OOC INTRO ( DECEMBER )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: DECEMBER

State of the Game
Welcome, newcomers, and hello again to the oldcomers! November saw a restoration of status quo, (relatively, in any case), and an introduction of the newest island to the archipelago, Maati. Aside from the tumultuous beginning, a holdover from the events of October, it has all in all been a rather peaceable month, right?

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

1. Nuidan. The island of Nuidan is still present in the archipelago. 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.

2. Maati. The island of Maati arrived in the archipelago last month. As we mentioned earlier, the event scheduled for Maati has been pushed back to occur mid-December. Those new to the game still have until December 10th to sign up for this new event. Please note: as this event includes a chance of death, we will not be allocating anyone into the event unless they opt in. For those who have not opted in, no worries - we'll have something for you to do as well!

3. New Mod. Lastly and most importantly, we are very pleased to announce that we have a new addition to our mod team! As our workload has increased, we want to continue giving our lovely playerbase the time and focus that you all deserve. Thus, we would like you to extend a very warm welcome to Ruka (player of the Knight at lightlessfuture), who has agreed to join the LifeAftr mod team. You've already seen her chipping in here and there - she was the lovely contributor to the illustrations on the Search Requests page, as well as the sigils corresponding to Maati. She'll be helping us with metaplot and NPCs, as well as general maintenance!

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

Player: Sera
Contact: draconicseraphim Disco @ #Sera7666
Tell us about yourself: EST but kinda nocturnal. Her/She.
Character: Gladiolus Amicitia piercetheheart
Permissions: Basic Permissions he's nothing fancy.
Tell us about them:
Gladiolus Amicitia, Shield of the Chosen King. He's lived his entire life for duty and it's only now that he's been here for a couple of months that he's allowing himself to have things because he wants them for himself (ie: he's finally told his BFF he's in love with him).
Current plans:
Working with Prom and possibly the Paladins to set up a bathhouse! Harrassing Ardyn, PDA with Iggy, getting into trouble, y'know the norm.
Anything else: He really loves his friends. Even if they're stupid about the #aesthetic

[want_to_belong]

Bathhouse, bathhouse!

Let's get some sexy onsen action!

[piercetheheart]

Awwww yis

[piercetheheart]

Don't listen to Star, Laurent is not emo aesthetic he's just an asshole. He stabbed Gladdy in the gut for trying to give him a hug :|

(I kid, Star is amazing, love her.)

[piercetheheart]

AHHH Bucky

/reaches for

This wouldprobably be horrible CR. Gladio just wants to hug people but everyone wants to stab him in retaliation

[scythegun]

Player: Redd
Contact: pokerap | Discord: pokerap#0934 (Let me know here if you're adding me on either so I know who you are and who you play!)
Tell us about yourself: She/her and I'm in EST, but I tend to stay up late. I'm pretty shy and bad at initiating conversations, but I always love chatting about CR and fandoms and stuff!! My plurk is primarily about RP, though sometimes RL stuff comes up. It'll always be marked accordingly! I'm also brand new to Lifeaftr so I'm still figuring everything out, haha!
Character: Yeager (scythegun)
Permissions: Here! There isn't anything super important you need to fill out or anything, but there is a slim chance that some of Yeager's threads may involve mentions of suicidal ideation/suicide. It's not super likely though, since he's an expert at ignoring his problems and never addressing them, so.
Tell us about them: Yeager is the leader of Leviathan's Claw, a guild that specializes in selling dangerous weapons and assassinations. It's rumored that he killed the previous boss to get the position, so he's definitely not a nice man. With that said, he doesn't act like you'd expect - he's flippant, annoying, and laid-back, never showing anything other than mild amusement. He doesn't seem to care about anything or anyone, and he just sort of does whatever the hell he wants at any given moment, and usually "what he wants" is definitely not going to be nice for anyone else. He can be relatively easy to get along with if you don't mind his awful sense of humor, but he's a pain in the ass. He also enjoys fighting and has an incredibly stupid weapon that's part giant scythe, giant rifle, sword, crossbow, and shield. It's dumb. On a slightly more positive note, he has two daughters! They're also his bodyguards because of course they are. But hey at least he isn't completely terrible, right??? He also has an incredibly thick German accent, so there's that too.
Current plans: Yeager's just arriving, so really anything goes! I've signed him up for the event as well! But really, I'm here for positive or negative CR of any sort, Yeager's going to be blatantly ignoring any problems he may or may not have about being here and... everything that happened recently back home tbh so he'll totally be here for getting to know people. He's very outgoing, so even if your character isn't the sort to approach strangers, we can definitely make something work!
Anything else: Unfortunately I don't have any stupid gifs on hand so pretend something is here or something!!

[counterblows]

WEE WOO TRAUMATIZED SOLDIERS CLUB IS A GO

[semistableman]

I'm a little sad that Bucky is from an earlier canonpoint, because he'd love the hell out of him if he'd been living in Wakanda for some time, ALAS.

