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PLOT WITH ME/INTRO MEME SEPTEMBER 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 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 SEEKI 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.
Liv
Pronouns: She/her
Contact:
Anything Else?: Currently having the Person of Interest brain rot. The rest of the time I am a civil servant with such high octane hobbies as walking my dog, reading, and knitting. I am in EST and try to get back to tags at least every other day!
Root
Canon: Person of Interest
Canon Point: Mid-S3, after "/"
Crime: A lot of murder.
Background: Root is a peppy irrepressible hacker and hitman turned hero. No, really, she's doing great at this good guy thing! She has an alarming devotion to the Machine, a worldwide super-intelligence A.I., but she's not a blind zealot about A.I. in general -- just the Machine. Root is full of quips and irreverence on the surface but underneath is ruthlessly pragmatic.
Abilities: Hacking, guns, a mildly terrifying level of commitment. She's also very, very good at pretending to be someone she's not and taking on cover identities.
Plans: Oh my gosh, this is basically the best possible time for me to have chosen to pick up Root. She thinks this A.I. is an adorable baby who needs some help and woe betide those who get in her way to rescue it. Meanwhile, she's having serious grief over her separation from the Machine and losing her purpose, and she's waffling between legitimate existential dread over being in a simulation and a thoroughly rational scientific understanding of the questionable nature of reality to start with.
If I'm playing her right she is off-putting and frankly weird, so she's more or less fun to throw at just about anyone, to be honest! Really looking to get some CR established for her and get out there. The Machine would want her to be protecting people while she's here so she will be attempting to do that if the opportunity arises, but she's less a street vigilante and more a surgical knife focused on her primary goal, which right now is helping the A.I.
Also she's very into violent sassy women, especially if they're secretly also nerds. Prepare to be flirted with if you fit in any of these categories.
How can you run into my character? Please come plot with me for this event!!
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Toph
Canon: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Canon Point: Post-canon with a bunch of sequel comics
Crime: Swindling.
Background: Toph was originally written as a stereotypical rockhead tough guy and then redesigned as a little blind girl but with none of her personality changed. That about sums it up. She's 13 and likes to be tough, gruff, and capable, but she is definitely still a kid and figuring some things out. Toph is widely sociable and tends to jump into action whenever it's in front of her, especially to help people.
Abilities: Earthbending. Like a lot of earthbending, including metal and sand. Toph's made some great use of that here and she also uses it to "see" around her.
Plans: I have no idea what I'm doing with her with this plot because she is still ??? technology, but she likes Spock a lot so she'll probably be dragged in somehow. She's likely to take more of a sidekick role in this event, I think, so if anyone needs an earthbender to move earth or kick some ass, let me know and she can probably be recruited!
How can you run into my character? Toph is co-owner of the casino and primarily runs security. She also has a pretty unique-looking house in the middle of town (it's made of one smooth piece of unbroken stone), she stops by Kakashi's dog rescue regularly to help out, and she has a couple students and people she trains with. It's fairly easy to run into her and she's a loudmouth who doesn't hesitate to insert herself into other peoples' business, so there's that, too!
???: idk I guess she's a Fortnite sprite now. what is happening