OOC Introduction Post #4

[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

Join the communities: singillatim (Logs) & singillppl (OOC)
Fill out information on the Taken Page.
Make your initial Activity Check comment.
Make a toplevel on the Milton Message Board.
Claim your Character's Housing
Join the Discord server.
Follow the Mod Plurk: singillatimmods

SCHEDULE

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

APRIL
Tales From The Northern Territories — 1st
Activity Check — 1st - 5th
Test Drive Meme — 7th - 10th
CR Meme — 15th
Reserves — 20th - 24th
Applications — 25th - Month End

Comments

+1 madman with a box

[thedreamer]

Hi all! Kris here, brand new to the game and bringing with me this time-and-space traveling weirdo (when he's not trapped in strange new worlds)! How best to describe him...

Elevator pitch about the (Eleventh) Doctor: Baby is also eldritch figure from dawn of time.

The Doctor is a Time Lord, hailing from Gallifrey (we don't talk about Gallifrey...). This version of the Doctor is totally a madman with a box, eccentric, loves bowties, fish fingers and custard, finds delight in even the smallest of things, and is a relentless optimist on the surface. Peel back the layers and he's a sad and lonely old man.

Curious and compassionate, he can also be A LOT with his energy, his strangeness, his sometimes weird and at times unintentional lack of etiquette/boundaries in the pursuit of knowledge or getting to know people. For as long as he's been around humans, it's clear when you meet him that he's very not human (though he LOOKS human, Time Lords came first etc etc). The Doctor journeys through time and space and always tries to help where he can. In a universe of infinite wonders, he's a questionable tour guide (4/10 on Yelp reviews might be generous) but heartfelt and kind and a protector of all that's good. To quote him, he's never met anyone who isn't important.

Tl;dr please enjoy this gif essay/summation of him:
He can be childish and never lacks energy. Weird boundaries. This is what humans do, right? Good hugger! Sad. Silly. Unpredictable. Kind.

Please feel free to add me on plurk at geekorthodox or on discord @ witcheryofliving for plotting/chatting/shenanigans. Looking forward to RPing with everyone!

*( also sorry I was late to the tdm and got behind on tagging but happy to keep going with any of those threads if you like! )

+1 traumatized part-alien superhero

[chuju]

Eeyy, it's Amy, back with another traumatized badass lady after sacrificing La'an to the Darkwalker in January. I'm happy to be back and looking forward to all the things.

Daisy here, however, is the furthest thing from happy about this situation. She's a millennial hacker spy turned part-alien superhero from Marvel's unloved stepchild show Agents of SHIELD, and she just finished saving the world again, so being stuck in this frozen hellscape seems like a really shitty reward for (probably?) dying to save all of humanity. Especially since she no longer has access to her powers, which is really going to throw her off-balance for obvious and more traumatic reasons.

Because yeah, my poor girl has a whole suitcase full of trauma she carries around with her. She grew up an orphan in and out of foster homes, never finding anywhere to call home until she joined SHIELD, only to have it fall apart when HYDRA came out of the woodwork. She got the "surprise! you're part-alien" news right around the time she found her parents (her dad was a Jekyll & Hyde serial killer and her mom tried to destroy all of baseline humanity), followed by a brainwashing incident, being trapped in a hellscape alternate reality, and traveling to an apocalyptic future she maybe helped cause. In the month before she arrived in-game, her father-figure mentor was brought back from the dead as a highly advanced robot, she time-traveled through 90 years of SHIELD history, was tortured by a delusional rich kid who stole her powers, watched said rich kid kill her mother, and blew up an entire invading alien fleet from the inside right after connecting with a long-lost sister and an almost romance. She's really, really Tired, and she's going to go through serious withdrawal without her laptop and phone.

Since even most MCU fans haven't seen AOS, I have a little playlist of videos for anyone who wants a glimpse of Daisy in action! (I'm obviously biased, but imo she has one of the best hero's journeys of the entire MCU.)

Feel free to add me on plurk taintedcrimson or on discord @ taintedcrimson if you want to be in touch! (Also, just an FYI, I've rejoined the Discord server so people can message me, but I probably won't be very active in the server itself for the foreseeable future. It just gets to be a lot to keep up with for me because my brain insists on reading everything.)

