folkooc | August 2022 Story of Us

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August 2022 Story of Us

Story of Us: August

Announcements and Feedback

Hello Folkies! This is our monthly Story of Us post where we get together to make game announcements, ask for any feedback or suggestions, partake in character relationship memes and open up our invites for the upcoming application cycle!

Check out the bottom of this post for important dates to keep an eye on!

Mod Help Needed

We are in desperate need of some mod helpers! We need someone to help take over Activity Check and the Spoons page. Both of these are relatively straightforward tasks!

Activity Check requires you to respond accordingly to all players and make an updated post about who needs to respond still/who has been swept through AC or drops.

Spoons merely require you to make sure counts generally look right and that any purchases are approved.

We would also appreciate any help on App Reading anyone would be willing to give. Thank you!

If you are interested in any of the above, please shoot us a DM on our mod account on Dreamwidth with your name, contact information, and what you are able to help with.

Announcements

All prompts and events from July and August will end September 1st. Camp Camelot will vanish into thin air. If you happen to be at the camp or in the cabins at this time, they will merely vanish into golden dust around you. Any items won/gained during Camp Camelot will be on your character's person or at their home.

The floods from August will have mostly dried up within the first week of September although it will still be a bit muddy!

UPDATE AS OF 08/26/2022

Hello! Please refer to our Mod Announcement for new information regarding the upcoming Application/Reserves section!

All players are permitted two invites that will expire November 11th. This means all invites on this page are good for October and November cycles.

Applications/Reserves will be suspended until October 1st. Check-In will be optional for August.

Additionally, we are thrilled at the response for mod help and hope to get back to applicants ASAP! Thank you all for your understanding!

Feel Free to Comment
If you have any questions about anything going on in the game or need an update on a question that might have gotten lost between the cracks please use this space to ask down below!

Always remember to follow us on Plurk for game updates at folkie!

Character Relationship Meme

It's that time of month to organize your thoughts and compile some plans with each other! This is an optional meme for players to get to know each other and draft up some ideas and keep up to speed on what everyone else is doing!

Copy and paste the following form and reply to the appropriate section down below. Have fun!

Player Name:
Player Pronouns:
Player Contact: <user name=PLURKNAME site=plurk.com> or other
Preferred Tag Style: Action/Prose
Monthly Pacing: Let others know if you might be a bit slow this month or your usual speed!
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Personal limitations you have or prompts you will opt out of. Maybe you have no interest in romantic or sexual or violent CR etc.
Permissions: Link to your permissions here! Or any other valuable information pages like power opt-ins/opt-outs if you like!

Character Name:
Character Age:
Characer Species:
Character Details: Anything unique about them to immediately know? Maybe that they have a prosthetic, details about their voice, etc.
Character Summary: Give a simple summary of your character, their history maybe, personality, things that you would want people to know right off the bat!

Character Role: Familiar, Myth, Legend.
Character Role Deets: Anything unique about your character's role and how it manifests? Things you'd like to explore through it?
Character Living Quarters: Where is your character living?
Character Schools: Where do they teach or go to school?
Day to Day Life: What can they usually be seen doing? Do they have a job? Run errands? Explain here!

Current Mindset/Health: What is your character's current mindset/state of being/etc. Let people know where your character will be mentally and otherwise for this event including things like current injuries/etc.
Recent Developments: Anything major or significant that your character has experienced that may be important to established or new CR.
Goals For Your Character: What are things YOU as a player want to accomplish for your character? What storylines are you hoping to achieve? 
Problems With Your Character: What are struggles your character is going through right now? Physical or mental!

Wanted CR: Romances? Mentors? Family figures? Let people know here!
Unwanted CR: Against enemies? Friends? Fill it out here.
Open/Closed to New CR: Will you be focusing on your current CR or interested in developing new?

Invitations

Our game is invite-only which means in order to make a reserve or apply, you must have an invite from a current player in-game! Players are not required to give invites. Invites are open between the 22nd of every month and close on the 5th of the following month when applications open. All invites expire after that application cycle ends.

