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SAIL WITH ME: FEBRUARY 2025

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

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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 HIDEAWAY

[ramuhs]

Player: Laena
Character(s):

Crew list:

Cidolfus Telamon
Midadol Telamon
Benedikta Harman
Joshua Rosfield
Jill Warrick
Kaveh
Alhaitham
Enterprise
Gale Dekarios
Alfyn Greengrass
G'raha Tia

Crew: The Hideaway
About: The Hideaway's purpose is a bit "loose," taking more of a independent, free to do what you want direction. Taking the odd jobs, helping others, and just living a more "free adventure life" of the Corsairs, even acting something like "Robin Hood" with their actions. It's a place Cid hopes to foster the talents of others and help them feel like they belong somewhere. However, although the Hideaway is on the "nicer" side of the Corsair group, they still behave and act more like outlaws, willing to bend and break the rules if needed. Just usually for good.

Pitch: If you just want to have fun and have five powerful Dominants behind your back, this is the group for you! We're pretty loose and Cid himself tends to look at people for their talents (especially tech savvy!) and need for a place. So yeah a fun, comfy "found family" type of group. Cid is also running a "magitech" type business so, those interested in inventing and engineering are also welcome. With their own island, they'll be looking to develop more so they have the ability to have more independence if needed. Those who may want to stay in Escordvi long term may also find a place here as Cid is looking into it and the rifts.

Even though they are Corsair affiliated, Paladins are welcome!

[velocityraptor]

Player: Nat
Character: Hawks
Looking For: Hawks is the least enthusiastic about seafaring that there ever could be, however he needs a crew! He's incredibly helpful, but probably needs to be shown how to do tasks around the boat, but then he'll do them without complaint. Some basic skills are not in his skillset. He makes an excellent guard, and excellent for getting a bird's eye view of situations. He'd be a great hunter too.

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 also have a crew ad up HERE.

PLANS

General: WELL things are a bit. Of an emotional roller coaster at the moment. With Clive leaving Cid is sad since the big lug was like a son to him. What makes things a little awkward is he proposed to Benedikta last month before Clive left so this is going to drive them to elope this month. There won't be any announcement since they'll be keeping it private (for a number of reasons, Clive's departure being one of them), and any celebrations or whatnot wouldn't be until March for same reasons. SO he won't be around for the end of February and I won't have any open logs or toplevels for him...probably. Otherwise he'll be working on a few new inventions including some kind of cooling/heating system (aka A/C lol).

And as a heads up, I did sign Cid up to be abducted in late March.

MANTA Board: Some things that he could be interested iiiin—

• Harvesting Moonlight. He deals with lightning all the time how much more blinding could this be—
  
• The Last Shadow Afloat. After dealing with shadow things in the desert he's a little more interested in this
  
• Negasacabambaspis. NOT THE SPECIAL FISH
  
• Scylla. Rather than poach, Cid would rather try to protect it from poachers

Open to other things so feel free to hit me up!

Event: WE'LL SEE since he and Benedikta are going to disappear halfway through the festival. I don't have too much planned but if anyone would want to hang with him near the beginning I can work it in!

sheila (tifa & benedikta)

[garudas]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Sheila
Contact: crystariums, 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 Harman 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, thanks to her talents in subterfuge and swordplay, as well as being the Dominant of the Eikon Garuda. Now the Head of the Elite Intelligencers, Waloed's spies, she is—or was, in the case of Escordvi—fiercely loyal to her king. However, not everything is as it seems with her.

She is loyal, but to a fault. And although things have changed for her since coming to Escordvi, she can still be the ruthless, cold-hearted, guarded woman that she has grown up to be. Deep down, however, she is merely a woman who has sought love and validation all her life, and a need to be useful, and once found it in all the wrong places. And now, after recent developments and revelations, she has found it and is working on healing those old wounds born from betrayal and loneliness, as well as trying to live a life that she was robbed of in the past.

PLANS

General: I was on hiatus last month and reeeally took advantage of it, but I am officially back and ready to swing at RP again with a bat!

• Well, first and foremost, Cid and Benedikta officially got engaged at the end of January, after he kept asking and asking and asking and asking and— She finally said yes and he put a ring on it! They will be eloping this month, disappearing right after Dragon's Gale, and won't be back until the beginning of March. So, if anyone would like to do something with her, we can always squeeze it in during the first half of February. There will be no official announcement by them, but she'll be wearing a ring starting in February.
  
• Otherwise, she's still looking into the relics and the rifts, trying to find a way to close them permanently, everyone else be damned or not. :D
  
• She threw herself into the whale and crystal plots, and so she's going to be getting arrested in March. All according to plan, until it will not be, and shit hits the fan very quickly. Getting arrested right after her honeymoon... that's just her luck, isn't it?
  
