INTRO / CR MEME MAY 2024

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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 May 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.

MAY EVENT

MAY EVENT SUMMARY

WOULD YOU CARE TO TEST YOUR METTLE?

The tablets don’t normally play ads, but on May 5, they do. Everyone receives the same image at the same time, as if a pop-up ad has been sent out to every device:

PUT YOUR SKILLS TO THE TEST. Join us for the CHALLENGE OF THE CENTURY! Sign up now!

There is no other information given. Tapping on the tablet’s screen outside of the ad will make it go away with no effect; players can choose to have it appear only once, or persistently. “Sign up now” is a button, and when tapped (either on purpose or by accident), the ad just…goes away. How odd.

THE TOWER

On May 20, anyone who signed up for this strange ad, whether intentional or not, wakes up on the ground floor of a tower with no way out and stairs leading upward. They’ll find doors as they climb, and behind each of these doors is a challenge. The goal of the tower will be simple, as explained to each character: there are four categories of challenges (outlined below). Each competitor must win one of each challenge type to conquer the tower, at which point they will be given a reward.

We leave the nature of these challenges up to you, but the following details will be the same for each challenge:

One, each challenge falls under one of four categories, outlined below. The size, nature, and scope of these challenges is left up to you, and can fall under any of these categories. You can do as many or as few as you would like.

Two, characters will find themselves facing off against another character, in direct competition for each of these challenges.

THE CHALLENGES

Wands. Challenges in the wands category focus on will and creativity. This includes creative solutions to problems, tests of resolve, examining accomplishments, and exploring what is important to your character.
Swords. The swords category centers reason, logic, wisdom, and intellect. This category also emphasizes adversity and problems, feeling trapped, and situations of oppression/cruelty.
Cups. Challenges in this category might pertain to spiritual matters, emotion, love, and examining your past or your feeling. Cups can encourage characters to face feelings head-on, or to focus on memories, whether accurate or not.
Coins. Emphasizing material matters and possessions, this is a category that focuses on physical, tangible challenges. These don’t have to be related to money; anything with high stakes (tests, games, etc) as well as challenges of physicality can fit into the category.

The categories are broad by design; we encourage you to think creatively about how you set up your challenges, and what category they may fit under best! Not all of these have to be physical fighting challenges, either. They can be any situation where one character is directly compared against another. Some examples: squats competitions, knitting the longest scarf, rap battles, test scores, the quiet game, challenges to not fight or not touch things, “the floor is lava,” races, really the sky and your imagination is the limit.

COMPETITION RULES

Winning. What determines a challenge win will vary based on the challenge given. If the win condition is to best your opponent in battle, you win by doing that! But if the challenge is “do not fight,” then winning a battle against a competitor could make you lose the challenge. We encourage you to be creative with challenges and win conditions.

Three strikes. Everyone has a loss now and then, but losing three times will kick a participant out of the competition. Not everyone can emerge a winner!

Knockouts and death. Strangely, death does not seem to be a permanent condition within the tower. Characters who die will wake up just as if they were knocked unconscious, unscathed and ready for the next round.

Forfeit. Characters can choose “fuck this, I’m out” as an option at any time! But you can’t reenter the tower once you leave.

Draws. If two characters tie, neither wins and neither loses. No one will collect a win for the category, but it doesn’t count as a loss either! They find themselves back on the tower steps, climbing to their next challenge.

Determining winners. We encourage you to determine who wins each challenge individually by whatever means makes most sense to you.

Leaving the tower. Characters who decide to leave, or characters who are eliminated from the competition, will wake in Aldrip to find that very little time has passed in their absence, no matter how long it seems like it’s been.

THE TOP OF THE TOWER

More information will revealed about winning the competition when the log goes up.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN ALDRIP…

The mAPP application on tablets has gotten an upgrade along with the rest of Expiation. However, it doesn’t always seem…accurate? Sometimes it seems to add buildings, roads, or even whole neighborhoods that aren’t actually there. Sometimes it puts a location pin on areas outside of town that you’ve definitely never been to…they don’t always seem to even exist.

It also seems to have added a percentage at the bottom, indicating how much of the map you’ve actually been to. Here’s a fun fact: even if you’ve been to every nook and cranny in Aldrip, even if you’ve walked every street and every district, the percentage tops out at 95%. It never goes any higher. Strange! But that’s fine. It’s probably just a weird little bug…right?

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>Pronouns:</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

sara | scott summers

[laserguy]

Player: Sara
Contact: currykirby
Anything Else?: I live in EST and work at a university, so sometimes I get a lot of tagging done when it's slow or I'm so busy and can't do anything because I am in Excel or phone call hell. Otherwise, fandoms I like are Marvel, One Piece, FFVII, and Persona. I also really like korby ok.

Character: Scott Summers
Canon: XMCU totally not going to be destroyed in dp3 #copium
Canon Point: Driving back from the mall

Crime: His updated crime is Kills Charles Xavier, so that's fun. He's totally coping with that well.

Background: Originally grumpy teen becomes even grumpier when he started to shoot lasers out of his eyes and needed glasses to control them. Was slowly making friends at Xavier's, but just after 3 days of becoming a mutant, he got sucked into this world and thus grumpy. But through the power of friendship, Scott's become less grumpy and a lot more outgoing. Despite being a mutant, he really hasn't thought too much of the conflict, but recent things have made him start thinking about it more.

