Mission: So Familiar a Gleam

[voidtreckermods]

Voidtreckers. The readings that are understand to be from the entity originating from system#401837400141 have been found in large quantities.

The system we are going to is not void active. The system we are going to does not have a system number, it is not known to the void ministry. This is exceptionally unusual. No data can be found on the history of the system.

It appears to have multiple breach points- these are areas that merge with the void itself. Voidtreckers have seen these before, on the Void Nexi that the Voidtrecker Express has visited. A world with this many breach points should be known and have been studied. Yet there is no data on this world past five cycles ago.

Despite this there are life forms and they are in danger.

As always the light on their SCA lights up on the morning of Day Six. Time for another mission. However it does not remain up for long, enough time to read it, to realise that there are no team goals and then...

The mission begins.

A Mission with a Difference

This mission will run from the 7th (M4) to the 24th July (M12). It will be in the traditional three parts with Ongoing going up on 15th July (M8) and Finale going up on the 21st July (forwarded dated to M12).

However this mission will be a bit of a difference as it will be both a 4th Wall Event and an AU event.

The AU: Everyone finds themselves in the city of Jinnjar, on the planet Diagad, where everyone has super powers. All those coming into the game for the event will find themselves in this city- they have a job, a house, perhaps a family and some kind of super power.

Super powers vary wildly- some are more useful than others. It might be flight, teleportation, fire powers, healing powers or anything else! Nothing can allow them to escape the world and nothing that allows them to be completely indestructible will be allowed. Please also be aware that while pure 4th wall characters will believe they’ve always had these powers, they will be at whatever level of skill you imagine they would have trained their new talent with.

Arrival: Everyone arrives with a place to live, a cellphone connected to the internet and also a phonebook option that lists everyone in it (with either their canon name or a new name). They will have a cash card with 500 points (1pt = $1) in it to purchase anything, as well as a job and/or place of education.

Note that due to the illusionary aspect of this world, nothing they pick up or buy will remain after the mission.

For Newcomers: As a 4th wall event people who are not currently in the game may join in with this event. They can play canon characters, AU characters, CRAU characters or OCs. They may play characters that might not be considered appable- such as a sibling or parent of an existing character who doesn't have much canon.

The characters can be from any canon, whether already present in the game or not. They can also play copies of previously present characters in Voidtrecker. These characters will be around for the duration of the event and will return to their own worlds by the end.

For Existing Players: Existing players can also play characters who have been brought to this city (doubles), and you can also play people from the same canon you currently play from. All characters who are brought into the event will find themselves on the world, believing this to be their home world.

You cannot however play a version of a character that you have played in Voidtrecker before (so a character that has been dropped and would remember the train).

Obviously you are also playing your Voidtrecking characters. They are AU'd into the city as well and depending on how good they are at fighting off illusions they might be completely sucked into believing the AU or they may break out quickly yet find themselves living with people who believe them to be family, a job that expects them to show up on time and other life commitments.

Objective: Without any tasks set by the train, the Voidtreckers will need to run investigations to figure out what’s going on in the city of Jinnjar, and how they can do anything about it. They will need to work together and try to get the ‘citizens’ on their side too.

There can be assumed to be more citizens than just those being played by fourth walkers. The city is densely populated so it can be assumed there are other npcs all from various worlds.

Those Voidtreckers who break out early will find it isn't as easy as just convincing people there seems to be warnings about a mysterious force called the Voidtreckers who speak to destroy the city. They must act subtly in a hostile environment where not even all their own team remember who they are.

During this mission, the communications on the SCA will be offline. However, since the world has tried assimilating them into the city, they will - like 4th wall characters received when they showed up - a cellphone which connects them to a network (DiagNet) with everyone else. How the Voidtreckers use them is up to them.

Please read below for more information on the city of Jinnjar.

Lay of the Land

THE ILLUSION. Jinnjar is a city on Diagad filled with nearly a billion people, with a high number of districts. There are representatives from each one that come together within the congress grounds in the very heart of the city. You know there's a lot out there, but you live, work, exist within the middle sector. You have family and friends out in the other sectors, even romantic relations.

It is the modern world but farther in the future: sci-fi, but not hard sci-fi. Transport is mostly hover-motorcycles, trains, teleport booths. No cars. Cuisine is a mixture of known and unknown delicacies, with no apparent limitations on seasons or climate. Many different species of people live here, with their own cultures and customs, but generally the people of Jinnjar are known favourably by others across the galaxy. While their heroes are known, they do as well have villains who blemish their good name.


THE REALITY. In truth, the above image is closer to what the city looks like, if you were to see the set-up without the illusions of travel/distance deluding you. They are a mishmash of portions of the real Diagad, put together based on what the entity can handle, remembers of their home, and the captive citizens’ needs.

When a person gets a ride anywhere, as soon as they reach the ‘border’ surrounding each district, they will have the memory of making the journey and instead will be teleported to where they would be dropped off. People see the city as larger than it is, and attempts to travel out into areas beyond what’s actually accessible will give them memories of doing so, but in reality, they will be dormant in the border space, dreaming of their trip.

The available location are, by numbers:

1. EDUCATIONAL & POLITICAL DISTRICT. The largest sector. The congress grounds are not just one building but a larger cluster, and also where public records are kept, embassies for other planets and countries - because even if Diagad wasn't void active, it still had contact with the planets in its galaxy.
Outside of the congress grounds is everything else that fits into education: libraries, schools, universities, museums. There's a few parks and cafés dotted around, but of particular interest are the public Training Gyms in which people go in and train with their own specialised gifts, no matter what they might be.

