APRIL CR MEME.

[agogemod]

the future is unwritten;

know your rights.

WELCOME TO AGOGE'S NEWEST CR MEME, where you can get your plot on. The BASE and training logs both still qualify as live. And, of course, there's the small matter of hypotheticals for when we get to Jhashch. Share your hierarchy standing, worry about arachnophobia, and say any goodbyes you may have to Bob. Or, uh, if you wrecked anything.

The following template is a rubric to give you ideas of what to post; it's not mandatory at all! Feel free to leave categories off if needed, or add your own.

PLAYER;

NAME: Who are you?
CONTACT: Where are you?
TAGGING HABITS: What kind of tagging habits do you have?

CHARACTER;

NAME: Who's that pokemon?
CANON: Are they ghost type?

GAME GOALS: Do you have any overall plans in game?

PLOT PLANS: Anything you're looking forward to in the next mission?

DESIRED CR: CR your character meshes well with? CR you can provide others?

ANYTHING ELSE? This is where the gifs go.

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We're at BASE for another week, before characters head out to Jhashch. We'll also have some newbies filtering in over the next few days, so keep an eye out!

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[mylawn]

PLAYER;

NAME: Whit
CONTACT: whitticus OR disco at whitticus#8139 OR PM this account.
TAGGING HABITS: I'm EST and I try to hit everything at least once a day or once every other day. Starters/top levels/tag outs can br a little slower, but I do my best!

CHARACTER;

NAME: This is SOLDIER: 76 from
CANON: OVERWATCH

GAME GOALS: 76 is here in kind of a bad spot. tl;dr he helped end the robot war, ran a peacekeeping operation for 20 years, was betrayed, blown up, and is now a rage-fueled revenge machine out to uncover THE CONSPIRACY (check out his app for further reading). Being part of COST is forcibly broadening his scope and making him learn how to be part of a team again.

He's also an avid conspiracy theorist and still isn’t entirely sold on this. With all the new information they have about the Regency, he still wants COST to be the good guys pretty badly, but he’s also pretty sure both sides screw with people’s brains.

PLOT PLANS: 76 is continually pissed off that he's been kidnapped away from his former SIC and all of the Very Important Conspiracy Things they were doing. He's got some of his former employees here now, so protecting them is going to be pretty important. They have a lot of embarrassing stories between the four of them, probably.

RIGHT NOW THO we preppin for Spidertown. His big secret is that he was actually a Big Diplomat for like 20 years as part of his leading-an-international-peacekeeping-operation duty, but all of that is behind him and he kind of hates the person he used to be! He can do a lot of the politics and the schmoozing and talking but he would definitely prefer not to at this point. He's also ARTIFICIAL on the hierarchy if you're magical and need a buddy.

Otherwise everyone come meet your new dad, if your dad was not very nice and also all his dadly advice is about how to fight things. If anyone needs any lessons about guns or fighting or punching or War, or you want to talk War Philosophy for some reason, he is your guy.

DESIRED CR: I want everything, but as I expect a lot of his initial encounters to be on the slightly antagonistic side (he’s grumpy), I’d love to try and seek out people he might get along with or tolerate, too. He’s a hardcore military-type and will probably do well with other hardcore military-types, mercenaries, or fellow professionals, if only because they might *~*~*understand each other*~*~*. Most neutral encounters will probably be awkward because he’s awkward, mitigated by the fact that fighting wars is kind of what he Knows and he'll be a little more willing to impart his knowledge, but that’s okay because I love awkward. He's doing a little better with opening up nowadays. Maybe he has??? Friends?????

I got a training top level here if you want something quick and dirty before we go to spiders.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[mcscouty]

PLAYER;

NAME: Diya
CONTACT: isadiya, or discord at isadiya#0961.
TAGGING HABITS: Generally my quickest tags come Tuesday-Friday from 8am-4pm (US Central), though I sometimes stay up as late as 1 or 2am depending. I don't usually tag on the weekends.

CHARACTER;

NAME: Isaac Gates, aka Felix
CANON: Red vs Blue

GAME GOALS: Number one goal is to survive. He's also going to try and make it back with as much loot as he can. And if he can make his own existence more comfortable here in the meanwhile, he'll do that too. He'll admit, though...the idea of being able to tweak history? That's a pretty interesting idea. A nice, big, shiny red button that might need pressing one day.

PLOT PLANS: Being something of a professional soldier at this point, and curious about how this whole time thing works, Felix is going to try and figure out how to game the system to his advantage. How and for what, he doesn't know yet. Give him time.

