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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[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

[seesbosscrotch]

Lousy deadweight Forsaken! /shakes fist without real menace

[justribbing]

People mistaking Sans for some undead creature never gets old.

I'm still waiting for someone to try to reflexively attack him, LOL, it's bound to happen sooner or later.

[seesbosscrotch]

Roy might be tempted if he weren't so resolute about always talking first.

Mar, on the other hand, is just so used to this. He's been hanging out with the friendly undead since he started his adventuring career. Admittedly, a large portion of them tried to kill literally everyone, but that's pretty much another Tuesday in Azeroth.

(Plus his sister is undead, so there's that.)

[justribbing]

That helps! And if I recall correctly, Blood Elves are pretty attuned to magical beings (and sometimes leech mana off them). Sans is gonna read as substantially magical in nature (keep your mitts off his magic though).

Sans will also sincerely appreciate Roy's 'talk first' method of monster-human encounters.

[seesbosscrotch]

Well, it's less 'attuned' and more 'lifetimes of magical addiction have taught them to siphon off ambient energy', but frankly Mar forgets he can do that most of the time, so no worries. It's only useful against hostiles anyway, so don't PVP flag!

[achievementhunter]

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