• Cid will also be getting abducted later, so uh, good luck to anyone in her vicinity. As Cid so kindly puts it, Benedikta's rage knows no bounds, and that's on a good day. She'll most likely be semi-priming to bust out her hubby, so if you would like your character to get caught in those crossfires, we can definitely plot something out. :)

MANTA Board:

• The Last Shadow Afloat
  
• A Steamy Winter Heist
  
• Orwell's Market: except she'd be there trying to stop people from stealing the animals — she has a vested interest in seeing this place thrive as she had left a baby whale that she found at the auction at the Conservatory.
  
• Temple Ruins, obviously!! She'd be open to any of the options!

Event: Probably won't be doing much with her at the event as she'll be eloping, so she won't be around much, but I might be able to squeeze something in beforehand at the beginning!

» Jill Warrick | Final Fantasy 16 | Corsair

[tilfrosset]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Cheska
Contact: Add me recipeh or on Discord at misandrycakes

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: Final Fantasy XVI - post-game
Armada: Corsair

Game Spoilers ahoy! Ye have been warned!

About: Jill is a woman who is starting to grow into her own person after spending thirteen years in captivity and being forced to become a warmachine for a less than savory nation. For the last five years, she's spent her newfound freedom joining up with one Cid and one Clive in their plan of changing the world for the better, especially for Dominants like her and the Bearers, people who can use magick without the need of a crystal.

She's empathetic and sympathetic to those who are in need, friendly and polite to people who are likewise to her, and has a desire to travel the world and experience the things that will be new to her. However, Jill can be stubborn and will drop the polite routine and become rude if someone dehumanizes her (she's had enough of that, thank you very much!) or towards people who she considers enemies. I'd be a fool if I didn't mention how close she is to Clive... like attached at the hip close. One will most likely find her near him, if not behind him, supporting him like the good potential wife friend she is. Her loyalty to him runs deep and gods forbid you talk bad about him in front of her.

PLANS

General: HOO BOY. WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN? Well, first things first, Clive's gone and his leaving is something Jill will not be taking well (both for in-game reasons—they were supposed to get hitched, dammit!—and canon reasons that I won't put here for spoiler reasons but if anybody wants to know anyway, feel free to PM me). She will be announcing his departure sooner or later, but she's also going to pretend everything is fine because you know, it is. It absolutely is and nevermind that she's lying and just doesn't want to burden anyone else with her problems or ruin anybody's upcoming happiness. Someone to call her out on her shit would be great! Or just talk to her until she lets the walls down. Perhaps someone to get her white girl wasted for once in her life to get her to open up? Yeah, that's a good one.

MANTA Board: Maybe Light Up The Night, depending on how the month goes.

Event: She's been kidnapped enough times in her life, so I won't put her through it again. But she can help with finding/rescuing those who have been abducted!

Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2023) | Paladin

[astudyinviolet]

PLAYER INFO

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

CHARACTER INFO

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

About: Sherlock is a 23 24 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

PLANS

General: Sherlock is hitting one year in Escordvi this month! He will be among the abducted, so someone help him out
MANTA Board: Interested in

• still doing Infinity Fabrics and the House the Watches (Paladin) from last month
• Light up the night
• No so Animal Farm (Paladin)
• Temple Ruins (special)

Event: Sherlock is going to be checking out Dragon's Gale more as he's not questioning wtf is going on as much. He will likely have other, more personal problems however. Probably top leveling for this

Etc.: Insert something clever or silly here

Hawks | My Hero Academia | Paladin

[velocityraptor]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Nat
Contact: Discord: Ammeschan

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Hawks
Canon: Prior to his undercover mission going belly up in My Hero Academia
Armada: Paladin

About: Playing up that he's a vapid, airheaded playboy, it's difficult to get a meaningful connection with Hawks. It's by design, considering his background and the fact that those who own him wouldn't approve of him making any meaningful connections. He is not convinced that they're as disconnected from home as they appear to be, and so he's on his best behaviour, lest he get caught doing something he shouldn't.

He's always far more informed than he appears to be, and incredibly calculating, not that he wants anyone to know that. On the other side of that, his life experiences are somewhat limited so there is basic knowledge he just might not have. He's a hero by day and a spy and assassin by night, although he's been enjoying only heroics since he arrived.

The most notable thing about Hawks are the massive wings on his back, which are his quirk, as well as his other bird-like traits. His full wingspan is about 20 feet or so, and he can manipulate his feathers individually, all of them at once. He can also pick up vibrations through his feathers, allowing him to use echolocation and listen to conversations, making him an incredibly effective spy. He has super speed as part of his quirk, his fastest known speed is 900km/h, but he says he can be faster than that.

PLANS

General: He definitely needs to find a crew that would be suitable for him. He is not a fan of being on the ship and when he is, he likes to stay up in the crow's nest. Birds and high places, am I right?

Beyond that, I'm toying with the idea of having him be arrested or even abducted. He did some massive damage to one of the auctions, and it's something in particular that really gets to him. Trafficking in particular is something he's pretty sore about. He wouldn't be thrilled by that at all, but it might give him some interesting insight into the processes in this world.

