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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] redweb 2018-09-08 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
I desperately want Nat and Margery to be friends, I can't even tell you. Natasha very much used to be a similar sort of person, in that sort of charming and flirtatious paired to a certain sort of ruthless-for-a-cause kind of way, so I'd love to see how they get along. Natasha could also use some lady friends, and I'd love to see how the different era thing goes. :D
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[personal profile] smithsonian 2018-09-08 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
This is an excellent show.

And they can do that in starter housing until one or both of them finds something else? Or they find something together? LOL And one day, when someone knocks and they both pull weapons, they'll totally be like:

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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-08 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
ONE FUNYUNS
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[personal profile] stargatemedic 2018-09-08 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
I think this is an excellent idea. They can become the besties they were meant to be!
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[personal profile] chemethtry 2018-09-08 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'M SO DOWN FOR ALL OF THIS

Jesse hates cruelty and evil, but he's also so easily caught up in dodgy, bad shit without even meaning to be half the time, and sees himself as only worthy of being a constant disappointment to people, that he would... so roll along with this. SO LONG AS NOBODY GETS HURT. Unless they deserve to be hurt.

I'm def one of those people who like cr that is established around action or friction. Not a fan of smalltalk cr (unless my character knows the other character well enough that smalltalk would be interesting/cr building). IF THAT MAKES SENSE. So, yeah, if the intro log doesn't offer too much in the way of establishing cr, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE OTHER TIMES. Because hell yeah, I'd be so down with Jesse teaming up with Takasugi. :D:D
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MOLLYMAUK TEALEAF | CRITICAL ROLE

[personal profile] mollymocked 2018-09-08 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Series. Mollymauk Tealeaf, Critical Role
Character Age. twenty...ish. He has two years worth of memories and doesn't fucking know.
Photo Reference. A lavender tiefling who usually has more then 3 hit points.
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. Molly is a "literal and figurative" peacock and a bright-eyed child all rolled up into one deviant package. He's willing to try anything once, is driven by insatiable curiosity and a lust for life. He's also a chronic bullshitter, but not to be cruel, but rather because the truth is vicious and he doesn't care for it. To coin a meme, he can be your angle or your devil, depending on how you treat him or just people in general. He punishes the wicked and helps the downtrodden as best he can. He's also a Blood Hunter, which means he's a whirling dervish of death in a fight and bleeds to activate his abilities (see permissions if you're not cool with that).
Desired CR. People looking for group (you'll be dragged into whatever shit he, Nott, and Caleb get into), friends for days, people who are interested in living life to the fullest or people who need someone to TEACH THEM HOW TO DO THAT, people who can call his bullshit, etc. and so forth.
Offered CR. A Mom Friend who will invade your personal space, occasionally bully you into not being a giant shitlord, and be your pansexual best friend or more, if you're interested in that. Also he's a... fiend/undead/fey-hunting blood hunter dual-wielding scimitars, but most of that is muscle memory and murder hobo necessity. It's fine.
Rooming Plans. Biding time in Olympia until everyone hates them, but really we're just waiting until Caleb learns Tiny Hut and they can live in the woods like the hobos they are.
Game Plans. Molly's just not interested in big picture. It's not his thing. He doesn't have goals- he's just along for the ride. His only real goal is keeping Nott, Caleb, and anyone he deems important enough to look after alive because he's a Mom Friend.
Event Plans. Molly has... some very strong issues... with undead that are not necessarily his issues... Though some of them are, because FUCK GHOSTS. HE HAS NEVER MET A GHOST HE DIDN'T WANT TO STAB. So he's really not gonna be inclined to play nice with the ghosts and he's pretty effective at re-murdering them if it comes to that. He'll definitely delight in doing something neat for the memorial and do some bounty board stuff.

Anything Else?

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[personal profile] chemethtry 2018-09-08 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
please can Jesse meet Bree and flirt and like her and then realise with terror that she's Claire's daughter
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-08 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
awesome!! i can hit ren up if i ever see an open post/toplevel, or/and i can message you if i do one too.
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[personal profile] givingback 2018-09-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
oh

my

god.

so that's a hard yes. way to go mom, your reputation makes boys afraid.
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[personal profile] shikomizue 2018-09-08 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO

So long as he's still in control of himself, he's totally down for that. Let's fuck it up
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[personal profile] shikomizue 2018-09-08 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
L O L

good that's a more natural reaction to him than Diva has had HRUGUGG

he'll fight the good fight to see her as a mess... he likes impossible odds
beatupgrass: (✘ there is no pepe silvia)

