PLOT WITH ME: APRIL 2025

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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 April 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.

APRIL TDM/MINGLE

TEST DRIVE/MINGLE: WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE

New characters on this TDM wake up in Rumpitur? It’s a smallish fishing and agricultural town, laid back but well taken care of. The people there are humanoid snakes, and while snakes may be intimidating usually, they’re actually pretty nice. They take these new Chosen happily, at least temporarily. They’ll give them shelter and food for basically free, or even in exchange for little errands around the village.

But beware of those from Aldrip, they say. They’re rude, brutal and they’ll leave anyone high and dry. Newbies may hear other gossip whispered amongst these creatures, which we’ll have a top-level for on what people would let characters hear about them. They may be true, or they may be untrue! Not everything in the rumor mill is bad, though. There’s gossip of an easier way to transport coming to link the two cities soon…

Oh, wait. There’s some of those people from Aldrip now. They were promised more resources for sale and for festivities. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. Nothing to worry about.


LOOK! IT’S… THE EASTER SNAKE?

At least newbies and oldies will be able to participate in their spring festivities. There will be an egg hunt, eggs as snacks and egg-themed snacks, and egg… races?? That’s not strange at all. Watch out for the eggs as snacks though – eating these will give characters an effect. There will be a rng for these effects, if you’d like to take a chance, but you can also bypass that and let choose what you’d like to play out.

The egg hunt is more productive, though. Characters will find items on the inside, both useful to take home to Aldrip for the rebuilding efforts (seeds for planting, etc), and useful personally. We’re pretty flexible to whatever can be found in these eggs, but remember they must be able to fit inside of these eggs.

AH, WELL THAT WAS FUN. NOW SHOO!

All of this will last --about a week before it seems like the people in Rumpitur seem to get a little tired of the Chosen’s existence. Too much partying, too many mouths to feed. They kindly offer to send them back to Aldrip, where the rest of the Chosen reside, and will lowkey even force characters on their wagon back if they have to. After all of those rumors and talking shit about Aldrip and the Chosen, it’s all fine. This is completely fine. Right?

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LIMBUS COMPANY/PROJECT MOON

[followyourstar]

Canon: Limbus Company or any other Project Moon games!
Current Cast: Dante
Wanted Characters: Anyone, but members of the LCB and Hohenheim especially.

About: HEY HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THEMES OF CRIME, MORAL CHOICES, PENANCE, AND WHAT MAKES PEOPLE PEOPLE? That's a trick question, you're a projmoon fan. Seriously though, in my experience this has been a great game to play a character from this canon in.

I'm... not sure what else to say here besides incoherent yelling, so feel free to ask any questions you like and I'll answer. also in my experience the game is pretty good about player plots so if you ever feel like having your character hear a voice as bright and beautiful as the sun.......

???: I've got too many quotes saved from the April Fool's event, but let's go with this for now.

[manifestering]

So during the AI rescue(?), Octavian got a vision of the Rumpitur snake people from before they were snake people that implied they were once Chosen... if he asks them about this, what would they do? Do They Know? Would they brush him off as a nut or be more aggressive, etc?

Re: QUESTIONS / COMMENTS / CONCERNS

[baldrshand]

Given what the Rumpiturans did last time they were on the map, Ethlyn's going to be looking through the stuff they have to sell in case it's been tampered with or otherwise unsafe to eat. Would she find anything or are their food supplies legit?

your guy spirit halloween

[manifestering]

Player: Laura
Pronouns: she/they
Contact: jojoveller or pm
Anything Else?: you can add me on plurk freely

Character: Octavian Howe
Canon: original
Canon Point: a few months after being liberated from his death room tm

Crime: stubbornness

Background: Octavian is a ghost, mostly! In life he was a former prodigy become prolific adult in his field (inventing and engineering) alongside his brother Sterling and his bestie Hiram. Due to Creative and Financial Differences, Hiram mcmurdered him, and he was left to hover in a room for 30 years as a manufactured ghost made of runes and spirit magic. Then his nephew and a gang of ne'er-do-wells broke into the house to steal other things and recruited the weird ghost in the process, because why not.

