expiationooc | 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 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player: Psi
Pronouns: she/her
Contact:

PsiYamaneko | denofwolves @ discord
Anything Else?: I really love video games. I talk about them, play them, and make them for a living. I spend my non-gaming time being an elderly woman who lives with her dog and three cats in coastal Maine. Sometimes I eat Thai food. Truly I am the most fascinating human ever.

My fandoms are Suikoden, Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate, Devil May Cry, DC Comics, Marvel 616, Monkey Island, Metal Gear, Legend of Zelda, Tales of, and other gaming/nerd franchises too numerous to list.

Character: Fandaniel
Canon: Final Fantasy XIV
Canon Point: Immediately after The Dark Inside

Crime: Despair

Background: A flamboyant, whimsical, nihilistic shadow being living in the body of a dead samurai.

When he was mortal, Fandaniel lived as a scientist and mage in a cyberpunk society. By the time he was born, the society had become hedonistic and sadistic. The state of imminent decay alarmed him so he resurrected the first emperor who led them into war and renewed their sense of purpose. Fandaniel made many atrocities in these mortal days including robot vessels for demons, giant kaiju-fighting weapons, and a moon-battery full of permanently tortured dragons. In his studies of vivimancy he also searched for ways to attain eternal life and performed many lovely little acts of nonconsensual human experimentation. He also cut off the head of a court mage and replaced it with multiple dogs. You know. For fun.

After a while his society destroyed itself. This and his long existence afterward combined with the nightmarish memories he had from his first life (he is the reincarnation of another very sad scientist, it's a long story stay with me here) drove him into madness and despair. The despair has broken him so completely that he believes life only creates suffering and to end suffering he needs to end all life. To accomplish this, he decided to destroy the world as well as himself.

Due to his current canon point, he believes has successfully induced the apocalypse in his own world which makes him a little calmer here. He is leaning more toward the science side of his personality than the destruction one. But he is still a miserable sadist and is always one bad day away from losing it. Mount Fandaniel may erupt at any moment and drown Aldrip in rivers of molten crazy.

TLDR: Flamboyant, theatrical, whimsical, and lively shadow being. He acts like a clown to distract anyone from seeing that he's actually a miserable, sadistic, incredibly cruel man who has no belief in the sanctity of life. Used to be a scientist, and basically still is one. Desperately wants to die and stay dead and would prefer to create as much destruction as possible when he goes.

Abilities:

Conjure shadow chains and bind people with them

Possess dead bodies (but he has to return to his current vessel after a time)

Chuck spells around like a wizard

View the memories of others by observing the person while they are remembering something

Fly

Create objects with his own aether which he usually uses to create clothes and disguises

Teleport

Also, he has no shadow. Weird, right? Probably nothing to worry about.

It's worth noting he rarely uses his more combat-focused abilities. He doesn't like fighting unless he's very sure he can win.

His greatest "ability" is his intelligence. He's an obnoxious turbo-genius.

Plans: Fandaniel will be continuing to experiment on NPCs (uh). Beyond this he is curious about the resetting of the AI. He is thinking a reset might be a good idea but is wary about what it could mean. He WANTS to get to it so he can program backdoor access for himself into the AI. Do not let him do this. Unless you want to live in the setting of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream for a while.

CR I CAN OFFER!

MAD SCIENCE BRO! Do you play a scientist or someone who is too curious to let morals get in their way? Fandaniel wants to team up to study the glitches.

Villain CR! Want a villain to torment your hero? I've got the man for you. He is very cruel and manipulative.

Weird friendship. Fandaniel may be a mad sadist but he is also very old, patient, and nonjudgmental (it is impossible for him to unilaterally hate all living things more than he already does). He could be an uneasy ally for certain character types.

Echo bullshit. With the Echo, Fandaniel can experience your character's memories as if he lived them himself. He can only experience the memory they are actively remembering. Using the Echo he can also understand all languages because he's resonating with the other person's soul to communicate. Normally not worth mentioning but if people run into language related glitches he can help them out.

TECHNOLOGY! Fandaniel can do not-so-mad science to work with people on technological upgrades to devices, weapons, etc as long as he has the resources. The levels of tech he worked on when he was a mortal (elf) were insane.

Fandaniel enjoys finding sponsors for his projects. He will act servile toward these people and do things for them in exchange for funding and resources. He thinks of these people as his patrons.

Fandaniel is also a very complex person. He will usually present himself as a flamboyant, whimsical eccentric. Past that one can get the sense of his cold cruelty. Past that is his despair which can honestly be depressing to be around. And there is more. But expect that "getting to know" him will take multiple interactions.

How can you run into my character? Fandaniel is usually at the Aetherochemical Research Facility these days doing non-consensual experiments on the NPCs to determine if they have souls. As far as he can see no, they do not.

When he's not there he spends lots of time just wandering around Aldrip with his altered welcome robot Hyperetes and people watching.

IMPORTANT NOTE Fandaniel is usually a playful, whimsical eccentric and as much comedy relief as a villain but this character can get very intense. Themes around him include suicide, despair, existential horror and hopelessness, nihilism and extreme self-loathing. You can read more about this on his OPT OUT. Please do not hesitate to opt out of interactions if you want to. I understand some of this character's themes are more heavy than people might want to deal with in RP.

This is the best character who has ever existed in a Final Fantasy game by the way.

Edited 2024-09-01 15:00 (UTC)

Doing a drive by to say if Fandaniel ever wanted a buddy to be bad with or really wanted to get silly enough to cause the final days again someday I've got a guy with "devastating reality altering and global terrorism" on his CV.

Frankly they've got similarities fr so it would be like being stuck in some layer of hell to have them in the same room

Two sussy death clowns in one setting

I am definitely down for these two interacting and seeing what happens! At the moment Fanny doesn't intend to induce the Final Days (again) but he knows himself well enough to know that could change. Especially since he's not sure if Expiation is technically a real place oops

PLOT WITH ME/INTRO MEME SEPTEMBER 2024

Fandaniel | Final Fantasy XIV (Endwalker spoilers)

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