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PLOT WITH ME/INTRO MEME MARCH 2024
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.
sha-ming | gnosia
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Anything Else?: Hey guys! My name's Vi, I'm in my mid 20s, I'm currently going through a career transition but I used to work in finance. Activism and original writing are big parts of my life and I talk about them sometimes. My main fandoms are Nier, Final Fantasy (7 in particular), Metal Gear, Undertale/Deltarune, Disco Elysium, Mr. Robot and so much more. I'm a big Gamer TM, from mainstream ones to indie, niche works, so if it's out there I've probably played it.
Character: Sha-Ming
Canon: Gnosia, a werewolf/mafia style single player game adjacent to the visual novel genre!
Crime: Escaping/running away from his shithole of a home planet, Arsla.
Background: Oh boy. Sha-Ming is...A Guy. He'll say anything for any reason. Annoying, foul mouthed, always joking, an asshole, rebellious, a huge clown all in all. He's also uh, notably hypersexual and an incorrigible flirt (and unfortunately, canonically bi/pansexual so nobody is spared, really) -- naturally, your character will not be dealing with this unless I know it's fine, but yeah.
Despite all of this, he's remarkably good at not standing out. He never wants to be the center of attention, he's very up for being the good-for-nothing side character that has nothing to do with the plot, thank you! Survival is his priority. If there's a way to live, he's going to find it, even if he has to forfeit his nonexistent pride/dignity to make it happen. However, at his core, he is actually... a good guy? With some pretty serious issues that he does not want to reveal or talk about in any capacity. Sha-Ming was socialized amongst and as an animal, and he unironically struggles to connect with and understand human conventions as a result.
Deep down, he's genuinely quite compassionate and kind, but his inability to be emotionally vulnerable let alone trust others really precedes him. He resigns himself to being extremely lonely because he thinks it's the only way he can keep himself safe, but he can't help but care for others regardless even if he really wants to pretend like he doesn't.
Abilities: Absolutely none lmaooooo. For the first time in my life, I'm playing some guy with completely normal physiology. As for like, noteworthy skills... Sha-Ming IS a survivalist, and he did grow up somewhere where resources were notably scarce. This means he has the capacity to be very useful on this front -- but only if you manage to get him to be, because he's very keen on hiding this part of himself.
Plans: SO. Sha-Ming, surprisingly, goes onto become one of the most famous zoologists and scientists in the galaxy in his canon. I want to work towards this here and have him get involved with bestiary and ecology research in particular. This is going to be a longterm goal -- he's got
That aside, positive and negative CR alike is absolutely good with me. I'd love for him to develop actual attachments and hate himself for it, especially platonic and familial ones, but he's also so annoying and SUCH an asshole that negative CR is going to be inevitable. Your character is absolutely free to hate him, whack him over the head, shittalk him, throw rocks, the whole gamut. He sucks! Go for it.
Also, I love the idea of him third wheeling people. If you need a third wheel to make extremely out of pocket commentary he's your guy.
How can you run into my character? Right now, he's bumming it out at the inn. He and
???: Good summary of his canon.
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I'd be totally happy to get some CR going in either real expi or fantastical AU expi!!
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Yes!! I’m still in the process of making plans but I’m sure Jin and I will do something with the events so you can expect Shinji to have to deal with Minato’s no good terrible dirtbag not-older brother one way or another.
EVENT PLOTTING
Anyways, Sha-Ming is the resident zoologist. He does a lot of fieldwork and studies the bestiary of and around Aldrip. Minato is his younger adoptive brother, and their parents are… not around? We’re writing it off as them having died or something.
He's been involved in some of the shadier activity around and within Aldrip, mostly because he was trying to do whatever he could to ensure his and Minato's survival. Was a textbook delinquent in highschool; skipped class a lot, was caught up in bad shit, although he's never the type to fight for his pride. Insult him all you want, he'll only start swinging if Minato or Aerith are compromised in any way.
Now that he's an Adult TM, he's stepped outside of that side of things and wants to be a better man. Zoology is his passion and focus, and it's done a lot for him.
He and his little brother are his number one priority — I’m open to relationships of all kinds, from negative to neutral to platonic to familial to potentially intimate or romantic (aka flings or exes or weird undefined situationships)? Probably still got crazy attachment issues.
Aerith /
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I'm admittedly very canonblind to Sha-Ming but hooboy, he sounds wild lol. I'm defs going to hit him up either during the event or prior it. Juri might not necessarily be biggest fan of hypersexual flirt but one of her colleagues is a huge Playboy so she kinda knows how to deal with it.
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okay, hilariously enough, i am EXTREMELY canon familiar with RGU. it's actually tied for my favorite anime of alltime so i know exactly what you're talking about lmao. I'M SO GLAD TO SEE MORE RGU CHARACTERS, honestly. he is undoubtedly going to irk her, especially with how different their mindsets are but hey, that's half of the fun. you can't get much worse than touga and saionji at least.
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and yeah... considering what some of the male characters in Utena are like. Sha-Ming is basically prude compared to them.
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From Ryuki being a pathetic drunkard and Sha-Ming actually being a nice and supportive guy (so far?!) to the sermons and quick lectures on biology... Whatever that is that we're having on the tdm is making me drown in feels so much, I'm loving it and would love to keep it going.
Also, that video you linked is golden, haha. Thanks for sharing :3c
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on that note, i'm glad to see you made it! i was hoping you'd app and so delighted to see that you did, your ryuki is a treat and i'm eager to see where these two go. i don't fault you for taking your time with that canon review and app either, uchikoshi bullshit is a lot to navigate LMAO.
HAHA my pleasure, let me know if you end up doing anything for the event too. i'd be so down to plot out something between these two.
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Pathetic men being pathetic together is the best chemistry ever possible! uwuIn all seriousness though, there's something about that mutual displaying a side of them they normally wouldn't that is so ugh, cute to me... Ryuki probably won't remember a lot of it though, pffftYEAH, I love Uchikoshi games exactly for their mind twisting shenanigans but honestly, it took me a couple of days to completely wrap my head around canon events in a timely order, lmao! And digressing a little, but the good thing about dissecting the timeline for the canon review is that it made me appreciate the timeline twist a lot more.
I used to dislike AINI for that but shhh!I'll start looking at event stuff today, so yeah, will def let you know!
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I honestly don't blame you! I used to main Sigma Klim, like, 6-ish years ago? And Zero Escape isn't even as convoluted as the AI series so YEAH I understand the struggle. IT'S SOMETHING YOU GOTTA SIT IN... your journey has brought you here regardless, AINI was more to grapple with than AITSF for sure.
Sounds great to me! Happy to do stuff outside or within the event regardless ❤️
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