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Phantasmal Rift Mods ([personal profile] phantasmods) wrote in [community profile] phantasmemes2018-06-09 02:45 am
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OOC INTRO - JUNE '18

Hello, and welcome to the fourth OOC Intro for Phantasmal Rift! This post also serves as a CR meme and overall state-of-the-game update!

IC Intro will go up on Monday, at the conclusion of the dungeon - but if you'd like, you can go ahead and jump into the tail end of the dungeon log now! There's scary boss fight going on in the final area (which is also now on the info page, for easy access, though minus all that terrible boss info), and you're also welcome to top your own top levels using whatever prompts you like!

(And yes, you get loo for any further comments you leave on the dungeon log, up to a max of five, same as in-game players. Any loot earned thusly will be appended to the sign-ups under a header with your character's journal name.)

STATE OF THE GAME


THERE HE GOES AGAIN aka calendar update - Based upon mod discussion, the game is being updated to a six week cycle (instead of the current five weeks)! This is primarily to allow players a chance to run their own plots during the month or so of downtime between Fissure logs. IC dates have also been added up to the next dungeon.

On the bright side, this means that we can in fact have our Halloween dungeon during Halloween weekend! Yay! Spoop. Other previously discussed calendar matters - namely, the lighter December dungeon catching the IC calendar up a bit more with the OOC calendar - are still going forward as planned. As before, the schedule is currently updated to the end of the year - helpfully, the last AC check of the year now falls on December 31st!

A list of start dates for the next group of dungeons/application openings;
  • JULY 20TH
  • SEPTEMBER 7TH
  • OCTOBER 26TH
  • DECEMBER 14TH

THE NEXT DUNGEON WILL BE... decided based upon an IC poll that will be posted along with the IC intro on Monday. As far as OOC concerns, without giving too much away - the first dungeon option will be resource heavy and effects-on-characters light, allowing everyone a bit of a breather after a heavy-hitting dungeon and a transformational dungeon. The second option... Not so much, and will likely be a high-stress dungeon for a lot of characters. Whichever dungeon is not chosen will be the following expedition.

[S] END OF ACT ONE: The aforementioned two dungeons will wrap up the first phase of our metaplot! Expect to see some new plot elements - and perhaps some new faces - going forward. We're almost at the one third point of the overall planned plot, but of course, anything and everything is subject to change until we get there, based on your feedback and IC actions!

STATION UPDATES: The Annex page has been updated with two new areas! One is the long-promised AV room - new home of the DDR machine - and the other is a special surprise brought to you by the hard work of Team Stay-At-Home!

Permissions post round-up: If you have a required opt-in/out permissions post for your characters' powers, please make sure to drop it under the appropriate comment header below! Existing characters' permissions are already linked there, for your convenience.

Anything else?: As usual, the questions and feedback header is here for you!

CR MEME FORM;



And now, the weather;

5/22; Starts sunny as the week previous; goes increasingly cloudy as the day wears on. By nightfall, it's clear that a storm will soon break - best not get caught outside after the expedition.
5/23-25; Wind storm, with harsh rains and the occasional burst of thunder. Smaller characters and pets (eg Morgana, Sunshine the chocochick) advised to stay inside or be carried by someone with a bit more weight to them to avoid getting blown away.
5/26-30; Wind settles down to a steady breeze, and the sun returns. Clear and warm.
5/31-6/2; Sunny and clear, but unusually sticky and humid. Dead air, even the sea breeze almost going still.
6/3-7; Sunny, warm and clear; the breeze returns. and the humidity backs off.
6/8; Overcast and grey; cooler, but still pretty warm.
6/9-11; First half of the day or so is cloudy (until noon-1pm), at which point the clouds burn off into clear skies.
6/12; Extremely grey and overcast, to the point of being oppressively dark. Thunderstorm breaks about 4pm and lasts most of the night.
6/13; Cloudy in the morning, clears up in the afternoon.
614-19; Clear and sunny with the occasional single cloud. The temperature average goes up again and settles in the low 80s, which is the standard for the rest of the summer.
6/20-22; Somewhat cloudier but still more sun than not.
6/23-27; Heat wave, somewhat humid but mostly hot, breaking low 90s all days and getting as high as 97F. Some clouds and thunder in the evenings, but no rain.
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[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-09 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Your name: Eric
Contact info: [plurk.com profile] overbringer Discord: Overbringer#2743
Who are you?: 33 year old dude living in Seattle WA. He/His.
Character name + Journal: Bai Lin | [personal profile] fistsofchange
Canon: Original Character from a Table Top RPG campaign
Permissions: [shrug emoji]
What's their deal?: Bai Lin is a martial artist from the 22nd century post-apocalyptic nuclear wastelands of central China who was cast out of her monastic order for trying to call out the corruption of the abbot. She is an eternal optimist, she's extremely moral, and she's not terribly bright. She's also interested in doing all the fun stuff that monks who live a very frugal and ascetic life aren't allowed to do, since she was technically banished from her order and thus not committed to maintaining that lifestyle anymore.
Plotting: Lin is going to bring back a treasure chest after this dungeon is completed. She's expecting it to be full of gold and jewels and shit, but it's actually going to be full of much more NSFW treasure (porn and booze and weed). So...That's going to be stupid as hell.

After this fissure, she's also interested in someone teaching her how to swim. And also in casual dating and poorly thought out flings and just generally living it up and trying out weird creature comforts.
Memeingful GIF: I'm not really feeling the GIF right now so here's a picture of a kitten taking a french fry.
Edited 2018-06-09 23:20 (UTC)
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[personal profile] freedomofmovement 2018-06-10 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
so bai lin and freyja should absolutely chat about how dumb it is when people try to become gods?? also I'm so down for swimming lessons
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[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-10 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Would-Be God's plan was to enact total anarchy by dividing his power with everyone in the world so no one was stronger than anyone else, thus ending the dominion of the strong over the weak by making all the weak strong.

It was a plan with a few problems, obviously.

Also Lin has a few weird hangups about magic (she thinks magic users are all a little weird at best.) so hanging out with a druid would be good. I've got like four people who have offered swimming lessons now but we shall see.
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[personal profile] freedomofmovement 2018-06-11 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
that.... could not have possibly ended badly. at all. flawless plan, 10/10 / s

Hey, Freyja's just happy to have someone to chill with, swimming lessons or not. Come listen to her talk to plants, that's not weird at all!
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[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-11 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, Lin and her friends beat him into submission before he could do it, so we shall never know how well his brilliant plan would have worked.

Magic users are SUPPOSED to be kind of weird. If all she's doing is talking to plants instead of screaming about curses or turning into sand storms then Lin has no problem with her.
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[personal profile] freedomofmovement 2018-06-11 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly Freyja is a fairly chill magic user, turning into sandstorms is a little bit above her pay grade.
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[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-12 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'ma go tag her
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[personal profile] fistsofchange 2018-06-12 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently I already did and that I couldn't remember that is a good sign that I should probably go to bed