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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?


summertimeblues: (055)

[personal profile] summertimeblues 2018-09-07 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds legit

Let's do it friend
quintessent: (As tides bring them down)

[personal profile] quintessent 2018-09-07 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Hello why hasn't Richie made fun of Allura's voice yet?
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[personal profile] doubledoctornocitrus 2018-09-07 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Rodney would find the jungle horrifying and also the worst, so yarr, Olympia it is. :D Nadril sounds awesome, because both Natha thingies and tiny robots are GREAT. But yes! First is settling in and sorting things out.

summertimeblues: (027)

[personal profile] summertimeblues 2018-09-07 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Because she's smol and cute and he'd rather teach her how to swear more

But yes please let's develop them further! I really liked both of our threads so far, maybe he can start checking in on her more often
tellmehowthisfeels: (Tell me more)

[personal profile] tellmehowthisfeels 2018-09-07 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! And I've really enjoyed the CR so far too. Let's keep it up. Also feel free to get some with Iskandar too! He'd love it.
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Maru - Lance

[personal profile] particlebarrier 2018-09-07 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Handle. Maru
Preferred Contact. I'm beatdown#8099 on discord and [plurk.com profile] partyraven
Friending Policy. ADD ME. I'm totally new to this game and I wanna get to know y'all!
Interests. Haaaa I don't really post on plurk except for memes and RP related chatter BUT my fandoms include Voltron (obvs), asoiaf/got, nge, dn. I like coming up with ridiculous AUs and outside of fandom I study neuro.
Tagging Habits. EST. I tag in the afternoons/evenings. Tagging speed varies a lot depending on workload. Some days I'll boomerang, others I'm a bit slower. I try not to leave anything longer than a day or two.

Character Name & Series. Lance from Voltron: Legendary Defender
Character Age. 17
Photo Reference. Leggy string bean
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. The TL;DR of it is that Lance is an enormous goofball who wants you to think he's much cooler than he actually is. He's the Red paladin and second-in-command of Voltron and was previously fighting an alien race called the Galra in an intergalactic space war with 4 other paladins. He's a bit of an outrageously flirty airhead who likes to show off at times, but he's also got a surprisingly serious side to him as well with a good head for strategy. Deep down, he's a bit insecure about his place/role in the world, but he tries to do the best he can.
Desired CR. I'M UP FOR ALL THE CR. Seriously, I'm up for positive CR, negative CR -- everything!
Offered CR. Lance is pretty dang sociable, but also a bit sensitive/petty at times so CR with him can range anywhere in that spectrum of friends - rivals - HAET, pfff.
Rooming Plans. I'm not 100% on this one yet!
Game Plans. Hooo boy, I just got here and nothing is set in stone here but I definitely wanna do some world exploration type stuff with Lance and get him more involved in some of the politics of El Nysa as he fumbles around being his goofy self. He'll definitely wanna learn more about the Natha themselves because he just flat out doesn't want to believe his home planet got obliterated so some sleuthing around would be fun to do, too! But for right now, Lance has a lot of settling in to do.
Event Plans. Nothing too specific by way of event plans yet but he'd definitely be trying to do some ghost appeasing and maybe get him involved in a quest!
Anything Else? NOT THAT I CAN THINK OF? I'm really excited about being here and I'm looking forward to RPing with everyone! And woop, sorry for the repost, I saw my html was broke and couldn't fix it before my dinner was done, pff.
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Tamara 'TJ' Johansen | Stargate: Universe

[personal profile] stargatemedic 2018-09-07 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Series. Tamara 'TJ' Johansen
Character Age. She was born in '83 (and thinks it's 2011), so approx. 28?
Photo Reference. and here.
Permissions. are over here.
Personality Blurb. J is a Lieutenant in the Air Force that slept with her married commanding officer, then ended up stranded with him and almost eighty other people on a spaceship moving a billion light years in the opposite direction from Earth.

