June 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 Llama. Days can be found here.

The thought of the month is "With every falling apart, there is a coming together".

This means: Any thread with someone your character has never met before in-game will earn you two bonus points during May and June.

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

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

The Train

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!

We would also like to give a quick reminder about the two styles of network we have in game. On the train we have the ICPs these can send messages to the whole train or a specific carriage or sleeper cabin. They are video or voice only! For more information on the ICPs please look here

When on missions the character's SCAs work as comm devices, allowing voice chatter and there is always a comm-specific post for that. For more information on the SCAs please look here.

Important Dates

This month’s event will be a train event on the 12th and 13th of June.

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. For player-led events, please see the player plot calendar.

Other Info

Thank you once again to both Ree and Nat for their wonderful NPC work in the last mission! If anyone wishes to sign up to help with NPCing on missions please go here!

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.

We're delighted to announce that Ree will be joining the modteam as a mission assistant! This formalises a lot of what she has already been doing the last few months both as an NPC handler and helping with boss battles and other big mission events. It also means there will be a third person available to ask questions about missions and give out further information which should help things run a bit smoother and make sure everyone can be as involved as they wish to be!

Ree also made a shiny premise page too, which can be used to help recruit new players.

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

[yondu]

Name: Bianca
Contact info: Disc crotchetyneanderthal#4935 | PM any journal

Yondu Udonta | MCU | Blue Team

[yondu]

Character: Yondu Udonta
About them: Cabin U1:B
-Former slave to the Kree Empire turned Space Pirate Biker. Exiled from his group and still upset over it. Raised a Problem Child who was part Space God.

-On the train he's been adopted by a couple of kids and he's made friends, some he's been too stupid to fully recognize as friends and not just acquaintances that are going well so far. He's also still kind of terrified of people hurting him, but he was called family by a couple of people and told he was loved in a friend context which is completely new for him. He's also one of the Blue Team Dads.

-I had been having him have an 'out of his league' crush that was causing some funny awkward moments but I went so hard during the event no more embarrassment for him. He gets to recuperate a little of his pride. Not too much of it, but a little, as a treat.
Plans:
-Mission Trauma: I shoved some of his stuff out in the open, as in a couple of people have actually seen Stakar at this point, they saw what happened to his crew, and a couple of people know he's pretty much given up on life in general. The only current reason he's still trying is that there are some people that depend on him.

-Heist-Planning Brain Activated: He's getting some locks to help teach some hoodlums to improve their lock-picking skills for mission purposes. He knows there's a couple on blue team who listed it in their skills but he'd help anyone learn who has an interest in not being taken captive. After the last mission he's getting worried about the Ministry taking notice and starting to take some precautionary escape planning out of pure paranoia.

-ICP Adventure: He's going to be doing a little experiment with Mono where they try to see where he can reach through the ICPs/if there are parts of the train the ICPs go that they don't know about yet. This is just for the silliness of Mono bringing back random-ass shit ala Baby Groot. If anyone has some non-essentials they're willing to have go missing because Mono decided to present them to Yondu and mildly horrify or surprise him, please let me know. They'll be given back fairly quickly (he'll do a lost and found box in the standard car).

-Nature Stuff: Centaurians in Marvel Comics have a tight connection with nature, and I've been vaguely using it as Yondu being like, "I like these plant-filled places because they remind me of my homeworld that I barely remember." He never learned to explore it being raised the way he was. Someone else with a connection might be able to point out, "Hey, you might have a solid reason".
CR wanted: General stuff, just hit me up, and I want some bawdy scumbag conversations that I can make some terrible jokes with.
Things to avoid: Breaking his fin or arrow are no-goes, no long-term mind control.

[worthallthis]

Oh my god Mono and Yondu need to steal Soldat's little ghost friend :D It will be an adventure for all of them.

(Also they love you Yondu. Keep trying. You deserve it.)

