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ɴᴀᴛʜᴀ orbiters ❰ mod collective ❱ ([personal profile] natha) wrote in [community profile] nysaooc2018-09-06 05:33 pm
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September CR Meme & Outline

Welcome to the September outline! While outlines aren't exactly the newest thing we've done here, this one is particularly special because it's the first time we're combining the outline with the CR meme. We're hoping this will help alleviate problems with plotting and facilitating CR in the past, as now players know exactly what they're plotting for.

Outlines give players a general idea of what will be coming up in the month, and you're free to interpret it however you like. If you have any questions or would like to start threads early, please feel free to! There shouldn't be any gamewide plot that would restrict players from pursuing their own personal plots; if there were, we will mark it! The upcoming event/intro log will go into detail and have specific prompts and scenarios you may play out, but in general, we would like players to have freedom to play whatever they like. Please look forward to that!

Quests will be released on September 20th and will be the primary method to receive REP from any of the three major cities.

As a final note, CR Memes are open to all players!
SEPTEMBER OUTLINE    

Week One —
The red dwarf sun continues to rise and set as though the calamity had never happened, and the moons Thesa and Alria continue to shine brightly in the nights as though the Natha are still watching. To those that came from Thesa, this event had taken place two lengthy months ago; to the average native, whose time had stood still, it's a catastrophe that is still fresh on their minds.

And even still, life goes on. Olympia goes about their days humbled by Darma's frozen gaze, whereas Wyver is shamed by Ysverai's frozen wrath. It's no surprise that up in Thesa, the newly awakened are preparing to descend to this new El Nysa as well.

The Natha Orbiters are no longer watching, but it doesn't mean that you're out of allies. Nurray of Nadril has offered to utilize Natha technology to set a beacon in her colony. As the colony provides high-speed transportation to both Olympia and Wyver, you might find that it is an ideal location to start off with before venturing out into the once-warring cities. You'll be offered an opportunity to declare one of these cities, Olympia or Wyver, your home.


Week Two —
Event. An eerily still night settles over Nysa on the 8th. All over the isles, an otherworldly hum lilts from up above. Some may hear it in the sky, in the leaves of trees, or between stone edifices, filling the air around them. Most speculate it’s emanating from the still rotten battlegrounds, or the imposing statue of Ysverai. Travel to these locations, and the tone may resonate louder, but it will remain impossible to pinpoint. The sound waxes and wanes until sunlight crests on the horizon, severe orange light bringing an end to the disquieting night.

With the sunlight come the spirits of the dead, their souls restless in the wake of Ysverai’s destruction. They wander the battle fields and city streets alike, appearing anywhere the great dragon’s wail reached. The search for resolution is shared by all of the roaming spectres. Some yearn to see a lover once more, some toil to recover a lost family artifact. Others simply want their remains given a proper grave, or cry for vengeance.

Satisfying each ghost’s desire will put that soul to rest, though there are some who cannot be pacified in such a way. Exorcisms fill in where other techniques fall short, banishing spirits steeped in malaise or incapable of finding their own way. Of course, passages into other realms of existence are two way roads, and the myth of summoning creatures from the other side can be quite the temptation.


Week Three —
Quests. The spirits of the dead might be out and about, but life still goes on, regardless. As the dead in Olympia and Wyver continue to be laid to rest, communications from the north reveal that Magda has gone missing from Nadril. With the disappearance comes a reintroduction - Cree has returned to the Gilded Cage, resuming his position as a leader of the underground. Hard times for the layman are a criminal's most bountiful opportunity, and, as always, Cree is willing to share in his profits. When it comes down to it, there are always things that need doing, and who better than the refugees to handle it? After all, they’re blessed by Thesa. Surely they can help make things easier in these trying times.

The quest board will go live later this month. It will include opportunities for characters to earn REP from Olympia, Wyver, and Nadril, as well as the opportunity to earn money and other artifacts from the Gilded Cage.


