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[seaboards]

SAIL WITH ME: AUGUST 2024

An abbreviated version of our CR Workship! Same concept, just a lot smaller. If you have multiple characters, make an individual toplevel for yourself with your player info and comment to it with each character separately.

We also include a designated toplevel for Crew Recruitment where players can make OOC ad posts for others to either join or request to join or make a crew. This is all for OOC coordination, so you'll have to figure out how it works ICly.

PLAYER INFO

Player:
Contact: Preferred means of contact

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: Include canon point
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits—whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too.

PLANS

General: Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term.
MANTA Board: Any plans for the MANTA Board?
Event: Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest?

Etc.: Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. NOTE: we have an image code for players to use as it will fix the width of the image to 400px. This is so large images don't take up entire pages. If your image is smaller than that you can remove the code, otherwise please use the code.

IF YOU HAVE MULTIPLE CHARACTERS, create your own toplevel and comment with each character separately to it. Include your name in the subject line. Although not specifically included, you are more than welcome to write up a greeting message along with the form! SUBJECT LINE: CHARACTER | CANON | ARMADA <font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">PLAYER INFO</font> <div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>Player:</b> <b>Contact:</b> Preferred means of contact </div> <font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">CHARACTER INFO</font> <div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>Character:</b> Character <b>Canon:</b> Include canon point <b>Armada:</b> Paladin or Corsair <b>About:</b> Briefly talk about the character. Can include background info or just stick with personality traits, whatever will be most useful to help other players learn about them! You can include a link to any character profile sheets or entries you might have, too. </div> <font style="font-family: arial black, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: #8e492f; border-bottom: 2px solid #827662;">PLANS</font> <div style="padding: 0 0.75rem; border-left: 5px solid #c2bb87;"><b>General:</b> Any ideas or plans you'd like to do with your character? This could be short term or long term. <b>MANTA Board:</b> Any plans for the MANTA Board? DELETE IF NOT USING <b>Event:</b> Any plans for the event? Topleveling? Tagging out? Specific prompts that caught your interest? <b>Etc.:</b> Anything else or, you know, the usual memes. IF POSTING AN IMAGE OR GIF, USE THE FOLLOWING CODE. We want all images to be MAX 400px in width or it's going to screw up the page. <img src="IMGURL" width="400"> </div>

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CREW RECRUITMENT AD

[seaboards]

Looking to recruit or join a crew? Then comment here! Include in the subject line where you are Recruiting or Looking for a crew, and fill out the following form:

FOR RECRUITING:
<b>Player:</b> <b>Character(s):</b> All characters in the crew so far <b>Crew:</b> Name of crew <b>About:</b> What y'all do <b>Pitch:</b> If you have any requirements or looking for certain character types, be sure to note it here!

LOOKING TO JOIN:
<b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Looking For:</b> What kind of crew are you looking for? Alternatively, what kind of crew would you like to see established? Maybe others might also be interested and could form one!

RECRUITING: THE SCOURGE

[menaceunleashed]

Player: Toni
Character(s): Ganondorf, Reaper, Sidestep
Crew: The Scourge
About: A ghost and an enby frantically babysit a megalomaniac A Corsair ship that is truly a black stain on the oceans. They lie, cheat, steal, pillage, and ultimately are...well. A scourge.
Pitch: YO HO HO, only the most blackhearted need apply to this crew. Led by the Demon King Ganondorf, this is more or less an attempt OOCly to have Villain Ship and just have a grand ol' time doing evil things.

LOOKING TO JOIN!

[soulofgood]

Player: Starfighter
Character: Agatha of the Woods Beyond (Agatha or Aggie for short)

Looking For:
Looking to either:

1) Join a Paladin group that might benefit from someone with weather manipulation abilities or just wants another do-gooder in their ranks!

2) Maybe start forming a crew! Agatha is a very morally good person and in general she'd want to go on trips of just helping others and doing good on other islands, that sort of thing.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Ant
Contact: Discord: bitterbearface | bitterbearface

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Darin Altway
Canon: Original Character
Armada: Corsair

About: Darin is modeled after your standard JRPG/Shounen protagonist. He's boisterous and outgoing and tends to act before thinking. He's a master smith who tends to exude confidence most of the time. He's also the reincarnation of a demonic god prophesied to end his world and because of that he's been 'blessed' with superhuman strength and resilience. He's got a pretty big complex about that, though, and is reluctant to use his abilities publicly thanks to a traumatic past.

