OOC INTRO ( SEPTEMBER )

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OOC INTRO: SEPTEMBER

State of the Game
Welcome, newcomers, and hello again to the oldcomers! August was a dark time for us all - our character death tally hit new records with the latest event - but that doesn't mean you can't turn this around! You all clearly have a great deal that's been repressed and hidden. Doesn't it feel so much better to have that all out in the open?

...well, we thought so.

We've loved the feedback we've gotten about the game thus far, positive and negative, and encourage you to contact us whenever you feel it is necessary!

Our intro log will be going up on the comms on September 4th. Until then, a few quick points:

1. Umui. The island of Umui is still present in the archipelago, and has shown no sign of departing anytime soon. There are still some pockets of exploration to be had, and certain characters don't seem to want to say goodbye to ARUM-25 just yet. You might also be interested in looking over the information players have helped consolidate in regards to what is this island's...deal, exactly.

1. Deaths. Remember that, in the event of your character's death, to let us know so we can account for it. Don't forget to request the removal of your death penalty!

3. New Island. On September 10th, the fourth island the Storyteller promised will be making its debut! This one, if you recall, is laden with a great deal of animals, though the risks and dangers of this new land are not yet known. You can expect more information on what the latest island will entail soon!

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of August - 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> Plurk, Discord, whatever it is you use, as well as if you mind if people add 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>Permissions:</b> If you have any permissions posts for character interactions or powers, here would be a good place to list them! <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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[postictal]

Player: Zero
Contact: arrpee, zero#8942 on discord; feel free to add my dudes mostly i yap about rp! i tend to mass-add all people unless i miss you!
Tell us about yourself: PST, they/them, one third of ur modteam
Character: Tim Wright (postictal) from web series Marble Hornets, the Drifter (hyperlit) from indie game Hyper Light Drifter, and Agent Washington (counterblows) from web series Red vs. Blue
Permissions: TIM | DRIFTER | WASH
Tell us about them:

TIM is a some dude from a web series called Marble Hornets (aka that one slender man webseries that Started It All) and a CRAU from sol_raveh. Depressed chain-smoker with arsonist tendencies that have now become less "tendencies" and more "default survival mechanisms." Has somehow become the island's Birthday Distributor if you happen to not know what your birthday is, and has kind of come to adopt a great deal of stab-happy children. He's chock-full of mental health shit so feel free to give me a poke if there's anything that gets a little too Real. In general he's just...very tired, very hard on himself, but he means well, usually. He's also taken to setting things on fire when he doesn't know how to deal with them, so that's good.

THE DRIFTER is from an indie game called Hyper Light Drifter because obscure canons are, apparently, My Business. Silent, blue-skinned wanderer who communicates via sign language and/or a little bobbing sprite thing that hovers by their shoulder and projects text. They're suffering from an incurable terminal illness and starting to understand that they're getting attached to people here, big time. Oh Shit.

AGENT WASHINGTON is from a web show called Red vs. Blue, which is a halo-based machinima about colorful space soldiers thats funny until it stops being funny and starts being really fucking sad. he's a space marine who just needs a fucking nap, honestly. in general, he's pretty dependable in a crisis, is a highly accomplished killer, and has a hell of a Traumatic Past. but he's getting better, kinda. he's not happy that he's not with his team anymore, but he also has faith in them to make it just fine without his interference at this point. ain't that a bitch?

Current plans:

TIM has recently opened Denny, which is LifeAftr's one and only restaurant. Let me know if you wanna work there! We can handwave if you want, or if you want some good establishing threads for nascent CR that definitely flies for me too. I'm going to try and get a Denny mingle up once a month if possible, unless extenuating circumstances make that unlikely or unnecessary! Last month he spent time Super Fucking Dead so no mingle log went up, for example. In fairness, a lot of people were Super Fucking Dead, so it felt a little bit useless to try and get people mingling.

THE DRIFTER has been forced to take massive strides in regards to their character development in order to not die from hanahaki honesty curse and has come away realizing that they do in fact Give Many Shits about a lot of people around them!! it's confusing and theyre not sure how to handle it. theyre having a small crisis? help them. theyll probably throw themself STRAIGHT the fuck into the new island to hypercompensate for that.