Week Four —
Ysverai’s scourge is a tragedy that will go remembered for centuries, tales of the calamity already woven by song and ink alike. The great nations of Nysa, while looking to the future and working to restore their former glory, recognize the need to maintain their pasts - not as Olympians or Wyvers, but as Nysans. A great memorial has been proposed between Simwe and Shanrian, both leaders looking to their own people for contributions. Supplies, manpower, and creative direction are all sought after, an effort to create a monument that resonates with everyone who gazes upon it. The endeavor commemorates not only mutual loss, but a shared devotion to a future in which such catastrophe will never come to the people of Nysa again. The leaders will also be seeking suggestions as to where to put it.

With this memorial, the remaining souls that have been haunting all of El Nysa will be finally put to rest.
CR/INTRO MEME    
Handle. What do you go by?
Preferred Contact. Your Discord/Plurk/etc.
Friending Policy. Is it okay for players to add you? Would you prefer a heads up?
Interests. Talk about what you're into or what others should expect when they friend you on Plurk or elsewhere. Feel free to link to your Muselists.
Tagging Habits. Your timezones, tagging speed, etc.

Character Name & Series. Self-explanatory.
Character Age. Self-explanatory.
Photo Reference. Link
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. Briefly explain your character's personality. What kind of person are they?
Desired CR. What kind of CR are you seeking? Are you interested in negative or positive CR? What kind of CR would benefit your character and/or achieve or your RP goals?
Offered CR. Alternatively, what sort of CR would your character be able to offer? This is a good place to (briefly) talk about their abilities, too.
Rooming Plans. Starter housing is provided for newly displaced (essentially, newly accepted characters) for the first month of their time in game. However, you can use this space to speculate where you'd like your character to live, or secure some roommate shenanigans. Go wild!
Game Plans. El Nysa is full of endless possibilities. Sooner or later a decision of where their alliance will lie must be made... unless they decide to no sides. What are your plans with this setting? Will they start a business? Will they explore El Nysa, and discover more of their secrets? Will they choose sides? Are they more Wyver or Olympia (given your current knowledge)? What are your REP goals? This is big picture conversation.
Event Plans. Feel free to use this space to chat about your plans, potential top levels, and other ideas!

Anything Else? Obligatory gif?


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[personal profile] warhorns 2018-09-07 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
sparring buddies?
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thor | mcu

[personal profile] sparke 2018-09-07 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Series. thor odinson, mcu
Character Age. 1000+
Photo Reference. Link
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. oversized puppy suffering from lots of loss but retaining his optimism, glory-seeking prince turned protector of the nine realms turned king
Desired CR. i'm honestly struggling a bit with thor and i think deepened cr rather than lots of cr is what i need, so what might help is some handwaving of first meetings and diving into meaty stuff? if that's something that interests you, let's chat pls!
Offered CR. he protecc!! and he'll be in various pubs, too
Rooming Plans. thor is very much still unsettled and drifting back and forth between wyver and olympia.
Game Plans. HE PROTECC that's his main goal
Event Plans. thor will try hard to get ghosts what they need. he's not unused to more mythical things, so this won't be out of the ordinary for him. i'm interested in him having to work together with others to make sure a ghosts desires are satisfied, be that burying a ghost, pretending to be their loved one in some silly ruse that shouldn't work but does, getting them their vengeance (within limits), just chatting with them....

Anything Else?
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[personal profile] ettersberg 2018-09-07 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
i'd love to deepen nightingale's and ocelot's cr some more, but i think that ocelot and dutch would also be really interesting bc a. shady shit, b. she's not a spy but she sometimes acts like one, c. she's a girl and you're looking for girl friends that's a legitimate reason right
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[personal profile] motivation 2018-09-07 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
heyyy so i think lance and dutch could be fun cr in that she's tough and badass and pretends not to give a shit but she secretly has a soft spot for goofy soft boys

i have nothing specific to offer other than that i think it would be fun and she'd be secretly protective of him idek hi i'm great at cr memes clearly
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[personal profile] motivation 2018-09-07 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
hi hello i enjoyed thor and bucky on the tdm so i'd love to follow up on that? maybe thor can help buck with the pacifying spirits without violence bit, that seems like a good cr hook

i also have this lady here, dutch, who's been friends with previous iterations of (mcu) bucky and who has some vague parallels with both natasha and bucky in terms of having been trained/used as a weapon, so i'm always interested in flinging her into the path of any bucky that comes along, if that's something that'd interest you? she'd definitely be up for a spar.