+1 spider-man minus the spider powers

[webshootings]

hello, i'm brand new here. my name's trace and i've been around the dwrp world for awhile so i've probably played with a few of you. those that i haven't, hello, nice to meet you! hope we can be pals and such!

for those that don't know, peter's a superhero with spider powers who's going to be a little off balance to find that those powers are gone. no sweat, he can live with it, he's done it before. he'll just fall back on his incredible good looks and sense of humor.

hahaha just kidding unless??

no, really, i'm kidding. peter's coming off the second movie so he's going to be dealing with a lot of grief and guilt issues that he will steadfastly hide while still trying to be a good person. he'll be great for anything science, sarcasm or skateboarding related. less great at facing his own problems.

if you want to find me, you can find me at jortles. i'm also at discord @ himbos as well.

+1 mungo mercenary

[heckofashot]

Hello, everyone!! My name's Nico (she/they) and I'm new to the game! Bringing with me a pool noodle of a man, Robert Joseph Maccready from Fallout 4. For the uninitiated, Fallout is a Bethesda RPG, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Maccready here is a companion in FO4, but he previously appeared in FO3 as everyone's least favourite foul-mouthed child mayor of a settlement made up entirely of kids — they get kicked out at 16.

Survival is something he's used to. He's spent his whole life — twenty-two years of it! — in an irradiated and hostile wasteland, and he's picked up a few skills along the way to make himself useful. A sniper and mercenary by trade, he's no stranger to the harsh realities of the world, and the result is morals as flimsy as his spine... but at least he's cleaned up his language a lot in the ten years since we first saw him, even if he's gained some additional trauma. Unfortunately, he's not going to appreciate being so far from home; he's got a sick kid back in the wasteland, and was in the middle of seeking out a cure for the Mystery Illness™ when he woke up here.

Thank you to everyone who tagged me on the TDM, I honestly wasn't expecting such a response. I'm happy to consider those threads canon, and likewise to continue tagging them if there's still interest. Otherwise, I'm excited to see what else is in store! You can find Maccready's permissions here and add me on plurk at incognico_ or catch me in the discord server. (Though, I will say plurk is probably your best bet.)

[chuju]

hi5 for traumatized superheroes without their powers! He's my favorite of the movie spiders, so I'm very excited to see him and you here.

Also oof, if Daisy gets wind of how much they have in common, she will 1000% attach herself to this poor kid. Especially with that guilt and self-blame over losing someone they loved.

slam dunks this dweeb

[eighteenhalflives]

[chuju]

Welcome to the frozen hellscape! So glad you decided to app here. (I'm the Julia player who I swear will tag you back!)

Your Eleven is so good, you convinced me to rewatch some of my favorite arcs from his run, which was really just a nice trip down memory lane. So thank you for that. <3

+1 russian space man (but not that one we've already got)

[tarakan]

sometimes you play the grumpy podcast man who doesn't get any neat fanart you can use and when that happens, you make do with your intro post.

yo! This is Kates (the player of Cornelius Hickey / friendsfordinner ) and I'm bringing in yet another goddamn LIAR of a man. This is Alexander Hilbert from the podcast Wolf 359. He's a grumpy Russian spaceman who's spent the past few years doing multiple tour of duties upon a poorly maintained and horrifically understaffed space station. He has an aggressive accent, a voice that just got deeper and deeper every season, at least two fake names, a body count that's probably in the double digits, and a personality that's just this meme. He's a medical doctor and does want to help people but hey, aurora, you took him away from his favorite ethically nonexistent horrific virus project, what gives???

eventually this game will have a normal Russian. eventually. maybe.

my socials are still the same—allikateor @ discord and allikateor.

[burying]

I never got the chance to hit you up on the TDM but I gotta do the thing and get some CR with this guy.

[burying]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY AMY'S BACK

I only kind of know Daisy through RP osmosis in all honesty, but I need to get some CR with u !!!!

[tarakan]

who's ready for like, 500 invasive questions once Hilbert learns about the whole zombie thing?

hint: it should be Kieren. tell him how your biology works.

[solitarysoul]

i also want to go back and rewatch dr who episodes...

im looking forward to seeing how the doctor deals with all this ;)

also would love to continue + keep canon TDM thread

[solitarysoul]

pls keep tdm tread canon, i like the idea that they started off CR with levi getting pissed at him for being a bitch

[burying]

Hey, Kris! I'm Cheryl, your head mod! Welcome to the game!

I play Kieren here, a sad zombie boy (and fellow BBC show character!) from In The Flesh. And I also play Kate Marsh from Life Is Strange. I never got a chance to hit you up on the TDM because February Ate Me Alive, but we should defo get some CR! Eleven is such a good bean of a Doctor, I love him. 🥺🥺🥺

[solitarysoul]

i had a fallout 4 playthrough i left part way through before...tears of hte kingdom, i think, came out. i should go back to it.

also id love to keep the tdm thread canon if thats cool

[burying]

Kieren is feeling Very Uncomfortable right now.

