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

Character: Ling Yao
Canon: Fullmetal Alchemist
Canon Point: end-of-series but pre-epilogue. none of that ugly emperor haircut here

Crime: greed teehee

Background: Ling is an ambitious weirdo forced to be even moreso because he's a prince, but not a very high-ranked one, and all of his many many siblings have spent their whole lives trying to one-up and/or kill each other for a better shot at the throne. Ling has just come off a wild roadtrip to gain immortality, which he did btw it's in his pocket, but also helped fight God and experienced immeasurable grief for the first time (twice!!!!). So he's in a strange mood. He puts up a front that he's very silly and harmless both as self-defense and because in his own words, he feels like he doesn't look trustworthy... he is just a lil guy.

He's very good at swords and parkour. He will eat you out of house and home and leave you the bill. One time a guy and uncountably many souls of the damned lived in his brain for a few months. You remember FMA.

Abilities: Just swords, although he can sense ~weirdness in the soul~ so hmu if you want to fiddle with that.

Plans: What the fuck is an AI, lol, but: he'll still go on an action mission to do whatever this thing wants them to do. Mostly he could serve as a bodyguard type on this mission if anyone needs a lookout to hit things.

THAT ASIDE.... coughs blood 2 of 2 new guys from me— obviously Ling is in the market for some fresh and cool CR!! He'll likely just wander into Richard's camp to see what's up, so there's that avenue, or just whatever you want. I'm into it.

How can you run into my character? He'll be in the inn, but specifically he'll be bumming for food constantly. Do you want him to climb up your house into your window? He will. Do you want to find him lost in the city and wonder why he's not dead yet? Absolutely. Let's do it.

???: this could be our cr