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December 2019 OOC Introduction!
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!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THIS MONTH
Check out this month's Prelude to catch up on what the setting will be for the month! New characters will receive any items/newspaper from the month's Prelude.
Don't forget to claim your December Gift! All new characters accepted during December's application cycle can claim this gift.
Even though characters will be temporarily removed from the setting of Deerington for January and February, please feel free to go ahead with picking out your character's employment and housing options as all characters will return to Deerington as-is come March. The setting of Deerington itself will be completely unchanged and therefor all character homes/jobs/items will be available upon return.
There will be opt-out options for characters to stay behind in Deerington if players really don't want to deal with a settings change. However please note that if a character is not in the settings for January and February that they will not be able to access the prompts for those events.
PRELUDES, EVENTS, AND MORE
You can expect a Prelude post made each month to provide details about Deerington's setting for the upcoming event/month. Prelude posts may just be descriptors of the location or may be deliverable posts by NPCs like Sodder or the Dog Keeper. Preludes occasionally will contain gifts or necessary items for a character! All Preludes are accessible to characters accepted during that month's application cycle. For example: the Prelude for December has gifts and settings that are accessible to every character accepted in December.
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 so always make sure to check out the Preludes for details about any carry-over prompts!
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 towards the end of each 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. All new characters must at least check-in for their first month, but new characters do not technically need to meet AC their first month. 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!
STARTER INFO
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!
↪ Social Media in Deerington: Social Media is a large part of how characters interact in Deerington. They use deerFeed, deerlyBeloved and Staggr. Read up more on how each of these apps function in the game and get your pages set up!
↪ 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.
↪ 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!

+1 determined detective and +1 egotistical showman
First we have David Wayne Loki, (
On the other hand, secondly we have Quentin Beck aka Mysterio (
I'm looking forward to throwing both of them into the game and meeting everyone! I love random CR and am excited to see where anything may lead. Feel free to add me on
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+1 deeply human loser living a lie
hey, this is noodle (
i play other characters here and i love it and wish that i could put every single one of you in my pocket and have you on me at all times.
not in me obvanyway!this is Barry Berkman a flaming piece of human garbage. he's a hitman, and the canon has a lot of triggers so please see my warnings on the permissions page here.
he kills people and he's a mess. all he wants to do is stay in los angeles and act but people keep needing to die for him to have even a quasi-normal life.
for shits and giggles his deerly beloved is up and so is his staggr i am so pumped thank you for letting me throw this loser into the mix. ttya i'm coming for ur buns.
PLEASE WATCH THIS BARRY VID if all the above is cool w/ you.
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Heya! I'm Jade and I'm bringing you Katherine Pierce from The Vampire Diaries. She's coming in from 4x18, right before she sees her ex-husband, Elijah, on the street and hands him the cure (and her freedom... and probably the rest of her fantastic storyline tbh).
She is a 530+ year old vampire who has been Through A Lot Of Shit in her long life and I'm planning to completely rip it wide open in Deerington. I have a very detailed permissions post for you to look over if you want to play with Katherine! (You don't need to engage with her vampire side to play with her since she's Awesome™ anyway, but it does cover spoilers etc.) She's incredibly strategic, socially smart, and always planning ahead. She has 1,000 walls but if you can knock them down, it's worth it—she's funny, ridiculous, and fashionable.
You can catch me @
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+1 Loser
My name is Gann and I come bringing another Loser, Ben Hanscom, who is a chubby boy from the 2017 movie It, a S. King movie, in case you don't know it, but I have a feeling a lot of people do...
Ben is a good round boy who grows up to be an architect. He enjoys building things, has double jointed thumbs, and will do anything for those he calls friends, so befriend him. He is a good.
Me on the other hand, I am a terrible person and a witch. I enjoy long walks of short docks, i hate clowns (ironic, i know), and I play all kinds of characters named Ben apparently (i just discovered this recently). Befriend me on plurk or discord (plurk: redlionspride / discord RedLionsPride#9087).
I'd like Ben to live with someone. I am hoping to tuck him in with the boys, if that's all good. But I am going to say he woke up else where so i can keep his threads on the TDM.
Yeah, look at him!
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i am READY. eddie is even MORE READY actually he's probably not but
we almost have a full set. look at these losers!!
