WELCOME TO DEERINGTON!

Hello new players, and hello old players with new faces! We're thrilled to have you in the game and we hope your time here is horrifically wonderful! Please feel free to use this space to introduce yourselves to one another and show off your new characters! Below is some useful information for all new players of the game and how you can expect the game to function! You certainly do not need to read it in order to plunge into the game, but we felt it might prove useful for some people and help you adjust to how the game works quicker!

EVENTS AND MEMES

We have an IC Prelude Post made by our NPC, the Dog Keeper, in the DeerFeed community. This functions as an edition of the Deerington Post that all characters are ICly capable of receiving. It will give hints and suggestions to what you can expect from the upcoming event without giving full details, and it also clarifies things like the weather in Deerington or other important IC details for the month, such as severe impacts on characters or the environment. Prelude Posts are made at the first of every month.

We hold one event per month. Many of our events have a lasting impact on characters that will sometimes carry over a month or two after the original posting. We always clarify what parts of these events may carry over, and even as a new player, you may be able to access certain elements from events posted before you were in game! Events can be found in the

deerington community and carry over events will be linked in the new event posts for reference.

We provide content warnings for each of our events. Each event typically has a specific horror focus, and some events may be more specific than others. Please make sure to read the content warnings closely. All of our events are specifically designed so players can feel comfortable opting out of any of the events without completely missing out on what's going on. Never feel you have to engage with any part of an event that makes you uncomfortable!

With every event we post a plotting post so that everyone can dig in on what they want to plan for the event. This is posted at the same time as the event.

We have a CR meme that is posted every other month. This encourages people to make long-term plans with each other as well as catch up on what characters might be going through in the game!

Our Test Drive Meme is posted on the 25th of every month. All TDM events can be used in game canon! You can also use direct TDM posts as AC! 10 points for a top-level (new characters only), 3 points per log comment, 1 point per network comment (all players).

Our Activity Check always begins on the first and closes on the fifth. Please remember to comment to this post so you can submit your AC! One of our players has made a helpful tracker for those who may be interested!

USEFUL LINKS AND INFORMATION

While we have provided you with your essential links for joining the game, we have compiled a useful list of links you might be interested in for further immersion of the game!

↪ The Dog Keeper: The Dog Keeper is probably the most interactive and consistent of the NPCs in our game. You can actively contact and communicate with the Dog Keeper, but don't always expect an immediate response! Heck, sometimes he won't respond at all. You can find further information about the Dog Keeper here and more about his dogs here.

↪ The Deerly Beloved App: This was a "dating application" made for the game back in the 2019 February Event. The application is a bit of a hacking-app that will break itself into a character's phone and potentially use fourth wall information to make up a silly Tinder-style profile. Feel free to put this on your journal for your character and have fun with it! It is 100% optional.

↪ The Bestiary: This is a good reference to the beasts your character may be able to interact with inside of the game. Some of them are very situational or location based, but we have provided the monsters that might routinely be seen throughout the game. Feel free to dig right into playing around with them!

↪ Game Calendar: Most of our posts are consistently made the same dates every month, such as our AC and our applications, but we make sure to post when game-events can be expected! Most game events are made between the 11th to the 15th. We try to update the calendar at least one week before the end of each month.

↪ Death Certificates: This will help you keep track of your character's deaths in game as well as any symptoms they might be experiencing. Most new characters won't have to worry about this but heck, what do we know? Maybe you'll want to get to dying sooner than most!

We hope our information has been helpful! As always, feel free to ask any questions you may have, and we hope you have fun!

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Hey, Deerington! My name's Cass and I'm bringing in my first character.

This is Billy Hargrove from Stranger Things and he's a disaster of a teenager who likes fighting, driving, smoking, drinking, fighting, flirting, bullying, yelling, fighting, bossing people around, sex, denim jackets, and also fighting. As of his current canon point he's had ZERO experience with monsters or the supernatural or anything like that so he's completely unprepared and hiding his anxiety with even more aggression.

