february ooc intro

[thestewards]

Welcome to A Gentle Night! We're excited to have you here and can't wait to kick off our next event with an OOC plotting post on Tuesday the 19th. New characters will have officially arrived as of the event post.

Take this time to say hello and introduce yourselves to each other. Feel free to use the form below. Decide whether or not you want to keep your TDM threads canon with other characters who were accepted.

This month, you may receive influence for Hot Under the Collard Greens and Revenge, Served Stinky. For Terrible Two(hundred)s, you may earn reputation with either Loren or Grejor, depending on how you solved the problem. Remember, this is only applicable to canon TDM threads. Influence is contingent on how your character interacted with the prompt. Go to the Influence Page and follow the example if you wish to submit a thread for influence or reputation.

<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;font-weight:300"><strong>Player Handle</strong>: <strong>Character(s)</strong>: <strong>Character Summary</strong>: Give us your punchiest character summary. Hook us on your muse. For example, we might say of Loren... "Buttoned up pencil pusher with over four years of accrued vacation time. Would send an illusion of himself on a date before attending in person. Purple Dusk to Green." <strong>Short-term plans</strong>: What would you like your character to get up to in Draega at the start? <strong>Long-term goals</strong>: Whether it's instigating another landen uprising, making your Offering, or something as banal as opening a bakery. <strong>TDM threads</strong>: Do you want to keep TDM threads as canon? <strong>Anything else</strong>:

Comments

Reserved for characters accepted this month

[thestewards]

[shiftinglikeclay]

Player Handle: Amy
Character(s): Alex Fierro
Character Summary: Alex is a genderqueer child of Loki who just got back from putting her mother/father back in chains. She shifts gender pronouns as easily as she shifts shape, and is more than willing to take your head off with her magical garrote if you can't accept him for who he is.
Short-term plans: Figure out what's really going on - he's sure that what he's been told is at best half the story, so he'll be talking to as many people as possible to make his own decision
Long-term goals: She'll probably want to make her Offering at some point, if only because the Purple Dusk puts her slightly below her normal power level. Barring something really changing her mind, she's likely to be into supporting the landens overall, but I'm looking forward to seeing how that works out.
TDM threads: Sure!
Anything else: I'm sure there's something I should say, but I am trying to write this before I have to run out to the theatre.

[illequipped]

would alex like to be emil's much smarter, more capable friend.... "friend"... he gets better i swear

[unwieldy]

welcome to agn, amy!! i'm yuul and i play my oc haein here :9 i'm familiar with the pjo series but never got around to reading more from the riordan-verse so i'm looking forward to getting to know alex!!

[phykios]

ALEEEEEXXXXX man i fell down on the tdm, but i love alex and i'm so excited you've apped!!!

[fulminatum]

heyo & welcome!! I really enjoyed their tdm thread, shall we keep building on that?

[championbittersweet]

oh man Alex sounds great! I cannot wait to see how she manages in game and I kind of want to throw my 1918 vampire at him.

[sunborne]

Hi! I really enjoy our thread between Day and Alex. I would love for it to be canon if you're cool with that.

[mekhanikos]

hi amy!! i died during tdm so i never got to tag you there but man i am so excited! also, hi, i'm celen and obviously here with leo who will probably think alex is awesome.

[ilves]

