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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[lifeaftr_mods]

[scourgingstars]

Player: Nao
Contact: lollichop | Nao#9016 @ Discord.
Tell us about yourself: hello! i'm nao, coming to you live from EST because time is a flat circle and that's why clocks are round or something. she/her or they/them are both cool with me. i'm 27, have three cats, and am basically the crazy cat lady hermit your parents warned you about. sometimes i think i'm funny. i am rarely correct.
Character: Ardyn Izunia | scourgingstars
Tell us about them: hey hey you you it's vitally important that i note ardyn is a walking spoiler for all of FFXV on top of ALSO being basically the worst, so his permission post/general opt-out for 'holy shit nao try not to spoil me' is over yonder. generally speaking, though, he's probably going to default to just being an insufferable smartass of a person whose first languages are sarcasm and passive aggression.
Current plans: [strums guitar off-key] i have no plans and i'm open to anything~
Anything else:

[greatcleavage]

Player: Dragon
Contact: dragonoflife
Tell us about yourself: Hi, I'm Dragon, double-apping in to wreck the place up. I'm a daily tagger, generally in the mornings, and I happily go on forever to do so. My timezone is Eastern. (You ever notice how people put 'EST' for timezone, but we're in EDT?) Hobbies: gaming, in various forms. D&D, FFXIV, and far too many Steam games just like everyone else. Aaaand probably Destiny 2 in a month or whenever that hits PC.

Character: Roy Greenhilt (greatcleavage)
Tell us about them: From the web's most popular D&D-themed story that isn't a podcast, Roy is a mid-high-level fighter and party leader who's spent 1000 strips trying to defeat a lich. He lives the sort of life where preventing the gods from obliterating the whole world is a sidequest. Despite being a mass of physical stats, he's an intellectual and a strategist -- he has his MBA, after all (Masters of Battle Administration). So he's certainly not thrilled about his arrival here, but he's prepared to take the Storyteller at its word and treat this like some bizarre semi-canon side-adventure-path thing. Just another day in the life, you know?
Current plans: This is pretty much Roy's bread-and-butter; organizing a balanced and capable group to explore would be his first intention. (I mean, he'll probably end up with whatever motley crew he can get together, but he's used to that.) So expect to see him heavily leaning towards searching out supplies and answers, while doing all he can to ensure the safety and protection of those less capable of looking out for themselves. So send people who want a leader! Or send people who will clash at him with different styles. Just send people, I'm saying.

Character: Maridian (seesbosscrotch)
Tell us about them: Mar is a cheerfully cracked tank-slash-ret paladin who retired bitterly from active adventuring some time back and is absolutely thrilled to be out in the field again. His standards are entirely skewed, because he's the sort who sees a giant monster of titanic proportions and says, "Here, I'll get hit in the face by it while you guys kill it." He's... actually a lot deeper than he wants anyone to know, but try not to let on if you figure that out.
Current plans: CHAARGE! Explore the island! Someone tell him how to properly take care of a horse, he's used to them just showing up and disappearing when you don't need them any more. Feel free to be driven crazy by him. Feel free to need his help.

Anything else:

[thisisourfuture]

Player: Sam
Contact: plurk - skyheron, discord sam#4924 I don't mind people adding me.
Tell us about yourself: Well, there's not much to really write here. I'm in EST and soon to get back on the horse that is college. I just moved into a new place so I'm trying to balance out getting what I need/fixing my car/gaming at night.

I raid on FFXIV but infrequently right now so it doesn't affect availability. I love to cook, game, read, and sometimes when I'm really off in my own world I go draw. Partial graphic arts degree but swapping majors. I'll be missing the 3rd and 5th for birthday then the very last of a series I've been waiting on comes out. Waited 6 years.
Character: Hinata Hajime thisisourfuture
Tell us about them: Hinata comes directly from everyone has to murder each other series Dangan Ronpa 2, so he's a bit stressed. Generally down to earth guy who will listen, learn, sigh in exasperation at some of the dumber things. But generally be part of the group. He'll do his best to work with everyone while trying to figure out what this whole deal is about.