PLANS

General: Darin is opening his forge this month! He's also been wrestling with who he is and his general trajectory here. Thankfully, working on custom pieces should help distract him from the problems he's been having lately. He's been asked to join Cid's crew but hasn't given a formal answer yet, as doing so would mean disclosing the source of his powers. And he did that recently and it didn't go well! Aside from that, I just want him to find more people to build CR with! I'm also open to some one-on-one threads in my inbox as well!
MANTA Board: Aside from taking custom orders for his own specific MANTA board quests the quests I'm most interested in are:

EVERYTHING THAT GLITTERS - Darin hauled up a ton of those gemstones and will be tinkering with them. He also found one of those relic cards!
DOING IT THE BARD WAY - Darin is the creative sort and if anyone wants to learn more about his troubled past, or even about who he is, this would be a good one.
TRAILING DAWN - Darin grew up in a seaside town so he'd be interested in researching this out of simple curiosity
MEGAMAKI MADNESS - Darin's gonna get roped into this one for sure so he's going to want to investigate.

I'll be putting up an open log for a few of these but I wouldn't mind tagging into other people's posts for others!
Event: I might just tag around on this event instead of a top-level!

[menaceunleashed]

[phoenixdominant]

I wouldn't mind more CR with these two! Maybe Joshua can ask for a custom longsword... Hmmm

[emet_sulk]

I swear I will hit up Darin's forge opening log once I get a moment

[astudyinviolet]

Sherlock still wants to commission that microscope. I just have no idea what a thread would be besides something that would be a few tags doing business, and that's it. Anything come to mind on your end?

Ganondorf || Zelda; Tears of the Kingdom || Corsair

[menaceunleashed]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Toni
Contact: discord @ artoni, artoni, or through DW DM!

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Ganondorf
Canon: Final boss of TOTK
Armada: Corsair

About: The Demon King. The Menace Unleashed. Ganondorf is Big, Bad, and here to be an Evil Guy. Captain of the Desert Wind, while he wouldn't mind some likeminded powerhungry cutthroats under him, he's perfectly happy seeking his destiny on his own. What destiny is that, you ask?

To be King. Heavy is the crown, but a King must bear it in pride.

...all that aside, he's mostly here so I can play out my villianistic tendencies and seek to canonize suavemente.

PLANS

General: I'll have a post up for Megamaki Madness shortly rtfn regarding Q&A as well as signups to confront/rescue. Other than that and a few vague plans down the line, I'm fairly open and am very open to being a thorn in others' sides/vice versa!
MANTA Board: See above.
Event: Not sure he'll participate, we'll see how things go.

Etc.:

Ranma Saotome | Ranma ½ | Corsair

[catsgothistongue]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Wahoo
Contact: wahoothis on Discord or Plurk. Discord's preferable and easier for me.

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Ranma Saotome
Canon: Ranma 1/2, end of Jusendo Arc
Armada: Corsair

About: Pigtailed martial-artist who was doing Rule 63 before it was cool. Brash, confrontational, headstrong, prideful, cynical, tactless and blunt as a brick to the side of your temple, Ranma's bound to rub people the wrong way and get into spitting matches. In spite of this, he's a fighter who believe in honor above all else, on top of being normally chill and laidback when he's not a direct/indirect prick to people, and is willing to drop everything to help even his worse of enemies' plights.

PLANS

General: Same ol', same ol'. Ranma's going to be doing his usual thing of hanging with people, helping them out, and pissing people off (intentionally or unintentionally notwithstand). Other than that, and still looking into possible ways of curing his curse, he's chilling.
MANTA Board: Hoo boy-
-Everything That Glitters: Ranma's already announced he found a bag of rum, but he's also acquired a bell that can halt time for a minute. He just needs a poor sap volunteer to help figure this out.
-Getting Caught In The Rain: Anyone up for sharing a drink in the rain with a redheaded girl? Ranma's your guy.
-Megamaki Madness: This is why he wanted to burn the island with these freaks on it. When Ranma hears of people being taken off the street and kidnapped, he's going to look high and low for signs of them, as well as planning on taking on the deviously dastardly bastard/bastards behind this devilishly delicious dodge that's been devised.
-Suspect Fowl Play: Hope you brought your bowling shoes. Cause Ranma's planning on scoring a turkey. Protect the innocent AND get fresh turkey meat from the whole ordeal? Sounds like a win-win to him.
-Trailing Dawn: Stake out time on a beach? Stake out time!
-Light Cleaners: Ranma's been getting light-based tattoos in order to utilize his ki, so he'd be a big boon in helping clear the black smudge.
-Whale Watchers: One of the things Ranma can't stand is a mess. He literally stopped in the middle of breaking into someone's house just to clean their pigsty of a room. If someone or something's polluting the waters, you can guarantee he'll be there to clean it up.
-*Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Expect Ranma to sneak in to participate in this. Sitting under a freezing raging water in the buff is one of the most standard form of training in the art! This'll be a cakewalk for him. Well, her, cause y'know.