Player Handle: Elia
Character(s): Lalli Hotakainen
Character Summary: Lalli is a twenty-year-old night scout/mage from post-apocalyptic Finland with zero (0) people skills. Catch him stealing food right off your plate/hissing at cats because they hate him/pissing off the locals, because seriously, what are social norms?? He sure doesn't know. His hobbies include sleeping in the weirdest places, scouting around the most dangerous environments for hours on end, eating anything with SUGAR (direct him to cinnamon rolls ASAP, please), awkwardly staring at people... he's great. He has an OPAL!
Short-term plans: Almost everything in Draega is new and wild to Lalli, so he's going to need some time to, like, come to terms his new "home." He's going to spend some time exploring the city, figuring out what this Craft nonsense is all about, aaaaaand avoiding people if he can help it, but please... bother him and/or fuss at him... :') I'm ready to make stuff HAPPEN!!
Long-term goals: Hoo, boy! Here we go...
-This is lame tbh, but I want him to make FRIENDS!! He's twenty and he just recently made his very first friend, so blease... help him... and drag his quiet self into things...
-Politics? What? He's not a socially savvy person, so eventually he's going to tell the wrong person the wrong thing... and lose some serious influence, because he's dumb. I would loooove for someone/some people to, like, teach him how to properly interact with other people? To fuss at him about manners???
-He'll definitely go for the Offering one day, but I'm not quite sure how that will go down. Stay tuned, folks...
TDM threads: SURE! Whatever floats your boat.
Anything else: I'm over at tuchanka, so feel free to add me! I chat about rp stuff, fandom stuff, my pets, etc.

[illequipped]

Player Handle: Laura
Character(s): Emil Västerström
Character Summary: Insecure, mouthy 20yo who tries his best (occasionally) but is critically lacking in natural talent. Joined the army so he could start fires for a living in a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia. Great hair. Really is a sweetheart, but is also an idiot with no brain-to-mouth filter at first blush. Purple Dusk, very aesthetic.
Short-term plans: Settle in, learn some Craft stuff, make some connections who will patiently endure his tendency to complain. He's only recently come around to the idea that Magic is Real so he's got some hangups about it, please advise.
Long-term goals: Set fires for a living, take 2?? Who can say. He is... gullible and desperate to be liked, so the long term plans are really to find a niche he's not terrible at and stick with it.
TDM threads: hell yeah let's get it poppin
Anything else: please feel free to add me on plurk at jojoveller!!

[theladyofwinterfell]

Player Handle: Cerie
Character(s): Sansa Stark
Character Summary: Porcelain underlaid with steel. Sansa has matured from naive girl to savvy political woman under the tutelage of slyness and cruelty. Courtesy is her armor and words are her weapon.
Short-term plans: I would love for Sansa to get involved with the disputes between Blood and landen, as she has some experience ruling and settling disputes at Winterfell. I'd also like her to work toward making couture wear, as she is clever with a needle and needs some means of supporting herself.
Long-term goals: Sansa has serious issues with intimacy and trust, so I would like her to work toward resolving those (to some extent!) before making her Offering. I want her to learn more about Blood politics and if not get involved directly, make suggestions to the right players on how to keep the landens happy.
TDM threads: I would love to keep any and all of my TDM threads as canon!
Anything else: I don't have plurk but you can PM this journal or hit me up on discord at sheikah#5408; I'm usually around unless I'm sleeping (even at work).

[inducings]

Player Handle: Shira
Character(s): Piper McLean
Character Summary: Not a thief, but sent to reform school for being one, Piper recently discovered that being half Cherokee was not the only reason she's a 'half-blood.' (She hates that word.) Vegetarian, perceptive, fiercely loyal to her friends and ruthless to her enemies, Piper is determined to show that there is more to being a daughter of Aphrodite than being petty, flighty, and stirring up heartbreak. After all, love is the most powerful motivator in the world. Opal.
Short-term plans: Piper would like to get to know everyone and figure out what's going on. She'd also like to become more familiar with the entire system and the why of the system.
Long-term goals: Piper's going to be really interested in dealing with the halfblood prejudice and trying to move toward a more equal system. She's got a very personal investment in that sort of thing. She'll also be really interested in learning all that she can about the Craft to make the best use of her new abilities, and in learning more about the Offering.
TDM threads: I'd be happy to keep them canon, just lmk.
Anything else: My plurk's @ somescribbles, feel free to add me for ease of plotting! (Yay, I'm excited!)

