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March OOC Introduction Post
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.
New characters may experience the soul mate strings / sins from February's event.
Requirement for all new characters: Please make sure to comment with your character to the AC Page by the 20th. We will assume you've withdrawn your acceptance if we don't see your character on the AC page by then. This would be seen as idling out and you would have to wait one application cycle before reapplying.
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!

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He's a warm and friendly lad who will be happy to pull characters out of their shells or possibly just talk at them until they yell at him to go away, but he is 100% not equipped to fight monsters, so please protect him and he'll write you a song.
Feel free to add me on plurk at
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Introducing Neopolitan from Rooster Teeth's RWBY series. She is a mute and former associate of the self-styled criminal kingpin Roman Torchwick. After the end of Volume and Roman's unfortunate (or fortunate, if you were Ruby) encounter with a Griffon, she has teamed up with the sweetest person in the world, Cinder Fall to bring love and happiness to the world.
Pffft, just kidding. She's all smiles, but she's a cold-blooded killer and extremely good at what she does. She's also got a very serious grudge against those she holds responsible for the death of Roman Torchwick. So, I'm sure the reunion with her fellow castmates will go swimmingly.
Feel free to add me on plurk if you'd like, or PMs work just as well. As always, I have an Opt-Out should you wish not to deal with any part of Neo's story, or with me in general. Please feel free to use it if you wish.
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+1 Martian Princess
My name is Ax, and I'm a returning player. I was here for a good while and dropped about a year ago and have now returned with Rei Hino from the Sailor Moon manga. Rei was here for a while and she'll be returning with all of her game memories, so previous CR please hit her up! She will be looking for you all.
For those of you who aren't familiar, Rei has an alternate identity called Sailor Mars, a fire-wielding magical girl. She's a sweet, caring, but kind of aloof and often distant young woman with some serious abandonment issues thanks to a bad home life. She lives in a shrine in Tokyo, and comes complete with a pair of magical crows. She's one of the responsible types, as well. For those that are? She's coming in from the very, very end of the manga, shortly after Usagi/Sailor Moon's wedding and coronation, so she's 22 years old and has had 6 years of relative peace. She has spiritual abilities and some other powers that can affect people around her, so please give my Permissions a look.
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Mind if I add you? :3
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This is Iddy, Maze's player, here with Character #2! Alfie Solomons is a recently retired crime boss from London, and he's coming in from right after being shot in the face, so he's going to be a wee bit disoriented at first. He also has some pretty serious health issues that he'll need to seek treatment for at the hospital, if anyone has any doctor-y characters that might want to get in on that. He's either gruff or gregarious, depending on what mood you catch him in, and he is an overall ridiculous person. He also comes prepackaged with a BIG FRIEND:
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(I may or may not be a sucker for all things Boxer, Bulldog, Pug and the like.)
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Tina will be coming into Deerington fresh; she won't remember her first time here, or any CR from that brief stint. If your character interacted with Tina before, please feel free to have them recognize her if you like.
Tina is an Auror (aka magical detective) coming in from the end of Crimes of Grindelwald, so there will likely be spoilers for both movies in her tags and threads. She's an awkward duck who means well but very often winds up making a fair amount of messes with her good intentions.
While she is coming from a particularly difficult point in her personal life, I'm really looking forward to having her come out of her shell more in Deerington! Tina is a very loyal and determined friend to have, and if your friend is lacking the Mom/Older Sister/Sibling Friend in their life, well. She's glad to fill that particular role. Someone has to, after all.
I'm available for plotting either through contact via Tina's journal or on plurk at
I'm very much looking forward to jumping right back into the game and really shoving Tina right out of her comfort zone!