She's smart, funny, extremely kind, able to keep everyone's secrets (including her own), while still having a tendency to make Not The Right Choice when it comes to herself and her life. Still, she's very 'shirt off her back' and wants to make sure everyone around her has enough; she's self-sacrificing to a fault, professional with (almost!) everyone, and wants to patch up all your character's wounds.
Desired CR. I want TJ to make friends! Girl friends, guy friends, all kinds of friends! She needs them, desperately, since the people she's known for two years are stuck in stasis (which, oddly enough, is how she left them in canon)
Offered CR. TJ is a medic! She has her medkit with her and she's totally ready to patch people up. She's been the ranking medical officer on board a spaceship for far too long and now she's here, so. Let's do this! Does your character need a friend? TJ is totally ready to friend. How about a shoulder to cry on? She's got two! A listening ear? She's got two of them, too. Honestly, I'm open to anything that you want, basically... though, if it's smut options, ICly might take a minute or a lot of alcohol.
Rooming Plans. TJ needs a roommate, basically. Right now she's probably still living in her ice palace. And considering Rocket's advice of Wyver.
Game Plans. She's going to be a terrible medical professional and conduct experiments on someone because they have neat tricks they can do, she needs to find a place to live, she's going to look for potential pieces for her new almost!friend for his business, she wants to work at the clinic with Claire, and she... (FILL IN THIS BLANK).
Event Plans. She will be there to stitch up your characters, she will be terribly weirded out by the ghosts, and will definitely be all in to help with a memorial.

Anything Else?
Edited 2018-09-07 00:17 (UTC)
quintessent: (or worse just a man?)

[personal profile] quintessent 2018-09-07 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Claaarke I'm sorry I dropped the ball last time but they need to be space pals together. (And this is a very SOL want, but can they both be clueless over modern fashion together sometime?)
summertimeblues: (100)

[personal profile] summertimeblues 2018-09-07 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
That's part of the thrill

No but as much as they both are circular conversationalists i hope they can orbit a little closer to honesty in the future

Plus ngl i want to do that vr bit they discussed, seeing if they could use it to either visit their own pasts or go to a concert of their heyday
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-09-07 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
I feel like I'm going to have Prior be stalked by ghosts BTW, it's canon.

Luckily he is very calm and rational about it.


shipoftheseus: (moe af)

[personal profile] shipoftheseus 2018-09-07 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
HELLO I WANT LANCE CR. Lance is my boy and also how can I not throw the weird alien at him...
Edited 2018-09-07 00:21 (UTC)
acerate: (v5 p080)

[personal profile] acerate 2018-09-07 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
i didn't get tooooo too far in Breaking Bad, but i did watch the episode Peekaboo, and that stuck with me like some very keen shit. humbling!!

more to the point, yau si here comes from a criminal background and is entering nysa with the intention to shed it. however, he's super bad at leaving behind his own ugliness--they seem to hold some similarities in feeling they deserve to be bad people experiencing bad things, and are incapable of whatever goodness they might desire--so it could be interesting if somewhere down the line they held some interactions that involved the draw of crime for either or both of them. yau si in particular has an affinity for working with drugs via a long, intensive study of herbology.
quintessent: (We could all go down in flames)

[personal profile] quintessent 2018-09-07 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not manhandling you into moving in with Allura and Keith but......... (No pressure for real though, Allura didn't move in until recently either because she questioned Keith's hermit lifestyle and I didn't want to pidgeonhole her living situation right away.)
Edited 2018-09-07 00:36 (UTC)
summertimeblues: (088)

[personal profile] summertimeblues 2018-09-07 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
HURRAH

I've quite missed robb in the show, ty for this blast from the past.
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[personal profile] priorly 2018-09-07 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, Prior can't help with tecchy things, he's from the '80s. However he's reasonably good with abrasive individuals, in the sense that he generally finds it amusing.

And he's friends with John, so I'd love him to meet Rodney.

As for comfort zones, Prior would be out of some military type's comfort zone, certainly, but I don't quite know enough about Rodney to know if he'd apply. He doesn't share it widely but he's a prophet with an angelic voice in his head, so there's that. He's also a former drag queen and extremely effeminate with it.

And he has previous experience with ghosts so I'll absolutely be getting him involved with that somehow.
acerate: (v13 - 082)

[personal profile] acerate 2018-09-07 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
i mean, i've read ASOIAF/seen the show, but seeing theon laid out like this is striking. it makes me realize that he and yau si are UNFORTUNATELY sickly similar as people in their self-loathing and difficulties with personal identity. rough!!

i'm not sure what kind of cr that might facilitate, but if you're ever up for two trainwrecks flashing by each other, let me know!
nevernoaction: (wait what?)