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+1 disney prince
he's coming into the game from the end of 6x19, having just turned his humanity back on after a murder spree whoops. he's the good brother, i swear. you can find me at
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+1 witch. like THE witch
anthy is from revolutionary girl utena. she is a very sad and also very awful girl who has probably done some crimes! she is trying to do better but only sometimes and when she feels like it. her hobbies include trying really hard not to have feelings (and failing), flower and sword symbolism, and her pet monkey chu chu, who has come along with her and people will definitely get to meet. for the canon-familiar she is coming from the end of the anime after leaving ohtori academy so (grabs everyone by the lapels) y'all seen utena??
rgu is a hot mess of triggering material so please do me a favor and check out her permissions & opt-out post. let me know there if you'd like to avoid certain subjects with her or avoid threading with her altogether. you can also opt out of certain aspects of her powers there if you'd like! her app is here and her full powers + warp list is here for the curious.
uhh also you can contact me at
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howdy, folks. my name is jenna and i'm bringing you miss mystic falls herself, caroline forbes. she's coming in to join the literal horde of bloodsucking vamps, and is diving straight in from the end of season six, just after a no-humanity bender and a really fun conversation with a certain salvatore brother. (kai can rest easy, she hasn't seen the wedding shenanigans yet.)
some fun facts and links, i'm very good at intros:
xoxo, gossip girl
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hello!! i'm k and i am brand new to the game and bringing in clarke griffin from the 100! she was born in space and thrown into post apocalyptic earth where she's constantly trying to survive post apocalyptic life and doing whatever it takes to keep her people safe and make attempts to save everyone ever. she's the resident medic and also one of the leaders of the group once they are on the ground trying to circumvent wars and various other threats they end up facing while things get progressively gets worse because what is catching a break?
she will be coming from the end of season 4, having just saved her friends and being almost two months post praimfaya (aka nuclear apocalypse 2.0) being the only person left alive on earth trying to do her best to survive after miraculously surviving overexposure to radiation all thanks to her nightblood status. she is currently in somewhat rough shape and still recovering from the aftermath of praimfaya but i am excited to have her in game while she attempts to awkwardly try to adjust to other people just existing!! and be social again after being isolated and on her own for months.
i'm easily reachable on plurk @
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we're in a game together!! 2019 is ending right™.
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+1 mess doing his best
I'm really looking forward to playing here! It's been quite some time since I've been in a game and I'm so happy to have the time and energy to be back. Please feel free to add me on Plurk or Disco, and give my permission a look in case you want to opt out of any of Shameless's rougher topics. I can't wait to meet everyone!
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Plurk | Leah is Rad#7483
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I'd love to get cr with these two if you're down for it.
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+1 vampire who never wanted to be a vampire
Hello, Deerington, I am Brandon and I bring with me yet another Vampire Diaries character: Elena Gilbert. She was an every day girl who resembled a 500+ year old vampire, but she died. She's a vampire now and there are fun several year old spoilers. She's also from later in season 6, after Caroline and Stefan's no humanity dual bender but right before she becomes human again. Again, several year old spoilers. She's bringing a cure for vampirism in with her... so. Yep. Anyway, excited to get started and throw her around.
My plurk is
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suffice to say his life hasn't been the easiest. he's chalk full of trauma and has a difficult time coping with that, which conveniently explains all of his hang-ups and dickish attitude for me. it's not all bad, though — he's a great cook, has a dark sense of humour, and is handy for keeping the electricity on. hei's a human power generator who can discharge powerful enough electricity from his body to alter matter on a quantum level (think doctor manhattan, but he's too much of a dumb-ass to figure out his own abilities), so abuse his powers all you like during our upcoming winter hell.
hello darkness my old friend
anyway, it's great to meet you all and i hope we have a lot of fun! side note here, i've got exams till the thirteenth and then i'm all yours. i tag pretty strongly when motivated and horror gets my creative juices a-flowin', so... yeah, #intros. feel free to contact me just about anywhere, but i reply the quickest on discord @ frugivorous#0874. my plurk's
edits this five times, but oh shit!! here's a permissions post, because he's trigger-y.
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+1 Moody Hunter
I'm always late to things. Lol! But you can always reach me on Plurk right here ->
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Can't wait to see Deano around!
