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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[vibing]

Player Name: Mads
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: spudbud
Player intro: Hiiii I'm one of the mods here and I'm thrilled that y'all decided to join this game! I'm on eastern time, have two cats, and love campy things: movies, competition reality TV, professional wrestling, as well as animation and romance novels. I do improv sometimes and write a lot of fic.

Character Name: Yuri Lowell
Canon: Tales of Vesperia
Vibes: Yuri looks like a rogue cowboy on the range: all black, billowing clothing, big, jangling leather boots, tight, tight pants. He has an empty holster on his belt. His black hair is his most notable feature, going to his mid-back.
Memories: Yuri remembers that he was a knight, and that his mission was to protect a princess. Neither of these things is really true, but without context, this is how he's seeing himself. He also is keeping his fighting skills: both with weapons and hand-to-hand, and he's still a decent cook.
Initial Plans: Yuri's torn between feeling defeated and drinking all day, and wanting to get out and get back to protecting Estelle. He'll be a regular at the saloon, and also will be patrolling the town and exploring the desert. I wouldn't be surprised if he dies trying to explore the desert tbth. If anyone wants to die with him in the desert, that would be a fun first thread.

I slowly want to break it to him that he isn't really a knight anymore, and slowly reintroduce him to his friends and life back home outside of this supposed duty.
Anything else?:

cred

[thinkfirst]

Player Name: Jordan
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact: interplanetary
Player intro: IT'S ME YA BOY okay no really hello hi welcome to the game!!! I'm Jordan and I helped make this place / run it with my co-mod and IRL spouse Mads and we're stoked to have y'all here. I'm a full-time illustrator, and you'll find me doing a lot of traditional painting, which is on my art plurk these days. We have two cats and like twenty+ houseplants and when I'm not writing I'm usually trying to cook some kind of tasty food.

[minorjourney]

Player Name: Sam
Player Pronouns: He/him
Player Contact: skyheron
Player intro: Hey, it's Sam! I'm in the mental health profession and do a few hobbies in the off hours. Table top, mmos, games, and lately crochet. I don't talk much on plurk or so, but I got two cats and have been doing a lot of cooking experiments.

[minorjourney]

Character Name: Mollymauk Tealeaf
Canon: Critical Role
Vibes: I'm giving Molly a long coat and giving him the look of a rancher.
Memories: Molly typically is a mess so I arranged for him to have pieces of memories but not answers. He has ONE memory he wants to know more about so he has some motivation. So I can hit him in the face with all the other stuff.
Initial Plans: Molly is thrilled to explore and check things out. While not thinking fuck all about what he remembers, other than the mighty Nein.
Anything else?: No shitposts today but here's to Mighty Nein getting their own animated series!

Flynn Scifo | Tales of Vesperia

[thinkfirst]

Character Name: Flynn Scifo
Canon: Tales of Vesperia

Vibes: It's all denim all the time, baby. Flynn's gonna look like a real working cowboy with his tight denim and his blue checked shirts and his hats and stuff. The dude is blonde and tall and kind of stacked and even taller in cowboy boots, I guess? He comes off pretty intense at first meeting, but he's very kind! Just, you know. A lot.

Memories: Flynn mostly remembers his skills as a swordsman, and vaguely that he's from the slums of a large city. He's got a sense that he doesn't trust authority and knows that he's spent some time in jail, and that there was someone very important to him by his side when he was at home. He thinks he's a vigilante from a slum, more or less!

Initial Plans: Hey thanks he hates this place already!! Flynn doesn't do well with sitting still, so he's going to up in everyone's business like an annoying puppy. Think morning runs at dawn before it gets hot, near-constant desert exploration, poking his nose into every single store downtown to try and figure out what's going on. He'll also be looking for anything at all that he can use as a sword.

Anything else?:

it took me forever to find this

[searingwing]

Character Name: Diluc Ragvindr
Canon: Genshin Impact
Vibes: Fringe shirts, dark coats, and jeans.
Memories: Diluc knows he loves his dad and he was raised to defend others. He thinks he is a knight. Good old pain train will come for him eventually.
Initial Plans: He's going to poke around and try and find the truth. That's Diluc for you. Well that and build friendships and alliances.
Anything else?: No shit posts here either, off my game today.

Roxas | Kingdom Hearts

[shardsofmemory]

Character Name: Roxas
Canon: Kingdom Hearts/

Vibes: Do I only play blondes from old video games?? Yes. Anyway Roxas is 16 and it shows; he is a sulky teen who just wants to skateboard and hang out with his friends. He's going to end up in oversized western gear, mostly in black and white. He's absolutely wearing boots and absolutely not wearing a hat, and the boots are super going to make him walk like a little dog who doesn't like the booties you've put on it. Save this teen from himself! He'll come off standoffish but curious, and also he's very small. Pick-up-ably small. Like 5'4"

Memories: Roxas knows his Standard Teen Skills of skateboarding & parkour, and also he remembers that he's a normal kid from a normal sleepy town, which is.... false but I'm essentially making it so that he has to regain his memories of regaining his memories because surprise, this exact situation has happened to him before! Oops. Anyway he doesn't know that right now but BOY is he gonna be mad when he figures it out.

