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INTRO / CR MEME MAY 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 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.
claude von riegan | fire emblem: three houses
Contact: Over on plurk @ wisdombitch, or PM or DM me!
Anything Else?: hi!!!!!!!!! I'm too sleepy to have anything interesting to say, but I promise I'm very friendly :')
Character: Claude von Riegan
Canon: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Canon Point: Mid-timeskip
Crime: Deception
Background: Claude is a young man with big dreams, the newly appointed Duke of the Leicester Alliance after his grandfather's death, and while he attended school hoping only to strengthen his bonds with his fellow classmates, found himself thrown into the task of keeping the Alliance neutral as he secretly prepares for war. Secretly, Claude is actually the Prince of a different country entirely and, after facing a lifetime of discrimination due to his biracial identity, fled to Fodlan to experience the other half of his bloodline and to pursue his dream of ending racial discrimination. Claude himself is deceptively flippant and cheerful, with a lust for life and a love for parties and feasts. Deep down, he's an ambitious, determined schemer willing to do anything to achieve his goals. Deeper down than that... he'd really just like some friends.
Abilities: Politicking, organization, some minor magical abilities (if you want a piddly little wind or a tiny heal, he's your man, but it's not much), wyvern-riding, poison-making, and archery are his primary skills.
Plans: So for this month, Claude is dealing with his sentencing, which is that he has to be truly honest with someone, which is challenging when he's not even sure how to be honest with himself. I would love to play around with his increasing inability to lie as the sentencing wears on, with either new or old CR -- old CR will notice that he's unable to keep up his trademark jokes and smiles, and that he'll just be very uncharacteristically serious. I'm also open to him being unable to keep from blurting out his ~secret identity, or maybe spilling a few of his hidden fears or childhood traumas dealing with racism, his royal birth, numerous childhood assassination attempts and the fact that he's dealt with a lot of attempted fratricide.
Aside from his sentencing, I'm down for anything in the Tower! I'm afraid I don't have any ideas off the top of my head - that's going to take a little more brainpower than I've got atm LOL - but I think I'm more interested in fashioning challenges suited to particular pairs of CR than more generic ones anyway. If you're interested, let's try to plot something juicy out!
How can you run into my character? Claude runs the local apothecary for all of your needs (he sells all kinds of herbs, tinctures, teas, and yes, he sells marijuana too), is often out foraging for more, as well as riding on his wyvern. Otherwise, he's a busybody about town and does a lot of dealings with the locals. He's a supplier for Ethlyn's medical troop if that's a good avenue for CR, and can be found outside of city limits hunting or honing his combat skills. Basically, I can think up an excuse to toss him just about anywhere!
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feel free to pour your heart out to vash, claude, he is bad with commitment so this is gonna go down super well ..... alternatively they can sit in silence and fake cheery act at each other
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