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

alba | vincent valentine | ffvii

[depressionnap]

Player: Alba
Contact: albaaulbath @ plurk, mothodical @ Discord, PM
Anything Else?: i've been an ff7 slut since i was a teenager, for better or for worse. i also love a lot of horror media which frankly should surprise no one just look at who im playing. i love castlevania [laugh track], darkest dungeon [laugh track], as well as fear & hunger [howling laughter and clapping]

Character: Vincent Valentine
Canon: Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
Canon Point: Post-Temple of the Ancients

Crime: Infidelity

Background: Cloud found this guy in a coffin and then Vincent proceeded to be bad with technology and then he was a Bloodborne boss at the gang. Eventually he decided to join up with everyone else but not for fights and stuff, you don't get his bad stats sick shooting skills yet kids. There's more, but I'm mostly relying on FF7 OG for his backstory until further notice. Do not whisper Dirge of Cerberus at me, I will cry.

Abilities:
- sleeping
- shooting
- m-m-monster shifting
- whatever the fuck was going on in Advent Children
- sick backflips
- don'tworryaboutChaosrightnow

Plans: I'm here for shenanigans, hilarity, and then sometimes maybe I wanna jerk your feelings around. Otherwise, no major plans. Vincent is trying to figure things out while also keeping an eye on the FF7 gang. He's gonna end up as Barret's very spooky roomie and that's gonna be so funny I'm sorry Barret.

How can you run into my character? No no, he runs into YOU.

???: please appreciate that i drew this

[drugsnotclubs]

Ok but is Vincent a musketeer or an abomination in DD1. you gotta pick one


Also his cozy goth snugglebag is a work of art

[depressionnap]

oh abomination absolutely, and i promise you i have an abomination journal as well. i really just play the same guy over and over

THANK YOU im always a slave to memeing around

[drugsnotclubs]

Get the 2x plague doc, 2x abom infinite blight combo, then weep knowing she's gonna objectify the hell out of abomination FOR SCIENCE--


Look that's the only correct way to play a FF7. I absolutely need to tag all y'all for dumbass shenanigans. I don't know what those are yet but I was busy during tdm and I must rectify this

[depressionnap]

rip in fuck abomo. praying hard he gets added to DD2 though.

no worries, we can make up for lost time!

[bonobos]

harasses you

[depressionnap]

[everblooms]

>Canon Point: Post-Temple of the Ancients
no comment

welcome to expi, alba! i've heard fantastic things about you from my partner vi and my bestie sven! i'm agatha which i forgot to mention before this edit <3 i had a blast with you on the tdm, apologies for the slogging on my part but i adore your vincent and can't wait for aerith and him to cause Problems together. i too am here for the hilarity

also love that pic u drew. will this be his fashion choice in game any time soon

[depressionnap]

lmaooo he doesn't plan on giving anyone spoilers but we'll see how long that goes on for

THANK YOU, i love your aerith so much and i also have heard great things about you, agatha!! and no worries, april has been... a thing. i got slower as well but hopefully May will be good. i am so ready for shenanigans with aerith and vincent that is a promise

maybe if someone wakes him from a nappy

[izanagis]

i utterly expired during the tdm and didn't get to tag most of the characters i wanted, but i have really enjoyed watching vincent be a total weirdo from the sidelines and will definitely try to throw yu at him in the future

[depressionnap]

No worries, last month was a TIME, but I'm glad you've found Vincent entertaining! Looking forward to Yu

[threadmage]

Hello I have a very weird relationship with FF7 where I watched Advent Children like 20+ times growing up and have only played Remake and Rebirth, but Vincent is a fav of mine and I would totally love to have CR with you! I have a 15 year old noble thread mage to offer but she's very social and chatty and will talk to pretty much anyone.

[depressionnap]

Social and chatty is perfect since as you can probably expect Vincent is neither of those things! He's gonna be awkward as heck, but I would love to have CR. I'm hoping to get some kind of catch-all log going soonish this month.

[threadmage]

Sandry will completely ignore all awkwardness and just make a friend haha. I'll keep an eye out for that log! If not maybe we could do a tower competition if you're taking part in that?

[depressionnap]

bless her cuz he doesn't know what he's doing in conversations ever

I'm probably gonna sit out on the tower competition but who knows I might whimsically decide to do it anyway. For now, I'll plot up some good hooks for Vincent's log for this weekend!

[threadmage]

Sounds good! I'll keep an eye out for it! Also I'm loving their conversation on the network hahaha.

[skelters]

vincent has been my all time fav since i found out that we are birthday twins so i simply must have this cr. let's be sad monster-branded people wearing red together........

[depressionnap]

spooky october 13 birthday!!! good birthday!!!

but yes, i would absolutely love that. i've also been a trigun fan since the beginning of time, very curious to see what Stampede will unveil next too!

[laserguy]

HELLO i just want to say i love your vincent and would love some sort of cr with him and scott

even if it's just scott forever being disappointed that he's not a vampire. being able to transform into monsters is kind of cool though, although less cool because a crazy scientist was involved--

[depressionnap]

i'm so glad because i'm gonna be real i haven't rped vincent in literal YEARS, so im glad people are enjoying him so far!!

look scott we're all disappointed he's not actually a vampire, he just wants to live in a Spirit Halloween