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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.
no subject
NAME: trix
CONTACT: athanasia#1050 or journal PM
FUN FACTS: i'm allergic to peanut butter but not peanuts. go figure. it's a problem because i like peanut butter but i don't like peanuts. oh, i'm also knee-deep into pretty isekai manwha with hot daddies, mobage (genshin, gbf, twst, tkrb ...) and an insane amount of LA shows (hello bridgerton s2 soon).
NAME: Lumine (the Traveler)
CANON: Genshin Impact
LEGACY: Wanderer, surprise surprise
INTENDED SECT: Pleroma
CHARACTER PITCH: The Traveler is the protag who, well, travels across the continent of Teyvat searching for her errant sibling while getting roped into massive nation-shattering events because she's always in the wrong place at the wrong time. During her journey, she meets and befriends a multitude of individuals, from overworked knights to snazzy businesswomen to retiring and/or hikikomori gods, all of whom usually have a job or two or ten for her to do because she's apparently the only person who does commissions in this world, but learns nothing about her brother because this game needs to drag on until everyone playing it ends up broke.
DESIRED CR: She's pretty good at forming relations with everything and everyone, even if she doesn't want to. So Pleroma, Kenoma—come at me.
OFFERED CR:
• An errand girl, lmao. Yes, she'll do every single commission that comes along her way as long as you compensate her properly. Need to deliver something across the continent? She's your girl. Have a research study that needs a few more test subjects? She volunteers as tribute. Want to bury a dead body? Just point her to the nearest plot of land.
• An adventurer. She travels across the world so she's pretty adept at exploring, climbing, swimming, camping, cooking at random places, fighting random people/creatures/monsters/what-have-you. She can be pretty reckless, though, so there's the downside to that.
• A sparring partner. Lumine's proficient at fighting (not that she likes it) but she's reliable if you just want someone to teach you or beat your ass up.
PLOT HOOKS: Escapingggg the Regent, oh yes. Genshin has this ridiculous mechanic in some quests that's practically like stealth mode, so she'll probably employ that (and fail???? Please drag her back or something). Also, she might just walk across Horos and explore the world because that's something she does best in canon, lol. Probably eventually settle in one of the cities as a secret rebel because why not!
EVENT PLANS: Probably psychic communication and just Kenoma sickness. She's definitely going to resist the Kenoma and get sick trying to. Also persuasion! She's pretty stubborn when she's set her mind to something, and I don't mind violence either.
ANYTHING ELSE?