march 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 Vigilanden Justice, Warm Front, and Poisoned Gnature. 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>:

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[1019]

Player Handle: Inigo
Character(s): Lucas Baker
Character Summary: NEET eldest child of a good ol’ quiet Louisiana bayou family turned hobbyist Jigsaw and part time mad scientist and black market dabbler, Lucas has a strong mechanical brilliance; a playful nature; infamous-Roman-emperor-level nasty, self-indulgent, and egomaniacal streaks each a couple miles wide; and, as the TFLN goes, all the grace of a fucking hippo and the emotional maturity of a five-year-old. His Birthright Jewel is an Opal!
Short-term plans: Honestly, he’s primarily just going to be getting a lay of the land until something more specific comes up - getting a feel for what’s at his disposal (especially technologically, knowing him) toward doing his own thing and for how to reap the benefits of his position as... being in Draega.
Long-term goals: Ohh, I’m definitely hoping to get him to a point of making an Offering eventually - Lucas is crafty and sure likes to win big, but he’s also a combination of scatterbrained, prideful, reactionary, and mostly just one to screw around; I might be try going for the angle of seeing him become more ambitious, in a “Game of Thrones-y” way!
TDM threads: Sure!
Anything else: You can also feel free to hit me up or add me on Plurk @ schmendricks!

[kesi]

Can I just say that I was thrilled to see Lucas on the TDM and even more thrilled that you brought him in. It's gonna be great, this is gonna be fabulous.

And also I'm Bon and I have this guy Takame who's an MMO OC from Final Fantasy XIV. Welcome to the fun! o/

[ilves]

"the emotional maturity of a five-year-old"

ah, he's in good company... lalli here is 20-going-on-12. but hello! welcome to the game! i'm elia, and i play this socially awkward scout from post-apocalyptic finland who is used to dealing with spooky shit on the daily. give him your worst, lucas!!!! or maybe they can just be terrible at everything together lmaoooo

[arrogator]

I have not played RE7 yet (outside of the demo which was great), but he sounds like he'll be a lot of fun to have in a game!

Also I'm Steve, I play Mordred here from Fate/Apocrypha who is probably going to be infinitely less thrilled with a mad scientist type being around than I am. Sent you an add on Plurk too, and I hope you have fun here!

[unwieldy]

i knooooow nothing about his canon but lucas sounds really wild and i love wild!!

nice to meet you inigo, i'm yuul!! i play haein here who will probably absolutely hate lucas and i'm here for it.

[burn_with_us]

Player Handle: Cerie
Character(s): Katniss Everdeen
Character Summary: Victor of the 74th Hunger Games, Reluctant Revolutionary, Archer & Bad With People. Katniss wears Summer Sky.
Short-term plans: HAHAHAH. Trying not to get her head lopped off to start. Katniss is not really the most subtle of people and she's stubborn & hates authority so she's going to have a grand time. I suspect she'll side more landen than Blood, so I see her trying to get in with the guilds.
Long-term goals: Uprising. Honestly, with Katniss, I want her to learn some control. She's impulsive and she's had canon characters ground her thus far. She doesn't have that advantage in Draega so she's going to have to go it alone for the first time a long time.
TDM threads: Katniss only had one, with Tyrion, so if Tyrion apps, sure!
Anything else:



Katniss, why are you like this.

[ilves]

hey! welcome to the game!

i know very little about katniss, admittedly, but i DO know that the girl is a) tough as nails and b) knows how to SURVIVE out there in the wilderness. lalli's a scout from post-apocalyptic finland, so he's used to running around the woods/hunting/foraging, etc... maybe they can find some common ground? survival buddies!! 👀 and maybe she can even teach him to shoot a bow one of these days

[garmr]

Seconding the Wilderness Survival squad if you guys ever make plans for that! That sounds like it’d be pretty cool

But also, I can see these two being a fantastic political dumpsterfire in the making at some point

[arrogator]

Welcome to the game!

Katniss sounds like a great addition, and I definitely want to throw Mordred at her since she's done the revolutionary thing and has problems with people skills. Not so much anti-authority though but at least there's some things in common!

[shiftinglikeclay]

Ooo, Katniss!

She and Alex should totally get together and be suspicious of authority/the Blood together.

[inducings]

Hey Cerie! I'm Shira, playing Piper here - welcome to the game! I'm excited to see what Katniss gets up to.

[whettedmind]

I'm all for keeping our TDM thread.

I foresee Tyrion trying to coax her into something resembling subtlety and planning, in the interest of everything not going up in flames. This is sure to be a wonderful disaster.

[mekhanikos]

hi cerie!! i still need to catch either sansa or katniss or both for some cr, leo here would definitely agree with katniss on the siding more with the landen side, and he works for one of the guilds so maybe they could chat about that? or fun worlds where people die, i guess...

[garmr]

Player Handle: Aran
Character(s): Guts
Character Summary: Cynical human disaster with a tender heart deep down inside. His soul has been cursed by demons, all his friends are dead, and the only thing keeping him standing is his hatred for the guy that destroyed everything he loves. He copes with his shitshow of a life by violently swinging his sword at things and rejecting people’s love and concern.

Short-term plans: Guts will be arriving with all the wounds from his latest demon hunt. If you want to deal with the worst patient ever, he will be that for the first few days.