MANTA Board: He'd be good at The Fluttering Butterflies, Loop Hero, Heart Shaped Box, Nega-Sacabambapsis. He really needs to take on a bounty, he's pretty broke, and/or the Temple Ruins
Event: I'm probably going to tag out this event, but I could top level if people want that kind of thing! I'm open to it.

Etc.:

Ganondorf | Tears of the Kingdom | Corsair

[menaceunleashed]

PLAYER INFO

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

CHARACTER INFO

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

About: He's big. He's bad. He's rehydrated the Demon King, here to ruin your day. If you're not familiar with him, suffice to say that he's a powerful villain whom OOCly is at your disposal for certian plots.

PLANS

General: ALRIGHT REALTALK THE PAST FEW MONTHS HAVE BEEN REALLY HARD and I've been scraping by on AC. I really, REALLY wanna get back in the game with him - so to speak - and would LOVE to make plots with fellow antagonists for some rough alliances, and/or figure out ways he can cause trouble.
Event: STILL TRYING TO DECIDE /kanyeshrug

[multidisciplinary]

All right all right all right

So

How would you feel about puppet zelda?

I'm at a point in the game with Zelda where I'm comfortable with the idea of Ganondorf creating a puppet version of her to do evil shit with. This could be something to do long-term. Like, you could make an entirely separate journal and rp as Ganondorf pretending to be Zelda.

Shiny (Sidestep and Legion)

[telepathicignorance]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Shiny
Contact: mynameislegion or transient_anus on Discord. Discord is faster.

Sidestep | Fallen Hero | Corsair

[telepathicignorance]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Sidestep
Canon: Retribution, near the end just before crashing the car and waking up in the hospital
Armada: Corsair

About: Chris is an asshole with a lot of deeply horrifying trauma. They're also a telepath, a bio android, and (technically) a supervillain, though they try to keep all three of these things secret, with varying degrees of success.

PLANS

General: Well, there's a bounty out for their supervillain identity now, with all the shit they've pulled at the auctions. If you wanna do something with that, please contact me. They'll actually likely be kinda scarce for the first half of the month as we are nearing the anniversary of the most traumatic event in their entire life: last year they were distracted by suddenly being in a new world, but this year that grief and anxiety is gonna hit hard. Still, there's plenty of info I'd be willing to let people discover about them/their secret identity, and they will show up later in the month for confrontations.
MANTA Board: Well, they've got a bounty on them.
Event: No concrete plans for the event yet. Chris may actually spend a lot of time sulking and hiding.

Roxas | Kingdom Hearts | Paladin

[seasaltkeys]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Megan
Contact: urbaninja

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Roxas
Canon: Kingdom Hearts; KH3
Armada: Paladin

About: At his most basic, Roxas is the what happens if you take the protagonist of Kingdom Hearts, Sora, and put him on mute. He's an oddity in the world, but has finally fought through trials and tribulations to be his own person. And then he ended up in a pirate world just before he could start figuring out his life. It's been a time.

But overall, he's a friendly kid whose walls come down easily enough. Though watch out for that short temper.

Also he's cooler than Sora

PLANS

General:
-Probably going to let Roxas have a nice month since I was kind of mean last month. And also still focusing on those January threads.

-In general, Roxas is still adjusting to having Sora around. He'll be talking to the rest of the Plus Ultra crew to have Sora take over as Captain. And, you know, Feelings.

MANTA Board:
-Might look into that extra quest for the temple ruins, since he's got a stake in that now. Maybe do some exploring in the desert since he didn't get to do that last time. And he has every to avoid the tundra. Gotta look for more horse stuff after all.

-Catching magical butterflies sounds like fun

Event:
-Probably looking to tag out this month and maybe have a log or network post for the other stuff.

-He'll probably be at the festival the most, but he might go exploring for more dragon stuff and see if he can fly on one again. That was fun. I'd like to get him into trouble exploring. Or just lost.

-But yeah, fun easy stuff is the name of the game for February.

-And then in March, abducted maybe?

Etc.: My speed is slow, so thank you for your patience.

ANT

[forgeabettertomorrow]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Ant
Contact: Discord: bitterbearface | bitterbearface Feel free to add!

Darin Altway | Original Character | Corsair

[forgeabettertomorrow]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Darin Altway
Canon: Original Character
Armada: Corsair

About: Your stereotypical shounen/JRPG protagonist inspired character, Darin is hot-blooded, occasionally arrogant, but ultimately kind. He's got a whole heaping helping of trauma because he's also got half the soul of a Demonic God of destruction tethered to him, which gives him superhuman strength and resilience— powers that he's only now just looking to learn how to use after a lifetime of suppressing them to appear "normal." He's prophesied to be the destroyer of his world and is even scared he might bring ruin to this one.