WASH is wrestling with the fact that CT and Carolina are both here and all the consequences that entails. also the Director is showing up in LA and that is going to super extra fuck him up and i cant wait. hes kind of trying to take care of himself, ish, mostly for the sake of his teammates and the cr hes made thus far, but you can probably catch him like patrolling semi regularly because you can take the man out of the space military but you can’t take the space military out of the insomniac disaster, as it were

Anything else:

[determinist]

Hey Wash wanna hang out

[counterblows]

let us simply, hang out, as they say, and nothing terrible will happen, in the slightest

[propugnator]

Hey, Tim, you wanna be friends?

[postictal]

"friends" historically get themselves murdered or brainfucked because of their connection to tim and the operator that has been stalking him since he was a child and while there's no concrete proof that it's followed him here his enduring paranoia nonetheless persists in making him constantly terrified of forming attachments of any kind to anyone regardless of how well they seem to be able to handle it --







HE WILL TRY...TO BE FRIENDS...

[propugnator]

so... like, a tuesday for shiro then.


cool, cool, let's be buddies.

[counterblows]

LET'S BE BUDDIES. also wash should get shiro cr because they can commiserate over being the Sometimes Team Leader chock full of fucking trauma?? yeah sounds good maybe

[propugnator]

yassss. bring me wash too. let me greedily soak up cr with you.

[catpiper]

i want ur beans

does tim still have nail polish and/or want his nails painted?? he deserves a break and ALSO ren would want to check up on driftybean bc of flower events that shall never be spoken about again.

[postictal]

tim doesn't still have nail polish but you know what he should ask for more. he wants to check up on ren too.

and the drifter does as well!! they will be SO UPSET to hear that she died and they didn't :|

[catpiper]

ren could always request it and surprise him with some polish tbh if you don't want tim using his stories on that!!

also haaaaahh-'did you die?' 'hey that grass is really long do u wanna whistle with it?' 'okay but did you die?' 'the sun's really pretty let's stare at it' DON'T WORRY DRIFTYBEAN. nothing bad happened ever no need to feel upset things ARE SO GOOD

[postictal]

too late they're going to hassle. they had to make some big important character growth to understand how to cure themself so it's time to figure out how to help everyone else too.

[catpiper]

the island doesn't deserve this incredible driftybean but FINE GOD. ren'll be glad to know they lived though. she'll be the happiest lil raccoon ever.

[vagabone]

hi i'm the doof in the corner who likes the drifter a lot

[hyperlit]

I'M SORRY THEY'RE SO BAD AT SMALL TALK and just general talk but their skill lies in Doing Shit so if héctor needs stuff to Get Done they will help!!!

they are actually very good at that at least

[vagabone]

NAW he doesn't really need anything. he will talk enough for two and absolutely teach them to play cards or something because they need to just relax once in a while. and don't you give me that dying excuse, it'll only make him try harder until he's annoyed them to death. HAVE SOME FUN :(

[counterblows]

THE DRIFTER HAS YET TO GET ANNOYED AT PPL unless u try to touch them way more than theyre comfy with. or help them when they dont ask for it (this is all the time).

but he can chatter at them all he likes and they wont understand a word of it but they can listen very well!!!

[uptightness]

Waaaaaash

Why can't we have semi-nice things....

wait. i know why.

[counterblows]

man it's a good thing they actually like, fucking talked about their feelings last month. a little bit.

time to. talk about them with dear old dad. maybe.

[forwearemany]

Obviously Legion should interact more with both the Drifter and Wash. Probably ought to get some CR with Tim too.

[counterblows]

yes to all three!! tim is pretty lowkey as far as organics go probably?? he probably won't take it personally if legion is paranoid and shit because tim himself is a paranoid fuck so thats all good

[forwearemany]

Yeah from what you've said about Tim I figure they'd probably get along okay. They both have this tendency to be good people even when more than a little justified to be the exact opposite, yeah?

Now that Legion has their video function back they should probably show the Drifter some recorded memories and/or how to sign mass effect words when you have Humanlike hands and not Geth hands.

[postictal]

PRETTY MUCH YEAH. he...tries, even if he really doesn't have any reason to lol.

and i'd be hella down for drifter getting some geth history!!

[tokenflavortownie]

honestly I really want Pyrrha to talk to Wash more about the Things she's heard about RvB.

[counterblows]

HONESTLY SHE SHOULD it's only going to get more confusing from here pyrrha sorry

also the director is here that will clear up maybe 10% of the context? 15% if we feel generous