He's also going to want to shore up his defenses by befriending some folk. He likes having people watch his six, particularly people who don't flinch when stuff gets ugly.

DESIRED CR: Felix is an asshole. We're just gonna start there. If you get involved with him in any fashion, know that he is at his heart a horrible person.

That being said! Felix wants to be around people. He wants to know people. He wants to be involved with people. So he's going to try and worm his way in however he needs to. He comes across most readily as the 'mercenary with the gruff exterior, but a heart of gold', and he'll play that angle to the hilt. So someone trying to convince him of the greater good at stake could be fun. Someone to just be surface-level annoyed whenever he comes into a room? Someone who buys into what he tries to sell them? Also good. I mean I'm up for anything really.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[mcscouty]

in theory, would flirting with Jack or treating him like an out-of-touch father figure be more wearing, in the long run?

asking for a friend.

[horsepowered]

PLAYER;

NAME: Dia
CONTACT: PMing me is your best bet
TAGGING HABITS: When I get home from work on the east coast. Wends. I will always be spotty as I've got d&d.

CHARACTER;

NAME: Chiron (the other one.)
CANON: Fate/apocrypha

GAME GOALS: Right now I've gotten pretty far in a lot of them! Chiron's figured out that the wish he intended for the Holy Grail isn't worth while/not something he plans to pursue, and he's beginning to get a feel for what he may wish to do if COST continues on. If he gets bumped back to the Grail War, however, it's an unknown and so that's where I really want to focus my next bit of energy on. What does he want for himself that no one else/no other power can grant?

PLOT PLANS: At the moment for the upcoming mission, I'm pretty wide open. Chiron will be fairly vulnerable, so building a network of allies to cover his butt would be fantastic.

DESIRED CR: See above! Otherwise I'd rather let things unfold organically at the moment.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[inconstantly]

PLAYER;

NAME: CB
CONTACT: vibranium is the quickest way to reach me, but i'm also gecko #5689 at the disco and PMs work too
TAGGING HABITS: Medium paced? I'm not sure how to gauge this. Sometimes I'm really on the ball and boomeranging and sometimes it may take me several days, especially if the tag is a long one that I'd like to be thoughtful about. However I will always backtag as long as a thread is going!

CHARACTER;

NAME: John Constantine
CANON: DCTV

GAME GOALS: John's kind of overarching narrative within canon that I'm bringing with him into game is that of atonement. He's fucked up really badly which has earned him a spot in hell so now he's essentially trying to buy his (and someone else's) way back to heaven through his actions. This is going to be extremely difficult considering how selfish a person he is, but he's with COST to try to make An Attempt. Somewhere down the line I'd love for him to get comfortable enough with another character to be able to share Tragic Backstories.

PLOT PLANS: John is still pretty new so mostly I just want him to meet people! Maybe during the last push when lying low doesn't matter anymore just blast the shit out of some spiders? He's not a violent person but he's (to his detriment) not going to take the spiders seriously, ever. They're just overgrown pests.

DESIRED CR: Uhhh casual sex with everyone legal in COST? jk jk mostly But really there are so many good looking people here, is that part of the recruitment package?

I'd really like for him to meet some non-magicals for the upcoming spiderplot! Since he is a magic user he'll want to save his own ass and be around someone of another class. John is incredibly good at lying and presenting a front, so he'd be an asset for any mission that involves bullshittery. However he's also not great at actual physical combat so it would be good for him to be around someone who is! Also please drink with him so he doesn't have to do it alone. I'm certain some excellent decisions will be made. /fingerguns

ANYTHING ELSE?

[reillumination]

PLAYER;

NAME: Din
CONTACT: rasasvada or morning star#3715 at the disco. You can also PM me, but that isn't my preferred.
TAGGING HABITS: Unless there's significant disruptions (glowers at last week), I try to tag at least once every day or once every other day. Sometimes I can boomerang for hours, sometimes it might take a day or two. So, I guess "medium"? Tug on me if you want more from me, in other words, and I'm usually obedient.

CHARACTER;

NAME: Ryo Asuka (Satan)
CANON: That one with the Debils. Devilman. Specifically OVA/manga, because the OVAs were never finished and so I gotta round out some shit, thanks.

