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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.
peach / cloud strife
Contact: PM /
Anything Else?: shameless copypaste from last time, hi, i'm peach! i work in localization. timezone is pst/gmt-8, usually tag in the evenings and catch up on weekends. i like meaty tags with details and fun introspection, and love to write! i like horror, video games, animanga, alice in wonderland, music, and coffee. some fandoms i love besides final fantasy are fire emblem: three houses, jujutsu kaisen, my hero academia, and kingdom hearts.
Character: cloud strife
Canon: final fantasy vii remake
Canon Point: after the post-credits scene in intergrade, as the party is heading to kalm
Crime: murder of a superior officer, which he likely thinks indicates him wasting sephiroth but also may indicate the feelings he has towards what happened to zack, if he ever remembers right.
Background: local loser from wooded backlands pretends to be a cool soldier to get the girl he likes to notice him, gets a lot of people killed, and feels so bad about it that he invents an entirely new history for himself...yes, it's that guy: cloud strife, an 'ex-soldier first class' trying to be a mercenary who ends up getting roped into saving the planet. deep down he's just shy and awkward, a good-hearted kind of guy... but you have to get through like eight layers of pointed antisocial 'not interested' armor to get there.
he's a guy that's very heavily influenced by his past, though his version of it is very blurry and very untrue, especially at this canon point where he doesn't know much of anything. as evidenced in the game, he has headaches at times when someone brings up something from the past that he's avoided, or when he has flashes of memory/visions of stuff. he tends to keep people at a distance--or at least tries to, anyway, but despite the seemingly prickly exterior, he's a pretty kind friend and might not even charge you for his services if he likes you. (not that he'll admit it!)
Abilities: he can swing a big sword.
...and he's got some superhuman-esque abilities thanks to the mako, but nothing that stands out too much. he's apparently very good at dancing, somehow... in any case, his app has more info if needed!
Plans: cloud's been doing as many odd jobs as he can, trying to both build up a name to become the merc of his dreams, while also keeping up enough coin to fund the room where he's staying with aerith currently. i'm happy to handwave that your character may have seen him doing this-or-that job or even if you want to hire him to do something...! very flexible towards anything, if you'd like a fun way to jumpstart CR.
in regards to the event, he'll probably be lending his help, if possible, towards fixing the refrigeration units, as well as traveling through pessiria forest...he's great at bartering, or, well, being intimidating. i'm also down for him to have weird nightmares (more than the ones he already has!). he can also be hired bodyguard help for anyone wanting to go through the forest, or even a quiet friend to comfort those plagued by the nightmares. i'll probably just pop up some open prompts for a top level for the event, but if you'd like something in particular, i'm happy to sort of vaguely plan on a starter and cement it once the event details come in!
other than that, i'm always down for random encounters, monster killing, inbox threads, etc!
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the teeniest little smile
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2. Shionne and Cloud doing some stuff for the event?
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which is cute, because then they get to sort of...rebuild their friendship in a way! and he will obviously put together the pieces regarding zack/aerith, etc since i assume zack will come stay with them hopefully (cloud will of course peace out to another room if they need their space for their own Talking)
2. yes that would be lovely!! they could maybe team up in the forest at some point!
Re: peach / cloud strife
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Aerith would like to go to the forest (and be plagued by nightmares later). Maybe this is something they can bond over.
I know that Zack and Sephiroth are going to be complications for them both in different ways, and Cloud is the sort to kind of 'shy away' or 'retreat' in the face of things like that (at times, anyway), so I imagine Aerith might be a little pushy with him. (Or attempt to be.)
I always want more things with Cloud...!
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i'll put up a top level for him later, but if you wanna hit me with a wildcard starter, that's totally cool OR if you want me to do up a private starter for aerith, i can absolutely do that too! just let me know!
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he'll definitely help out cloud with trying to fix the units. He's pretty good with his hands, and can help out with that sort of thing.
cloud and astralin are pretty similar in personality, so they'll probably understand each other and get along v. well.
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this is cute though, i feel like they can have cute bonding times over fixing dumb refrigerators...
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If you need to lay down any limits at any point let me know! Otherwise Sephiroth will be wandering around as an astral projection a lot but Cloud just might notice bad headaches around the Lorentia Caves. That's probably nothing to worry about.
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i like that heads up about the caves… he will definitely easily associate that with sephiroth probably being there, and if bad things happen in town he’ll just. immediately book it to the cave to accuse him of being involved lmao
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