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+1 nancy drew type
SUP DEERINGTON! it's been a hot minute, but my name is Chrissy and i'm BACK. with a wildly different character than i had here last time. today I'm here intro'ing Miss Nancy Wheeler of the Stranger Things variety. she was given the nickname "nancy drew" by her misogynistic coworkers, but it's pretty dang accurate. she's a tough cookie and also a total nerd. but also a monster hunter, back home. she likes tracking down the truth! and monsters!
i'm so bad at intros, i'm so sorry.
anyway, she's an aspiring journalist and investigator, but she'll never mention that she's a novice at both because she thinks she's pretty dang good at it. she gives a shit about finding the truth and helping people on a molecular level, and has a very low tolerance for bullshit. just the lowest. she also is an alarmingly good shot with both rifles and pistols. she shot a can off a tree stump in an episode of season one and by the end of the season she was a frickin' sharp shooter. and that was 2-3 years ago from her current canon point, so she's just gotten even better. i have no explanation for this besides tv magic, but i'm okay with it. she came into deerington with a gun, so obviously she's gonna save the day. master monster hunter right here, folks. never fear. ( idk i really don't know what's happening to this intro at this point )
as for me! it's easiest to get a hold of me on plurk @
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The fitting coincidence of me being accepted to this game on the same day that the Ghostbusters 2020 trailer dropped is not lost on me.
Hello, I'm Nick, and I have The Real Ghostbusters' Venkman on offer! He's coming from the end of season 2, so immediately before the show was throttled by network meddling and Venkman's voice actor changed from Lorenzo Music to Dave Coulier. He's a sort of arrogant dumbass with two PhDs(psychology + parapsychology), some unresolved personal issues, and little to no common sense; but some redeeming qualities, such as strong loyalty to his loved ones and sounding functionally identical to Garfield. Because of the way Ghostbusters' canon works, he and the rest of the Real Ghostbusters are an alternate universe's version of the guys in the original Ghostbusters films and timelines, with some very clear differences in personality and appearance. Additionally, in-universe, the Ghostbusters movie exists and is a fictional portrayal of real events. It's a bit confusing.
I've been playing him for... almost exactly a full year now, actually? In twelve days it will have been a full year. That said, he wasn't actually my first choice for this game- those would be Daniel from Amnesia the Dark Descent and Childs from The Thing, either of whom are still on the table for me apping in in the future? If I have the time to do that in the first place. I'm a college student who also does wildlife rehab/clinic volunteer work, so my schedule can get hectic depending on the time of year.
Like right now! Since I have two final papers I should be writing. As a word of warning I may be a bit slow on actually setting stuff up for him or tagging for this first week since I'm trying to drag myself through finals! But you can contact me on Plurk @
Also, permissions post is here.
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+1 robo cop
Because his canon point is midway through the movie (which I highly recommend checking out if you haven't seen it yet! just don't expect a mindless action movie, because it definitely isn't that), he's still very much subject to that obedience, doesn't actually even consider himself a person, and hasn't yet discovered the joys of free will. He has a long road ahead of him on his journey to personhood.
I welcome any and all found family CR, just saying.And he's had a wild time in Deerington already, killing Krampus with Clint Barton on the TDM. Good times.He also arrived with his flying car, so that's gonna be fun.
I'm in the process of setting up all of his relevant Deerington info if you'd like to know more, and feel free to add me on plurk @
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i'll sit and watch it forever IT NEVER GETS OLD
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I'm bringing in Clint Barton! The comics version, coming fresh from Fraction's run in 2013-ish. He's a dude who tries, which is the best possible description of him I can give. He's very tall, can shoot just about anything with his bow, and is a mega dork. Don't stand next to him too long or he's going to try and make a vague attempt to dad you. Poorly.
Anyway, I'm excited to be here!! I can be found at
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Sorry. I hate me too, it's okay.
Hi! I'm Steph! As you know, I play movie!Wade. Welcome to the game! I hope you have loads of fun. If you have any questions I can try to help out on plurk!
Your Clint is a blast and I look forward to playing with you more! Would you like to keep our tdm thread canon?
