OOC INTRO ( OCTOBER )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: OCTOBER

State of the Game
Welcome, newcomers, and hello again to the oldcomers! September brought with it a new island, and along with it the promise of plenty. You've all been working awfully hard to renovate Ensō - but as much as you've done, there's still lots more to do!

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 October 4th. Until then, a few quick points:

1. Umui. The island of Umui is still present in the archipelago...though we can't say how much longer it will last. ARUM-25 has started to remember something, and once the Storyteller returns...well, who knows what will happen!

2. Nuidan. The island of Nuidan is still present in the archipelago as well! Characters, new and old, are welcome to sign up for tasks and rewards, as well as propose tasks and rewards of their own if it suits them.

3. Storyteller's Absence. As of October 4th, the same day as this month's intro log, the Storyteller will be departing to seek out new islands for your exploration. The consequences of this absence are yet to be seen...but bear in mind, that from October 4th onward, IC contact threads with the Storyteller and Item Requests will be temporarily unavailable. We will let you know as to the date of their return. However, if you need some vital backdated, just let us know!

In the meantime, feel free to use this post as an OOC intro and CR meme for the month of October - 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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[jackal_style]

Player: Dante
Contact: teenysanguini
Tell us about yourself: EST, she/her, my favorite meme is the moth/lamp meme.
Character: Dogo
Permissions: Don't have a permissions post up, but I'm down for any and all character interactions.
Tell us about them: Dogo is a small, playful, innocent jackal pup from the Lion Guard series. Will totally take your stuff and eat your chickens while you're not looking. Maybe con you out of food and items too.
Current plans: Dogo has been exploring around, trying to make sense of where he is. He's feeling a little lost since he's not used being separated from his family, so he's finding food and shelter wherever he can. Looking for any and all CR... maybe some good influences would be nice? Bad influences? Just friends in general, since he doesn't have any.
Anything else:

[determinist]

Player: Marti
Contact: Plurk: texelations | Discord: texelations#2055
Tell us about yourself: EST, she/her
Character: The Director determinist
Permissions: Here! This character's originating canon, and his background in particular, deals with some dark subjects, so you may want to check this out.

Tell us about them: Red vs. Blue is a comedy webseries that eventually reveals some heavy backstory details about the main characters and moves in a bit more of a serious direction. This character in particular is a bit of a walking spoiler, which is why I'm avoiding telling too much about him here, but the nature of RP is that people get spoiled for canons they're unfamiliar with. For this reason I won't be avoiding his name or background details in threads, unless you opt out at his permissions post.

What I will say about him is that this character is someone who can't let go of the past. He has a lot of things to atone for and make right to characters who were here before him, and I'd like to try to do a bit of a redemption arc with him.

Current plans: Right now I'm working on him getting used to realizing he's still alive and still in a depression. Circumstances will hopefully lead to him pulling out of it a bit, especially if other characters reach out to him.

Anything else:

[smallkindness]

Player: Zee
Contact: PM either of my characters' journals or funfire
Tell us about yourself: My time zone is Canadia EST. I work as a school custodian so my hours for tagging may change here and there.

Character: Troupe Master Grimm / fireindreams
Permissions: Here. Please let me know if you do not wish for spoilers for Hollow Knight, the Grimm Troupe DLC or both!

Tell us about them: The theatrical Master of the Grimm Troupe and one of the more difficult boss battles of Hollow Knight, at least until Godmaster DLC was released. He has a flair for the dramatics and is the bug version of Dracula without being up to his eyeballs in Belmonts. He also happens to be Hallownest's God of Nightmares but personally finds that fact far less interesting.

Current plans: Sadly I did not do much this month due to a few scheduling issues for work, but I plan on getting back into the swing of things for October. I do not have any solid plans so I welcome anything you wish to bring, be it positive or negative CR.


Character: The Guardian / smallkindness
Permissions: Here. As with Grimm, please let me know if you do not want spoilers for Hyper Light Drifter.

Tell us about them: Although not particularly talkative by nature, the Guardian is a kind soul handed a tragedy during their lifetime. Much like their fellow drifter already in LifeAftr, the Guardian suffers from the same sickness and also sought to end the plague of the Immortal Cell after their family's lives were claimed by it. Things unfortunately took a turn for the worse, but now there are here.

Current plans: The Guardian is new and thus is open to any kind of CR you would like.

[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. i generally try to hit people back as quick as possible; if i've dropped your thread, that was probably an accident, since i'm a backtag forever kind of babey
Characters: Tim Wright (postictal) from web series Marble Hornets, the Drifter, the Drifter (hyperlit) from indie game Hyper Light Drifter, 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 still runs 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! He's gonna be working on trying to get a carpentry going on Nuidan, so lmk if you wanna join that group!

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? theyre coping by doing Nuidan tasks, including wanting to make a library happen because hISTORY IS COOL. last i checked their group for actually Doing The Task was legion, connor, héctor, and the knight, BUT they need people to help them search the area for papyrus plants first, so let me know if you wanna join them for that bit of the adventure!!

