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Sodder ([personal profile] sodder) wrote in [community profile] soddersays2020-11-08 09:26 pm
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OOC Intro 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.

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.

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 We will assume you've withdrawn your acceptance if we don't see your character on the AC page by then.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


11th 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 15th.


15th 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!

Mini-Events:
Some game-meta mini-events will be posted along with every other event. Clues to how to access these mini-events will be given in prior months. These mini-events are for players who want to get heavily involved in the story elements of the game. They are entirely optional. All mini-events are logged here and can be accessed at any time during your time in Deerington. All mini-events were created so that players can take their time exploring the story elements on their own schedule.


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!


β†ͺStory So Far provides a general timeline of events that have occurred in-game for the first two years, just about. You do not need to read all of this to get into the game, but it may help with characters who are investigative.

β†ͺ 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!

β†ͺ 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!

nottheonlytraveler: (With a heart that offends)

+ 1 formally damned soul

[personal profile] nottheonlytraveler 2020-11-09 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Hello! I'm Alex and this is my third time in Deerington, having previously been here twice before with one Tina Goldstein. This time I'm bringing in a character who is...pretty much the opposite of Tina in every conceivable way, lol.

This is Dean Winchester from Supernatural, the original universe version, to be specific, and because I'm awful he's coming in from the very end of 4x01, "Lazarus Rising," fairly fresh from Hell and having just discovered angels are real. Good times. He's also very much not dealing with having just spent 40 years in Hell, so expect to see him avoiding dealing with his traumas at any cost. (What even are healthy coping mechanisms?!)

Given the various horrors and traumas of Dean's life and canon, please see his app here for the various content warnings you are likely to encounter if engaging with Dean, and his permissions post is here.

You can find me on plurk at [plurk.com profile] afaeryschild, or DMing Dean's journal here.

As a note, since there is Endverse!Dean already here, and different versions of OU!Dean have previously been in game before, I am perfectly fine with your character recognizing Dean.

I'm also good for keeping TDM threads as game canon, just let me know!

I'm very much looking forward to diving back into the game, and I look forward to playing with everyone!

bloodsot: (Default)

i couldnt think of a funny title oh no oh god im sorry

[personal profile] bloodsot 2020-11-09 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hello, hello, I'm Squid, never been here before nor indeed have I been in a game for like... over a year. So I'm rusty with every single possible mechanic and I'd like to apologize ahead of time for all the mistakes I'm about to make.

Please welcome Papa Guacamole Padre Gasoline Big Daddy G Father Gascoigne from the horror game, Bloodborne. He's been taken from directly after his fight and subsequent death at the hands of The Good Hunter, so he might be a bit confused about everything. A little. A teensy bit. He's also from a world styled after a slightly pre-industrial England so he's in for a bit of a culture shock, you see.

He can potentially be a triggering character, so if you're concerned about that, his application is here and his permissions and content warnings are here.

You can catch me on my plurk at [plurk.com profile] squiddly, looking forward to playing with everyone!
Edited 2020-11-09 04:19 (UTC)
flowerbracelet: (glad)

+1 wolf girl

[personal profile] flowerbracelet 2020-11-09 04:20 am (UTC)(link)


Hello, Dante here. Former player of Kiara, bringing in a new (and better suited) character to Deerington! This is Margot from the Netflix series Kipo! She's a wolf girl known as a Mute, best known for betraying her adopted human sister by almost eating her. And then almost betraying her again, by leading her into a trap.

She's not the best person to have your back. But! It's something for her to work on in Deerington. She's kind of a problematic hot mess.

Feel free to add me on plurk at [plurk.com profile] teenysanguini ! Glad to be back!
kalesalad: (Default)

+1 dad, hunter, forever tired of existing

[personal profile] kalesalad 2020-11-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hello everyone! I'm Brandon and this is actually my second go round in Deerington. Before, I brought in Elena Gilbert, a vampire, and Derek Hale, a werewolf. So, this time around, I'm bringing someone who hunts both of those! But, with better and more well rounded morals. (One of his friends is actually a werewolf.