ofc thor would be, too
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[personal profile] sparke 2018-09-07 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
touches u hi arisa now i'm sad i no longer have poe here
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[personal profile] motivation 2018-09-07 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
pls help dutch raise her dragon kk
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[personal profile] motivation 2018-09-07 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
does he want to meet dutch's baby dragon and/or hang out with thor pacifying ghosts?
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Winter | Natasha Romanoff (Marvel Comics)

[personal profile] redweb 2018-09-07 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Handle. Winter
Preferred Contact. natalia_vdova#0150 @ Discord is my preferred contact method, [plurk.com profile] natalia_vdova also works, though pplurks are best, and PMing this journal works in a pinch. But I chat on discord way more than I do on plurk, so come say hi?
Friending Policy. Feel free to add me, just make sure you either let me know or have El Nysa listed on your plurk profile.
Interests. RP, Marvel comics/MCU stuff, and Overwatch.
Tagging Habits. EST, and I'm usually around evenings through to midnight or so. I tryyyyy to hit stuff once a day, but I do have health issues so that doesn't always happen. That said, I LOVE boomeranging and if you poke me on plurk or Discord I will totally boomerang stuff if I'm around. And never feel shy about asking!!

Character Name & Series. Natasha Romanoff / Marvel Comics
Character Age. Roughly 90? Looks to be in her early 30s.
Photo Reference. Comics Stylized / Realistic
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. Natasha Romanoff, aka The Black Widow. She's a legend, a spy, a superhero, former Cold War villain, former soldier and more. She's recently come to the conclusion that maybe keeping herself out in the cold and pushing people away isn't the best, but she has more than a few reasons in the not-so-distant past for having done so, which is to say that shaking off the lone wolf skin is probably not going to be the easiest thing in the world, but she's at least going to be making an attempt.
Desired CR. I'm especially interested in soldiers, spies, people of the superhero bent, or anyone with feelings about brainwashing. She's going to want to make connections with people that have information about things that have happened before, people that don't take the Natha's whole saving people and everything is fine at face value, and that otherwise want to dig up more information about what's going on here. She kind of thinks it all seems super shady and that there has to be something else going on here. Totally open to people trying to convince her otherwise. She also needs friends, people who can show her the best bar to get a glass of wine, where the hot springs are, and who you talk to about the black market. Also super here for ladyfriends. I'm not against negative CR, as she can be sort of sharp with people that don't catch her right, but I do prefer for it to go somewhere so let's plot if that's something you're interested in.
Offered CR. Natasha has a soft spot for young women, especially those that seem like they've been though some stuff, as well as just troubled young adults in general. She's not the best at doing the whole mentor thing, but she will keep an eye on people that catch her interest. Also she is very combat proficient and could probably be talked into imparting some of it if she thinks someone's worth the trouble. Having spent several years being part of / running superhero groups, so she's used to big personalities and so if you need someone who can tolerate less-than-sweet personalities, we can probably work something out. The mercenary game is one that she's done before, so if anyone wants a teammate for some of those missions/quests, she's your girl. Also she can teleport now, if anyone has any experience with powers, or wants to flounder through learning new abilities together.
Rooming Plans. I have no roommate plans so far, so if anyone wants to plan something, let's. She's not going to particularly thrilled at the prospect of house-sharing, but there are definitely worse housemates to have.
Game Plans. I actually don't have a lot of big-picture goals for Natasha just yet. I'm thinking she might lean more toward Olympia than Wyver, at least to begin with, but that's likely to be more CR-adjacent and amenities and not about picking sides. She's more likely to dig deep into the Gilded Cage and other less above-board opportunities, and also likely to play both sides until there's a very convincing reason not to. She also has some canon drama she's bringing with her that I'd like for her to eventually work her way through, and given that canon makes a lot of noise about Natasha no longer being a lone wolf and then goes directly into an event that steps all over that, I want to take some time to see what that might have meant for her. I do have plans for her to get canon updated eventually, though. Other than that, I'm really playing it by ear.
Event Plans. I'm probably going to top level on the intro log. Although, I definitely want to do mission stuff later in the month, as that's probably a better/easier CR-getter for someone like Nat, so I'll have to work out how to balance that. I'm totally down for short introductory threads and handwaving them in favor of mission shenanigans once the post goes up, or anything like that.