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hello! i'm shikki and i'm fresh venison here! 've bought one (1) stressed out healer to the party.
this is josh foley. marvel's given this kid an absolute rollarcoaster of a character arc. he was one of the few mutants who kept their powers after m-day, and unfortunately had a very useful power which meant he got thrown into a lot of situations that were very bad for him. he's kind of been MIA from the x-men proper for like five years because that kind of shattered him mentally. and he's coming from 2019's uncanny run, where he's a member of emma frost's new hellfire club and watched a friend melt in front of him. neat!
he comes across as a big, dumb, friendly jock himbo type who would love to throw a football around, take you out on a date, and also heal you of every single owie you've ever gotten. and he is very much that! but he is also a mess. he is cripplingly unstable thanks to everything he's gone through in canon, and when under pressure he often snaps and lashes out. his idea of dealing with his problems mostly involves just never addressing them or running away before someone can make him. and as he has power over life and death (which has been warped in ways he is going to hate) that makes him pretty dang dangerous if he loses his shit. but hey! this is a nice normal town, everything will be fine right?
you can add me at
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(also gosh i can only imagine the warping on his abilities is awful LAUGHS)
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hhhello hello. i'm deej, and i bring with me one (1) billy kaplan, aka "wiccan" from marvel comics. i'm a returning player, but the last time i was here was literal years ago, so i'm basically new? i guess?
anyway! billy is just your average super-powered teenager from new york who may or may not be known as a "young avenger" (his first costume was modeled after thor's, as was his previous codename - it was all pretty on the nose). you know, nbd. as far as is powers go, he's pretty op - reality warping, lightning projection and manipulation, flying and teleporting, clairvoyance, spellcasting, etc., but a lot of that has been toned down or warped!
in general, billy's a good kid who's just trying to do his best to do what's right. he's friendly, and sometimes sarcastic, and he's a hhhuge fanboy when it comes to a lot of things pop culture, but especially when it comes to other heroes and villains from his own universe. when he's not running around kicking butt (which... is rarely the case, marvel please let him breathe for five minutes), billy's just your typical teenager, nerding it up and making terrible puns, and maybe making the occasional terrible-but-well-intended-decision or two. oh, and he may or may not be the sort-of-maybe-son of scarlet witch. haha. jk...unless?
i can be reached by pm if anyone wants to chat more in depth! thanks for having meee :)
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Fresh meat here! I'm Arc, with Sayaka Miki from ye olde Puella Magi Madoka Magica, canonpoint during the Rebellion movie! She's got that magical girl agelessness going for her, but she's back in a real human body and gets to feel pain again ☆
Really, I'm just stoked to be here with this (im)perfect gal and to suffer with all of you!
hmu on plurk @
SPRINTS IN
Mami's been here for awhile now and has been though... a lot!! So they should probably sit down and chat at some point!
APPLAUDS AS U CROSS THE FINISH LINE
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I bring you Arid, from the awesome indie game series known as The Fall. Arid is an AI aboard an armored combat suit, designed to assist and protect her pilot Colonel Josephs. Think JARVIS from Iron Man, complete with kickass combat subroutines and a loving devotion for her pilot—if JARVIS were also tactless, vindictive, and severely traumatized. Arid is trying very hard to be a better, kinder AI than she was before, but this will likely be complicated by her kneejerk animosity towards humans, the abusive patterns taught to her by her own human, and the PTSD virus implanted in her processor. Seriously, she just realized other people's feelings matter like, an hour ago, so be patient with her OTL
TL;DR, former "~*Evil AI*~" seeking a redemption arc; please assist?
Also note that Arid's canon delves into some very dark topics so if you there are any specific things you'd like to opt out of, check out the content warnings at the bottom of her permissions page.
Feel free to add me at
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Redemption arc, you say? :)
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apparently i cant quit you guys. hello!! i'm kerry and (after some wicked enabling) this is my third time apping in here. what a whirlwind.
this time i'm bringing laris from star trek picard. she's a sweet alien bean who just wants to live a quiet life with her idiots. truthfully, she's a former intelligence operative who turned her back on her people to pursue something personal and has been hiding out on earth for fifteen years. she has a wicked motherly side, is secretive and quiet by nature but also can't entirely stop herself being curious.
she's going to be keeping her head down for a while, primitive earth places (oof) which also means for a little while she's going to be covering her ears with her hair, look as human as possible for the time. that won't end up lasting long but!! nothing unusual to see here for the moment, just a sweet, irish bean.
i'm excited to get back to shenanigans and can be found on pm for any quick plotting!! 💕
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I am Blue and have The Doctor here if Laris needs to chill and be herself :>
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Ransom is a trustfund playboy slash black-sheep of the family with a carefree attitude. He lives life like a game without consequences and it shows. His application is here. The Content Warnings are casual drug use, overdose, murder, attempted murder, manipulation, coercion, racism, prejudice, blackmail, and violence. The app has spoilers for the movie!