There is the whole other undercurrent from his suppressed memories butttt I'll come to that later whenever I feel like updating him just enough so he learns what that fresh hell is about.
Current plans: Looking to build cr and start exploring! Hinata has his actual body so he'll have to deal with that and well. The lovely gift of his handbook having the last murder file on it.
Anything else: Well since you asked. Sass alert

[onegreeneye]

Player: Maggie
Contact: omixgirl10 and Maggie#9624 on Discord! Go ahead and add me but please let me know you're from the game o/
Tell us about yourself: HI I'm Maggie, a 20-year-old art student in CST or EST depending on if I'm at school at the moment. she/her please!
Character: Ginko onegreeneye
Tell us about them: Ginko is a Big Nerdy Dad but uuuh he's from a (pretty low-key) horror canon and is coming in as a CRAU from a less low-key horror game SO permissions are here. Anyway, Ginko is a pretty laid-back guy who likes nature and talking about bugs, but also if you have one (1) basically positive conversation with him he will probably be ready to die for you, especially if you're a kid or teenager.
Current plans: Yeah he is definitely going to want to get a group together and explore this place... but also is somewhat limited by the fact that he's barely capable of moving if he ends up in sunlight. Also please bring him all the children to worry over, adopting all the kids is not something he has planned but it is inevitable.
Anything else:

[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:

[solperierat]

just kind of

holds a wing over u

sorry bruh

[onegreeneye]

he's fine, this is fine

[solperierat]

Player: Casey
Contact: Gryphcat | Casey#5471 on Discord
Tell us about yourself: Hullo y'all! I'm Casey, stationed over in PST timezone and a bit of a slow tagger--I aim for at least one reply every few days, but that often stretches out more than I'd like. I'm lightening my RP load soon, though, so hopefully that will pick up. I use they/them pronouns, and I mostly shitpost and yell a lot about my characters.
Character: Edward Elric | solperierat
Tell us about them: Edward is a firebrand of a young adult, but also at his core kind and protective, wanting to do what he can to help the people around him. He's blunt, headstrong, and has a bad habit of letting his temper get away from him, which gets him into trouble more often than not. He also happens to be CRAU from a horror game, and his permissions and opt-out post are over here.
Current plans: Ed has been exploring a little bit and keeping an eye out for those he's run into, but otherwise I don't have a whole lot of plans with him. Feel free to hit me up for new things or strengthening current CR!
Anything else:

[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]

Player: Lexy
Contact: drowninginpears or pillowcased#3068
Tell us about yourself: CST SHE/HER. I work full time/go to school full time so my tags typically come at night, about once a day and I try to boomerang on days off. It doesn’t always work out, but boy I give it the ole college try. I’ll match prose/action whatever.
Character: Ren catpiper
Tell us about them: Here she stands, ninja clan. This dying girl comes from a post-apocalyptic world where 99% of people are dead, except for her and The Boy That Lived-Tokyo edition. She can be naïve, curious and childish despite her age, but she’s also cautious and wary of people. If someone blinks wrong, she’ll run away. She’s got a good heart though and wants to survive and be with everyone, even if she’s kind of flitting around all the time. She’s a lonely hooligan that wants friends without a way to express that's what she wants. So she’s everywhere, just watching people. Life is hard friends. She loves cats, singing and drawing. Super cool hobbies include hunting for treasure aka garbage. She can probably win any game of hide and seek.

Do you want someone to put old fish in your knapsack? To accidentally steal your stuff? To feel your feelings? This is your girl.

There’s also a handy dandy opt out post for her empathy ability. Since she’s gaining CR now, please let me know if this something you don’t want occurring in future threads with her. Alternatively, if you would like to play this out, just let me know and we can work towards that.

Here’s her inventory too. She will trade anything for seashells, cool leaves and food, honestly. If you see something your character can use/wants, just hmu and we can work it out. It’ll be the easiest haggle ever. Give her literal garbage.

Current plans: Defacing the island with her stupid, bad drawings with writing charcoal once she gets it, since that’s a productive use of free time, and wandering around the island. Housing is up in the air. Open to any and all CR, positive and negative. She's all over the place.

Anything else:

[manasponge]

Player: Tetra
Contact: Tetradecimal, feel free to add
Tell us about yourself: I'm in PST and my tagging speed would probably be described as medium.? I try to do a round at least once a day, and if you catch me at the right time I can boomerang. My work is quite busy RN though, and I also sometimes get sucked into yardwork or video games or something else that takes my attention away from RP. If you need me for a specific thing/time, feel free to contact me on Plurk on via PM!

I like horror movies, nature, manga, and Lots of Things; some things this year I was looking forward to were Blade Runner, the second season of Stranger Things, The Dark Tower (Stephen King fan but never got into the DT books), Twin Peaks: The Return, and Alien: Covenant sort of. I have only been disappinted by... some of these things, so c'moooon Denis Villeneuve you can do it buddy please don't screw up Blade Runner.
Character: Marcille, manasponge
Tell us about them: Marcille is a perfectly respectable elf spellcaster who definitely doesn't know anything about horrible forbidden magic that relies on sucking energy from eldritch dimensions no one fully understands. She's outspoken and stubborn, but feeling overall much less objectionable now that no one's asking her to cosplay as a frog.

In canon, her party is forced to subsist on what they can kill, cook, and scavenge from a dungeon because they can't afford real food \o/. Overall, Marcille thinks this place is kinda great because wow, food is actually growing on trees! She's recently invested in a cooking set, and is living the high life. Fried lizardbird! Eggs sunny-side up! Delicious.

