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: Jess
Pronouns: she/her
Contact: PM or

goblinrex
Anything Else?: EST time zone, a sucker for shounen anime, and if you friend me on plurk be prepared for lots of kitten pictures as we're in the process of adopting a lil baby here in the next few days.

Character: Hiei
Canon: Yu Yu Hakusho
Canon Point: End of series

Crime: Familial neglect.

Background:

The too long didn't read is that Hiei was born a forbidden twin to a village of ice apparitions who bound him into a bitey little egg and yeeted him from their island miles in the air. He survived that fall somehow in a river to be rescued by a gang of bandits who didn't teach him that the way to make friends was not to kill anyone who tried to steal his mother's tear gem from him. Eventually they turn their back on him and he gets a new eye installed, going from A Class to D Class demon and crossing into the human world. There he teams up with Kurama and, eventually meets and teams up with Yusuke and Kuwabara to make Team Urameshi.

... but he swears they are not friends and he definitely wouldn't die for them. Also he still refuses to tell Yukina he is her brother.

Abilities:

- Control over mortal flame
- Resistance to heat and fire
- Enhanced physical strength and speed
- Possesses an evil eye (the jagan) that gives him telekinesis, remote viewing, the ability for mind control even though he doesn't care for it
- Very enhanced senses thanks to being a literal demon and the Jagan
- Master swordsman

Plans:

I'm mostly still just vibing and seeing what Hiei can get up to around Aldrip at the moment, no deep soul-searching goals or anything just yet. For the moment I'm loving him kind of inadvertently making friends with his no-bullshit way of handling things and just sort of.. learning as he goes.

All that to say, open to anything TBH. Friends, enemies, frenemies... let's do it.

How can you run into my character? Hiei tends to stick to the woods if he isn't lurking somewhere for food. He can also be spotted on the rooftops and tall surfaces of Aldrip, pretending that he is, actually, very tall.

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Edited 2024-09-02 19:38 (UTC)

PLOT WITH ME/INTRO MEME SEPTEMBER 2024

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