Info and prefs | Inbox | Housing
I'm on discord at bigstar#0573 if anyone wants to add and chat!
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Hello! This is Fox (player of Technical Boy and Tommy Shelby) bringing my third character to the game. This beautiful lady is an actual, literal monster and main antagonist from Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, Rose the Hat. *(Her Deerington issued I.D. will say Rose O'Hara.) She is most easily identifiable by the battered silk top hat she always wears, but the EarthCruiser she drives/lives in is no less inconspicuous. To most people, she'll come across as a little airy, a little flirty, and plenty odd. One can tell just by looking at her that she isn't the type to be stuck in one place.
Unsurprising for a King villain, Rose is a pseudo-immortal, quasi-demonic child murderer, so please look at her permissions post and contact me at
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Hello, everyone! I'm Lu, and I'm new here!
I'm bringing in Michael, from the TV show The Good Place! Michael is a demon who used to torture humans in Hell but, after A Series of Events, is currently in charge of Heaven after having campaigned for a more humane afterlife system. He will be very excited to live a sort-of "normal humanish" life! He has a shitty apartment and a job! Isn't that neat??? He's very friendly and interested in people, pretty difficult to shake after having lived for actual billions of years, and basically just a little weird. Content warnings are probably just a possibility of discussing torture and mindwipes. He has no particular investment in hiding his true nature at this point, so he won't be pretending to be human or anything.
He's gonna be working as a bartender in Hair of the Dog, so I'm hoping that will be a nice jumping-off point! I'm open to changing that though, HEY NIN NIN I DIDN'T KNOW LUCIFER OWNED A BAR AND WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT. In the early days he'll likely just be looking to make connections with some new people, because friends are important. Also, he's personally owned and operated a seeming-utopia that was secretly evil, so he'll likely be getting some Weird Vibes from this whole solstice sitch.
I'm at
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He will be angry and furious most of the time, but since he's coming from a rather vulnerable point in canon (everyone he's ever cared about is dead hahahasob), he's not quite as abrasive as he can be sometimes. Also a total badass with a lightsaber and will be taking an interest in anyone with psychic powers. So excited to be in the game with him!
You can find me at
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+1 Disaster science child
Hey Deerington, TF here bringing another emotionally damaged loser into the game! This is Varian from Tangled - specifically the TV series set after the events of the movie. He's a teenage alchemist who tries to solve problems with science despite the fact his world continues to do inexplicable magical bullshit on a near-constant basis. Varian is a sassy, awkward little weirdo who desperately seeks approval from his loved ones and has a tendency to make really poor life decisions. He's also a former villain, trying to make up for that time he committed high treason by trying to murder the entire royal family. Seriously, he makes really poor life decisons. He's going to keep the Reformed Disney Villain thing on the down-low at first because Deerington gives him the clean slate he's always wanted. Until I find a fun way to ruin that for him, of course.
Varian comes from mid season 3, just at the end of a weird fever dream involving a creepy ghost girl who he's immediately going to assume is Sodder (she categorically is not Sodder). He also comes with his pet raccoon Ruddiger in tow, because the trash child needs his trash panda. Varian comes with a whole heap of Tangled spoilers attached to him, so if you want to avoid them, please let me know! As always, you can find me hanging out at
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+1 fantasy china blind man with a sword
hello everyone, i'm the perpetually returning player, mi. (third time's a charm!) finally bringing with me one xiao xingchen from mdzs - the untamed, specifically. he is a cultivator who is virtuous, gentle, and naive. also blind, but still very skilled with his sword. he's the kind of person who gives his eyes away and lives with his enemy for years without even knowing because he never asked.
yeah, that kind of person.
i'm very happy to be here and can't wait to cross paths with literally everyone! you can find me at
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Hi everyone, Robin here with my third (wtf) character! This is Seven of Nine, coming at you straight from the middle of the former Neutral Zone in Star Trek: Picard by way of a lot of Star Trek: Voyager.