Event: Definitely planning on TLing for the event.

Etc.:

[empyrean_mirror]

hey son let's go save some whales

Agatha of the Woods Beyond | The School for Good and Evil | Paladin

[soulofgood]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Starfighter
Contact: Plurk (goodluckstarfighter), Discord (goodluckstarfighter) or PMs

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Agatha of the Woods Beyond
Canon: The School for Good and Evil (Book)
Armada: Paladin

About:
So Agatha's hometown of Gavaldon has a curse you could say -- every four years a mysterious figure known as the Schoolmaster comes to town and kidnaps two children. One goes to the School for Good, the other to the School for Evil and neither are ever heard from again. Well, most of the time -- sometimes they may show up in fairy tale books that the local bookshop receives from an unknown benefactor.

In the first book Agatha and her best friend Sophie are the ones kidnapped. Sophie has dreamed of being a pretty princess in the School for Good and everyone thinks Agatha is definitely a witch destined for the School for Evil. Imagine the shock when Agatha ends up in the School for Good!

Beyond her looks (which nowadays aren't quite as witch-like anymore) Agatha is said to have a soul of such pure good that her talent is making wishes come true for other people. It also helps her be very talented with magic

Despite starting off the series as withdrawn and sullen, seeing herself as dark and depressing and ugly Agatha's opinion of herself shifts a lot in the first book.

By the end of the second she comes to grips with the fact that she deserves to do what is best for her now and then rather than everyone else. Her leadership abilities also begin to develop, though they won't fully bloom for another few books.

PLANS

General: Make more CR! Agatha has witty attitude and a sharp bit of sarcasm to her and though it's softened in the second book she gets along with people a lot better by then too. She's around 16 at her current canon point so I'd love for her to make friends around her own age, though I'll take CR with anyone.

MANTA Board:
A MOOGLE BY ANY OTHER NAME: What a good chance for Agatha to test out her Escordvi-given light abilities.

DOING IT THE BARD WAY: Because I love the idea of sharing lyrics and her getting all flustered over how bad she is at it.

DON'T GO CHASING WATERFALLS: Because I think the idea of her going, "No way why would I do this?" and then ending up in the freezing cold waterfall still is real funny.

LIGHT CLEANERS: Another chance to try out light abilities!

MEGAMAKI MADNESS: She's sneaking in mogrified as a cockroach so she can go skuttling around to try and find the captured people. You want to hear a cockroach talk to you?

SEEDS OF HOPE: Agatha took some of the mushroom caps from the Abyss so she's going to be planting and cultivating those. At first she might try them in the dark because mushrooms but once she notes they want the sun she'll transfer them over.

Event: I didn't do a top-level last time so I'm definitely doing on now.

Etc.:

[fullgauntlet]

Hello there! I see you might be having Agatha join Plus Ultra! I'd love some CR if we do have that happen! Izuku is a goody-two-shoes and captain of the ship!

I'm so sorry about the ship full of boys...

Laena

[ramuhs]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Laena
Contact: laenavesse; Discord

Cidolfus Telamon | Final Fantasy XVI | Corsair

[ramuhs]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Cidolfus Telamon
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI, post-A Crystal's Curse
Armada: Corsair

About: Leads a group of outlaws working to change the world's current system in treating magic users, making a name for himself as an outlaw in doing so. The Dominant of Ramuh, he's capable of using and turning into the Eikon Ramuh himself and wields lightning as his main element. Goodnatured, friendly, classic rogue, with enough wit and Dad jokes to help lighten any heavy situation. With his experience and endless worldly wisdom, he's the perfect mentor for any young lad who is going through a self-identity crisis and angst. Oh that's just Clive—but he can be a mentor or father figure for anyone who needs it, too. He is also a brilliant inventor and bit of an engineer. There will definitely be spoilers since he'll be after a certain canon point. I usually try not to reference canon events with non-castmates, but I'll be sure to mark them just in case. Between castmates, well, read those threads at your own risk— Spoilers, spoilers everywhere. For more info, he has a profile sheet here.

He runs The Hideaway crew, with info available here! Recruitment is always open, just need to interact with any member ICly. I only post the ads during the other CR Meme, but if interested, feel free to drop a line!

PLANS

General: A lot of stuff happened in the past couple of months and Cid needs a break, so won't be having too much "quest adventuring" this month. There will be a lot of crew related stuff happening that will keep him busy, but he will be active part of the event! Of course I'll be open to other specific plotting so hit me up huhu.

MANTA Board:

• Doing it the Bard Way. WONDER WHAT KIND OF SONG HE COULD COMPOSE....
  
