself: She/Her, in PST! i'm an old lady who loves to RP still, and has been in the journal rping business for a long time. i'm a silly fangirl, i like animals, and watching shows/movies with other people. aside from rping, some of my other hobbies include drawing, singing, and crochet!
Character: Osomatsu Matsuno relieable
Tell us about them: Gosh. Osomatsu is a loser. He's a NEET and the oldest brother of sextuplets. yes, you read that right. currently, there are three of them in LifeAftr, and Osomatsu is not doing too well adjusting, but he's trying to keep a positive attitude, as usual. he's one of those conceal don't feel types when it comes to serious emotions. but otherwise he's a big baby who needs friends to teach him how to be a better person. or to just kick him in the ass, okay.
Current plans: Osomatsu definitely needs to get out more. Right now, he's watching over his brothers to make sure they don't kill themselves (cough Ichimatsu cough). He's lazy, though, so he probably won't actively start looking for things. You'll have to drag him out, make it worth his while. Tell him you're looking for treasure, because that will motivate him! Open to all kinds of CR, positive, negative, romantic (why would you).
Anything else:

[justribbing]

I am so excited to see Ginko here.

[catpiper]

Would Drifter like to sign up for Ren's two day shipping stick delivery service?? Since they want to explore everywhere, she's gonna lowkey worry and try to supply them with random stupid weapons from time to time.

Like she knows they've got a light sword, but. Just accept her gifts as she finds them. Okay.

[justribbing]

trashlords represent

Nah my dude I was so happy with your app and I'm glad you're here!

[jokeronace]

Player: javid
Contact: erlking or on discord @ javid#6941
Tell us about yourself: PST timezone, pronouns he/him, im on my phone right now on lunch at work so!! hi i like podcasts and video games and crying bc im a pisces and sometimes thats the way life is. i live in las vegas just like my character only its not a nuclear wasteland in real life, imagine that
Character: the courier (jamil rogers) jokeronace
Tell us about them: jamil is a fast talker and an even faster puncher. he can basically talk his way thru situations if he wants, but hes also impulsive and hates raiders, torturers, cannibals, and slavers with a murderous passion.

meaning if he finds out someone is unsavory like that hell just drop any previous plans and murderize them.

he is also a huge hypocrite because hell steal anything he can get his grubby hands on and lie to anyone for anything. hes not a good person by any means LOL

he also has a huge fuck off sledgehammer and took his tux off a dead body so its way too small for him. a walking disaster
Current plans: currently anything! hes brand new so meeting ppl, exploring, marveling at the fact hes never tasted chocolate before and now has a choco charm, horrifying people with his eating habits, the works
Anything else:

this is the only image on my phone

[hyperlit]

YES THEY ABSOLUTELY WOULD!!!!! she is such a good egg oh god they already are swearing to just. Keep Her Safe. because she's so precious

[hyperlit]

i'm so excited for more javid threads i'm so glad you apped

[scourgingstars]

ayyyyyyy

thanks so much, i was a little worried about all the everything, so i tried to make it as easy a job for y'all as possible and now i am super hyped to be here!

[catpiper]

Their house is going to burn down, isn't it?? No, honestly this is great. She'll be wary, but also like be inwardly grateful for the safety/company.

They can all eat gourmet trash food together. It'll be fine. Moldy fritos are her fav. Let's swap recipes.

[catpiper]

Fantastic oh man. I'm so excited for them to eventually find cats IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT DAY. Ichi is a good bean, putting up with this heathen. She will absolutely tell him where she's housing and probably bring him by? To make sure it's safe with his cat senses and to grass whistle for him. Obviously.

[ichininyaanshi]

Oh my god you nearly demolecularize yourself and a 12-year-old once.

ACTUALLY with the chance for separate housing coming up I was going hit you up, because Ichimatsu might assume his brothers are expecting things to return to the ep 24 status quo of living separately. Things can be addressed maybe?? Ichi is more than willing to conceal all feels except his vague and misplaced bitterness. Either way it could be a tire fire but you know, that's about expected

Or maybe Niisan can come along on Ichimatsu's tireless quest for cats, if he'd like. Because now that the ST has told him they exist here he will die a thousand deaths before giving up

[justribbing]

this is going to be a beautiful tire fire and welcome to the game!!

