November CR Meme

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Deerington's CR Meme

Been wanting to bug that neighbor of yours for the past few weeks but don't know how to? Looking to spice up your rp palate with some much needed angst? Look no further than the CR meme. Fulfill your urges and needs today! Discuss outer-event plans, happenings, get some CR set up and in the making. Ya'll will make some beautiful, beautiful CR together, we're sure of it.

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<b>Player Name:</b> What you prefer to go by <b>Preferred Contact:</b> Discord, Plurk, PMs, etc. <b>Time Zone:</b> EST, GMT, etc. <b>Personal Style:</b> Prose, action? Backtag haven or quick as dickens? <b>OOC Limits:</b> Let people know what you're SUPER not down to ever play! This is a horror game so you might as well paint a clear line. <b>Character Name:</b> What does your character go by <b>Age:</b> How old are they <b>Employment in Deerington:</b> Where they work <b>Residence in Deerington:</b> Where they live <b>Day to Day Activities:</b> What can they normally be found doing? This is usually the handwave stuff people don't bother to role play every second of. <b>About This Character:</b> Let people know a little about their personality, their background, what can be expected when dealing with this character! <b>Any Warnings:</b> If your character has a particularly rough past, now is a good time to warn people about the potential stuff that might come up! <b>Present Life:</b> Talk about any present major/important stuff going on in the character's life! Relationships, what they're trying to work on for themselves, maybe hero or villain shenanigans... <b>Future Ideas:</b> Stuff you want your character to eventually be doing, ideas you maybe have for some development etc. <B>CR You Want:</b> Want some more best friends? Lovers? Mentors? State it here, homeslice. <b>CR You Don't Want:</b> Really want to avoid anything violent or overly happy? Here ya go, pal. List it here. <b>Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:</b> You know what to do, boss.

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Robin | Kurt Wagner & Grady Numbers

[suchmiracles]

Player Name: Robin
Preferred Contact: laetificat or laetificat#7520 on Discord
Time Zone: GMT
Personal Style: I usually lean towards prose but I'm happy to match! In general I also prefer to skip "getting to know you" threads unless there's something fun we can do with it and would rather handwave meetings to assume a base level of established CR, even if it's just "oh, I saw you at the diner yesterday".
OOC Limits: I'm OK with most things, though I'd appreciate a warning if we're about to head into anything intense/graphic on the subject of suicide, suffocation or vomiting. If I'm not cool with something or we're heading into something tough I'll let you know though!

⊗ KURT WAGNER - suchmiracles

Character Name: Kurt, The Incredible Nightcrawler, fuzzy elf, etc
Age: 41 (this month!)
Employment in Deerington: Pixie's Booze & Moves.
Residence in Deerington: In a cabin by Lake Tomie with wwrench, howlett, speed_of_snark & dividingline. It's crowded but wholesome.
Day to Day Activities: When he's not dealing with Deerington's usual nonsense, Kurt can be found running errands around town (usually hitting up the book store and the thrift shop), working at the record store during the day and in the bar underneath it during the evenings, or excercising/training in the National Park. Just Wholesome Elf Things.

He also occasionally runs a Sleeper Support Group at the college and karaoke nights at Pixie's once a month.

About This Character: Professional superhero, freelance dashing Robin Hood-esque adventurer (occasionally in space). Once studied to become a priest but didn't make it all the way because it turned out the whole thing was kind of a dream, because comics. Before coming to Deerington he was dead for a few years and fought his way back from Heaven via a battle with some demons (lead by his father) on a pirate ship. So, if anything, Deerington has been a nice break from all the weird shit in his life.

Any Warnings: Kurt's comments and posts may contain references to extreme violence, alcohol/substance abuse, suicide, sexual themes and death (just your average day on Earth-616). His posts and comments may also touch on religious themes relating to Catholicism, though not heavily.

Present Life: As time goes on, Kurt's becoming more settled and (knock on wood) happy in Deerington, though not without a few bumps in the road. He experienced his first death at the end of October last year and that was gnarly enough to not bear repeating, so he's definitely becoming more aware of the potential cost of remaining in the dream as well as the good things it has brought and continues to bring into his life. Coming to terms with the fact that he might not actually want to wake up (and that they might not have a choice in the matter) is an ongoing thread running through a lot of his time at the moment.

This last October was REALLY hard on the fuzzy guy. He got turned into a monster and hurt a bunch of people he cares about, which is pretty much his worst nightmare. He's trying hard to recover his faith and get back into a space where he can find some solid foundations.

Future Ideas: I'm always interested in testing the boundaries of Kurt's faith (in himself, in other people, in what he believes about the universe, etc). At some point I'm going to give him a nasty personal horror to contend with, though that's probably a little way down the pipeline.

CR You Want:
⊗ friends (especially adults his own age)
⊗ fellow superheroes/mutants/non-humans to vibe with or startled Sleepers to confuse/frighten -- I'm always interested in exploring how "normal" folks react to him
⊗ regulars at Pixie's
⊗ religious or church-going buddies

CR You Don't Want: n/a

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

Kurt's open post for November!

