January Information and CR Meme!

[voidtreckermods]

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

IC Month

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

The thought of the month is “No-one is useless in these worlds who lightens the burdens of another.”

This means: Tagging into other characters’ top levels or posts will earn you two bonus points during January and February.

Threads that fulfil this criteria can be submitted during February AC. You may find it easier to keep a tracking list of threads for easy compiling of bonus AC! As a note: Though there is no thread length minimum we will be keeping an eye on thread lengths to make sure that people are committing to the threads they tag into.

The ingredient of the month is avocado. 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 kitchen and bathrooms
Purple: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Red: Meal Preparation
Orange: Laundry

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a world event on the 11th of January. (An info and plotting post will go up on Thursday the 7th)

The TDM will be posted on the 17th. Reserves will open on the 19th. Apps are between the 22nd and the 29th. AC will run from the 23rd to the 31st of January.

Other Info

~ On missions and other events we often have the opportunity to interact with NPCs to gather some extra information, learn more about the world and generally make connections with the people who inhabit the world the Voidtreckers are currently helping. In order to help expand how many people who can interact with NPCs and free up some mod time during missions we are inviting players to volunteer as NPC controllers. For more information and to sign up if you wish please go here!

~ Secondly, we are going to put up a document for assumed behaviours and actions in missions. This means, in broad strokes, what characters can expect to be happening before, during and after missions that doesn’t need to be written out every time and can be assumed to be happening even if players (i.e of healer characters or team leads) are busy. The general structure of a mission. Do teams have meetings? Covering what, generally? Are characters asked to take certain supplies or stay in groups? Are medically trained characters manning the triage and medical carriages? How about when the train isn’t on-world? What items and supplies are in general use?

This post will not be to record your individual characters’ actions during missions, but to establish what preparations are occurring and general ‘recurring actions’, so that character efforts will not go unnoticed during missions. A post for putting together this document will go up later today and be overseen by Elle!mod is now up, here!.

~ A quick reminder about the network on the train. The ICP system is a simple one, with the ability for characters to use voice or video to talk to other on the train. It’s a fancy tannoy system with no way for posts to be saved to be looked at or responded to later. It has no ability to be filtered to one person- the most privacy that can be found is through sending the message to one carriage or one cabin. If you want to limit who can hear/see your post please use [From: X CARRIAGE. TO: Y CARRIAGE]. This means that things discussed on the ICP openly are likely to be overheard by other characters. It also means other people can join in your conversations though, as ever you should take care to ask everyone involved in a thread before threadjacking to make sure it is alright! More information about the ICP’s can be found here

There is the ability to use the SCA’s to speak to ‘All’, to your ‘team’ and to individuals. This function is only available on missions. For more information on the SCA please go here

Monthly Plotting

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

<b>Name:</b> [your name] <b>Contact info:</b> [anything you want to share] <b>Character:</b> [name] <b>About them:</b> [canon, a brief description of who they are] <b>Plans:</b> [got anything in the works?] <b>CR wanted:</b> [anything specific?] <b>Things to avoid:</b> [just so lines can be drawn]

Comments

[namethattune]

Name: Kia
Contact info: Kiaxet or Kiaxet#7085

[namethattune]

Character: Siebren de Kuiper (Sigma) (Orange Team)
About them: Siebren is a shield tank from Overwatch, one of Blizzard's many games with very little lore, which is Fun 8D He's an astrophysicist with gravity powers and a hell of a lot of psychological issues to go with it. He's good in a fight, but rather dislikes violence; he much prefers science, and he enjoys working with people. He's a fairly friendly human who's hiding a whole lot of trauma under the surface, and he'd honestly rather not think about that latter part.
Plans: He's working on a few projects, but honestly I'm looking forward to seeing what this mission will bring. Long-term plans include getting close enough to people to let them in on his secrets, but that's still a ways into the future.
CR wanted: GIVE ME EVERYTHING. He likes kids, he gets along with most people, and he's snarky as hell when the situation calls for it. I'm up for just about anything, so let's do it.
Things to avoid: If you're going to get into mind-reading or anything that could potentially trigger him, I'd prefer to discuss it beforehand, or I'll let you know if a tag goes too far in that direction. Otherwise, I personally am up for whatever.

