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!

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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!

lottie matthews | yellowjackets

[protomartyr]

hello! my name is floral (she/they), and i am bringing you lottie matthews from generation z lost, aka yellowjackets. lottie is coming from the end of the latest season of the show, so please let me know if you'd like to avoid spoilers!

in the show, lottie is an all-star varsity soccer player who was en route for the national championship when her plane crashed in the remote wilderness, leaving herself and several other members of her team stranded. since then, lottie has been powering through an extremely brutal survival situation, all while dealing with escalating teen girl drama. she may have also made contact with the supernatural and become her group's local prophet. it's fine.

in ashbrook, meanwhile, lottie goes to the local high school and is a member of the junior forest rangers! she has lived in ashbrook her entire life, just outside town near the forest. i'd love for lottie to have connection via the high school (where she's not especially popular), the rangers, or generally around town.

i'm in the game discord, and you can also reach me at moonlanding! i leave you all with a meme:

[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.

[uragiri]

floral i read this app and then the wikipedia summary of this show and i've never gone "what the fuck? what the FUCK?" so many times in a short span of time. i'm in awe. i'm delighted. i'm looking forward to her in this game so much

[ferrytale]

Hi hello it is I, Min (he/him) who is also Boo Boo the Fool, because I really wasn't planning on apping a second, but playing Ledo in this setting has been super fun so far! I also have Izō in-game as a total contrast to this nerd.

Ledo is from the anime Suisei no Gargantia or Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet in English, but now you see why I use the Japanese name lol. In canon, Ledo is a 17-year-old child soldier who pilots a mech in the forever war against a highly evolved species of space-faring squid called Hideauze. He has spent his entire life in the military and only knows how to fight and be a soldier because human society has been reduced to only what has been deemed necessary and efficient.

This means that Ledo doesn't know anything, especially about living on a planet. Or having personal relationships. Or feelings.

He has also been assigned peak nerd life. He is a top student, a Mathlete, in JROTC, and an intolerable HALL MONITOR. The Sheriff and Ranger Ortega think he's a pretty good kid! He's lived in Ashbrook for most of his life and has lived with a foster family. He volunteers sometimes for rescue efforts in the woods and on the ski slopes. Lily Wagner at the community centre will also just shove him into group activities in the hope that he'll make a friend or feel something.

He is gonna have a great time with the local squidman.

[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

[faessi]

it's going to be so normal. so normal

Re: lottie matthews | yellowjackets

[aria_ardeinae]

I thought I knew what yellowjackets was about and this sounds absolutely wild, I can't think of any organic longstanding backstory hooks off the top of my head but Reyson lives in the woods, they will probably cross paths eventually

[payingfordeliverance]

Hello all, I am Thorn previously known as Callie, happily answering to both. I am bringing you Xerxes Break, my default character, to Mad Hatter up the place. From the Wonderland canon of Pandora Hearts, he is an exhausted trollish mentor type with many many soft spots, and he has been given the phenomenal role of being the eccentric shithead attempting to revive the community theater. I have no idea what I am going to do about this yet but Break is a Victorian goth with a flair for the dramatic, the air of a magician, and absolutely nothing to do otherwise on account of he is dead, so the world is my oyster here honestly!

Nevermind that he used to be a legendary serial killer. That was like fifteen years ago or something.

IMPORTANT: I am slow as hell! I have a baby who's about to turn ten months old, and while I have plenty of time to tag these days, whether I have a living brain cell any given evening is another matter. Thus I thrive on backtags and whatever tag is "easiest" is written first, so some threads progress while others sit and marinate a bit first. I am always open to discussing how a thread is going if I'm not going fast enough for you! So don't be afraid to reach out, and thanks in advance for your patience.

[aria_ardeinae]

Acquisition!!!

Re: The Emperor | Baldur's Gate III

[lindenhearted]

Ah. This is normal. Probably.

How have things been... Cousin?

[lindenhearted]

/raises hand.

