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OOC INTROS + PLOTTING

Intros & Plotting

NEW PLAYERS

Welcome to Aion Teleos! This is our CR meme, for old and new players alike to introduce themselves and to begin plotting for the month ahead. As you're settling into the game, here are a few things you should note:

❖ NEW PLAYER NOTES:

◆ SECT ATTUNEMENT: New characters will have to declare their sect attunements on the Attunement page. Those who are starting in the Kenoma will be attuned as of the start of their introduction, but those who have been taken by the Pleroma may take up until the end of the month to do so. Alternatively, they can attune almost immediately if they are unconflicted about their desire to fight the Regent. The main restriction caused by not attuning to the Pleroma right away will be that unattuned characters cannot travel to the Greentruth rebellion stronghold.

◆ NETWORK (COMMUNION): As soon as a character is attuned to either the Pleroma or the Kenoma, they will be able to access Communion, Aion Teleos's network system. This is written about in the game's info pages, but more details can be found here. This skill can be found by accident or taught by another character.

◆ AION GLAMORS: To help ease gameplay for characters who will stick out like a sore thumb in the setting, we want to make it known that there will be a relatively weak 'glamor' type spell available to learn in Greentruth for new Pleroma. This will have to be pursued ICly, but it is out there, and will be achievable by Tier 1 attunement.

CHARACTER INTRO MINGLES

There will be no mod posted mingle log set up for new players; instead, we are encouraging veteran characters to set up mingles in the various game locations. Our reasoning for this is that, at least on the Pleroma side, there is no set mingle point that will be, by default, accessible to all characters, meaning that some IC thought and proactivity will have to go into how best to accommodate them. Additionally, this will be an opportunity for characters to ICly flex their leadership skills and receive IC reputation (and a small IC gift) for doing so. If you make a mingle log, makes sure to include it in your notable actions on your AC!

We won't leave you entirely without direction, though! Below are some ideas to get people started, and to give an idea of what the environment in each location will be. We will be happy to answer any questions and help with logistics where needed. Alongside this, new players are welcome to make their own open posts on the logs comm.

◆ ACHAMOTH: Once new arrivals have accepted the Kenoma, they will be welcomed into the Citadel along with the rest of their kindred. Most things in the "A Deity's Welcome" and "Exploration" prompts of this log will still apply (we will be converting all of this into a separate info page ASAP but we haven't had the time this month) and so it can be referenced to get an idea of accommodations. The major difference is the lack of dinner time with the Regent; according to their apparent second in command (Xishen, for those that know her), they are preoccupied at the moment, and have asked for the other Kenoma to take charge when it comes to catching up the new recruits. All of Achamoth's facilities and resources are at their disposal to do so.

Achamoth's citizens are as excited as ever to see fresh Aion faces, and will be quick to prostrate themselves before their new gods. They will be eager to offer places for the Kenoma Aions to meet in. Though it is now the Innocent's Moon, it largely goes unremarked on by the residents here, and if it is, only scornfully.

◆ GODSBLOOD: Once the shrines have stopped producing hatchlings, Godsblood will be the first stop for most Pleroma newcomers. By either swimming up through the ocean waters or taking a series of narrow tunnels to the surface, they will find themselves on this edge of this coastal city. It is much the same as it is in this linked post, though the Lover's Festival is now over. While most Aions are capable of blending in thanks to Horos's highly diverse biology, those that are taurs or completely non-mammalian may need some help from other Pleroma to get around without arousing suspicion. Godsblood resists the Regent's control, but it is far from completely safe. Characters may have to work together to find a place to house these new arrivals, whether that be in a safe part of the city or the nearby mountains.

There are seemingly no large festivals planned for the month of Inoseri, but in contrast with the Moon of the Innocent, there does seem to be a sense of unrest. Word of the conflicts at the shrines is spreading around, along with the realization that both Aion sects are now active. It's an ill portent for those old enough to remember the last Aion war. Regardless of the Pleroma's intent, there are those among the people here that resent the fact that their resistance may bring about another era of suffering, and will be suspicious of any new faces they see. At the same time, there are those that are enticed by this new chance to hope, and may be willing to put themselves on the line to see it flourish.

◆ GREENTRUTH: Only those that have officially attuned to the Pleroma will be able to take the portal to Greentruth, a magical passage hidden in a secure location beneath the city streets. They can be shown the way by those that know it, but discretion is of the utmost concern. Upon arriving in the heart of this rebellion stronghold, they will find the atmosphere is more lively and hopeful than it has been for decades. The resurgence of Kenoma has revitalized the Resistance and travel between Greentruth and the smaller settlements is at an all time high as materials and specialists move where needed. Aions are sought after by locals for insight and advice on larger projects as well as smaller personal notes of interest ranging from disputes between neighbors and what kind of wood would be best for this bow. Aions may not have all the answers, but will be encouraged to engage so they can better establish their presence and gain insight to the inner workings of the forest.

