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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Comments

[shatteredlenses]

Yay! It's another nerd dad! Though, from a canon I know nada about. Gunna have to fix that. Welcome from a fellow nerd dad mum!

(Though, at just 22 and recently blinded, I think Ignis is being adopted just as much as he's trying to adopt others. Oops... LOL!)

[onegreeneye]

I def recommend looking into Mushishi, assuming you don't get too wigged out by like. Non-gory eye horror But man yes, even not having played any final fantasy in my life i love ignis just from fandom osmosis??? good team mom

(lmao OH NO.... yeah ginko will very likely end up dad-ing at him, i'm sorry ignis)

[shatteredlenses]

Looks at Iggy's eye scars I think I am okay with non-gory eye horror, but thank you for the warning nonetheless! I will add it to my list!

Ignis is so easy to love. It's too bad he doesn't like to LET people close to him. Please daddy him, Ginko. This guy needs to learn it's okay to let others help him sometimes.

[onegreeneye]

Ginko 100% understands not letting people close to you but then he spent a year and a half in forced monster transformation hell and now he's... still not GREAT at it. but the point is. let him worry at you

[shatteredlenses]

Ah Ryslig, the terrible things you do to people...

That said, I can't fully imagine just how horrified Ignis would be to hear about Ryslig: "What do you mean you were taken someplace and forced to be a daemon for a year and a half????"

[onegreeneye]

lmao ginko is just like "nah demons were a different thing, i'm a troll. apparently forever. so that's. fine i guess"

[shatteredlenses]

'What's a troll?'

head in hands Why can't the Final Fantasy world have NORMAL creatures in it?

[onegreeneye]

w e l p

in fairness GINKO had never heard of a troll before he ended up in ryslig, and yet here he is now

[shatteredlenses]

OH MAN, talk about learning things the hard way. Poor Ginko...