INTRO / CR MEME

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INTRO / CR MEME

Welcome to Expiation, home of the big bucks and no whammies! We're thrilled to have you here, new and old players alike. Please note that 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.

As a reminder, Expiation runs on bi-monthly events. Please note that all characters accepted in June are exempt from the June AC. For everyone else, please submit your AC by June 30th, 2023. We will provide a warning list halfway through the day (eastern time) on both the OOC community and the moderator plurk. If you need to take a hiatus or have extenuating circumstances, reach out to the moderator team via DM, our feedback page, or plurk. We're some pretty understanding people! Real life sometimes slaps all of us around, after all.

As a kind reminder for people who are using backdated threads as proofs, we are counting the number of comments from June. Please make sure your counts are correct. We will sweep anyone who fails to meet AC due to miscounted comments.

For our new players, we encourage you to read the Premise and End Game section of our April 2023 State of the Game, as it includes behind-the-scenes information for players. There's also a wide array of other information on that entry available for the curious. (You can also check out the tag and read the bottom section for interesting lore / world building questions that have been forwarded to the team since the game's opening.)

To give you a general idea of how the upcoming timeline will be...

- Sometime this week, we'll have sign ups for the Sentencing mechanic. The short description is that we will be taking sign ups from interested parties. The sign up post will contain (hopefully) all of the information you might need as players to make an informed decision about whether you want to be involved or not. From the interested parties, a select number will be chosen via RNG, and those characters will be assigned a task that they will have a specific amount of time to complete. Successful completion will result in characters obtaining some kind of information pertinent to overarching game story line in some way (consider it may be a little more vague rather than directly in one's face). Characters who participate in this may also have their parchment crimes altered following successful or unsuccessful completion, depending on personal actions taken in the game thus far.

- Our next event isn't scheduled until later July 2023, but we can tell you that it's got something to do with those friendly little fairies who were giving people the power to grow plants at will. It might be worth fostering some good relations with them whilst the opportunity is there.

- We'll have a simple mingle available in late June / early July for newcomers and Chosen who've been around for a while as a means of getting to know people. Something likely light of heart to help offset some of the more serious themes we tend to explore in our events.

- The next state of the game will also take place in July, after the event, which will, as ever, include results of the event, changes made to the world, things we'd like to do in the future, things we're working on in the background, and more little curiosities for everyone.

- The next application cycle will be in early August 2023. The next TDM is scheduled for the end of July to pave the way for that app cycle.

Please make use of the below form for all of your intro and CR meme needs!


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.

???: Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

<b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Anything Else?:</b> Anything you might want us to know? What kinds of things interest you? What's your current favourite fandom? Put it here. <b>Character:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Canon Point:</b> <b>Crime:</b> The crime your character was accused of when they arrived. <b>Background:</b> A brief insight into your character's history is fine here. You can talk about their personality, as well. <b>Abilities:</b> Any abilities that you feel is important to note about your character. Bullet points and concise descriptions are okay. <b>Plans:</b> 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. <b>???:</b> Questions? Comments? Memes? Put them here.

Comments

[illusionbreaker]

Player: Nameless
Contact: Just PM this account.
Anything Else?: Umm... I like video games?

Character: Kamijou Touma
Canon: To Aru Majutsu No Index
Canon Point: GT Volume 6

Crime: Genocide. No, I'm not gonna elaborate.

Background: A normal high school student who you could find anywhere. At least, that's what he would tell you if you were ask him to describe himself. In reality, he's a delusional, hypocrite who will dive head-first into hell save anyone whether they actually want his help or not. Even if the person he's saving is a scumbag. Or he only knew them for like five seconds. He is anything but normal.

Abilities: The simplest way to explain his power is that he can negate the supernatural with his right hand. This can includes deleting magical items and people. Like you! Yes you behind the screen! I got a Permission Post here for those who are not quite human.

Plans: I want Touma to do what he does best; punch people in the face help others grow and develop. Or as the fandom likes to say 'Live your life correctly'. Throw all your morally questionable characters right at him.

I would also like some bro friends to do stupid stuff with.

???: [Insert Funny Meme Here]

[dialetheism]

hello normal person this is another normal person let's be totally normal in the same vicinity

genuinely I have no idea how they'd even react but it'd be really funny for the two "designated Normal By Canon" people to interact at some point. also welcome to the game!

[illusionbreaker]

I'm cool with them just hanging out doing normal stuff.

If you ever want something a bit deeper, there's the whole identify crisis stuff. Touma has amnesia and unlike many other stories, this never gets fixed. Both Touma and the narrative itself considers post and pre memory Touma to be two separate people. The narrative even calls his amnesia a death. And while there are many similarities, post and pre memory do act differently in subtle ways. It's not as extreme as what's going on with Lion (I'm just going off what I read from their app), but it is a connecting theme that could be explored between them.

Edit: Now that I think about, both became what they wanted to be after losing their previous selves.