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 We will assume you've withdrawn your acceptance if we don't see your character on the AC page by then.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

[charlastan]

HELLO DEERINGTON

I'm Billie Sue! But a lot of you might know me from when I modded Entranceway for like 11 years under the name Koji! I'm going by my real name these days but god there's so many old Eway players that it's like an Eway Class Reunion up in here.

Anyway, this is my first time in Deerington! I'm here playing Stan Pines, everyone's favorite gruff old geezer, and I can't wait to throw him all over the place. He's post-canon, so there will probably be spoilers! And you can find me on plurk at goodhotcocoa and on discord at goodhotcocoa#2567 - I'm looking forward to playing with you all, whether I've played with you before or not! I've been having so much fun on the test drive, and I can't wait to start playing in the event. ♥

[ghostharasser]

Pines! Pines! Pines! Pines!

[charlastan]

PINES! PINES! PINES! PINES!

[lightthedarkness]

Hello Billie Sue! Nice to meet you and welcome to Deerington! I'm Jax. I play Usagi Tsukino here from Sailor Moon and Ritsuka Aoyagi from Loveless. I'm so excited to see more Gravity Falls characters! I loved that show!

[charlastan]

Ahhh I love Usagi! And it's been like a decade but I'm familiar with Ritsuka too.

It's nice to meet you, Jax! Can't wait to play with you +o+

[in_loveless_memory]

He's an oldie, it's true. Well, not as old as Usagi, but yes! I can't wait for Usagi to find out Ford's a twin!

[prosecutorinchief]

YESSSS STAN THE MAN

I can't wait to see the shenanigans, you have no idea.

[charlastan]

Oh, there are going to be so many shenanigans. Hope you guys like a little comedy in your horror!

[prosecutorinchief]

I absolutely do. :D

[laminae]

Yes awesome Fern wants more stories of Stan punching things!

I'm game for keeping our tdm thread if you are!

[charlastan]

STAN HAS A LOT OF THOSE I am so excited for these two to get along.

We can keep it! Stan's coming in in October but ehhhh timey wimey etc etc I really want the CR. We'll figure it out. +-+

[bowliever]

Hello and welcome!

My name is Ru and I have Lev here who we tagged a little bit on the TDM (so sorry would love to continue or handwave). I LOVE GRUNKLE STAN and Lev here is well acquainted with Ford (or "Elder Ford" as he calls him) so I'd love to throw Lev against Stan again because I feel like his naive pessimism would contrast nicely with Stan's... everything.

[charlastan]

Nice to meet you Ru! I'd love to thread more with Lev! Would you be cool with clean slating it though since we haven't gotten too far? Haha I didn't realize just how many people pick to have the TDM be game canon or I would have formatted it differently so it was clear he was getting into these shenanigans multiple times. 8D;

I absolutely want to play more with him though, and I'm excited for him to experience the sharp contrast between Stan and Ford for himself.

[owllady]

STAN!

I'm Mads, and I have so many ideas for these two. Can't wait to play with you!

[charlastan]

HELLO MADS I am so, so, so excited to be able to play off an Eda. Stuff of dreams right here. +o+ Nice to meet you!

[borntolove]

Welcome to the game! Glad to see Ford is getting his brother and nephew here :3

I am Blue. Looking forward to playing with you as well.

I have 10th Doctor here.

Mind if I plurk add you?

[charlastan]

Nice to meet you, Blue! You can definitely add me. And ahh I'm also very glad Ford's getting his family. I'm totally canon blind to Doctor Who but I'm sure we'll get chances to play together.

[droptheious]

FINALLY, I GET TO TORTURE YOU WITH EMOTIONS AGAIN.

[charlastan]

FINALLY, I GET TO BE TORTURED WITH EMOTIONS AGAIN BY TEEFF SPECIFICALLY

[cardcaptured]

STAN STAN STAN!!!!

But HI BILLIE SUE, it's nice to meet you! I'm Luna, and I play Syaoran Li from Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card! I'm so, so excited to be seeing more Gravity Falls characters here, and your Stan has been a ton of fun to thread with on the TDM so far! I'm definitely looking forward to playing with you more in the future! (and Stan can easily feed Syaoran some outrageous lies since this kid is really gullible)

[charlastan]

Hi Luna!! Nice to meet you too! Ahhh I'm so excited to play with a Syaoran. I love CLAMP a ton, and Cardcaptor Sakura's always had a special place in my heart. I actually just made a Fai journal, because I reread Tsubasa and had a ton of emotions.

I'm so, so excited! It's going to be a very strange mix of his CR with like, Yamazaki and Touya. Telling outrageous gullible lies, but also a stupid amount of bickering probably. I'm so here for it. +_+

[onerthes]

Welcoe welcome. Latroma here. Good that you made it in! ^_^ never actually played in EWay but always heard good things. Hope you like it in horror town USA

[suchmiracles]

Welcome to the game! Deerington needs more old grumpy dudes investigating its weirdness, so I'm super excited to see the Pines bros.

[perfectantidote]

Yoooo, Koji. idk if you remember me, but this Inky. With a.... slightly different version of the character I played in eway, because apparently I am That Person. Joined this round too, and had to throw some <3 your way for old time's sake - and for Stan, ofc!

[fatedmahou]

+1 on Entranceway days.

Hi Billie Sue! I was wondering why your plurk looked so familiar to me. I'm Luna and I brought an original character with me here named Mirai Akarui. She a magical girl and comes from a bleak world.

I don't know if you'd remember me from Eway or not, but I was there a long time ago with various characters and came back like... 2 years ago with Connor from Detroit: Become Human.

I don't know much about Gravity Falls, but I always found it interesting. I look forward to tagging with you.