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

[souldeterminant]

Player: Angel
Contact: throesofangels
Tell us about yourself: Hello, my player hearts! I'm Angel, and I am one of your modly types. I live on over in EST and I usually work fairly long shifts, so tags from me tend to come in bursts on my days off. That leaves me a bit slow on said work days, but I'm always willing to backtag!
Characters: Currently I play Frisk (now under the pseudonym "Kittu") from Undertale, and Ichimatsu from Osomatsu-san!
Tell us about them:

Frisk is a young RPG hero who's fallen into a world of monsters, both killed and been killed by them a hundred or so times, and finally liberated them to the human world. They're also CRAU'd from a game that saw them fighting a war against shadows within a castle, and they've gone through a heck of a lot. Currently, they're attempting to distance their identity from anyone who knew them previously under a false name, but they're largely still themself: quiet, blunt, a little bit intense, and a dirty lover of dank puns.

Ichimatsu is the fourth oldest of a sextuplet group, which currently exist as triplets here in LifeAftr. He's easily distinguishable from his brothers thanks to his purple sweater, messed up hair, and terrible attitude. He's the bad kind of tsun and loves putting both himself and everyone else down, but I swear there's a soul somewhere down in there. And it loves cats. It really fuckin loves cats. Like, if you're a cat, you've got it made. Everyone else I'm really sorry, know that he's mostly bark and usually not much bite.

Current plans:

Frisk, while generally trying to avoid CR from their past, has taken to wandering with Tim and Chara, and isn't incredibly averse to speaking with most others on the island. While their cautious distancing from their previous life has tied them down for the first month, it's likely that they'll start engaging in explorations soon -- let's be real here, 12 year olds with knives is gonna be a common sight around here.

Ichimatsu is hardly the adventurous type, but with the housing opening up soon he might end up dedicating some of his spare time to pertinent activities in order to keep himself occupied. He also still really wants to find a damn cat on this island, which the Storyteller said exists, so he'll probably chance getting demolecularized again to go looking for them at some point. He may even be willing to gather a party to venture forth with, this time.

Anything else:

[catpiper]

Ren will def go with Ichi on a cat hunting adventure.

[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

[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]

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

[catpiper]

Be the murasaki she knows you can be ichi. She likes him so much. All from a hiss. Beautiful.

Meanwhile, she's gonna push food onto him for his whole cat family. Maybe she'll request some canned cat food from the storyteller next month. Tuna flavor, for you.

Let's get the final party member!!! Who else wants to go cat searching!!

[hellawrath]

PETAL

i'm too tired to be coherent but i just wanted to yell about how much i love this CR already and i'm hoping we can develop it further!

[souldeterminant]

oh my god this cr. my crops are watered, my acne is cleared, help me

I'm so ready for the Determination Twins and the Magic Twins to bond over being hard knock kids. Yes please.

[hellawrath]

HARD SAME

there's so much to unpack there for these four.

[solperierat]

Hello small child are you ready for worrygoat 2.0

I'm honestly so excited about their CR, Ed is fucking charmed by this little kid

[souldeterminant]

you think you are adopting frisk, ed? incorrect. frisk is adopting you.

gosh i love ed and i can't wait for this CR, there's a lot to unpack for both sides and i'd love for them to get closer despite their individual traumas.

aka angel is always reader to Suffer /fingerguns

[solperierat]

C-C-C-C-CROSS-ADOPTION!?!?!?!?

bonding over/despite trauma is my jam man, i'm so ready for this.

[unpurify]

So hey.

No hard feelings about the weird-ass introduction to each other and inadvertently using your script, right Frisk?

[souldeterminant]

None at all.

TBH I love how horrid of a note this has started off on already, and literally only because Frisk has a no mercy run behind them to pick up on a lot of the cues Batter naturally puts down. They still see him as essentially human but o golly can this go one of a few different ways and I can't wait to see which.

[unpurify]

God, things will get super interesting if the Batter ever finds out about the no mercy run and if Frisk ever sees his monstrous form/finds out about his world and what happened.

I can't see the path this'll take and it's fantastic :D

[tenthstreetbred]

waggles eyebrows

hello there friendo would you like a one (1) Commander Shepard in your life for either (or both) of your characters~?

[souldeterminant]

oh golly would i

COME AT ME MOMMA SHEP

[tenthstreetbred]

HURLS MOMMA SHEP AT YOU AT TOP SPEED