[yondu]

At least with that one Yondu'd have an immediate "...Uh oh." and get it back to Soldat as soon as possible.

It can hang out with the chicken and the pigeon and the windmill and the ugly ass frog in the meantime.

[forceshadowed]

So you're saying Yondu might be a Jedi hahaha :P

He also totally did not inspire Jaisyn to get a flerken.

[yondu]

See what happens when your parents sell you to the Empire (though Kree Empire in this case).

I don't figure I'd do a whole lot with it and if he uses it at all, he does it to make his aim better. It's just a "I don't know who the shit I am sometimes" vibe.

See, look, if there's ever a Flerken it needs to like Saash. It's important.

Re: Yondu Udonta | MCU | Blue Team

[agathokakological]

come crowleys weird room for coffee and crying thx

[yondu]

If only he would actually cry and not just look like a practiced kicked dog. But he'll absolutely take that coffee and marvel at the huge damn room like, "what?"

Re: Yondu Udonta | MCU | Blue Team

[controlsthedie]

Oh gosh, Yondu and Mono. I doubt anything of Than's will go missing because he knows Mono, but he's willing to try sending paper messages through the ICP via Mono or some other nonsense like that.

Also please teach Thanatos how to pick locks. He really really really doesn't want to get trapped ever again.

[yondu]

100% going to do a top-level of him just casually picking the test locks in the standard car. And yes, oh my god, give the tiny person a small thing to go through the ICP with. (They're going to be trying to figure out if there is an ICP, accessible or otherwise, in a place where no one can reach.)

And even if his train crush didn't work out, if he figures out Than's I'm totally down for that conversation.

[piercinggaze]

How would Yondu feel about a newbie asking questions about his fin? Auditi wouldn't try to do anything without permission and a lot of guidance, but she'll definitely notice a guy with something tech-based sticking out of his head and that's deeply relevant to her interests.

[yondu]

Yondu's happy to answer questions about it since it kind of sticks out of his head and is obvious and was installed very unpleasantly. He doesn't really let people mess with it directly because it's wired into his brain and, y'know, he needs that brain for stuff.

Entrapta | She Ra and the Princesses of Power | Orange Team

[sciencegirl]

Character: Entrapta
About them: Cabin L2:D
-Mad scientist with the ability to move her hair (and it's constantly moving) and works on robots. Has experience with magitech and sees magic as an integral part of invention. Loves any chance to work with other scientists.

-Royalty who does not act at all like royalty. Princess of a mining kingdom named Dryl and lived in a castle (Crypto Castle) that was basically a labyrinth. Has a crush on a giant bat creature alien clone.

-She was working with void-sensitive radios and getting other opinions from people. After a couple of months of work she finished a combat bot named Claudette. Finally finished up a drone project she prodded out for a while and did some thorough investigation of the Hard Light tech. She used her experience after the illusions on Erda to try and help people during the last mission.
Plans:
-Medical Aid: She's offered to help out the Medical staff with Cybernetic issues (she has experience from helping in Season 3 and with removing/deactivating the mind control chips in Season 5). So if someone wants to have her help she will be available for it.

-Illusion Stuff: She's going to try some various illusion solutions (as many people will be) to try and prevent herself from being affected by them because she knows she's weak to them. She wants to augment her welding/protective mask to be able to protect her.

-Meta-plot Research: She's going to order some conductive resin and using the stones she salvaged from the Endless River and start building antennas as part of a project to see how distant a signal they can send. I'd love her to have help.

-Claudette the Service Animal Robot: She's going to order some stuff to invest a little more effort into making Claudette an effective mission aid. She's normally in the gymnasium, and she probably actively enjoys it if people shoot at her 'cause it means she gets to play dodge. So long as they don't destroy her (she needs to be able to regenerate) and they are decent to her Entrapta's not going to complain.