• Training Gyms: To elaborate, while there will be a few examples on the log, these are rooms - small or big - that simulate scenarios to help people train whatever powers they have. Do you make flowers grow at random? Then your goal will be to cover objects in flowers, or grow them in specific patterns. Can you spin shadows into doing your bidding? Then let’s help you make a shadow puppet show!
  
  
• Libraries: There are many around, filled with books, e-readers, computers. They are large and accessible, and everything in them...can be described as charming. Even those usually resistant to delusions will find that when they open up an academic book on bacteria and read a retelling on different types of bacteria meant for kids, they believe they read something far more intellectual. ...it might only be once they recount what they read to another person, and the other’s confusion, that they might go ‘wait’.

2. SHOPPING & ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT. The largest shopping district. Get all your clothes, furnishings, your kitchen utensils and all else here, and then take the time to go to the cinema. They have large arcades with all the games you can make up. While not strictly around this sector, shadow puppeteers known as the Georgi’s Group hang out around the streets in a variety of outfits that cover them from head-to-toe, putting on 3D shadow shows with their talents.

But for those more interested in movies…

• Apocalyptic: Enjoy watching people suffering being all alone after their world gets decimated. This is probably the most popular genre, must be a cinematic phase. Large blockbusters and small scale poignant films about loss.
  
  
• Feel-Good: But for those that don't want the doom and gloom these feel good family flicks are also all the range. The down and out underdog beats the odds, inspirational sports films, films about kids or pets traveling long distances to find their family. Grab a tissue and enjoy those happy tears.
  
  
• Fairytale: The third main type of film popular in the city are convoluted surreal fairy tales. These are beautiful but the stories are hard to follow and like a true tale of the fae when they leave the cinema they may find more or less time has passed than they thought…

3. GARDEN & ZOO DISTRICT. An oversized mixture of garden parks sandwiched around areas that home thousands of different animals. Habitats are kept suitable for the creatures inside through bio-structures that mimic the environment best suited to their needs. There exists enclosed walkways that allow visitors to walk through the bio-shelters, that allow them to view out to jungle terrains, underwater, and even running through tree tops.

4. BUSINESS & FITNESS DISTRICT. Laboratories, corporation buildings, warehouses, your mail - all of it goes here. There are also some large sports centres scattered around that deal with any activity you can think of: rock climbing, swimming, rollerblading and more! You can even do some sailing if you go to the right sections.
There are a lot of teleport booths between this section and the entertainment sector, due to how many restaurants do business around the entertainment sector.
5. HOUSING DISTRICT. Where everyone lives, without exception. No matter their apparent social standing, people reside in large apartment complexes next door to one another, or may even room as a couple - unless they happen to have a family. Then they have the dream home (or, someone’s dream home).

Are they actually family with these individuals? Well, Jinnjar’s decided they are! Congratulations.

Other Notes:

~ When 4th Wallers Arrive:

4th Wall Characters will find themselves in the city, believing themselves to have always lived there. Feel free to plot in advance, form families, create jobs and hobbies.

The illusion will hold at first, they will believe their own stories, they will have heard rumours of a threat from the stars 'Voidtreckers'- there's a general level of wariness in the air about it, but how your character reacts to the news of an incoming threat is obviously up to the players.

From about day three onwards 4th Wall Characters will begin having dreams of their actual canon lives and will generally be more open to hearing any Voidtreckers who are trying to talk them into realising that something is wrong. They will begin remembering and recognising any castmates they might have.

By the time ongoing goes up 4th Wall characters will be able to break out of the AU mindset and help the Voidtreckers out.

~ When Voidtreckers Arrive:

Voidtreckers will also be pulled into the illusion. After reading the first part of the mission brief they will find themselves in the city, with a job, a family, friends. How much they believe will depend on their ability to fight illusions.

For those that have strong mental shields against illusions, especially those that managed to train enough to make a full pendant of the Order they will be able to break out pretty quickly- though they will find themselves surrounded by people who believe them to be family or friends, they may have to pretend in order to not stick out, especially since there are rumours of dangerous Voidtreckers from the sky.

Other people might be stuck a bit longer, they might need some help from a friend or some more time to remember their training and break out of the illusion. For those that get stuck- they will follow the same schedule as the 4th Wallers and begin having strange dreams from day three onwards.

If your character didn’t have their SCA on by the time they’re taken into the illusion, or take off their SCA while in the city, they will be fully deceived by the influence, as these are what subdue the illusions.

~ Other Notes About Illusions and Resistances:

While characters can break out of the influence of the illusions, seeing through illusionary objects will be more difficult without concentrated effort and some planning. However, this will change over time.

4th wall characters coming into this world already with illusion-resisting talents will unfortunately still be tricked, and their ability will be locked until they are broken out of the delusion. However, once they are, they will have them in full force again.

~ Pendants/Amulets

Concerning the crystal shards collected and made into protection against illusions, here’s some details for how they’ll help. Each shard personally received gives a 5% protection from illusions of that nature. So: Desires, environmental/mental damage, fears, and environmental trickery.

However: Any crystals not personally earned will only account for 2.5%. So a pendant or amulet made completely by someone else’s hard work will be 10% total.

Don't worry too much about these numbers unless numbers are your thing! What’s important to know is if they have an amulet that they made themselves they will have a considerable boost to their ability to resist illusions; if they have one made by others, it will give a smaller boost.

In truth, these crystals' ability to help you resist illusions will always be down to the mission/the force you’re up against. Hopefully, people learnt a lot more from the experience itself and the training and the amulets give a boost to their own mental strength that will be considerably higher than it once was because of the training techniques that they learned.

~ Superpowers and You:

To reiterate, any superpower is fine as long as they're not played with at a super amazing level of skill. While everyone is led to believe they've always had their power, 4th wallers have only had it for a week, and Voidtreckers only since the start of the event. This should be kept in mind.

