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October OOC Introduction Post for New Characters

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 We will assume you've withdrawn your acceptance if we don't see your character on the AC page by then.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!

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Hello hello! My name's Kalyn, I was in Deerington like 284 years ago, but I'm BACK with a fairly obscure survival horror protag!

I'm bringing in Jennifer from Rule of Rose! Sole survivor of not one, but TWO huge disasters that have let her more than a little traumatized. A very kind, gentle girl who's easy to bully; she rarely tells someone no. Repressed memories of her childhood until at 19 she was forced to go back through and relive the moments as an adult to piece her broken mind back together. She's shy and polite but has difficulties forming connections with people due to her past. She's also from the 1940s so everything is a liiittle bit beyond her understanding when it comes to anything technological.

Pls be her friend (or bully her, she's a doormat and a people-pleaser so she'll just kinda take anything thrown at her...)

As a warning: Jennifer's canon deals heavily with themes of murder, child abuse, bullying, pedophilia/sexual abuse of minors, animal abuse/death/killing, suicide, some minor gender fuckery (she spends a year being forced to present and act like a boy), and a lot about romantic and sexual themes revolving around young girls (with each other). These won't be sprung up without warning and Jennifer herself most likely won't mention it unless prompted enough, but it's something to keep in mind.

But I'm looking forward to playing w/everyone! Feel free to friend me over at

ovals!

Edited 2020-10-07 02:54 (UTC)

/FINGER GUNS

/FINGER GUNS RIGHT BACK

show off ur bow skills lev

I have heard of this game but never got to play it. Alas, p sure as much as I was curious it's banned over here I think. (New Zealand, for the record). But I am keen to get to know her through rp at least!

I'm Caprica and I have three here. This here zombie apocalypse survivor, Clementine from Telltale games The Walking Dead, Sakura Kinomoto from CLAMP's manga series Cardcaptor Sakura (

keystaff) and Yuichiro Hyakuya from Owari no Seraph

wieldless for bitty canon point till I update him later), also known as Seraph of the End. Clementine and Yuu are prob mine that have the most in regards to content warnings so I feel you on that though. Their warnings and apps and all should be in their journals though if you wanted to check!

Yeah unfortunately RoR is banned in a lot countries bc of the censorship boards completely missing any context for anything lmao. They apparently hear it was some sadomasochistic game w/like semi-explicit lesbian things or w/e and there was a lot of backlash and it was a mess. they never even played the game!!

Thankfully...Emulators...

But yes, its nice to meet you!! I'm familiar most with Clementine and Sakura, but I've heard of Owari and the character is familiar! Though tbh I haven't kept up with TWD games since the first part so i'm like CLEMENTINE YOU'VE GROWN UP....

Given it's banned I haven't even tried like, checking an lp or something on Youtube. I'd be hopeless with emulating since I've never done it, probably, and just get games for console or Steam. Alas. I get the themes are more mature and all but. Context? Is a thing? Just up the rating if there are concerns? It's hardly like it sounds as bad as some other games.

But. Yes! She's sixteen now with the Final Season canon point. Almost seventeen here since someone I saw had figured her birthday was around late October. You're not alone in being ???!!! at her now though, lol. A lot of peeps are more familiar with the first season or two at best with bitty Clem. I still have to get through the other Telltale stuff we grabbed when they went under in getting to actually play through it/watch my fiancé do so lol.

I followed an LP of it first and then did an emulator to play through some myself. The gameplay is atrocious, unfortunately, even though the story and characters are super solid. And yeah, RoR is largely based entirely in metaphor and symbolism, but the opening trailer of the game does make it seem a bit more sexual and off than the game ACTUALLY is. So people saw the trailer stuff and it blew up. Because of all that tho, the game is like...$400+ to try and get even second hand bc it's so rare now. IT'S CRAZY...

Yeah I played a bit of the first one but I'm soo bad with zombie stuff (i've barely managed to get through Last of Us? Somehow???) and mostly watched my favorite LPers go through it. And I think I became so worried after the first one that Clem would get killed off that I was like I CAN'T DO IT I CAN'T WATCH IT...

