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◣ july mingle & cr meme ◢
JULY MINGLE & CR MEME ❀
OOC intro/mingle posts in Ethyraia serve a dual function as CR memes for current players. The hope is that this will encourage current players to scan through and greet our new players. Take this opportunity to get to know your fellow players, plan hatching log threads, check-in regarding the keeping of TDM threads (which can be made game canon), find plot hooks, and plan for future CR.
NEW PLAYERS, please link your comments in reply to the appropriately labeled thread at the top of the post. Our goal is to boost your visibility. Established players will be looking there to welcome you!
Note: If we find that combining these functions isn't working, we'll reevaluate this set-up. Please don't hesitate to share your feedback on our SOTG posts.
REMINDERS:
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NEW PLAYERS, please link your comments in reply to the appropriately labeled thread at the top of the post. Our goal is to boost your visibility. Established players will be looking there to welcome you!
Note: If we find that combining these functions isn't working, we'll reevaluate this set-up. Please don't hesitate to share your feedback on our SOTG posts.
REMINDERS:
☆ The HATCHING LOG goes up on 07/08. You can expect some of the prompts to look like the TDM, but there will also be new prompts that include event wrap-up.
☆ Remember that the ACTIVITY CHECK for this game is a static post that you reply to each month. New players, remember to get yourself all set up there and on the TAKEN LIST — this counts as your first month's AC.
☆ Player plots and questions should come through our PLOT ENGAGEMENT page, and the more PCs you have on board, the more we can give you. Please use these CR memes to find people to group up with for plotting purposes.
☆ You can ask general setting questions on our FAQ page.
☆ Our next event will not be until August. This month is for wrapping up the conclusion of the June event and its fall-out, which works out nicely based on how things looked on our State of the Game post. While we are no longer accepting submissions for IC actions because the follow-up is drafted, take your time backthreading event things! Remember: as long as you aren't reusing the same thread you've already submitted for AC, new comments on backthreads are eligible for the current month's AC.
☆ Kainé, Zeta, Lottie, 9S, 2B, Kaz, Lys, and Maria Juliana have vanished, leaving behind allergy medication, makeup, a bible, rosary beads, five swords (one two-handed), a hunting knife, two pods for combat assistance, two spears, a radio transmitter, some clothes, a walking cane with a crow's head, a deck of playing cards, a jeweled hairpiece, and a goat. Unless someone claims it (please drop a note in Mod Questions if you do), the community outreach department will be collecting and redistributing these items.
☆ Remember that the ACTIVITY CHECK for this game is a static post that you reply to each month. New players, remember to get yourself all set up there and on the TAKEN LIST — this counts as your first month's AC.
☆ Player plots and questions should come through our PLOT ENGAGEMENT page, and the more PCs you have on board, the more we can give you. Please use these CR memes to find people to group up with for plotting purposes.
☆ You can ask general setting questions on our FAQ page.
☆ Our next event will not be until August. This month is for wrapping up the conclusion of the June event and its fall-out, which works out nicely based on how things looked on our State of the Game post. While we are no longer accepting submissions for IC actions because the follow-up is drafted, take your time backthreading event things! Remember: as long as you aren't reusing the same thread you've already submitted for AC, new comments on backthreads are eligible for the current month's AC.
☆ Kainé, Zeta, Lottie, 9S, 2B, Kaz, Lys, and Maria Juliana have vanished, leaving behind allergy medication, makeup, a bible, rosary beads, five swords (one two-handed), a hunting knife, two pods for combat assistance, two spears, a radio transmitter, some clothes, a walking cane with a crow's head, a deck of playing cards, a jeweled hairpiece, and a goat. Unless someone claims it (please drop a note in Mod Questions if you do), the community outreach department will be collecting and redistributing these items.
NEW PLAYERS
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PRONOUNS: she/they, interchange that shit idgaf
CONTACT: disco me @ roy#6263.
CANON: OC
JOURNAL:
INFO: my general indepth app is here Sam is a Very Bitter vet of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, a Very Bitter Detective in Chicago that is posted with the Juvenile Crimes unit, and a Very Bitter Shapeshifter that can turn into a bird. It's fine. He's fine. Did I mention the bitterness? Welcome to being an Elder Millennial TM.
