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>

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[downswing]

PLAYER: ruxi
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM / discord probably fastest — I'm at exar, but increasingly sparingly
CHARACTER & CANON: Lan Wangji | The Untamed

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: where there's a will, Lan Wangji will find a way to judge, murder or exorcise
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: bleach. To clear the evidence of the aforementioned murder.

HOUSING: #5 ( Xue Yang, Lorna Dane, Anduin, Sumeragi Subaru )
ngl, I'd love for the team to have some kind of Committee putting up signs that the advice-giving house has gone out of business

FREQUENT HABITS: silence, meditation, practice forms, tending to his spate of countless recent wounds, ferrying warm water, bleaching pale silks, fussing over his grown child Lan Sizhui, blitzing in and out of the markets to gather gossip the word of the living, possibly bringing in urchins and refugees for meals and coin he does not have, and you will have to pay for, nursing a migraine, exorcising or entertaining dead things, playing beautiful music on his guqin.

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? he's been all over the place on the event, from gathering cures to inspecting the dark water — I think the latter is what I'd like to focus him on, or the shrines!

CR THEY NEED:

■ People who speak to him plainly / people who are patient with him: he is much quicker to throw himself on a sword for someone, than he is to adequately communicate with them, and it's... a fault of method and means, not lack of motive

■ A buddy to go to the House of Ravens with

■ Someone to help with his back (this is awkward, because he won't bring it up on his own) after his latest sprint in the woods, with his energy locked

■ Someone he can help with menial chores, because he's not a practised hand at most things, but he tries

■ ...I'd also love him to learn a trade of some kind, because he's absolutely useless. I think the closest he came to this was learning to fish in Sa-Hareth

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO:

■ More necromancers, practitioners of 'questionable' magic or technology, because he only ever learns through exposure and challenging his views

■ ...anyone willing to dissent/call him out when he's prone to judging premature conclusions

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN:

■ Understanding the dark waters: it all ties into local agriculture, and he's big on Helping the Common Folk

■ Finding the House of Ravens: it's increasingly clear this is haunted and/or connected to the volcano somehow

■ ...sorting out his curse: he needs to basically atone for a merry murderess widow. Yeahhhhhhh.

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

[traaaaaash]

Eda can judge u. She's good at that.

Also she's the same "push you away before asking for help" type, and... she can recognize her flaws in others while still refusing to face them in herself 8D so... that might be interesting?

And, well, magic advice.

[downswing]

They can just calmly judge each other.

She's an owl, he might be physically unable to not stare.

Who blinks first????

[traaaaaash]

sorry she doesn't do calm, she'll probably get bored and go do something else first

[blackscales]

So if you actually want a little splashback I can have Wrathion snarl a more direct retort in frustration the next time he feels Judged. Would work much better in person than over the network I am sure, the only thing is Wrathion gets very hotly emotional quite quickly despite selling himself as Cool and Calm and Collected so it wouldn't be like... CALM, REASONABLE DISCUSSION. He's always straight to Drama.

And also this would mean Wangji was actually potentially aware of Wrathion's one sided one man war, so depends if you think it's funnier for him to remain entirely oblivious for longer.

[downswing]

I AM FINE WITH WHATEVER, I typically find that Lan Wangji tends to internalise conflict / just take a slap and walk away, sooner than retaliate (unless someone else's dignity is at stake) — so it's less about needing HEAT in his case, more about, "You are wrong, and here is why."

Wrathion, your second name is hereby Su She.

[blackscales]

Yea, I just wasn't sure how much drama you wanted over it. Since Wrathion struggles to contain heat -- DRAGON YOU SEE. ALWAYS RUNS HOT. So once he tips over into getting bothered by something he goes 1-100 quickly. He'll ignore something up to a point then just be like. ENOUGH! So he cannot do gentle correction.

[downswing]

.........you realise, they are even in conflict about how they go about conflict.

[blackscales]

He's used to that, Anduin always wants to talk about feelings and he absolutely doesn't. Nobody ever wants to do anything his way! When his way is clearly best.

[reparo]

please let her go to the house of ravens with you, it's bound to be an extremely frustrating experience on both sides!

[downswing]

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

[reparo]

let's friggin do it then, it will be great. sneaking off on a secret mission is EXACTLY the right time to discuss how frustratingly obtuse wangji is.

[downswing]

What has he ever even done to her

[arsmechanica]

...so you want to learn a trade, hm.

[downswing]

And be utterly terrible at it, absolutely. Right on this.

What do you have.

[arsmechanica]

I have "how long can he be absolutely awful at smithing before Jens tries to delicately suggest that has he thought about having someone teach him how to sew??"

[downswing]

..............okay, I'll stop you there, I just realised, maybe we shouldn't leave him around fire.

Do you have

other

trades?

[arsmechanica]

.....



....

this is how to build a ladder?

[downswing]

Sold. Done.

[arsmechanica]

\o/