PLANS

General: Short term? Darin needs someone to work with and train him to use his abilities. He has no idea how and he doesn't even realize his strength is tied to his emotions. The more worked up he gets, the more power he can draw. However, if he slips too far, he could end up destroying everything, especially himself. Looking for any and all CR, especially antagonists. Boy needs to have his life ruined, he's had it too good lately.
MANTA Board: I would absolutely be up for a lot of these. Nothing is leaping to mind but that doesn't mean I wouldn't tag into someone's log if they wanted Darin to do some things.
Event: I will probably top-level. Darin is going to be getting kidnapped by his dragonified not-girlfriend and it's gonna be a *time.*

Della Duck | Ducktales 2017 | Corsair

[sos_pilot]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Nelissa
Contact: melcat33 for both plurk/discord

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Della Duck
Canon: Ducktales 2017, Post Series Finale
Armada: Corsair

About: Ace pilot for the McDuck family, mother of Huey Dewey and Louie, twin sister of Donald Duck! Loves adventure, exploration, and treasure-hunting! Crashed on the moon and now has a leg made out of rocket-ship-parts! Loves danger, making friends, and mothering anyone even just a year younger than her.

PLANS

General: Maybe one day get enough points for her to get her family's plane, the Sunchaster Cloudslayer? Alas, all the shiny rewards are too tempting, especially now that they've been updated!
MANTA Board:
Did a couple last month, but might be interested in some new ones -
- Heart Shaped Box
- Not So Animal Farm
- Apple For An Eye
- Temple Ruins

Event: Will definitely TL! While she will definitely have fun "rescuing" people, she may allow herself to be "kidnapped" so you youngsters can practice rescuing.

Etc.:

[noctuagoetia]

I offer up one whole owl for your pleasure. He needs to get out to earn some money.

ELLIE

[onebullet]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Ellie
Contact: jelliefishing @ Discord, cardboardcastles @ Plurk

Commander Shepard | Mass Effect | Paladin

[onebullet]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Commander Shepard
Canon: ME3 - High EMS Destroy ending
Armada: Paladin

About: Shepard's life from her mid-teens is basically the answer to the question "what's the worst that could happen?" with a brief respite somewhere in the middle. She's a hero, a saviour and a war criminal rolled into a 6'2" powerhouse that, fortunately for everyone else, leans slightly more into the paragon alignment than renegade.

PLANS

General: Alright, this is my first Sail With Me so let's talk current long-term goals:

• She's joining the Hand and Hearth crew this month which is A Choice considering the only medical knowledge Shepard has is to slap at her omni-tool until it dispenses pain relief. Ideally, I would like for her to use some of her down-time to take on jobs/work under people who have experience with healing so that she'll be able to function as a passable paramedic when needed. The broader the range of experience she can gather, the better.


• I would also like for her to become the thorn in the side of some negative CR, so if you need a rival, or a "good guy" to play as the foil for some schemes or plots, please consider hitting me up! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

MANTA Board: Aside from the Shadow Family, which Shepard is already involved in from last month, I'd be down for pretty much anything under the Paladins and General tab! I'll probably tag into "Not So Animal Farm" threads as a priority with it aligning with long-term goals for her, but I'm open to doing things elsewhere too~

Event: Currently undecided on whether to TL or just tag out with Shep during the event - depends on how much I have on my plate when it goes up... but the suspicious happenings might swing it for me. The dragon kidnapping would also be very funny, regardless of if Shepard ends up being the dashing knight or getting into a real bust-up with the dragon as the "damsel".

Etc.:

Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV | Paladin

[emet_sulk]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Chips
Contact: DM, ch1ps0h0y

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

General: Emet-Selch is still focused on trying to create a television for Denji (and it's proving very difficult because of course it is). He's in need of something that can create a fine, focused laser and has a network post requesting help with understanding binary from Earth-related worlds.

MANTA Board: I'm interested in that Special quest. Strange ruins means new and unusual things! Also the mad alchemist. If you want a mage to help you out with a bounty or a grumpy old man to help with the assistance quests, I'm open most of the options!

Event: No strong plans for the upcoming dragon fest. Last year he was kidnapped and had to be rescued. I may tag out to others here unless someone desires something specific!

CR Dreams: I would still love Emet to meet more people and build something of a network. He is finding his niche as an inventor/innovator, it seems, so if you have something that you'd like to see built there's a good chance he can make it happen eventually!

(Current projects: Television, crystal battery, then maybe motorcycle for Cloud???)

Etc.:

[36105997]

Hey there! I'm having Vince do mad alchemist too- if you've no plans for company, fancy getting the old men back together?

Nappa | Dragon Ball Z | Paladin

[minorinpain]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Samu
Contact: Through my journals, or Plurk or Discord, both under samuraimarmoset

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Character
Canon: Dragon Ball Z, Saiyan Saga, right after he and Vegeta land on Earth.
Armada: Paladin or Corsair

About: Nappa is a Saiyan warrior, a superhumanly strong alien from a race of almost completely-extinct raiders, and space pirates. After Frieza blew up an unfortunate meteor strike destroyed the Saiyan homeworld some twenty years past, Nappa was one of a handful of survivors due to not being on-planet at the time, attending to the young Prince Vegeta IV. They continued to work for the local galactic emperor/planet broker afterwards, though Nappa never fully bought into the whole "meteor strike" story.

After another Saiyan survivor named Raditz got wiped out on Earth, Nappa and Vegeta learned from listening in on Raditz's communicator that the otherwise-insignificant planet harboured artifacts called the Dragon Balls, that were capable of granting any wish, including immortality. Moreover, Earth's strongest defender, Raditz's own younger brother Kakarot (who had been raised on Earth ignorant of his Saiyan heritage and went by the name Son Goku) had only barely managed to defeat Raditz with help, and died in the process. With Nappa and especially Vegeta much stronger than Raditz had ever been, they set out in their space pods to go to Earth and grab immortality for themselves, spending a year in transit. Nappa ended up being brought to Escordvi right after disembarking from his pod after arriving from Earth (and before he could blow up a sizeable chunk of the city they landed in).

Free from both Frieza and Vegeta's orders, Nappa sees Escordvi as a chance to make himself the boss of his own gang, who takes orders from no one, and is currently working on enacting a scheme that he believes will earn him a small fortune to kick-start his rise to the top.

PLANS

General: Nappa's got a plot in motion for this month that will involve kidnapping Princess Zelda just before the full moon and holding her for ransom, which is going to bring him in conflict with Zelda's boyfriend Darin and possibly others as well. I'll have an event post going up for that later today. The fight will involve Nappa taking his Great Ape form (Saiyans who still have their monkey tails turn into giant apes under the light of a full moon) and he's going to lose, and end up pretty badly beaten up in the process.
Event: Because of the Zelda plot, I'm probably going to pace myself and not do a lot on the event, but the injuries he receives and turning into a giant monkey will lead Nappa to being arrested and thrown into prison for next month's event, since there are no convenient healing tanks or senzu beans to speed up the process. But he'll come out of it with a good old-fashioned Zenkai boost at least.

Etc.:


I've been kind of a non-entity since I joined, and I apologize for that! I'm looking to correct that issue and get more involved in the game going forward.

Red

[thearchangel]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Red
Contact: redfirelight

Garrus Vakarian | Mass Effect | Paladin

[thearchangel]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Garrus Vakarian
Canon: Mass Effect - End of ME3
Armada: Paladin

About: 7'0" alien man with a sniper rifle and a shitty sense of humor. He did a long stint as Space Batman for a while, and has a thing for calibrations, big guns, and people who can kick his ass. Deadpan, practical, and has wired his apartment like an adult version of Home Alone. Oh, and he sinks like a rock - he physically cannot swim whatsoever.

PLANS

General: Garrus joined up with Zelda's crew/floating circus. But for the most part, he's usually around the main port town, doing odd jobs - mostly on the side of putting down very small time crime here and there. You can't take the batman out of this alien. He can't swim, physically cannot swim, and is looking into fixing that problem since... well. He's got a ship crew now. I did sign him up for the abduction/arrest plot, as well, so up for prison shenanigans.
MANTA Board: I have no solid plans here, but I am game for teaming up with something!
Event: FOR THIS MONTH I will probably Toplevel with Garrus - I don't have a lot of plans ahead of time, aside from probably giving him a lighter time, considering he did not have a Good Time in the snow.

Etc.:

Vincent Valentine | FFVII: DoC | Paladin

[36105997]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Valen
Contact: Plurk or discord!

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Vincent Valentine
Canon: Deepground. After defeating Azul.
Armada: Paladin

About: A Very Old Goth. Vincent is an ex-Turk (Think CIA) for a megaconglomerate that a) owns his world's electrical supply and b) is defacto the highest governmental and military power there is. Think late stage capitalism on crack. Except he fell for the Wrong Person, wound up an off-the-books experiment, got his DNA spliced with a literal harbringer of death and the literal executioner of all life, and sealed himself away for a good 30 years because all of the above. He rose- teamed up with a bunch of miscreants and took down this corporation, saved the world, and also learned a lot about himself on the way. Yaaaay.

Except now, his demons aren't exactly internal. Due to point of canon at DoC, Vincent lost control of them but in escordvi, he's managed to hold them off and regain some semblance of control via tattoos. Yay! He's recently joined his buddies on the AVALANCHE but spends most of his time offship- searching for a lead regarding a series of created monsters he Very Much Takes Exception To- created monster himself and all.

PLANS

General: I've had Vincent investigate a few things in escordvi so far (Including the above- the man-made monsters) but truthfully, I'm floundering a little. I'd love for him to really sink his teeth into something, whether it's relevant to his typical interests or not. Hit me up. Please 🙏

MANTA Board: Rumor of a mad alchemist: He is sooooooooooo doing this one. Hes into the idea of (trying to) find this guy and also some light lycanthropy.
The house that watches/The last shadow afloat: Spooky stuff. He's so down.
Not so animal farm: Vince was kind of sort of involved in a lot of these animals getting loose, so he's going to want to check on how Red's handling them all.
Temple Ruins: I'm going to force Vincent to at least stumble upon the efforts, in the hope of getting him something to sink his teeth into. Provisionally, he'll fend off animals and stop conflicts, but I could do with him finding a buddy to force him to explore a bit.