SKILLS: Sam was an Army Ranger, so he's got a boatload of useful survivalist skills. He's also really good with traumatized kids courtesy the job and a lot of youth outreach he does in his local community.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Anything delving into the setting. Sam isn't good at being idle, so he'll jump on the chance to make himself useful and stay busy.
PLANS/GOALS: Recon! This man can turn into a whole-ass crow, let's goooo.
CR PREFERENCES: Found family CR would be baller. Sam is at his core kind of a loner who isn't good at centering himself in people's lives, he struggles with toxic masculinity and feels emasculated if he ~opens up~ to people so anything that explores that would also be grand.
MISC HOOKS: He can turn into a bird!! Also: he is practically a luddite. He knows HOW to use modern tech, he just hates it. Someone drag this man into the 28th century. 29th? How does time work, we don't know.
NOTES: he has an ancient 1st gen ipod touch and a battered dock to go along with it. Come notice him playing ancient rock music.
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He also is a Seanan McGuire protagonist if you want an actual lecture on toxic masculinity. Possibly with a slideshow. (Or just snarky comments mocking it)
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the thing is that sam KNOWS toxic masculinity is bad. he can tell other ppl it's bad! he can discuss the negative psychological effects it has on society/et al!
but
ask this man to apply his bullshit to himself and he's just
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PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT:
CANON: a star war
JOURNAL:
INFO: cal is a very good egg and lowkey jedi (space wizard with a laser sword) from a galaxy far, far away with lots of trauma and a lil pinch of sass for ~flavor~. he can be a little cagey sometimes (for Reasons) and it's hard to get him to open up, but he's still just really kind and earnest and eager to help out! he's a real good kid, kind of a boy scout, very friend-shaped
SKILLS: being from a star war, he's actually very familiar with the level of tech the survivors have, and he has some mechanical skill of his own. if you need someone to explain the tech or fix something up for you, he's the guy. he's also pretty handy with his lightsaber, if fighting counts as a...skill
AREAS OF INTEREST: making friends, exploring the planet, going on fun expeditions for supplies/medicine/whatever, getting into Shenanigans, etc.
PLANS/GOALS: what are you talking about i fly by the seat of my pants always lmao. one thing that would be nice would be for people to crack him open like an egg and get him to actually talk about himself! other than that i'm really just winging it here
CR PREFERENCES: friends friends friends!! it's hard for him to trust people (again, for Reasons) and he's had kind of a rough go of it lately so people who are just like... nice to him. he's around 18ish, so other kids his age would be cool, as well as older people to take him under their wingssss. he's pretty easygoing so he can get along with a wide variety of characters!
MISC HOOKS: a few things, actually!
1. he has a power that allows him to touch objects and see the memories/feelings associated with them, so!! if your character has something with some neat and/or traumatic memories attached that's some sweet, sweet cr building right there.
2. he doesn't really advertise it but, being a jedi, he's force sensitive and can feel energy/aura/magic/chi/chakra/whatever and weird psychic stuff (like those thessyx dreams) is like no big deal to him. so anybody with any kind of magical power would probably register to him, and vice versa(?)
3. he has a cute droid companion, BD-1, who follows him around everywhere and tends to stick his nose where it doesn't belong. he's the best droid in the whole galaxy and that IS a hill i would die on. cal can gush about him for ages, just ask
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congratulations beedee you are officially appointed baby
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I'm a filthy casual with Star Wars and haven't played your canon yet so you'll get to be my first impression of Cal.
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PRONOUNS: she/they
CONTACT: PM or plurk (
CANON: Vampyr
JOURNAL:
INFO: jon is a victorian gentleman who went into medicine, and is now back to his theatre kid roots as he's been turned into a vampire. He is outwardly quite friendly and very formal, and perhaps a little too enthusiastic? about making sure you are all healthy. He doesn't want you to become the weaker ones in the herd, so to speak, because then he is going to see you as FoodTM, and nobody wants THAT...!
SKILLS: everything a doctor would be capable of in 1919, and he can catch up pretty quick with future first aid. He's used to discretion and won't ask about injuries
AREAS OF INTEREST: exploring, Helping, learning about where they are, etc.
PLANS/GOALS: UHHH just winging it. i have a network post up here!
