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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: Rose
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS: I am a former ESL teacher that currently works as a librarian, and I've had two of my graduate school papers published through state publications.
NAME: Caitlyn Kiramman
CANON: Arcane
LEGACY: Champion
INTENDED SECT: Pleroma
CHARACTER PITCH: Caitlyn is a talented detective that's committed to building a better world for everyone, no matter the personal cost to herself. She's a true believer in the notion that the world should be fair, and that everyone deserves a shot at happiness, and she refuses to take an inactive role in crafting that vision. She's an extremely altruistic person that believes wholeheartedly in the idea that the world can do right by everyone, so she throws herself into a whole mess of problems to try and get something good done.
DESIRED CR: I would love realistically any kind of CR, because the game is new, but down more specific veins...I'm really looking for Caitlyn to make friends. She has exactly two real ones in the whole world back home, and one of them she met at the start of the last week. She's a VERY nice person most of the time, she's empathetic, she can be charming, and she's extremely genuine so she can probably connect with most people but because of her situation at home she was isolated. Negative CR is also possible if your character is super violent, a genuinely hopelessly evil person, or just hates cops for whatever reason. She IS a cop, and she has strong opinions about morality, so...
OFFERED CR: Caitlyn is great at playing the listener, the supportive friend, the voice of reason, and the conscience. She'd also be pretty good for morale, for those interested in CR that wants to understand what's going on (because she's gonna investigate like whoa!), and for teasing. She's kinda stuffy, somewhat naive, and generally isn't the most worldly person so that last part should come easily. Also, if you want a dogged enemy, that's also an option.
PLOT HOOKS: Cait is initially going to struggle with the idea that the law of the land is as bad as it is. She wants to believe that a government should do good by its people, and it's going to be a little shocking to see how Kenoma has intertwined itself with the government here. She's going to reject that pretty hard, and honestly I feel like she's going to wind up becoming a bit of a Pleroma extremist. Just a bit.
EVENT PLANS: Caitlyn is going to reject Kenoma pretty strongly, and if canon is any indication she has a pretty high tolerance for taking a beating physically and emotionally. I fully intend for her to suffer all manner of negative effects, including accidentally broadcasting negative thoughts, extremely dark thoughts that might cause her to lash out, and all sorts of negative self-image things.
She'll actively fight to grab resources for people that might seem to be starving or freezing, and she's pretty tough, so she'll try her hardest to make sure nobody (especially younger characters) goes hungry.
And depending on interest, I'm open to people trying to persuade her to change her mind.
ANYTHING ELSE?
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