OOC INTRO ( APRIL )

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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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[mamaterasu]

Player: Roxy
Contact: MelonFlavored, Discord: Stardoodles#7274, or just pm one of my character journals!
Tell us about yourself: My name is Roxy, she/her pronouns and I'm on EST/GMT-5 I thiiiink? I obviously love Pokemon given who I play and I'm also a big fan of cartoons in general, adoring Ghibli, Disney/Pixar, and a variety of other things. I'm also huge into video games and tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons and have about 3 (YEAH I KNOW, PRAY FOR MY ASS) campaigns I'm in currently. I also follow Critical Role like a fiend and would die for each and every member of the cast. They are supremely good beans. I'm also constantly crying over my friends because they're cute af and I'm love them very much. Except when they hurt me emotionally. Lexy, I'm calling you out specifically..
Character:
Guzma | yallstupid - Pokemon Sun/Moon (games)
Amaterasu (Ammy) | mamaterasu - Okami
Permissions: I'm at work so I can't link them, but Ammy has one on her journal and I...should make one for Guzma at some point, given his nature and some sensitive themes he deals with.
Tell us about them:
Guzma is obviously one of the main antagonists in the Pokemon games, but since he's from endgame as I play him, he's a bit more chilled out than he was during the earlier events of the game. He's still very surly, has a hairpin trigger of a temper and in extreme conditions can get physically violent. I will warn for this at points, but keep that in mind. Guzma has anger issues he deals with considering his childhood (the game not-so-subtly hints that he was physically abused by his father as a child) and grew up bitter, angry, and violent himself after he ran away from home and joined Team Skull, later being their leader. He has 2 Pokemon with him: Golisopod and Ariados - which I can't link images to because work right now, but I normally do in tags when they appear for those who don't know the canon and...each of the 800+ Pokemon that now exist WHEEZE.

Like said, he's chilled out a bit because he's endgame, and he has a sort of soft spot for kids, especially those that he can tell are...not in good places. He has a low tolerance for people getting pushed around, especially by people older than them or who have some sort of authority over them. He's very combatitive and competitive and will easily and readily get into fights if the scale is tipped that way. And he is strong even without his Pokemon. Guzma's 6'3" of piss and vinegar and will knock out teeth as needed. Thankfully, the need to do so in game is pretty low, and he occupies himself with doing daily tasks and such to occupy himself.

Ammy on the other hand is the Japanese Sun Goddess Amaterasu in wolf form. She's kind, loving, friendly, smells like a steaming dumpster in July, and will easily make friends with people who are open enough to come and pet her. Normally seen as just a white wolf to those that don't know who or what she is (a god), she acts just as much the part of a wolf as she does a god. Goofy, fun-loving, and playful, she tends to spend her days sleeping, eating, and being filthy instead of...tending to godly things. She's a lazy pile on most days and it'd take a cat. 6 hurricane to move her from a nap.

She's also strong, but for other reasons, obviously. Painting with her tail, she can create things like fire, plats, move water, etc. She can also run faster than the wind in small bursts and has holy weapons...yadda yadda. She paint good. Real hecking good. She also has a small community garden she maintains in the Monkey Compound that people can partake in as they see fit! It's open to everyone.
Current plans: More CR mostly, positive or negative, but positive CR is better for Ammy, since she's so kind and personable. Negative CR is fun but nothing to the point of "kill on sight", please. Unless we discuss things personally. I've already killed a character and times right now aren't great for me to do so again.

I also really, really was Guzma to learn to shoot a gun, fight properly (learn actual martial arts), and stuff. He's been learning ASL but is extremely rusty and only knows a few words/sentences. Someone reteach this idiot. Ammy is...meh. I don't have too many plans with her at the time. She kinda just drifts where the wind takes her and does her own thing.
Anything else: I CANNOT PARTAKE IN THE MEMES AT WORK, ALAS. but think of your fav meme here.

[catpiper]

WOW

[mamaterasu]

YOU ACT SURPRISED BUT YOU KNOW IN YOUR HEART!!!!

[catpiper]

[deadlylittlething]

OH MY GOD A PUPPY

this boy will most likely live in the monkey compound so maybe??? it's finally time for some roxy cr??? will the stars align????

[mamaterasu]

GOOD GOD BEST FRIEND???

Also holy shit YES PLEASE GIVE ME THIS GOOD CR. He may catch her tending the garden anytime all you gotta do is hit me up and I can do a closed log or whatever boo, my IC inbox is also open. /FINGERGUNS

[eudaimonikos]

Hey, Michael's a demon masquerading as a human and Ammy will absolutely be able to tell, so that's a thing? I mean, he's pretty open about it in general, but still an ageless thing of evil over here.

[mamaterasu]

I mean, so long as he's not intending to do evil things, he should be good with Ammy? Like, considering just how many demons/monster ilk are in this game, she's become a bit desensitized to the whole GASP A DEMON!!1 dealio.

Unless he's outwardly vicious and hurtful, chances are, they'll still get along.