ENABLE ME PLEASE / PLOT WITH ME OCTOBER 2024

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ENABLE ME PLEASE

Welcome to Expiation's CR meme! This is a post where players can plot with each other on the direction they'd like to go for the month, and so on and so forth. There's a form below for you to fill out below, so get plotting!

We're now inclding an EMP element since it's an app month! We have an APP THIS PLEASE and ENABLE ME PLEASE in the comments below with a form, so if you're interested in participating, use the form and comment under the subject title applicable. Other than that, the regular comments will go as a normal CR meme would! Also, the TDM will be posted in the log comm with old and new characters alike able to top-level on it.

The SOTG for October is HERE. Feel free to browse around if you haven't already, and check out the MAIN NAVIGATION for more detailed info about the game itself.

OCTOBER TDM

TEST DRIVE/MINGLE: SPOOKY SEASON ACTIVITIES

The locals don't consciously seem to know that anything was glitching, and they'll give strange looks when you mention anything about a "reset"...but it's almost like they're celebrating things going back to normal. Near the end of the month, a carnival comes to town! This will serve as our October TDM, and while most of the rides and games will be standard fare for carnivals, there will be some small, opt-in elements that deal with the crimes that characters have been charged with.

Aldrip's traditional witch hunt will be the other big draw this month. The witch hunt is more symbolic than literal, but this year, it'll be done like a game of tag. Some Chosen will be picked to be witches, and other characters will have to capture them. Whoever has captured a witch by the end of the event will receive a prize: one regained small item from home! Successful captures will be chosen via RNG; we'll have a sign-up in the TDM post.

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Psi: Fandaniel | Final Fantasy XIV

[endcaller]

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: Flamboyant mad scientist turned immortal sorcerer.

Fandaniel once lived as the lead researcher and greatest scientific mind of a technologically advanced society. After making some mad-made horrors beyond imagination he was approached by an immortal called Emet-Selch and inducted into a group of celestial bureaucrats called the Convocation of Fourteen. He now exists as a shadow being with no form of his own. So he's vibing in the corpse of a dead samurai these days.

Outwardly, he is whimsical, theatrical, and playful. He smiles often, dances as he moves, and never seems to take anything seriously. Beneath this, however, he is dangerously curious and sadistic. He will torture people just to see what happens. Beneath the sadism is despair. Lots of despair. Fandaniel's main goal at this point is to die and stay dead and take every other living thing with him. He feels life always ends in death and is full of suffering so why live at all?

TL;DR VERSION: Flamboyant energy being. Acts like a clown but is actually very depressed. Mad sadist who delights in torment. Hates you, hates himself, hates the world. Really wants to die. Also part-time comic relief despite all this.

Abilities: As an Ascian, Fandaniel can do the following:

• 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: After the reset Fandaniel will be doing more experiments to see what has changed. Many of these experiments will be just awful. Other than this, he'll be exploring the town. Have a science nerd? He could be a nerd with them.

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 (or current lack thereof).


• 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. .


• 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? He has his own laboratory, the Aetherochemical Research Facility, on the outskirts of town. It's not very big (yet) but still has plenty of resources. People are welcome to visit. When he's not there he's wandering around town and people watching.

IMPORTANT NOTE Fandaniel is usually a playful, whimsical eccentric and as much comedy relief as 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.

[manifestering]

alright then since the locals definitely aren't real, let's take them apart--

actually octavian received Transformation Visions about the rumpitur snake people which may be of interest. let's take a snake people apart.

[endcaller]

If Fandaniel got ahold of a snake person he'd definitely vivisect one. He couldn't when Ketsora and Rumpitur were inaccessible, poor him!

[manifestering]

this should be a new sidequest... the snake people used to be chosen maybe perhaps?? how fucked up is their dna now... new quest objective dings to find out

[endcaller]

Fandaniel doesn't know about the residents being Chosen once and it will fuck him up. Please help him learn.

[manifestering]

jots this down on my tdl, "ruin fancy dan's whole day"..... use it for inspiration, fanny!

[endcaller]

OH HE WILL.

He will desperately try to get a snake person on his table. Sanely.

[southernchere]

wrong account, but apparently rafal is a stinky booty and he said the only way he will give jinx his fire breath is if he meets fandaniel and ekko (maybe charles too? cause he's in the group now)

so idk how we are going to get a big thread like that going, but i guess jinx can shove fandaniel in rafal's inbox.

[endcaller]

We can do inbox or the Inx and Rafal can visit Fandaniel at his lab. Or both! Whatever works best for folks.

[southernchere]

yeah, we'll figure it out! i still have to contact ekko and charles player about it.

[skelters]

my brain is smooth and dry but i would like to pick back up on their cr if you have room! hehehe

[endcaller]

I have room and would love Vash CR!

Last time they interacted, Fandaniel was intrigued by Vash's arm so the arm is an easy way to kick things off with him again.

[skelters]

yes!!!! honestly vash'd be happy for him to take a better look anytime, as long as he doesn't wreck it! :')

[endcaller]

He will not wreck it! But if he studies it he could possibly help fix it in the future. Tech dude who is also a master of anatomy and all.