Voidtreckers who came in without their SCAs will have a slightly stronger handle on their superpowers than those who did, due to the effects resonating with them more.

Characters will not have their own Canon powers- or rather they will not know they have them until they break out of the illusion. Some passive powers (e.g immunity to fire) will still work but will be understood as part of their super power set. For characters with powers of their own you can choose whether to make those powers into their super power or to give them something else entirely.

Below there is a form for 4th wall characters so we know who is coming in and also one for voidtreckers. You can assume the powers you pick are alright unless we ask you to tweak them!

~ Finding A Solution:

For characters who will be trying to work together to find solutions, either in breaking the illusions in a larger scale or otherwise, people in and out of the game are encouraged to let us know anything they think might be significant here! You can also ask us any questions you want to about the environment, what your character might be able to find out.

~ Opting Out

As always, for those that don't wish to do the mission there is the option of staying on the train. For those that do stay on the train - for some reason they weren't sucked into the illusion like everyone else. They will feel like the mission started normally, everyone got ready and left just like they always do... right?

Comments

General Plotting

[voidtreckermods]

<b>Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team?</b> <b>Power ideas:</b> <b>Job ideas:</b> <b>Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things?</b> <b>Other plans:</b> For Voidtreckers will they resist quickly or be stuck? Do they have an amulet? If they resist will they play along or go covert? For others what are your hopes and dreams? Basically all the plotting goes here!

Asagiri Gen | Dr. Stone | Orange Team

[fun_thementalist]

Name: the panther
Contact: https://www.plurk.com/panther3751

that's right I haven't posted on the other memes so I'll post here FIRST

Character Name: Gen Asagiri
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker!
Power ideas: something something illusions, would like ideas
Job ideas: why not ENTERTAINMENT. HE WILL PUT ON SUCH A SHOW.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Senku would be his husband but if anyone else would like to KILL ME WITH EMOTIONS feel free to say he's his family, Gen doesn't think he deserves family.

Other plans: Gen has an amulet, but he will go covert and only pretend to play around to attempt to find out the bottom of this mystery. Gen would love co-conspirators to help him get to the bottom of this! Please help him out (especially if he's got other 'family members' beyond Senku) and we can plot to TAKE DOWN THE ILLUSION.

I am excited~!

[consider8]

Name: Argent
Contact: argentbast Discord: Argent#9074

Character Name: Eight -- but she'll be going by Mimi K for the event.
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing; Team Purple
Power ideas: Aquatic: immunity to and and ability to breath underwater.
Job ideas: General water safety specialist, prioritizing beach and pool safety, underwater search and rescue, and other water-related tasks.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Currently looking for a family; outside of her job, she will be spending time going to school and practicing in a garage band at home. Her hobbies will be going to music bars and checking out the fashion district.
Other plans: This place represents an idealized version of the life she want to live. So Eight is going to dive full into this world, and be a little tougher to crack when it comes to bringing her out of it. The cracks will begin to form when her natural ink body begins to call to question the nature of what she is and how her powers work.

This event will also let her have a moment I've been wanting for her to have since the game started: the chance to swim in the ocean like a real octopus.

Noctis Lucis Caelum | Final Fantasy XV | Red Team

[canyounoct]

Name: the panther
Contact: http://www.plurk.com/panther3751

Character Name: Noctis Lucis Caelum
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker!
Power ideas: I mean, he's already got a bunch, but maybe his powers now are without the heavy weight of Expectations and Duty.
Job ideas: fisherman I'd like ideas here, maybe he can finally be a college student or something? He's never really gotten to live a civilian life.

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? For all of your found family feels with strangers, here is a prince who's been missing his (save for Prompto, who will still be his best friend, clearly.) Come at him!

Other plans: Noctis has an amulet and ... might not be the best at playing along. Will people help him be covert? Or will he immediately blow his cover? If he does - will he have people giving him a hand? Come at me, friends!

Xehanort

[mustknow]

Name: Rune
Contact: PM or discord is good.

Character Name: Xehanort
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing, team orange!
Power ideas: Electrokinetics! With very distinct blueish white lightning. He has more than enough power to pull off proper heroing but chooses not to.
Job ideas: He'll be working for the D-Force, behind the front lines. He's not that kind of Hero! But he's great at getting things done and has been on the fast track to management positions as soon as he has the bare minimum qualifications to get a promotion. Some people feel he's being moved up the ladder a little TOO quickly, and either he or someone he knows has a lot of influence somewhere..
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? He has a family, and in spite of technically being old enough to move out, he still lives with his father, Murphy. He frequents the parks and gardens, and is very well known to every single avian looking for free seeds and breadcrumbs handouts. In spite of being a desk jockey, he's also very frequent in and out of the fitness district.. just in case he ever changes his mind about working on the front lines fighting crime instead of arranging for the crimes to be fought.
Other plans: Xehanort's going to ... have a really hard time pulling out of the illusion. It's handing him everything he wants right now - a home, a place to belong, a family that cares about him, a job that feels good to do even if it's mundane. What reason does he have to try to break away from that and go back to the misery he's been living in since arriving on the train? He does have an amulet though! ..With only a single crystal in it, for perception. I have no active goals right now beyond having fun with whatever rolls my way!

You thought it was a plot, but--

[cepicorpus]

Name: Rune
Contact: PM or discord is good.

Character Name: Dio Brando
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing, team red
Power ideas: Dio's got reptile affinity and communication powers; through the act of communicating with said reptile he can temporarily raise its intelligence enough to hold a conversation with; this effect lasts a few hours after contact; the more often he's in contact with a specific reptile the longer the intelligence lingers - if he keeps at it long enough the effect simply doesn't wear off. It has a side effect of making him very unappealing for reptiles to attack, they're just reluctant to do it.

