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expiationooc2023-03-13 06:59 pm
Intro / CR Meme / Extra Notes
INTRO / CR MEME
Welcome to Expiation, where the points aren't real and absolutely don't matter. But you do, and we're happy to have you! Please note that this intro entry serves additionally as a CR meme, so you are free to use it to say hello, tell us a bit about yourself, talk about your character, and potential plans for the game.
As a reminder, Expiation runs on bi-monthly events. Please note that all players / characters accepted in March are exempt from the March AC. For everyone else, March AC is due by 31 March, 2023. Halfway through the day AC closes, we will give one (1) warning on both plurk and the OOC community for anyone who hasn't submitted (this will also be linked in the player-run discord).
To give you a very general overview of how the upcoming timeline will be...
17 March - Event #1
31 March - Character Action Poll for Event #1 (This will be further explained on the event post.)
14 April - Results of Action Poll for Event #1 + Game Environment Alterations
15 May - ATP / Enable Me for Expiation's TDM #3
19 May - Event #2
22 May - TDM #3
Where are the reservation / app dates for our next cycle? Our poll is still being used and looked at. At present, most participants don't have a preference on how we adjust dates to better suit enablemeplz, which is posted the second Saturday of each month.
With that said, we currently have more votes for 1 week forward, rather than 2 weeks, which would place reserves to open on 03 April, and applications to open on 10 April. We will, of course, adjust this accordingly as we get closer to the end of the month.
One more reminder:
After this upcoming app cycle, our TDMs, Reserves, and Applications will open on a bimonthly schedule, opposite of event months.
This means the next TDM, Reserve, and App process will begin at the tail end of May 2023.
| EVENT NOTES: The Short of It: The units used to preserve food in Aldrip have malfunctioned and Aldrip's townspeople face starvation. Characters are encouraged to lend a hand in the crisis, though of course, can choose not to. (Don't be that person. Or do...! We're not your parents.) Prompts Include: 🧊 Fixing the refrigeration units. Potential electric shocks during repair. 🍳 Cook a thing. Burn a thing. Hunt some animals. Fish some... fish? Dry / smoke some food? Have a large, improvised grillfest? Please feed the people. They are probably hungry. 🤝 Travel through Pessiria Forest with Aldrip locals to meet the Rumpiturians and barter for goods. (TW: They're a people with snake-like features. There will be reference links.) 💰 Alternatively, steal supplies from the Rumpiturians instead of bartering. Or steal some of their other things. (TW: They are still people with snake-like features.) 👻 Pessiria Forest creepy things. No one will be outright hurt by this. Select characters sensitive to ghostly, phantom apparitions, and related will have nightmares regarding the forest for an undetermined amount of time. ❓ The party returning from Pessiria will be minus some people (read: locals, not Chosen; this will tie into a future event). Speculate, count heads, do whatever you need to in order to sleep at night. |
Until then, please make use of the below form for all of your intro and CR meme needs! In the future, we will include a Table of Contents section that will contain intro links for all of our new players for convenience.
Player:
Contact:
Anything Else?: Anything you might want us to know? What kinds of things interest you? What's your current favourite fandom? Put it here.
Character:
Canon:
Canon Point:
Crime: The crime your character was accused of when they arrived.
Background: A brief insight into your character's history is fine here. You can talk about their personality as well.
Abilities: Any abilities that you feel is important to note about your character. Bullet points and concise descriptions are okay.
Plans: What kinds of things do you want to do in the game? Any kind of CR you want to specifically pursue? Any special character discovery or exploration you want to do? This is the place to put all of that.
???: Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.
Psi, breaking this in
Contact:
Anything Else?: I talk about video games a lot. I obsess over them. I play them. I make them for a living. Sometimes I talk about other stuff but I'm not very interesting, don't follow me!
(fandoms: Tales of, Suikoden, Dragon Quest, Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Final Fantasy, niche western games too numerous to list)
I bring to you two (2) science experiments with summonable swords, ego problems and black feather motifs. Pick your poison!
Vholran Igniseri
Canon: Tales of Arise
Canon Point: Post Canon
Crime: Tyranny
Background:An oppressive, domineering asshole who thinks he gets to rule the world. Hates everyone. Thinks humans don't deserve rights. He throws his weight around so you think he is a cruel warlord and that his megalomania isn't a trauma response but it's definitely a trauma response.
(MASSIVE TOA SPOILERS: Vholran was born a slave and was isolated and abused most of his life. He has very strong opinions about never letting anyone control him ever again and is ready to make this everyone else's problem.)
Abilities: Extremely acrobatic swordsman who was biohacked into a powerful elementalist that explodes when upset. Basically. He uses mostly water and ice magic.