[withbite]

Player Handle: Harley
Character(s): Damon Salvatore
Character Summary: He's sexy and he knows it. That's pretty much the embodiment of Damon Salvatore. Or, that's what he'd tell you. He's got a lot of self-loathing issues he doesn't have any inclination to fix, but he's the big bad and he's embraced that fact. Why be bad at being good when you can be great at being a dick? He likes being a vampire and he's not shy about sharing that fact. Damon has a Green Jewel.
Short-term plans: Trouble? That's pretty much his forte.
Long-term goals: He's feeling things out first to decide what he wants his long-term goals to be. He accepted coming here and helping out, but he's a self-serving type, so situations might change.
TDM threads: I'm fine with that. I'm also fine with starting fresh if people would prefer. I'm flexible.
Anything else: No? Maybe? I am the worst at these.

[yesterweek]

Player Handle: Leigh
Character(s): Calvin Lee
Character Summary: Calvin is an awkward, nerdy pothead with an additional drinking problem, who is dealing with some very real problems involving serious money issues and life throwing his parents' mortality into his face. Also less typical problems like being stuck in a time loop because he was a normal guy who knew the wrong people. He's witnessed murders, joined a cult, and lost his virginity (more than once??) but somehow has difficulty recalling any of it, and still isn't sure it all really happened. He's also got a White jewel, because that is just the kind of luck Calvin has been working with his whole life.
Short-term plans: I want him to come to terms with what's happening to him, and find a few people he feels he can trust at least a little.
Long-term goals: Befriend landen npcs and start helping with creating tech that could potentially be helpful, mostly focused on sustainability in a very messed up world.
TDM threads: I'm good with making them canon if people like, but can clean slate them too
Anything else: Feel free to add me at jhope and thanks, yuul, for posting this all for me while I only have access to my phone which refuses to work with me here

[sunborne]

Player Handle: Melly!

Character(s): Daylight vis Lornlit. | Original Character.
Character Summary: A human/robot hybrid from a sci-fi setting where his deceased parents are considered megastars heroes in history and he's feeling the pressure to live up to their names. Carrying more legacy baggage than a burdened bellhop, Daylight does his best to be cheerful, upbeat, and optimistic at the end of the day. Daylight is an Opal!

Short-term plans: Survive for one thing. Due to circumstances of his Jewel, he'll need to find a way to fuel himself and regain energy since his eternal efficiency system can't accommodate the Jewel's consumption of energy. He'll be napping a lot/be sleepy a lot until he turns to the Guilds for help or asks someone for an ideal. Of course he also wants to make friends and have people not get scared of his appearance and ten feet tall height when he's around.
Long-term goals: He wants to help strive for the goal of Blood and landen getting along, though he admittedly leans towards more of the needs of landen and half-blood. Make an Offering since being a darker Jewel will help reduce the energy consumption issue. Also let him run an art show or a festival of some sort please.

TDM threads: Sure!
strong>Anything else: I also play Zita Harrington (OC) in the game as well. You're free to add me on prognostic if you want.

[whitfeet]

Player Handle: Sam
Character(s): Daisy Whitfoot D&D OC
Character Summary: Wildchild halfling ranger/rogue. Daisy's been around the block, living as a pirate for awhile and then surviving an apocalypse on Faerun herself. 5500 years later she was revived to find... the end of the world didn't actually happen and life is even weirder than it was before. She's a bit lost on where to go now, but she's driven to find her missing friend from before the apocalypse and make some mischief along the way.
Short-term plans: Mischief! Daisy isn't quite sure where to throw her hat in yet, so in the meantime she's probably going to pull some pranks around town and make a little chaos.
Long-term goals: Power isn't really on Daisy's lists of desires, but if she ever gets anywhere in life she may reconsider the Offering. I'd really like to see her either go one of two directions: softened and taught to enjoy the simpler things in life or hardened to embrace the chaos in humanity fully and become more an assassin. I'd like to organically see this go either way through friendships and any mission type things that might arise!
TDM threads: Missed on the TDM so nope!
Anything else: I was here with Esme before but had to drop for OOC reasons. So returned with Daisy! Feel free to add at magickal

