OOC Introduction Post #3

[singmod]

OOC INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Singillatim!
Glad you could be here! We hope you have a great time here in the Quiet Apocalypse. Don't lose too many fingers, this weather bites. Feel free to use this post to introduce yourself and your character and get to know your fellow players! Once you're accepted into the communities, feel free to start posting!

The plotting for the event will be up between the 5th and 7th!

HOUSEKEEPING TO DO LIST FOR NEW PLAYERS

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SCHEDULE

JANUARY
Activity Check — 1st - 5th (not for new players)
Event Plotting — 5th - 7th
Event — 10th
IC/OOC Meme — Mid-Month

FEBRUARY
Activity Check — 1st - 5th
Test Drive Meme — 7th - 10th
CR Meme — 15th
Reserves — 15th - 19th
Applications — 20th - Month End

Comments

+1 beach scientist

[20likes]

Hello world! Chase here, March's player, with the polar opposite of the village idiot: Heartman from insanely confusing video game Death Stranding. Heartman is a scientist from a post-apocalyptic au of America who has dedicated his life to studying what the hell happened--specifically, his research is about the world between the living and the dead that's become a problem, to put it lightly. He's got a very sad, tragic backstory but he remains a very strange little nerd despite his hard(heart?)ships. He's going to be delighted about the chance to study this place, less delighted he has to leave his important work behind, and generally be a curious and hopeful guy who has no social awareness whatsoever.

He also has a pretty serious heart condition. In canon Heartman goes into cardiac arrest every 20 minutes and dies for 3, spending that time searching for his family in order to move on with them. This has been nerfed in sing but he's still going to have a lot of medical problems, so if any doctor/medicine types want dibs on that CR then let me know!

You can find me on plurk at whitespire or discord at tortillasunrise for plotting. <3

[castitas]

aww hell yeah a new dad to collect

[pale_elf]

Hey, Fey here, after Erich I bring in Astarion who couldn't be more different. He's a character from the critically acclaimed game Baldur's Gate 3 and he's the local vampire you can have in your group. You heard it right. Vampire. Undead. He has zero blood circulation and zero ability to produce heat, he's going to have so much fun trying not to turn into a very undead elvish statue. He has also been stripped of all the nice 'perks' he had and only left with sunlight sensitivity, the inability to cross a river because water will hurt like acid and a nice fancy thirst. I won't t too much into details becaue he's a walking red flag, permissions will be here and 'canon info' about his story here. He also comes with the Best Boy at his side.

He's going to be very loud, probably keep up his act of just being a judge like he once used to be and study people in the city to see if he can take advantage of anything. He'll also probably think of nice sweet necks but unless you ask I'm not going to have him attempt anything weird. He'll keep running the nobleman-judge stuff as long as he can but know that despite his theatrical nature he's a man with plenty of trauma that comes from 200 years of slavery as a vampire spawn. Make sure you hit that Permission Post to inform me about any topic that may bother you too much. I am probably not going to go into details unless it's someone I discussed things with or who is canon familiar, but at the same case I'd rather not even graze potentially upsetting topics for people.

He also looks super friendly but trust literally so... while I'm open to any CR, the gods know he could use some friends, I'm also welcoming with open arms any negative CR that may make him feel threatened. Huh, what else? You can find me on discord over at _erichthonios_

+1 daughter of the night

[lanfeared]

Hi, Sing peeps! New player Carly here with a new character and am excited to officially be joining the game! Lanfear is from The Wheel of Time — most notably, the recent television adaptation, but I've also leaned on the books for any relevant backstory or other plot details that transpire before where she's introduced in the second season. She's one of the thirteen ancient magic wielders notoriously known as the Forsaken, who swore their allegiance to her world's Dark One in exchange for various things (for Lanfear in particular, it was to not only gain power but the affection of her ex-lover, aka the Dragon, who ditched her for his wife, what a loser). Ultimately, said ex sealed her away (along with the Dark One and all the other Forsaken) for thousands of years, where she existed in a dreamless sleep until she was set free more recently to wreak havoc. Also, her ex is now reincarnated in the form of a different person, and Lanfear has her sights set on not only making the Dragon Reborn fall in love with her but also turning him to the dark side.