Event: I'm going to be tagging out for the event, and I'd like to offer Vince up as a rescuer for any characters that are going to be kidnapped and don't have anyone in mind to rescue them. Just let me know and he'll be there!

Etc.:

Sugar

[inherlight]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Sugar
Contact: Discord: akausa or DM
Plurk: goddessofsugar (I have but don’t really use much. Pings work best)

Kolnatha Shavval | Forgotten Realms | Corsair

[inherlight]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Kolnatha ‘Koh’ Shavval
Canon: Forgotten Realms
Armada: Corsair

About: Okay, super TLDR: Koh is a faithful cleric of Eilistraee, the chaotic good daughter of Lolth, her former ruler. Koh takes her role as a cleric of the Dark Maiden very seriously and has dedicated her life to helping those less fortunate, no matter what race they may be. She dreams of a brighter future for her people, the drow, that one day they will live again on the Surface free from Lolth’s control. She feels immense pressure not that she tries to let it show to be the model example of her race can be to forge new bridges and alliances. Once you gain her trust, Koh is fiercely loyal and will fight for the ones she cares about. She will always be the first to throw herself into harm's way when someone is in trouble… though, maybe with a plan in place first. Usually the voice of reason in the group.

If you're in the market for a healer, look no further~

PLANS

General: In general, I want Koh to make some adventuring buddies. Back home, she made a living going out on missions to help others, whether it be through fighting or healing.

MANTA Board: I really want her to try some out this month. She’s pretty much down for anything. Harvesting Moonlight peaked my interest since one accept of her deity is that she is the goddess of moonlight and it holds special meaning to her. Also the No So Animal Farm since Koh has a fondness of animals.

Event: I might be top leveling for the event. Waiting to see the full prompts to see if one of them sounds fun. Dragon Migration, Festival, and Kidnapping and Castle Raid with her being the rescuer sound up her alley. If anyone wants to do anything with her during the event, let me know~ Koh does have a fear of flying cause once she got snatched by a dragon so finding a way to have her riding or snatched would be funny..

Etc.:

Alfyn | Octopath Traveler | Paladin

[apothecarry]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Vil
Contact: discord (vilyasage) or dw message

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Alfyn Greengrass
Canon: Octopath Traveler; post-chapters-4 for all characters, not yet into the Secret Final Arc.
Armada: Paladin

About: Alfyn is a friendly and good-natured apothecary who has traveled all over to try to become an even better apothecary and help as many people as he can! He has a soft heart, a chipper demeanor, and will only charge his patients what they can afford - even if that means the care is free. While he tends to wear all of his emotions right out in the open and isn't embarrassed by having them, his primary motivation in life is helping people out. Simple as that. Real golden retriever of a human, Alfyn.

Also he loves a good drink and a good talk, please take him to a bar.

PLANS

General: Overall I'd just love some new threads with him! New or current CR, all is great. After a slow holiday month(s) I am looking forward to kind of catching back up and a bit of a deeper dive into more exciting adventures.

MANTA Board: A sort of bullet list of things I'd be interested in Alfyn getting into:
General: Hunt a werewolf (?) alchemist (?) with him? Alternatively, harvest moonlight or fly kites. Lot of nighttime activities this time!
Paladin: The shadow puppets! And/or caring for some rescued animals, which is always best undertaken with friends, surely.

Event: ALL OF HIS FRIENDS ARE GETTING ABDUCTED?? Though it seems like it's going to happen a bit spread out, over several days - and this will only cause him more distress. I am looking for someone or someones he can team up with to rescue his friends. He will be dogged in his pursuit, and furious at anyone who harms a hair on their heads! All medicine is just poison at heart, you know?

Dragon's Gale: This will mark one year since Alfyn arrived here! He may get a little sad and wistful about it. I think it would be kind of hilarious if he got dragon-napped, since it won't be happening in the Paladin-Corsair conflict; the deep diving also sounds cool? So long as they all can breathe and such. He's also not above getting into a brawl with anyone who is trying to start something, no matter which side they're on, especially if it's disturbing an otherwise peaceful or fun time.

Etc.:

[astudyinviolet]

Sorry for getting abducted, Alfyn!

But I require more Alfyn in my life. We should do something. I was looking at the kites MANTA for Sherlock, so that is an option. Heck, if Alfyn doesn't mind a lightweight drinking partner, they can go out drinking after. Sherry's a bit of sad drunk, all doubts and worries and more open but drinks for Alfyn.

