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The Mods of LifeAftr ([personal profile] lifeaftr_mods) wrote in [community profile] aftr_ooc2019-04-02 08:57 pm
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OOC INTRO ( APRIL )

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!

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postictal: (and this feeling has a window)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-03 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Zero
Contact: [plurk.com profile] arrpee, zero#8942 on discord; feel free to add! mostly i chatter about rp and i tend to mass-add everyone unless i miss you!
Tell us about yourself: PST, they/them, part of your modmalgaymate. 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
Character: Tim Wright ([personal profile] postictal) from web series Marble Hornets, the Drifter ([personal profile] hyperlit) from indie game Hyper Light Drifter, Agent Washington ([personal profile] counterblows) from web series Red vs. Blue
Permissions: TIM, DRIFTER, and WASH - all pretty basic stuff, though some of these are in dire need of revamping. If any of these characters tread near content warning-y stuff for you, gimme a poke and I'll be happy to omit stuff from my tags and the like.
Tell us about them:
TIM has got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. He's a depressed chainsmoker from a web series called Marble Hornets (aka that one slender man webseries that Started It All) and a CRAU from [community profile] sol_raveh. He tries very hard and does generally mean well, but struggles a very lot with his own copious mental health issues. Has somehow progressed to being the rakish uncle of at least several children? Currently runs Denny, which is lifeaftr's sole eatery, and a carpentry place.

THE DRIFTER is from an indie game called Hyper Light Drifter. 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 are technically just dying in slow motion, but in general they're here to help!! They will happily teach sign language to anyone who asks.

AGENT WASHINGTON is from a web show called Red vs. Blue, which is a halo-based machinima about colorful space marines thats funny until it stops being funny and starts being really fucking sad. 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 has a tigerlily that wasn't supposed to be his, and actually has it a lot less together than he seems because people from home are a BIG CONCERN

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 try to get a Denny mingle up once a month if possible, unless extenuating circumstances make that unlikely or unnecessary. He also has finally established a carpentry nearby, if you need any woodcarvin done!

THE DRIFTER has been doing some exploratin of the new island but not much else. hmu if you want explorations done! in the meantime, they've also been chilling around the newly established library cause they love libraries my dudes!!

WASH is gonna be in mild panic mode thanks to the arrival of not one but TWO more castmates and this is fine, it's probably fine, it's just two people from his past who have painful associations with him for various reasons and oh my god he's going to TRY not to make this weird. TRY. he'll probably be helping get them settled, but almost certainly needs someone out there to help him talk about it. because. yeah. it's A Lot and his last infodump DIDN'T GO SO HOT so he's sworn off of those for the moment :|

Anything else: i spent last month moving and the most notable thing to happen to me was this

Edited 2019-04-03 13:43 (UTC)
goat_mom: ([Hug] Let the children come to me)

[personal profile] goat_mom 2019-04-03 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
We have to figure something out and plot something together with Toriel and Tim!!! Tim's basically been raising her children and she absolutely has to meet him and make sure he's been being a Good Uncle

Maybe they could meet at Denny? We could handwave that she heard that Tim is running the place and we can make a log where they meet up for the first time? Or, depending on her introduction post, they could introduce themselves to each other there and then they could meet up to talk about things further. Whatever works for you!
postictal: (say fucking what)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-03 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
LOLLL AWKWARD TIMES ARE FUN TIMES he's definitely got no clue what he's been doing in part because he feels like the kids are taking care of hIM half the time (this is not wrong) but he's been. trying. sort of.

either one is fine by me! i'm cool to play it by ear, whatever you need. i should note tim has some...memories of toriel thanks to bumping souls with both chara and asriel in sol raveh, so he knows a bit about her, but he doesn't really dig up those memories unless Absolutely Necessary so rn i can safely say his only associations with toriel are like. oh, she's These Kids' Mom.
goat_mom: ([Frisk] Call me mom)

[personal profile] goat_mom 2019-04-03 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
lmao i wouldn't have it any other way. that's going to make their initial meeting really fun to play because she has Very High Standards for childrearing and she's definitely going to be Concerned

i hope it goes well and we don't have to plot like. a custody battle lol

and that's good to know! might be fun to have tim and toriel meet in the intro post if he recognizes her/already has an idea who she is, but i'm fine with just playing it by ear!
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[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-03 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
/tim voice "reese's cups are dinner right"



he's not THAT bad but he was a broke college student for a time he went from barely taking care of himself to now having to (pretend to??) take care of two kids AND himself on a survival island?? IT WAS A SHIFT,

it's fine he doesn't want to fight anyone over this It's Fine
goat_mom: ([Cooking] Pie for everyone!)

[personal profile] goat_mom 2019-04-04 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
she is going to teach you how to bake real food young man

and whew, that's good. it's probably going to be difficult for her to trust tim with her children at first but i don't really want to play out a custody battle anyway lol
postictal: (nervous im not nervous ha ha)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-04 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
HEY he's picked up a thing or two from running denny and spending so much close proximity to muffet, hence the learning to be a bit better!!

yeahhh he's definitely not the sort to...pick fights unless he's in a bad way, particularly not with people from the kids' past. that's their decision to make, not his!
goat_mom: ([Smiling] Cool hip mom)

[personal profile] goat_mom 2019-04-04 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
she can still teach him how to cook! that'd be a good thread imo

and yeah, i don't know why i'm discussing it like it's not their (and the players') decision anyway and toriel wouldn't respect whatever they choose. i certainly don't want to step on any toes here!
postictal: (do you know what a meme is)

[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-04 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO well she's free to be judgy as she likes in tim's direction re: his poor parenting anyway
goat_mom: ([Facepalm] Sigh)

[personal profile] goat_mom 2019-04-04 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
now that she absolutely can do
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[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-04-03 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Haven't wanted to bug you since you seem both pretty tired and pretty busy but at some point I really wanna thread out Legion and Drifter doing history stuff suggested in the library thread.

Also I need more Legion and Wash CR all the time.
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[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-03 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
ABSOLUTELY!! hopefully i'll be less busy this month so both should be pretty doable!
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[personal profile] forwearemany 2019-04-04 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah.
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[personal profile] tokenflavortownie 2019-04-04 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
so

what are the chances of Pyrrha getting a job at Denny if she asks?

asking for a friend who is me
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[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-04 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
MORE FRIENDS FOR DENNY ARE ALWAYS WELCOME. we can thread out a whole "hey can i work here" exchange if you want, or you can just stick her on the page under the job header!
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[personal profile] tokenflavortownie 2019-04-05 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm down to thread it out! potentially in the Denny thread we already have going?
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[personal profile] postictal 2019-04-05 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
sure! given that ann's left tim could use another hand with the place