[bakegarasu]

Otoha can snark back. He's much more up for violence but isn't going to fault someone for not being willing or able to fight unless there's a good reason they should be fighting. \o/

[namethattune]

Tbh Siebren is fairly violence-avoidant when possible - he tends to snap into an entirely different mindset when violence gets serious (hence Sigma) and doesn't really like doing that when it's not necessary, so they're going to need to find some non-violence-related CR. |Db

[bakegarasu]

... We can certainly try. If anything maybe he can help with what to steer someone with those tendencies towards instead of violence?

I have nothing to say here, just this icon.

[its_dad_sanzo]

why must you torment him (keep doing it it's perfect)

[namethattune]

I will

[its_dad_sanzo]

[inquisitor_lavellan]

Alley's a shield tank who uses a literal shield. They might get along! Maybe. IDEFK but I wanna try it anyway.

[namethattune]

Let's do it let's go

Maybe see how platform works out and go from there?

[its_dad_sanzo]

I mean she's already on the game, I just suck and barely played her in December.

[controlsthedie]

Floaty friends?

[namethattune]

Yesssss I really need that "same hat" moment from these two

[controlsthedie]

Just two tall muscular guys floating around I'd say without shoes but they both have boots now lol

[fivemilesdeep]

Character: Ryo (Orange Team)
About them: He's an OC, from a world that's magic-heavy and tech-light. He's a healer, a teenager, and he likes people quite a bit, though he's fairly wary around them, especially since he'll be in a brand new place without anyone he knows. He definitely cares, but it's going to take a while before he comes out of his shell.
Plans: Long term, I'd like him to become more comfortable with people and more confident in himself; short-term, I'm just looking to get him settled.
CR wanted: EVERYTHING. He needs friends his own age, he needs mentors, he needs parent figures, all of it. I'm also up for negative CR, though if anyone makes a terrible impression, he'll probably avoid them for A While, so be prepared for that.
Things to avoid: Nope!
Notes: Ryo has a sixth sense of sorts - he can sense life energy. His permissions post is here, if anyone wants to leave details or discuss!

[bakegarasu]

ryo stop following him around he doesn't get hurt that much yes he does

[fivemilesdeep]

They're gonna get to the point where Ryo checks him over every time they run into each other as a matter of course, just to make sure he's okay. It's actually a really terrible habit for a healer to fall into in his world, but Otoha is a walking extenuating circumstance.

Which is to say, I absolutely want more of this, because one of the very few things Ryo is stubborn about is You're Hurt And You Need Help.

[bakegarasu]

And red team is assigned to work on meal prep, and if someone actually drags him into doing chores that's just going to be a landmine of injury potential.

[inquisitor_lavellan]

Alley's a good gruff mentor/will adopt your ass, type, if they get along well!

[fivemilesdeep]

They might! He's not at the point where he can handle gruff as a matter of course yet, but the goal is definitely to get there.

Also, he might do a lot of...for lack of a better term, furtive glances at her when he's around her. He doesn't like seeing people hurt, and she's obviously been very hurt and no one was there to help her, and he feels bad about it. It's kind of a useless feeling, and honestly staring is rude, but this is where he is right now.

[its_dad_sanzo]

She's able to scale the gruffness down, especially for a smol.

[tactlesstantei]

Hey look, Sera’s right around Ryo’s age and tends to be the friendly type, so she could easily get along with Ryo.

(Nobody tell Ryo she got hurt last mission, she was healed, it’s fine.)

[fivemilesdeep]

People get hurt all the time and he's used to that - he'll just be real upset if she hides injuries from him. Pls let him help :(

But yes, I am totally up for this :D I'm canonblind for Detective Conan, so lmk if there's something obvious I'm missing and should know for a thread!

[controlsthedie]

I love this kid and want all the CR with him even if Than isn't the best for it

[fivemilesdeep]

You say that like it's going to stop either of us