[ohshitsweetflips]

oh mannnn thank you for answering a very important question i had re: WHEN WILL PEOPLE SEE HIM IN HIS GROSS (AWESOME) FORM.

[ichininyaanshi]

Ichimatsu is the worst and stinkiest bean but Ren is so pure, HE TRIES TO BE LESS TRASH AROUND HER

Please give me this. I'm not saying he's gonna swing by a lot but... he's going to swing by a lot. For grass whistling and maybe stealing food from his brothers to give to her (lol) and just. He's already attached.

All they need is someone who actually knows how not to die in the wild and they're set as heck for cat-searching

[relieable]

LET'S ADDRESS THINGS. Osomatsu will be like whuuuu?? but then realize what they are talking about. and he'll probably want to avoid talking about it as much as possible. he does not want to live separately, though! so if they do, he might come hunt them down, or something.

and, yeah, Osomatsu will come along for that, if only to make sure that Ichimatsu's safe.

[tomodachi]

Player: Taku
Contact: wailords or Taku#0558
Tell us about yourself: Hello gang, I'm new here and coming to you from EST timezone. I typically work nights so you are likely to see tags in the morning or super late after I get back from work.
Character: Crow | tomodachi
Tell us about them: Crow is a young boy from a post-apocalyptic world where 99% of the population died in a tragic cataclysmic event, save for a small handful of robots, a silver-haired girl, and a cinnamon roll that was too good for that world, too pure who ended up becoming Crow's best friend after Crow stole their locket and then fell off a ferris wheel at some point... it's a long story.

Anyway, he can be cold and rather rude to people that he first meets, but once he's had a chance to warm up to you, he can prove himself to be a friend for life. His philosophy is to always have fun, never cry or give in to despair because that's just lame. As such, he can be childish and naive when it comes to what he finds to be exciting in the pursuit of fun, prone to risky behavior and a bratty attitude to those who try to ruin said fun. That said, he's also curious and is actually very interested in books and stories, as well as collecting garbage any shiny trinkets he can get his hands on.

His permissions post is here, and the only inventory he's got on him aside from his weird outfit and random shit in his pockets is a Choco-Charm so far. Unfortunately, there's no point in him using it to make chocolate to eat because, surprise, Crow is one of those robots I mentioned earlier and doesn't require food. He will however be camping out at one of those pools every two weeks or so.

Current plans: I just got here so I am literally ready for anything: give us people for Crow to antagonize with his childishness, give him friends that will indulge said childishness and go exploring with him, or even just someone who will keep him from doing something dumb and hurting himself because this boy can't be trusted to not do that sometimes.
Anything else: when Seto isn't home

[ohshitsweetflips]

THIS IS GONNA BE FINE

[unpurify]

What are you talking about he looks normal all the time But yes! Scrap the bottom of the CR bucket, receive sudden creepy and awesome body horror :D

[hellawrath]

Player: Laura
Contact: wonderfulnonsense, or in the game's discord chat!
Tell us about yourself: I'm a full-time working German, so I tend to be a slow tagger due to timezones and perpetual tiredness, but I will do my best to stay on top of things! I am hella into Doctor Who, forever a dirty Homestuck, and still an emotional wreck over The Adventure Zone. Also caring a lot about my handsome snake son Calmasis and my handsome fiancee Jazzy. I copied this from last time bc I'm very tired.
Character: Lup (hellawrath)
Tell us about them: Lup's a magical DnD elf who came here with her twin brother Taako. She just got over a bad case of being stuck in an umbrella for ten years and literally erased from everyone's memories. She's a loud and hot-headed but generally friendly type whose specialty is blowing shit up, though her magical powers have been significantly and upsettingly reduced here. The trash twins have established their niche by inventing fantasy Walmart so she's mostly been working gathering resources for that and creating a customer base. And also taking a shine to all the hard knock life kids out there bc she knows what that's like.

Current plans: Most of the time she's either helping run the store or foraging, so she can always be found there for CR! She deeefinitely wants to explore more of the island and maybe Taako will stop worrying if she does so with a group. The twins will do their darndest to invent booze some day and if they meet any more kids they're gonna have to start an Amazing School of Magic, Cooking and Self-Defense or something. That said, Lup can be kind of an asshole so negative CR would also be a riot tbh.

Anything else: