APRIL CR MEME

[groundrules]

Salutations! Just a few notes before the main event:

■ we're a tighter crew than originally anticipated for April, following some hiatuses, so we'll be adjusting this month's calendar timeline. We'll have a check-in below if anyone wants follow-up, cues or clues, or has questions about what they discovered in the latest & greatest. We'll have a think about a second check-in in late April.

■ Don't forget your NPC threads, if you signed up for one! Generally, please share any interesting discoveries that have emerged from them or from plot rolls with the entire group — a creepy network post a day keeps the... doctor away and gets everyone killed.

■ Check out the latest character housing arrangements!

■ In case you've missed it: PM if you'd like a(nother) invite to the game discord server. Invites typically go out when you join, but dreamwidth notifications aren't always friends.

And now:

APRIL CR MEME

<b><small>PLAYER</small>:</b> <b><small>PREFERRED CONTACT</small>:</b> <b><small>CHARACTER & CANON</small>:</b> <b><small>THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH</small>:</b> <b><small>UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR</small>:</b> it’s cherry soda, isn’t it <b><small>HOUSING</small>:</b> <b><small>FREQUENT HABITS</small>:</b> what your character can be seen doing often within the house/village, for easy assumed CR <b><Small>WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY</small>?</b> Throw your log top-levels or event plans in here, add the kitchen sink! <b><small>CR THEY NEED</small>:</b> <b><small>CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO</small>:</b> Specificity is key, and the key probably leads to Mordor. <b><small>THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN</small>:</b> <b><small>GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS</small>:</b>

Comments

[traaaaaash]

uhhh... I'm not sure she has any

she usually keeps the stuff at home

oops?

and it's true, that's what really matters

[techmaturgy]

oh. that is a bummer, isn't it. it's fine. we'll science our way out of this yet

[traaaaaash]

this guy sounds like he could use some chaos in his life

[traaaaaash]

science and/or magic! you're in luck, she has some potions knowledge. and all-other-magic-as-per-her-world knowledge.

[techmaturgy]

Apologies in advance; he is insatiable

ACTUALLY I'm pretty excited for this, Harry Potter-flavored magic is pretty different than basically anything he's encountered, so I am pretty pumped at the prospect of him realizing there are, like, other magic systems? in the universe?

Kalyn | Winnie & Souji

[soulsrob]

PLAYER: Kalyn
PREFERRED CONTACT: ovals

Winnie

[soulsrob]

CHARACTER & CANON: Winnifred Prismall | OC

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: a Victorian-era noble born without a soul and the ability to steal others' souls trying to overthrow her corrupt government and take over herself.
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: Bucket hats

HOUSING: #9 w/Diego, Yennefer, Astarion
FREQUENT HABITS: playing with the wailing vegetables. she finds it very funny when they freak out and she likes to pull them up and chatter to them as she carries them around, or when she gets to chopping them up or something. She's probably kept a potato as a pet of sorts. It wears a bow. Its name is Winston.

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? Wheeze I got nothing I'm sorry.

CR THEY NEED: more people to be like "something is Seriously Wrong with you what the FUCK" or pester her about it. So far the only one who knows she doesn't have a soul and what she can do is Five. I'd love for more people to figure it out or pry

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO: I want Winnie to question more people about emotions they're feeling, and she'd be especially drawn towards people on extreme ends--those that firmly keep their reactions under wrap, or those who wear their hearts on their sleeves.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: stuff and things and shenanigans.

She is pretty set on the idea of getting on the good side and good graces of all the most powerful lords to pit them against each other, or at least get all of them believing she/the group is on their side. The more allies they can get to help them out, the better, in her opinion!

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

with a side of

[reparo]

i'm definitely excited for this!! he should tell her all about hextech because it sounds COOL.

[reparo]

i am here for you, mutant daddy*

*non-sexually

[reparo]

ME! I VOLUNTEER! AS TRIBUTE! Let her meet Winston, that will be clue #1 that Something Is Wrong With You.

[unswervingcompanion]

He really could, so yes please!

[downswing]

Okay, but let's trade this girl in exchange for tributes

[downswing]

They need to cry about Lily. But in a manly way. Devoid of tears.

