expiationooc | ENABLE ME PLEASE / PLOT WITH ME AUGUST 2024

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Welcome to Expiation's CR meme! This is a post where players can plot with each other on the direction they'd like to go for the month, and so on and so forth. There's a form below for you to fill out below, so get plotting!

We're now inclding an EMP element since it's an app month! We have an APP THIS PLEASE and ENABLE ME PLEASE in the comments below with a form, so if you're interested in participating, use the form and comment under the subject title applicable. Other than that, the regular comments will go as a normal CR meme would! Also, the TDM will be posted in the log comm with old and new characters alike able to top-level on it.

The SOTG for August is HERE. Feel free to browse around if you haven't already, and check out the MAIN NAVIGATION for more detailed info about the game itself.

AUGUST TDM

AUGUST SUMMARY

DATABREACH UPDATE.

It's gotten worse. The glitches and issues that began in July are still in effect, and unfortunately, they seem to be ramping up. Glitches in August become more severe and also more persistent, happening with more frequency and longer duration. Some people may find the effects last longer or leave a lingering effect. Some may notice that the environment around them has lost quite a bit of its stability. The setting of Expiation as well as the local NPCs of Expiation can be affected, and those effects are nearly limitless, so long as they don't permanently damage the setting. Some ideas to get you thinking:

-Extreme weather. Temperatures and atmospheric conditions will begin to fluctuate wildly: one city block could be experiencing a severe heat wave, while the next block seems to be having a blizzard. Hurricane-force winds, torrential downpours, and hail may suddenly start up and then vanish, leaving only damage in their wake.

-Natural disasters may begin to affect small pockets of Aldrip and the surrounding areas. Earthquakes, severe storms, tidal waves, floods, and any other conditions you can think of are fair game, whether they exist in the real world or in fiction.

-NPCs may glitch in extreme ways. This could include a catastrophic failure (a "blue screen," if you will), or something much more personal, such as taking on characteristics or memories from loved (or loathed) ones back home.

-Entire buildings and blocks may change without warning. The residential district may become a desolate wasteland, or maybe the park across the street is suddenly a gigantic skyscraper. Maybe your home is now in outer space. How's the gravity in there?

-Thus far, the Chosen and locals have enjoyed the ability to communicate without issue. However, whatever allows them all to understand each other seems to be breaking down as well. Characters may find themselves unable to understand or communicate with each other, even speaking in languages they don't canonically know.

Remember: these are just ideas. The glitches experienced at this point can be anything you can think of, and we encourage you to get creative with these effects for your characters and for the setting!

IN SPITE OF GLITCHES...

Life continues on. As we've gone to around 60 players, we will be opening apps to both new and current players. New arrivals appear in the same timeframe as usual, but it may not be smooth sailing as they try to navigate a city rapidly descending into chaos.

Bon Odori begins on August 13, and with it comes a celebration of lights and remembrance. New and current Chosen are encouraged to both attend, and dress up for the occasion, whether they're used to wearing a yukata or not. There will be food, drink, activities...and certainly nothing could possibly go wrong.

PLOT WITH ME

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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?

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Character: Ethlyn
Canon: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War
Canon Point: Right after an unholy marriage of gameplay and story where each time you end your turn you bring her and her husband Quan that much closer to death by dracoknight ambush

Crime: "The crimes of the Grannvale Empire"

Background: Ethlyn is a medieval noblewoman who had to take on the responsibilities of a whole duchess when she was 12, which has shaped her into a person with a strong and honestly overdeveloped sense of responsibility, as well as no concept of time off or not being busy. She is the mom friend, whether you want her to be or not. She's trained in healing and swordfighting, has two young children left at home (she got a chance to see that they survived, but in exchange are old before their time) and also, she died before getting here.

She's also been in Expi for over a year which means that she has been through a LOT, which on the one hand means it's not easy to throw her and she gets a bit of a +1 for composure in a crisis but on the other hand, BOY SHE HAS BEEN THROUGH A LOT. She has learned to be a little better about seeking help when she needs it at least!

Last month she managed to save one whole person from being a Gnosia and also found a dead friend of hers (Claude) and it was upsetting.

Abilities: Healing, s'words, horsj

Plans:
- She's going to be speaking Jugdrali (aka Old Norse)
- She will be seeing people from her canon around as glitch'd NPCs so if you want to encounter her NOT being able to be Calm Mom Friend that's a good chance to do it. Right now I am thinking some or all of Mortally Wounded Husband, Barbequed Brother, Sad Dead Sister-in-Law*, and Alive But Not Happy Children. :'|
- She is going to be encouraging people to talk about Having Died because she knows you can't bottle that shit up!!
- all the disasters and shit are going to keep her HOPPING. do you have any healing / medical knowledge whatsoever?? congrats you're in the arztenritter.

* thanks to Plot Reasons, Ethlyn falsely remembers that she tried and failed to save her sister-in-law from being abducted by evil robes-wearing plotters. this didn't actually happen.

How can you run into my character? Ethlyn runs the Willow Clinic, which you can find if you look for the incongruous FARMHOUSE in the middle of a city block. She is always recruiting people to the Arztenritter (EMTs but with horses and chocobos instead of ambulances) so if your character so much as hints as having taken a first aid class once she will try to get them on board. If she's not in the Clinic, she is probably running errands for it.

She's also a skilled swordswoman and horsewoman and practices both daily outside the city.

Edited 2024-08-02 04:00 (UTC)

ENABLE ME PLEASE / PLOT WITH ME AUGUST 2024

Ethlyn | Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War