This is Sam Winchester from that long running show, Supernatural currently in its' fifteen and final season! He's one of two brothers who are walking spoilers at every part of their canon, but especially right now as I am taking him from 15x13 Destiny's Child. The gist is, he was raised a hunter, broke away to go to college and then was dragged back after losing his fiancee to a fire. Needless to say, mythology expanded a great deal. Sam is friendly, diligent, and hard working. He's raising a half angel, half human named Jack, and currently dealing with a whole bunch of life-altering soul-crushing spoilers. While he's better at dealing than his brother, he's still equally bad at coping when he wants to be.

His app is here and permissions are here. It can be a triggering fandom, and I will always post any triggers when I need to! I will also post any spoiler warnings where need be. Supernatural is also a heavily meta world and canon, so it doesn't bother me if you canon puncture. They have a book series written about them and they once discovered the TV show in an alternate universe.

I'm on Plurk at [plurk.com profile] pepperwood or you can PM this journal any time!

Like Alex, I'm good with people recognizing Sam. This Sam is 37 years old and has the hairline to prove it! So, he may look older than people expect or remember. I am also good for keeping TDM threads as game canon, but let's discuss! I'm also working from a very specific set of what Sam can and will say about the future, so check with me if you know something that would puncture that! He has a lot of volatile castmates!

So excited to be here!

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[personal profile] heraldingangel 2020-11-09 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome to the game! I'm excited to see so many new faces from various different canon points, it's like a melting pot of SPN!

I look forward to their interactions!
typea: (pic#14417258)

+1 perpetually stressed out grizzly bear

[personal profile] typea 2020-11-09 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I'm Nights, but I also go by LT, whatever sticks for you works for me. I am bringing with me David Singh from the DC Comics-verse New 52 flavor just to add even more confusion to the multiverse mix. David will be taken post-Grodd invasion so after issue #17 for your reference.

This version of David is the Director of the CCPD crime lab and if it wasn't evident before, he bleeds stress and coffee. So Deerington is going to be a change of pace for him, the stress will likely just evolve into something else. He's not much of a believer in the supernatural because science, so he'll have to reassess everything he's ever believed. It'll be great.

On top of being the director of the crime lab, David is also a detective and he has a distaste for costumed crimefighters and speedsters (typically ones that go by the name The Flash) but any speedster my trigger him out of habit so there is that. Superheroes will get the biggest internal eyeroll ever.

David's hard candy shell protects his soft nougaty core and while he might be a jackboot to work for he's a no man left behind sort who cares. Maybe too much. About everything. Might be why he's a stressed-out cluster frock of a human being.

You can learn more about him here you can read his permissions page here. There's nothing particularly triggering about David mentions of character death might come up and superhero comics to depict violence, so there is that. For his part, David has no supernatural or superhuman gifts.

If you need to contact me you can always DM this journal for a quick response or you can find me on plurk at [plurk.com profile] sylverxnights.
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[personal profile] heraldingangel 2020-11-09 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome to the game! I can't wait to see this whole new perspective on Sam! I'm sorry you have to deal with the messes you've already solved!

I look forward to their interactions!
kalesalad: (credentials)

[personal profile] kalesalad 2020-11-09 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
I do, too! Sam is going to have a hell of a time!
kalesalad: (what could be is upsetting)

[personal profile] kalesalad 2020-11-09 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Hey little brother.
heraldingangel: (Sam: I'll be there for you)

[personal profile] heraldingangel 2020-11-09 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Teach him how to text properly! And please don't say Hell. It makes him worried :|
kalesalad: (c | volunteer)

[personal profile] kalesalad 2020-11-09 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Heck, Cas. Heck of a time.

He will do his best. Texting only gets easier.