Yeah it's Quentin's fault--

He just wants to be normal for a while ok and help his friends. Not having some existential crisis about other Scott Summers existing or appearing in this world. Thank goodness that the two guys with red sunglasses that just showed up aren't him--

Abilities: pew pew optic blasts. Basically uncontrollable concussive forces that will wreck buildings and anyone standing in his way if he unleashes it. It's why he wears the sunglasses. Unfortunately doesn't have his visor yet, so it's all or nothing for Scott.

Plans: First of all, I'm going to be posting a mingle log for members of his TWAT Club (Teenagers With Abilities and Talents) early this month. If your character is a teen or at least somewhere around the age, feel free to join or show up. Scott probably will advertise it but handwave motions. They don't actually need an ability or say what it is, because Scott has zero standards. Also feel free to show up in a costume Spider people--

For the tower, I think I'll sign Scott up?? I don't have concrete plans regarding it and I'm bad with coming up with challenges, but I think it will be fun if it there are like goofy challenges that he must do until he actually has to fight someone, in which he'll just want to quit. Although it could be fun if your character really forces Scott to fight them but uh, optic blasts so wanna warn about that right now.

CR wise, I'd love to have CR with more adults, whether they want to mentor him or think he's a little shit. I'm good with either! Of course, more friends with teenagers. OwO

How can you run into my character? Scott's usually out and about town, either at a sandwich shop or at the arcade or movie theater. Sometimes just out shopping or exploring. Sometimes practicing his powers against monsters outside?? Especially if they're being dangerous again. Basically, easy to bump into this little guy.

???: he really has a thing for redheads doesn't he--

[drugsnotclubs]

What idiocy should we run into in the challenge tower bro

[laserguy]

should we have some food challenge like spicy challenge or hot dog eating contest or

talking about their girlfriends more seriously??

[drugsnotclubs]

Talk about your gfs or draw 25


God BOTH ARE GOOD maybe there's a disgusting food they gotta eat OR talk about their feelings for their partner and have it be actually meaningful hzbzjbs. Scott starts talking about Kotones and shinji just honestly considering the rancid fucking slab of trash but guesses he can't go back now

[laserguy]

scott would talk about kotone forever, does shinji want that--

but also scott being more serious too like he knows time is limited here with her and it sucks but also appreciate her more every day cause of it

[battlefieldbrat]

need to get kakashi into a TWAT meeting tbh. also, this month is Exploding The Sky with Gojo month!! i will get together a log soon 8)

[laserguy]

yes kakashi come join. he can see an advertisement and just come pop by. there will be free food--

oh boy gojo shenanigans. it is time.

[traumaticus]

Sara look!

I finally have an adult character!!

[laserguy]

there he is!!

how badly are they going to get along--

[beautifulleopard]

IDK. I can see it be potentially hilarious. Depending on his troll-game.

[laserguy]

oh good

throw richard at me!! i want this to happen

plus more adults for scott to snark at

[cursegod]

I take pride in the fact that Dara is an adult & Scott thinks positively of her.

[laserguy]

she's a snake goddess!!

he's still going to tease her though and just hope he's not cursed into oblivion

[cursegod]

Curses him with erectile dysfunction for a week.

[skelters]

i have zero brain but can't wait to hit scott up again please.... thank u for sticking w me
on that note, scott is totally welcome to kick vash's ass in a goofy tower challenge or they can draw with hilarious outcomes

[laserguy]

give me the noodle man!!

ohh fun challenge. i like that all of scott's challenges are goofy he's just having a good time really.

should they have like an eating contest or maybe they can be just a little more serious and talk about their siblings--

[skelters]

or like how many grapes they can fit into their mouths SOMETHING WEIRD AND HILARIOUS...

vash is going to have a mental I'M FINE breakdown bc knives has disappeared :')

[totheno1]

HELLO now I actually play an adult that wouldn't be able to join TWATS (because he's 20 going on 50), if Scott wants someone to mentor him that could be fun especially with the barely 3 year difference.

That or a tower challenge could be fun.

[laserguy]

HELLO PIXLE

i'd love to have a more mentor character for scott!! please tell him when he's being a shit and such, it'll be fun

maybe they can meet up at the tower? scott just like oh an old man

[melnik]

I know it's not new CR but I am def here to offer up an adult in Scott's life, LOL. I'd love to thread again, it's been a minute! Maybe we could do something with the tower event, if you were interested? Also, I've been meaning to ask if it's cool for me to add you on plurk!

[laserguy]

i've love to develop more cr with miller! MORE responsible adults.

ohhhh something with the tower event could be neat. would you want to do something serious or more lighthearted for that event?

and yes! feel free to add me :>

[melnik]

Awesome! Honestly, I'd be down for either. He lends to serious situations pretty easily so that's usually the default, but it is always fun to throw him into stupid scenarios and see how it goes, too, so if you have a preference, I'm all good with that. Whatever forces them to cooperate imo!

Re: sara | scott summers

[killjoyprince]

I want them to bond, so Naoto actually wants to hang out in twat club lmao.

Most possible challenges are suffering for her but inflatable trex costume race?

[laserguy]

hang out at the club naoto!! but yes i'd love to develop more cr between them.

fjafne trex costume race sounds fun.

[killjoyprince]

just wake up trapped in the costume