Job ideas: He's been working in (and owning) one of the bigger sanctuaries for crocodiles for about sixty years now as the city's foremost expert on crocodilians of all forms. Secretly, he's one of the major information brokers for the villains in the city; there's not many places one of his reptiles can't get to, after all..

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Although Dio certainly HAS a family, he never speaks on it at all. His entire life seems to revolve around his reptiles..

... Which it very well might, as he has gradually raised several up to cleverness enough to follow reasonably complex directions and uses them as reptilian spies all over the city where a lurking croc might not be noticed, to pass on that information to the villainous underground of the city. His fondest companions are a pair of adult crocodiles.

Other plans: That niggling sense of something missing is gonna tip him off eventually that something's not right here. He's not dressed right, nobody is appreciating his gloriousness.. there's all these crocodiles which is A+ but they're not The World.. I have no active plans beyond muddling around in everyone else's fun. Need information? He can probably find it, for a price.

Entrapta | Yondu Udonta | Alvin Murphy

[yondu]

Name:Bianca/Binky
Contact: PM and crotchetyneanderthal#4935

Character Name: Entrapta
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker
Power ideas: Moving tentacle hair. A lot like her own hair just her pigtails are in dreds. Because honestly I have trouble playing her with something dissimilar.
Job ideas: I'm thinking she works as a monitor at a training gym.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Married to Handsome Jack and step-mom to daughter Cherry.
Other plans: She's gonna go down for the count for a little while. Totally love her little family and not realize things are wrong.

Character Name:Yondu Udonta
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker
Power ideas: Nature Control
Job ideas: Co-owns a bar that's a front for a leatherclad vigilante group. Which needs a name and maybe more members. Has a small house with a disgustingly gorgeous garden in the back.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Yondu's a single father with kids. He's a disgusting flirt so some people are going to get some, "Goddamn!"s, but he still wears a wedding ring from the spouse he lost a long time ago. He joined the group in their memory.
Other plans: He does have a pendant. He will probably eventually go covert but put up a front (Depends on what his kids do).

Character Name: Alvin Murphy
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker
Power ideas: Telekenesis/Telepath
Job ideas: Manager at a shipping company and makes a podcast called 'I Ship It' where he either talks about dealing with relationship drama and will respond to Reddit-ish posts with opinions. Frequently has co-workers guest.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Has Xehanort as a son so far and is going to be in full 'good dad' mode. Not planned beyond that. Winging it hard.
Other plans: No pendant but has a thorougly messed up brain. He'll play along for a while and then go covert.

Eva Iden'no | Orange Team

[mtsilver_conquor]

Name: Fenix
Contact:

Character Name: Eva! Or Leaf if you want.
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing
Power ideas: General Plant manifestation and control. She's Very Good at it! Because brb that's her jam and her ~theme~ and how she got her nickname Leaf.

Job ideas: Working with animals, has been since she was 17; she's now 24, so. :)

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Eva and Family = Yes Please. All the family. An army of cousins! More Siblings...?

Hobbies will largely revolve around way too much plant lore, perfecting her powers, and basically being a giant know it all re: the animals she works with.

Other plans: Eva has an amulet and will break out of it by around the second day, but will also be playing it safe, so. you know.

She will have her pokemon on her (though won't be aware the fancy metal spheres are anything special while illusioned), and will be heading in to gather as much information as she possibly can.

Re: General Plotting

[nell_of_soulwood]

Name: Mai
Contact: Maisfeeka

Character Name: Nell Ingram
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Newbie, help!
Power ideas: Can communicate with animals, best with the big cats - thus her job.
Job ideas: Works at one of the zoos with the big cats
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Perhaps a family of some sort if anyone wants. She's been very alone for five years in canon, so having a family and then finding out it's not real could be marvelously heart-wrenching. She also loves movies - the Feel Good and Fairytale type mostly.
Other plans: She'll be stuck at least for a bit. Afterall, having just arrived in one unbelievable place, ending up as someone else somewhere else would do strange things to her brain. On the other hand since she'd be already rather on alert, she might be easier to break out once she starts having dreams. Mostly I'd just like her to get to play with others!

Senku Ishigami | Rui Ninomiya | Prompto Argentum | Demyx

[10billionpercent]

Name: Nat
Contact: Ammeschan, discord: Ammeschan#5385

Character Name: Senku Ishigami
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing, Orange Team
Power ideas: Senku has amazing luck. Er, good luck, I mean.
Job ideas: Artist

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? He's married to Gen Asagiri, I'm looking for other family members if people are so inclined. His hobby is clothing design, but he's mostly well known for working in the medium of watercolours.

Other plans: Senku has both been reading about illusions and got himself an amulet, he's going to initially think something seems off, but he's not sure what. When he realizes that it is an illusion, he's going to resist hard using all the tricks he just learned. Once free, he'll work on getting his allies free while trying to be covert.

Character Name: Rui Ninomiya
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing, Orange Team
Power ideas: She would like healing powers.
Job ideas: She will be working at a cafe, making coffees.

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? I am looking for family for Rui as she doesn't have any normally. She's hiding her powers because blood makes her kind of queasy. She enjoys a wide variety of sports.

Other plans: Rui will be completely stuck, she managed to avoid the illusions last time and she's gonna have a bad time.


Character Name: Prompto Argentum
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing, Purple
Power ideas: Ice powers!
Job ideas: Prompto is a photographer.

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? I am open to family for Prompto or any other relationship. He enjoys sports and photography, obviously, but he also enjoys going to concerts and movies. (Kind of like he is now, ha)

Other plans: Prompto does not have an amulet and he's likely to get lost in the illusion.