GAME GOALS: Besides get everyone used to the idea of Ryo Asuka, a very traumatized teenager, and then smash through everyone's perceptions of that by bringing in Satan? I guess make Satan have "sort of" friends, talk about their suffering under "God," have either talk about Akira/demons/etc. in any sort of capacity, have Ryo have an episode wherein he doesn't remember what he did, have Ryo call someone besides Akira an idiot/bastard/etc. affectionately, offer at least one delinquency-oriented prompt per top-level as Ryo until Satan turns up lmf.

In short, I want to get them to a place where they can fully and openly acknowledge and suss through their feelings about humans, Akira, and refocus their goals to go on ahead and drag that boy out of Hell as soon as they get back home. Because, you know, they love him.

PLOT PLANS: Ryo's still sort of fresh meat. Spiderland is going to be tough for him because Ryo is under the impression he's entirely human and will not cope very well because of what the folks there will perceive. Otherwise, I know he's going to have his drunk ass dragged home by a few folks... So, that's always fun. He's surprisingly (sort of) adept outside his being an absolute disaster, so he'd be an asset to anyone when he's being viewed at a higher level. He's also really good with a gun and can rig up some sweet whips. I mean, if you want to get into some trouble (while still maintaining the mission), you can definitely go on ahead and flag down your boy. He'll... "help." I mean, similarly, if you want to get into some nonsense about why he isn't really acting one particular rank or another at any given time, I'm here for it. He's actually not trying to cause trouble (for once) on that one.

Basically, yeah, just come on at me if you want anything or you need stuff fixed up. Or your makeup fixed up, actually! No one can argue with me that he doesn't know how to do makeup. Those eyelashes though.

DESIRED CR: Ryo Asuka is very sad and very paranoid, so he comes off pretty cold, aloof, and (often) blunt/abrasive at first. I'm sure to most folks he seems pretty unbalanced too (because he is). He's actually quite smart and has a gentle heart despite these exterior aspects, however, but it'll take some considerable digging to get the latter trait to come through to you. He loves nature and animals (that aren't humans), but also loves indulging in various vices to keep his brain sort of muffled. So, if you can provide any of those? You're probably in better graces than most. He's also very handy! Beside makeup for this mission, he can modify guns/vehicles canonically. So, he'll be very useful for this mission with your pistols too. He loves pistols. Talk to him about guns/vehicles and demons. Well, maybe on the latter. He's pretty closed about it, because it is his and Akira's secret.

UHH, yeah. Ryo's also really touch-starved. So, I mean, if you want to have fun with that fact and the fact he's kind of like a startled animal at all times, by all means. He's only had one person lay a hand on him in kindness in months (which is Akira). And, well, that person is no longer here. He's sufferin'.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[courtintrigue]

PLAYER;

NAME: Paige
CONTACT: pm, pp gratuitousmagic @ plurk, catch me at the disco maybe a few times a week
TAGGING HABITS: I can range from a few posts a day to one per week. If something needs to be prioritized for plot purposes I'm always happy to.

CHARACTER;

NAME: Morrigan
CANON: Dragon Age (post-Origins)

GAME GOALS: I like to take things organically and my game goals have always been pretty nebulous: explore this unusual point in Morrigan's storyline where her worldstate makes her experience self-doubt for what's pretty close to the first time, get her to learn to trust people even though getting friendly with people again is the last thing she wants to do right now, have wacky adventures through time and space. Morrigan doesn't remember joining COST and has been resentful about it and nursing a healthy amount of skepticism, but she's also pretty sure she's pregnant (her unborn kid's stored in a cryotube in her room on base) and if what COST is selling is all true she cares more than she realizes. Status: it's complicated.

PLOT PLANS: In spiderland Morrigan's magical and may benefit from reluctantly buddying up with nonmagical types, so I'm up for stuff dealing with that. While she'll be playing dress-up and cleaning up nicely, she won't be into stuff like dancing. One thing she will be good at is the language. Armed with the knowledge that she'll be thought of as a tasty treat she wants to understand as much as possible of what's being said around her.

Also, she's interested in finding a way to disrupt (at least temporarily) the magical nullification in the Regency's uniforms, if possible, and I'm pretty sure a few people salvaged armor in pre-beach encounters, but this isn't her style of tinkering so it won't happen without the help of others. Related to that, she's collecting a few sparring buddies, helping them get used to defending against magical attacks while she hones combat instincts that aren't magical.

