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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[esper_magic]

Player: Lucy
Contact: Not at all
Tell us about yourself: EST timezoze! I am a casual gamer owned by two spoiled brat cats, and have no real social life to speak of, which gives me plenty of time to follow the things I like - like, playing games, tagging and having not enough time to do everything I want to do *le weep*. I don't really chat much on plurk, it's more of a random plurk kind of thing with me, and I'm kind of shy anyway - though I try not to be. BUT feel free to ping me on plurk anytime! (Edit: ...it.. it helps to put my plurk name... Which is "LucyForever")
Character: Terra Bradford, and her journal is esper_magic
Tell us about them: Welp, Terra here is Final Fantasy VI (random person: "Wha, you mean there's a Final Fantasy before 7?" *bricked*), and she is actually a former Magitek Witch enslaved by the Empire and evil McDouchebag Kefka by way of a mind-control device called the Slave Crown. She's also not fully human. I'm taking her super early in the game, like. Within the first HALF HOUR because I'm evil that way, so Terra here is coming in shortly after the Slave Crown has been removed, and is on the run from several Empire soldiers trying to take her back - and oh yes, she is an amnesiac because the Slave Crown messed with her head that much. She'll not have much on her, just her sword and pendant - and a molehat that I got as present for the test drive. XD
Current plans: I'm game for both positive and negative CR! Being that Terra has amnesia, she's going to be very confused, a tiny bit wary of people who might want to help her, and not really know a whole lot so there's plenty of blank space potential there, I think :D I don't have anything -specific- in mind for her beyond getting a feel for the place, but I'm always open to ideas!~
Anything else: I don't have any awful gifs ;.; I'm sorry everyone, I've failed you. ;.;

[shatteredlenses]

Of course, there are Final Fantasy games before 7! I'm old enough to have played most of them. sobs

Welcome to a FF character who is NOT from FFXV! I am excited to see Terra of all characters here! Especially considering the parallels that pop up between the two games. No Kefka here at least. Unfortunately, we do have our very own brand of insane jester...

So sorry about him. Just shove him back in his trash can. It'll be fine. ;-P

Maybe a blind man will be a little easier for her to trust with all that blankness in her head? Or at least a good meal won't hurt, right?

[esper_magic]

Yay you know it! :D Ha ha you're OLD... *I'm kidding don' t kill me. D:* patpats instead XD

HEE! Oh gosh, well I'm excited to be here! I haven't played very far in FFXV, my PS4 failed me ;o; I think I'm in chapter..2? or 3- I just got to the part where Noctis has to go around to collect swords from crypts or something :D;; BUT YEAH I definitely have noticed some parallels which I thought was a nice touch :D (whether or not it was intentional)

HOPEFULLY we don't get a Kefka! Though with her canon point that would be...interesting. ..

... wait, insane jester HERE or in canon? D: C..can we push the trash can down a hill too? :3

And yes! I think a blind man (poor Ignis ;o;) would be easier to trust ..and the food won't hurt :9 She probably didn't get decent meals in the Empire. Cuz they're jerks.

[shatteredlenses]

Pfft, I AM old. LOL! This is my second round in RP after all!

Oh man, you aren't that far in really. How worried are you about spoilers because like everyone is WAY passed where you are. sobs Believe me, when you get farther in, you can tell those parallels are pretty intentional what with having a direct reference to the 'World of Ruin' and Noctis calling Ardyn a 'Jester' to his face.

So...yes on both counts? Ardyn is our 'insane jester' in canon, but we also just had an Ardyn app in so we have him in game too. This is going to be interesting.

Oye, how long until the boys all confuse their Empire and hers? Eh, it probably won't matter. They will just adopt her and feed her and make it all better anyway. :-)

[esper_magic]

AWW :D That's not old that's just.. um.. EXPERIENCED. :D

Oh I'm not worried about spoilers at all ^^ So go ahead, spoil away! I started late playing the game so I kinda figured everyone would be WAAAAAAAAAAAY past me by now ^^ I don't mind!

Ohoho boy, thaaat's definitely a nod to FFVI XD Let's hope we never get any Kefka's in here is it wrong i kinda do though? XD

OH! Neat! And slightly worrisome!

Ohgod that's going to be horrible and hilarious. BUT awwwwww, yes pls make it all better ;.;

[shatteredlenses]

I'll take 'experienced' over 'old' any day! LOL!

Spoilers it is then! In abridged form, lets just say our villainous (and quite frankly mad) Jester-de-jour gets everything he wanted in the end, the heroes get 10 years in a world filled with daemons and in which the sun never rises. Even when the Chosen King 'wins,' he still loses leaving us all with a rather tragic and fully pyrrhic victory when the sun DOES rise again.