• Elemental Energy Part 2. Totally won't blow any of these up sorry Kaveh
  
• Light Cleaners. If not this month, then next month might try to do this since Cid has the whole lightning thing and has been doing some research with the temples.

He'll also be involved in the Megamaki quest! Open to other things so feel free to hit me up.

Event: As mentioned will likely be topleveling! Both at the casino and Moogle Island.

sheila (tifa & benedikta)

[garudas]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Sheila
Contact: crystariums, via PM, or a ping in the game discord.

benedikta harman 🗡️ final fantasy xvi 🗡️ corsair

[garudas]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Benedikta Harman
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI, post "Wings of Change"
Armada: Corsair

About: Benedikta is a woman who is all about her survival and self-preservation first and foremost. Having climbed out of the depths of a cruel and terrible youth, she ascended to a place of power within the kingdom of Waloed after being rescued, both because of her talents in subterfuge and swordplay, as well as awakening as the Warden of the Wind, the Dominant of Garuda. She is the Commander of Waloed's Elite Intelligencers, and she is fiercely loyal to her king.

However, not everything is as it seems to her. She is loyal, yes, but to a fault, and part of it is because she is stung by the bitter bite of betrayal. She is ruthless, unkind, only cares about her own skin, has done a lot of bad things, and resents the world for what it has done to her. Deep down, however, she is merely a woman who has looked for love and validation all her life, a need to be useful not to be discarded again, but she finds it in all the wrong places.

PLANS

General:

🗡️ Benedikta is still working through some things surrounding what happened to her, both in canon and having primed into Garuda. Coming to terms with it and dealing with her anger about it is hard work.
🗡️ Benedikta will be helping Joshua and the rest of the XVI cast with some Stuff. Killing gods and all that.
🗡️ I have a personal arc planned for her that involves her rebuilding her confidence into something that is less of a glass house and more Real. She is arrogant and proud, but it was more a mask before, so I'd like for that to be more genuine in being sure of herself. while still being a queen of course
🗡️ She's still searching for new hobbies. So far, she's learned how to (sort of) garden, but she's not sure if it's something she wants to do often. So, it's a work in progress.
🗡️ She is still very eager to find the relics that control the rifts, because she absolutely does not plan on letting them take her home, and her search for them is more desperate now.
🗡️ Speaking of searching, now that she has been afflicted with the petrification curse that all Dominants eventually suffer from on her back, she will be trying to find a cure for that, too.

MANTA Board:

🗡️ Seeds of Hope: So about that gardening hobby... Mostly interested in trying to cultivate a garden of the Herb-of-Grace for Reasons.
🗡️ Megamaki: mostly just investigation stuff since I won't be signing up for the encounters.
🗡️ Suspect Fowl Play: if there are birds, I am throwing Benedikta at it. The image of her trying to wrangle angry turkeys is just too good to pass up. And she'll bring them back to her crew island for a big turkey feast later—
🗡️ Trailing Dawn: idk, fish? She's bored.
🗡️ Either one of the bounties: She hates the moogles so she will happily go kill one. :D
🗡️ Light Cleaners: She doesn't have any of the magic that would work against it, but she's still interested in doing anything that she thinks could be remotely related to the relics.
🗡️ Whale Watchers: She'll catch those shitheads hunting whales and put her sword through them!!

Event: She'll be going to the casino for some good ol' gambling fun. She is not above cheating, either, so hopefully she doesn't get caught??? And of course, with the birdfolk, something is always bound to happen whenever Benedikta is around. Probably will just stick to tagging around, though. But I'm happy to plot specific closed stuff as well. Also, screw the moogles, she says, as she will be getting harassed by them left and right probably.

Etc.: I have no memes this month. RIP...

Kaveh | Genshin Impact | Paladin

[empyrean_mirror]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Clover
Contact: moepuff @ discord

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Kaveh
Canon: Patch 3.8 post Hangout(The First Ideal) for now.
Armada: Paladin

About: Do you like fabulously gay functional alcoholics? Do you need an architect and mechanical engineer with a flair for fashion and horrific trauma? Are you an unattended teenager? Then Kaveh is the CR for you! Come meet Teyvat's own disney princess!

PLANS

General: I am trying to get back in the saddle after this summer sure was...sure was. Kaveh has another quest up, and will have an open log for this month, but is likely to get swept up in cast and crew Shenanigans.

He is also finally looking to start a cosmetics business and might quietly be looking around for partners. If left to his own devices it will...not stay just cosmetics.
MANTA Board: Given Kaveh has plant magic, he is deeply invested in Seeds of Hope. He is much less interested in actually...testing what he found in the Abyss because he'd like to pretend it didn't happen, but he will turn up to see what he can do with the gems he found...and see if anyone has any insight into the dot matrix cards tablets?

