expiationooc | CR MEME/PLOT WITH ME: SEPTEMBER 2023

CR MEME/PLOT WITH ME

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!

The SOTG for September is here, with changes and where the game is going for the month.

SEPTEMBER EVENT SUMMARY

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EVENT SUMMARY: THE MAZE
On the night of September 10, an impenetrable fog covers the town of Aldrip. When characters wake in the morning, they find that Aldrip has disappeared, replaced by a large, enclosed maze.

Characters will wake up in one of three different levels of this maze, and they may—but don't have to—find that they are not alone. As they explore the maze, they will encounter trials and stumbling blocks both physical and mental. It seems the maze is testing them, poking at their fears, their past, their feelings. Confronting these questions about themselves and their very nature will allow them to progress through the maze in hopes of eventually finding the exit—and hopefully the town along with it.

While they do not all wake up in the same level of the maze, all characters do, in theory, have to complete all three trials in order to leave. This may not be so easy to achieve; due to the nature of these trials, if someone cannot get past one area, they may remain stuck there. Other characters are able to help them confront these issues, and may instead (or in addition) pass through that way if they choose to. Aside from the level where they wake up, characters may approach these levels in any order as they so choose.

Characters wake up in the groupings listed below. Each group letter corresponds to the letter of the trial where they wake up. After you leave your initial trial, you may meet with characters outside your group!

TRIAL A
While exploring the maze, characters begin to experience hallucinations and illusions that highlight their greatest insecurities. These illusions may come in a variety of different forms. Perhaps they experience voices or images of peers issuing criticisms that they fear are accurate, or they may face a shadowy figure that bears their appearance that embodies all of their worst qualities. The form these illusions take is up to you, the players, and whether other characters are able to see those illusions can also be decided between players. Confronting, challenging, debunking, and/or accepting these criticisms and claims is the key to exiting this level.

TRIAL B
During their time in this level of the maze, characters will at some point find their way blocked by representations of their deepest fears. This can be literal—a dark hallway for those who fear the dark, as an example—but can manifest in a myriad of other ways, too. A character could see someone from their past that represents this fear, or a monster, or an object or memory of something that connects to that fear. These fears will be made tangible and visible to anyone around them, leaving them exposed and vulnerable. In order to progress, they must be able to pass by these fears, and may do so in any way the player chooses, whether it requires fighting a monster, negotiating with an authority figure, finding a light in the darkness, or anything else players and characters can imagine.

TRIAL C
On this level, characters are confronted with memories related to the crime they have been charged with. This can be a specific moment or a series of moments related to their crime either directly or indirectly. Characters may become lost in these memories and may need help navigating through them from other people: the longer they remain lost in these memories, reliving them again and again, the more they run the risk of losing those memories entirely, either permanently or temporarily. Only by addressing the crime, the way they feel about it, the relationship that crime has to reality and to who the character is, can characters be free of this particular trial.

ADDITIONAL INFO
Those characters (or players) who do not wish to interact with the maze will occasionally find quiet corridors that mysteriously place them outside the maze, unable to reenter. They will find that the town is, indeed, gone, as are their living quarters—hope you don't mind roughing it for a while. However, due to recent efforts to bolster the town's supplies, some of the underground storehouses organized by Claude and Marianne seem to remain intact and are available as temporary emergency shelter, should your character choose not to camp out.

After a week, the maze will disappear and life in Aldrip returns to normal. As for the locals? They don't seem to notice that anything strange has happened at all. Maze? What maze? Strange weather we're having this week, eh?

EVENT GROUPINGS

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GROUP A:
Serah Farron
Elidibus
Nakahara Chuuya
Tsunayoshi Sawada
Rei Suwa
Caitlyn Kiramman
Ragna the Bloodedge
Kotone Shiomi
Monkey D. Luffy
Yuja Wightshade (WoL)
Yosuke Hanamura
Astralin Turnont
Dazai Osamu
Ange Ushiromiya
Hythlodaeus
Ethlyn

GROUP B:
Violet (Vi)
Silco
Ekko
Mizuki Date
Claude von Riegan
Noel Kreiss
Kazuki Kurusu
G'raha Tia
Jinx
Marianne von Edmund
Goro Akechi
Sooyoung Han
Saito Sejima
Nikolai Gogol
Erichtonios
Emet-Selch

GROUP C:
Yu Narukami
Pride
Sigma
Usagi Tsukino
William G Maryblood
Scott Summers
Gundam Tanaka
Quentin Quire
Akira Kurusu
Mitama Yakumo
Med'an
Ken Amada
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Izuku "Deku" Midoriya
Echo

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Character:
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Crime: The crime your character was accused of when they arrived.

Background/Personality: 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Player: jenni
Contact: sparklepire @ plurk

Character: Goro Akechi
Canon: P5R
Canon Point: end of third semester

Crime: Faking a personality

Background/Personality: Grumpy murder goblin who's daddy issues are over 9000!! he's a nerd who wants you to know just how smart he is! idk, I suck at these.

Abilities: He's pretty good at using guns with flawless aim, decent at using his breadknife sword. But more importantly: he got some brain demons aka Personas. Akechi can summon the manifestation of his soul in form of Robin Hood and Loki, giving him access to both Bless and Curse magic along with some physical attacks.

Plans: The general cr! he needs more friends. or even people talk to.

AS FOR THE MAZE!
- Akechi is going to start with group ~~murder~~ B, so insecurities it is! What a good start, considering that this boy is nothing but insecurity and repressed anxiety. TLDR; most of Akechi's issues (both fears and anxiety) stem from the same place: feeling of being not being good enough, broken and generally unworthy of love. The Unwanted Child things. So be prepared for those daddy issues because wow.

- Trial B: Here Akechi is having a reunion with a familiar face. His reaction is of course going to be violence and be able to trigger Loki! So, if anyone wants to be there for brain demon's debut now is your chance. There might or might not also be some glimpses of his father, which will have him go even more violent.

So here I offer you: death. if not death, then at least injuries from moderate to severe. Your character can be a collateral of Akechi's rage or try to calm him down. Don't worry, someone is bound to have healing abilities right?

- Trial A: CW for suicide and death.

So for the fears we go see more of his past and stuff that he carries with him. This will touch the event in his canon when he shoots Akira (

chemex). So there might be visions of bloody and dead phantom thief taunting him, you know stuff from your nightmares. Other than that: there will be a memory of his mother's suicide and the moment he found her body as a child. Akechi blames himself for her death and is kind of the root of his issues for the most part. This is the trial he'll struggle with the most because what can you do when violence doesn't work? Well, maybe the answer is forgive himself and show some of that self-love? Or maybe he'll stay stuck there haunted by these memories until he goes even more unhinged.

Trial C: Feeling worthless and inadequate led him to his crime of Faking a Personality. SO! Here you have one in life time to meet the one and only Detective Prince! He's nothing but a pleasant boy who wants to uncover the truth and serve as a champion of justice. Murders? Conspiracy? What are those. Come all, he'll give you an autograph and be ditzy genius.

???: OK that was long and I'm tired.

so I TOTALLY DROPPED THE BALL on the network thread with him in the summer but!! I would love to have her see some of his Trials. She also lost her mother at a young age (although not from suicide) so she would do her best to help him come to terms with that.

just here to say you never fail to draw a laugh from me every time you call his blade a bread knife... asjdhadsh

I'm not exactly sure what I wanna do yet (that's what my weekend will be for) but I want more CR that might or might not involve shooting or killing each other...? I dunno, but I'll poke you on disc sometime later this weekend to hash out ideas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

CR MEME/PLOT WITH ME: SEPTEMBER 2023

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