CR PREFERENCES: Be his friend! Tell him exciting things about your world. he is a BIG busybody and fairly non-judgemental relative to a guy of his background. he won't be secretive about being a vampire though he's not going to make an announcement about it or anything, so ppl to be Cool With That would be great too
MISC HOOKS: jonathan looks/feels a Bit Off. his shadow is a bit more solid/can seem like they're moving/living, and he does have the bite wounds where his vampire sire bit him visible on his neck. i am cool with your character suspecting/knowing/figuring out!
NOTES: here's a cat
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points to u
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points BACK to you
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We could have them on a shared medical shift or the tiny griffin can be an ice-breaker. Crow is more outgoing than Alex is so I may fall back on that one a few times.
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You can bet Jon is going to start talking to Crow and following him around, just so Fascinated....
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Balthier is a gentleman pirate who pretends (poorly) to not care but in fact cares a great deal about the group good so they'd probably get along. He also really likes fine clothes and good tea and probably anything pretty out of the victorian era. I don't know if he knows what vampires are, but he's comfortable with non-human/humanoids.
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I feel that both these cr possibilities are excellent, por que no los dos
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Totally down for both! :)
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PRONOUNS: they/them
CONTACT:
CANON: Genshin Impact
JOURNAL:
INFO: An old earth god from a fantasy city based on China who decided to retire... and his idea of retirement is decide to pretend to be human and do a lot of fighty stuff with the game's protagonist, with some funerals on the side. He has expensive tastes but never any money, let's hope we never get any form of currency in the game.
SKILLS: Zhongli's abilities revolve around rocks and the earth so he's most likely going to help with building and metalworking. Perhaps even developing more land for agriculture. He can go alllll the way out to more dangerous areas for fertile soil. (he cant make it himself, that's not how his powers work) He's also good at forging weapons, especially spears, though he doesn't know what firearms are, so those are out of the question. He's also a sturdy immortal so just put him on dangerous work, it's fine.
AREAS OF INTEREST: In the TDM (I'm open to keeping TDM threads canon, by the by), Vidar told him about the damage to base structures and the ground, and Zhongli wants to help fix that, since he can actually do it, if that's still something that will be a problem. Otherwise, the stuff I mentioned in "skills" will work. I also still kinda want him to work with communications as an announcer... just because I think it'd be funny, he'd just chatter on and on after the script is over if he's not stopped.
PLANS/GOALS: Zhongli does NOT know how to work technology, since he's from a high fantasy world. Most of my plans right now revolve around him learning how to use what space tech is left, and having fun making him flounder. Or electrocuted sometimes. Outside of that, Zhongli will attempt to venture outside of basecamp often for expeditions and come back with weird shit.
CR PREFERENCES: Zhongli works well with a lot of different personalities! Just because he tries to stay calm in his old age. However, he responds best to higher energy people, no matter what kind of energy they have (chaotic is always nice...), and fellow busy bees. I welcome all sorts of CR since he's new.
MISC HOOKS: He's wearing a really finely-tailored suit, it's expensive. He can also be seen carrying a lot of rocks around.
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(the second is that it's basically 'what if Zelda: breath of the Wild was a gatcha game' but idk how accurate that is!!)
i apped this oc in this round, he's a crow shifter, and i also play natasha romanoff who of course is quite keen of keeping tabs on anyone with potentially catastrophic superpowers so basically
pick ya poison and i'll throw someone at you c:
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i'm mostly thirsty for a lot of conversation sooooo i'm capable of saying "both" since i'm interested in seeing their interactions with each other!
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so i shall pounce when i spot an opportunity :o!!
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Alex is pretty good at explaining stuff to outsiders, if you don't mind the explaining not being particularly exciting.
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PRONOUNS: She/They, w/e you want, i'm not pressed
CONTACT:
CANON:A Certain Scientific Railgun
JOURNAL:
INFO: #10032 is a clone that speaks in third person narration, and usually in a dull monotone. Since she's had her emotions chemically suppressed, she's pretty bad at them to begin with. Other than that, she's a pretty good person, even if she can be a little snarky due to her narration. It's... probably not intentional.
SKILLS: Due to having a great amount of knowledge given to her by a super computer, 10032 is fairly good at anything that needs technical know-how, especially when it comes to electronics. Other than that, she is extremely capable in combat and able to generate up to 50,000 volts of electricity at one time.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Exploring the planet & helping with tech and wherever else she can. Also friendships.