He will be involved in the Megamaki plot but on the support/investigative side of things, not combat. He will also be trying to help the whales!

And of course, he's released another plague of butterflies upon Esco.

Event: Because Kaveh will have an open log, I'll probably just tag out for the event!

Etc.:
imgur why you betray me

[indispensable]

Junebug | Hazbin Hotel | Corsair

[angellust]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Junebug
Contact: shinyogerpon @ discord or radiodust

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Angel Dust
Canon: Hazbin Hotel - post season one
Armada: Corsair

About: ah, Angel Dust, the sassy spider demon from hell. while he is being very secretive about his life and job, i would like for other people to find out more about him. he likes making friends, even if he's kind of a jerk. he's getting better, probably.

PLANS

General: Angel is open for friendship CR, enemy CR, romantic CR... what have you. i'm happy to plot with anyone, so come at him. long-term, i'd like him to have people he can lean on, as well as support, but i'm totally open for negative CR, too. he can be pretty abrasive.
MANTA Board: HEY I NEED PARTNERS for two prompts. can you guess which ones they are? i am looking at the Getting Caught in the Rain posting, as well as the Corsair-specific All Tied Up posting. because. yeah, it's Angel Dust. he's familiar with drinking and partying. and shibari. if you want to play with either of those prompts, just tap me.
Event: i think i'll take it easy this month and tag out rather than do a toplevel of my own (unless it's a closed toplevel). again, please hit me if you want Angel Dust harassing you at the casino. i'm very interested in doing stuff there!

Etc.: a massive THANK YOU for making my first month here so memorable with a ton of threads. i appreciate everyone who tagged my event toplevel, and i appreciate all the creativity i see happening here and in the discord server. ♡ i hope to get up to more fun with everyone!

[catsgothistongue]

Up for causing some chaos at the casino?

Alhaitham | Genshin Impact | Paladin

[indispensable]

PLAYER INFO

Player: taso
Contact: here or the discords

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Alhaitham
Canon: Genshin Impact, Patch 3.8 (Post Kaveh hangout 'The First Ideal')
Armada: Paladin

About: Kaveh's infamous roommate/husband in the flesh. Likes reading, teasing Kaveh and naps. Will probably give you no time of day unless you are somebody who Kaveh holds in high regard or are already on his list of okay people (which is still... not that much... lmao).

PLANS

General: For this month Alhaitham and Kaveh will be relocating back to The Roost due to Reasons of the Knave variety don't worry about it. Alhaitham specially will be mostly staying on the Roost, and I will be putting up an open log for the Hideaway crew if they want to come and poke at him. He's totally NOT sulking okay!!

MANTA Board:

Seeds of Hope and Elemental Energy Survey in tandem with Kaveh; he'll be there when Kaveh is, so most likely you'll get the both of them together there.

A Sheep in Sheep's Clothing because killing cannibalistic sheep is a good way to work out his frustrations right?

Whale Watchers & Light Cleaners - the latter more than the former, but people should maybe not litter so he will be there to help the whales too.

Event: Will probably tag around but expect Alhaitham to be winning games with his unintentional poker face Ultra :') He will also help with moogle relocation!

Etc.: This is him for August basically

[catsgothistongue]

Other father and son bonding time? :D

Enterprise (Azur Lane) | Sakata Kintoki (Fate/Grand Order) | Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)

[lucky_e]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Alex
Contact: PM, Discord, or Plurk: mr_cynicalperson

ENTERPRISE | AZUR LANE | PALADIN

[lucky_e]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Enterprise (CV-6)
Canon: Post Effulgence Before Eclipse
Armada: Paladin

About: The personification of the ship USS Enterprise, brought to life by something called a Wisdom Cube. Her canon is kinda wacky and a trip to get into.

Enty is the second oldest of her two sisters, Yorktown and Hornet. She enjoys just kind of enjoying life whenever she can. So far, this has basically felt more like a vacation than anything. Coming from a world based off of our own and set against the backdrop of a pseudo-WW2. Enty's seen quite a few of her friends, and both sisters, perish (don't worry they got better, kind of). Additionally, she has been wounded plenty of times in the past as well. And while she smiles and does her best to be helpful! Some things won't fully heal.

Enterprise tends to work a bit too hard at times and enjoys going all out whenever possible, sometimes to the point of near breaking. She's gotten better at self-care but is still kind of working on it. She also tends to eat junk in place of a healthy meal and is quite fond of her medal collection (she is quite sad that she doesn't have it here).

MANTA Board:

Event: Mainly eying the Light Cleaners quest and am open to anything and everything!

Etc.: Just that my ability to tag might take a hit over the next month or two due to job related circumstances.

