PLOT WITH ME/INTRO MEME MARCH 2024

[expiationmods]

INTRO MEME

Welcome to Expiation and come on down! We're thrilled to have you here! 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.

The SOTG for March is HERE, with changes and where the game is going for the month. Feel free to browse around if you haven't already, and check out the MAIN NAVIGATION for more detailed info about the game itself.

MARCH EVENT

MARCH EVENT SUMMARY

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY

Characters wake up on the morning of March 11 to note a few things with relative immediacy. First, the weather is beautiful: warm, breezy, sunny. Second, all of the locals in Aldrip and the surrounds seem to have vanished. Third, these things seem totally normal to the Chosen–who now all believe that they are native to Aldrip.

That’s right. You’ve lived here your whole life. Everything you’ve ever known is this world.

Characters will go about their daily business in lives that they believe have always been like this. You’re free to choose any jobs, roles, backgrounds, and connections with other Chosen for your characters, so long as they believe that they have always lived in Expiation. All character powers are gone, or dormant, for most of the event. More on that later.

LOST AND FOUND

Occasionally, while going about their daily activities, characters will come across an item that seems strangely incongruous with the world they know. This will begin happening after the first few days of the event. A symbol particularly relevant to your character’s canon, for example, or a book. Watches, jewelry, cards, photos, small trinkets and tableaus–all of these are fair game.

Everything in your character will tell them not to look at these objects. Their entire being will try to resist them. If they do, the item disappears when they leave its immediate area. What item? They forget about the entire encounter. Strange.

Touching or interacting with these objects or moments will force a strange memory into their head–a memory of a past life, or a dream, maybe. These are your characters’ real memories, and as the event goes on, they will be able to either collect or ignore more of them. You’re free to engage with as many or as few of these as you like. We’ll ask on the event poll how many you interact with, and how many you ignore. The final count may have lasting repercussions on your characters and/or the world of Expiation, so please pay attention to the poll! Not all of these instances need to be threaded out.

There will be an RNG ELEMENT in this event, as well. Please note that characters who are picked for RNG have a small but nonzero chance that RNG effects could have a long-lasting impact on them.

PLOT WITH ME

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.

How can you run into my character? What's their daily life like? Do they have a job? Do they have other habits or routines?

???: Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

<b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Anything Else?:</b> Anything you might want us to know? What kinds of things interest you? What's your current favourite fandom? Put it here. <b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Canon Point:</b> <b>Crime:</b> The crime your character was accused of when they arrived. <b>Background:</b> A brief insight into your character's history is fine here. You can talk about their personality, as well. <b>Abilities:</b> Any abilities that you feel is important to note about your character. Bullet points and concise descriptions are okay. <b>Plans:</b> 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. <b>How can you run into my character?</b> What's their daily life like? Do they have a job? Do they have other habits or routines? <b>???:</b> Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

Comments

QUESTIONS / COMMENTS / CONCERNS

[expiationmods]

[cursegod]

I know I took off March for hiatus, but are characters able to escape the event effects if they're not in Aldrip on the 11th?

[expiationmods]

The location of character doesn't really matter as this event affects the whole world of Expiation instead of being only limited to Aldrip.Since most of the characters are centered in Aldrip, it's the main focus for this event.

[skelters]

hello! just putting out a question for characters with any obvious "nonhuman"/unusual physical features - will this just be a "sometimes it be that way" and treated as no different or will they need to make adjustments for the duration of the event?

[expiationmods]

Sometimes it just be that way! Although if a player wants to they can humanize the character for the event, but it's not mandatory. Aldrip has seen all kinds of people, after all.

[fieldtrip]

Toph would like to personally thank the mods for cutting that shit out with the snow.

Edit Crimes: Since it's pretty difficult to play Toph both mem lossed and power lossed, mind if I accelerate her regains a bit above the norm? (Within bounds of reason) I was thinking of playing it up for comedy in that she becomes convinced there's something wrong but no one believes her and goes around like the crazy town conspiracy theorist. lol

[expiationmods]

Don't thank us just yet, Toph. 👀

Memories don't start to appear for the first few days of the event. Once they do, she's welcome to regain them as fast or as slow as you'd like.