DESIRED CR: Generally speaking I like dynamics with push and pull and I'm all about exploring both the ups and downs in any relationship. Behind the scenes I'm a fan of bantery dynamics, characters bonding while being stuck together, mutual ass-saving, characters who can both gain Morrigan's respect and challenge her. IC, Morrigan's basically been surrounding herself -- to the extent that she surrounds herself at all -- with people she thinks of as skeptical and/or very competent. She's also been complaining about Earth to, like, everyone so if you're tired of Earth she's here for you.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[prizeneck]

PLAYER;

NAME: Kai
CONTACT: mikefoxtrot or panicking at the disco @ jackuzis#7200. I am super shy but I love you all ok? ok.
TAGGING HABITS: atm the company i work for is under ongoing negotiations to be purchased. This means that aside from a couple of four hour meetings I'm really free so chances are I will be tagging back real quick. I'm also at GMT, so if you get a tag from the wee hours, that would be why.

CHARACTER;

NAME: Mamoru Hijikata
CANON: Until Death Do Us Part

GAME GOALS: Mamoru joined COST out of his own volition because basically, the Regency's forced peace thing makes him useless. He views himself as a weapon and a criminal, even if he spent the whole canon taking down bad guys, he will tell you he has no personal beef with them (unless, things) and that he's no knight in shining armor. He forewent every normal lifestyle to follow the way of the sword due to childhood trauma, a forced-focus-turned-obsessions-turned-lifestyle since he's like, eight, and a certain amount of circumstances that pretty much made him swerve the fuck out of a path leading to a soft life. He's also described as a man "born in the wrong era" in canon - his reason to live is clinging to a dead art. In this game, he really wants to bring the Regency down (the fact that he's thrown into completely different eras and places is a bonus because he thirsts for knowledge like crazy), come back home, and follow up with whatever is the result of these shenanigans. While he knows that all militias have their flaws, and Mamoru has already spotted quite a few with COST, he really wants them to work because he knows that it's not just up to him to get the results he wants. That's pretty much his goal with that slightly suspicious and assholeish network post: getting to know who's used to work as a team even when the shit hits the fan and who isn't, if anyone is wondering.

PLOT PLANS: He's going to have some trouble in SpiderLand in most everything that doesn't entail some physical skill - posture, dancing, fighting, dealing with cutlery, bowing, he's actually good at, but his attempts at the rest will be laughable. He isn't entirely stupid and knows how to read a room (even though he's blind) enough to know when to push and bend certain rules and when not to. But the hierarchy, the excess of rules and etiquette over every little thing will get on his nerves. His version of diplomacy includes threatening people's families and slicing up tendons, but he won't backstab anyone - it's not his style to attack someone with their back turned. That said, he may be somewhat of an anachronism, but he's so practical that he will be willing to play dirty and bend fencing rules if it means getting an advantage over his opponent. Which may be voredfrowned upon.

He will be very open to people needing instructions on what he can help (the fact that he's blind makes him utter useless at videogames, for example), but he will also be very open to people willing to help him out. Canonly he's known for not asking for help, I can tweak a bit of that for the sake of CR, if needed. I have a training top level here of him failing, mostly. He can't even see if he managed to remove all of his glitter.

DESIRED CR: I'm really up for anything.

- Would love to throw this guy out of his comfort zone, which means having a wide variety of CR, from the awkward to the domestic to the comical, to the negative, to the bros-in-arms, to a protecting role. He doesn't get that much of that in his canon, so that would be amazing.
- While he's the first one at telling you that he's very comfortable with the way things are in his life (really), do call him on his bullshit that he keeps fighting people who are probably doing the same except he does it out of his personal choices. Call him out, or let him call your character out and be a hypocrite. I just want people to yell at him. That would be A+.
- While he has already a fair few of sparring partners in this SWORD CLUB(?? I am assuming it already exists, guys???), there is no such thing as too much and he will fight anyone regardless of them using blades or not.
- Before his life went to total shit, he was an actual assistant instructor and on his way to inheriting a very famous dojo back in Japan. This means that he falls into a tutor's role very easily. So yeah, he's taking students, ig. He promises he won't throw you at a bear. Not unless you're a precog 13-year-old.
- Honestly he's not really here to make friends, but I want him to learn about being normal. So yeah, that's it, that's the show.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[crownless]

PLAYER;

NAME: Danni
CONTACT: smithsyndicate | fyrestone#2955 @ disco | pm
TAGGING HABITS: um. i'm PST, and i have a hellschedule, but i just dropped a game so i'll probably return to an every couple days schedule

CHARACTER;