Freminet | Genshin Impact | Paladin

[scooba]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Mio
Contact: MioHio @ Discord, Rosemotifs @ Plurk

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Freminet
Canon: After Arlecchino's story quest
Armada: Paladin

About: Just a boy dealing with social anxiety and probably some form of depression when dealing with some questionable things he has done. He is a really shy boy who has a lot of self-esteem issues.

PLANS

General: So uh...Freminet is having a time right now. Between the reveal of who he is to his castmates and dealing with "Mother" in a fight? He is going to be a very sad camper for a while. But he'll still walk around and a bit! He's just a bit moodier than usual!

MANTA Board: ...Tbh, I'm someone who just wings it and throws Freminet at anyone. If you have any ideas on how to distract Freminet, let me know!

Etc.:

[triompheduhimbo]

Hey Kiddo, want a croissant or pasterie for your woes?

aerith | ffvii | paladin

[cetra]

PLAYER INFO

Player: steph
Contact: i'm on the disco @ wittyisland, and plurk @ violentwords

CHARACTER INFO

Character: aerith gainsborough
Canon: she's fallen off some wicked vines at a temple and landed in the ocean here (end of chapter 13 basically)
Armada: Paladin

About: Aerith is a lady in her early twenties who, interestingly enough, has been sheltered and also happens to be wordly at times? Look, she lived in a slum (but her house was a cute cottage that was built by her mom's mafia father in law), so she's Seen Some Things but also hasn't Seen The World, just that little part of it. Which she was basically a prisoner in for years (it was a cage but also consider she had some anxiety about leaving said cage). So, she's coming out and wants the world to know and she's gotta let it show?

Idk she loves people and getting to know them tbh. Aerith's always up for shenanigans.

PLANS

General: She's generally just finding her place with her friendos on the ship, but is also milling around and trying to propagate the flowers she gathered in the abyss (right now it ain't going so hot but she's determined!!)
MANTA Board: Gimme those MANTA quests

Seeds of Hope this is right up her alley, cause she is literally doing this thing with the flowers she got from the ~abyss~. So, why not have her helping out in general to see what they can grow? Especially the upside down trees, anyone wanna join her.

Light Cleaners she may not have Holy (her materia is transparent o no), but she does have a lightning/wind materia that'll let her help with this particular quest

Event: Gonna do a top level for her this weekend!

She is Here for Moogles. I don't have any particulars off the top of my head at the moment - I'm gonna wing it on my top level in general and anyone can hit it up. She will chase moogles, she will play GAMES AND DO ACTIVITIES and dammit she's gonna get a cowboy hat too somehow.

Etc.:

[scooba]

I need to figure out how to bother Aerith.

Caprica l Sorey l Tales of Zestiria l Paladin

[historiology]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Caprica
Contact: Pplurk @ caprican, ask me for Discord, or just pm Sorey's journal.

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Sorey
Canon: Tales of Zestiria, canon point being that he is taken from earlier on when he passes out with the fight against Heldalf and is taken back to Rose and the gang's ruins base.
Armada: Paladin

About: Sorey is the most sheltered and oblivious seventeen year old who was raised among seraphim (elemental spirits) who basically leaves his village and goes on a journey to try support relations between the seraphim and the humans and to save his world from Malevolence (like a negative energy that can corrupt sort of deal). His bff is a water seraphim named Mikleo and it is honestly a miracle Sorey has survived in this game as long as he has without his water bff. Mikleo grounds him and is basically 99% of Sorey's impulse control with how reckless he can be.

His thing is that he can armatize or basically ala fusion in Dragonball, with the seraphim in his party to help him fight and make use of and control their different elements.

I have his app and more info in his journal if anyone is curious and has yet to get through Zestiria.

Abilities:

Shepherd:

As the Shepherd, I'm going to try umbrella this since it covers a few things:

Armatization - being able to channel the seraphs in the party and use this to their advantage in combat. Combining into one (the seraphs using Sorey's body as a vessel) and thus granting Sorey access to their Seraphic Artes (using their particular element that seraphim is attuned to, out of fire, water, earth or wind) in combat along with their particular Divine Weapon. This does take time initially for him to adjust to in willing it to finish however, but he does eventually come able to revert back to himself at will.

Resonance - Ability to see and hear seraphim, potentially other supernatural beings most other normal humans cannot usually sense, due to his having been brought up among seraphim back home at Elysia. Think of it as like some sort of spiritual sense. Along with this is his ability to sense Malevolence, which is sort of like a dark energy that makes him feel ill, tight in the chest. It's basically a big part of his whole 'purity' thing, really. His resonance is what allows him to become the Shepherd, basically, because he can see and hear Lailah in order to make a pact with her. This pact is what allows him to thus be able to purify the hellions. He can manage animal or plant based hellions fine, but humanized hellions, according to expanded information in the anime, means Sorey takes on their Malevolence.

