October CR Meme

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CR MEME

It’s CR Meme time! It's time to touch base with where players are at with their characters in game and look towards the future! While not a requirement, CR Memes are helpful in forging connections with others, along with general housekeeping for what characters are up to during their time in game.


Below is a helpful form to use in laying out your thoughts!

FORM

<b>Player Name:</b> Your name here. <b>Player Contact:</b> What’s the best way to reach you? <b>OOC Limits:</b> Any hard limits for RP go here. <b>Character Name:</b> Your character name here. <b>Canon:</b> Your character canon here. <b>Residence:</b> Where are they currently staying? <b>Notable CR:</b> Any notable/close CR you want to mention? Roomies? Canonmates? Sworn enemies? <b>Skills:</b> From your application, what skills do they have? <b>Aurora Feat:</b> If applicable. Add any further notes here! <b>Wanted CR:</b> Friends? Mentors? Hunting buddies? Lovers? State preferences here. <b>Unwanted CR:</b> Not keen on romance? Mortal enemies? State preferences here. <b>Day to Day:</b> Where can your character be found typically? Are they sitting in the old church? Out fishing in the Basin? What do they get up to? How do they try to pass the time? <b>The Story So Far / Plans:</b> What have they been up to lately? What are your plans for them? <b>Anything Else?:</b> You know what to do.

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john irving | the terror

[extramuralise]

Player Name: gabbie
Player Contact: pm / reggiemantle / littlesailorclown
OOC Limits: Nothing comes to mind atm that wouldn't necessitate some prior plotting / discussion anyway; I'm pretty easy. Please avoid infomodding/4th-walling, however.

Character Name: Lt. John Irving
Canon: AMC's The Terror
Residence: 41 Mackenzie Street with Edward Little and Kate Marsh
Notable CR: The various Terrors/Erebites: Little, Crozier, Jopson, Goodsir (pos); Gibson (wary/neutral); Hickey (murderer!!!), Kate Marsh (däughter / little sis / mini-me), Wynonna (sister-in-law? drinking buddy?? Fellow Acquaintances), anyone who'd be attending Bible Study (especially regularly); and still developing CR with a few others that may become notable with more time!!

Skills:

• High aptitude for maths and numbers
• High aptitude for reading / writing
• Strong faith / religious aptitude
• High aptitude for protocol and regulations; inventory keeping; maintaining logbooks and records; and other similarly meticulous "admin"-type tasks
• Knowledge of firearms / gunnery
• 20 years experience in the Royal Navy, the last 5 of those serving as an officer
• Survival experience in arctic conditions, including food/resource rationing, relocation, and walking for extremely long stretches
• Diplomacy, discretion
• Middling-to-adequate leadership skills

Aurora Feat: N/A

Wanted CR: Like... anything really!! I was on hiatus in September and have overall been abysmally slow with tags the past couple of months so I need this needs working on, but I really really want to work on it and play more with y'all. Would love various types of friendships/acquaintanceships, fellow religious folk, military, "out of timers," CR with his CR's CR (like, friend-of-a-friend-type stuff, although depending on who they know not necessarily actually FRIENDLY, ya feel,), and so on. I might set-up some kind of Bible Study mingle log in the next month or so, if that's something of any interest to people??

Unwanted CR: I'm pretty open to anything! Whether it develops that way or we discuss it etc, the only thing I'm not too keen on is one-note CR that's just going to hit repeated dead-ends rather than develop or really go in any further directions. Irving is relatively conflict-avoidant (although there can be exceptions) so outright antagonism is not likely to make him come back for more.

Day to Day: Most days he'll likely be at the Community Hall working on keeping an up-to-date supply inventory and maintaining those records etc, and he's often at the church too, of course, and always on the weekends for Bible study! Otherwise he might just be at his cabin, or doing this or that around town depending on the day.

The Story So Far / Plans: Irving has retained a bit of his usual resistance to The Extraordinary™ here even after the events in The Terror, but of course that's starting to wear down. He was a bit changed shortly before his death, but it's not had a great deal of opportunity to sink in yet between everything going on now, although it's still at the back of his thoughts and kind of brewing within him... but he's an avoidant person at heart, so there is a lot he is still yet to face. This has just been made MUCH more difficult by Crozier's recent tell-all, so he's going to be a proper mess of compartmentalization and mood swings, most likely... maybe Stepford-mode, desperately trying to pretend to himself that All Is Well?? Anyway, processing & aftermath-type things :)

He remains convinced this whole experience is likely some manner of afterlife, if only because he can't begin to imagine any other possibilities, but given his technically undead status he's been liking the implications of this theory less and less as time goes by.

Anything Else?:

[castitas]

consider: Jirv reading Kate some nice bible stories while she's in bed half-asleep recovering from September.... bedtime stories...

[extramuralise]

YES... YES please they need to it would be so sweet and soft... and maybe they can even Talk About (or Around) Things on occasion as they may or not come up, who knows...