Ranger Siegfried Vanderlinde will gladly teach Lottie everything that seems useful for a teenager to know about the wilderness!

[lindenhearted]

Oh, hey! I'm stoked that we've acquired a Thorn!

[grantor]

Hello again, Ashbrook! It's Kei once more, bringing you my second character: Chuuya Nakahra from Bungou Stray Dogs! In canon he is an orphaned science experiment turned child gang leader turned high-ranking member of the mafia! He is also a wine enthusiast and has gravity powers.

In Ashbrook, Chuuya lives a much simpler life as a motorcycle mechanic. He hangs out with Marshall a lot and has as a reputation for being an incredibly honest mechanic. However, he's not popular with Sebastian or the other the forest rangers because of his off-road motorcycle habits.

When it comes to role connections I am looking for...

FAMILY! Chuuya is the second oldest of 5! He has an older sibling (24-27ish) and 3 younger siblings (10-19ish). These slots are all open for the taking! Please come get yourself an older/younger brother. (He also has a single mom but I'm not sure anyone here is old enough for that role.)

FRIENDS OF FAMILY! Alternately, come grab you the cool older brother of your friend! Chuuya's siblings can be in any grade from 4th to a college graduate, so that's an easy way for him to get secondhand CR with any students in the game.

RANDOM POSITIVE CR! Honestly, hit me with your best shot. You want to be a customer? Friend? Fellow wine enthusiast? Casual boy/girlfriend? Let's figure it out.

ASSORTED NEGATIVE CR! Do you think Chuuya is a pretentious weirdo? Do the project cars and motorcycles spread across his property ruin your view? Do you hate the sound of his motorcycle? Did you have a nasty romantic falling out? Once again, hit me with your best shot!

[protomartyr]

oh i'm so glad!!! that is definitely the lottie matthews experience and i am thrilled i have conveyed that lmfao.... excited to be here and would love cr with dazai!

[protomartyr]

oh, excellent, if siegfried is a ranger i'd be very down to assume that their au counterparts knew each other! perhaps they went on little ranger expeditions together and siegfried taught her stuff about the woods?

[protomartyr]

[ominous lottie voice] wow... i used to live in the woods once...

perhaps their au counterparts have run into each other here and there when lottie takes the other junior scouts out on trips? either way, i'm very excited for these two to cross path!

[protomartyr]

lottie does junior rangers stuff out in the woods but is a bad student who sometimes cuts class, so i'd be down for their AU counterparts to know each other but also have a silly little teen feud going if you are! canon lottie and ledo's cr doesn't have to be negative of course but i do think the au rivalry could be funny lol

[uragiri]

you know, i know a lot of weird facts about break but i don't think i knew about the serial killer thing.

anyway they're both the kind of people to have 0 brain cells so i'm looking forward to their continued interactions

ps mentos and diet coke is definitely a thing he'll show break

[uragiri]

ew :c who let a slug in here

[lindenhearted]

Oh absolutely. Siegfried's counterpart works closely with the local scouting troops to help educate the youth.

Charlotte will have learned many basic lessons, from 'don't eat the potato that's just lying on the ground in the woods it's toxic' to 'quartz is plentiful and is great for starting fires.'

[aria_ardeinae]

Maybe they have the habit of borrowing his canoe if they're going out on the lake? Mr Leblanc is an environmental conservationist so he's generally out inspecting the woods and will talk about his research to anyone who will stand still long enough for it.

[heartsnatcher]

Naito is friends with Lily, since he contributes a lot in the community and often helps organize or supervise events, so I feel like he's definitely one of the people she would throw Ledo at. It might be cute if they were friends, or at least knew each other!

[vivisectio]

man slaughterer handshake.....Kanou once massacred a team of researchers because they did NOT pat his ass enough, and regularly tried to poison a colleague's coffee (before straight up shooting his ass) in canon. LITTLE COURT JESTERS WHO WILL AND CAN KILL WE RISE