For the purposes of her arrival in-game, she'll be operating under the alias she initially uses in Season 2 before her identity is uncovered — Selene, an unassuming innkeeper who clearly has no evil intentions whatsoever, and certainly no ulterior motives about getting her power back. (Have I mentioned she's very unhappy about not having access to her abilities?) Stripped of those, she'll be looking for people she can lean on/seduce/otherwise manipulate to get her what she needs in the meantime, and trying to remain on her best behavior so she doesn't arouse any suspicion about who she really is.

You can add me on plurk at favoritings or the same username on discord for plotting!

+1 cosmonaut (and his +1 alien tapeworm)

[sputnik]

Hey, gang! Jhey here, current player of The Terror's Edward Little, bringing in another obscure horror guy.... aka Konstantin Veshnyakov from the Russian horror film Sputnik. He's a Soviet spaceman commander from the early 80's who ended up a) as the unwilling host of a parasitic alien entity while up on a mission, and b) subsequently kept against his will in a military research facility as a lab rat, so he hasn't been having a great time these days. Said alien lives in his stomach, and will be here with him in game, albeit weakened and affected by the extremely cold setting. (I have detailed information here on his situation / the alien + its nerfing factors!) The most alarming matter here is likely the fact that the creature will be spending most of its time inside of its host, meaning that he will have to procure food for it, himself. While its preferred diet comes from people, Kostya will be working very hard to keep it satisfied by feeding on the blood/brains of animals. Should be fine!

Konstantin is coming in freshly suffering a fatal wound, and while the Aurora has healed him enough so that he's not dying, he's currently very bad off due to his internal injuries and the effects of having a very unnatural passenger occupying his body, in a place where he has little-to-no access to medication. Upon his arrival into the game, he can be seen doing such activities as: passing out in the snow, throwing up blood, and convulsing on occasion. He also comes with heaping doses of Dad Guilt, and will initially be trying his hardest to escape this place so that he can go collect his son, despite the fact he can currently barely walk without passing out! Oops!

Given the fact that this character comes with some pretty gnarly horror elements, if anyone needs to opt out of a particular thing, please do not hesitate to do so. I have a list of content warnings here, and comments are screened.

Feel free to hit me up / add me at horreur, hagfishs @ discord, or pm if you prefer! Looking forward to some more frozen survival horror times with everyone ♡

[solitarysoul]

pls tell me we can keep tdm thread canon, or if not find some other reason to have them talk :3

HEYYYY ROOMIE (and roomie's tenant)

[m1895]

REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY....
vasiliy truly is so fucked it's unreal. he can deal with all of the horror stuff just fine. then yall went and hit him with hotter wormier yuri gagarin :/

[20likes]

a science dad to fill kate's pokedex!

[maintiensledroit]

I AM READY FOR THIS

[maintiensledroit]

Time for Fraser to warm up and stretch so he doesn't hurt himself hauling Konstantin back in from the snow!

[thefifthchild]

Hello, I'm Cass. And I'm bringing Damian Wayne aka the fifth Robin. He's a little guy with a lot of rage in his heart and a rather extreme amount of problems for someone his size. He's a former child assassin who found his dad after spending his whole childhood in the dark about him and decided to make an attempt at being a superhero, with only a couple attempts at murdering Tim along the way. Four years later he ran away from home after Alfred died.

He has a fair amount of experience with survival and hunting as a result of a comically extreme amount of training when he was a kid, so he's going to be trying to make himself useful while being crabby and grumpy about it.

Damian can be pretty hard to get close to but he has a soft spot for other kids who have had it rough and have been used by adults. And also for animals, which makes Tim Drake his natural enemy.

My plurk is at ectoplasmfear if you want to add me!

[ployboy]

Literally his worst nightmare. Why can't Bruce keep track of his spawn. Why can't Dick keep up with his demonic gremlin pet project.