I'm always up for exploring more stuff, and would especially enjoy playing out cooking meals and making things, since that's what Marcille's canon is all about SHE REALLY LOVES EATING or alternatively blowing things up with magic, that is also good. She would also be interested in sharing/cooperation, because why not.

inventory, permissions, and app can all be found on her journal.

Anything else:

[hellawrath]

REN PLEASE LET YOUR WEIRD ELF UNCLE AND AUNT ADOPT YOU srsly does she want to sleep in a gangly elf pile, does she want a pony maybe, does she want to learn more good good stealing and stabbing lessons

[prettypurpleparlor]

Given the whole 'literally a monster' thing, it might be fun to see how Roy and Muffet get along.

[ohshitsweetflips]

STOP STEALING CHILDREN, THAT'S THE WRONG KIND OF FAY CREATURE also they haven't got any ponies

[hellawrath]

what is Taako even FOR if he can't make a PONY

busts into the temple like

[ohshitsweetflips]

god are you out there, it's me, taako, can I have the pony spell back plz

[unpurify]

Player: AB
Contact: embracetheweeb @ plurk or embracetheweeb#8683. Feel free to add me on either!
Tell us about yourself: 26 year old who's currently learning how to be a chef and working at a Pizza Pizza. Still somehow not sick of free pizza. I'm Canadian EST and, if you can't tell by my username, a huge anime/manga and video game nerd.
Character: The Batter | unpurify
Tell us about them: The protagonist of the RPG maker game OFF. A pretty emotionless guy who's life goals were to beat up ghosts with a baseball bat and succeeded in that, meaning both himself and his world are very much dead. Don't leave him in charge of children because it never ends well. He hasn't been too happy with being here since he'd rather be dead, but there's got to be a reason he's here right?
Current plans: I'm looking for positive or negative CR for the Batter! Come bring your Good and Bad Life Choices :) As a note, positive CR may be difficult in the beginning due to the Batter's almost-legendary inability to care and CR that is profoundly in the negatives may see him appearing a little....different to that person.
Anything else:

[souris_keteer]

Player: Melissa
Contact: melcat33 (plurk), melcat33#1997 (discord)
Tell us about yourself: EST is my timezone, she/her pronouns, I try to tag asap but I can forget things because I have a goldfish brain, so if I'm taking too long (like days) to hit you back, drop me a note and let me know, I don't mind. I'll match your prose/brackets, pretty open to anything.
Character: Mickey Mouse souris_keteer
Tell us about them: You know how in every game someone has to app a weird character that doesn't seem like it'd work out and you think it's just an excuse to see if they'd get away with it?

HI THERE, YES, IT'S ACTUALLY MICKEY MOUSE. Specifically from the DTV Mickey Donald Goofy: The Three Musketeers which technically also takes place in Kingdom Hearts somehow He's a naive, happy-go-lucky mouse always ready to make friends and dive into the action! He's already a great swordsman, but Marcille is also teaching him magic, awesome!!! He's adjusting well by THINKING POSITIVELY AND LOVING EVERYONE.

Permissions! His inventory consists of his clothes, his sword, a weird sickle, hardtack, soap, a bolt of cloth, a plush toy of Pluto and a plush toy of Minnie. HE IS NEVER GOING TO TELL ANYONE ABOUT THAT LAST THING.

Current plans: Open to all CR! I'd really love to do some exploring/map-expanding, but I get super nervous/shy approaching people for stuff, so, like... let me know if you'd be okay with our characters hitting the map! I am tempted to send Mickey out on his own but I DON'T WANT HIM TO DIE. so like he needs someone to go "hey maybe we shouldn't go in the dark cave that most definitely has human remains on the floor" at him. Otherwise, like I said, open to anything and everything! HE WILL FRIEND YOU WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.
Anything else:

[catpiper]

The bigger question is do two poor elves want this cretin around their house honestly??? this trash eater?? also yes, she wants a pony. ponies are now mandatory.

[catpiper]

PONIES
ARE
MANDATORY get on it Taako

[shatteredlenses]

points at eyes, points at you Hi there, Trouble-with-a-capital-A. :-D

Did you want to use the TDM as their official meeting or have that happen in the intro log? The game allows for either so it's up to you!

[catpiper]

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

[scourgingstars]

hmmmmm that's a good question and gosh you know how bad i am with decisions

i'm cool with keeping that as canon orrrrr we can see what happens in the intro log and if something else occurs to us we can roll with that?

[shatteredlenses]

Gosh Nao, how do we ever get anything done since I am terrible at choices too?

I'm good with waiting to see though, especially with housing rolling out it might trigger something more interesting than the current sass-fest. Not that it ISN'T interesting, but ya know...