Initial Plans: Roxas is going to chill and vibe. He's going to probably low-key poke around and explore stuff, but he has no reason to believe he's not on some kind of weird vacation, so he's gonna keep it pretty chill until he has reason to get really spooked about it. Catch him at the diner eating pie and drinking WAYYYY too many milkshakes, being in the Saloon even though like SHOULD he be drinking??? and probably figuring out a way to make a skateboard out of a cactus or something

Anything else?: god I gotta find the vintage shitposts now

[thinkfirst]

u look familiar

also I'm not going to steal your death thread idea but if no one else jumps on it I think dying together in a fit of hubris is a GREAT way to properly kick off this relationship

[thinkfirst]

hi cross-canon bestie are you ready to be besties again because it's gONNA HAPPEN

although tbh I think it will be super interesting this time because Flynn doesn't even know that he's a knight

[searingwing]

Definitely ready for this!

It is gonna be really interesting. Diluc doesn’t even remember he is a noble. Just the core principles his father taught him. None of the pressure and all is there.

[thinkfirst]

can they even EXIST without pressure on them???? only time will tell!

[vibing]

hand clasp meme

lets die together my new bestie

[searingwing]

Right? What is the alternative? Happiness??

[sighsheavily]

Player Name:Elle
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact: whyellewhy
Player intro: i'm old, cold, and covered in mold...i draw too

Character Name: Cecelia Ardenbury
Canon: an oc...oh no
Vibes: Fancy and old-timey...a little bit prairie schoolteacher, a whole lot You Dare Approach Me Looking So Scrubby...i'll do better draws later

Memories: She can conjure a bit of magic...but doesn't know why. She has a penchant for peculiar languages...but doesn't know their origins. She is a stickler for grammar and good handwriting...because that is obviously just common sense.
Everything else is kinda...mehhhhh???? Fiction? Reality?? Who knows.

Initial Plans: CHRONICLE EVERYTHING. Routine-building and breaking for the sake of sparking memory, heavy interrogation of ANYONE who will put up with her, etc... y'all want impromptu autobiographies written right.

Anything else?: I am very ping-motivated; please kindly @ me whenever u wanna do stuff or I will assume, even if "open" is in the title, that "open" excludes nonsense like me

[sighsheavily]

do a dashing enough good deed or rescue and u will have a very understated fan
so long as u keep clean in this dusty musty place
u can't claim to be a knight if ur filthy it's just the rules

[sighsheavily]

i'm here to unofficially adopt this child
despite being maternally broken

[sighsheavily]

i cant believe cecelia is attracted to someone in so much denim
descostang

[sighsheavily]

nice fanfic memory buddy
here let me write that down for u

[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

[umbrosus]

Player Name: Beth
Player Pronouns: She/her
Player Contact: terriblepurpose
Player intro: Canadian doomed by the narrative. I have one evil cat and an appreciation of horror, metafiction, wrestling, any stories about people who are just sooo weird and messed up, old sci-fi, new sci-fi, general trash, and assorted garbage.

Character Name: Bruce Wayne
Canon: The Batman (2022)
Vibes: Bruce is the Mysterious Stranger with an Unknown Past, with the compounding issue of that past also being unknown to himself. Think Man in Black for his aesthetics: a cowboy stand-in for a shadow, ominous and looming, except for the fact he's shivering like a nervous chihuahua when anyone makes eye contact.
Memories: All skills, head empty. Bruce's sum total knowledge of himself is his own name, and a medley of Batman-related skills (violence, sneaking, mystery solving, gadgets, first aid) and one Bruce Wayne skill (can play 'Creep' on a guitar).
Initial Plans: Bruce, lacking all narrative memories of his life, will be operating as a kind of blank mystery hunting robot man at first. Having no direction will result in him pursuing any mystery set in front of him just for the sake of having a Task to perform, and he will be vulnerable to latching onto people and designating them as important to him out of a loneliness he can feel but not articulate the cause of. Also, he's going to be climbing on roofs a lot, for inexplicable reasons.
Anything else?:

[vibing]

o tnx

cece: the unofficial historian of well

only someday will he know he got accidentally role swapped with flynn

[vibing]

circus troupe when

[shardsofmemory]

hisses like a feral cat

let him live man!!!!!!!!! no but really can't wait to throw this bad teen at Cece he. his attitude. she's going to hate it so much

[vibing]

we need several resident cryptids, good job bruce getting in on that early

excited to be in a game with you again! I didn't know you like wrestling too, camp nonsense like that is perfect for this game.

[thinkfirst]

PRAIRIE SCHOOLTEACHER....... goodness. CECE. I'm planting my flag in the corner of please always tag me with her she's perfect time to keep charming her accidentally I guess!!!!