October OOC Introduction Post for New Characters

[sodder]

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.

Our plotting post with details on our event is live here! Please feel free to dig right on in with the plotting.

Please read our Story So Far post that will be available to all characters ICly. This is a good point of reference for anyone who wants to dig into the meaty core of the game's story.

STUFF

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 We will assume you've withdrawn your acceptance if we don't see your character on the AC page by then.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 for one application cycle before reapplying.

Content Warnings: Please make sure to check out our player-maintained content warnings excel sheet. We strongly encourage all players to fill this out.

PRELUDES, EVENTS, AND MORE

20-25th of Each Month:

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.

4-5th of Each Month:

A plotting post containing the event prompts will be posted so that players can read the event and plan for it ahead of time. There should be time for new players to get in on the plotting since all events officially go live on the 11th/12th.

11-12th of Each 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 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!

Every other 15th of the Month:

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!

End of Month:

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).

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!

↪ 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!

Comments

[perfectantidote]

Hello Deerington!

I'm Inky, completely new to the game and absolutely excited to be getting into the game during probably the worst (read: best!) month of all.

I'm bringing you this here trash can on fire, aka Cas, aka a canon AU of Supernatural's Castiel from a post-apocalyptic episode aptly titled "The End". He is one fallen angel with about several dozens of issues and unhealthy coping mechanisms for them. He tends to be all empty smiles, equal-opportunity-flirtations, sarcasm, sadness, self-loathing, and of course some unhealthy co-dependency on the guy who sent him to his death, which is the last thing he got to experience before coming to Deerington.

Cas also comes with CWs for substance abuse, suicidal ideation, self-loathing, nihilism, religion/blasphemy, pandemic style virus related post-apocalypse - please see his Permissions for more. I've included an opt out in the OOC Permission Section, since some of these are quite heavy topics.

As for me, I'm from Germany, so EU time zones it is. Feel free to add me on inkcharm, or send me a message on discord: inkcharm#4573.

I look forward to playing with you guys, and will hit up the amazing October plottings asap <3

[lightthedarkness]

Hello Inky, nice to meet you, I'm Jax. I hope you enjoy Deerington!

I play Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon and Ritsuka Aoyagi from Loveless.

[perfectantidote]

Awww Usagi <3 I'm afraid I'm canon blind re: Loveless. THank you so much for the warm welcome <3

[lightthedarkness]

Loveless is basically "everything is awful but like secretly." Ritsuka has an opt-out because of how many content warnings his series has.

[perfectantidote]

Oh dear - that does sound exciting though <3

[lightthedarkness]

If you would like to see all the warnings, I can link you to the opt-out.

[ruined]

unhealthy co-dependency on the guy who sent him to his death

fff is anything about either of them healthy tho

BUT HI. welcome to the gaaaaame and I'm looking forward to threading with youuu (I think you knew that already though)

[perfectantidote]

What? You? Interested in threading? ..... PFFFFF.

[ruined]

ikr. I'm sure it came as a big surprise to you.

[demonicbeauty]

Hey, Inky. Wizera here, with my aggressively friendly demon, Ariadne. Loving our TDM thread. Do you wanna keep it going? Start something new? Or begin entirely from scratch? Cool with anything!

Welcome!

[perfectantidote]

Hah, I was gonna message you about that - I'm happy to continue the TDM if that works for you, I think it's very charming <3

[demonicbeauty]

Absolutely!!

[onerthes]

Welcome to the game, Inky. Love having you here, and gotta say. I haven't seen a Castiel quite like this before. Gonna be fun!

[perfectantidote]

Well, he is a one of a kind burning trash bucket kind of in canon AU character, that's for sure :D Thank you for the warm welcome <3

[onerthes]

*chuckles* Here's hoping you have fun surrounded by dumpster fires as far as the eye can see. This place is perfect for them. I go by Latroma and play a trio of them myself (Vira-Lorr here from some obscure game nobody plays anymore, Larxene from KH and Neo from RWBY). Looking forward to seeing what comes of castiel. Feel free to toss a line anytime.

[fatedmahou]

Friend. B]

[perfectantidote]

*touches your face*

frand!

[fatedmahou]

*Nose boop*

The time has come.

[heraldingangel]

Hello! Blythe here. I play Castiel who is in no way, shape, or form aware of just how different this multiverse version is from him which means he's going to be a tad surprised when they finally meet!

[perfectantidote]

I cannot wait to see how this unfolds. And can I just say, even from that brief TDM exchange, I am *so* excited to feel *all* of the feels here. I'm so excited <3

[40seconds]

Trash can on fire, you say? Coulson's encountered a couple of those in his time, and a lot of Cas's issues check boxes with him too, so they might find some common ground somewhere.

I look forward to seeing you around~

[perfectantidote]

Hah, that should be fun :3 I'm looking forward to it!