Plans: Vholran is a character who has done awful things, like brutally rule over a slave nation, in canon but canon also tries to make it clear that he isn't purely evil. At this point in his life, he can't be fully redeemed but maybe he can find somewhat more productive ways to vent his anger. Tales of Arise does not do a deep exploration of his character but his premise is very interesting. I want to explore the character in ways the game maybe was going to do but did not in the version of it we ended up getting.
Vholran will probably not make friends easily but he can attempt to form alliances.
He is a very unpleasant man so please don't have your character provoke him if you don't want to deal with ic consequences. This isn't to say I intend to make him impossible to interact with. Usually, he is content to leave people alone as long as they aren't a threat to him. Since he has a very high opinion of himself people need to prove they are threats. I'm here to play a villain but not one that will be on an unending rampage and making the game annoying to play in.
During the event: Vholran could be convinced to use his magic to help with refrigeration problems or go hunting but he's not going to come to that decision on his own.
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(Vholran, it was Vholran I'm spoiling it. By the way if you think this was funny just wait for our next guest)
NOTE: Vholran's character involves things like trauma, mental illness, slavery and body horror and also he is a villain. If you think you might not want to interact with him please use his Opt Out!
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Honestly, I think he was just venting frustration but good on Ganabelt for letting this maniac just swan around his turf stabbing shit.
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I offer one (1) puzzled guardsman who doesn't actually know what she thinks of Vholran yet, but has heard he is bad news bears.
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harasshelp Vholran help others by preserving food?He sure can conjure ice but he hates you all!
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Although if he's talked into helping, she's not going to be quiet about how he's actually a pretty great guy for helping out.
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some people? just become megalomaniacal tyrants?? to cope???Re: Vholran Igniseri
Sephiroth
Canon: Final Fantasy VII
Canon Point: After summoning Meteor
Crime: Matricide
Background: A powerful warrior who was born to and raised by the Shinra Electric Power Company as the base member and core of their PMC called SOLDIER. He was a handy weapon until someone asked him why he fought and he started getting self-reflective. Then he decided he'd fight for his friends. And he did because he loved his friends but they did not love him back and defected from SOLDIER leaving him alone. His generally kind heart broke, he worried himself sick and stopped eating, and he failed to ever get them to come back. While he was still heartbroken he was deployed to the village of Nibelheim where he learned about the experiments that created him and got it in his head that he was the last Cetra because that's what his mother was. After a week of sleepless nights spent researching his own creation he wandered off, set fire to the town, killed most of the residents, and rampaged up to the local mako reactor to rescue the remains of his "mother", Jenova, who was actually an alien and not a Cetra. Cloud knocked him into the mako reactor and killed him.
Whew!
And that's the prologue. It all gets worse from here... At this point he's been dead for five years and absorbing the Lifestream. His main ambition is to merge with the life force of his planet and become god then use his planet as a vessel to travel through space. As one does.
Abilities: Aside from being a powerful swordsman, Sephiroth is also a sorcerer, and a psychic. His psychic powers can be spooky so please take a look at his Permissions if you'd like to interact with him! Rest assured I will always check in with you before he does anything too dramatic.
Plans: Sephiroth is a very manipulative, cunning man. While he is powerful, he prefers to strategize and watch humans do all the heavy lifting for him. He can be outwardly affable but he's always looking for weaknesses to exploit. Want CR that will encourage your character to be the worst version of themselves? Sephiroth will give folks the nudge they need to go murder their neighbors. Don't be sad, everyone who dies will be reborn as part of him when he ascends to godhood! (He might be scheming to eat Those Who Were There).
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NOTE: Those who are only familiar with this character via cultural osmosis might be surprised to learn he is more of a Lovecraftian Horror shaped like a pretty catboy than a swordsman who travels around stabbing people. He likes to get under people's skin, manipulate them and frighten them. Neutral to almost okay CR is possible with him but expect him to be a lurking threat in general. I know this isn't everyone's idea of a good time so PLEASE use his Opt-Out if you want to establish limits or avoid all interaction. My goal is to have people enjoy his presence in the game, not dread or be annoyed by it.
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Also, can he and Shionne continue to interact, because I found it interesting?
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LIFESTREAM OLYMPICS.
COME GET YO TICKETS
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And there is dramatic potential there dammit
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You're also hitting on all of my AU dreams. One day I hope to write an AU of them as siblings. I also one day hope to write an AU of them as lovers.
There's a lot to unpack between them and I think they are more closer bound to one another than either of them may realise and I love that complexity for them. Thank you for giving the chance to explore this!
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Thanks for giving him a laugh, Galaxia.
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