He's been in Aldrip since, like, August? He has a body now but only sometimes. He also has a little robot assistant.

Abilities:
💀 ghost. he Can phase through walls and stuff but he doesn't like doing it because it's not actually his natural ghosty state
💀 temp body, summoned via spell ritual, lasts a number of hours and looks human but is kind of wrong, in a golem pretending to be human way. he's refining it slowly but surely
💀 magic, mostly enchanting things to have different effects
💀 alchemy. it's alchemy
💀 his usual ghost body is tangible in a "gripping a hollow plastic thing" way, he has to focus on it all the time, it's stressful
💀 you wouldn't expect this but he can cook

Plans:
👻 with Root dropping, she has left Octavian her cracked computers and various STEM club dark web communicators... so, STEM....2!!! could be a thing if anyone is interested. Octavian does not know how to utilize that stuff to its fullest potential, but in Root's honor, he will try to put it to good use. fist clench.
👻 Octavian had a Vision of the old AI turning an old group of Chosen(?) into the Rumpiturans many "cycles" ago, so he will be making some noise about that once they come around... what is up with the snakes!
👻 lowkey he wants to defeat death, just as a concept, uhhh if anyone wants to do weird alchemy with him
👻 his lil robot will clank around town and you can interact with it
👻 will he do any eggy festivities.... maybe. it depends.
👻 he likes board games..........anybody want a board game club????

How can you run into my character? He lives in a weird little hovel, he wrote all over the walls in there instead of getting a notebook... His lab from home is out back, it is a little brick building with a business room and a tinkering lab in the back, as well as a lesser lab that was supposed to be a break room but is now storage. He is there a lot.

He may wander around town with his wee robot, a squat thing with hexgem eyes called Wobbles. Sometimes it independently runs errands for him. He takes pictures of it around town like a proud parent. Sometimes Viktor is also there. They're discreet but they smooch.

On occasion he will just wander into other people's labs/sciencey spaces (Altius, Viktor) if they continue to tolerate him-- And he also loiters around town enjoying Food and Feeling Physical Sensation and The Sun. Maybe less now that the townies are mean.

???:

Fandaniel | Final Fantasy XIV

[endcaller]

Player: Psi
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: PsiYamaneko | PM | denofwolves on Discord
Anything Else?: Elderly woman in EST time zone. I like and make video games.

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

Crime: Despair

Background: Mad scientist who got recruited into a cult and became an immortal sorcerer with no physical form. Now he lives in the body of a dead samurai and is coping with the fact that he is the reincarnation of another, slightly less mad, scientist who wrote a really bad tweet that destroyed the world.

Nihilistic, sadistic, and extremely flamboyant. He tends to present himself as a clown, but beneath the playfulness, he is in great despair. His main agenda is to die and take everyone else with him. It's what his Emperor would have wanted, anyway.

Abilities: Sorcerer who can sling around Final Fantasy spells (Blizzaga, Firaga, etc). Very talented in shadow magic, especially. He can fly and teleport. Also, he possesses The Echo, which allows his soul to resonate with the souls of others. Mostly, this lets him see their memories as if they were his own and communicate despite language barriers. It used to do a bit more, but that requires a world with aether in it!

Plans: Fandaniel got a message from the AI asking for help. He will be asking if anyone else got a similar message and recruiting other Chosen to join him in hunting down the location in the photo he received. He will have an open post about this!

His robot Hyperetes has the AI backed up to it. Which is probably fine.

Aside from that...

CR I can offer!

• MAD SCIENCE: Do you play a scientist or someone too curious to let morals get in their way? Fandaniel wants to team up to study the simulation.


• 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.


• LABORATORY: While Fandaniel has some rooms of the Aetherochemical Research Facility sealed off for his personal use, the ARF itself is a public space and he'll allow anyone research-minded to drop by. His goal is to devote the ARF to studying the simulation and the AI.