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For those unfamiliar, Connor is an android made to stop androids who have become deviant (the term used for breaking their programming and developing sentience.) But what if... the deviant-hunting android... becomes deviant itself? haha just kidding... unless...?
I'm
I'm looking forward to rping with you all! <3
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Connor is fantastic and I'm very pumped to see him deal with Deerington's various horrors!
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this could be a joke but is it, is it reallyThis is Sasuke Uchiha, a grumpy and extremely morally confused ninja whose humble quest to avenge his family's deaths led to him helping to start a world war. He's both socially and technologically incompetent (at best) and specializes in making absolutely horrible decisions that he somehow thinks are intelligent. His favorite activities are walking, training, and hanging out with cats.
For those who are canon-familiar, he is circa series end but before his final climactic fight, meaning he has both arms still and dreams of seriously impractical revolution. I'm super psyched for any and all new kinds of cr and absolutely love/welcome random messages if you ever want to chat or dunk on him! My plurk is
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Vasiliy's TLDR is that he was originally born in 1910 in St. Petersburg and joined the NKVD (ie, the KGB before it was known as the KGB, more-or-less) in 1937, at the beginning of the Great Terror. He played the "good cop" interrogator (the Soviets used a split interrogation style in which one interrogator would present themselves as a rational, sympathetic person with the accused's best interest at heart and the other would use violence and threats if the prior wasn't able to get them to sign a false confession) for three years, and then was interrogated and executed in 1940 like everyone before him when the commissar who appointed him fell out of favor. He then woke up in 2015 in rural nothern Russia for reasons he has yet to figure out — complete with a documented presence in the Russian legal system claiming he was born in 1985 — and spent two years keeping a low profile while training as an EMT, then immigrated to the US.
Vasiliy's coming to Deerington after three years of living in the modern world - 2 in Russia, 1 in America - so he's come a long way deprogramming-wise but still has quite a ways to go. He's going to continue his job as an EMT at the hospital both because he enjoyed it and because—despite being an atheist—he perceives working in emergency medicine as a cosmic way of balancing out some of the harm he did before he was killed. His app is here and has some relevant information on his sundry idiosyncrasies.
Because of Vasiliy's whole Thing, he comes with a fair number of content warnings, so if you'd like to opt out of any of that or would prefer not to interact I have a warnings/opt out post here.
I'm really excited to get things rolling and get him situated in the game's setting/build CR! If you're interested in plotting smth I can be added on plurk (
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i'm froot btw, i play this douchey animu named hei. he's a merc and spent two years living in vladivostok, russia under a bridge at a shipping port, so RUSSIAN POWER HOUR. it's nice to meet you!!😇
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I've got a new character! His name is Harry Du Bois and he's from the game Disco Elysium. He's actually a damn good detective, but he's a mess of a human being otherwise. He has very large substance abuse issues, which are there to help him cope with his depression and growing schizophrenia. Right now he's suffering from amnesia, so isn't sure what his real name is and is lacking a great deal of knowledge regarding himself and where he comes from.
He comes from the fictional world of Elysium, specifically from the city of Revachol, where he's a detective in the citizen police force. I promise he's a well meaning guy, he just has a ton of issues that make interactions with him... difficult. Crazy!
In any case, here are some relevant posts:
Content warnings and opt out
Permissions
Application
As always you can reach me at
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But seriously, you know the drill. It's Cali, back with your boy Shades over here because my dumb ass got swept a couple of months ago. He'll picking up more or less where he left off and be mildly happy to be out of jail, although Deerington's no cakewalk either.
For those that haven't met him, Shades is a gangster of Puerto Rican descent and extremely dubious morals. He's killed a lot of people and he's very good at it, but he's not the type to do it for no reason.
I'm still over on Plurk at
+1 awkward psychic kid
I'll be playing Shigeo Kageyama (better known as Mob), a 14-year-old boy with a potentially dangerous amount of psychic power though. It's no big deal though, he's mostly just a dork.
He'll be having a confusing time early on coming into Deerington, mfw you get knocked out on your way to finally confess to your crush and now you're bleeding and in a town you don't recognize. He'll adapt though, he's pretty used to the supernatural since he works with ghosts and the like in his canon. I am super down for CR development and plotting though, just message me here or on my social media!
Thanks for having me here, I'm looking forward to it!