OOC INTRO ( DECEMBER )

[lifeaftr_mods]

OOC INTRO: DECEMBER

State of the Game
Hello again, islanders, and welcome newcomers! November saw the introduction of our first island outside the mainland, Monsun, which has brought tides of change both good and bad to the relationships between our player characters, between NPCs, and more! We heavily encourage newcomers to read up on the psychological effects of Monsun, as this will be relevant in the intro log. 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 3rd. Until then, a few quick points:

1. Deaths. Remember that, in the event that your character perishes, to let us know so that we can take a note of it, whether or not it counts for your character's total death count! If you're having trouble thinking of a penalty, we can definitely provide one for you. Remember to use the Deaths page for Death Penalty removal as well, once that time is up!

2. Communication. Due to some resourcefulness and the ingenuity of our resident Severs-the-Threads player (stoleyoursweetroll), we have a beautiful new network community (lifenet) for your use! Bear in mind that the network currently operates in more of a bulletin board capacity, with all the benefits and drawbacks that entails! Be sure to join this new comm if you haven't already!

3. AC. We would also like to take this opportunity to remind people to tag their characters in the comms. This is the only compulsory form of AC we have, but after the first few months, we are going to stop warning people for forgetting to tag their character. Characters who fail AC will be swept. An additional reminder, also, to make use of the drop post should your time with LifeAftr come at an end instead of simply idling out!

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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[alittleditty]

Player: Gorse
Contact: gorsecloud or Gorsecloud#8698 on Discord
Tell us about yourself: CST, she/her, sometimes confused, usually tired, always ready to try my best, and way too enthusiastic about midwinter holidays.
Character: Tataru Taru (alittleditty) and Xion (attheclocktower)
Permissions: You would think I would have one of these things after all my years in DWRP but I honestly don't.........
Tell us about them:

Tataru is from the MMO Final Fantasy XIV. While her friends are often off on feats of derring-do saving the whole world or parts of it or whatever, she's there on the home front making sure that the bills are paid, everyone is kept up-to-date, and also that everyone has fabulous outfits for the road ahead. Don't be fooled by appearances, she's not a child and is willing to do some surprising things in her support role for the others. If you need someone to fuss over your heroic type who doesn't look after themselves enough, gossip your ear off, or just to make nice clothing, she's your girl.

Meanwhile Xion is from other Square Enix property, Kingdom Hearts. A very sweet child whom a lot of bad things happened to and absolutely deserved better. Except this one also comes circa the horror DWRP towerofanimus, which like a good third of you are fellow veterans of. After two years of actual hell, in which she was put through the proverbial meat grinder and came out actually the better on the other end, she was sent home with memories intact, determined to try to avert the cruel fate that canon has in store for her. And then she ended up here instead. She is going to be delighted and will deal with it wonderfully, I'm sure.

Current plans:

Not one much for exploring or adventuring or that sort of thing, Tataru will mainly be staying back on the islets where housing is located, and will be spending a lot of time working on the infrastructure there along with keeping everyone as informed as she can about what's going down on Monsun's explorations. This'll probably include poking any groups that do manage to make it back and sharing what she's learned. In the meantime though she'll be working on trying to get more farmland/supply stockpiles together. Focusing more on her own but she'll be happy to help others with theirs too, if their working on anything.

Xion, on the other hand, will be salty as fuck about being here because are you serious, really. And as a result, she will be much more interested in exploring as much as possible because she wants to go home. That being said, if she hears about the mental effects of Monsun, she will be wary and trying to take that into account, because she's run into similar(ish) things before. I'm definitely looking to get some CR of all kinds with her, but especially positive. That being said, given her circumstances, it'll probably be easier and trickier for her to open up - she's done this song and dance before so she knows teamwork is helpful but god this is not what she wanted... So be prepared for things to be bumpy.

Anything else:

[greatcleavage]

I'm totally interested in Xion just as a character, because Xion. Both mine will be friendly and sociable, especially on the western side, so definitely an opportunity for CR -- also more active scenes are also a possibility if you want more adventure and comparatively less talking.

As for Tataru, I wonder if it might be possible for Roy to have crossed paths with her regarding his own attempts at infrastructure. Keeping track of bludroc productivity and stock would be really valuable, and something she could do easily given her knacks!

[alittleditty]

I'm not sure what all plans Xion has for Monsun. I'm kind of playing Monsun by ear, Monsun's effects having been something of an Achilles' Heel for me in the past, and also us not knowing where newbies will end up. So we'll see!

On Tataru's side though, that seems reasonable enough, and yeah, keeping track of stock would be something she'd be good at, and bludrocs are a good place to start :|a

[greatcleavage]

Tataru could actually do a lot more than Roy expects, which would be pretty cool. I envision him just asking her to keep track of the numbers and she ends up calculating out egg production and just how many of the bludrocs they can eat based on hatching and growth time and sustainability...

I'll keep an eye out for Xion though, and think long-term. It IS a little weird trying to adapt to what amounts to a permanent influence so long as they're there.

[catpiper]

I love Tataru and would def like more with her! Ren's super easy to get positive cr with so I think her and Xion might get along as well!

[alittleditty]

TATARU WOULD LOVE TO TALK MORE WITH REN. Ren was absolutely sweet in her own way. It might be fun for Tataru to run into her causing well-intentioned mischief of some kind.

Also I feel like Xion and Ren could have grand CR and if Xion ever finds out about some of the stuff you mentioned on her toplevel below, particularly the lab experiment with not much life experience yet there is a high chance she will become like. Super protective. I dunno, I'd like to see where their CR goes.

[catpiper]

There's never a time when Ren isn't causing some mischief so this can def happen. She's a terrible child.

And heck yes I'm totally excited to see CR with these two. Xion is a treasure on this earth anyway and I'm really excited to see how her previous game shaped her!! Ren will probably allude to her creepy previous life at some point. Killer ghosts are great topics of discussion right?? Sure. Absolutely.

[shineinside]

Woo I just got back into FF14 last month, no escape

Yuka is gonna be effectively stuck in a ridiculous magical girl outfit, so she's in dire need of someone who can make her some more practical clothes.

[alittleditty]

Tataru can absolutely help with that, yes.