-Soul Lantern: She's going to be trying to help Soldat with his soul in a lantern problem. She'll subtly ask around about people that have experiences that have some sort of 'bound object' or wobbly soul experience.
CR wanted: She's a fixit fidgety scientist so make use of her.
Things to avoid: If someone comes at her hard with negative CR she'll just avoid them. It's not productive to engage with someone like that.

[worthallthis]

Entrapta you're the best :<

Soldat has built a radio before but it was like. Old-timey, ham-radio style. Not sure if that would help her endeavors there or not?

[sciencegirl]

It could! Apparently, the radio is just like a regular radio with special fiddly bits. She will be buying another one to let other people dismantle it. If she brings it up to him maybe he can help with some on-board testing stuff.

[almukhtar]

If we want some good base for CR, Atem would love to know all there is to know about what the heck is going on around here.

[sciencegirl]

She is not all that well versed in the metaplot BUT she can absolutely tell him whatever she knows. It may not be in a way that's easy to follow but she will at least be enthusiastic in giving information.

Alvin Murphy | Z Nation | Red Team

[zombiemessiah]

Character: Alvin Murphy
About them: Cabin L4:D
-Was called the 'savior of humanity' and the 'zombie messiah' back in his universe and love-hates the role. He's a mind-controlling king of the zombies who runs a club called 'Limbo' and dresses to suit his stage of evolution (apocalypse permitting). Once took over Spokane, Washington and renamed it Murphytown. Has been both blue and white in the past, but is currently crimson-skinned and straight-up decided to dress for the devil look.

-Origin story is your generic "science experiment gone awry" after he was strapped down and mauled after being given a test vaccine. He's more than happy to play along with scientists so long as he's a willing participant. When he's not there's hell to pay. He's covered in some really rank scars (cw for those here).

-He's admitted to maybe a couple of people that he's been a father, but not really shown off how much his daughter's passing messed him up. He got to play tacky bartender. He's flirted a lot and noted how obscenely hot the adults on the train are. One of his best friends here is a telepathic alien.

-There is usually either brain cubes in the freezer, a brain in a brown paper wrapper, or black cookies with red Zs on them. He labels his stuff now. DO NOT EAT MURPHY'S COOKIES they're zombie crave friendly.

-Infected a bunch of people on the last mission but then suffered psychic withdrawal almost as soon as he was back on the train. He can also make jewelry out of scrap metal now thanks to the ability he consumed there.
Plans:
-Generic AF: Still want him to learn necromancy or cultivation. Had a vague plan to do "Alien Jello Shots" at some point in which he downed a neuromod from Prey? Other than that, I don't really have a whole lot of plans other than buy some nice clothes and have him bitch about stuff.
CR wanted: People to snark with or at. I'd like to have him have a genuinely serious moment at some point but it's difficult to wring out of him.
Things to avoid: He gets real touchy if people suggest that 'if he behaves he won't get hurt'.

Re: Alvin Murphy | Z Nation | Red Team

[agathokakological]

feel free to snark at this one constantly

[zombiemessiah]

He very well might but also tell him that he likes his clothes because goddamn is Crowley fashionable.

[katzenpfote]

Otoha needs to ask Murphy what 'DSL' meant, he didn't have time to ask in the moment...

[zombiemessiah]

Did he say that out loud or in meta text?

I genuinely can't remember cause /gestures at Murphy

But we can assume he said it out loud at some point if he didn't.

[fivemilesdeep]

I need more Murphy and Ryo. Ryo has snark in him that a lot of people don't get to see, and I feel like hanging out with Murphy will bring that out.

[zombiemessiah]

He'll definitely bitch enough to give plenty of openings. Especially since I've decided generally that any sort of white/dark healing magic is going to actively harm him. If certain people try to heal him they're gonna get a lot of "OWOWOW" yelling.

Re: Alvin Murphy | Z Nation | Red Team

[controlsthedie]

Please continue to have Murphy confuse Thanatos. His confusion brings me joy.