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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

gently touches a hand to my heart... Amos, dear Amos, i would love to keep the tdm thread canon and to keep building these two because i already sense the Deep and Conflicted CR brewing given they're destined to be in opposite sects 🥺 aMOS abel will be so sad......

Abel :') There is no universe in which that TDM thread is not kept canon, of course, it is the foundation of their relationship and I shan't let it go.

Amos will feel a little bad about Abel being sad! That means he should join him!! But real, Amos is the type to still be like, oh yeah that guy's my friend. Even as they're on opposite sides. Nope. Abel is a good person and Amos likes him. I can't wait to see how their relationship shakes out, it will be so wonderfully messy~

yes, Amos, here boy, dangling breadcrumbs leading him away from the kenoma and toward the light. there's a good Amos,

i'm really glad they can be bro's even if they're going to be on opposite sects... i have a feeling there are a lot of interesting conversations in their future!! and maybe fights in the sense that neither one of them will want to stand against each other and might end up helping one another against their own people.......... i love that??? imagine

so much potential and i'm so glad for all of it 😌

Or, hear Amos out: Abel should join him! It's probably gonna be the winning side anyway. c'mon buddy just make it easier for the both of them (hahaha it'll certainly be possible to drag Amos over to the light but it'll take A Lot,)

There is so much potential and I am so excited for it!! Definitely a lot of interesting conversations ahead,, and, don't get Amos wrong, he'll want to help Abel but he'll also totally kill him if his sect demands it and he's far enough along. But then if Abel gets revived Amos will be happy to see him! very mixed messaging but it's nothing personal, he's just Like That

listen, Abel is thoroughly Team Pleroma but there's a part of him that definitely Gets the whole Kenoma gig...... which will just make him want to drag Amos out of the Regent's reach all the harder :') he's in it for the long haul....... whether or not he succeeds or even makes any progress at all won't matter!!! he will just keep trying okay 🥺

oh my god Amos nO?? god this is a trainwreck

a very exciting trainwreck and i can't wait for it!! let's make sure we get something going for the event, okay!!

ohhhh gosh what a sweetheart, he's exactly what Amos is gonna need. I am so sorry he's guaranteed to disappoint him, at least in the beginning, and then for who knows how long... ~~I am not sorry at all, I am so excited~~

listen it's FINE usually when he kills people there's no chance for a redo because people tend to stay dead. the opportunities for pleasant surprises here!!

absoLUTELY let's do something for the event, for sure! It's where they're gonna start going down different paths, after all~ A momentous occasion!

you can't disappoint him, Amos... (he says, making the "i'm not mad i'm just disappointed" face,)

...well if it's any consolation Abel's used to getting """killed""" and coming back bc of the whole immortality gig, so consider this the friendship that just keeps giving.......?? god this is horrible in the best way LMAO,

stares pointedly at my clock, willing it to be evening for the event to go up. yes,

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