Rocket | Marvel Cinematic Universe

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2018-09-08 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Series. Rocket, Marvel Cinematic Universe
Character Age. A FULL GROWN RACCOON.
Photo Reference. Link
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. Abrasive and sardonic and generally pretty convinced he's the smartest person in any given room and everyone around him is a bunch of idiots. He can be soft when he wants to be if you've earned his trust, but mostly he's a flaming pile of garbage who loves guns and bombs and engineering. Also extremely loyal if you can tolerate his shit long enough to become a friend.
Desired CR. Positive! More friends, more bros he can build weapons for! More people he talk engineering with! Negative! More people he can be abrasive and snarky at. Do you play a scientist? He'll probably hate that person! Let's go. Give it to me.
Offered CR. A drinking buddy, a jack of all weapons trades, and a useful skill monkey during quests.
Rooming Plans. Lives in the Guardians mansion in Wyver.
Game Plans. Rocket continues to have no real affection for either city, beyond hating Olympia more because Evras lives there. With the shaman threat working towards being eliminated his frustration with HIS OWN HOME being disappointing has ebbed. The whole thing with the Natha has changed his perspective a bit, so he's curious.
Event Plans. Rocket's gonna be so glad to be doing work for Cree again even with his tenuous relationship with the bastard. He doesn't care about ghosts, but he'll be taking advantage of any stuff in Nadril because Nadril is great even if he doesn't wanna live there.

Anything Else?

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[personal profile] shikomizue 2018-09-08 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Takasugi jumps to violence pretty quickly, but in his opinion everyone deserves to get hurt because the world sucks and it along with everything in it should just burn! He's a freak

I get you! Takasugi jives with small talk pretty well, but I'll keep my eyes open for something with more momentum to it, I'm sure that if there's nothing that jumps out at us on the intro log, the quests will have what we're looking for, since there's usually a goal and a challenge to overcome!
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-08 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
pls let this happen one day... be prepared to end up died my friend
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[personal profile] shikomizue 2018-09-08 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
LETS DO A QUEST FOR CREE OR NADRIL TOGETHER :fire:

We've talked a few times about getting CR, but I always end up overwhelmed with other stuff and I really want to play with Rocket! I'm gonna MAKE IT HAPPEN THIS TIME!!

Takasugi wants some weapons rhurhgu
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[personal profile] shikomizue 2018-09-08 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
he's ready to get fucked up
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Diana Prince

[personal profile] learntthehardway 2018-09-08 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Series. Diana Prince - DCEU
Character Age. She's old, over 5,000.
Photo Reference. Diana Prince | Wonder Woman
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. She's smart, independent, rebellious, kind, loving, a believer in peace and love. She's a big cinnamon roll who just happens to be able to kick ass.
Desired CR. ALL OF IT. Good, bad, kinda good, kinda bad. She needs people who will try and tell her no because... She does what she wants. She loves very easily and fully.
Offered CR. Everything! She is a good person to talk to, to spar with, to adventure with.
Rooming Plans. She's probably going to head to Olympus but she might hop around.
Game Plans. She plans on exploring and helping people and idek stuff.
Event Plans. She's gonna be doing the Quest for Olympia. I don't know about the rest of the events though but I am so open for ideas and shenanigans

Anything Else?


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[personal profile] romancekiller 2018-09-08 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
yeah that totally works for me! once we find out what's gonna happen in the intro log, we can go from and figure things out from there!
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[personal profile] reinerouge 2018-09-08 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
good. rip.
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[personal profile] errantdetective 2018-09-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
bleeds on you
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[personal profile] chemethtry 2018-09-08 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] chemethtry 2018-09-08 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
also, jesse will think claire is 1000% MILF
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[personal profile] errantdetective 2018-09-08 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
HELL YEAH she's gonna be a little cautious about revealing her magic at first though lmao it probably won't last very long since.... this clearly isn't normal mortal Earth OLD HABITS JUST DIE HARD. I know nothing about x'rhun but I am so here for this. At least she's pretty used to ye ouldey fantasy cause a lot of fae haven't realized the 21st century hit yet. She gets the culture difference.
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[personal profile] redweb 2018-09-08 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
I need Natasha to meet all of the Overwatches, basically.

But Natasha has been part of, and even lead a few "save the world" teams, so prickly/grumpy people are pretty easy for her to deal with, as long as they seem interesting.

Also, idk if you're familiar with Marvel comics at all, but her canon also involves cyborgs, ninjas, supersoldiers, attempted world domination by robots, a talking gorilla with a machine gun and a jetpack, and even more insanity.

She's super interested in finding out more about what's going on, and frankly kind of suspicious of almost everything she's heard so far. And she's honestly pretty good at the whole fighting/shooting thing herself, but if Jack's interested in sparring or target practice or the like, she'd probably be down for it.

But basically: hi, Nat needs to meet Jack. He'll probably remind her of comics Steve a bit, tbh.
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puts this here also

[personal profile] chemethtry 2018-09-08 01:38 am (UTC)(link)

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