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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.
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Contact:
Anything Else?: I am a very tired nonprofit worker who has a MS and a BA. I describe myself as a scientist with the heart of a writer. I have conspiracy theories written about me at work about what I moonlight as. Uh. I wax on about Genshin Impact, Star Trek, Devilman, The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, MDZS, various writers I am into, various Indie games I play (see: Dredge), etc. I will talk for ages about death rites, rituals, mythology, birds, the deep sea, and space. I am typically referred to as a cryptid who lives in some kind of wetland. Fun fact: I have various genetic abnormalities in wild parts of my body, like extremely undocumented eye abnormalities.
Character: S'chn T'Gai Spock
Canon: Star Trek (TOS)
Canon Point: Post-Journey to Babel
Crime: Because I am an asshole? Rolling in the Sacred Sands of Vulcan without taking your Captain out to dinner first. iykyk.
Background: Spock is a unique individual, in that he is the only half-Vulcan/half-Human he knows. He has never encountered another, though he knows they likely exist. Between two worlds and wildly disparate cultures from birth, Spock grew up very lonely. Due to the harms dealt to him in his childhood, he threw himself into logic wholeheartedly and thus suppressed his Human half. As he got older, he found he could not follow or abide by his father's wishes and joined Starfleet due to his immense passion for science and his irrepressible curiosity. He did very well and made quite a name for himself, eventually reaching the position of First Officer and Chief Science Officer on the flagship Enterprise.
Spock looks like your typical Vulcan on the outside and presents like one (e.g., he keeps a flat affect and tone), but he is wildly witty and dry when inspired. This is especially true as the series goes on. He is occasionally petty, prone to brooding, and stubborn to an absolute fault. He takes a long time to warm up to people in any real capacity, but he isn't (usually) rude and is inclined toward self-sacrifice. When presented with a problem, he's always determined to find a solution - and he's kind of a workaholic. He is also very sensitive and empathetic underneath all that. His emotions are very strong and very deep. It's fine, really.
Abilities:
➤ Touch Telepathy: I will have a permissions post about this up later (and it will be available from the Taken List), but Spock is able to pick up surface thoughts and feelings by making direct skin-to-skin contact. He can also send along psychic suggestion. It is important to note that Spock avoids touching people whenever possible and has very strong ethics around contact with others. If a person makes contact with him, he typically reinforces his own mental shields to keep their thoughts/feelings out. Particularly sensitive individuals (i.e., not psi-null individuals) might be able to get a zing of his own abilities. He can engage also in what is called a mind meld, which allows him to figuratively "meld" the minds of two individuals together. It's a great way to transfer huge amounts of information, memories, etc. He will not do that casually as it is considered pretty fucking intimate, but he will do so in situations that call for it with the other party's consent.
➤ Vulcan Physiological Stuff: Spock, as a half-Vulcan, has inherited a lot of their traits. As such, his senses are much more finely tuned than a Human's. He is able hear better, smell better, etc. He is also roughly three times stronger than a Human, has denser bones, and has better reflexes. Vulcans come from a desert world with a thin atmosphere and higher gravity, after all.
➤ Eidetic Memory: He has perfect recall, though it is never specified for how long exactly. He can memorize and reproduce visual information with extreme accuracy. He is very useful if you need to know very precise details of something you encountered? Give him your grocery list and he'll be able to tell you what it was days later.
➤ General Knowledge: Spock is a scientist who has many, varied skills. He knows a lot about the following: computers, general engineering, general electronics, botany, various literature, various forms of music/instruments, etc. He is incredible with odds, can calculate percentages down to the smallest digits, and can throw around theories with the best of them.
Plans: I am new! So, I am quite literally open to many things. However, I am very specifically open to individuals who would be interested in the sciences, various forms of classical Earth literature, various forms of martial artistry (as Spock knows more than a few!), and electronics. Spock is going be scanning any number of things in the upcoming days, taking data, and so on. He will also likely try to fiddle with the electronics, find alternative sources of power, and assist those who seem to be having a problem roughing it without modern conveniences.
As for the AU: Spock would (naturally) be a science professor. He can act as the weird mentor/reluctant youth counselor for those who seek him out, because Spock is also a menace who gets himself into trouble frequently. He can teach day and night classes because he doesn't seem to need to sleep for some reason? He also seems to moonlight as many things and has some really wild hobbies (e.g., making longwave radios, odd machines in general, coding stuff, playing frankly bonkers chess, practicing martial arts???).
Given that he has experienced all sorts of weird shit akin to this before, he will probably be pretty quick to start trying to puzzle it out when clues start appearing. He is a scientist, after all. He's naturally curious and doesn't just blindly accept reality.
How can you run into my character? Spock is a diplomat's son and so will be looking at relations, trying to tidy up his own living space, studying the local flora/fauna, and likely providing assistance wherever he can. He's a good boy. He can also be found very deeply meditating in his personal quarters... Very deeply.
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that said PLEASE DO i have the nerdiest prompts and entries in mind both in and out of the au so points at my eyes points at yours. he's certainly having a Time. rip if he catches any of the random gossip about his family's messy life tho in the au.
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that also said: yeah! he's going to be scanning so many things... collecting data on so many specimens. maybe accidentally blowing something up in the process of an experiment at one point, who knows. he doesn't mind extra hands!
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