April Information and CR meme!

[voidtreckermods]

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

IC Month

This month is (still) the month of Kazoo. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "A journey well shared is a journey well enjoyed".

This means: Varied CR. The first thread with each character set in the month of Kazoo will earn you two bonus points 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!

The ingredient of the month is tomato. Recipes are here. All the ingredients can be found in the storeroom, refreshed at the platform, and characters are welcome to make other food with them.

This month’s chore assignments are:
Blue: Laundry
Purple: Cleaning kitchen and bathrooms
Red: Cleaning bedrooms and passenger areas
Orange: Meal Preparation

The Train

As the month reaches the halfway point in the month of Kazoo, the train will stop to pick up new passengers.

As a reminder, you can list things that characters have added to the train here. Just comment under the header of the carriage you are adding to!

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a train event on the 10th and 11th of April. We currently have no submitted player-led plots or events for April.

The TDM will be posted on the 16th. Reserves will open on the 18th. Apps are between the 22nd and the 29th, and AC will run between the same dates.

For a reference, please consult our calendar post.

Other Info

Thank you to our NPC handlers, Ree and Nat, for their wonderful work on this mission! We couldn't do it without them!

We ask players to please submit any plots that will be unavoidable, widespread or both to the player plot calendar. This is to ensure that a mod has reviewed it, that events don't pile up, and that when relevant, we can open the dressing carriage and put everyone in matching outfits. It also means you can check the calendar for upcoming events or plots!

Our new players (and old players who want a refresher) might find it useful to read gameplay before the platform. As always the mods are happy to answer any questions you might have.

Points have been updated on the Roster.

Monthly Plotting

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

Name: [your name]
Contact info: [anything you want to share]

Character: [name]
About them: [canon, a brief description of who they are, any specific permissions]
Plans: [got anything in the works?]
CR wanted: [anything specific?]
Things to avoid: [just so lines can be drawn]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Contact info:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>About them:</b> <b>Plans:</b> <b>CR wanted:</b> <b>Things to avoid:</b>

Comments

Binky

[zombiemessiah]

Name: Bianca
Contact info: Disc crotchetyneanderthal#4935 or Journal PM

Entrapta

[sciencegirl]

Character: Entrapta
About them: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- Cabin: 4:D
- Mad scientist with the ability to move her hair.
- Likely to occasionally miss some social cues, especially when she's excited on missions.
- A scientist who comes from a magical world so she sees it as an integral part of invention.
- Will use her hair to both get around and do stuff. It's constantly moving
Plans: Entrapta is still currently making her big combat robot. Her projects also include making drones, hopefully two for each team to use on missions with VR headsets and let people accomplish some dangerous tasks. Thanks to Tidus and Roland she's going to start expirementing with some of the things related to Void communication, but she has to talk to them (and I have to ask the mods a bunch of questions). But it will be something she's interested in. And she's also looking into researching Rapunzel's hair and its dramatic affects.

And there's the healing sniper and grenades. Some of these might overlap, but right now her points focus will be on the combat bot.

She's going to be talking to Jack either after or during the Rich incident about the issues that lead to it (depending on when and what she finds out) and probably checking in on Kaiba (depending on what happens and what she hears about). Other than that I'm keeping her out of trouble specifically so she can be there to validate her friends and help with plots.
CR wanted: CR that can use a fixit fidgety scientist. That is the CR that I want. I really enjoyed the chance to have her act zany but also usefully during the mission! That was exactly the fun I wanted when I apped her. If I could do it again I'd love that. She can use CR with people that would help in any one of her projects.
Things to avoid: Same as last time. If someone comes at her hard with negative CR she'll just avoid them. It's not productive to engage with someone like that.

[namethattune]

Science buddies? Science buddies.

Seriously, Siebren finds Entrapta charming and would be happy to help her with her projects. He's no engineer, but he has steady hands and can do heavy lifting.

[sciencegirl]

She's also trying to be very careful to not make an AI that will damage the crew purposefully, but allow it room to grow and be creative. She's been listening to cautionary tales to see where it went wrong for other people, and I know Siebren's world has some Shit That Happened he could really advise her on.

Re: Entrapta

[schrodingersghost]

Would she like to learn about ghost tech?

Entrapta

[sciencegirl]

She would very much down for learning some of that at some point! Especially if it's another way she can enhance her current scanner.

Re: Entrapta

[gentle_jim]

I'm super excite to have this convo between him and Entrapta! I would like to do it during the incident if posible.

Re: Entrapta

[sciencegirl]

Yes! If you end up having a good chance for it to happen, lmk and I'll tag in!

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty isn't too much of a techy, but she'll be happy to help Entrapta with her projects! She'll also be happy to help test out things with her powers.

I also would love more CR with Yondu, because I just think it'd be cute haha

[yondu]

Yes! To both things. Especially since she's doing the drone thing, Kitty could bounce between locations and super help her with that.

And absolutely. She put up with him being a sadsack in the catacombs so he knows she won't judge him if he's not being at top-tier hardass.

Re: Entrapta

[firewalled]

Whatever happens with the incident, I'd love for Entrapta and Rich to talk about it a little! He miiiight be a little wary of her robot plans, but he needs the reminder that not all robots are like Jack and the SQUIP :P

Re: Entrapta

[sciencegirl]

Yeah, she'll be really sorry that happened to him and promise not all robots are like that. If he needs proof, talk to Guri (just talk to her like a person because she's been treated very badly by people).

