March 2021 OOC Introduction Post

[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: Please check out our mod announcement in regards to the end of Chapter 1 of Deerington here.

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.

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 We will assume you've withdrawn your acceptance if we don't see your character on the AC page by then.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

↪Story 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.

↪ 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

[hoodstar]

hi i'm carmine, i play levi venatik and yuna ieyui but i have ichiro yamada from hypnosis mic here now as well!! he's a rapper from ikebukuro who's just tryna put it down for his hometown. his canon is weird; in short, men are oppressed and they have to battle for prestige and territory through rapping with special microphones

yeah it's wack as fuck but i love it

anyway i'm @ ragekind as always if you wanna get something going!

[sparklehorror]

Hello, all! I am Callie and I am bringing you Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls, completing our twinsies pile. I resisted for a long time but then most of the cast got killed and everyone's got feelings about it, so there is no better time to unleash this cheerful ball of loving chaos upon everyone involved. At last! I get to use my art degree!

If you need to reach me, for the moment I prefer DMs to this journal. Life™ means social media is very overwhelming for me at the moment, so for now I prefer to keep my plurk timeline very small for ease of quiet lurking. Even so, I am pretty easy to get a hold of, and I look forward to joining in on the shenanigans!

[searingwing]

Hey, I'm Samuel bringing you Diluc Ragnvindr from Genshin Impact! He's a pretty serious and composed guy. Head of the wine industry of his home city by day and walks the streets to fight crime at night. It's that gacha game that has all those exploration elements and elemental magics.

I'm new to the game and looking forward to things happening.

You can find me over at skyheron and can read further info on Diluc over here.

[clickclickbloom]

Hey Callie! I'm super excited to have you in the game.

I can't wait for more shenanigans with Ruby and Mabel. Once you get settled we should get some plotting going.

[sacrificinghearts]

Hello, hello~ This is Riddle tiger_eyes (player of Xue Yang) with this cat-eared disaster! Seimei Aoyagi is from the manga (and too short anime) called Loveless. He is the older brother of Ritsuka and Soubi's "true" Master/Sacrifice. Like their mother, there is something about Seimei that is unhinged (to say the least).

He can be as sweet as sugar and then colder than ice for little to no reason. It has been stated that he doesn't feel emotions like everyone else, however Ritsuka has always earned a strange reaction from him. Seimei considers his little brother his other half/the only one that is like him. Of course that doesn't mean he protects the poor kid. He seems to delight in causing pleasure and pain in those who catch his interest - perhaps even to himself?

Anyway, you are welcome to add me on Plurk if you haven't already. I'm also on Discord at madviolinist#5122. Let the shenanigans continue~

[findingtruth]

Hey! This is Clari, player of Lucille Sharpe (blackmothwings), bringing you Nancy Wheeler from Stranger Things! She is the older sister of Mike Wheeler, and her canon point is Season Three, Episode 8.

She is a headstrong, intelligent young woman who possesses a strong sense of right and wrong. She's proactive and kind of a badass tbh. She can get a little too focussed on trying to prove herself right, but she can usually see where she's gone wrong.

I can be contacted over at awakened, or via pm for plotting purposes! Looking forward to playing her here!

[ghostharasser]

He's missed her, truly.

[explosion]

Hey, this is Jade, Barry Allen (accelerate) and Katherine Pierce (manipulative) player with another great human being. Wanda's canon point is at the end of Avengers: Endgame, so there'll be no WandaVision peskiness in her first several weeks here. She's going to be reserved, mellow, sip her coffee and crack some more embarrassing dad jokes.

Girl is OP AF and here for anyone who wants to fangirl her for being the Only Avenger to Make Thanos Shit His Pants. She's signing autographs. That said, she is a telepath, so please let me know whenever we plot/thread if it's okay for her to read your character's mind and all their dirty secrets.

Please do not mention "Vision" to her in any way as she will cry and it'll be ugly. (Which means: please work "vision" and "Pietro" into everything; I require it.)

I'm best contacted via PM or Disco, but I do have plurk @ boofhead. Looking forward to making her the best dad joker of Deerington! ♥

[explosion]

Hi Clari! I'm so glad you apped Nancy beacuse I am really enjoying Wanda and Nancy's thread on the TDM! (Did you want to keep this as game canon?) Please be Wanda's friend, Nancy. You seem like you have a good head on your shoulders and you laugh at her stupid jokes.

[keystaff]

Hi Callie! I know we have kinda said hi on Plurk but. Welcome proper to the game!

I'm Caprica, again, and aside from this resident Magical Girl here I also have Miles Morales (from Marvel's Spider-Man games on PS4/PS5) and Clementine from Telltale's The Walking Dead. I still have Gravity Falls on my watchlist to get to but I look forward to cr with Mabel!

[inaminute]

A queen has arrived.

