OOC INTRO ( APRIL )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: APRIL

State of the Game
Hello, and welcome, to both new arrivals and more seasoned explorers! The month of March saw adventurers exploring the new island of Cahypdo, making friends with the local people, the Roaka, and feeling that fertile earth move under their feet. Those of you who are new to the game or have not had a chance to do so already are more than welcome to trade with the Roaka - though we recommend you do so before this month's event.

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

1. Cahypdo. As the newest island in the archipelago, we recommend that anyone new to the game read up on the island of Cahypdo, due to its relevance in the intro log...and for this month's event!

2. Event Scheduling. Speaking of events, last month we held a poll to see how you would like to see us schedule events going forward. The uncontested conclusion was a preference for events to take place earlier in the month. As such, this month's event will start us off in that direction, with the event being held from April 10th to April 15th, with lasting consequences that will persist until the end of the month!

3. Dark Mode. Lastly, it was brought to us last month that our code is not very functional in dark mode. While the fix is fairly straightforward, LifeAftr has a fair amount of code to pour over in order to ensure all our pages are updated. We'd like to thank those who alerted us to the issue - and also encourage anyone to approach us if you notice a page, paragraph, or section that we've missed fixing up, once we've done so! We've already begun correcting a few pages, but we would be happy for anyone to let us know if we've missed anything.

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

Player: Kas
Contact: twofouroneten — please feel free to add me! I love new plurk friends. :) You can also find me in the game discord @ "kas | Agent Maine"
Tell us about yourself: Timezone is CT with a schedule that makes it pretty irrelevant. (I'm more or less nocturnal.) Preferred pronouns are she/her. Iiiii love video games! And I have an amazing dog. My plurk is 100% rp-related and I typically update about twice a day, so I'm a pretty quiet addition. I just love screaming about CR with people, haha :)
Character: Agent Maine from Red vs. Blue @ bloodbathing
Permissions: IC info/permissions are here. OOC permissions and a place to opt out is here — PLEASE read this one!! Maine comes with several warnings, and there are some subjects that I OOCly will not touch with a ten foot pole.
Tell us about them: Maine is a 24-year-old space marine who has minimal life experience outside of war. Personality-wise, he's basically a big ball of rage, determination, and loyalty wrapped up in a 7-foot-tall wall of muscle. In the words of the Counselor:

"A brute. Strong, unrelenting, fearless. He had no qualms when being asked to do the unpleasant, the morally questionable, because despite what many thought of him he knew he was, at his core, a soldier, and his actions inevitably served the greater good."

Maine is generally Really Bad at emotions that aren't anger, since anger has been the most useful throughout his life. This can initially make him difficult to get to know; he's standoffish and lacks empathy for strangers, plus he's taciturn to a fault. But he warms up once he can relate to someone (e.g., figuring out what they have in common). Just don't piss him off.
Current plans: He'll be arriving in a few days! Currently, he only has CR with his castmates (how shocking!), so I'm looking forward to anything and everything. Come at me!
Anything else: If your character has seen/met Maine through past events, please give me a heads up! I'm generally cool to roll with whatever, but I prefer to know that sort of thing ahead of time rather than have it randomly pop up in a thread. Aaaaand the gif:

[lightlessfuture]

hello maine you are tall and don't speak much and you have black and white armor which means you are likely to get followed around by a tiny mute bug child who will be fascinated by you in all respects

also casual sad hi-five for Violence Is The Only Way I Know How To Be

[bloodbathing]

hello tiny mute bug child, you have excellent taste in colors and maine approves 👍

/low-five so they can reach...!

[counterblows]

lies down on top of you

i'm ready to begin hurting



though sidenote i def wanna throw the drifter at maine too - they're nonverbal and would always love a Good Buddy Who Likes To Hit Things, along with that mess of issues about like "what am i when i'm not fighting"

[bloodbathing]

/SPREADS ARMS WIDE, let the pain commence

and yesssss the drifter looks really interesting! i'm completely canon blind but i'd love to get cr with them C:

[counterblows]

MOST PEOPLE ARE LMAO that's the Indie Game Protag Life but they're very polite



besides i need some WHOLESOME with my HURT

[a_shadow]

Puts Maine and Tex in the 'canon interactions we never got' basket

[bloodbathing]

/pours one out for maine's lack of interactions in s10 tbh

at least they've got their ~oh so friendly~ sparring match…! totally a great first impression on both sides

[a_shadow]

Oh yes, well...there was that whole grenade thing, yes

This should go swimmingly

[bloodbathing]

suuuuuuper swimmingly, especially with tex being from the emp. no potential awkwardness there At All