How can you run into my character? Lives at the Aetherochemical Research Facility insofar as he lives anywhere. Since he doesn't need to eat or sleep it's just... the place he spends his time. When he isn't there, he's out around town with his robot Hyperetes.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: 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 heavier than people might want to deal with in RP.

[humandispel]

I think it's about time for these two to meet and crank up that cw: suicide ideation vibes up to eleven.

Dazai hasn't been around for any of the AI stuff prior to this, but he's very interested on getting himself involved with it! He has no combat prowess (outside of being impervious to anything supernatural/magical), but I'd like him to tag along for hunting down that location. Maybe you can even pick his brain about it.

[humandispel]

Octavian! It's been a while. I need Dazai to bother him again. (read: potentially drag him into one of the egg festival shenanigans) (maybe even join that board game club)

[nightwild]

Player: Hannah
Pronouns: she/her
Contact: lastbastion
Anything Else?: i like it when guys in plastic suits punch each other and then one explodes

Character: Fauna
Canon: Original
Canon Point: Hasn't changed! She just became a hero.

Crime: Attempted Destruction of Human Society

Background: Her canon backstory aside, her Expi background is more interesting. Fauna's accidentally responsible for the wish monster event plot, and she got hospitalized for it. Got her ass beat by the Black Beast. Whoops! She's filled with regret but also anger and determination now.

Abilities: She's a tokusatsu hero! She transforms, fights, does cool kicks and explosions. Her primary abilities while transformed are magic of various elements, but she can switch to a ninja or samurai form for other skillsets.

Plans: Someone's in trouble~! Fauna's getting out of the hospital right around the same time she's getting sentenced. So, uh. It's gonna go bad for her. She's gonna be so mad. But people can help her calm down or find things to do that aren't violence.

She's kind of going a little stir-crazy, because she's starting to feel like she can't influence things for the better. So she could use some pep talks on that front, probably.

How can you run into my character? Once she's out of the hospital, she's mostly just planning on returning to the X-Mansion and training as hard as she can to get stronger. But she still patrols the city most nights when she's able, to try to make sure nothing's going on.

???:

[endcaller]

Fandaniel is also going to be observing the snake people and wondering about the former Chosen thing. That's been bothering him ever since he vivisected and murdered one, you know the one.

[endcaller]

We DEFINITELY need to explore the potential disaster that is these two interacting. Fandaniel can invite him along after he throws his post up!

[manifestering]

Dazai...... egg race him. Smash cut to Octavian just standing there and not racing--

He's loud and outgoing, he'll be in charge of advertising board game club, ty for signing up,

[manifestering]

He does. He does know the one. Don't vivisect any of them in their own town, ok Dan--

[endcaller]

He promises to probably not do that.

[humandispel]

Come on, Tavi! This is all part of living!

Time for him to use his greatest weapon: reverse psychology.

[followyourstar]

Player: Hayley
Pronouns: she/her
Contact: shadetoshade -- feel free to add!
Anything Else?: Major fan of Project Moon and Final Fantasy XIV. Have a tendency to babble on and on about things from time to time. Especially when excited or bored.

Character: Dante
Canon: Limbus Company
Canon Point: Post Canto VII

Crime: Aimlessness

Background: Amnesiac with a prosthetic head; became executive manager of a department in a shady company after being saved in the middle of the woods. Nervous disaster of a human that's somehow keeping everything together. They're also kind of a loser (affectionate).

Recently, they had a chunk of their opinion of themself taken from them during the whole wish-monster event. As a result, they have a little extra confidence and aren't as self-conscious about their head, but pushing them about how they think other people see them or on the meaning of responsibility might cause them to blue screen a little. Sure feels empty in here.

Abilities:
⏰ Chunk of a magical Golden Bough in their head with the power of ~connection.~ AKA: allowing them to see others' memories or connect to the psyche.
⏰ Can slow time for everyone in an area around them or can give others a free limit break
⏰ Paperwork
⏰ Can shoot things now and even hit them. (looking to get better at hitting moving objects)

Plans: I've signed Dante up for sentencing for one! But also looking to explore the aftermath of the wish incident and have them do what they can to help out with securing food for Aldrip.

