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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.
ESTINIEN WYRMBLOOD | PLEROMA
NAME: Quix
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS: I am a slave to FFXIV, obviously, and also I like to draw, tabletop, LARP, etc. My plurk is almost entirely RP stuff so feel free to add me.
NAME: Estinien Wyrmblood
CANON: Final Fantasy XIV
LEGACY: The Firebrand
INTENDED SECT: Pleroma
CHARACTER PITCH: Once a legendary dragon-slaying knight known as the Azure Dragoon, Estinien spent twenty years of his life obsessively pursuing revenge against Nidhogg, the great wyrm that butchered his family and village when he was still a child. For decades, the only thing on his mind was achieving this revenge, which has resulted in him having a severe lack of social development, no hobbies, no life prospects, and few skills outside of combat. After becoming possessed by the very dragon he was striving to kill, and discovering that the two of them actually had a lot in common and were both seeking revenge for the unconscionable wrongs done to them, he finally achieved some level of peace and was able to break the cycle of violence that ruled both his life and perpetuated the war destroying his nation. Having become hybridized with dragon aether and imbued with the emotions and memories of his old enemy, he vowed to become a champion for dragon and mankind both.
These days he's learned the power of love and friendship and, while still being inept at living a peaceful life for many reasons, is trying his best to honor his hard-won faith in peace by doing whatever the heroes need him to do. Despite his love for his friends, he's still only really good at killing things. He'd just a dragon-loving hobo doing his best.
DESIRED CR: I love to have people for Estinien to be worried about and watch over - he's really an actions over words guy, so it's awesome when there are people he can fight for. I'll also take Kenoma enemies - he's got a violent streak and finds it a bit too easy to go hard on people he's categorized as "enemy", but is also actively trying to be more empathetic, so there could be some complications there. He is deeply familiar with feelings of despair.
OFFERED CR: A big brother type guy who is caring but sort of socially inept. A fighting partner. An enemy for people who go Kenoma. Really, he's going to be very defensively team Pleroma, so if you are also Pleroma, he'll try to help you in whatever way he can. Which is mostly by fighting and/or being a wilderness hobo, but he'll try other stuff too.
PLOT HOOKS:
-I'm really into having him clash with Kenoma people and taking his share of wins and losses. I'm down with him getting in trouble because of this, since Kenoma definitely have the upper hand right now.
EVENT PLANS: Estinien will be getting pretty riled up in the cavern so it's very likely he'll go after people that aren't being very team orientated if you want someone to clash with. He'll be strongly of the opinion that people should keep resources centralized so that everyone can benefit from them. I'm also down for him to be a "persuasion" target if any Kenomas are interested in that. High odds he will spit at you.
Estinien is also persistent enough that he'll probably be actively trying to bolster people into fighting against the Kenoma. He will yell at you to stand strong but in a caring sort of way. He means well.
ANYTHING ELSE?
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she's not the most long-winded person there is so estinien will have to do the uh motivational speeches, but she'll fight alongside him—and maybe verbally backhand a few with him ............................
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fellow tall and silver-haired pleromas... let's make a club, the worlds least capable of taking care of themselves club so they can be judged together, a single tear rolls down my cheek
OKAY but seriously, Abel would happily look after Estinien and maybe one day they can be Pleroma brothers in arms... either that or Estinien will ditch Abel in the woods somewhere when he won't stop talking, either or
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Thankfully we know that Estinien can tolerate and even enjoy the presence of people who annoy the hell out of him so even if Abel does.... the fact that he has good intentions will make up for most of it, even if Estinien gives him shit. He'll also find the fact that Abel is a priest sort of amusing since he is, of course, a Catholic Elf.
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maybe they can bond over not giving in to the crushing weight of kenoma while feeling miserable so once they manage to escape the Regent they'll be familiar with one another?!
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yeah they need to sit in the corner for a bit a think about life. Abel will talk at Estinien and distract them both, it's what he's good for!!!!
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i didn't tag our TDM thread for very long bc i quickly realized howl would probably be acting very different but i would really love more with them. especially if they end up absolutely hating each other, which i suspect they definitely would lmao
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Which might actually mean they could've started off on an even more positive foot, lmao. We could just assume that if you want!
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