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November 2022 Story of US
Story of Us: November
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!
Announcements / Reminders
As a reminder, Milk has stepped down as the headmod and our mod team has been re-structured. If there are any issues, feel free to contact us at any time through the mod contact page.
One of the changes we are implementing today is the brand new Event suggestion and Player Plot page, which can be found in the Game Navigation from now on. If you have any events you'd like to suggest, or perhaps run a plot on your own, use that post. We would be happy to hear your ideas!
Finally, we are happy to announce the Game Feedback post! We would like to hear what you think of the game so far, possible changes you'd like to see, or perhaps any issues you would want to see addressed. This post is open to our playerbase, and with it we hope to make Folkmore a game everyone can enjoy.
Thank you very much for all of your patience and help!
Upcoming Weather for December
As we enter December, all the glitter from November starts to fade away, but the shinning stars remain, leaving the night sky bright all through the month. Kuma Lisa is still the current iteration of Thirteen, however characters will often see her in her Fox form that has now turned pure white to match the snow that covers most of the land (with the exception of Cruel Summer).
The giddy effects of Kuma Lisa are replaced with a calm and peace that Star Children might find comforting. It's more clear now that the nights are much longer than before, and the cold outside makes Star Children want to cuddle up with someone to keep warm. Despite the cold, however, the night will feel always beautiful and peaceful. Every night paper lanterns will be released to light the streets and stores all around Folkmore; these will magically remain in place until the end of the night, rather than floating away. When the day comes, they will rise up and disappear.
The days, in contrast, will feel a bit more grey and listless. There won't be a lot of light and everything seems a lot slower than usual, lacking the spirit of the night. Star children may feel a bit more depressed than usual but if they reach out to others this feeling may be eased.
As a reminder: the Anti-Hero trial is still on going until January 1st.
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!
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folkie!
Check out the bottom of this post for important dates to keep an eye on!
As a reminder, Milk has stepped down as the headmod and our mod team has been re-structured. If there are any issues, feel free to contact us at any time through the mod contact page.
One of the changes we are implementing today is the brand new Event suggestion and Player Plot page, which can be found in the Game Navigation from now on. If you have any events you'd like to suggest, or perhaps run a plot on your own, use that post. We would be happy to hear your ideas!
Finally, we are happy to announce the Game Feedback post! We would like to hear what you think of the game so far, possible changes you'd like to see, or perhaps any issues you would want to see addressed. This post is open to our playerbase, and with it we hope to make Folkmore a game everyone can enjoy.
Thank you very much for all of your patience and help!
As we enter December, all the glitter from November starts to fade away, but the shinning stars remain, leaving the night sky bright all through the month. Kuma Lisa is still the current iteration of Thirteen, however characters will often see her in her Fox form that has now turned pure white to match the snow that covers most of the land (with the exception of Cruel Summer).
The giddy effects of Kuma Lisa are replaced with a calm and peace that Star Children might find comforting. It's more clear now that the nights are much longer than before, and the cold outside makes Star Children want to cuddle up with someone to keep warm. Despite the cold, however, the night will feel always beautiful and peaceful. Every night paper lanterns will be released to light the streets and stores all around Folkmore; these will magically remain in place until the end of the night, rather than floating away. When the day comes, they will rise up and disappear.
The days, in contrast, will feel a bit more grey and listless. There won't be a lot of light and everything seems a lot slower than usual, lacking the spirit of the night. Star children may feel a bit more depressed than usual but if they reach out to others this feeling may be eased.
As a reminder: the Anti-Hero trial is still on going until January 1st.
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!
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!
Copy and paste the following form and reply to the appropriate section down below. Have fun!
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.
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.
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
November 22nd-25th
ANY TIME
November 22nd-25th
ANY TIME
RESERVES OPEN
Dec 1st
12:01 AM EST
Dec 1st
12:01 AM EST
RESERVES CLOSE
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
INVITES CLOSE
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
CHECK IN OPEN
Dec 1st
12:01 AM EST
Dec 1st
12:01 AM EST
CHECK IN CLOSE
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
APPLICATIONS OPEN
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
Dec 5th
12:01 AM EST
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
Dec 10th
11:59 PM EST
Dec 10th
11:59 PM EST
TRIAL PLOT
Dec 11th
ANY TIME
Dec 11th
ANY TIME
TRIAL LIVE
Dec 13th
ANY TIME
Dec 13th
ANY TIME
INVITES-CR MEME BEGIN
Dec 22nd
ANY TIME
Dec 22nd
ANY TIME
lyn | eren jaeger
Player Pronouns: they/them
Player Contact:
Preferred Tag Style: I very much prefer prose but I'll do brackets too
Monthly Pacing: I'm slow in general and the season change is destroying me
OOC Limitations/Disinterests: Gender swaps, anything dealing with pregnancy. Negative CR just to be negative CR. I don't want to write long drawn out fight scenes and prefer to handwave them generally. I'd like a heads up for talk of dead parents/grandparents, child abuse, or animal death. I also don't tend to play plots that deal with my character dying (I might make an exception someday but I'd have to have A Reason) or having to deal with repeated emotional fallout from close friends dying.