Inoseri is known as a time of peace and serenity, but not for the local wildlife. It's mating season for a species of forest dinosaur that is known for it's loud distinct call. This trumpeting sound can be heard for miles and will be nearly constant at the beginning of the month. This is equally frustrating for Greentruth residents as it is for other fauna. Aions will find that animals are more unruly than usual and hunting will be difficult, so any assistance provided to the Greentruth hunters will be appreciated. They will just have to hope they do not cross paths with a would be dinosaurian suitor.

There will be a mission styled event happening later in the month which will call both sects towards the city of Venera. ICly characters will not become aware of this until the plotting post goes up. Meanwhile, as the month of Inoseri begins, all Innocents will feel a strange sense of presence... almost as if there is someone standing with them, even when they are alone.

INTROS & PLOTTING

PLAYER

NAME:
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS:

CHARACTER

NAME:
CANON:
LEGACY:
SECT:

CHARACTER PITCH: Give people an idea of what your character is like!
DESIRED CR: What kind of CR are you looking for?
OFFERED CR: What CR could your character offer to others?
PLOT HOOKS: List some general plots you are particularly interested in exploring in the Aion Teleos setting.

EVENT PLANS: What are your plans for this event in particular?

ANYTHING ELSE? You know what to do.

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PLAYER

NAME: z
CONTACT: PM, DM me on discord,

galateas
FUN FACTS: i am...brand new here! i'm really boring sO lemme just say, feel free to add me on plurk! i'm a big lurker so i'll be more likely to reply to your things than do much plurking myself.

CHARACTER

NAME: Rand al'Thor
CANON: Wheel of Time (TV)
LEGACY: Martyr
SECT: Pleroma

CHARACTER PITCH: Area sheepherder discovers he's the reincarnation of a man who literally broke the world. This puts a real damper on his plans to live a quiet life. As a man who can channel, he's doomed to encroaching madness the more he uses his power. As the Dragon Reborn, he's destined to cause enormous upheavals in their world, with the strong possibility that he may break it like he did in his last lifetime. On top of all this, he has to contend with a host of monsters and powerful baddies, plus the impending confrontation with the Dark One that will almost certainly claim his life. He's doing his best to handle the pressure and trauma of it all, but it's a lot for a guy who expected to live a quiet existence on his father's farm.

As of Rand's canon point, he's faced what he thinks is his Final Confrontation with the Big Bad (spoilers: it was not), and surprised himself by escaping with his life. He feels extremely awesome about the fact that the world seems to have ended anyway. He's also grappling with a lot of existential angst around some recent discoveries he made about his past, plus the fact that his ability to channel (use magic, basically) is inevitably going to erode at his sanity and kill him. Fun times.

DESIRED CR:

➞ Friends...hip bullying. Rand will be readily polite and sweet to people for the most part. That said, he recently ghosted his childhood friends by faking his death for they're better off without me kinds of reasons and is super skittish at the concept of anyone getting close to him here. He has completely normal levels of self-worth, why do you ask.

➞ Swordplay. Area archer has no idea how to hold a sword BUT would really like to learn for sentimental reasons! Someone please teach him a thing or two. He'll have a knack for it once he has any....formal instruction, and more to the point will take practicing very seriously.

➞ Other magic-users. He's recently discovered this ability in himself, and with it has come a lot of baggage and self-hatred. It'd be cool if he could learn to integrate this part of his identity in a healthier way! (Or not, whichever way CR pushes his perception of things.) For a brief rundown: The One Power, essentially the source of all magic in his world, is divided into halves that men and women, respectively, can access. Millennia ago, the devil corrupted the ~ male half ~, causing the situation where men channelers inevitably lose their sanity. Rand's grown up around a lot of stigma around magic-users in general, and guy magic-users in particular.

➞ But really, I'm down for anything. I love positive or negative CR and everything in between.

OFFERED CR: Nice guy who's here to help! He'll be torn between being inclined to keep himself and wanting to look out for fellow Pleroma. He has a pretty negative opinion of Kenoma already (thaNKS AMOS) so let me know if that's something you'd be interested in having yours engage with. Also he comes from a tiny town (think of the Shire), so Godsblood is going to be pretty impressive to him! He's available for any small town lad in the city hijinks if anyone so desires.

PLOT HOOKS: I'm down for keeping all TDM threads as canon, let me know if that's what you'd prefer! He'll be wanting to learn more about the place in general, as well as the Pleroma and Kenoma. Otherwise, he's just arrived so klsdfj gestures at above.

EVENT PLANS: tba!! Like other Pleroma newbies, he'll start out in Godsblood. He'll attune to Pleroma pretty quickly, and will probably check out Greentruth later. That said I'm super open to see how things go.

ANYTHING ELSE?

