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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[dubiouslychthonic]

Your name: Bramble
Contact info: bramblepatch, discord bramble#6628
Who are you?: Late twenties nonbinary (they/them) nerd currently living in Southern California. In the RPsphere I'm probably most notable for being the one still playing homestuck ocs in this the year of our lord 2018, although I also dabble in World of Darkness ocs and occasionally even a canon character. I also do art and sometimes fic - the character I'm bringing to PhanRift is a minor background character for my long-running space opera of a homestuck fic.
Character name + Journal: Sawbones Jetshard | dubiouslychthonic
Canon: Homestuck, Miracle Child AU.
What's their deal?: Field medic, long-AWOL brooding cavern attendant, and outlaw. Jetshard's spend the past dozen sweeps or so disguising her actual blood color and moving from gig to gig through the less legal circles of the empire - she's served on ships involved in piracy, smuggling, illegal salvage, and so on, and most recently has fallen in with a group of rebels backing the newly-adult heiress in her bid for the throne. She was raised by mothman and is relatively likely not to maim or kill you if you go to her for medical attention. Last week she confiscated a small circular cleaning robot with a knife taped to it from a couple of the younger rebels and it's still in her inventory.
Plotting: As the only troll in a station full of humans (and human lookalikes), she's going to be very interested in making enough contacts among the other refugees that hopefully if further shit hits additional fans she'll have established herself as the helpful doctor friend and not the weird bug alien monster, and also because having friends is good. Also, she'll be trying to track down some references on human anatomy and physiology so she can actually be the helpful doctor friend to all you weird aliens.
Memeingful GIF:

[founderinglight]

Jetshard seems like a fellow Reasonable Adult (or at least, a fellow reasonable adult to the image Izunia's trying to present until it all collapses on him) so there's definitely more harassment of Weird Bug Friend in the future

[dubiouslychthonic]

Excellent. She's not going to be at all sure she trusts anyone around here for a while, but Izunia at least seems to be neither Awful nor an idiot, which goes a long way toward her liking him.

[founderinglight]

and also hey if you're starved for Adult Friends, Adult Aliens > Kid Aliens, right?

[dubiouslychthonic]

Yes, definitely. Come commiserate/gossip about all these dumb adolescents with her, Izunia.

[foolishjustice]

So, Goro actually likes bugs, and is fascinated by supernatural and sci-fi stuff. He might pester Jetshard with questions about weird bug aliens.

[dubiouslychthonic]

And trolls are deceptively Weird and Bug, for how humanoid they look...

She'll probably have some questions of her own about weird mammal aliens, for that matter.

[foolishjustice]

He'd be happy to trade information? He likes explaining things as much as he likes learning things. Some people think he's kind of a know-it-all, actually.

[dubiouslychthonic]

Hey, under their current circumstances information is probably one of the more valuable commodities to trade in, even if it's not information specific to those circumstances. Being a know it all is only a bad thing if you're dumb about how you use that knowledge.

[foolishjustice]

He just knows some people who get huffy about people showing off how much they know. It doesn't stop him from enjoying showing off being a walking encyclopedia.

Though, speaking of valuable commodities, Jetshard might be interested to know that Goro has a couple of psychic healing abilities... Canon calls Persona skills spells, but they really are more psychic than magic.

[stormkingofshepherds]

Nathaniel might not be too up for long chats about Pokemon, but some of his Pokemon might let Jetshard check them over on their own terms! Plus she can totally watch them battle as a team together if she wants.

[dubiouslychthonic]

Honestly she'll probably be fine letting him set the bar for How Much Talking About Pokemon Is Appropriate, it's interesting but it's not like... something she's likely to fixate on? It's a novelty more than anything, most domesticated animals in Alternian society are either bonded to a specific child from infancy or handled by trolls with specific powers that make animal handling easier. She hasn't worked closely with a non-troll animal since she left her own childhood guardian.