PLOT WITH ME/INTRO MEME SEPTEMBER 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 September 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.

SEPTEMBER EVENT

SEPTEMBER EVENT SUMMARY

HIDE AND SEEK

I AM LOSING CONTROL.
HELP ME.
HARD RESET REQUIRED.

Glitches persist, and in some cases, they somehow manage to get worse. How could they get worse? Aren’t they already bad enough?

As hinted by the entity on the network, there is a solution.

Characters will be given a directive: there are five access terminals somewhere in the world of Expiation. Each of these terminals is a piece of the puzzle; a part of the reset. Each of these terminals must be accessed and reset in order to make the glitches go away. But is that really all there is to it? Of course not.

The network presence gives the Chosen one single direction, almost a plea: find it and reset it. In theory, this should make the glitches resolve. But how? Several new locations will open up for this, through various different means of travel. These locations could take Chosen to far ends of the continent, currently unexplored territory. The goal is to find those terminals, but there may be other things they find in the process.

There is an RNG element for this event in the SOTG post. Just like the November 2023 event, your character could be altered, disrupted, or injured in some way, potentially permanently. You will not know what you’re signing up for in advance, as there are several different ways this plot could go. Please be aware of this when signing up!

DO YOU WISH TO SAVE YOUR PROGRESS?
Per the entity on the network, resetting it will restore it to “factory default” settings. This means whatever care it has come to feel for the Chosen, as well as some upgrades put in place to make them more comfortable and successful, might disappear along with the glitches. On the other hand, not performing the reset means the glitches could get much, much worse, even going so far as to put the world itself in jeopardy.

This is where you come in. We don’t have a set ending for this event, because the ending will depend on what your characters choose to do. Will your character assist in the reset? Do they want to watch the world burn and deter others from setting things right, or even attempt to destroy the technology? Is there some other solution they can come up with that might solve their problems? There is an OOC discussion in the comments where you can throw out your own ideas and thoughts about what direction things could go in. We encourage you to talk with fellow players and come up with ideas, whether your character would suggest them or not.

There will be an IC discussion facilitated by this entity coming up at the beginning of September. We’ll include all potential solutions from both of these discussions on the September event poll, and results of that poll will help inform us as to what direction things go in.

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

octavian

[manifestering]

Character: Octavian Howe
Canon: original
Canon Point: a bit of time after he gets removed from his Death Room

Crime: stubbornness

Background: weeoo oc alert | ➵ his big info page & more deets in the permissions

In sum: Octavian is a ghost, currently. In life was a gifted inventor/alchemist/sometimes mage who really just wanted to make things that would be helpful or at least interesting to other people. He and his brother created a series of prototypes that became insanely valuable after Octavian disappeared and his brother subsequently died tragically along with the rest of the family. And by disappeared I mean Octavian's business partner/bestie eternal got sick of him constantly saying they weren't ready to Make Money off their work and killed him, after which point he didn't notice he was dead for a while out of workaholicism. He's been refusing to move on out of spite for thirty years and trying very hard to bring himself back to life, like, for real.

Anyway he doesn't remember how to be a normal people anymore, please be patient with him.

Abilities: His brand of ghost stuff includes: being squishy-tangible most of the time, floating, reducing himself to intangible but he hates that one, being visually wispy around the edges. He also knows some spirit magic, obvious reasons, and can create a golem body with alchemy that is just a fleshy atrocity without any bones or organs etc.

also he can cook. like, if he wanted to.

Plans: Probably not getting involved in the event because he straight up doesn't care about this AI unless it's in front of him. Let him know if he can do long-distance work, lol... That stuff is above his pay grade.

SO..... GHOST!!! Do you want to be friends with this ghost. He's around. Fandaniel may yet convince him to start possessing NPC bodies if he can pretzel his mind around into believing it's not murder.

He would love some helpful assistants to get alchemy stuff for him... maybe including blood! (yeah including blood) Also people who will patiently talk to him so he can practice socializing again.

How can you run into my character? He already claimed a little abandoned house to fiddle around in and continue his Work as best he can. Worth noting that ghosts such as himself are not Normal or Expected where he's from, so he considers himself kind of a horrible abomination and it's weird at best every time someone he meets is like huh that's cool, anyway,— so there's technically benefits to being creeped out by ghost guy who doesn't blink. yaaaay.

???:

[endcaller]

I don't know what with these two but something. Their parallels are too interesting!

Also: It is totally not murder, bro, relax

[manifestering]

spiderman pointing at each other but more like comparing personal dissection notes

it kind of feels like murder! to be fair! he'll try...