Character Name: Demyx
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing, Orange
Power ideas: Invisibility
Job ideas: Espionage

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? I am open to any relationship with Demyx. His hobbies include trying new foods, but he's a bit of a workaholic and undercover. He'll likely provide a pseudonym for this event.

Other plans: Demyx will get the sense something is wrong much faster with friends and family than without. He's very good at his job. He does have an amulet so he will break free on his own eventually if there is no outside help.

Nael's dudes

[morganizedchaos]

Name: Nael
Contact: here, starcrossedsky#0506 on the disco, starcrossedsky

Character Name: Ghost
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing trecker, purple
Power ideas: He's staying a technopath, losing all the rest of his shit.
Job ideas: Researcher on the superpowers! Specifically leaning towards the more social side of the research in terms of how they affect people's lives, but his twin is/was studying the neurological basis of power use and how it works in people's brains.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? First and foremost he's still nonverbal so jot that down. A younger twin, who split from his fairly rich sciences family. Other than that, I've got nothing in particular going.
Other plans: No amulet right now (if there's still one free later I might grab one for him), but he'll probably come out of it around the midway point just because I want to play with some elements of investigating stuff also.

Character Name: Asch (oncedriven)
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing trecker, Blue's one and only healer
Power ideas: I'm kind of leaning towards like, something funky like shadowstep-style teleportation that's way outside of his usual wheelhouse, but no hard concrete plans.
Job ideas: nadda. might be with that vigilante group if people want him.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Give me some siblings if you want future shenanigans with blade psychology (where siblings Default to near-yandere levels of overprotective) (possibly other family but siblings is the usual trigger for this). I'm mostly not randomizing him due to the potential for long-term CR implications because blades being like that.
Other plans: Has a 3/4 amulet but I have no strong feelings about when he comes out of the nonsense.

Xue Yang | Lan Wangji | Xie Lian

[xue_yang]

Name:Tohma
Contact:PM or plurk one_night_star

Character Name:Xue Yang
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team?Existing Red
Power ideas:Able to control electricity
Job ideas:Video Game Store Clerk
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Does anyone want to be his family? XD That would be super new for him...He spends his day selling video games and then goes home and spends his evening playing them. The more violent the better.
Other plans: He never finished the amulet and he is to the point of just about giving up on anything so this is actually a distraction he didn't expect but will fall into. Someone is probably going to have to pull him out of this illusion.

Character Name:Lan Wangji
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team?Existing Blue
Power ideas:Flying
Job ideas:Librarian
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? He deserves a happy little home life with his family...please give him the illusion of happiness and bursting with the love he is too afraid to show normally. His hobbies will include playing music and cooking big family meals.
Other plans: Sadly he will probably be able to break out of this illusion pretty quickly, but that doesn't mean he is going to do so very willingly at first. If he is happy enough it is going to take some time...and perhaps will be very awkward after.

Character Name:Xie Lian
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team?Existing Purple
Power ideas:Super Strength
Job ideas:PE Teacher
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Does anyone want to be his family? XD His hobbies are antique collecting and running.
Other plans: He doesn't have an amulet but he is smart and good at illusions so he will probably be able to know something isn't right fairly quickly. He'll be ready to help take down the illusion and save whomever needs it.

Ple Two

[pleple]

Name: XC
Contact: ultradude

Character Name: Ple Two
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Blue team
Power ideas: Telekinesis because newtype
Job ideas: Going to school? She's smol.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Will be going by her original's name of Elpeo Ple like, you know, a person name almost sort of looks like even if it's still a weird Gundam name. A serious child who still likes video games.
Other plans: She finished her pendant, and has good mental fortitude, so she'll see through the illusions in reasonably short order and then playing along until she has a hint that she's talking to someone else who's broken through.

[cureofmanyworlds]

Name: Knux
Contact: AshBlaze

Character Name: Nozomi Yumehara (CRAU)
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing - Purple
Power ideas: She's going with Nature powers here. Mostly themed around flowers
Job ideas: Either a student or runs a store of her own?
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? She can be an older daughter, a girlfriend, maybe a very young wife? *SHRUGS* She'll be into gardening if there's any room for it.
Other plans: As Nozomi has an amulet and went through all that training, she'll be able to resist quickly, though depending who is with her, she might just keep playing along.

Character Name: Son Goku
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing - Red
Power ideas: Super Strength. Kinda like 1st appearance Superman?
Job ideas: Desk jockey. Worst thing EVER for him.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? He's going to be a father. Or maybe even a grandfather if you wanna go for it! He'll be a fitness buff, too.
Other plans: Goku doesn't have an amulet and didn't go through the training, but Goku'll realize something is just not right and start to wiggle free.

Character Name: Usagi Tsukino (AU)
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Newbie - Purple
Power ideas: Telekinesis
Job ideas: A student
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? She's someone's daughter. She'll find herself tinkering with machines for fun, but nothing too much.
Other plans: She'll be completely lost in this dream world.

Re: General Plotting

[hotheadwarmheart]

Name: Susan
Contact: Tanks4thememory

Character Name: Lea
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker, Team blue
Power ideas: Lea's getting the ability to manipulate metal with his mind
Job ideas: Uses his powers to make jewelry/art pieces out of metal to sell. Some of it he sells via small local stores that sell that sort of thing, some he sells directly online. He also takes commissions for special pieces.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? He enjoys cooking and sketching- both to work on potential designs and just for fun-, and has a hover cycle that he enjoys tinkering with to get better performance out of it an make it look cooler. He also has a fondness for video games.

As for family, it would depend on what what certain other characters wanted to do, but even if he's not 'officially' related to anyone, Lea would happily be a big brother mentor type to anybody who looked like the needed it. Also totally open to him just having a roommate or something like that, as opposed to a full on family.
Other plans: Lea has a pendant that he made so he will break out of the illusion relatively quickly, though he probably wouldn't be the first one to do so by a long shot. Once that happens he'll try to keep a low profile and investigate, including tracking down any of his fellow Voidtreckers to see if they've broken out too.

