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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
❖ 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.
◆ 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:
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:
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.
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!◆ 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.
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.
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NAME: Harry
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS: i had to link the canadian government my furaffinity to get them to let me live here
NAME: Luo Binghe
CANON: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
LEGACY: The Firebrand
INTENDED SECT: Kenoma
CHARACTER PITCH: In the fiction of his canon, Luo Binghe is the grimdark antihero protagonist of a male power fantasy novel whose selling point is the main character suffering terrible hardships that leave him twisted, cruel and vengeful, and then overcoming these struggles to horribly kill everyone who wronged him, conquer the demon and human realms, and amass a harem of 600 women. Binghe is from a version of that story where a pedantic anti-fan got isekaied into it as his evil teacher and made Binghe fall in love with him by mistake. And then still had to betray Binghe and push him into hell anyway because of the plot. Oops! This version of Luo Binghe is just as much of a melodramatic chuunibyou nightmare guy as the original, just with some extra mommy* issues (*the mommy is a guy but they are mommy issues. sometimes its just like that). He is by all metrics a terrible person but if he can be sincerely convinced that you care about him he will die for you.
DESIRED CR: i would LOVE for Binghe to develop some positive CR but that's going to be a lengthy undertaking because he doesn't trust anybody. He's going to be mostly playing nice to start out, though, so anyone willing to have their character hang out with someone who's like presenting as a basically friendly guy but is constantly inner monologuing about how nobody can be trusted and the world deserves to burn, hit me up..! Characters he's most likely to eventually become attached to are thoughtlessly selfless types and people with nurturing vibes, although I feel like anyone's in with a chance in the right circumstances.
OFFERED CR: Per the above, for the time being Binghe is going to be friendly towards other PCs (and NPCs) and determined to feel Neutral about everyone he interacts with. In the long term, if he does come to trust and care about someone he'll get extremely clingy and obnoxious about it. If someone he's gotten attached to betrays him (I am very enthusiastic about him being betrayed) he's going to go completely nuclear and make it everybody else's problem. If that sounds like fun to you please imagine me holding this super annoying guy out to you with my hands under his armpits like a cat.
PLOT HOOKS: Luo Binghe's long term plan here is, like, Killing And Overthrowing The Regent, because he doesn't like being told what to do. I expect this to go really badly for him if and when he tries it. Let me know if you have a character who would encourage this kind of thing :)
EVENT PLANS: Binghe is definitely going to be Kenoma'd straight off the bat. He's not SUPER interested in persuading other people but he's going to be trying to convince the soldiers he's a good boy so he'll do as he's told in that regard....
ANYTHING ELSE? heres luo binghes trainsona
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Finger Guns
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I probably can't offer much in terms of """"positive"""" CR. Perhaps Betrayal CR though if you would like some long-gamed betrayal CR.
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i would LOVE some long-gamed Betrayal CR. i would eat Betrayal CR with a knife and fork.
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Excellent. I will be sure to hit up any of your posts I see to get the Betrayal Train rolling.
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i'd love for dokja to annoyingly pester binghe even though they're on opposite sides?? accept him, binghe, he is literally a thoughtless selfless type
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but you said issues about betrayal huh
i uh
i might know a guy who could definitely talk about that for years and probably would if given the chance. You know, if you ever wanted to put a devil on his shoulder about whether he should trust people or not 8)
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I am sure if they are both kenoma, we can definitely make something work for cr!