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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[groundrules]

Here if you have any questions about the latest event, need a plot roll, a clue, a... hug?

[cairhien]

PLAYER: kerry
PREFERRED CONTACT: skitties or pm
CHARACTER & CANON: moiraine damodred ( the wheel of time )

CHARACTER'S ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: noble lady turned dirty wanderer on a magical quest to save the world. twenty years in, still going strong but forever exhausted
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: porcupine plushies

HOUSING: #7 ( w/ Jon Snow, Beitang Moran, Moiraine, Zhou Zishu, Lilah )
FREQUENT HABITS: checking in on the townspeople and trying to be helpful, wandering the woods, she's been travelling to some of the other villages recently

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? i don't have a tl but can write some things for people! she's been investigating what's been causing the animals to go feral, sorted out a water problem, travelled to the other villages to give them some help

CR THEY NEED: people to mentor, people to talk powers and other worlds with, friends in general! everything, anything, come get adopted. or stop her from making dumb decisions

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO: all of the above because moiraine tends to do most things alone and doesn't form many strong bonds. bring her strong bonds

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: hugging someone/being hugged, getting some actual sleep, throwing herself relentlessly into more problems (and paying for it after)???

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

Eda Clawthorne | The Owl House

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PLAYER: Val
PREFERRED CONTACT: either honeyfoot or honeyfoot#1000 on discord!
CHARACTER & CANON: Eda Clawthorne | The Owl House

CHARACTER'S ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: sometimes a bird, always a menace / resident owl mom
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: snake oil (no one want an unoiled snake!)

HOUSING: House #8!
FREQUENT HABITS: brewing potions, sprouting feathers, curling up on the couch if available, probably cooking, doing magic experiments, running schemes for quick cash, stealing, investigating this world and especially its magic, causing chaos

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? I'm all new so Eda will have to do the whole arriving thing first

CR THEY NEED: GIMME WHAT U GOT. Unlikely friends, antagonists, new children... there are many possibilitiess

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO: ANYTHING? IS GOOD? idk I just like seeing where things go

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: chaos, mayhem and shenanigans 8D

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:



oh you know just the classic

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porcupine plushies? *steeples hands* tell me more.

[wooden_one]

PLAYER: Orange Crates
PREFERRED CONTACT: plurk (orangeCrates) or PM
CHARACTER & CANON: Chu Wanning (The Husky and His White Cat Shizun)

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: a tsundere who is as smart and strong as he is useless at all forms of socialization that isn't shouting at someone.
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: battle mechs

HOUSING: #6 | Su Xunxian, Marcos, Wrathion, Chu Wanning, Viktor
FREQUENT HABITS: tinkering with mechanical things he finds. Acting put upon and annoyed at people asking him for help but doing it anyway. Doing laundry only very occasionally by swirling clothes in water without soap then hanging it to dry...that's how it's done, right?

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? No log or anything. RL decided to hit me like a truck...

CR THEY NEED:
- Friends (he thinks he doesn't need them but he does)
- Sparring partners
- people to help in anyway he can
- he also needs a doctor as he's poisoned and turns into a child because of it and he has a limited supply of medicine.
- People to help take care of him help this man can neither cook nor clean his idea of taking care of a wound is to haphazardly bandage it then when it gets infected cut off the infected parts with a life then rinse and repeat.

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO:
- Someone with some affinity with plants that can hopefully help me get things rolling on some stuff I want him to realize because SPOILERS he's actually a piece of wood
- People to tease him. Please bully him.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: helping people by inventing stuff, jumping head first into problems with no regard for his own safety, nerding out about magic/cultivation/whatever power systems from different places

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS: No gif but here's some fanart of him failing to understand why this random child whom he just met is talking to him at all let alone smiling at him hdu mo weiyu????

[blackscales]

PLAYER: Jack
PREFERRED CONTACT: PM / Discord (find me in the server or ping me if you aren't in it but want my handle!)
CHARACTER & CANON: Wrathion | Warcraft

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: Local Black Dragon Solves Reputation Problem By Murdering Family, Releasing War Criminal, Changing The Subject To Eldritch Beings We Should Fight Instead Of Being Angry At Him!
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: Relentless (the energy drink yknow.) No Half Measures!

HOUSING: #6 , the farm house with Su Xunxian, Marcos, Chu Wanning, Viktor
FREQUENT HABITS: Up until the Beastmaster arrived: sneaking in and out of the wiseman's house (house 5) to visit Anduin, patrolling the outskirts of the village, haunting the burial ground trying to atone for his village-assigned-sins. Mysteriously, since the Beastmaster's arrival, has vanished from the village. However you might occasionally see a dragon flying around the forest. Totally unrelated!

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? Wrathion noped out hard when the Beastmaster arrived in the village, because mind control is bad actually when you are a big dragon? I have a log for him here hanging out in his forest cave, but am willing to plan out ways to bump into people or write up custom situations where you can still hang out with him! Just... probably not casually in the village. Yet?

CR THEY NEED:
Friends!
Frenemies!
People to bicker with!
People to send on quests!
Fellow Nonhumans to complain with!
People who want their clothing/items fixed or remade. He's a crafter, it's a thing in canon. His speciality is fancy cloaks, but he also deals in weapons, jewellery, all sorts!
People who love a good conspiracy theory! Invent some about this place with him. Theorise wildly about magic.
People who see danger and flit right into it! Time to Cause Trouble, yes?
People who like listening to NPCs run their long scripted events where you have no ability to protest or say anything because WoW doesn't really have choices sorry.