WASH is dealing with HIS OLD BOSS. WHO IS HERE. OH BOY. he has been getting one castmate per month at unprecedented "lets fuck wash THE FUCK UP" rates so to keep with that tradition hes getting someone from his future who he has never met OH BOY. 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: "hey zero how have you been for the past few months" well you see folks,

[hyperlit]

JUST
FUCK
ME


UP!!!

[flask]

Player: Javid
Contact: erlking / discord @ javid#6941
Tell us about yourself: i'm javid, my pronouns are he/him, im in the pst timezone! i have Two Interests and one of them is critical role (the other is the penumbra podcast). this is my gorblin. i also write and draw in my free time aside from rping, a mix of original and fan creations!
Character: Nott ( flask )
Permissions: here!

Tell us about them: nott is. a goblin girl. she has a beautyful voice. (she's played by the man in the grey button up) she loves trinkets so much and has a bad habit of adopting anyone she befriends because shes not used to having friends. shes a kleptomaniac, an alcoholic, is skittish as hell as well as having hydrophobia SO I FIGURED WHY NOT STICK HER ON A FUCKING ISLAND!!! she also has a habit of giving a different fake name to everyone she meets so im ready for that to fall apart considering she comes with a decent cast of her closest friends who definitely. know her real name.

Current plans: UHHHH i dont have any particular plans for her atm i just apped her in this round, shes probably gonna move in with the mighty nein (at least what portion of it that is here) but shes got an infinite flask of whiskey so she is deffo going to use it as a bargaining chip. any of yall need alcohol around here

Anything else:

[lightlessfuture]

Player: Ruka
Contact: rukafais on plurk, add me if you wanna
Tell us about yourself: I take he/him, she/her, and they/them! I live in Australia so my timezone is like GMT +9:30 or something ridiculous. No I don't know where the half hour comes from.
Character: The Knight (lightlessfuture)
Permissions: Here! If you don't want to get spoiled for EVERYTHING ABOUT THE GAME please drop me a line on my post.
Tell us about them: The Knight is a very tired protagonist bug child who likes making new friends and exploring with very little fear whatsoever. They're starting to get slightly less...intense...about everything and are starting to unpack their issues but they've still got a long way to go.

Current plans: If you want to explore and need a tiny, stabby child for accompaniment, the Knight is totally down for it. Otherwise they wander all over the island on a daily basis so they're likely to stop and stare if you're doing anything new and weird. They're easy to meet and fairly friendly, though if you attack them or something they'll probably stab you in the ankles.

Their big sibling is arriving this month so they're going to be amazingly protective of this six foot bug, so I guess look out for that.
Anything else:

[ladytakamaki]

Player: Coco
Contact: amplitude
Tell us about yourself: Hawaiian Time, she/her/they/them
Character: Ann Takamaki ladytakamaki
Permissions: Here!
Tell us about them: Ann is a bubbly 16-year-old girl who's Seen some Shit and also happens to have a Persona. For the canonblind, a Persona is basically an extension of yourself that you can also fight with. She's currently living with Damen & Laurent in the Gay Old Time Hut!
Current plans: I think I'm gonna have Ann work at Denny :|a CR-wise, I'm really looking for anything, really! I dropped the ball in September but I'm going to be working on tasks this month as well. If anyone needs someone to explore with then Ann's more than willing to help with that as well.
Anything else:

[forwearemany]

Player: Shiny
Contact: mynameislegion
Tell us about yourself: Central time, she/her pronouns, typically awake between 11am and 3am.)
Permissions: Here
Tell us about them: Legion is a very good robot from Mass Effect. This version is from a timeline in which the Geth were destroyed.
Current plans: Geth language lessons! If you want your character to learn a very bizarre and difficult pattern based language, hit me up!
Anything else: N/A

[crosslaced]

Laurent's only helped out with supplies at Denny so far, but please imagine

[Ann and Laurent chorusing from inside the building] w e l c o m e t o d e n n y

[thermalwind]

Player: Sam
Contact: skyheron, Discord - sam#4924, or pm this journal.
Tell us about yourself: EST GMT -5, He/him/his
Character: Keith | focusedroar
Permissions: Permissions
Tell us about them: Keith is a somewhat moody guy that's calm and resolute in the face of danger. He's a man of few words when he doesn't need to say anything. He'll stand by you when you need help and has a bit of a lone wolf feel to him.

This hides his somewhat dry sense of humor and love of the sky and piloting. So in short, it takes time for him to open up but he'll protect and help others with very little need to convince him.
Current plans: Plans at present are working his butt off, make connections, and try not to think about how many of his team are gone. He can't find them and it's driving him nuts. He's going to check on present cr and touch base with new people and or help anyone that needs some help. I'm good for all types of cr as this Black Paladin does what he does best. Be paranoid and try to do what he can.
Anything else:

[ladytakamaki]

w e l c o m e t o d e n n y

clearly we need to make this happen.