His first few events are likely going to leave him an absolute mess because he does not know how to cope with this and I am heartily looking forward to pushing him to the limit where he actually does something crazy and asks for help or shows vulnerability or something crazy like that.

You can add me on Plurk at

dandymott if you want to plot, and I'm in the Discord as Velocett#7191!

GO HOME

MAN, I WISH I COULD

BUT SINCE I CAN'T I GUESS I'LL BOTHER YOU

STEVE IS JUST TRYING TO LIVE HIS LIFE OKAY

ARE YOU SAYING HIS INCESSANT PESTERING MAKES THAT DIFFICULT

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HEY HEY HEY I'm Ashlee and I play Spider-Man/Pete, who is a.) a superhero and b.) the high school chemistry teacher. And this lil monk teenager here, which I'm totally down for negative or otherwise CR for. And if you ever want a small girl to whip his ass and give him perspective, I also play Laura from Logan. Basically I have a fine assortment of whatever kinda CR you're lookin' for. This bad boy can fit so many CRs. :|b

Welcome to Deerington!

Hey there, thanks for the welcome! Oh boy I'm down for CR with any of those three honestly (though if anyone actually convinces him to enroll in high school I sure hope Peter doesn't get his hopes up that Billy will actually do any homework).

Button your shirt, Billy. Your cleavage is showing!

I am hyped to bother him so much. Both with Thor who will be utterly unimpressed with his general attitude. And with Crawford who will have zero patience and will revise his "no punching people under 21" policy just for Billy. Because bad things happen when you put two people together who share the "bury it all with anger and aggression" method of coping.

He will NEVER button his shirt. He worked hard for that cleavage.

I am hyped for both of these interactions!

Crawford will 1000% insult his mullet

caresses him gently and whispers stop being terrible, pls

hihi im jay and i just apped in jack here! i kind of love the thread we have going on in the tdm, would you be down for keeping it as game canon? also, if billy needs a weirdo to keep him from dying when crazy shit hits the fan, jack can def be that person.

he'll stop being terrible when life stops sucking ok (and it's only going to start sucking even worse oops)

I'd be down for keeping it canon, yeah! Tbh if Billy ever finds out Jack is the anti-christ he'll think that's really cool. And also Billy is absolutely going to make stupid choices the first couple times shit hits the fan at least so he might be needing that help.

HI CASS I LOVE HIM

DON'T LOVE HIM HE'S MEAN

Hello! I'm Pan and I play Fern from Adventure Time, who is also a teenager with aggression issues (and is made out of grass because that helps a lot). It is awesome to see Billy in game, Deer can always use more emotionally turbulent teenagers. c:

Hey! I'd love some CR with Fern, I always love playing Billy of of other Angry Teens.

It's a good prompt for interesting cr! I'll take a look at your plotting post for the event and we can do a thing.

WELCOME

we see your denim jackets, Billy, and raise you a good leather jacket

Thank you for the welcome!

Good news, he has one of those too and it's here.

Bad news, he looks like an even bigger douchebag in leather.

Let deadpool teach u how to stab

Also be at peace w gay stuff

Hi! I'm steph! We've chatted in some plurks already but welcome to the game! I play Wade and Miles Morales and am always open to cr of any kind with either! I hope you enjoy deer as much as I have been ✌

He would LOVE to learn how to stab

and probably should learn that other thing too but won't do so as eagerly

Hi there, I am super excited to get CR with either or both of your boys!

chinhands. Finally. A real piece of trash. I'm excited you brought him in

Hello Cass! I somewhat belatedly welcome you to Deer Town! I'm Charley and I play Lance from Voltron. Full disclosure/warning, he has a thing against mullets so clearly I need to throw him at Billy.

Welcome to the game!

Hi there, thanks for the welcome! Billy thinks mullets are the coolest and is ready to defend his at every opportunity so this should be fun.