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO:
People to pry, or people generally good at reading others. Wrathion naturally holds back a lot of information and skims past personal things about himself! If you let him, he will just act like Everything Is Fine Forever.
People to tell him off. He hates it.
People to let him lean into his worse traits. Let us cause problems on purpose! Let us experiment dangerously!

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN:
- Working out what the fuck is going on between the Beastmaster and the Huntress, and potentially getting rid of the Beastmaster. Can he just eat him once he is depowered? No? What about setting him on fire?
- Obsessing over what the fuck is going on with the mirrors, and the Merchant. There's something going on here, he can smell it. You can trust him, dragons can smell magic!
- This White Wanderer dude, he makes the good shit that stops the mind control yes? We find him. We get him to teach us how it works. If he doesn't talk? We encourage it. .... With bribes? Maybe? Stop judging him.

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

[downswing]

Archeval once ate a defeated undead lord, Wangji was there to nope about it.

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I'd love to get some CR with one of yours, we've been ships in the wind...!

[blackscales]

So you're saying it isn't impossible is what I am hearing.

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...this gif, though.

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I just want Wangji to mistake her for a spiritual animal of some kind, there're all sorts in these villages.

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You really shouldn't, is what he's saying.

[cairhien]

moiraine is perpetually exhausted

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I mean. It wouldn't even really be a mistake, I guess asdfjadf

[blackscales]

Ok ok what if he just.... scorches him thoroughly? What about that? I mean it sets a good example? Fuck around, find out? It's an ancient proverb, Wangji.

[cairhien]

oh god i meant pufferfish i can't even get my animals right

BUT

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idk the context here but it looks cute

[song_of_fire]

PLAYER: Rachel
PREFERRED CONTACT: la_fille_en_histoire
CHARACTER & CANON: Daenerys Targaryen (A Song of Ice and Fire)

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: Lost princess births dragons back into the world.
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: Rogaine for Girls

HOUSING: House #1
FREQUENT HABITS: She spends a lot of time by this lake nearby, cleaning the scratches that she keeps getting from the curse. Otherwise, she's wandering around and trying to talk to various locals.

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? Player has been on hiatus, but the run down for her has been She's been working on getting her curse lifted while also struggling with the ancestor's curse effects. She's not exactly happy. Drogon has gone off after his kidnapping and he's likely pouting on his own.

CR THEY NEED: Friends, allies, etc

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO: Anything, honestly, which isn't helpful but I still ask for it anyway.

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: Plots, schemes and adventures. Lots of that. She's an adventure girl and she's never at her best unless she doing some kind of quest.

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

Because I'm lazy

[badlypoisoned]

For Contact See Above.
CHARACTER & CANON: Yun Yifeng (A Sword of Frost)

THEIR ONE-SENTENCE ELEVATOR PITCH: Information broker and a a gremlin who purposefully built his sect's waiting area in a spot on the mountain that is extremely windy and cold without heater or walls and makes sure to come down the mountain to meet potential clients while moving at a turtle's pace.
UNUSUAL PRODUCT THEY’D REP AS AWKWARD BRAND AMBASSADOR: Anything someone is willing to pay a premium for him to rep (is what he claims but secretly will not rep anything that will actively harm people)

HOUSING: #4 | Hendrik, Xiao Xingchen, Wei Wuxian, Allison
FREQUENT HABITS: Eating, drinking alcohol, chatting to people, acting friendly...and also spreading horrible rumours about the guy whose sin he is trying to atone for. Occasionally may be seen coughing very badly into a handkerchief or napkin that then disappears (because it is covered in blood).

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN UP TO LATELY? Alas, no top levels because RL has been an ass. But he's been starting rumours and just generally trying not to aggravate his condition and cause himself to die. Occasionally playing his qin and sounding really, really bad doing it (apologies to your character's ears). Cooking things that smell, look and taste inedible.

CR THEY NEED:
- Is there a doctor in the house because he's trying not to die...
- Friends? He's a gremlin but a loyal one...but he may still charge you for services. Favours are good.
- Younger people he can mentor and just generally pat on the head. Will come with a side of bullying and teasing.
- Anyone who is royalty?? Not for any reason beyond that his fiance is a prince and a general and I haven't had the chance for him to be like, oh I'm a future consort!

CR THEY PROBABLY DON’T NEED, BUT YOU DO:
- Some good people in his life. The do good types that he is, though he doesn't admit it, a little fond of. Give him some reason to be a better person, pls.
- someone please teach him how to cook

THREE THINGS YOU WANT THEM INVOLVED IN: crimes, potentially starting a religion to make money (hi Xie Lian) and/or any get rich quick schemes, poisoning, arson, blackmail...wait those are all crimes, aren't they?

GIF OF THEIR INNER MOOD ON MOST DAYS:

[cairhien]

its the nickname her girl gives her. when she gets mad and ranty she puffs out like a spiky little pufferfish

[cairhien]

moiraine will peg her as a wisdom/some kind of wise woman for her potions
oh how wrong she be

[traaaaaash]

............. I was correct this is adorable

[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:

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EDA IS SO WISE THAT'S WHY THEY CALL HER THE OWL LADY

... and next thing you know she'll chase after a random shiny object

[wooden_one]

Yes!! We should get more CR!! I'm hoping to tag around the event hopefully tonight so!! Otherwise, if there's anything in particular you want, just let me know!

Also, I know they haven't met yet but hey, does Lan Wangji want to hear some truly awful guqin playing from Yun Yifeng?