[opheliac]

sup! what if someone tries to go to rumpitur this month (or kestora if they're stupid)? im assuming those two areas are still inaccessible right?

[expiationmods]

As locals, characters generally don't travel far from Aldrip. Leaving Aldrip, characters will quickly get the feeling that they should turn back...the trip is long, after all, and dangerous due to monster presence. Best to stick close to home.

[invinciblemikey]

hehehe can i use future memories or different timeline memories for mikey...............

[expiationmods]

Sure, this is fine!

[everblooms]

this may be an odd question, but: in their aus, characters are the same age as they are upon acceptance? or can we get creative? 🤔

[expiationmods]

We'd prefer that characters stick to ages in canon points that already exist, but within those parameters, you can get creative!

[feintofhart]

Two questions!

1) I'd like to mimic Claude's background a little to keep some of his characterization the same -- is it okay if he's native to Expiation, but from a different town than Aldrip, which he later settled down in? His core as an 'outsider' (and perhaps not as congruent a part of the community) is something I'd like to maintain! If not, maybe I can have him as a traveler who was born in Aldrip, left for years, and has only recently returned?

2) Being that humanization is on the table, would I be able to turn Claude's wyvern into a really weird horse for the duration of the event?

[expiationmods]

Either of those ideas would be perfectly doable! Characters are unable to leave Aldrip for this event, but their background could be that they're not from there, or that they are usually travelers. Also if you'd like the wyvern to be a horse until Claude starts getting his memories back, that's fine too.

[emet_sulk]

What happens to character-run/established businesses? If a player wants their character to have an identity completely separate from whatever player-run business they worked at, would that business just kind of sit there vacant and register as nothing significant to the character? Or does it get a makeover like everything else?

[expiationmods]

A player-run business is the player's to control, so what happens to it is up to you during this event. It could certainly sit vacant in the AU, it could get a makeover, or it could have never existed. Whatever you want to do with it.

[strength_of_will]

If we choose to give our 'gone native' characters the persona of a lawbreaker/criminal etc. how would that work out with regards to NPC treatment and so on?

[expiationmods]

While criminals are feared the way they would be in the real Aldrip, NPCs in the AU are more "background noise" and less interactive than they are normally. It's very possible for player characters to have heard of an infamous criminal, too, though, so they can still have a bad reputation, if that's what you're going for.

[snowslip]

If we were to have our muse join the cult become a worshipper of Those Who Were There in their native AU, are there any religious practices/beliefs to be aware of? What about proselytizing?

[expiationmods]

Since this is an AU, you may come up with whatever practices you'd like. She may try to convert others too, and if you want her to have a little bit of a following that is also fine.

[solitarysoul]

is the technology/society level in the AU the same as normal Aldrip? Or do we have more modern things like high schools and shopping malls or whatever?

if i want levi to be a drop out i need to decide if he's dropped out of highschool or some apprenticeship or something lol

[expiationmods]

Either way works! It seems like a lot of players are making this a more modern version of Aldrip, so a highschool or shopping mall wouldn't be out of the question.

[identitycrisiscore]

hey mods! Late to this but just to clear it with you: I assuming backgrounds that might have involved travel are fair game as long as they don't leave Aldrip during the event? (Example: I was perhaps going to have Cloud be essentially a courier/errand boy who runs out of town to get things others might need from out of town, easily can make that background "can't go out of town for XYZ reasons" to coincide with the locality of Aldrip for the event).

With a followup: Do player-added flora/fauna exist? Could Cloud mysterious have gotten access to a Chocobo to help sell the illusion and also because it's funny?

[solitarysoul]

should have asked this way earlier, but to the lost and found things need to be tangible objects or could it just be like a symbol the character touches and its gone?

also its cool to regain in any order and have individual regains be jumbled and jump around (in time)?