FEBRUARY CR MEME

[larkers]

> FEBRUARY CR MEME

Happy February, Larkers, and happy Valentine's Day! 🥰 We wanted to give a quick rundown to players new and old, especially since we set up a lot of directions for player plots for the next while! We expect that these will be running for a good bit of time.

So, here we go! A rundown on where to start with plotting:

◉ Our big catchup tool is our The Story So far page! No one needs to have this memorized, and hopefully our phrasing makes it easier to CTRL+F exactly what you need! The bullet points should cover the big meat, and it's up to you if you want to click to read further on anything.

◉ Check out our Setting Page for any ideas you might need about the world at large!

◉ We also recommend that you check out our JOBS PAGE and LOCATION PAGE to get the brain moving. As a quick note: everyone can add and create new locations for New Amsterdam (and, eventually, develop other megacities)! We'll always review them and reach out to you if any changes need to be made.

◉ Our monthly calendars are also a place where we do minimal worldbuilding, and it's where the mods leave monthly messages to our playerbase.

◉ The arrival log will be tomorrow! We're still solidifying some of the basics around it, but it's a smaller batch of newbies so it'll be less involved overall. We're using it as a means of creating some pop culture for the world, so keep an eye out for that!

◉ Remember that mention of player plots a few bullet points ago? We opened up fast travel to offer a lot of new threading opportunities, and we have a lot of artifacts and relics available. Newcomers can also get their hands on some relics, too—so feel free to ask around if this is (or even isn't!) their jam. Read the rundown here on our aftermath post!

◈ As a note, we've applied a little change to the relics so that they will eventually begin to resonate with the Displaced, and the relics will glow with one of seven colors: red, gold, blue, indigo, black (it'll turn glossy and obsidian), white, or orange. This will occur after holding on to the relic for 1 IC month.

◉ You'll notice that there's a section on the aftermath post called Looking Forward. We would like players to declare interest on what direction they'd like to take, but plotting and how to pursue it should begin to take place here and on the Plot Engagement post. Get those juices flowing!

◉ We also have a charity auction going up at the end of the month! Jenna, our Caroline Forbes (gasping) player, will be putting it up. The big playable section will be a dating auction! We've also worked with Jenna to pepper in some NPCs to help expand on some information. An OOC plotting post should be going up about this before the event so that everyone can get involved.

◉ Finally, since this is new information: the mods will be scarce the final weekend of the month! Only Court will be around. 💦 We're going to try to set up the calendar before we're all gone, but this is a head's up that things might be a little delayed while Alison, Veronica, and Jenny are off at a con! We'll get everything setup as soon as possible early in the month of March.

<div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0"><h2 style="padding:3px; background-color:#000; color:#fff; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font: bold 18pt courier new;">> PLAYER</b></h2> <b>NAME & PRONOUNS:</b> <b>CONTACT:</b> <b>AREAS OF INTEREST:</b> What fun things are you into that may not be reflected in your characters? What do you plurk about or love to chat about? This is optional, but here for the friending purposes! </div> <div style="padding: 0 0 10px 0"> <h2 style="padding:3px; background:#000; color:#fff; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font: bold 18pt courier new;">> CHARACTER</h2><b>NAME:</b> <b>CANON:</b> <b>JOURNAL:</b> <b>POWER:</b> <b>JOB:</b> Either their current job or where you'd like them to go! Do you want work CR? This is our all-purpose "Job" section! <b>SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH:</b> If you were in game, of course! <b>PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH:</b> <b>AREAS OF INTEREST:</b> What things are you interested in or what would you like to get your character into in the future? <b>HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES:</b> This could just be ways for characters to meet up, pass through the intro opportunities, and get to business! Or it could be that Finn the beautiful fluffy black kitten is saccharine and sweet to everyone who pets him so he could dart out between their legs into the hallway, that jerk. <b>OVERALL GOALS:</b> Either IC or OOC! <b>ANYTHING ELSE:</b> Insert gif here! Or a witty comic book panel. Or a comment about how book characters don't have gifs. We see you, Alex.</div>

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jongdae lee | oc

[itsjiaheng]

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NAME: Jongdae Lee
CANON: OC
JOURNAL: itsjiaheng
POWER: Shadow Manipulation
JOB: He was potentially looking into office jobs but I've also considered the possibility of him getting into something a little more creative or cosmetic too.
SUMMARY OF LAST MONTH: He mostly spent time getting used to things (so exploring the city a bit) and playing around with the neural net. Then he got kidnapped to New Rio and just hated that.
PLANS FOR THE NEXT MONTH: I'd like for him to potentially get involved in more things and find more opportunities for new CR. Traveling might also be nice as well, since he's never really gotten to do that and now there's gates and basically all these opportunities to do new stuff.
AREAS OF INTEREST: the second half of these are copy/pasted from january's meme because they didn't come up at this point but continue to be areas of interest on and into the future so i figure why not ??? keep him in mind if this comes up haha.

→ powers: he discovered what his power was while in new rio but is pretty bad at using it, so he'd be really interested in someone to either practise with or perhaps just offer suggestions?
→ combat training/sparring or survival skills: getting kidnapped really made it glaringly obvious that he knows nothing and has no idea how to survive in a situation like that, so he'd be really interested in anyone willing to help him learn more about this kind of thing.
→ travel: he'd be really interested to take advantage of this gate stuff, not only to the other locations besides new rio but especially other cities (new tokyo and new seoul probably top the list).
→ kaiju: literally only because he's a dork who is into kaiju stories so this is really heckin cool so he'd want to know more
→ displaced being worshipped?: he used to fantasise about using his former powers to save the world and be a hero to the people™, so the idea that that could potentially actually be A Thing would be super interesting to him
→ social media and/or esports: he was way into both in his own world (or at least he called cheating at video game tournaments 'esports') and would probably try to find ways to get into it here. he's probably too weird and uncool to be an influencer but it doesn't mean he wouldn't want to try

HANDWAVED CR OPPORTUNITIES: he's still hanging around at the Safehouse and takes advantage of the free food situation a lot (and has really come around to the idea of hoarding things at this point tbh).
OVERALL GOALS: finding more CR for him, finding a good place for him where he can get involved and do more? I'd also like him to like... move out of the Safehouse. He'd probably do better if he can find a roommate (and then you get the added bonus of trying to coexist in the same space as him rofl). He's not entirely a teaching project though, honestly! He's willing to help out with stuff. He's from 2020 where he's taken from his world, so he's reasonably tech savvy so figuring out how to use the neural implant or play games and things like that haven't been too challenging for him. So in return he's willing to help out with things like that. He also has other knowledge that's potentially useful at random times? Those wikipedia deep dives tbh..
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