Anything Else?
Edited 2018-09-07 10:27 (UTC)
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
nO???
THAT'S CREEPY TOO...
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
says u
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
gottagobye
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
dude... he can make really good pancakes for saya who eats like no tomorrow
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
these two can fight ghosts together
vampire-like creatures are real but not ghosts, right y/y?
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
axel is gr8 and he should befriend saya so she can stop being a depressed no friend loser ;)
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-07 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
i've been told saya needs to bite him???
idk
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MARIE • connor

[personal profile] greeted 2018-09-07 10:47 am (UTC)(link)
Handle. Marie
Preferred Contact. [plurk.com profile] sharknado | sharknado#3914 @ discord
Friending Policy. Add away! (plurkwise, if you don't have el nysa somewhere in your profile/muselist (if linked) i might pp to find out who you are though!)
Interests. My #plurkcontent is basically keymashing about threads, dumb memes, celeb drama and weird medical stuff.
Tagging Habits. GMT+8, big backtag love, rarely but sometimes available for boomeranging!

Character Name & Series. Connor (RK800) | Detroit: Become Human
Character Age. lol he's like 3 months old (but he's an android so by design he's on level with someone in their early thirties
Photo Reference. uno dos
Permissions. HERE
Personality Blurb. Robocop Become Human. Connor is an android detective designed to complete his mission at whatever cost, although as he has been investigating deviancy that mission has become far less clear cut and a lot harder to prioritise. Generally he comes across as fairly likeable, if a little stilted and formal. His software is supposed to allow him to 'integrate and adapt to human behaviour', although this isn't always totally effective due to the whole.....being a robot thing. As of his canon point he is still under the rule of his programming, although the software is highly unstable and he was on the verge of deciding whether or not to deviate from it - so he's going to be a big old ball of moral conflict and conundrums, quite frankly.
Desired CR. I'd love both negative and positive CR for Connor, honestly. Although his goal is to integrate successfully he's definitely not everyone's cup of tea - he can often be inappropriately formal, curious to the point of invasive and inappropriate, he doesn't understand pop culture references without looking them up on the internet first, and he can't really.....laugh (yet?). There's a lot not to like, honestly, so anyone that will be rubbed up the wrong way would be great. Beyond that, you know the deal -- friends, romans, countrymen. At this stage I'm just wanting to lay down roots for him here.
Offered CR. See above, re: annoying robocop. He's also good if you want soemone who can perform tasks endlessly without tiring. Or investigations. Or to walk your dog.
Rooming Plans. Please someone house with him. The more human the better.
Game Plans. Big picture - get Connor to deviate from his program in game and find a new "mission objective" of his own, learning to be an individual with wants and fears and likes and dislikes rather than a machine.
Event Plans. I'll be hitting people up with plans all over the place but I would definitely like to throw him on a Week 2 ghost quest with someone, he'll be drawn to Investigate Things in lieu of his usual objective so this seems a good opportunity to channel that!

Anything Else? Well you said obligatory.....


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[personal profile] semblant 2018-09-07 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] colorature 2018-09-07 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
sprays with squirt bottle
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[personal profile] torchwoodteaboy 2018-09-07 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
yes, i'd like for that to happen! especially if she's stopping by their little place in olympia, ianto's got his espresso machine set up there and he can make her a damn fine coffee of her choosing (and further bribe her into his good graces HAHA)
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[personal profile] stargatemedic 2018-09-07 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
While she is TOTALLY down for coffee, bribery really isn't necessary. LOL

Also, added you on discord!
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[personal profile] torchwoodteaboy 2018-09-07 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
yessss i would really love to get more cr with prior myself ;; i'm sorry that it didnt work out with that thread, but let's definitely get something together now!! ianto's heard a lot about prior by now and met him far less frequently so he needs to balance this out more
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[personal profile] stuns 2018-09-07 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
hi marie

are you ready

are you

are you ready for this....
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[personal profile] greeted 2018-09-07 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
i was freaking born ready

Let Connor Slap Juno 2k18
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[personal profile] stuns 2018-09-07 11:41 am (UTC)(link)
Let Juno Slap Connor Back 2k18

i hope it turns into a slap fight.

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