And that she was raised by robots herself. So it's not really fair Rich has only been victimized by them.

Like, she's friends with Jack, but she is often friends with fuck-ups that take a while to realize they fucked up and she definitely will acknowledge that this was terrible.

Yondu Udonta

[yondu]

Character: Yondu Udonta
About them: Guardians of the Galaxy (MCU)
- Cabin: 1:B
- Blue alien space pirate biker redneck
- Has a very obvious cybernetic implant on his head called a fin
- Has an arrow made of incredibly durable and sensitive metal that responds to his fin and whistles. He used it during the mission finale but had to do so depending entirely on the fin.
- Used to be a former Kree battle slave and a scarred up face as a result
- Has complicated feelings related to kids being on the train both from knowing a god that had him hunt down his own kids (and killed them when he brought them to their father, which Yondu didn't know Ego was doing until too late), of raising one of those kids as his own to protect him, and as having been sold as a baby and spending his entire youth as a possession
- He has now managed to tell one (1) person all about all of this and they don't hate him and that's a big deal.
- Has never been loved except maybe for the last ten seconds of his life
- Super misses his superhero team and is kind of half-ass trying to find people to fight by like that again.
- Likes to collect tiny figurines and has accomplished finding one tiny carved chicken.
Plans: He's going to buy his Ravager outfit so he'll be leathering it up around the train.

He's going to commission little Ravager badges for his adopted babies.

He's going to buy some Yaka metal and wants to use it for various stuff.
CR wanted: I want Yondu to have more people to open up to. I want him to have more "teammates" for mission combat when he can hook up with other teams. I want him to have people to hang out with whether they're tinies he's helping out or grown ass people that want to hang out with a sad grumpy alien.
Things to avoid: Breaking his fin or arrow are no-goes, no long term mind control.

[helborn]

Honestly I just kinda wanna throw all of mine at him. Ken needs to catch up with him. Otoha can very much vibe with Yondu's mood.

And Casper is just a very sweet guy who will care about Yondu. Nope, doesn't care what you did, you get soft.

[yondu]

Considering how often I'm top-leveling with this blue trash he'll def be around. I might only Top-Level with Murphy on the intro this time but eventually something will go up.

Re: Yondu Udonta

[namethattune]

Siebren fuckin' loves Yondu and I am absolutely down for more CR. I have no specific ideas, but nonetheless.

[yondu]

Okay, but... he has some points left. Can Siebren get him a little cute thing for a trade? Please?

Re: Yondu Udonta

[gentle_jim]

I'm so sorry I dropped the ball so hard on this mission... Work really took a crowbar to my ankles. I still want some more CR with Yondu!

[cycledsingularity]

Yondu may have a lot of tinies already but I admit I'm super interested to throw Mono his way

Once Mono warms up to society as a whole, I think Yondu will kind of fascinate him. He's really never seen anyone who quite looks like him; but that may be a point in his favor. You can't be traumatic if there is no comparison to make!

Mono also has no frame of reference for what is TOO dangerous for him either, so he might be surprisingly helpful in a jam when it isn't expected. Doing what it takes to survive crummy things is something they relate on.

Either way, I'm just so happy to see someone playing him. Guess we'll see how things go! ^^

[yondu]

Yondu never got to do another thread with Asriel but he's going to be worried about these little monster children on board like crazy.

Want to hear some space pirate adventure stories?

Re: Yondu Udonta

[agathokakological]

grabby hands at blue boyfriend pls

Alvin Murphy

[zombiemessiah]

Character: Alvin Murphy
About them: Z Nation
- Cabin: 8:D
- Zombie/Human hybrid Blend
- Was a non-violent white-collar criminal experimented on against his will and given a serum and was mauled by invading zombies while on the table
- One of them 'products of horrible science' guys
- Thanks to the serum he has some strange and very questionable abilities, permissions here
- These abilities probably won't be used against anyone on the train under special circumstances.
- Cynical to a fault
- Had a megalomaniac phase and is like, 75% over it
- Evolves, current evolution has red skin and he straight-up looks like Satan. Has been blue and white before.
- Snarky bitch who hates life
- Member of the Sad Dad club. His daughter self-sacrificed to save him.
- Probably gonna flirt if he sees a sign he can get away with it.
- If a telepath is open to talking to him, he's down for some thought communication.
- Might possibly be causing the storage car to put a human-like brain in the fridge, still waiting for the final word on that. If so you are allowed to poke it or avoid it.
Plans: I have none. I have no Murphy plans. This was a YOLO app.
CR wanted: Telepath CR that he can talk to at distance. People to snark at or with.
Things to avoid: Don't belittle his little girl, that's probably the only thing he'll ever get actually really angry about.

[menaretrash]

HEY ROOMIE are you prepared to have a teenage girl freaking out over having a dude in the same cabin?! 8D ARE YOU PREPARED FOR THE SNARK??

[namethattune]

I have no ideas, but: gimme.

Re: Alvin Murphy

[gentle_jim]

Oh lord, well I see they have a bit in common. Brain stealing hijinks if you're up for them!