I've got the time now though I should pick up an LP again... /strokes chin thoughtfully...

Ugh I hate when that's the case. In that the gameplay is awful but the plot/cast is actually really good. So frustrating. Let alone...yeah all of that, ffff. Only time anyone pays that much is collector's editions of games and even then. Not usually. That much. Even if new games come out here at like. Over $100.

Lol same. I put TLOU on the easiest difficulty possible and loved the accessibility stuff for the sequel. Telltale is easier I guess in the more click and explore aspect but gods the emotional torment and decisions in who to save or such can be a gut punch. Clem's. Been through a lot. In the years since the first game but I don't wanna spoil you too much about it? (I mean. Spoilers she obviously survives at least till the Final Season since that's where I play her from that she has survived. Eight. Years of this walker and desperate asshole survivors nonsense?)

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Welcome back, Kayln, I'm Jax and it's nice to meet you. I play Usagi Tsukino here from Sailor Moon and Ritsuka Aoyagi from Loveless.

Nice to meet you too! I'm only passingly familiar w/Loveless, but I love Sailor Moon. I'm looking forward to playing off either one of them though!

Ah, he's a pessimistic 12-year-old with... a lot of issues and content warnings. Looking forward to playing with you as well!

Helllo!!! Nice to meet you, Kalyn. I screamed when I saw your app. I love Rule of Rose and I'm so excited to see someone playing Jennifer! I hope you don't mind if I add you on Plurk?

I'M ALWAYS SO GLAD WHEN OTHERS KNOW IT yes pls feel free to add me!!

I love Atsushi and BSD (I actually play Yosano myself lmao) and I know him and Jennifer could really get along...

Clasps hands over "orphanages suck ass"....

ORPHANAGES SUCK ASS...

~~finally, someone who knows atsushi!~~

I hope they can get CR? This is the worst month ever for bonding, so let's do it???

OH THIS GAME was so intense. Looking forward to seeing you in game!

IT WAS VERY INTENSE YES. I’ve gone through it a couple times and I still feel unprepared every time lmskdkf

Looking forward to Edgeworth too! Poor man.... this is not his wheelhouse...

I watched a friend play it - I enjoy watching scary games being played but I don't handle the stress of playing them myself well at all - and I was TOTALLY into it. So creepy!

And you're absolutely correct. Gory murder scenes, sure. Supernatural, sure. But this is a bit...beyond the pale for him. XD

easy to bully........child abuse....murder......questionable themes about kids.............

these two should really talk.

points at eyes points at you

I know so little about IT which is a shame bc the story itself is right up my alley lkasgj but pls... Jennifer always needs more friends, even if she's always sad to see people that might understand her trauma lmao

Why can't everything just be happy and right for people!!

Welcome back, Kalyn. Good lord, I think this place might be an improvement for Jennifer.

I've added a couple flavors since you were here last. Neopolitan from RWBY, and I can't remember if I had Larxene from KH when you dropped or if I brought her on after you were here, but either way welcome back.

God right? She’s going to be looking around like “well this isn’t SO terrible :)” while everyone else is going “damn bitch u live like this?”

I don’t think you had Larx in when I was here but I don’t remember honestly ksmskd But I look forward to seeing everyone either way!!

Yeah I kind of figured you'd left before I brought her in. You were here for Clouseau's short run. (Hah, god that man.) It's good to have you back regardless. I know we usually add each other only when we're in game, so if you want to add me on plurk, go for it. Otherwise it's easy to plan via PM.

Here's hoping for plenty of fun!

What up nerd?

WOW!! Ur the nerd, nerd, hdu

Jennifer’s gonna beat Rei up—

Okay no I can’t even try to joke about that it’s so ridiculous.

Rei and Jennifer will probably get along lol.

Or Jubilee could break her mind. With modern everything. And being a vampire.

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