He is also fresh off his two-year revenge quest and has all his equipment pretty beat up and covered in demon juices. He will be looking to get his sword reforged, some new plate mail and a touching up on his artificial arm. Any other weapon-focused upgrades/maintenance will be of interest as well.

Long-term goals: Getting this grouchy man some friends. Guts is kind of at his lowest point and I’d like for him to do some healing and growing in-game for his Offering. Coming in, he will find it hard to learn any magic even with his birthright jewel because it’s Guts and he’s not allowed to have nice things.

He won’t have any particular allegiance to the landen or the blood, and will be pretty shit at politics. Expect him to piss somebody off at some point. Eventually, he will probably focus more on exploring the territories outside Draega and the supernatural.

TDM threads: Yeah!
If our threads are still going I will DM to double check!
Anything else:

goals

[theladyofwinterfell]

Iiii really liked our threads so I would love to keep them and do more!

[illequipped]

holy shit... i love guts.... i have only a tiny prettyboy to offer, who is also terrible at learning magic?? they have this, and only this, in common

also welcome!!!

[ilves]

i didn't want to keep hijacking y'all's thread up there, but! lalli is only 5'5" and is built like a twig, but still - hello, twin? i hope to god they roast lizards together and shrug when the people around them think they're GROSS

also... hi, i'm elia! welcome to the game!

[arrogator]

I definitely want to keep the TDM thread and Mordred kind of gets swording at things in place of dealing with life being a shitshow (not a Berserk level shitshow because good lord, but still).

[unwieldy]

i cannot offer the grouchy man a friend because haein would rather die than have friends but i can promise you lots of not getting along!!

hello aran and welcome!! i'm yuul and guts sounds GREAT i look forward to playing with him!!!

[inducings]

Hi Aran! I'm Shira, playing Piper here. I'm totally canon blind, but just wanted to say hi and welcome to the game!

[mekhanikos]

hi aran and a very belated welcome to the game!

i'm celen and i succumbed to very unfortunately timed influenza, thus missing the intro and everything... anyway! leo here is a demigod whose approach to life is Grin And Joke And Things Will Work Out, and so he's ready to beam at guts at every opportunity while aggressively befriending him and not giving him a chance to say anything at all to that. oops?

[sinistral]

Player Handle: Cat
Character(s): Bucky Barnes | sinistral
Character Summary: In the wake of dropping Steve Rogers, I bring you instead a brainwashed super soldier assassin with a metal arm and no concrete memories. Wears the red.
Short-term plans: Exploration for sure, and figuring out the hows and whys of this society. He'll be firmly of the belief that he's only here for his usefulness as an assassin — hence why his jewel is so strong — and having to work through what that means to him.
Long-term goals: Eventually working through the returning of his memories and deciding who he wants to be as a person: the man he barely remembers or the Asset that HYDRA made him into. Making the Offering is a super long term goal of mine like months down the road.
TDM threads: Absolutely! I am a slow tagger (and always will be) so I will hit them back as I can.
Anything else: Look at this ridiculous fool:

[theladyofwinterfell]

I would also like to keep our TDM thread!

Also Bucky, fren, that is hardcore parkour.

[breadmuffs]

Player Handle: Ilana
Character(s): Caleb Widogast
Character Summary: Smelly hobo wizard cat lover. No, not Anders. (Sorry Anders you probably don't smell anyway.) Former brilliant child warmage-in-training, now an awkward, socially anxious adult spellcaster with a Thing about fire who runs with a band of Assholes called the Mighty Nein. Kind of selfish but also kind of a pretty decent friend. Summer-sky and so miffed HE'S ALREADY WEAK.
Short-term plans: Getting the lay of the land, trying not to piss off any Warlords or Warlord Princes aaaaaand trying to make nice with the blood, basically. Also talking to as many people as he can about what magic they might have known beforehand.
Long-term goals: Definitely want to work him towards his Offering, both because he would want the chance to have more power to work with and because I want to see it. Probably related: have the man learn to get over himself and to deal with his trauma in a way that isn't...you know, literally reshaping reality. Long term goals. Also he needs friends.
Anything else:

[whettedmind]

Tyrion has absolutely no magical skill other than what the Jewel affords him, but I feel like he and Caleb should bond over a mutual thirst for knowledge. Or squabble over who found that book first.

[whettedmind]

Player Handle:PG
Character(s): Tyrion Lannister
Character Summary: Savvy political player who has somehow managed to maintain a roughly functional moral compass, barring brief forays into murder during an emotional breakdown. Accustomed to being the object of ridicule and revulsion. Reads anything he can get his hands on, and copes with the various horrors of the world with cynical humour and lots and lots of wine. Wears the Opal.
Short-term plans: Getting the lay of the land and a sense of some of the major players, and trying to wrap his head around the fact that he apparently has magic now. He knows it exists in his own world, in some limited form, but actually being able to use it himself is not something he ever really anticipated.
Long-term goals: Tyrion is probably going to wade into the murky political waters once he sees an opening, because that's where his skills tend to lie. On the personal scale, backing away further from the cynicism singularity, gaining a few genuine friends, and resolving some of his internal conflict over essentially what constitutes acceptable loss vs acceptable compromise are all eventual goals.
TDM threads: Sure!
Anything else: Feel free to prod me by PM or add me on plurk at quantumvelvet.

[theladyofwinterfell]

Hello, ex husband! Sansa will be sure to tell the various men with metal arms that she's collected that you're the husband she liked and not the bad one.