# GRADY NUMBERS - dividingline

Character Name: Grady, Mr. Numbers, you fucking asshole, etc
Age: (probably very) late 30's.. ish
Employment in Deerington: Hart's Desire Pawn Shop, occasionally other associated businesses.
Residence in Deerington: In the aforementioned wholesomely crowded cabin with his husband and other co-conspirators (and sometimes at his apartment in David Cliff).
Day to Day Activities: Grady can mostly be found arguing with potential customers at his pawn shop, lurking with intent at Manes on Main, making himself useful running errands around town (which usually means spending way too long over breakfast at Dearly Diner) or just generally causing a nuisance anywhere between the town and the lake shore.

About This Character: A former hitman for the Fargo Syndicate operating out of Fargo, Minnesota, having been brought into the organisation from a young age along with his partner in everything, Wes Wrench. He'd still be there right now if he hadn't been literally stabbed in the back by Lorne Malvo. He spent his entire life until that point up to the eyeballs in violence, kidnapping, extortion, and all the trauma and mundane weirdness that comes with working for the mob. He has a tendency for self-destruction and being a constant thorn in everyone's side, but hey, if you want someone killed or run out of town, there's no better guy to ask.

Any Warnings: Grady comes from a violent canon with adult themes and he's also a wanted criminal. His comments/plots may contain references to murder, gang violence, torture, criminal activity, major injuries including throat trauma, alcohol/substance abuse, sexual themes and death. Real good times.

Present Life: There are two significant positives for being in Deerington for Grady: one, he's no longer dead. Two, Wrench is here. That's about it. He's been told to try and look at his second chance at life as an opportunity to make things better or be a better person, but a lifetime of expecting (or wanting) the worst out of people is making that difficult.

He arrived in Deerington in time to experience both the Titanic and Rapture and didn't do very well at coping with either, ending up on a backslide into substance abuse that ended with him stabbing John Blake in the side (sorry, dude) and generally going to a pretty dark place. Since coming back, he's decided to try to pick up the pieces and at least attempt to make amends, because he's starting to realise that he might be stuck in this place for good, and maybe there are worse things than death.

October was a tough month. Wes died in front of him and that fucked him up pretty hard, so he spiralled back into some bad shit. With November looking quieter so far, he's carrying a few more scars and trying to shore up what he has, but he's under no illusions that Deerington is a safe place to be.

Future Ideas: If he's going to survive in Deerington, Grady's going to need to come out of his shell, so I'd like to find some ways for that to happen. This will probably mean he'll have to hit a pretty hard rock bottom first, though. I'd like for him to find a little stability and start exploring the idea of living a life that isn't constantly on the run, as well as coming to terms with the fact that whatever happens in Deerington isn't going to last once he leaves. This isn't his second chance -- this is, in many ways, his only chance.

CR You Want:
# people to intimidate (or fail to intimidate) and/or argue with
# cops and peacekeeper types to troll
# victims he can corrupt and/or commit low level crimes against
# oh and friends, probably

CR You Don't Want: n/a

Additional Comments/Dumb Shit:

[possessum]

It's been a bit since Peter ran into Kurt, and I'd love to do something with him again sometime! I really love the thought of incorporating some of that faith / struggling with faith angle; Peter's kind of been.... gently thinking about religion / faith? He's never really had anything to believe in, but constantly sort of juggling the thought that having a demon inside of him makes him evil or "tainted". He actually went to visit the church here at Deer for the first time ever, and has been sort of quietly fostering thoughts of "maybe I could go back sometime." I could see him asking people who are devout, like Diarmuid and Kurt, questions about God and things in general, if that's ever a potentially soft thing you might like to do w that!

There's also opportunity to test Kurt's faith a bit with Paimon, who can definitely offer some antagonistic / negative demon-related things, if you ever want to explore that for Kurt! With him permanently regaining his powers, I'd love for him to psychologically torment some folks sometime. He could possibly fuel some bad demon memories for Kurt or something; basically I'm totally flexible and down to indulge if there's ever anything you'd like to do!

[suchmiracles]

Ohhh, I'd love all of this! Kurt would really appreciate a chance to help Peter and could definitely talk at length about juggling demon-yness and being a good person. I think it would help bolster his own faith to discuss the things they're going through in that context, so it would be good for them both.

And also god yes please consider Kurt a victim for Paimon's torment. He could definitely find or play with, for instance, Kurt's memories of visiting Hell and the fact that his father lives down there and maybe dig around into that sort of dread of becoming like Azazel.

[possessum]

It would be a really fun thing to get to explore and Kurt is such a good!! Peter just asking questions from someone whom he still does host a discomforting sort of fear / apprehension around, deep down, even though he thinks Kurt is kind and good and he doesn't want to be afraid of him? Dipping into those kinds of complicated feelings is my jam, plus the added mix of Kurt like, helping him learn some things about spirituality.... oh my gosh. ;o;

And I'm so here for this too, ahhhhh that would be so, so good.... Dredging up some of Kurt's insecurities / fears, CHECK ME just living for the irony of Kurt helping Peter with positive religious influence, and then..... Paimon being a negative sort of spiritual presence for Kurt...... There's a ton of potential here and I'm totally game to play around with it!!