But yes this CR can only go well as it is.

[semistableman]

THE ONLY WAY TO GO.

[piercetheheart]

Maybe someday there'll be canonpoint shenanigans... OR JUST MAYBE we can get him to a similar level of mental/emotional stability....... eventually.

Gladdy needs more bros. Always.

[crosslaced]

He has (well he had, then clothes shortages) the emo aesthetic!! you can dress in all black AND be an asshole!

Sera's right, actually. My character looks tangentially emo but you should approach with caution, and I hope that the Chocobros warn Noct of the Stabby Neighbour House Feat. Three Horses.

[diplomacycheck]

Wow. Calling them out on their shit already? Le gasp! (Nah, I figured; hence the laughter.)

I do hope they warn Noctis for that, though. Geez. xD

[ideismo]

Player: Dal
Contact: InstantEternity | Dal#6219 on Discord - feel free to add me on either!
Tell us about yourself: I'm in EST, but I'm up at weird/late hours usually, so I'm generally always around! I plurk a lot about RP and a lot about RL, sometimes about serious stuff, but it's always marked accordingly. I'm brand new to LifeAftr but have been roleplaying for a while; a bunch of people here know me from a bunch of short-term murdergames that I've modded before. I'm generally pretty shy in new games, but you guys are all really welcoming and that's great; as is evidenced by the length of this already, I tend to write a lot/am not known for being concise.

Character: Alexei Dinoia | Tales of Vesperia | ideismo
Permissions: Nothing too bad is likely to come up with him, honestly?
Tell us about them: Alexei just got here and honestly, this is vastly preferable to how things were going for him approximately twenty seconds before he arrived so he has reasonably little to complain about. He's the Commandant of the Imperial Knights and de facto leader of about half of his world's government; he loves the world he came from, he hates a lot of the problems it has, and generally speaking he's out to save the world, which is on track to end itself rather spectacularly if he doesn't. So, obviously, he's super-well adjusted. Generally speaking, though, he's pretty standoffish and formal, which is a polite way of saying that he knows how to do maybe two things total with his face, though he isn't unable to hold a conversation or anything; he's awkward, but he's generally a reasonable person - or, at least, he's more than capable of presenting that way to everyone, which is surely what matters. Given the way the Empire he serves tends to work, he's bound to be at least a little ruthless... He also tends to have some really, ah, "unorthodox" ideas regarding what saving the world actually entails, and he really, really doesn't handle loss well, to put it gently. But as a whole, Alexei does his best. His best is just not very good.
Current plans: I'm all right with just about any CR, positive or negative; anything goes with me, really, I'm easy, and anyone is more than welcome to hit me for things if you want to plot! I've signed him up for the event, but otherwise he's more or less just arriving and trying to get situated and...not...think too much about everything that just happened about twenty seconds ago as far as he's concerned because it wasn't going all that well.
Anything else:

[diplomacycheck]

Well, as someone who is actually a goth irl... I feel like I need more popcorn.

[galrarm]

don't think he's forgotten that conversation, allura

he remembers.

[diplomacycheck]

She highly doubted he would forget. A promise is a promise, after all.

(Want me to do a custom top level option for that conversation when the IC intro goes up?)

[galrarm]

Oh, absolutely. It can only go well!

[diplomacycheck]

Superbly well. Especially since she's likely to also wake up with a tattoo at some point (I'm evil).

[promiselisting]

Honestly I have. No idea how things will go once Futaba realizes what happened was not an elaborate dream of some kind.

Allura is also kind of adult-shaped at times now that I think about it which might make things tricky? idk basically I could see this going a lot of ways and Futaba's a lot more on edge without an Akiren nearby so we'll. See? We'll see.

Either way I'm lookin forward to it.

[diplomacycheck]

Wow excuse she may be 10,000+ years old but she's still a teenager!!

inb4 Ann drags her over for slumber party shenanigans and they rope Futaba into it.

[promiselisting]

Okay but adult-shaped has more to do with how people act than how old people actually are =~=

THE SLUMBER PARTY WILL HELP LOTS THOUGH I THINK. Also at some point Futaba and Allura could bond over Idolizing That One Parent to Probably Unhealthy Degrees.

[thermalwind]

Living with paranoia? Boy can Keith relate to that and can commiserate. Lone wolves have to well drift by each other. or something.

[piercetheheart]

oh there will be warnings. About Laurent *and* the horses okay. Noct whatever happens, do not touch the blonde. Announce yourself before you get within 10 feet. Or better yet? don't talk to him at all.

as for the horses? only one of them bites but one's new too.

[crosslaced]

Yeah.... their CR is definitely popcorn worthy. :,D

[diplomacycheck]

🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

(He'll appreciate the warning, Gladio. So much.)