Belmont & Lie Ren | RWBY

[personal profile] nevernoaction 2018-09-07 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Handle. Belmont
Preferred Contact. PM this journal or [plurk.com profile] draculabackwards
Friending Policy. Go ahead, just kind of let me know who you are
Interests. Rp talk, video games, adventures in homeownership, bike riding and anime!
Tagging Habits. EST, usually about once a day

Character Name & Series. Lie Ren, RWBY
Character Age. 18
Photo Reference. He's got a lot of ahir
Permissions. Link
Personality Blurb. Quiet, efficient, calm young man who occasionally has decent advice, but also a bit closed off without his canon crew around.
Desired CR. Ren is without his best friends and really needs people his own age to hang around with. Preferably people louder than he is. He's not a shy person but he tends to do well with people who can drawn him out.
Offered CR. Do you need a very good listener or someone to spar with? Ren's your boy.
Rooming Plans. Ren has a tiny little place in Olympia by himself
Game Plans. Throwing Ren in without his crew has been interesting because he's ALWAYS has at least one best friend with him for years and years. He'll probably keep exploring the world and be quiet and try to be helpful. Until he makes a new best friend, which is something I'd like to see him get over time and should the CR work out that way.
Event Plans. Oh man. Ren has a few ghosts in his past...

Anything Else? Ren can also make mean pancakes.

Edited 2018-09-07 00:33 (UTC)
summertimeblues: (045)

[personal profile] summertimeblues 2018-09-07 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
I'm also hella aiming for that cuddle-kiss or sobfest or both

All at once

I just want a miserable pile of tired bones on one sofa, trying to hold it all together
nevernoaction: (ahem)

[personal profile] nevernoaction 2018-09-07 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh man. Lance is the kind of person quiet Ren needs to meet.
priorly: (pic#11746319)

[personal profile] priorly 2018-09-07 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well. Prior also has his great great (X34) grandfathers show up. They're practically twins.

Possibly excepting the cult thing.
smithsonian: (Grin down)

Annie Walker | Covert Affairs

[personal profile] smithsonian 2018-09-07 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Series. Annie 'What the Hell Are You Doing?' Walker
Character Age. 8/8/80 - canon point puts her at 32
Photo Reference. Here
Permissions. are over here.
Personality Blurb. "Annie, no" vs "Annie, yes" = Annie Walker. She's loyal and fierce and all about saving the world, which means she has very little shame in all the things she does. She's very much about style and sass and she is incredibly smart. Loyalty is key (her faith has just been shaken in those she trusts, so, good luck to you), and she puts everything she has into everything she believes in.
Desired CR. The good, the bad, and the very bad. She'll tell everyone that she works for the Smithsonian until she gets to know them and then she'll be apologetic for lying. Maybe. She's trying to protect you, okay?
Offered CR. ... if you have the need to make friends with a woman who can run faster in her heels than you can in your tennis shoes, this is the CR you want. She's protective of her friends and family and takes no shit from anyone. She also has a huge heart and please don't let her near your kitchen.
Rooming Plans. N O N E. Do you want a roommate? Let her know. She can couch surf if you have one!
Game Plans. None at the moment, but boy howdy am I down. Annie's good for anything, even if she looks a little delicate on the outside. She's not. Girl can take a punch and give a punch and just keeps going spy show mentality, what can you do?.
Event Plans. She's not a big fan of ghosts, tbh. She does, however, find it necessary to memorialize those who gave their lives for a cause. She's absolutely here for helping with a memorial.

Anything Else?
quintessent: (But you're a king)

[personal profile] quintessent 2018-09-07 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Ah... it has only been two threads hasn't it. That feels wrong but it's not.

But yes they have been cute and you know I love Richie. She is always up to fill the youngins, people with weirdo powers/backstories and silly voices in Richie's life!
priorly: (pic#11746325)

[personal profile] priorly 2018-09-07 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Ok no pressure but I thought of a great line for a moment when Richie is able to say he like likes prior. I made an iphone note to save it for the decades to come.

AND I WANT A FIGHT.







Because i have a line saved for that too.
nevernoaction: (smile)

[personal profile] nevernoaction 2018-09-07 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
All the muscles everywhere!
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[personal profile] impavid 2018-09-07 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
IT'S NOT THE SAME

And I'd be happy to issue John as either a bodyguard on a quest or Prior as an insightful prophet assistant to him on something!

Do you also still want to do a dreamshare/nightmareshare thing! And if so, what manner of thing would you like!

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