Ardyn might not be really a Jester, but you were far enough in to meet the 'man of no consequence' so I am sure you remember just how flamboyant he is. He might as well be one!

That doesn't even touch on the 'wonderful and totally not clown inspired' face he shows the world when he's truly pissed off. Oops, your inner corruption is showing boyo.

In other words, neat and EXTREMELY worrisome. I can't blame you for kinda wanting a Kefka around though. It's that whole love/hate trap of 'just think of all the horrid things I could do to my character' while at the same time 'JUST THINK OF ALL THE HORRID THINGS I COULD DO TO MY CHARACTER!' LOL!

[esper_magic]

IMO anyone who enjoys games and RP never ages XDD

Ho..ly moley that's... wow. WOW. lightenup Squeenix, jeez. XD I hate Pyrrhic victories, they make me sad in the face. And everywhere else.

YES, I do remember Ardyn! He was in the fishing port, if I am remembering the same person? Which, come to think of it, is very fitting for a fishy fellow being in a port town with fishing.

Oh jeez, Now I'm afeared. Only not really. HE CAN'T GET ME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SCREEN, I'M TOTALLY SAFE

Ahahaha, that... that is exactly right too. My muse hates me.

[shatteredlenses]

Yeah, this game got all the tragic and sad in its ending. So many tears shed, so many fix-it fics out there because we all want our sleepy prince to be happy!

Yes! Ardyn's first appearance was there, so you are remembering the right person. Hard to forget the red-headed hobo who thought it was a good idea to throw a coin at the prince.

Be afraid! Be very afraid! LOL! But it's the good kind of afraid. The kind you enjoy with lots of popcorn.

[esper_magic]

I may never finish the game now :D Not just because I hate finishing games because it'll mean it's over, but with THAT kind of ending? At least I can pretend things are less tragic and sad if I just derp for the rest of my life in it! I want the boys to be happy too!

Hard to unhear that Needs a smack' voice he has too with his lines. XDD

YAY My favorite kind of afraid!

[shatteredlenses]

You have no idea how many I know who finished the game just so they could go into new game plus but will NEVER finish again. I know some who won't even finish Altissia because of all that happens there. sobs I can't start playing until the PC version comes out, but once it does, I just may screw around forever on the side quests and never finish myself. After all, I have already seen how it ends. Why put myself though the pain again?

Oh man, yeah. He needs so many smackings. The voice is just perfect for him. Too perfect almost.

[esper_magic]

LOL In my case I can't play it until my PS4 is fixed *sobs* Which is a good thing it's not a game I stream for my friend, because those ones I USUALLY have a little more motivation to finish XDD Unless the game is truly, TRULY horrible like.. ugh. Omega Quintet. Also I have a million and one games I need to actually play so if it comes to finishing a game and having sad feels vs playing a new game that might be more cheerful, I know which one I'm going for LOL. Also my cat came to visit and she's attacking the gif on the page atm :D So cute.

AMEN. Holy crap is that voice good - actually so far all the voices are pretty spot on, which is nice! :D Nothing breaks immersion in a game more than bad voice casting. Imagine if Ardyn was voiced by like... friggin, what's his name. The guy who plays Iago in Aladdin :D

[shatteredlenses]

Hello cat! Are you trying to help? :-D

Oh gods, I don't want to imagine that! Just..uggg...no! Let me keep my evil, suave, flamboyant Ardyn. Nope, I'm ruined. No other voice for him!

[esper_magic]

I think she was! She usually sits on the arm of the chair and stares at the screen when I'm at my desk, it's so cute! XD

FFHFHG LOL Okay I'm sorry ^^

[esper_magic]

... cute until she climbs up ONTO the desk and sits in front of the monitor when I'm trying to tag that is. XD

[shatteredlenses]

LOL! Well, that is a cat for you...

[esper_magic]

So very very true .. XD

[noctanotheroneout]

It's okay that you don't have memories. You can make new ones here. . . .


or something.

[esper_magic]

Yesss, and I'm excited to make new ones :)

...something is also good, if something is cookies.

[achievementhunter]

Hi Lucy! I'm glad to welcome you to the game in two places now- welcome!! Terra seems like such a sweetheart, even though I'm unfortunately canonblind. I hope I get the chance to hit you up in the intro log- possibly not with this kid, but an unfortunate NEET instead.

Because clearly the first impression she needs of this place is some random guy fawning all over her as he fails to be impressive.

[esper_magic]

HEE, thanks for the double welcome! And don't worry about being canon blind, that's what RP is for! Kinda!

LOL Oh jeezus XDD He's going to weird her out so Much XDD