Pacts - Sorey can make a pact with another human with resonance to take them on as a Squire. A Squire can essentially also assist in purifying hellions and help the Shepherd on their journey, basically. Acting as a support to them along the way and assisting them in carrying out their duties to deal with the hellions. If the Squire has a high enough resonance, such as Rose in the game, they can also then armatize with the seraphim once they have made their pact and been given a True Name by the Shepherd. In Sorey and Rose's case, if something happens to the Shepherd, the Squire can thus make a pact to take on their role in turn too.

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- History/Ruins Knowledge - Sorey is really keen on this sort of stuff and grew up wanting to explore ruins and learn about history so this is kind of his Thing. He and Mikleo are all about geeking out over ruins together. So he will easily pick up on this sort of thing in Incensed's setting and all.

- Fighting/Hunting ability - Sorey has a sword and can use a bow when hunting as well, so he can fight/defend himself or go hunting for meat for example if he has to with these basic survival skills.

PLANS

General:Sorey is part of Cid's crew and is the biggest history nerd so is always up for exploring (maybe finding ruins!!!!) and helping out in general. He is the kind that can't really say no. He is also trying to learn more in general about things with this world and learning about and meeting everyone to work together. Because that helps in not being as clueless and sheltered a country bumpkin.

That's about it in general terms? I don't have particular major plans for him necessarily. Just seeing where cr/events go?
MANTA Board: I need to check but there's prob some things on there I imagine.
Event: Maybe the party/games?? I'm still figuring things but I might top level. Or just tag around depending. See how I go I guess???

Etc.:

Miriam | Bloodstained: RotN | Paladin

[crystalrepose]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Blueraven
Contact: blueraven

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Miriam
Canon: Bloodstained: RotN, post-game, before DLC
Armada: Paladin

About: Application!
Miriam's a young woman who's seen and been through some shit, but hasn't lost her kindness or sense of justice. Sure, she might be full of demonic rocks, but she's using that power to do good things. She wants to be helpful and prove that she's still human, let her be helpful!!

Those roses and petals on her aren't tattoos; they're part of a cursed crystal that lets Miriam use said phenomenal demonic power, but will eventually turn her into a crystal statue and kill her, or corrupt her mind and delete her sense of self and free will. Either or. The curse's spread is currently halted, but using her power too much or absorbing too many Shards (fragments of a demon's power) at once could cause it to start advancing again. So Miriam's in a constant balancing act of needing to use her powers to best help others but not so much that she crystalizes. No pressure.

Abilities: For canon ones, she's got all the ridiculously OP abilities of an endgame Castlevania protagonist—which she's usually fairly mindful about using, with such severe consequences for their overuse. She can do so much shit, though.

PLANS

General: Miriam's helpful nature tends to lead her to volunteering herself everywhere, which would be an easy way for her to meet people. Someone to help remind her to take a break occasionally would also be welcome.

While she didn't have a great time under the care of the Alchemist's Guild (they kind of grafted her with the crystal bullshit to use her as a reagent for a massive demon summoning ritual), she doesn't hold grudges against alchemists in general; one of her friends and her father figure were alchemists too. She's familiar with how her world's version of it works, and she'd be interested in talking to others with different systems too.

Event/MANTA Board: Miriam will be doing her best to stay busy and helpful, though this month she'll be more subdued and kind of glum at times in the aftermath of the hauntings and the Abyss. Something about living through your fears of losing your free will and a sense of self (and hurting someone she cared about) and getting painful reminders of unresolved grief kind of does that to someone. So she'll be a bit out of it for awhile and could use some cheering up.

I'm unsure if I'll be topleveling yet! Miriam Feels Awful that she hurt people while possessed and wants to make amends like yesterday.

She also has the heliobi that possessed her imprisoned in a Shard; she wants nothing to do with it, but also wouldn't trust just anyone to handle or dispose of it. If she finds someone trustworthy enough she might be convinced to let them study it, but Miriam has had someone use her Shards against her before so she's especially gunshy now.

CR Dreams: Friends, sparring friends, music friends. She's reasonably good with a piano, and has brought one into the Seventh Heaven bar now! It's available for anyone to play if they're interested, not only crewmates.

Re: Miriam | Bloodstained: RotN | Paladin

[menaceunleashed]

FIRST OFF bloodstained was such a good game, my god

SECOND OFF mental image of her getting a gloom shard tho...