As he's always the one that texts Cas, even when he doesn't text him back.
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[personal profile] fusrodaaaah 2020-11-09 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's Red - player of eternally stressed Space Dad Shiro ([personal profile] shiro2hero). I'm a huge Elder Scrolls nerd and finally got up the nerve to app my Dragonborn.

His name is Melius Senyan because he was adopted by non-Argonians, but he is absolutely a walking talking Lizard-Amphibian whatever the heck Argonians are. He is an alchemist, nerd, and an absolute nervous wreck. Worst Dragonborn 0/10.

His app has most of his info, and some CW's for fantasy racism and mentioned NPC suicide, but overall, he doesn't have much in the way of horrific trauma. Permissions are here!

Let him make potions and scream.

I'm contactable via PM, or [plurk.com profile] redfirelight !
inaminute: πš’πš—πšŠπš–πš’πš—πšžπšπšŽ. (Default)

[personal profile] inaminute 2020-11-09 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Nat's gonna be keeping that score and waiting for that mullet tbh
heraldingangel: (Sam: Guardian)

[personal profile] heraldingangel 2020-11-09 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
\o/

Look. He rather talk face to face than use the fancy technology that he doesn't even understand. What are all those faces and why do they have heart for eyes??? Those aren't real hearts... are they? :|
fatedmahou: π‘ͺ𝑹𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑻 𝑰𝑭 𝑼𝑺𝑬𝑫 (pic#14187276)

[personal profile] fatedmahou 2020-11-09 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Hi Alex, I'm Luna and I just have this smol magical girl OC here. I won't bore you with the details unless you want to know, but Mirai is a a Mahou from a world that's dying in terms of land as well as a lack of people due to various reasons. Despite that, she tries her best to stay positive and help everyone.

I'm so excited to see a lot of Supernatural characters coming in so I hope that we can tag sometime.
fatedmahou: π‘ͺ𝑹𝑬𝑫𝑰𝑻 𝑰𝑭 𝑼𝑺𝑬𝑫 (pic#14344022)

[personal profile] fatedmahou 2020-11-09 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hello Brandon! I'm Luna and I have this magical girl OC here currently. I won't go into details here, but I'm excited to see Sam here. I'm still like mid season 14 so I'm behind lol.

I'd love to throw Mirai at him at some point.
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kalesalad: (I gave up what was behind)

[personal profile] kalesalad 2020-11-09 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
You know he'll pray in your inbox, too.

And no, Cas. They're drawn.
kalesalad: (motelier)

[personal profile] kalesalad 2020-11-09 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hey Luna! Well, be wary of any spoilers if you are trying to steer clear! They will abound.

Yeah, he'll be out and about! Debating a network post or a log. Or, jumping into the event. So, keep an eye out!
lightthedarkness: (Usagi) (Cute but ditzy)

[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2020-11-09 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome back, Alex!
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[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2020-11-09 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Hello Squid! Welcome to Deerington, I'm Jax, it's nice to meet you! I hope you have a lovely time here. I play Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon here as well as Ritsuka Aoyagi from Loveless!
lightthedarkness: (Usagi) (It's so cute!)

[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2020-11-09 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome back, Dante!
lightthedarkness: (Usagi) (Default)

[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2020-11-09 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Hello and welcome to the game, LT! I'm Jax, it's nice to meet you! I play Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon here, as well as Ritsuka Aoyagi from Loveless.
lightthedarkness: (Usagi) (Default)

[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2020-11-09 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome back to the game, Brandon.
bloodsot: (Family)

[personal profile] bloodsot 2020-11-09 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hey there! Thanks, I'm really excited to start. I'll probably be a little slow at first but hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things quickly enough.
lightthedarkness: (Usagi)(Minako) (Hanging out with Minako)

[personal profile] lightthedarkness 2020-11-09 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
That's okay! Whatever you need to get your bearings and feel for the game.

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