NAME: Travis Touchdown
CANON: No More Heroes

GAME GOALS: I'm oocly winging it as much as Travis is icly winging it. oops. He's coming from a canonpoint where he helped to tear down an assassin organization that manipulated and used people's lives as entertainment; he drunkenly agreed to join COST probably thinking he'd make a ~difference in the multiverse~, then promptly got shipped off to France and then Gallipoli as a soldier LMFAO OOPS. He had an extremely bad time in Gallipoli that's NOT been emotionally resolved, because I hiatused halfway through and he got sent home and put on ice for a month. 8')

So, he's dealing with 1) not knowing whether he fucked up joining something AGAIN, 2) lingering trauma because wow, active war's not like being an assassin! that sucked!!!! 3) feeling isolated as all hell as he tries to deal with this shit alone, because he's never learned how to cope with anything. ever. in his life.

PLOT PLANS: he's gonna try to fuck a female spider and die
no i'm joking
(or am i)
THIS NEW MISSION LOOKS FUN AS HELL, and actually super well suited to Travis, who is both AN ASSASSIN and a big nerd who's an avid gamer!!! He'll be compensating for feeling like garbage (he knows how to cope, it's fine) by throwing himself fully into it and actually being decent at stuff. If you wanna engage in high risk behaviors. He's yr dude.

DESIRED CR: anything god. between my life and my vacation i've fallen off the wagon here harrrd and i am sorry.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[reillumination]

hello? yes? i heard you were advertising high risk behaviors?

[prizeneck]

HI do you want me to hit you up on tl about sword fighting because that can be done

[crownless]

LETS DO SOME STUPID SHIT

[reillumination]

FUCK YEAH

you down to get into some bullshit with booze and so on??? ill-advised decisions with spiders??? i mean at the very least someone can clean up their acts appearance-wise after. bonus points.

[ergosphere]

PLAYER;

NAME: Fastback
CONTACT: pm or anarcticblitz
TAGGING HABITS: EST timezone, backtag friendly. I kind of died last month and I’m sorry about that!! I no longer have the plague and life is back to normal, so I aim for getting through tags at least every couple of days.

CHARACTER;

NAME: Kylo Ren
CANON: Star Wars

GAME GOALS: Being a dirty double crosser and spying on COST for the Regency. He currently has the means to do so, and will be reporting back to them during the next mission. Please tell Kylo Ren all your deepest darkest secrets so he can blab about them to Kebechet.

PLOT PLANS: The Force isn’t considered magic, so Kylo is going to be viewed as normal as all the other normal people around him. Obviously this is going to make him angry and bitter, because he’s special, and no one understands him. In the meantime he’ll be doing his best to put to use what Leia taught him about not being a slob, and actually acting like royalty. Maybe. He's still open for training shenanigans here!

DESIRED CR: I am always happy for people that will fight with or against him, physically, verbally, or whatever. People that make him feel guilty, because he deserves to feel bad. Kylo isn’t one to offer his expertise in something, but he does secretly want to teach in some capacity.

ANYTHING ELSE?

[crownless]

hell yes. Travis needs to get drunk badly and he’s stupid sober, let’s make it happen

[faenthras]

what a grumpy old man

[ryuji]

reaches out for

[reillumination]

gently reaches back

hi jay, what can i do u for. u want to have a bad time with ryo in spiderland? because he's here for Bad Times with the slide whistle hierarchy he's gonna be tossed under. thanks so much for giving him an even more fractured sense of self, spiders.

bad decisions are the best, right? let's make a bunch.

[ryuji]

don't lie

you're not joking

[ryuji]

LISTEN... i've been gone for a month and i sorely miss these two

like, facepainting ISNT DONE
he needs some body glitter back on base

and let's go fuck a spider to death my dude

[ryuji]

looks at my life

[ryuji]

looks at my choices

[reillumination]

THEY ARE VERY GOOD IA... i too miss them

we need to put on the facepaint GRABS FOR
but yes please he'll just... he's sighing internally at so many goddamn disasters as if he isn't one

but LMF well he'll try to flirt with a cute spider boy while drunk but im so sad they'll rebuff humans... but he isn't a human. will they rebuff satan. (yes.)

but i only see good choices making "friends" with ryo asuka here jay

[ryuji]

i need some satan in my life don't rebuff me

[reillumination]

this is the appropriate coping mechanism obv

(i would say "shots, shots, shots" but that seems in bad taste since ryo has done both kinds at parties, but we're not gonna summon demons here.)