OOC INTRO ( SEPTEMBER )

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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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[postictal]

Player: Zero
Contact: arrpee or zero#8942 over on discord
Tell us about yourself: Howdy I'm Zero. I'm a they/them and a fairly speedy PST tagger. I am also one of your modly mods!
Character: Tim Wright from Marble Hornets (postictal) and the Drifter from Hyper Light Drifter (hyperlit)
Tell us about them:

TIM is a sad and sick boy with a lot of problems he doesn't talk about. He's from Marble Hornets, aka boy I sure know how to pick obscure canons people don't recognize. It's a web series that popularized Slender Man even if in his canon it isn't actually the Slender Man but a vaguely similar creature called the Operator. IT'S COMPLICATED. He's also a CRAU from a game called sol_raveh, in which he attacked a bunch of people without meaning to, got stuck in a cage and almost drowned, shared a soul with some very poorly-adjusted children, and developed a very bitter opinion of Pokemon. Due to a lot of subjects that may crop up in Tim's narration, I recommend you checking out his opt-out/permissions post over thataway!

THE DRIFTER is the silent protagonist from Hyper Light Drifter, which is again one of those canons that no one really knows or plays from whoops. They're super sickly and terminally ill, which means they're going to be wrassling with their sickness for pretty much as long as they're alive, so that's a cool thing. They are also extremely driven tho so don't worry about them or nothing. They have a little companion sprite that projects text for them so people can understand them because they cannot actually speak. Take a look at their permissions if you wanna better idea of who you're dealing with!

Current plans:

TIM has been traveling with Chara Kidwun and Frisk Kittu for the most part, for reasons he's not gonna disclose to just anyone. He's been making a lot of weirdly positive CR lately, largely because Tim's long since passed that threshold of "FUCK this" and jettisoned straight into that zone of "this is just How My Life Is and I've long since accepted it." He's only done some desultory exploring, so I am looking for him to start nosing around the island a bit more.

THE DRIFTER has been making so many friends oh my goodness. Everyone here is so nice and can tolerate their existence?? IT'S SO WEIRD YOU GUYS. They've been doing a lot of exploring but it's not nearly enough for this blue bean, they need to explore Everything because they have a personal goal to map as much of the island as possible. Everyone is being so kind to them c:

Anything else:

[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.

[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

[catpiper]

Drifter for island ambassador!! What a good explorer.

they're trying so hard to protect eachother and they're both gonna die from Disease anyway. that's the kind of tragedy i can get on board with.

[hyperlit]

that's the Sickness Life (tm) yo they'll make do

[hellawrath]

It's so rude that Taako got to be business buddies with the Drifter and Lup hasn't met them yet. There should be some joint exploring or other shenanigans in their future!

[postictal]

THERE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD, YES. drifter needs to get to know chaotic asshole twins!! they probably won't mix them up. hopefully.

WE'LL SEE.

[achievementhunter]

I've mentioned this before but Tim and Churro should go for a casual walk to Explore

[postictal]

LAUGHS yes they do and then we cross our fingers and pray that they don't pitch and roll directly into something that Wants To Do A Killing

[achievementhunter]

Oh cmon Tim, you've never gotten to see them kill something before!

Except for yourself.






That probably doesn't count.

[postictal]

lol they succeeded where he failed like he's gonna fault em for that

[achievementhunter]

Come now Tim they didn't really succeed at all.

But I mean, they're willing to try again.

[postictal]

if at first you don't succeed

try until you fucking bleed


that's how the saying goes right

[achievementhunter]

Absolutely.

[ishotyouuu]

so hey uh

maybe we should talk about that whole "disposing of your body" thing, Tim

that'd be a fun conversation amirite

also MORE WITH THE DRIFTER AND WADE/TIBIA PLZ THEY CAN BE TERMINALLY ILL BUDDIES TOGETHER

Wade I mean

not Tibia, Tibs is gonna live forever

[hyperlit]

LMAOOOOOO TIM JUST LEARNED HE'S BEEN DEAD FOR MONTHS

READY FOR THINGS TO BE FUCKIN AWKWARD


but more of drifter and wade yes yes good that is less awkward because it's precious

[ishotyouuu]

ngl Wade's probably gonna be all poised to dope-slap a bitch because how dare you fucking try to take the easy way out when some people don't even have that option

Drifter and Wade and Tibia having secret friendship conversations with each other via signing tho

this is CR I never knew I needed but Wade needs this precious bean in his life ;;

[hyperlit]

hrr hrrr hrrrrrr well as long as wade doesn't ask who clued him in to the dead body lol right

one cr will be hideously awkward and potentially hostile and the other will be precious and pure this is all i need from life

[tenthstreetbred]

DRIFTERRRRRR

I love this good good adventuring bean, they're a good bean. We need to throw Shepard and them together again!

[hyperlit]

YES WE DO!!!! they appreciate anyone who has interests that align with theirs, and The Shepard very much does!

[tenthstreetbred]

god I love that they call her The Shepard such a delightful way for their intro to go

[postictal]

they're The Drifter, she's The Shepard that's just how it is fam

[tenthstreetbred]

I can't wait for these two to learn more about each other, Shepard is so curious about that Not Omnitool they're using