[ensanguines]

PLAYER: morgan
PREFERRED CONTACT: catch me in the group discord or pm at loaf#3886
CHARACTER & CANON: Hijikata Toshizou, from Hakuouki: discount vampire samurai dating sim

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: furious, driven, all his friends are dead and therapy hasn't been invented yet, just the physical embodiment of losing a war.
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: he literally hawks his family's medicinal powder in canon and in history so like shrug emoji

HOUSING: #2 (stuck with Wrath, Lan Sizhui, & Cato, does Wrath bleed blood? asking for a friend)
FREQUENT HABITS: working out/doing training exercises, bullying others into training exercises, staring off into the middle distance, writing in some kind of notebook in Japanese.

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? he's just arrived so adjusting, mostly. trying to herd his cats, i.e. Okita Souji and anyone else he's forcibly adopted since then.

CR THEY NEED: people to be forcibly adopted into the shin-Shinsengumi. get it? get it??? shin means new

also he's like a vampire, but a shitty one. will periodically need willing or unwilling blood donations. demon blood is tastier than non demon blood, and will help him not go insane. please let me know if you have demon blood access please and thank you.

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO: i would love to get him SOME KIND OF LOVE INTEREST for TRAUMA and ANGST please do not apply unless you wish to invite more tragedy than romance into your CR. the trauma will eclipse the romance. it is trauma seasoned with romantic love.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN:
+ running a makeshift gang of misfits part 3249852
+ slurping up various members of the cast
+ stabbing his close cr lovingly, with love. sometimes a bro just needs a good stabbing to calm the fuck down

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS: his primary emotion is sword

[downswing]

Listen, I can think of few things better than these idiots in the woods

[downswing]

Sure! I'll be honest, I try to limit my backtagging because I get lost pretty easily in my head otherwise, so &mdasj; if you don't think we could do something this week on the TL, maybe we could meet somewhere else? All good my side, there's time!

[downswing]

You'll feel very bad about it, I guarantee.

[downswing]

idk why my first response was, "I know a ditch."

[groundrules]

You can ask, but I would need you to be a tiny bit more specific — reason being, if you just want "anything" or "any other mystery," I end up having to overwrite, when you're probably just after the one specific thing.

Re: antler folks — they haven't heard or seen these guys, but note that the villagers don't like to go inside the volcano, so this might be a case of their lack of exposure rather than the antler people being new apparitions.

Souji Okita | Hakuouki

[deathcough]

CHARACTER & CANON: Souji Okita | Hakuouki

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: A sarcastic, snide little shit who loves murder and is a genius when it comes to sword-fighting, he only cares about killing all his leader's enemies, bothering Hijikata, and not dying of tuberculosis. Oh also, he's a discount vampire. Nbd.
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: ....................cough medicine

HOUSING: #3 w/Eleven, Slick, Jiang Cheng
FREQUENT HABITS: making cracks about the ceiling, probably spends as much time out of the house as he can, is way more active at night and tends to doze through the day.

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? I don't have anything, he just got in and I'm waiting to see how his arrival thread goes before I throw him to the masses

CR THEY NEED: People he can playfully (?) threaten with death, people to either encourage or try to control his murder habits. Try to teach him a little about not being an ass (good luck). People willing to sword fight with him would be fun but he would probably be...an ass about it.... i'm sorry.

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO: Sweet nice people he can be fond of and want to protect, begrudgingly. Westerners to teach him your weird ways. He knows...handshakes. Probably. And buttons....kind of.

He'll need people to drink blood from here and there too. Eventually.

People for him to pester!!

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: shenanigans, hijinks, murder.

Oh someone needs to cure his TB for him too. Eventually.

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

[soulsrob]

Winston is a beautiful potato son who bemoans his life and cries quietly... Winnie loves him. She's going to plant him and grow him a son soon. From his body. As one does.

[soulsrob]

soft gasp

how much stuff do you think she's worth? at least 6 goats, right?

they do this and then catch her showing up at the next place married to the next lord there like "sup, fools"

[somebadnews]

omg yes, he would very much be into a coffee substitute that works too well, so much better than your sleep potions. This will definitely keep him out of trouble. Suddenly loves magic.

Also I'd have to check with the family, but someone needs to let them out of his room that he boarded up if Diego's wolves don't dig them out first...

[somebadnews]

Oh no... Five literally has no idea how he'll react, but he's zero nervous about it. Totally prepared for anything. It's fine!

Technically he's still absorbing anguish though, so if you could just. Be cool about it.

[somebadnews]

Yes, good on all points! Please tell him about time travel, he really needs to find out how many people here have screwed up their timelines and throw a fit.

He's learned pitifully little magic in his time here, it's a big point of contention. If he's getting something out of her he can maybe swallow his snippy comments about her mom vibes... as long as she doesn't pinch his cheeks. His poor abused pride.