aionooc | OOC INTRO + EVENT PLOTTING

Intros & Event Plotting

GAME OPENING

Welcome to Aion Teleos's first OOC mingle, as well as its first event plotting post! In the future these two things may be posted separately, but given that the event will be posted on Friday, it made the most sense to combine them for the game's opening. The general details of the coming event will be posted below to give you an idea of what your characters will be doing for the next month. Please note that sects will not be confirmed until later in the month, depending on your character's reaction to the intro event.

❖ THINGS TO NOTE

◆ NETWORK: Following this event, the communion network will be active! These are awakened as part of choosing a sect. Pleroma characters won't receive any immediate instructions on how to use these powers, but they are welcome to figure them out on their own. Kenoma will have it explained to them by certain NPCs in the Regent's forces.

◆ TIMELINE: The timeline for the for this first month will be a bit condensed. The event itself will ICly be occurring over the period of a bit over a week, but playtime has been scheduled to last until the end of the month. Timing wise, the events of the TDM will have been considered to happen in the first half of the Horos equivalent of March. The intro event will happen in the second half of March. From there, the timeline should go back to a 1:1 ratio.

THE EMPTY THRONE

The ritual promised in the game's first TDM is at hand. Escorted down to a massive cavern beneath the ruins, characters will made to participate in a disquieting ceremony - one that invokes the Kenoma and forcefully infects them with it. Trapped within the cavern by their captors, they'll be forced to wait out the infection's effects, with only sparse supplies being offered to them and clothing that does nothing to stand up against the cold of these subterranean ruins.

Your character initial attunement will ultimately be defined by their reaction to the Kenoma they've been infected with. There are two main options:

A) They reject its influence, survive its detrimental effects, and their perseverance cultivates the presence of the Pleroma. After a week or so they will be able to expel the Kenoma entirely, attune to the first tier of Pleroma, and have any powers they're missing return.

B) The presence of the Kenoma speaks to them on a spiritual level, their own despair responding to it. Though they may struggle at first, eventually they succumb, surrendering to its influence and being informed of the Regent's plans through it. Characters that accept Kenoma will be allowed out of the cavern, as long as they stay in the area and cooperate with a new NPC that will be present. Their powers will return as soon as they surrender to the Kenoma.

You DO NOT have to commit to the sect indicated on your app if these opening circumstances make you inclined to go another direction. Here are some of the plot hooks that will be present in the event information:

◆ KENOMA SICKNESS: The infection, while being resisted, will cause various detrimental effects. These include persistent dark thoughts, accidental psychic communication with other characters, involuntary transformations in line with Aion changes but based on negative self conception, and general physical illness. Your character should be affected by at least one of these things.

◆ COMPETITIVE SURVIVAL: The soldiers are giving characters a limited amount of supplies and are not attempting to distribute it evenly. Hoarding supplies is an option, and will likely result in others going hungry and/or freezing.

◆ PERSUASION: Characters who accept the Kenoma will essentially swap over to being part of the military force trapping people in the caverns. They may receive orders from an NPC asking them to 'persuade' characters who have not succumbed to the Kenoma yet by whatever means necessary, as long as it isn't killing them or using mind control.

All of this will be fleshed out further in the actual event post, this summary is just to give you an idea of what to plan for. That said, let's introduce ourselves!

INTROS & PLOTTING

PLAYER

NAME:
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS:

CHARACTER

NAME:
CANON:
LEGACY:
INTENDED SECT: Which sect you are currently shooting for.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

NAME: Solar
CONTACT: Plurk
FUN FACTS: I'm a freelance proofreader and editor that struggles not to edit my posts a million times as I spot errors on reread. Forgive me in advance. I'm also canonblind to most canons, but I have a lot of fun gleaning impressions of characters and worlds from cr. I already love your cats.

NAME: Eleven
CANON: Dragon Quest XI S
LEGACY: Martyr
INTENDED SECT: Pleroma

CHARACTER PITCH: A divinely chosen child of light that's failed to protect his world from the pall of darkness. After the loss of his spiritual power, Eleven struggles beneath the weight of guilt and expectation.
DESIRED CR:
• Friends! On both sides. He'll be disappointed in everyone that chooses Kenoma as a matter of course, but it sure hits different when he actually likes them as a person :>
• Negative CR! Eleven is new to the concept of actively ~~hating~~ disliking people. He's always been taught not to bear grudges and for awhile, that wasn't a problem for him. But he's starting to find that while the advice is good, it's not always a simple matter to uphold it.

OFFERED CR: A good bean who is desperate to help people. He's also ready to argue hotly against anyone who thinks Kenoma is a good idea. Might be able to help anchor or lever a character toward Pleroma if desired? Actively working to save people from 'corruption'.
PLOT HOOKS: Eleven is the Luminary, Chosen of Yggdrasil, and thus familiar with grand concepts of the Void, the cycle of rebirth, and light vs dark, so that could make for some interesting conversation. Likely to lay swift blame at Kenoma's feet for swallowing that light of creation in the void. He'll miss it keenly, faith shaken and taking heart solely in the shard rooted in his chest where his spirit once resided.

EVENT PLANS: Eleven will reject Kenoma in a knee-jerk terror and experience physical sickness and dark thoughts. I'd def be down for some accidental psychic communication.

ANYTHING ELSE?