I don't have his info or an opt-out set up yet, but the character does hit on themes of suicide ideation and Fantasy Madness so please absolutely feel free to lmk if anything makes you uncomfortable or if you don't want to engage with that/him at all. No hard feelings ever and no explanation needed ♥

hi oh god. i loved our thread on the tdm. i'm totally canon blind but he is so so cute and ridiculous and aerith's exact brand of potential friendship bully target. also, your prose is so lovely, i loved reading your threads on the tdm in general.

i'd love to carry over our tdm thread in some capacity, and maybe for aerith and rand to be Those Guys doing wholly too much to help out randomly off screen. she's also from a Very Different place, and it sounds like he would get the crazy lineage stuff, too, so i think we have a lot of possibility for plodding along long term (❁´◡`❁)

HELLO oh my gosh this high praise thank you! i've really enjoyed your aerith and i'd love to keep our tdm thread canon :) lmao they were absoluTELY those guys running around trying to help everyone, i love it. and yeP he can absolutely relate to some crazy linage stuff! i'm really excited to see where their cr goes ♥

Z!!!!!!!!!! grabs your hand!!!!

i'm sorry i couldn't tag rand on the tdm i ended up overwhelming myself BUT YOU'RE HERE NOW!! A FELLOW PLEROMA MARTYR!!! i pull rand into my arms...... ah the comforting feel of sacrifices and pitiful amounts of self-worth i love it

i WILL friendship bully him with dokja

YUUL!!!!

it's ok!! you'll never escape me now i meAN we have the chance now to cr at last! HAHAH please do friendship bully him ♥_♥ i'm stoked to see how these two hit it off

ME TOO!!! look most of the martyrs dokja has met have been completely unhinged so it would be NICE to meet a martyr that doesn't send him running for the hills

LMFAO oh my god........no it's fine rand is totally normal ("totally normal")

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Their thread was cute, and I need to tag it back. Hopefully, they can become Pleroma buddies if Rand needs some moral support or general assistance.

no worries! i'm happy to backtag forever. they are super cute and i absolutely want them to become buddies!! thoma is so sweet, i love him already

Same with Rand being adorable. Bless him, Thoma will appreciate more Pleroma friends to fuss over and trail after.

hahahahha cuTE...please do fuss, self-care isn't his strongest point and canonically gets worse as he stacks up traumatic experiences

[obligatory good thing AT isn't a dark game or anything joke]

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dragonmount - 2022-05-03 16:41 (UTC) - Expand

So I'd love to get some CR with Rand and Caitlyn here. I used to play book Rand, off and on for years, and I loved how the show portrayed him, so it'd be cool to bounce off that.

Cait's also a Pleroma, and she's accidentally heard his name from Moiraine in a weird mind-vision thing, so she'd be keen to make sure he's okay because she's grown to respect Moiraine a bunch. Cait's totally a nice person, a fairness/justice minded cop from a steampunky setting, and if nothing else she can give Rand info and a hand.

oh man! i'm canonblind to arcane but i'd love to tag caitlyn and see how their cr goes.

HAHA he will be thrilled to discover that moiraine's been thinking/talking about him, i'm suRE. but he'll for sure appreciate a helping hand and more nice people in his life!

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Yes! I will look out for Rand on the event then <3

Zooms in on that character pitch. That is Just Familiar enough for Yuya to sympathize, a lot, although I expect getting them to talk about something like that would take time.

But also he's just real friendly. Humans in Yuya's world can't use magic at all, it's just a Spirit Thing, so he's also just now getting a handle on having access to it and deciding how he'll hone it and he'd gladly talk about it to other people both experienced and not with using it.

me glancing at your top level like wOW YOU WEREN'T KIDDING about familiarity!

but yes absolUTELY i'd love to get them talking in general!! they clearly have overlap that's going to be super fun to explore

Yes! Yuya will be around for helping newbies because he's more useful there than fighting for them at shrines anyway... there's plans for a sit together/intro log to go up before the big event.

awesome!! we should for sure do something there

I can't offer a magic friend, but I can offer a sword friend! Or if there's anything else rand wants to learn ~~shield that can be crossbow is always on the table~~. Otherwise there's always simple friends! If you want someone to lead him to Greentruth the first time or anything else!

SWORD FRIEND....that's actually hilariously perfect, because my hope with swordplay is to build up to this magical sword of pure fire he uses a lot in the book series. and, looks at hiccup's dragon blade. also funny because he mostly wants to learn for [dad feelings] reasons, which he'd partially admit to. this is something he'd be keen on starting pretty quickly (he was Not A Fan of feeling helpless for his arrival), so i think that could be a good place to start 👀

does hiccup have his crossbow shield in game!! i love that for him.

pure fire sword!!! hiccup's not jealous at all really :pensive: i don't know much about him but it sounds like they have a lot of good crossover/connections that could make it fun. so i'm happy for further sword-training-to-fire shenanigans

he doesn't have the shield in game! but i mean he can easily remake it one day

HAHA aww hiccup...don't worry, you're still cooler. and bless! i'm excited to see how the cr goes ♥_♥

oh man i SEE, but good point!! come to think of it, i'm not sure if rand's familiar with crossbows...he specifically uses a big ole longbow, so i wonder what that learning curve would look like 🤔

wow, amos did nothing wrong though???? sounds more like a rand problem

the attempted kidnapping is nOT WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE!!!!!!

""attempted kidnapping"" wow, touchy