[midship]

Player Handle: Qi
Character(s): Horatio Hornblower
Character Summary: Officer in Nelson's Royal Navy since the age of 17 (which was ~8 years ago now) who has seen a good deal of action for the time period (including being held as a prisoner of war twice). Most recently denied a promotion because the war with France (temporarily) ended, so moved on to playing whist for money. Come to him for all your awkward, tired, coffee-loving, exhausted, repressed, still tired beanpole friend needs.
Short-term plans: Finding his highest and best use in this new and different and not as immediately transparent system. Someone please give him a task he just. he has not. had one. in a minute. and that hurts his heart so much.
Long-term goals: A single shred of self-respect would be nice.
TDM threads: If folks are into it, yes!
Anything else: But seriously he's so tired please either adopt him or allow him to adopt you for some actual positive friendship cr.

[retrorsum]

Player Handle: kerry
Character(s): river song
Character Summary: part-human, part-alien genetic mess from the future. time travelling archaeologist. most ridiculous person you could ever know and she loves it. also supposed to be dead but y'know how it goes.
Short-term plans: sniff around, get the lay of the land, learn as much as she can about this place
Long-term goals: who even knows
TDM threads: i didn't really do much but sure
Anything else:

[thedarkbond]

Player Handle: Revise swinging in here extremely late
Character(s): Ren Suzugamori
Character Summary: A 23 year old functional-ish adult who likes to pretend he isn't, because it's more fun to him to pretend he's dense and innocent and mess around with people. Friendly, loyal, cutesy and legitimately good-hearted, but tends to exaggerate his good aspects to conceal the fact that he's pretty manipulative, sadomasochistic and a bit powerlusty courtesy of having spent a few years of his formative adolescence in the thrall of his own psychic powers that drew out his worst traits.
Short-term plans: Forming connections! Ren thrives on not being alone and even though he chose to be here, he's definitely going to want to start forming a network of sorts as soon as he can.
Long-term goals: Since Ren is a Purple Dusk, I want him to start working up influence since that'll be his way of making up for the fact that he's a below-average jewel colour (since he'll figure influence might make someone think twice about just ending him if they feel like it). I'm definitely interested in having him do his Offering eventually, but since my main character arc in mind for that relates to his inability to be genuine about his own feelings with anyone important to him, ever, that's going to take some sweet sweet time.
TDM threads: Sure! I don't have too many but I'm happy to keep the ones I do.
Anything else: I'm on plurk over at reviseleviathan, feel free to add as long as I can see who you're playing on your profile!

[song_of_ice]

Player Handle: Rachel
Character(s): Jon Snow
Character Summary: The former King in the North and bastard of Winterfell, Jon has gone from sulking in the shadows to becoming a hero in the war against the dead. He's an honorable man with a rigid sense of right and wrong. Despite not being adept at the game of thrones, he has managed to rise high in the world. But none of that is on his mind, he has a zeroed in focus for what he is going to face and what he needs to do. Fun is for the living, not the newly resurrected.
Short-term plans: Adjusting to this new world and everything he's agreed to. He's going to try to come to terms to his unease at Craft, as well as the obvious hierarchy of this world. So basically, a lot of confusion.
Long-term goals: Jon doesn't know how to play the game as others do. He's going to recognize that to survive here, he'll need to adapt and become more savvy. He's also going to eventually learn Craft to help enhance his battle prowess, like speed and agility.
TDM threads: Absolutely keep
Anything else: Feel free to friend me at la_fille_en_histoire

[theladyofwinterfell]

Character Arc: awkward problem solving with sister until he and sister are speaking civilly again of their own accord.

[whitfeet]

but what about fun jon. daisy here thinks jon shouldn't forget about fun either.

[thequitecontrary]

Mary can help him with that game playing, perhaps.

[inducings]

Hey, Rachel! I'm Shira. Thanks for the fun thread in the TDM! I'd love to keep that canon if you're game?