[castitas]

THEY NEED SOME SOFT TIMES FOR REAL Little would 100% come up, considering she essentially saved his life. One of the consequences of Interloper's Sacrifice is if you bring someone back from near-death, you give up your own life-span in the process and Ned cannot ever know about that okay thanks bye

[extramuralise]

please yes let's do it omg it would be so sweet and healing... 😭🥺 THEY DO NEED THIS!!

[castitas]

Nice things only!! Also please keep this important secret.... true moment of trust...

I can write up a thing at some point soon for us there if you'd like!

[extramuralise]

that sounds perfect, thank you!!

[pacificator]

Wrong journal but Irving and Fraser need to meet for realsies!

[extramuralise]

yes they do!! perhaps something slightly more lowkey this time, even... irving's favorite kind of key

[fidior]

boys' night!! Whenever there's room on the agenda for it, I definitely need these two to hang out for some kind of rare non-harrowing, non-emotionally charged time..... Sure, there's all the horrible weight of that recent Terror Meeting hanging over our heads! Time to Suppress!

ALSO, there's the cursed Hickey-Gibson wedding shower / harvest party thing happening this month that I meant to ask you about re: do you think Irving would be attending that.... I'm so torn on Ned LOL. He'd probably feel like he Should, but also the lieutenants attending, specifically, is definitely hella awkward.

[extramuralise]

BOYS NIGHT YESSSS THEY NEED IT THEY DESERVE IT THEY HAVE EARNED IT........ i don't know what boys night would like FOR THEM but they gotta, & more selfishly i would of course LOVE to have another little thread but, a slightly lower key one this time that won't take me forever to tag back each time like the rest 😭

ohhhhh god no i don't think irving would go to that LJSAKFH FOR SO MANY REASONS most recent of which probably that he doesn't want to witness gibson committing such outrageous folly... it's tragic! it's HICKEY! like, if it was ANYBODY else irving might consider humoring the occasion out of curiosity purely in the interest of science and god of course but the thought of lending any sort of credence to what hickey (and gibson) are doing by attending HE JUST CAN'T DO IT BUDDY

... but if little does go irving might ask him to passage along some kind of message to gibson on his behalf so, in a way he'll still have been there in spirit <3

[fidior]

YESSSS they deserve some kind of Fun Activity!!! These two trying to plan a fun night and it's just like "sitting down quietly with tea".... Little absolutely does not know how to Have Fun and Do Recreational Things but I am determined.... Or maybe Boys Afternoon if needed — they could take that little stroll idea, maybe tack on a picnic or something with it, or go ice skating at the Basin... I think I read somewhere that ice skating was a Hot Activity for Victorians....

I WAS THINKING HE MIGHT RATHER DIE THAN GO fhdhg poor Jirv it's just the worst environment for him... he wouldn't survive... If Little does go, he'd definitely pass on a message for him!! Laughing at him just awkwardly and quietly sitting there like "I represent The Lieutenants TM" and then just gets antagonised somehow by Hickey

[extramuralise]

THEY COULD HAVE TEA AND CONVERSATION... play a board game maybe... and of course drinking is always an option, but omg ice skating is SO CUTE i love that... and all the other ideas (stroll + picnic + hike??) too somehow it feels so right... they can get comfortable in each other's company and we'll see how the conversation goes

LMAOOOO IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY AND SO AWKWARD i gotta think about what irving would Want Said to gibson (by little) (on irving's behalf) because it'd have to be exactly the right tone... he probably wouldn't bother otherwise if he didn't have anything particularly significant (in his opinion) to say in favor of Looking Away and Pretending Not To See It but it's a tough one because his feelings are still so ???? we'll have to see

godspeed, little

[fidior]

ohhh my gosh, I really love the stroll + picnic + hike idea actually, that could be a good way for them to get to know each other a bit more outside of The House / Work Obligations, and then maybe future fun ice skating could be a thing on the horizon sometime...! BROS. I'd be happy to set up a little starter for this if u like! Let them kind of chat and like you said, see how the conversation goes!

god so much is So Complicated with all these guys, it's so hilarious ffkfkf the mental image of Little dutifully passing on a message from Jirv while Billy's eyes just like glaze over....

[extramuralise]

yes that would be great, thank you!! no rush ofc but i already love that for them... 🥹 and i'm always sucker for wholesome outdoor teambuilding bonding time

i'd say he'll try not to make it too uncomfortable for you, little, but let's be real... irving's gonna say whatever he wants said 🥲

[fidior]

FINALLY here you go, just a little starter to get them going, and like you said: we can see what comes of it!! The Lieuts taking a little outing... pure...

IT'S FINE Little's used to Relaying Awkward Messages, this is why he's here... Hickey & Co. might have a message to relay back but if it's too profane he'll adjust it....

[unsheathedfromreality]

i'd be down for a Bible Study mingle 👀 illarion is flagrantly pagan as they come (from a Christian POV) but pious in his way and driven to investigate other religions so... might be very interesting

[extramuralise]

OH YES that could definitely be fun and interesting!! I'd be down to see how that plays out 👀