October 2023 OOC Intro

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October 2023 OOC Intro


Hello, Visitors, and welcome to Ashbrook!

This post is a place for you to introduce yourself and your new character to the game!

You can also use this post as an opportunity to coordinate roles with other players! Are your characters neighbors, or perhaps even roommates? Do they go to school together? Do NPCs insist that the two of them have a heated rivalry or a sordid romantic history? Discuss these scenarios and more here!

SOME QUICK REMINDERS

• The event will be posted on October 7th! The plotting post for the event will go up on the 6th.

• You don't need to wait for the event to start playing!

• Activity check for your acceptance month is check in

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Comments

The Emperor | Baldur's Gate III

[faessi]

OH BOY HERE WE GO. Hello, everyone! I'm Rona, and I'm on the modteam here at Ashbrook. As is my way, I'm bringing you a monstrous mentor figure with dodgy morals and probably too much power. But this one's also a squid.

Please enjoy The Emperor, a mind flayer from Baldur's Gate III. Pronouns are it/they/he so just pick whatever feels funniest in the moment. It takes itself very seriously but no one else should. This character carries a lot of BG3 spoilers, which I will try to flag for anyone avoiding them! Please feel free to opt out entirely by commenting here.

In Ashbrook, the Emperor is known as (highlight for spoiler) John Balduran (he/him), a very successful man, father, and head of the PTA. He's the local helicopter pilot for the nearby wilderness. This can't possibly go wrong.

I am looking for children, ideally 1-2 in elementary/middle school and 2-3 in high school. Also, his beautiful wife. To be clear, NPCs look at him and see a normal human man. All PCs will be able to look at him and see a six- or seven-foot-tall skeletal purple humanoid with tentacles on its face. Can't wait.

Feel free to add me at ochrona or catch me in the Discord! Looking forward to it!

[uragiri]

i don't think i will ever stop laughing about this entire situation bc it is the funniest possible route we could have gone and i think the payoff is going to be so good. imagine him leading pta meetings when there's another player character there who is like "no one else??? minds??? this???" hee hee hee.

[faessi]

it's going to be so normal. so normal

[ferrytale]

"I am looking for children" is easily the most ominous way to put that, but as mentioned on plurk: here is a child (soldier) of 17. He was originally going to have a nice older couple adopt him, but that's lovely and sweet, and he should go be stressed instead.

[faessi]

bring him to the squid

Re: The Emperor | Baldur's Gate III

[lindenhearted]

Ah. This is normal. Probably.

How have things been... Cousin?

[captainbossman]

would you like a small son who won't at all be scared of a big squid dad

[draconisrose]

Hi fellow non human! Rastaban is secretly a magical being tied to his human soul, with a human body that is crafted from his memories of when he was still human. Other than his fellow mages he has never met another non human before so this will be interesting!

In Ashbrook he works as a gardener while he goes to nursing school and he has been roped into helping the community theatre where his female performances are well regarded if you are interested in role connections.

I haven't gotten very far with Baldur's Gate III yet but I'm already very intrigued by the story and excited to meet your Emperor! I would prefer to avoid major spoilers but small ones are fine.