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vigilantespace cowboy trying her best to keep order and peace in her little bit of the galaxy, armed with a couple of phaser rifles, a whole lot of trauma and nothing to lose. She also happens to be a former Borg drone and Starfleet nerd who had to relearn her humanity after eighteen years as a walking thumb drive. She likes spaceships, being alone (but not too alone) and things making sense, so she's going to have a great time in Deerington!More detailed content warnings can be found in her permissions post, please don't be afraid to contact me if you'd like CR with Seven but want to avoid certain topics or if you'd like to opt out altogether. I can be found at
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to put james lightly: (TW: suicide, depression, etc.)
you can add me on plurk @ knifin, or discord @ james sunderland (ringo) #8506 for plotting/threads.
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(Water Ending best ending)
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Needless to say, they aren't. Rowan apprenticed to become a scythe but, through a series of events, became more of a vigilante, killing scythes that don't uphold the proper moral code. And then there was some mind fuckery. (The scythe he killed came back to life as a severed head, used his assistant to kill Rowan's best friend and then attached his head to the best friend's body. You know, the usual.)
Rowan comes from having died again and thinks he's just come back to life the normal way. His nanites will be dampened to make healing more normal than his usual quick pace and of course he can die. He'll probably get himself a basic job somewhere and begin lowkey scoping out bad people to kill, before he realizes how the city works. But still, killing is good.
Feel free to add me on plurk (
Anyway, back to revisions on my other character. See you around soon!
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So far, she's befriended Darth Maul (hee hee I know right), and I would like some cross-canon CR, but where my cast mates at babey???
PS: IDK WHERE TO HOUSE HER D: ANYONE?
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Really looking forward to having El here!!
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He's an exorcist, demonologist, and petty dabbler in the Dark Arts with some questionable morals at best. All around nasty piece of work.
Feel free to add me on plurk @
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somehow I think Wynonna and Constantine would be the best and worst disaster friends. experience with demons? check. questionable morals? check. she works at Hair of the Dog if he'd ever stroll in there for a drink and a chat!
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Gee is actually fairly friendly, though he is occasionally scattered and sometimes very weird/creepy/eerie - take your pick, it depends on his mood. He can be very forthcoming or very reticent. He's good for random interactions just about anywhere, so we look forward to meeting y'all!
He is a changeling, which is kind of half-Fae half-human, with access to magic that he will tentatively be practicing with in Deerington.
Add me on plurk at
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Dana's definitely an artsy type so I feel like she and Gee would be good for randomly bumping into each other? she's back at the community college taking various art classes every now and then and she works at the art supply store part-time!
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She's very powerful when it comes to magic -- which means now her magic won't work a lot of the time. She's going to love that. She also uses telepathic magic to try to read people's minds and learn things but that also will be fritzing out sometimes, either in her hearing weird ominous whisperings or radio static. Fun.
Deep down though, she's kind of soft. All she's ever wanted, really, is to feel important. To be wanted. Loved.
AdoredFeel free to add me on plurk @ autoclave if you would like to have CR with me. I haven't been in a game in a while and I am excited to jump into this one.
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Hey all! This is Catharine, the Dumbledore-mun, bringing in a brand new character. Meet Huntress, a.k.a. Helena Bertinelli, from the Birds of Prey movie! She's beauty, she's grace, she'll punch you in the face -- but also she is horrible at social interaction and needs friends. Can't wait to bring her out to chat with everyone!
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+1 traumatized teenager (with bonus people-eating monster)
hey hey!! i'm lyn, i'm completely fresh meat, and i'm bringing y'all gwen stacy from ultimate comics, aka the marvel comics universe where everyone except spider-man is a giant dick, reed richards is actually evil, and tony stark and the original black widow had a sex tape. it's like marvel 2: more edgier, more dumber.
anyway! gwen's coming in from a... let's say rough point in her canon. she was killed by a "red blobbily monster", resurrected by said thing, and now lives with it in her body so that's gonna be so much fun for her. she's a sarcastic but secretly tender teenager who has no idea wtf is happening to her right now and i look forward to all the cr she's gonna get :>
feel free to add me on plurk (
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—aka hey, welcome! i know i've already said this but i am excited for gwen!
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