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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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back on topic....
hi leigh i'm vee! i thought the way that makoto and ernesto bounced off of one another on the tdm was a lot of fun. hes such a cool character and i'm glad to see him here! i think makoto actually respects his intuition and his perceptiveness, so he would probably angle towards a mutually-beneficial arrangement between them regardless of faction if u were interested..... makoto has both personal and logistic ("this one just seems better connected and an easier way to build power") reasons for sticking with kenoma, but he would consider playing both sides just a lil if it meant getting ahead u know what im saying...
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Hello, Vee! I WAS HONESTLY in the middle of typing up a comment to you about to suggest this exact same kind of CR when I got the notification you tagged me first! It seems like they could do a good job dancing around each other, trying to play at giving away just enough to get the other to give a little info in turn. My thoughts are that Ernesto will PROBABLY go Pleroma, so that'll make for some good conspiratorial meetups to pick at each other's brains (less literally than Makoto might be into). Even if he goes Kenoma though, I think we could definitely swing their acquaintanceship in a kind of similar direction
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OH NO well i guess i beat you to it, then!! i do think this would be such an interesting arrangement for them since makoto is mostly a kenoma of convenience (with just a tiny bit of nihilism for flavor) and probably not that interested in fighting or converting him... kind of using one another for just enough info that might help them get ahead in their own way would be such a fun dynamic
though ironically enough i feel like he might be more competitive with him if they both ended up on the kenoma side THOUGH that could also be fun in its own way... perhaps i want the opportunity for underhanded politicking
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It's all good, it means we're of the same mind on this one! And I agree. I love that I know you know I know kind of dynamic too, that's a lot of smiles, but very little real trust.
Also, even if it doesn't happen in the beginning, I'm definitely leaving the door to a Kenoma-ing happening to Ernesto at some point, so there's even the possibility of building up this weird "cordial" relationship as "enemies", only to have that competitive wrench thrown in when they become "allies" somewhere down the road.
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i'm trying to think if makoto would even be active in the kenoma-ing (if he's getting useful information out of ernesto from the other side, he might like it if he stays there LOL), but yes, i say we play it by ear and see where they go from here because if the tdm was anything to go off of im sure it will be a very interesting journey!
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Just encourage Ernesto to stay on the other team the minute he sees corruption happening. It's fiiiiiiine. And I agree. I look forward to future threads with these two!