[barberian]

Player: c
Contact: blisters & discord is blisters#2121, feel free to add me on either! :)
Tell us about yourself: hi i'm c. i use they/them, i'm gmt+12 (so i'm usually around while everybody else is asleep). i like listening to podcasts, and drawing, and eating dirt
Character: yasha (barberian)
Permissions: here we go!

Tell us about them: yasha is a huge strong scary aasimar barbarian ahhhhh except psyche underneath of her big bad goth girl facade she is incredibly socially awkward and has a sweet, soft little voice (she is played by ashley johnson, the person in the yellow t-shirt). she collects flowers and wanders off by herself a lot and used to work at a circus also she has never seen the ocean before so this is going to a time
Current plans: nothing specific in mind right now! i'm gonna spend this first month getting her settled in and used to her new surroundings. she isn't used to island scenery so that will preoccupy her for a good while. she'll be catching up with the rest of her cast and finding her place and i'm really looking forward to seeing how she'll interact with other people that she doesn't know (which will be poorly. let's face it). basically i'm open to pretty much everything, and i love all types of cr

Anything else:

[flower_of_innocence]

Player: Azazel/Az
Contact: azazelbunny
Tell us about yourself: EST, He/Him. I fluctuate between slow and rapid tagging and can't predict which will come when. Fall is a rough time of year for me, so tags are more likely to be slow - but if you are willing to be patient/backtag, I will tag threads out until their conclusion no matter how long that takes!!

Character: Lillie (flower_of_innocence)
Permissions: Here! (No powers or anything, just some general perms.)
Tell us about them: Lillie is a somewhat reserved and shy child, though she's been making leaps and bounds in reaching out and finding her voice lately thanks to her roommate and pseudo brother, Guzma. She strives to be honest with others and now with herself, and really just wants the best for everybody all around.
Current plans: So Lillie has been sticking pretty close to Guzma, which makes sense seeing as she's a kid with no real direction out here and her best friend recently disappeared into the ether. But I want her to get out more and start talking to more people. I'm going to see about organizing an island-wide clam bake as an IC reward for all the hard work everyone's been doing on Nuidan and as a way to get a mingle thread up and going. If your character can cook or help organize such an event, hit me up and help me plan it out!

Character: Dogmeat (thegoodestboy)
Permissions: General permissions
Tell us about them: Dogmeat is a helpful drifter and also literally a dog. Just a dog. But he's a smart dog who likes to help people and will accompany them on all sorts of adventures just because he can. Currently he wanders Enso and Nuidan and hops in to help out wherever it seems like he might be needed. He has an Open Inventory where people can take, leave, store, and otherwise manipulate the contents of the backpack strapped to his back seeing as he sure as hell can't make use of it.
Current plans: Come give him scritches, take him on search reqs, play fetch, check out his inventory, or whatever else you want. I'm open to all sorts of interactions with the doggo.

Anything else: HAPPY SPOOKSEASON

[smallkindness]

This will be a very...interesting experience for the both of them, I believe.

But perhaps the Guardian will be a bit more clear when they realize that yes, this is real.

[ourcurrency]

Player: Shana
Contact: antivillain, antivillain#2451, add me!
Tell us about yourself: EST, they/them! I am sometimes slow at responding during the week but I try not to let tags get older than a few days. These days I'm job searching so there's a lot of screaming into the abyss. It's fun!
Character: Dylan Andrews (ourcurrency) from Red Vs Blue
Permissions: None yet but I'm gonna make one as soon as I have brain
Tell us about them: Dylan is a journalist from Red Vs Blue so she's ready to explore shit and also is doing her best to be patient with how NO ONE FUCKING KNOWS HER oh my god Wash and Carolina you're killing her
Current plans: She's brand new and just going to be adjusting to everything at first! Definitely want to get her investigating everything.
Anything else:

[catpiper]

Ren loves loves loves Drifter and I'd love for her to adore the Guardian just as much!! I think they'd get along!! She's gonna try to take care of their sick butt.

[catpiper]

okay but consider-i have a horrible girl who is a) skittish b) is a lil lowkey thief and c) would adopt nott right back.

[postictal]

THANK GOD tim was running out of people to help run denny. COME WORK AT DENNY

[catpiper]

ren can't cook and/or plan but she could help lillie collect the clams??

[flask]

god im just so glad youre playing yasha and in my cast no less because im like. dying to see how they all get on when yashas around long term and cant run off to chase storms

[flask]

so like... nott has a deep weakness for kids so she will love ren and think shes a darling right away and maybe offer her alcohol because shes a very good mom

[catpiper]

hooooooooooly shit best mom best mom

[smallkindness]

I would like that, and think they would get along. And it is good that the Drifter is making friends so they will be happy to hear that too :D

[determinist]

How much will she be interested in investigating what's up with that old dude who used to run PFL, hm?