He doesn't even know, man. He just knows his body can do pretty much fuck all, like he can't even produce glial cells without medication but somehow that doesn't even matter now so like ????? who knows ????

[sputnik]

Hello Kris, welcome to the game! I'm Jhey, and I have two horror guys here:

Edward Little from The Terror, and Konstantin Veshnyakov from the movie Sputnik. In particular, I think Konstantin could be some fun cr with your guy: he's a space commander from the 80's who wound up infested with a gnarly alien parasite that is here with him in game. Fun times! He'd be stoked to talk to anyone with Space Travel Experience and I think super curious & delighted by The Doctor.

[sputnik]

Jhey here, I'm so excited to have you back in the game!!! I'm canonblind to Daisy but she sounds like such a delight and I would love to toss my guys at her sometime ♥ I'm always down for Ned getting Startled by Badass Ladies From The Future, and I also think my other character could be really interesting to write with her. Konstantin is a space commander from the 80's who picked up a gnarly alien parasite on a mission, and it's here with him in game; fun times and hooray for being "part alien" in some shape or form....!

[burying]

Hey, Trace! I'm Cheryl, your head mod! Welcome to Singillatim! I think I remember you from back in Deer Country when it was still going??? It feels like... so long now, ooft.

Anywho, I'm here with the saddest zombie boye Kieren here, from shortlived BBC drama In The Flesh. He's also big on Guilt and Grief on account of the zombism. I also have equally sad jesus girl Kate Marsh from Life Is Strange! Sorry, no happiness here. Just sad teens.

idk how much skateboarding he's gonna get to do, might need to trade in for some snowboarding in this place. still counts tho, right?

[sputnik]

Hello Trace, I'm Jhey and welcome to the game! I have two horror guys here: Edward Little from the Terror and Konstantin Veshnyakov from the movie Sputnik. Edward's a nervous Victorian naval officer who has a tendency to nanny young people even if he can barely understand what any of their Modern Lingo means (what is this skateboard you speak of....) so he could be fun(ny) to toss as Peter sometime!

Konstantin is a space commander from the 80's who picked up a gnarly alien parasite on a space mission, and it's here with him in game, so "suddenly facing a frightening change that completely alters the course of your life afterwards" is very much A Theme tm for him as well. He also is very Hero Type (and literally is known as a Hero in his culture, he even has a medal....) so there's some nifty common ground there that could be fun to play around with!

[burying]

Welcome to the game, Nico! I'm Cheryl, your head mod!

I'm also here with sad zombie boy Kieren here from BBC drama In The Flesh, along with Kate Marsh from Life is Strange. I'm totally canon blind to Fallout other than what I've learned from fandom (and how many people I knew queued up at midnight to get Fallout 4 when it came out), but oh boy. This place is gonna be a whole other kettle of fish for him huh. At least he's used to post-apocalypse vibes!

[sputnik]

Hello Nico, I'm Jhey and welcome to the game! I have two horror guys here: Edward Little from The Terror, and Konstantin Veshnyakov from the movie Sputnik. I'd love to toss either of them at Maccready sometime, but in particular I think Konstantin could be potentially fun to explore. He's a space commander / cosmonaut from the 80's who picked up a gnarly alien parasite while on a mission, and it's here with him in game (fun times)! He's met Tobi and learned some things about his world, and is very interested to learn more about any post-apocalyptic wasteland horrors.... He also has A Kid he desperately wants to get back to, so there could be some interesting things there!

[chuju]

Jheeeeeey! I desperately need your beautiful words back in my inbox, I have missed them so. And I would love to fling Daisy at both your guys — Ned is from even further back in time than she's experienced, and she absolutely needs to discuss alien things with Konstantin. She'd see visions of Alien in her head if she heard the word parasite, and she'd have so many questions...

[sputnik]

INCREASE THE RUSSIAN SPACEMEN and Weird Russians™ in general....

Konstantin is so thrilled to have someone else in this very exclusive club and I cannot wait for inevitable Awkwardness as more is revealed about each other's situations.... uh oh comrades one of us is a lab rat and one of us experiments on lab rats! One of us is the posterchild of The New Soviet Man and the other defected from the Soviet Union!

I also think it could be suuuuper fun if Kostya's alien situation is ever revealed to Hillbert. He does have an X-ray with him in game of this thing inside his guts.... and he very much eventually needs A Doctor to check in with. Surely he won't end up as a lab rat again, right...

[chuju]

I COULDN'T STAY AWAY

RP osmosis is kind of the name of the game with her. And yes, we need to finally get some actual CR!! I shall be keeping an eye out for your plans for the next event.