[explosion]

Sorry she's late, bestie! She was busy punching a Titan in the face (and winning!!!).

[measuringdicks]

eyyyy do you wanna retain their thread or do a new thing

[lighthousekeeping]

hi Nancy ssssry the cast is a disaster zone
they were like that before Joyce got here

[findingtruth]

Heyyy! I'm really enjoying their thread, too! I am so glad you apped Wanda. She's fantastic. I am totally ok with keeping their thread as game canon. And Nance would love to be friends with Wanda! She adores the jokes tbh. They bring much-needed light to this dreary nightmare town.

[findingtruth]

God, she's going to be completely horrified. I love it so much and can't wait for her to learn about what's been going on lately.
Joyyyce. ;; Nancy will help her out as much as she can.

[anklemonitor]

WHAT'S UP NEW BEST FRIEND!!!!!

[owllady]

Welcome to the game! I'm Mads and I play this pseudo-castmate, Eda from the Owl House, as well as King Wu from Legend of Korra. Excited you're here!

[rocinantes]

awww, i love lucille so i'm sure i'll love nancy too!! i loved her in canon so i'm excited to see you playing her!!

[imaglyphwitch]

Yay! So glad to see the Pine family have their complete circle!

Pedro, I play Luz (as you know) and if there was ever a time that we needed a Mabel, its now!

Luz will definitely look at her as a partner in crime if she gets the chance, thanks to Stan's memories!

[sparklehorror]

Super excited to be here! And so down for more CR between these two. From what I can tell of Ruby they are gonna get along like syrup on pancakes.

[sparklehorror]

I'm about to end this man's whole career!



did I do the meme right

[sparklehorror]

Thank you! I am happy to hurl my art student chaos entity at any of these!

[sparklehorror]

WITCHCRAFT

I mean

Absolutely looking forward to this CR! Stan's business competition rants mean nothing to Mabel and she will 100% be hanging around Eda given the chance.

[clickclickbloom]

It's going to be a great time. I promise.

[azurestar]

[searingwing]

Heeeey buddy, super excited to show you all the fun things that come of Diluc cr.

[sparklehorror]

Absolutely! I can't tell you how great it is to have automatic friends waiting in the wings like this. Having partners in crime as soon as she arrives is going to make a world of difference in getting her settled in.

Settled in for crime.

[sparklehorror]

Yeah, see

[imaglyphwitch]

Yeah, honestly, its kind of great how the groundwork for Mabel is totally here now.

And Luz will totally have Mabel's back in just about anything. Except nerd ridicule.

[findingtruth]

Aww I'm glad! Nancy is super new to me, so I hope I can do her some justice here, haha. She'll have to meet one of your characters sometime soon!!

[owllady]

Witchcraft

Please do!! Pretty sure they're essentially neighbors anyway, assuming that Mabel will live with the rest of the Pines. Eda and Stan have a really interesting relationship that is only mostly competitive.

[explosion]

i'm down if you are! she needs her Dirty Joke Bestie (and Comedy Coach, lbr) so that she can make scott lang blush and combust!

[explosion]

she's going to eat all your ice-cream, scotty

[droptheious]

Awww yes I'm so pleased to see you've arrived with your fantastic Mabel! Welcome to the game! I'm TF and along with Varian from Tangled here, I also play Louis from The Walking Dead Game. I'm looking forward to tagging you some more!

[laminae]

Welcome Callie! It's awesome to see Mabel in the game! I've only got Fern here, but he has cr with all the other Pineses and is particularly attached to Stan.

Pls decorate and braid Fern's hair one day, he has glorious Finn hair and it would make my day.

[azurestar]

hell yeah, im ready

[searingwing]

from bartending to flames, he got this.

[azurestar]

2 skills lance has come to really appreciate in this game lmao

[searingwing]

Gonna be a fun timeee. just super happy here. We're in a game together again!

[azurestar]

yeeeeeeeees~! it's been a long time

Fresh Blood

[thewitchboy]

Hello! I'm Asci and I'm bringing you a new OC :) This is Lee (Not his full name) and he's a witch so uh. Hello! Best way to reach me is via DMs.

[airforced]

Hi time to start a club for all the cool lady Avengers.

[explosion]

please. wanda can create the t-shirts!!

[sparklehorror]

Thank you! I'm looking forward to it too. It will blow Mabel's mind to fully realize that nerd stuff can mean things like awesome prosthetic limbs instead of whatever the hell Ford and Dipper are doing at any given time.

[sparklehorror]

Hello! I can absolutely make this happen. I will add it to the list. Bring other characters who have hair. We shall be all aboard the Braid Train.

[keystaff]

Yes good. I mean they might be kinda. Overwhelmed because. Mabel. But. I am okay with that. Esp Sakura given she has cr with Dipper and all.

[droptheious]

Let him teach you all the COOL things a nerd can make, Mabel.