Character Name: Leia Organa
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker, Team Blue
Power ideas: Leia gets the ability to directly influence people's emotions with her voice. Like the Jedi mind trick, it works best on those who are already somewhat suggestible, though no one with emotions is really completely immune.
Job ideas: Gonna flash her back to her Nautilus Academy days and make her a political science teacher at one of the fancier local high schools
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? I would like for her to have a family. Everybody come to space-mom! On the hobby front, she likes to read and is an amateur horticulturist, as well as doing pistol shooting at a local target range to compensate for her lack of 'physical' powers. She also frequents local tea shops and wineries, keeping a collection of various teas and a few different bottles of wine in her residence at any given moment.
Other plans: Given her pendant and natural resistance to illusions, Leia will be coming out of it pretty early on. She'll play along at first, while also trying to gather information, but if need be will go into full covert mode. She'll be keeping an eye out for her fellow Voidtreckers in order to compare notes and try to snap them out of the illusion too, if they haven't made it on their own.

Character Name: Madame Razz
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? 4th wall guest! X3
Power ideas: She has pre/post cognition for other people. Basically she can get glimpses of their past or future. It was always a bit random and has only gotten more so due to her advanced age leaving her mind more scattered than usual.
Job ideas: She runs a little shop called Razzle Dazzle that sells various knick-nacks, antiques, and second-hand items. Some of the items in the shop have low-key magical properties, but good luck getting her to remember which ones.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? No family, but she'll happily act like an eccentric and somewhat senile aunt/grandma to anyone who comes into her shop. She also makes delicious pies, and usually has some in the back that she'll be happy to share with those who know to ask. If you're lucky she may even give you a whole pie to take home! The baking helps her focus a bit, so she does it just about every day.
Other plans: Come for the random fun knick-nacks and delicious pie, stay for glimpses into your character's canon past/future? If anybody needs to give their character a mental jolt to help them break the illusion, ol' Razz might be able to provide it.

Thanatos | Hades Game | Red

[controlsthedie]

Name: Avie
Contact: (Pacific Time) aviekokyre, aviekokyre, Discord: aviekokyre#3411

Character Name: Thanatos
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Red Team
Power ideas: Life (healing, assisting growth, things of that general nature)
Job ideas: medi-OBJECTION!!! He's a law student
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Thanatos has a pet mouse named Mort and is the younger twin of Ryo. Yes, Ryo is the older twin. (Just go with it)
Other plans: He won't be the quickest to break free because there are a lot of similarities between what he's studying and some of the work he does at home (the administrative side in the House of Hades), but he has an amulet and is good at turning away from what he desires. He will try to go covert and break people free.

I do want some AU themed threads (doesn't have to be slice of life) because he's going to be having a nice life for once. So many of his threads have been heavy, so I could use some lighthearted ones. Also, come get Mort nuzzles!

Auditi Blyght

[piercinggaze]

Name: Bramble
Contact: bramblepatch, or I'm on the discord server.

Character Name: Auditi Blyght
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker, Orang team
Power ideas: Healing Factor - can shrug off most minor injuries, recovers from major injuries in a fraction of the time, has a hell of a time keeping piercings in.
Job ideas: College kid, engineering student, from a wealthy enough family that she doesn't really have any pressure on her to work while she's in school.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? She's going to be Ghost's sister. She's a bit of a punk in that too-rich-to-really-be-punk way and deceptively serious about school; I'd love to get her some friends/classmates or possibly a romantic interest.
Other plans: No amulet we get stuck in a false reality like bluebloods. She'll break out eventually - this world is going to be pleasant, but it doesn't really match up with what she wants or expects out of life, so there'll be some cognitive dissonance - but it'll take her longer than some people.

Bucky/Soldat | MCU | Purple Team

[worthallthis]

Name: Gail
Contact: cacopheny @ plurk or reply here

Character Name: Bucky, going by Soldat
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Trecker, purple team!
Power ideas: Metal manipulation. Soldat has metal implanted all along their left side to support their big ole metal arm, which gives them some increased bodily control as well.
Job ideas: Construction, welding, work where they can help people and use their powers for good
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Has some secret vigilante-ism on the side with Yondu's little gang, has a tragic backstory (the metal arm was not their idea), is married to a 4th Waller, has at least one sibling, another 4th Waller. Looking for maybe a potential kid, friends to go out with or on double dates with, co-workers, fellow vigilantes. Their pronoun will be "he/him" until they start breaking through, which will actually be one of the first signs they're breaking through. That and headmates.
Other plans: Soldat's going to stay James Buchanan (probably using this name) for probably the first two days, at most. Mostly so I can play out some of the AU for a little happy times. They do have some training and an amulet, but they're much better at using both once they're AWARE they need to fight illusions, and they badly, badly need some peace and comfort before they get back into the thick of things. James Buchanan will absolutely think he's going a little nuts at first (pronoun switching + voices??? weird memories???), and probably tell people he cares about, so playing along may or may not be possible depending on how that goes.

Ai Haibara + Ea-nasir + Special Guest Garie

[shitcopper]

Name: Emily
Contact: deerleisure

Character Name: Ai Haibara / Shiho Miyano
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Blue Team
Power ideas: Age Manipulation
Job ideas: Forensics with the local police/whatever force.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Gonna be Ayumi's older sister but still needs some parents, maybe a girlfriend? Be nice to her come on. Anyway, she does chemistry in her spare time. Her latest invention is a way to imbue her powers into pill form.
Other plans: She's gonna be stuck for a while unless somebody draws her out. But notably she'll be spending most of this plot in her real age of 19.