PLANS/GOALS: I fly by the seat of my pants at any given moment so UR GUESS IS AS GOOD AS MINE
CR PREFERENCES: Friends? Enemies? Frenemies? All and any, I an not picky.
MISC HOOKS: 10032 produces a strong EMF that animals tend to dislike and avoid. While it's possible for them to become accustomed to it, it's getting to that part that's tricky :( It does have the potential to mess with less advanced technology (think running a magnet over a screen) if she's close enough.
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and hear me out
sam here can turn into a crow
and he would def be able to pick up on that weird EMF thing
cr hook y_n
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sorry for the uncomfortable static in your feathers, sam
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this is what happens when you're a detective
and a bird
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10032 will apologize for the inconvenience of it all but be EXTREMELY interested in birdman because whoa dude that violates the law of the conservation of mass???
unless hes just a really fat bird, in which case he'll be poked at.
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sadly he is a normal bird (if a bit bigger than one would expect crows to be)
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im sorry for the trouble she will likely cause to him but im jazzed for it as well
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I THOUGHT YOUR COMMENT WAS BROKEN UNTIL I CLICKED
YELLS
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PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT:
CANON: Overwatch
JOURNAL:
INFO: 76 is a captain america-style super soldier who fought and won the robot war and then led an international peacekeeping operation for 20 years before being betrayed and blown up. Having died in the public eye he’s been living his best wanted fugitive/vigilante life ever since. He is old and bitter and tired and vaguely traumatized and if you want to know more his application is here.
SKILLS: Beyond his genetic augmentations that make him harder/better/faster/stronger than a normal human person, he’s a highly skilled combatant who is no stranger to dire situations, limited resources, and spartan accommodations, to say nothing of operating as part of a military outfit, living and working in a dangerous and occasionally violent environment. He understands that the locals at base camp PROBABLY did not expect an extra 40 people dumped on them, so he’s doing his best to make himself useful so he doesn’t get thrown out on his ass. He’s here to help out and lift heavy things and shoot alien monsters and he’ll only grumble a little while doing so.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Oh, he definitely thinks he’s been kidnapped. He’s still vaguely entertaining whether or not it’s feasible to strike out on his own, especially because he hates the idea of being caught between the Adamant crew and the Thessyx. He’s ALSO never been on an alien planet so he’s actually very interested in exploring—maybe pushing the boundaries of how far beyond base camp they can go. Maybe securing more safe areas? Maybe that’s…optimistic.
PLANS/GOALS: After learning that it’s probably not feasible (or at least not smart) to strike out on his own, he’ll work on being a little more cooperative around base camp. 76 has spent most of his life in a leadership position working towards literal world peace—something that is not so easily forgotten. In order to contribute to a cooperative survival situation, 76 will need to reconcile that core of himself with his new jaded outlook, while simultaneously re-learning how to function as part of a team and be a contributing member of base camp society. He’s not going to be able to operate vigilante style here, which will take him some getting used to.
CR PREFERENCES: I want everything; please give it to me. I expect a lot of his initial encounters to be on the slightly antagonistic side (he’s grumpy), but given the fact that this is kind of a cooperate-or-die situation, he’ll be less of a lone wolf and look for like-minded allies. Maybe that is you??
MISC HOOKS: He’s a hardcore military-type and does well with other hardcore military-types, mercenaries, or fellow professionals, if only because they might *~*~*understand each other*~*~*. He fought a robot war! Possibly some of you have also done that, or are robots yourselves!!! You need dadly advice about how to fight things? He's got it. If anyone wants to learn guns or fighting or punching or War or faking your own death or sacrificing your own personal happiness for a cause that explodes, or you want to talk War Philosophy for some reason, he is your guy.
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let’s be friends
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but he'd probably also get along with this boy bc military/cop and also kinda bitter and jaded
turns into a bird tho
anyway i am going to very belatedly @ u on plurk so incoming friendo request!!
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love your other guy too they can bond over being military types and then 76 can be consternated when he turns into a bird, like he didn't employ a sentient moon gorilla as a science officer or something
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(tho she's being like, cagey, she's not deliberately lying about it so he could probably wiggle it out of her)
and yes please!! bird is the word fam.