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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.
Nikolai Gogol | Bungo Stray Dogs
Contact: DM but I can also be found in the disco. Feel free to ask for my plurk.
Anything Else?: I remembered to post on the plotting post in almost a timely manner are you proud of me
Character: Nikolai Gogol
Canon: Bungo Stray Dogs
Canon Point: Manga chapter 98
Crime: Humanity. Which is hard to parse bullshit just like him.
Background: Arguably the most sadistic and theatrical member of the organization that was known as Decay of the Angel. This month Gogol has been in crime town for a year now, though, (WOW! Happy anniversary expi💞) so he's somewhat more removed from all that now.
The personality spark notes are: man who puts on the airs as a insane killer clown to contradict humanity's innate ability to feel sympathy, kindness, and guilt all to take a crack at proving there's a true form of freedom. His personality tends to be whimsical (even while committing violence) but sometimes you'll get a more reasonable flavor of Gogol. He's just, you know, "the mortifying ordeal of being known" cranked up way too high.
Abilities: I don't think it'll be relevant for this upcoming event but he's got The Overcoat. It has a wide range in terms of what it can do. It's extremely good for crimes.
and not-crimes but he uses it mostly for crimePlans:
I'll be honest I'm at a bit of a loss so I'm content to be reactive this event. That being said I think if your character wants a good solid glimpse of how extremely normal, mature, or even (GASP) good-natured? Gogol COULD be if he wasn't snubbing all of that... This event is going to be the best chance. In canon he's shown a glimpse of what it means to have a sturdy understanding of being moral and just so it might be fun to play with that here.
I'd love to establish new CR under those conditions!! For previous CR it might be fun to establish a long term connection.
Does anyone want a secretary? I think that would be a funny throw back to that one time Gogol went uncover as some governmental figure's easily bully-able secretary for months.
Anything familial would be messy in the long term because that's a strong emotional attachment but I do love mess.
Despite this discussion about being a normal citizen there might also be something criminal with cursed organs in there somewhere... Listen they'll all begin to remember the truth eventually. I wouldn't worry too much about it though ofc.How can you run into my character? Feeding pigeons bird seed in the town square I bet. He might poke his head into Lupin sometimes too.
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If super dangerous terrorist why uhhhhhh goofy as hell
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Totally not a unhinged side quest
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Yes. Truly all could apply.
Although as you know Gogol is prone to wax poetic about birds... so please look forward to it. I'm sure one of the taverns could host them sitting down to yap about it every tuesday or something. Tuesday night philosophy club for the coolest cats
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Maybe they go to same cafes in the AU to have a debate clubs…
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if you want him to have a chance to be more Moral and an Upstanding citizen we could even say they're friends despite the (slight) age difference because he saved her one time or something... local resident doing good deeds..
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I'm happy for that to be the starting point!!! What kind of trouble would she have gotten into do you think 👀
Also isn't it so cool to have a cool older friend Ange please tell him he's cool.
Without them being related actually--Instead of mom friend energy it's like cringe older cousin friend energyWhat'll be interesting is seeing Goog emote with less exaggeration and Ange actually doing it for once in her life. That should be good.no subject
it depends on when we want him to have rescued her/how long we want them to have known each other!! we could go the angle of it having been a long time, then the trouble could've been ange wandering off into the forest alone and getting lost since she was too young to find her way back.. or if you'd prefer something a little more new, i feel like ange could've climbed up something and accidentally fallen off, LOL.. gogol, catch her in your heroic arms!!!
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