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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.
Spock | Star Trek
NAME: Lauren
CONTACT:
FUN FACTS: I like Star Trek and superheros and a variety of other genre stuff will come on my plurk as I'm watching or feeling it. Feel free to add me on plurk if you'd like CR with Spock.
NAME: Spock
CANON: Star Trek
LEGACY: The Seeker
INTENDED SECT: Plemora
CHARACTER PITCH: Spock is very much the embodiment of a common experience mixed race children face where he is not fully accepted by either side of his heritage. This along with his Vulcan training to not allow his emotions to override his logic are at the heart of how he navigates the world around him. He is not yet the man he will be in Star Trek the original series, still struggling with his emotional control and trying to find the place where he fits in the universe.
DESIRED CR: He's not someone who really makes friends easily or on purpose at this point in his life, but I would love to find him friendly colleagues/acquaintances/allies in this world that he can try to navigate his way through. I'm also here for begrudging respect and banter, because he's kind of allergic to tact a lot of the time, but it comes from a place of meaning to do the right/honest thing. I'm also down for contentious CR and fighting if ideological differences arise between characters.
OFFERED CR: An honest and sometimes overly logical man who tries to do the right thing and is very bad about feelings, both his own and the feelings of others, but he's trying to learn. Sort of.
PLOT HOOKS: He's pulled from a canon point where his anger at his father is often close to boiling over and he's just lost his sister for good. The lack of control he's felt in his life isn't conducive to his emotional control. I am really looking to test his devotion to the concept of logic over emotion and to allow for him to form bonds with people through circumstance. I'm also down for him to get pissed off if he sees anyone acting against the best interests of the many.
EVENT PLANS:
He will be swinging hard towards the Plemora, though I welcome characters trying to convince him to swap by whatever means.
For the sickness, I would love to play with involuntary physic connection. Spock's emotions are tightly contained but incredibly strong. I would love to play with someone experiencing that aspect of his mind or of him experiencing the minds of others and having to see how differently their thoughts are ordered.
He will also fight to keep people safe. This includes trying to fight or incapacitate anyone who hoards necessities.
ANYTHING ELSE?
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Uh, if you're interested in psychic connection shenanigans, this guy is 1) a magical nerd, 2) going Kenoma even though he's a well-meaning person, 3) emotionally pretty chaotic right now, and 4) perpetually thirsty, so ........ it seems like it might be a very differently organized mind! lmk if that's of interest
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I have a TL with a "communion" prompt with Matt having a loud psychic dream about his terrible vampire ex (with a cw for discussion of assault). But if you'd rather go in a different direction tonally, I'm also happy to tag into a TL of yours with non-ex psychic shenanigans. Or wildcard it!
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