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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerooc2020-03-31 05:16 am
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April Information and CR meme!

We hope everyone had a fun month! Some information for your ongoing journey.

IC Month

This month is the month of Egret. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is Great things never came from comfort zones

The challenge is: Tagging into other peoples top levels or posts will earn you two bonus points. Two bonus points will be awarded for each thread that you tag into during March and April.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during April AC. You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC!

Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month's chore assignments are:

Blue: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Purple: Meal Preparation
Red: Laundry
Orange: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms

The Train.

As the month moves onto the month of Egret the train will stop to pick up new passengers. When everyone rejoins the train they will find a new sleeper carriage!

This has been updated on the setting.

They will also notice a new post on the ICP. It will go live with the intro tomorrow but information can be found here!

The shop has been updated! Points have been updated on the passenger roster.

If your character does anything to alter the setting please let me know!

Important Dates

This month's event will be an on-train event on the 18th and 19th April.

Reserves will open 18th April with a TDM on the 15th April. Apps are between 21st and 28th April. AC will run 22nd to 29th April.

New players may find it useful to read the arrival information if they haven’t already!

Monthly Plotting

Feel free to use this post to plot any thing you want for the next month! Here’s a structure you can use!

unfavorableinstigation: Nita in snowclothes, holding a snowball and ready to aim&fire! (She's gonna hit you... with a snowball!)

YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE (especially for Webmind's bit)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-03-31 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Name: S.M.F./Ace
Contact info: Autistic_Ace on plurk and Discord! Or just poke either of my muses' accounts, really. ([personal profile] unfavorableinstigation and [personal profile] iamnotgod, respectively)

Character: Nita Callahan, Team Orange, Cabin 4:B
About them: Nita is a passionate bookworm who likes helping people - and is more than a little self-sacrificing about doing so - as well as a hard worker period. Being a wizard gives her power through the Speech, the language the worlds were made with and that all creation naturally understands.
Plans: No big plans apart from getting the train to talk to people, maybe??? Though that's as much the peridexis' goal as it is hers, except for teaching Namine how to do shielding. She can also tutor for math/science if anyone pokes her into doing so.

Will probably handwave what she's doing on platform day specifically - namely, handing out Eva's new leaflets and catching people up on what's known so far. Let me know if you want a tag from her this round!
CR wanted: Tutoring?? People she can theorize about what's going on with the train with? More wizard CR?
Things to avoid: Neither romance nor drag-out fights are expected from this character... well, from me. But I can be persuaded if it feels IC enough!

And now, WEBMIND!

Character: Webmind, also Team Orange, Cabin 1:D
About them: He's from the WWW Trilogy, where the only miracles come from the people, governments CAN be overthrown without bloodshed, and God does not exist. Atheists unite!
Plans: /clears throat/ So for this platform, I had the idea of him being so wrapped up in his panic (click through to his journal linked above for the intended draft, though I may still change it) that he doesn't get off the platform in time, making him the second IC death.

BUT, interacting with him should still be an option, no?
CR wanted: COMMENT HERE if you plan on tagging Webmind! What would your character plan on doing - talking to him out loud? Poking him (note: if your character ISN'T a machine themselves, one of the feeds he's tied into now is pressure, so reaching him this way is a possibility! If your character is consistent enough with the poking, anyway)? Stealing his stuff?

If your character knows Binary and/or Morse code, they'll have a much higher chance of breaking him out of it, though if his chief questions aren't answered (what has happened back home? Is he in one piece? Is he attacking people and he can't even know it?), he'll still be at risk of spiraling again later.

If your character is bodily picking him up, please say so! This will definitely get him on the train above all the other options, even if it doesn't knock him out of his panic.

If he does die, I'll have waking up in the luggage car reset him in a way, clearing his panic and thus making it easier for him to read the sensory data he's got to deal with now.

Once things are all cleared up, however that happens, one of the things he'll zero in on is setting up a textchat function for the train/ICPs! For him (and at least one other train resident), this is a matter of accommodations, not just preference, so he'll be prioritizing that alongside getting to know everyone on the train.

Gods, how do I play such chatterboxes...?
Edited 2020-03-31 13:24 (UTC)
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[personal profile] runsfast_rollsfar 2020-03-31 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Aaron will try to help Webmind out with his panic but I'm not fully sure how it'll play out until we start threading it. Aaron doesn't know Binary/Morse code, of course, and I don't forsee him picking Webmind up for any reason. I may also poke him with Paper, but that's undecided right now.

I would like to tag Nita at some point with all of mine eventually, but it's just kinda as it happens. d:

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-03-31 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll definitely feel bad if I end up just having him 'no sell' all possible opportunities - but maybe it can turn into a group thread or something? Be hell to track during the big intro log, though.

And tossing Nita at yours has been fun so far! =D Nita and Paper really should talk teleportation spells in-game sometime.
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Re: YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE (especially for Webmind's bit)

[personal profile] deductiongeek 2020-03-31 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Still planning on having Conan talk to him with Morse code. He'll try to talk him down?

Re: YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE (especially for Webmind's bit)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-03-31 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I look forward to it! \o/

He'll be trying for a tactile approach, then? Unless Conan's going to try plugging something in to him (there SHOULD be a data port somewhere on him)/connecting wirelessly.
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[personal profile] deductiongeek 2020-03-31 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It depends on how the thread goes? But I don't think he has anything on him that he could plug in, unless you're thinking about the SCP.

But just tapping out code would probably be faster.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-03-31 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The SCA cannot be plugged into anything, alas. :< (I asked on the FAQ.)

What's simplest is best!
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[personal profile] draconite 2020-03-31 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
since Nita and Webmind are both Team Orange, I'll definitely be throwing Bryn at them!! Nita and Bryn are both bookwormy types, so they should have some stuff to talk about

As for Webmind, Bryn comes from a world where robots are definitely Not A Thing so she'll be pretty fascinated at the sight of him!

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-03-31 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ask Nita about her Manual, Bryn. XD You know you want to!

Webmind won't immediately be in a state to have discussions, unfortunately, otherwise he would protest that he is NOT a robot, he's just... been impossibly compressed so his mind can fit inside the shape of one. He's the size of a planet, okay????
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-03-31 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You know Curufin's gonna tag Webby! XD
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan rendered in Undertale-style graphics. (Nita.jpg)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-03-31 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, but how successful will he be?~

Should we roll dice for it, you think? Once the thread starts, of course.
so_dark_a_road: (among the contending princes)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-01 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
He'll try everything he knows. XD

Let's see how the thread goes! <3