Character Name: Ea-nasir
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Orange Team
Power ideas: Power dampening - she doesn't nullify powers completely but she weakens them to the point of unsuitability. If you could make blizzards, now you just make the sky cloudy putting out a couple snowflakes.
Job ideas: Used car salesman
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? I want to give her a family but nothing is arranged yet. She can have a wife and kids, maybe some older family members still living with her - that's a thing in her original culture as it is in many others. You know, adult siblings and their parents and whatnot still living together.
Other plans: She'll break free in record time most likely, but play along so long as things are good.

Character Name: Garie Tūmān
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? 4th Waller
Power ideas: Aquakinesis/Cryokinesis
Job ideas: She's literally an automaton so most likely somebody's creation, if you have a mad scientist / mage type. Or at least being kept around.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? As mentioned, she's an automaton, but that doesn't mean she can't be a part of somebody's household. Whether a character built her or she's been passed down through generations, she's an object with a soul and personality, so do with that what you will.
Other plans: 4th waller so she won't break free, but if she has somebody she listens to she'll do whatever they ask of her (up to and including mass murder, oops.) This could be very good for you guys! Or bad. Depending on who gets her.

V, Cherry, and one (1) 4th wall guest

[bodyoftheseus]

Name: Coop
Contact: coopyey or coopyey#1337

Character Name: Vincent
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing
Power ideas: shoot I dunno, brain was thinking siren song but I have no commitments
Job ideas: Something shitty and menial, but safe and secure.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life-building things? Family is up in the air for whoever wants it. If I get no bites I'll random it. Unless someone has other ideas, I'd like for him to just have a modest and very stable and secure life. The kind of thing where maybe it's not GREAT but he's happy with it and, for a while, he can forget his woes. I want him to begin to have the nagging feeling that this safety and security isn't right and that be what ultimately gets him out of the illusion.
Other plans: No amulet, as stated above I'd like for him to realize that safety and security aren't really right and for him to maybe even get a little paranoid. I'm very open for V and things are very up in the air for him, open to just about anything.

Character Name: Siobahn Chereshei (though may change)
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing
Power ideas: SUPER SPEED FOR SUPER ZOOMIES
Job ideas: Student! Volunteers at the local shelter, has a job at a nearby vet office.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life-building things? Kiddo of Handsome Jack and Entrapta. Loves animals and hopes to be a vet someday. Would love for her to have some school friends if anyone's around 17 years old. She's dating Xander in the AU life. :3
Other plans: By the end of the first day she will have the feeling that something's not right, but she won't know what exactly it is. As time moves on that feeling will get stronger and she'll eventually be able to actually place what's wrong. Flexible on the timing of that but it'll be no more than 3 or 4 days.

Character Name: DM-0112358 Dante
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? 4th wall guest
Power ideas: Telekinesis
Job ideas: Something where he moves really heavy shit
Family? Hobbies? Other little life-building things? Probably no family since he's a protogen, but definitely open to friends and a roommate. Alternately, since he is a creation that's a mishmash of biology, nanites, and cyberware, I'm down with him having an active creator somewhere in the crew. I was thinking and honestly probably he's a gamer and I want to be sorry about that but I'm really not.
Other plans: He won't be averse to the Voidtreckers as much as he'll think that's kinda neat, then as he breaks out of the illusion he'll be super down to help the Voidtreckers figure out what's up. Yeah it might all be to figure out how to get back to his own ship and go back to his own life or whatever but I mean who's counting you know?

Jaisyn Solo (AU) • 4th Wall Guest

[forceshadowed]

Name: Kazie
Contact: notanybunny

Character Name: Jaisyn Solo (AU)
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? A version of her was a former Purple, but this one's just a guest this time! More info about this version of her here, technically from an AU where she exists in the Disney Star Wars continuity instead as Kylo's younger sister, crossed over with Transformers Prime because space y'all.
Power ideas: Electrokinesis
Job ideas: Vigilante, used to work solo but is now running with Yondu's group. Her vigilante name is Caedus but everyone please please call her Sparky.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Married to a Voidtrecker, but it's a Mr. and Mrs. Smith kind of thing so he doesn't know that she's a vigilante then again when does Jon Snow know anything lmao. She works from home as a writer, gardens (read: cares for cute indoor potted plants and blogs about them), and has an orange tabby cat for a pet (yes it's Former Voidtrecker Jaisyn's not!flerken making a guest appearance). She's friendly, cooks if they have guests over, always has wine in stock, stylish... basically she doesn't look like someone who'd run around with shady people. But she does.
Other plans: Once she breaks from the illusion she'll want to leave and go back to the world she was last in, as she'll be really worried about the "children" she's left behind. So she's going to help with any effort to achieve that end, and unlike the version who'd been on the train she's no goody two shoes and will not hesitate to use whatever means necessary to get things done. So yeah. And of course I'm here for all the confusion with those who know her Voidtrecker version, especially since I plan to bring that version of her back later in the year. (Fingers crossed!)

Alice Liddell

[irrationally]

Name: Jelle
Contact: queeningsquare or feel free to pm me!

Character Name: Alice Liddell
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker
Power ideas: Definitely a hulking out kind of situation. Like this but bigger, and it's similarly activated by getting angry, so it doesn't always kick in at the most convenient of times.
Job ideas: College student. Aspiring writer. Has probably had tons of part time jobs because she keeps getting fired from them after she gets angry and causes A Scene.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? She'll most likely have Aziraphale and Crowley as her Actual Parents so she's pretty settled in the family department, but if anyone wants an easier way to get cr with Alice, having them be friends in the au is a great way because it skips all her... let's say usual roughness, lol. So that's definitely an option if anyone wants it! Just let me know and we can make up some fake cr in the au illusion. I'm up for a lot of au stuff in general, so existing cr can let me know if they have interest in doing anything and we can certainly make something up!
Other plans: Alice does have a pendant, but considering the way her mind is, even with all the help in the world it takes quite a lot for her to break through the illusion, so she's probably going to be stuck in it for a while longer than most people will. If anyone wants to help snap her out of it eventually, I'm game! Just let me know and we can plot.

