February OOC Intro & Game Open!

[wellie]

OOC INTROS // WELCOME TO WELL

Kick off your boots, hang up your hat, strike up a conversation! You're in Well now, and we're so excited to have you. After working on this dang game for months, it feels so good to stretch out our toes and really get into things. This is a space to get to know each other and get excited about your fellow players!


<B>Player Name:</b> <B>Player Pronouns:</b> <b>Player Contact:</b> <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or other <B>Player intro:</b> Tell us about yourself! <B>Character Name:</b> <B>Canon:</b> <B>Vibes:</b> What western aesthetics are you forcing them into? What kind of first impression do they give off? What are they like? <B>Memories:</b> How much do they remember? Are they all-skills-head-empty, or do they have a head full of memory fragments? <B>Initial Plans:</b> How's your character going to feel about being trapped here? Are they going to chill in the Cactus Pad, or immediately try to get out of town? <b>Anything else?:</b> Place your shitposts right here!

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[whisted]

Player Name: Qi
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: retconnd or PM this account
Player intro: I'm usually in EST but tend to bounce across to CST with decent regularity. My main consumptions are age of sail nonsense and Arthurian nonsense, and I'm in the process of reacquiring hobbies beyond failing at the same videogame over and over. o/

Character Name: Horatio Hornblower
Canon: Hornblower (book series specifically despite the movie shitposting)
Vibes: The important first impression which will not be changed is one of the first lines in the second book: Horatio is absolutely a "a tall and rather gangling individual with hollow cheeks and a melancholy cast of countenance, whose [clothes] looked as if it had been put on in the dark and not readjusted since." No amount of being on dry land will solve any of that!! He's also got Very Big awkward at social interaction vibes. The most common response to anyone anywhere at any time about anything will be him clearing his throat and looking faintly embarrassed to exist. He's definitely clearly a sweet kid underneath all that, but there's a big block of social awkwardness to chisel through first. Western-wise, he's got a flannel/denim thing going on (and definitely hats, because he feels weirdly off-kilter without hats, even though it'll probably fit weird until he figures out how low to tie his ponytail with them). Definitely nothing Flashy(TM) or Expensive(TM); very much in the vein of 'ready to carry heavy things or fall down in mud about a horse' chic(?). (ofc there's a moodboard about it)
Memories: Horatio remembers only weird useless memories, but two practical skills! He's got the sense impression of home sheep (Romney marsh sheep to be specific) and toiling over Greek/Latin translations, as well as the strong sense that someone was terribly proud of him at some point in spite of the everything about him. More excitingly, he's got his knot-tying skills, so come at him when you need things made secure! Exciting for him but no one else, he's got his top tier card-counting skills, so don't come at him if you don't want to have someone inhale whatever game he gets taught to the point of breaking it!
Initial Plans: The only vibe is figuring out how to contribute. It's not clear what that will look like, but he needs border collie jobs to do and he needs them ASAP. Except a lot of offers to help rearrange furniture and run errands.
Anything else?: important fact he was born on July 4, 1776 that's just a fun thing to know about him and his very british self

[thinkfirst]

"failing at the same videogame" god what I mood just a few minutes ago I learned that I can't actually play my own canon....rip to us. anyway GOODNESS I JUST. their first thread is so powerful, re: jars and whether they're compelling, I can't wait to do more with Horatio he is such a bean

Also Flynn I think will have plenty of tasks for him. we're gonna rebuild this town if it's the last thing we do bud!!

[whisted]

/solidarity hand clasp it is a Struggle!! why are they like this when all we do is love them!!

Also yes good for tasks for the bean! Tasks which will be punctuated by updates on the very small jaw collection because now he's a little convinced it's a thing!!

[sighsheavily]

i cannot believe cece must endure the only other intellectual in town looking so goddamn FRUMPY
she's offended
learn to IRON

[whisted]

listen the disheveled academic is a Look let him live!
let him live and talk about the Metamorphoses with him!!

let him live and teach him to iron maybe!!

[sighsheavily]

she will teach him to iron and absorb the metamorphoses in exchange yes
maybe itll help her rememeber some of her own stories c':

[whisted]

this is an excellent skillshare!!
on the one hand hopefully yes, but on the other hand fam they're some weird nonsense hopefully there's a happier story to prompt that noise

[sighsheavily]

the best bit is that like
she has a vague memory of something important of hers being stolen
and the truth is it was her childhood fanfics that were stolen
so there's a CHANCE she could come to the bad conclusion that what he tells her IS one of her stories and HOW DARE YOU PERCEIVE HER WRITING

[whisted]

elnsdlkxc hi I love it
I too would not want someone to perceive me having written the transformation of io
perhaps she will forgive him if he teacher her to make knots??

[sighsheavily]

no never.
well
maybe.
for a different favor
to be determined at a later date and hung over his head forever until then

[whisted]

being in a state of constant readiness for an unknown task is the ultimate border collie task tbh
he's here for it
this is a good plan

[hellonspectacles]

Ahhhhhh I am obsessed with the fact that we have a Horatio in this game! I played Bush ages ago (mostly movieverse, but supplemented with books) and was deeply in the fandom for a while, so this is taking me back.

Also: Pal is a fellow beanpole nerd who can't dress himself, they will obviously have to become awkward friends.

[whisted]

In this house we love William Bush so much?? What excellent taste. ♥

Also yes excellent and good! They can reinforce mussy behaviour and be carried off by the same stiff breeze. :')

[hellonspectacles]

He is a Good Boy! He puts up with So Much Crap! He loves his neurotic, grumpy captain/bff! Man, now I miss him.

Yeeessss. Palamedes is definitely more on the extroverted side, so he will inevitably be rambling endlessly at Horatio and asking 500 questions, it'll be great.

[whisted]

The actual hero of the piece tbh! The best of all the lads!! Hornblower who!!!

If the movies proved anything, it's that Horatio needs an extroverted friend to make him say his thoughts outside for even a single second. :''') And if the 500 questions are about counting cards, it'll be productive and grand.

[hellonspectacles]

Okay, now all I want in life is for Horatio to teach Pal how to count cards. SO EXCITED.

[whisted]

My true goal with putting Horatio in literally any game I put him in is to let him either beat people at cards through maths or develop nerdy friendship by explaining how to beat people at cards through maths, so. /points at eyes points at you points at my demands for this

[hellonspectacles]

Pal has a photographic memory, so he is going to be very good at this!! They are going to be the Weird Nerd Boys Who Can't Dress And Fleece Everyone In Town. It's everything I didn't know I needed.

[whisted]

Oh no I'm excited for them to be besties ;s;