Players are limited to one invite per round unless they have purchased an additional invite slot through Spoons. If using an additional invite slot, please make sure to link to your purchase in your invite form.

Invites allow new players to reserve/apply to the game. Invites do not guarantee that new players will get in. Some invites may not be accepted and we will message players on a case-by-case basis if necessary.

Players only require an invite for their first application. Once they are a player in the game, they can apply as more characters at a later date. If a player drops completely from the game, they will require a new invite to get back in.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW A PLAYER IN OUR GAME BUT ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE SEND OUR MOD JOURNAL A PM WITH YOUR HANDLE AND CONTACT INFORMATION FOR A REQUEST TO AN INVITE.
Fill out the following form and place it down below in the appropriate section.

CALENDAR

Calendar dates may be subject to change due to real world circumstances. Please follow us on our plurk to keep up to date! We will update this section accordingly. Remember to set your journal to EST as we will always pay attention to timestamps.

TDM
August 22nd-25th
ANY TIME

RESERVES OPEN
~~September 1st~~
OCTOBER 1st
12:01 AM EST

RESERVES CLOSE
~~September 5th~~
OCTOBER 5th
12:01 AM EST

INVITES CLOSE
~~September 5th~~
October 5th
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN OPEN
~~September 1st~~
OPTIONAL FOR AUG.
12:01 AM EST

CHECK IN CLOSE
~~September 5th~~
OPTIONAL FOR AUG.
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS OPEN
~~September 5th~~
OCTOBER 5th
12:01 AM EST

APPLICATIONS CLOSE
~~September 10th~~
OCTOBER 10th
11:59 PM EST

TRIAL PLOT
~~September 11th~~
TBD
ANY TIME

TRIAL LIVE
~~September 13th~~
TBD
ANY TIME

INVITES-CR MEME BEGIN
September 22nd
ANY TIME

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Player Name: Xy
Player Pronouns: she/her
Player Contact:

assemble
Preferred Tag Style: Either + will match
Monthly Pacing: Should be good but my weekends are mostly getting filled up!
OOC Limitations/Disinterests:
Permissions: Permissions and opt-out

Character Name: Steve Rogers
Character Age: 100 but also like 33/34
Characer Species: Human (enhanced)
Character Details: Impressions can be found here but mostly right now in deviation to (most of) his icons, he does have his Infinity War beard. And sometimes he sticks flowers in it, in accordance to accepted practices in Willow.
Character Summary: History can be found here but tl;dr fighty tiny sickly dude attempts to enlist for ww2, is experimented on to become beefy soldier dude, crashes a plane full of big bad missiles into the ocean, wakes up in 2012, fights aliens. Definitely missing some things.

Character Role: Legend.
Character Role Deets: Big white wings, thin gold halo. He learned how to fly! He also turns into a merman now sometimes? It's confusing. He's confused.
Character Living Quarters: He lives in Lapine with his buddy Bucky but sometimes stays over at Satori Hills.
Character Schools: n/a in September
Day to Day Life:

Guess it'll depend what the event is next month. He does not have a job, but if things slow down he might get into painting. If you have good CR with him, he may offer to paint you a portrait for his portfolio.

Other than that, he's starting cooking school. And apparently giving relationship advice? Also if you moved any of your stuff or boarded up your house in anticipation of the flood, he will help you move all the heavy stuff back in.

Current Mindset/Health: After a weird month, he's doing okay.
Recent Developments: I don't think there are any that affect his CR too much...? He likes to recommend characters to other characters, and since his bff just arrived maybe expect extra amounts of recommendations for Bucky.
Goals For Your Character: I am not too sure about this, probably just making lots of friends and learning how to relax and retire. Also, he really likes to help anyone who wants to find their potential and go home to their loved ones, so he'll be happy to assist if your character has a goal they want help with.
Problems With Your Character: If you are close enough to him, maybe expect some complaints about his love life this month.

