FEBRUARY OOC INTRO

[phantasmods]

Hello, and welcome to Phantasmal Rift! This post serves as our OOC intro post as well as a CR meme and general game update post!

GAME UPDATES:

SETTING: Nothing new here! Since the game's only just opened, you don't have any new setting pages to explore. But if you haven't yet, be sure to check out the Keystone Station page for all the info on the station itself, as well as the Housing Page to find out about your characters' living situation!

DUNGEONS: This month's dungeon will be the Keystone Shoreline! More information will come later in the month, but there's quite a bit more to it than the beach you explored on the test drive...

CALENDAR: The Game Calendar is currently up to date through the first week of May! This part of the game updates also comes with a poll! Do you want weather updates for the game? Do you want them on the calendar, or as a part of the regular game update, or something else?

APPLICATIONS UPDATE: Due to the near universal difficulties with the app word limit this round, we're upping the maximum to 2000 words. Also your mod is an idiot who forgot the contact info line that's also been fixed.

OTHER UPDATES: Especially since the game is brand new, we're always looking for feedback! If you have any commentary or concerns about the game, please respond to the QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK top-level comment on this post!

AND ONE MORE THING: Because I was a silly goob and forgot to put a line for contact info in the app, pleasepleaseplease fill out that line in the CR meme form so that I can get it on the Taken list, thanks!

CR MEME FORM;

<b>Your name</b>:<br /><b>Contact info</b>:<br /><b>Who are you?</b>: [Short blurb about yourself goes here!]<br /><b>Character name + Journal</b>:<br /><b>Canon</b>: [If AU or CRAU, that info goes here, too!]<br /><b>What's their deal?</b>: [Standard CR meme shitpost about your character blurb goes here]<br /><b>Plotting</b>: [What kinds of things would you like to do in the near future?]<br /><b>Memeingful GIF</b>: [We all know you won't be happy without an excuse to post one of these...]

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[foolishjustice]

Your name: Jess
Contact info: firebenderjess firebenderjess#1255 on Discord
Who are you?: I'm an artist, a fan of RPGs and ancient cartoons people stopped caring about ten years ago, and a fast food slave who spends most of her days frying chicken. I have a chronic disorder that causes me a lot of pain, so I might be quiet on days where work was especially bad, but I'm generally at least on in the evenings.
Character name + Journal: Goro Akechi foolishjustice
Canon: Persona 5 [15 Strangers CRAU]
What's their deal?: JRPG antagonist with tragic backstory on a redemption arc thanks to a magical murder mall. Goro's backstory has some potentially uncomfortable content that I won't go into here, but life basically gave him a raw deal from the moment he was born, and it's pretty much all thanks to his father. As an illegitimate child and an orphan, he grew up as one of the dregs of society, and learned to hate everything and trust nobody. Then, in an attempt to get close enough to his father to exact horrible revenge for ruining his mother's life, he ended up an unwilling assassin in constant fear for his life.

The murder mall, really, was an improvement. His canon point was two weeks before he was supposed to try to kill his only friend, so he got to avoid doing that...except then he killed two other people and got executed. Fortunately, his game golden ended, and he was brought back as a TWEWY Composer, basically a minor deity in charge of an area's afterlife. He hates slightly less of everything and trusts slightly more than nobody, and is generally learning to open up and be his real self a little more after years of molding his behavior to what would make adults respect him the most. He's still got a lot to learn about real friendships, though, and has a bad habit of assuming the only way to get people to like him is to be useful.

Oh, yeah, he's also kind of a horrible troll, and him getting comfortable with someone means constant teasing and occasional pranks.
Plotting: He needs to get to know people! He'll be using his ability to conjure drinks to try to help out with the supplies issue, and will probably do a lot of exploring outside the Fissures. If you want someone to encourage and/or enable shenanigans 'to see what would happen', he's one of your guys.
Memeingful GIF:

[rhododendronhoney]

Cori might try and recruit his drink-making ability to get ingredients/base materials for some of her enchanting stuff. And honestly I get the feeling he might end up reminding her of her own girlfriend, at least backstory-wise. Alternately she might just try and adopt him despite being younger.

[foolishjustice]

He'll warn her that he can only make liquids he has a concept of, but other than that, he's willing to help out.

And maybe she can adopt him as an older brother. He'd be happy to pick up all the found family, considering he has no blood family worth talking about.

[rhododendronhoney]

Well, most of the stuff she makes starts with pretty basic ingredients and more symbology/magic chants instead of magic ingredients, so they should be able to work together well on that!

Yessss all the found family.

[foolishjustice]

Sounds good to him! Just remember to put in your requests in advance if you want more than three types of liquid.

He already has a Pokedad, so why not add a Pokesis too?

[founderinglight]

but the weather inside is equally frightful
FULL OF CROWS, FULL OF CROWS

I mean yeah hi so hey i am enjoying where their CR is going so far, even more so than most of the "oh god they're all kids" Goro is pinging Izunia as someone to Dad At because bb immortal he is... concerns about you

[foolishjustice]

And he doesn't even know half the reasons he should be concerned about Goro yet.

...He gets points for his choice of theme animal, though. Crow club is best club.

[founderinglight]

he goes full hog he's going to be 'elevencrows' on the network instead of something, you know, reasonable, like his name

you should see his tattoo sometime

[foolishjustice]

Goro would make his display name 'Karasu', but one of his boyfriends has...Issues with that name. Right now it's even odds it'll be his name or some stupid bird joke.

[founderinglight]

he could go for Corvus though c: and thus begin the long train of Why Does Your World Have Ancient Lucian And Why Is It Called Latin jokes

[foolishjustice]

Pffff, he could do that. Make it a joke on his Noise form. It's not as dramatic sounding as Karasu, but it's more fun than just making it his name or code name.

[beguiledcard]

i could probably watch that gif for about five minutes straight.....

[foolishjustice]

It's so fun watching him be a goofy nerd, isn't it?

[beguiledcard]

YEP

... y'know, that is one of the things akira can say is cool about this place -- those moments when they'll be able to shift between regular form and metaverse form, at will.

[foolishjustice]

Those moments will technically be always, it's just easier in Fissures. So c'mon Akira, wanna dress up fancy for a date?

[beguiledcard]

this is true!

yes, absolutely~

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[foolishjustice]

Forgot to link this in the top level, oops. Please fill it out so I know how much of a snoop he can be.