Dehya | Genshin Impact | Corsair

[legendofthelion]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Athuria
Contact: monochromic, game discord, PM

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Dehya
Canon: Immediately after her conversation with the Traveler in Chapter IV Act I: Soloist's Prologue
Armada: Corsair

About: Bold, brave, noble, sharp-minded, and extremely free-spirited. Dehya's a good natured and good humored woman who balances hard work with hard play. She doesn't let hardship or obstacles get her down, but she's conscientious of their existence and the inequality layered in them. Her sense of justice is strong and she believes in doing the right thing by her life. She doesn't seek to lord her sense of righteousness over others, just stand strong in her own convictions.

PLANS

General: Honestly just doing the same as she always does which is live life one step at a time. Always up for new CR, good bad or whatever ends up sticking.

MANTA Board: Looking at Getting Caught in the Rain for just casual chatting and getting tipsy or All Tied Up (can be gen but F/F if anyone wants to get saucy with it). Dehya's understanding of tying someone up is in the "dragging them off for questioning" kind of way so uh. That may need some trial and error.

Event: Dehya has never seen a casino in her life, her impression of gambling is drunk card games around a tavern so all this glamor is going to be exciting. Time to be decadent and try not to lose all her money on slot machines and poker.

[astudyinviolet]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Avie
Contact: PM this journal, aviekokyre, aviekokyre, Discord @ aviekokyre

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Sherlock Holmes
Canon: Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023)
Armada: Paladin

About: Sherlock is a 23 year old pretty, pathetic, babygirl Victorian still very much learning how to be a consulting detective. He's more emotional than the average Holmes and is. trying. his. best. He hasn't gone on any of the cases he's known for yet. His first adventure with John Watson is chasing a Cthulhu cult across the world. Now, he's stuck here despite Cthulhu trauma, getting seasick, and being majorly aquaphobic and thalassophobic.

Abilities:
- Normal Victorian era human, pistol marksmanship
- Consulting Detective: but with shaken confidence
- Violin, acting, disguise, sketching
- Weakened mental fortitude (for potential RP shenanigans more than an actual ability Sherlock can consciously use)

No tattoo yet - but... he's starting to consider it

PLANS

General:
- And I thought I was mean to Sherlock last month

MANTA Board:
- Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls: Paladin: Actively AVOIDING doing this challenge. He probably went when summoned by the Paladins, but when he realized what it involved, he is probably making a bit of a scene despite trying not to. ie Sherlock is terrified (also a Holmes never has good times with waterfalls). Honestly, it's probably about time his phobia got known to others...
- Megamaki Madness: General: doing investigation stuff but not fighting
- Whale Watchers: Special: from solid ground only, he'll be useless on a ship (see seasickness)

Event: Diamond Dust Casino
- So that Cthulhu trauma... Sherlock will have a very hard time going near for the sake of catching moogles. Not saying it's impossible, but someone is going to have to coax the baby detective to uh... even go near Astares and Naughtilust...

[apothecarry]

Hello I am here about the waterfalls

(Posting this from mobile, will arrive with more substantial text once I am at a real computer again…)

Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV | Paladin

[emet_sulk]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Chips
Contact: DM, plurk available upon request

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Emet-Selch
Canon: Post-Shadowbringers (5.0) and early on into Endwalker (6.0)
Armada: Paladin

About: Short of the actual gods, Emet-Selch is one of the most powerful adversaries the Warrior of Light faces in FF14. To the average mortal/human, he WOULD be considered one - however, he considers himself a regular man and he lives and dies the same way (even if said life is practically indefinite). Amongst his own people, he was known as a powerful and competent mage with particularly sharp Soulsight: the ability to perceive things at the aetherial level.

As an individual, he's rather solitary and standoffish and doesn't make friends easily. But he cares more than he lets on.

Abilities: As Emet-Selch doesn't have access to Creation magicks here in Escordvi, he's simply just a powerful mage. This ranges from the typical elemental spells to healing spells to more esoteric things like aether-imbued weapon arts. He can also transform into a boss form second form, but here it's restricted by intense emotion.

PLANS

WHAT A MONTH IT'S BEEN, just when I finally claw my way back after Dawntrail, it's savage raiding time.

General: To help keep me accountable, here's a few things I planned to touch on--
- Darin's forge opening
- Network posts from Sherlock and Nimona
- Scrutinising Reno's phone since he so kindly offered

Emet is still managing the Adamantine Forge as well if anyone who didn't have a chance to tag into his post last month would like to thread with him! Next month we can hopefully actually start on a prototype engine!!

I'd probably like to try tagging out more this time but of course I'm open to closed threads etc.

MANTA Board: I'm hoping to do the Special quest since Emet-Selch is familiar with both light and dark magic. I'm also open to whatever shenanigans people find interesting with the other quests.

Event: Aaaand since I didn't actually get to do any of the moogle-related stuff last month, clearly Emet has to be subjected to them this month with the casino.