Y'all save yourselves you have been warned don't get stabbed etc

+1 cult dad

[terribibble]

Hey all! My name is Ink and I'm new here, bringing you Fiddleford McGucket from the Disney show Gravity Falls. Known for its wacky hijinks, emotional overarching plot, and that one time a room full of taxidermy animal heads started dripping blood out of their mouths and chanting ANCIENT SINS ANCIENT SINS over and over. For kids!

Fiddleford is... a lot. Upon first meeting him he usually comes off as a polite and somewhat jumpy nerd of a guy, and that's technically true, but under that are other much more troubling layers. He's a husband and father who just got turbo divorced and is not taking it well. He's got his foot in the door of being an evil mad scientist complete with having unleashed at least one homicidal robot on a town already (in response to the afore-mentioned divorce). Most notably he founded and now runs an underground cult dedicated to erasing bad memories out of people's heads, which is a normal and helpful thing to do and not incredibly troubling at all. He did come in with the device he uses to do this, and you can find information about it as well as an opt-in on my Permissions Page. If you do not give me permission there or approach me personally some other way I will default assume that modifying your character's memory in any way is off the table, so don't worry about having it sprung on you. He comes with a pretty heavy blanket warning for unreality, lost time, memory issues, paranoia, and some other stuff I touch on more in my permissions post. You are free to opt out of playing with those parts of his character or with me as a whole any time, no hard feelings!

You can contact me from the game Discord; my UN over there is Possumbreath. My plurk is mister_inkwell but for my own sanity I try to keep my timeline very small. Still, I have PP's from non-friends turned on, so if you can't get ahold of me any other way that is an option!

[20likes]

Absolutely stoked for these two LMAO heartman owes his life to you already man how embarassing

[thefifthchild]

damn Tim why can't you keep track of your spleen, huh? why can't you keep track of your girlfriends (and boyfriend), HUH?

in Bruce's defense, Damian beat him up and then ran away. in Dick's defense, he was bald and going by Ric when Damian beat Bruce up and ran away.

[cantor]

hello! i'm jay, aka freshmeat. i'm bringing in renny oldoak, aka my halfling tav from the hit dating sim crpg baldur's gate 3! this is my first game after a long rp hiatus, so i'm very excited to know everyone \o/

a quick run-down on renny:

he's a halfling (i.e. dnd hobbit), so he's only about 3'0". but he's Built

he was picked up by some squids, got a squid baby shoved into his eyeball, and now it's kinda just hanging around in his skull. don't worry about it

he's an unerring optimist and also a nosy do-gooder who absolutely wants to get up all in your business, very sorry to everyone ahead of time

he's a paladin-bard, which means he loves to talk. my gods does he love to talk. he can even play you a tune if you'd like in between conversations

check out his permissions for more!

that's all! you can find me at goatsong, thru discord as pepperedfox, or just PM me!

[cantor]

ah! the wheel of time was my childhood, i'm so excited to see lanfear! if you ever need a sucker friend, know that my door is always open

[ployboy]

Listen here you little shit... it's like youve never heard of tracking chips.... wait-

10 points to gryffindor for beating up the Bruce. Also damn I can't make up my mind on whether Tim is some dirty Bruce apologist or if he'd be distant enough to, a la Bruce Wayne; Murderer, just agree that beating him up just Had To Be Done.

I can't believe he's finally, inevitably, going to get those Big Brother Instincts kicked into gear.

God save them all.

[terribibble]

Incredibly important information what instrument(s) does he play

[cantor]

i love death stranding, so it's super exciting to see heartman! may you survive these unforgiving lands, sir

[cantor]

*will smith pose* thats my problematic vamp friend

[cantor]

konstantin!! i enjoyed our thread on the tdm and i'm excited to see more of him (and his little pal)

[cantor]

omg. could they possibly form. a band.

as a bard, renny can play all sorts! the flute, lyre, lute, drums, violin... he can whistle a mean tune too

[lanfeared]

absolutely! Lanfear's always looking for new devotees, even if she ultimately has her heart set on one guy who is Not Here

[terribibble]

Fiddleford can do Banjo and probably bullshit his way through guitar/bass/mandolin so absolutely they should form a band. What else are you gonna do in a frozen hellscape, right? He's from the late 70s where half the music was about wizards and stuff anyway.