[paopuofyourlife]

Name: Lisa
Contact: faysdarkangel

Character Name: Rapunzel
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing Voidtrecker.
Power ideas: Hair can be used as a nearly indestructible shield.
Job ideas: Art Student with a part-time job working Retail
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? Usagi is her little sister who she adores and visits when she has the time to when not working or going to college in order to see her family and also to see if she can get free meals while she is there since most of her money is going towards supplies for her projects and her place of living. The money she gets only covers so much.

Another thing she does when she has the time is helping out at charity places, helping them to raise money for various projects even giving her own art just to bring in the money.
Other plans: Rapunzel does have an amulet, but out of all of my muses she will probably be the last to snap out of it and would be willing to help out. Aka she will take the longest. But once she is out will be willing to see who else is out of it. Would not at all be good at faking it. Would try, but would be a bit obvious something is amiss.

Character Name: Yugi Mutou
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing
Power ideas: Ability to use his imagination and bring his creations to life
Job ideas: College Student
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things?
Lives with his his family currently, Yugi is a very shy and anxious person who has lived his life pretty much alone with only imaginary friends he creates and lacks any actual friends. College student who is still figuring out what he wants to do with his life while dealing with his anxeity.
Other plans: Yugi has a pendent himself but still wouldn't be able to get out of the illusion quickly out of all four he's probably be the second or third to be able to.

Character Name: Allen Walker
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing
Power ideas: Bad Luck. So long as he is touching you and focused he can give you bad luck depending on how much energy he gives you. If he doesn't he gets bad luck himself until he passes it on.
Job ideas: Works many different part time jobs.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things?
I don't have an exactly on who Allen's family will be beyond he's probably adopted, Allen is going through what is called a rebel phase in this Au. So he's kinda not the greatest to probably a lot of people with exceptions to Alice and those he considers close.
Other plans: Allen is the one who'd probably be able to get out of it the quickest of all my four.

Character Name: Kairi
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing
Power ideas: Ability to summon fruit or fruit based food.
Job ideas: High School Student. Cheerleader.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things?
Kairi will be at least in a relationship in this AU with Nozomi and being this bubbly and peppy popular girl who if you piss her off will pelt you with fruit make sure you will regret it. If anyone wants to be friend with her in this AU let me know.
Other plans: It might take her a while to snap out of the illusion eve with a full pendent. She might also question things afterward too.

Seto Kaiba / Mami Tomoe

[blue_ice]

Name: Zoki
Contact: kharamagic, zokiblu #5949 at Discord, or PM either journal

Character Name: Seto Kaiba
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing crew, Orange team
Power ideas: Lightning breath
Job ideas: University student, who volunteers as the orphanage monthly
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things?
Seto was once again an orphan in this world, but he was happily adopted. He's still close with the kids he knew at the orphanage, and in between studying for his engineering degree he does his best to look out for them. He still struggles a bit with socializing, but he's learning. If anyone can ever drag him out of a book, that is...so he's even less adept with his powers than most.
Other plans: He has an amulet, and he'll be heartbroken to learn that this happy life is a lie...but once he recommits to the mission, he'll focus on trying to build whatever he can to break this lie.

Character Name: Mami Tomoe
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Existing crew, Purple team
Power ideas: She summons cloth and makes costumes!
Job ideas: She's 15, so...part-time apprenticeship at a tailor's shop? She still has to go to school, though.
Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things? I put her in the random family draw, so TBA. Wherever she ends up, she'll likely be focused on doing well in school so she can make her family proud.
Other plans: She has an amulet, and it might be a little tough for her to pull away from this dream...but once she does, she'll use what she's learned to disguise herself and try to encourage rebellion under her new mysterious persona.

That persona is probably ripped from her favorite comic book. Whoops.

Bracken Meadows (4th Wall)

[ladytech]

Player Name: Ree
Contact: blitzoff

Character Name: Bracken Meadows
Existing Voidtrecker? Newbie? Team? Newbie!
Power ideas:

Tech/Energy Manipulation, probably closer to techno-empath?? She can 'understand' tech and what has it broken/working wrong/working right and can encourage items to work better. She can find ways to apply different energies into an actual energy source (by finding out what they 'like'), but not without gadgetry.

Job ideas:

She works as an engineer on the training facilities used in Diagad! She uses her gifts to understand/work with technology to help her read data on energy and how to better structure the centres to make them useful for all power types.

About:

Bracken Meadows is a 30-something tech loving lady who is also into lookin' good too. She's fairly sociable and incredibly nerdy, always tinkering on some new ideas and ready to share them, even if it makes her come across as sticking her nose in. However she's well-intentioned, with just a very big bias for technology. (Though, not so big she'll dismiss the care of the people around her.)

Family? Hobbies? Other little life building things?

If anyone would like to be married to her or maybe they room together, let me know! Dating can also be a thing. Otherwise she's happy to be a single lady improving the city of Jinnjar, working on new gadgetry and can even be working with others! Either in the design, making, or even supporting people with their powers.

Other plans:

She will be under the illusion until around ongoing most likely, due to having no means of resisting the manipulation! Otherwise she's initially going to be asking for volunteers for people to test out prototypes of devices for the training centre that can be auto-charged by their powers and also store energy that can be used later. Because sometimes you need that extra boost!

Also investigating some of the anomalies going on?? That would also be a cool thang.