Ranma Saotome | Ranma ½ | Corsair

[catsgothistongue]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Wahoo
Contact: wahoothis or Discord (wahoothis)

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Ranma Saotome
Canon: Ranma ½, end of manga
Armada: Corsair

About: What if you made a rom-com martial arts shounen where two tsundere idiots are unwilling engaged and forced to put up with one another and the ensuing chaos that follows? Also, one pair is cursed with GENDER™. You get Ranma ½ in a nutshell. And Ranma here is one half (ha ha) of the idiotic tsundere pair, being the poor "unfortunate" cursed sucker. He's a prodigy training in martial arts ever since he was born under the tutelage of his father... which is the root cause of his brash, sly, dry-witted and prideful nature who does not know when to think before he speaks and, in layman's term, is a bit of a chaos gremlin who attracts conflict and mayhem like metal to magnets.

Otherwise, outside of his shortcomings and flaws, he's a friendly and chill social guy who upholds his duties as a martial artist to help the weak and innocent, and doesn't have much of a grudge with even those who've done him wrong.

Abilities: Abilities can be found right here!

PLANS

General: His crew went from losing half of its members to gaining more than that in the blink of an eye, so he's mostly going to be helping the newbies get used to the ropes on their crewship. Same deal as usual though, just living life, getting into fights and shenanigans, the use.
MANTA Board:
-Infinity Fabrics (Ranma's a magical girl by technical terms, so why not look the part?)
-Rumour of a Mad Scientist (He's already cursed with gender-bending. What's a little lycanthropy tacked on top of it gonna hurt?)
-The Last Shadow Afloat
-Nega-Sacabambapis
-Puppetmaster
-Temple Ruins
Event: I plan on trying to TL this month. Ranma likes participating in a lot of the festivities held, so this should be nothing new. And I'm definitely planning on having him go out and rescue a few kidnappees from some dragons... and also have him get kidnapped too, if anyone wishes to be his/her knight in shining armor.

Etc.: 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.

Axel | Kingdom Hearts | Corsair

[emberized]

PLAYER INFO

Player: RJ
Contact: ChaosCornchip gets my attention quickest but anything is fine!

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Axel
Canon: End of KH2
Armada: Corsair

About: What happens when you take a fiery, snarky, social butterfly, rip out his heart and raise him in a cult as an assassin? You get dangerous yet caring rogues like Axel.

Axel is what is known as a Nobody; a husk of a person bereft of emotional connection. He cannot feel *feelings* but he IS skilled enough at following social cues to fake them and has enough past memories to react in short bursts of emotion that never last.

For reasons even he doesn't understand, these fleeting emotions are much stronger in the presence of a keyblade wielder; like his good buddy Roxas, who Axel can be his most genuine self around.

He can be rather meddlesome with a tendency to instigate, but he usually means well.

So far the Nobody has been very mum about his condition but the more his cast grows and the more people get to know him, the truth will come out eventually…

PLANS

General:
February is gonna be a slower month for me; gonna focus on finishing things I've started in Jan or just do some light tag-ins to network or manta posts.

I'm thinking that Axel will be wrongfully (or rightfully) arrested alongside Roxas if he gets taken, so he'll be available for cellside banter in the March/April plot and teaming up for any tiny attempted breakouts (even if all they manage is like, getting out of one room before actual help arrives.)

Manta board:
House that Watches– Axel got approved to successfully dig up a bit of info on the nobles after stalking them for a while; while I don't have a top level, I'd love to thread a bit of it out somewhere by hopping into someone else's. If you need him to open a locked door from the other side, he is your man!

Mad Alchemist- The urge to play out lycanthropy is STRONG but we'll see. If not this month, hopefully the isle will stick around. Ideally, I'd love for a whole group of CR to turn into a pack all at the same time and do a confused wolf mingle until our collective sanity returns. That just sounds hilarious to me.

Event:
Gonna try to not top level this time, keep things loose and focus on castmate support. But I do love the setup, Axel will be infinitely happier with this type of celebration vs traditional heart-based holidays so he'll definitely be out and about or chilling on a rooftop enjoying the show.

Etc.:

Azul Ashengrotto | Twisted Wonderland | Paladin

[octoblot]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Taku
Contact: wailods, PM this journal or message me in the Discord!

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Azul Ashengrotto
Canon: Twisted Wonderland (end of Book 6)
Armada: Paladin

About: Azul is a pretty boy based on the Disney Villain Ursula from Little Mermaid. As such, he is a guy that is on the surface friendly and helpful, but in actuality can be rather greedy and more interested in building up wealth and power through his business ventures and magical contracts. That said, since he is new here, he is going to be trying his best to play nice so that he can build up some rapport and investigate the best avenues that will allow him to return home... but not be too entirely opposed to still making some money on the side and opening up his cafe/consultation office Mostro Lounge from back home here as well.

Azul is an octomer: his true form is that of a mermaid with octopus features. As such, he is able to swim farther/faster, breathe underwater, enhanced grip-strength, and has the use of his tentacles to grab and lift objects. He despises his octomer form due to his insecurities regarding his appearance, so he will try to avoid being seen in this state very often.