Will probably head to the egg festival! Less for the festival itself, but more to check out Rumpitur, since they haven't gone there yet. Feel free to drag them into something embarrassing.

How can you run into my character?
⏰ Frequently found at the library reading something or another
⏰ Or in the casino, particularly at the Queen's Blood tables
⏰ Running around trying to find something to do for an odd job
⏰ Occasionally staring off into space and feeling hollow (they're fine, totally)

???: Last month in a nutshell:

[manifestering]

Listen he had 31 years of living and he never had to advertise shit

[manifestering]

Thank you Dan that is soooo comforting--

jenni / Richard Plantagenet

[traumaticus]

Player: jenni
Pronouns: she/her
Contact: sparklepire @ plurk
Anything Else?: idk. I like shojo and other gay shit.

Character: Richard Plantagenet
Canon: The Requiem of the Rose King
Canon Point: right before his coronation

Crime: existing

Background: It's shoujo adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, expect gay. So yeah!! Medieval English King.

Richard has actually been in Expi for a full year this month! Hooray. During that time he has established training grounds at the outskirts, gained ownership of the inn and underground bunker (which he will turn into emergency shelter) and established defense squad!! More info about that very soon.

Abilities: Richard is skilled knight and a war veteran.

Plans: Hello. I was on hiatus during March and it will continue for about week. This doesn't mean that I don't have plans, tho!

- Richard will be offering a free stay at the inn to those whose own housing were destroyed in the explosion
- He'll be doing advertising for the defense squad. Also, for those who are interested in stuff: how would a patrol mingle sound like? Basically, go around damaged Aldrip, help with the clean up and dig up stuff! Maybe on lookout for any unwanted monsters.
- Richard's long-game has been for The Chosen to get organized, which is one reason for defense squad 👀 However, he has also been workshopping an idea for a new Council consisting of The Chosen. My plan is to finally get that idea rolling and have him approach ppl more directly.
- He will be going to Rumpitur! He's interested in bargaining and trading stuff with snakes
- Richard is very infamous not knowing what fun is. So take that as a challenge.
- Sidenote: it's Easter!! Richard is traumatized catholic so you bet he'll be trying to rope people to join him in church.

How can you run into my character?
- He owns the inn! So he will most likely be there more often than not
- He is regular customer at The Last Drop and Lupin.
- He spends some time at the farm, seeing that his horse lives there
- His only healthy hobby seems to be hunting!! So he's a occuring visitor at the woods too!

???:

[abandonware]

How does sentencing work with the wish effects following characters into this month?

[babilun]

Player: Star
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: DM or zasshuu
Anything Else?: I am old LOL. I'm basically online most of the time as I work in a teashop, but whether or not I get to tags is a different story. I'm still fairly new to this game and dreamwidth in general, so please bear with me! I am but a little baby! I'm a big Fate/Type-Moon fan ( especially Fate/Extra). I enjoy tokusatsu, shoujo manga(webtoons), and otome games.

Character: Gilgamesh ( Archer )
Canon: Fate ( / Grand Order )
Canon Point: After Time Temple ( because I'm not up to date but not like Gil shows up anywhere in FGO besides early events LOL ).

Crime: Being "Gorgerous" ( a lie, his sin is pretty obvious LOL )

Background: A hero from Mesopotamian mythology. The first King in human history to become a legend, he proclaims himself “Mankind's Oldest Hero” and “a judge of men with the blood of a god in his veins.” Or so his official profile says. It's hard to know what Gilgamesh thinks, but he generally follows his mood. He's like a storm. One second he's in a good mood and the next he'll point a sword at your back.

He has no interest in what's going on here in Alprid, so his overall mood is being bored.

Abilities: Gilgamesh has a pocket hammerspace filled with his treasures. He only has 25% of his inventory, but that's more than enough. He has vehicles, food, clothes, weapons, jewelry, anything you can think of.

He uses the Gate of Babylon quite often.