Wanted CR:

People from other worlds who wanna tell them about their worlds.
Cooking buddies, or people who wanna volunteer to eat his cooking experiments until he becomes Gordon Ramsay.
He is making an audiobook of The Hobbit so please lmk if you want to help voice act. I may or may not have him post this to the network.
I bought him some Asgardian ale so... people to get drunk with him! Note, this offer is only open to adults who are not baseline human. He will order baseline human adults a normal alcoholic drink, and children will get offered soda :>
ALMOST FORGOT! he needs people to take care of him when he is drunk too, which may or may not involve peeling him off his lawn, taking away his relic, or encouraging him to send sad drunk texts. I guess this is a subset of the previous one, or someone who came to pick him up. Only need like 1-2 people for this
I'd like to see other things develop naturally too! Pretty open except for the stuff in unwanted.

Unwanted CR:

He already has a magic mentor so he is not in the market for another one, though he will take any lore dumps that people want to offer.
Negative CR and antagonism is ok but I don't want any nemeses at the moment.

Open/Closed to New CR: Open.

Edited 2022-08-22 06:20 (UTC)

Happy to volunteer Airy, perhaps in tandem with someone else, to take care of a drunk Steve.

Sounds good :>

I want so many things!

1. Mary can learn to cook with him.
2. Varen will drink with him.
3. Gemmaline will voice a character for The Hobbit and I'll also volunteer her to help his drunk ass somehow!

Awww yes and Steve does need to meet Varen :>

Yeah! He needs more friends for sure!

Please expose G'raha to The Hobbit, Tolkien is straight up his alley, he'll have read the entire goddamn Silmarillion by the next month. He's also always down to exchange world info and magic lore.

Aww cute! He can also borrow Steve's copy of the Hobbit, it's first ed!!

I'm very slow atm but I'd love for him to share the Asgardian ale with Anne-Marie. Then she'll learn how not human she is. Which is interesting because she doesn't know that her father was a god. Of course I'll likely continue to be slow for a bit since I got sick this month but if you're cool with slow :)

I'm good with slow but if they both think she is human he isn't going to let her try it unfortunately since Thor said it was dangerous for humans;;

well she knows she isn't human, she just doesn't know what she is. you think she'd be able to convince him to try a tiny sip?

probably not since if she doesn't know how her constitution is;;;

Re: Steve Rogers | MCU

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deathbygoldfish - 2022-08-23 00:58 (UTC) - Expand

Era is always more than happy to talk about what she knows of her world(s), since there's hardly anything she loves more than her home o3o

Aww yay he'd love to hear about that :>

Bella could attempt to help with cooking (once he explains, she'll be fine!) and Misty would be a huge help while he's drunk since she doesn't drink. And I don't know what more I want to do with Steve and Arashi at this moment, but I know it's something!

awww !! Yes this all sounds great :>

Awesome! And I thought of something Steve and Arashi have in common: both of them were chosen for destinies that were to turn the tides of human history, they could commiserate over that?

aww yeah :> if she wants to open up he might too

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intemperant - 2022-08-25 00:44 (UTC) - Expand

HELLO did you say voice act! I can absolutely help with that.

For other stuff, Eren is...a difficult person to say the least but he could use more people who are good in his life here. He's worried that his potential is always going to be "is a monster" and people who will treat him like a person are good for him.

Aww yes Steve can help with that :>

Was Eren the one who gave Tony a ride home on his palm?

Yes! Giant monster carrying Iron Man nbd

awww very cute tho!! not that big of a deal u right

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pursuitofcappiness - 2022-08-25 03:35 (UTC) - Expand

I'd love to do some follow up if you'd like! Maybe some drinking together or she could take care of him when he gets drunk

Oh yes! Both sound great! Ooh he wants to see if she can move vibranium when he's drunk lol

Oh yeah that'd be hilarious. I think they decided recently(ish) in comics canon that Magneto can so she probably can

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