He is also an exceptionally skilled mage and alchemist: he can create and craft spells, items, and potions that anyone may be in need of for nearly any request, no matter how impossible it may seem. However, he will insist on people signing contracts with him using his signature spell "It's A Deal" in order for his magic to be able to accomplish the request being asked of him, details of which can be found here!

PLANS

General: He is currently offering his services for spell/potion crafting for anyone interested! He's also currently helping Kaveh out at his cafe due to the latter providing a place for him to stay, so anyone can feel free to catch sight of him there. Also, for the month of February, his birthday is on the the 24th! There's only a few people he might have told (or they figured it out through some means) but if anyone wants to do anything with me involving that let me know!
MANTA Board: Harvesting Moonlight and the Mad Alchemist prompts would be of interest to Azul as someone who would want these ingredients for his own potion making lol. Azul is also open to working with anyone on Bounties as well since he does love that sweet money reward... although the Valentines Box prompt could be funny too.
Event: During the Auction House dealings last month, Azul got his hand on a tome allegedly written by past Riftfarers talking about methods of interdimensional/world traveling that Azul is going to be studying for any clues about ways for people who want to return back to their own worlds to be able to do so. But I am also eyeballing the possibility of him getting abducted/arrested because of having acquired said book from the auction house or for some other crime he allegedly committed aside from maybe getting one or two people to sign sketchy contracts cough cough. HMMM... (Otherwise, I am completely open to any suggestions of things to do this month!)

Etc.:

Caprica

[baymaxing]

PLAYER INFO

Player: Caprica
Contact: caprican @ plurk. Or angelolatry @ discord, or pm.

Hiro Hamada l Big Hero 6 l Paladin

[baymaxing]

CHARACTER INFO

Character: Hiro Hamada
Canon: Big Hero 6. Post-film, somewhere around early ish series once he has remade Baymax.
Armada: Paladin

About: Hiro is a prodigy, a cocky brat. He is arrogant at times in how he knows he is usually smarter than others. But he has a good heart and good intentions, most of the time. He's no longer involved in bot fighting and using that to hustle for money by betting on the outcome of his fights. He's made up a team of heroes with his friends, that he met through Tadashi, alongside Baymax. He does often get in over his head. There are Reasons Tadashi sewed GPS trackers into his hoodies.

PLANS

General: I guess for the most part, at the moment, Hiro will be dealing with Tadashi going back home. Going back home only to die. So he will be trying to keep himself busy. Baymax will be poking at him to remember to eat, and to get some rest occasionally as he tries to distract himself. As he tries to take on what Tadashi was doing, continuing his work, finishing things he had been working on.

Event: Might top level and/or tag around for it.

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: So due to January being January, I didn't end up getting to an open tl for the tundra memshare last month; if you're still interested in one I'm more than happy to plan it out!

As for this month and the next, I'm considering having Miriam be one of the abducted, though probably later on in the process since she'd be a pain in the ass to bring in and with enough baked in powers to make her very effective at resisting arrest. She's used to people wanting her dead or imprisoned for existing, this is nothing new. BUT, having crystals already attached to her would probably put a big target on her back, in addition to causing problems at the auction houses. She also has a map piece taken from one of them.

For lighter things! I had an idea of her voluntarily going along with some of the dragons either as a dragonling babysitter or an additional challenge mode boss for anyone coming to claim the treasure. She'll bring a chair.

MANTA Board:

The House that Watches—Fun fact, Miriam also has a shadow double ability! Different, obviously, but close enough for her to be like that spiderman meme. Either herself, or for other characters who might think she's gotten shadow puppet-ed.

A Rumor of a Mad Alchemist—Alchemists doing questionably ethical science sure is a common refrain in Miriam's life huh. I'm interested in doing something with the lycanthropy stuff; Miriam's probably going to get furry cooties on her and may share before she realizes she's a disease vector, if any of her CR wants a free werewolf ticket.

She's usually pretty good at controlling and repressing her emotions, so becoming a liminal creature prone to Big Emotions would be fun. I was thinking of setting this ambiguously late in the month, but timing is flexible.

And yes, the scarf stays on.

CR Dreams: Friends, sparring friends, music friends. Connections good! She's also reasonably good with a piano, and has brought one into the Seventh Heaven bar. It's available for anyone to play if they're interested, not only crewmates. Her fairy familiar might come over if Carabosse likes you. She's a frequent Ring of Returning user and is often all over the place when the ship is docked, and is available for hire as a bodyguard for squishier scholarly types (fee waived for CR, people who are reasonably friendly, or just tell her they can't pay, she mostly just wants to help people). Miriam's usually fairly reserved, but bits of her past are starting to poke out now, particularly after the crystal statues in the illicit auction houses came to light.

The lycanthropy quest might hopefully lead to some development insofar as Miriam taking a minute and being more mindful of herself, since her usual stubbornness in pushing through and ignoring something that's wrong with her got her into this mess. Additional people to shake her shoulders are more than welcome and probably necessary (she'll probably be on the other end doing the same to others! But prioritizing her own emotional wellbeing, what's that).