Plans:

Make new CR. I've been busy, but I want Gilgamesh to meet new people. I plan on doing a lot of tag-ins. Maybe do a new network post or make Gilgamesh do something silly again. No, I will not make him naked again. That was a one-time deal.

What kind of CR can you expect from Gilgamesh? It really depends on your character. Gilgamesh views himself as an observer of humanity, but he loves humanity ( don't tell him that, he'll smack you ) and wishes for humans to prevail against their trials.

So far, Gilgamesh is getting along with the "protagonists" types. Whether he is aware of it or not, he helps those out who are in limbo, but it's more so that he can't stand people who are unsure of their desires, but he won't tell them the answers.

HE'S A WILDCARD! WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU GET! Russian roulette with Gil's CR.

How can you run into my character?

He's wandering around and chilling. He can appear and disappear wherever he goes.

???:

Ryoko | Zekarion Altius | OC

[chimericalclaw]

Player: Ryoko
Contact: lumieresdedragon, PM, and I am on the game discord!
Anything Else?: Currently into crochet, cute farming sims and FFXIV. I watch too much gaming youtube. Feel free to add me!

Character: Zekarion Altius
Canon: Original
Canon Point: After his ward takes a blow to protect him

Crime: Child sacrifice

Background: Mid-thirties CEO of an international company whose previous stint as a magical boy went so poorly he pivoted to plans to destroy the world. Very good at pretending he's a pleasant type on the outside. He recently took an orphaned magical boy under his wing to use him against his friends (don't worry about how he was orphaned), which ended up having unpleasant consequences like feelings. Uh oh! More info here!

Abilities: -automatically blocks any supernatural sensing powers: anything outside of the typical human baseline will react like he's not there. Any technology that tries to record him while he's using magic will also fail.

-magically charming aura that tends to make people like him more. This works on local NPCs but obviously it's player choice for other Chosen. If you want to play with that, it's there!

-crystal monster creation. Half a dozen of these toothy little guys are running around town trying to help with sorting through the rubble, but they won't be seen in public with Zek. They stand at about the average person's waist and have one brain cell each but they are trying very hard.

-erasing of nonliving objects. BRAND NEW! He can just delete stuff by putting his hands on it. At first he's going to not do so well in controlling this or, um, having it at all.

Other things that aren't usually relevant except in extreme emergencies or secret, because he is just a normal businessman, really!!: healing magic, superhuman strength/reflexes/speed, temporary portals, hypnosis, breaking/warping.

Plans: Look, a log! Zek is having a bad time after deleting several things around town. That said, he's still gritting his teeth to push past everything and asking people to help him with a ~new garden space thing~ so that uh they can have some more food. He'll pay you, and also you'll have food. Sounds good, right?

He also got a new erasing power he's having a bad time with that makes him think maybe he didn't fully de-monster after all! AND THEN he's getting sentenced! It's fine. Everything's fine. He'll be going to Rumpitur to look into building connections with the natives there, still definitely totally FINE.

How can you run into my character? Altius can be found wherever out on the street around town and he's pretty much always doing something. He spends a fair amount of time at his two (soon to be three) businesses, but he also spends mornings watching the courthouse, and the occasional evening at Lupin or the Inn's tavern. Occasionally he'll hit up the library, and sometimes he'll just be mysteriously unreachable for a few hours. With his tiny house destroyed, he kind of just plans to sleep at his businesses until someone pressures him to something else, oops...

He is always looking for people to work at his two businesses: a medical research company and the post office! He can figure out a place for anybody; part time, full time, contracting, collaborations, whatever. He's also involved with Richard's defense squad in an organizational role, and he'll encourage people to join if they seem remotely interested in helping their fellow Chosen. Check out his city garden planning above also!

Also if he's shown concern for or interest in a character before, he absolutely checks in with them now and again! He does not need a reason to do this, he'll just do it apropos of nothing.

???:

[chimericalclaw]

Fauna, time to put those muscles to work on building stuff, not breaking it. Come work on Zek's garden project!! (and he would encourage her to work on various reconstruction stuff.)