Permissions: I have a content/opt out warning here bc AoT takes place in a nightmare world full of triggering stuff!
Character Name: Eren Jaeger
Character Age: 19
Characer Species: Human/flesh mecha
Character Details: Eren doesn't tend to have a lot of outward expression (which is WILD considering he was super expressive when he was just a few years younger, but ya boy went absolutely off the deep end), but he's someone who tends to just seem dangerous. Even if you have no idea about the titan thing, he's just got that Vibe, you know? Underneath that stoicism he does still have way too many emotions, he's just like #repression or something idk. He's very intense, probably seems edgy, doesn't really care if you make fun of him. Basically he has to learn how to just be a person again. He's been coming out of that shell slowly and I'm looking for more reasons for him to be overly emotional bc I'm mean, but also he deserves it :')))
Character Summary: WHEW okay, Eren comes from a world where there are people with the potential to turn into titans (see above flesh mecha link), though most of them cannot do so voluntarily. The involuntary titans eat people. That is pretty much all they do! Eren was a soldier fighting titans, though PLOT TWIST (not really), he can actually turn into one himself. A bunch of awful horrible shit happens for a long time and then there's a time skip, and REAL PLOT TWIST, Eren stopped being the protagonist and became the antagonist. There's another absolutely bonkers plot twist that happens at one point and idk everything is truly horrific all the time forever ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
If you're like "hey Lyn that told me absolutely nothing about the plot of attack on titan" you're right and I'm sorry.
At the canon point he's from, Eren experiences time in a totally abnormal way so learning about his past is not always easy because he gets kind of confused or weird about the order of events. He's an extremely well-informed narrator but he's not necessary a reliable one, especially because he won't always tell the whole truth.
He's come around to the realisation that he misses having friends! He misses touching people after having spent like a year pretending to be an injured prisoner in a military psych hospital (this is actually WORSE than it sounds, I am sorry for attack on titan's everything).
Character Role: Myth
Character Role Deets: Eren doesn't have any permanent features, but his myth is the blue one myth. I haven't come up with anything story-wise to explore yet, though I'm CONSIDERING messing with this a la Bleach vizards. Haven't hashed that out yet in my head, but physical:
Sometimes if you look at him wrong you might see Eren's titan's features on his face (like these teeth), or his eyes will glow too green. Depending on the event I'll give him an oni mask (in either form; wow imagine a 50 foot tall blue oni! Like the titan wasn't scary enough lol!)
Character Living Quarters: Cottage in Gram because he's antisocial and also, you know, sometimes turns into a giant monster
Character Schools: Not his thing, though he could probably be convinced to attend one eventually.
Day to Day Life: This is the hardest question for me in RP since I tend to sort of gloss over slice of life things and go for the ~emotional meaty bits~ so he just does idk regular things. He's bad at being a person. He's fascinated with food, though, since he grew up with scarcity so he will try pretty much any food he can get his hands on here! It would not occur to him to get ?? A job ?? Hello, he's a weapon/soldier/full time crazy person, why would he think about a regular job? But maybe he'll pick one up at some point. He literally cannot imagine a world without war despite having lived in Folkmore for a few months so just the ins and outs of what it is like to not be a soldier fighting everyone? He has no idea.
He does also have a Yamask that he's not sure what it is or what it does but he's taking care of it all the same. Sometimes it floats around following him!
Current Mindset/Health: WELL, he's getting over a chronic case of "became the villain on purpose" and dealing with what it even means to be removed from the context that made him that way. Everything he's done his whole life has been very specifically rooted in where/how he grew up, so now he's just kind of directionless. It's a good place for him to be, much better than the entire way his canon ends, but ICly it's jarring.
Recent Developments: Thanks to talking to people about lore, and to some memory share stuff, he's coming around to thinking about what he even wants because all of that murder (that he didn't actually do yet back home but knows he will do) wasn't really what he wanted. What does he want? He has no idea! But at least he's starting to try to answer that question.
Goals For Your Character: Anything that pulls him out of his stupid bullshit and makes him have to confront the fact that he has feelings and so do other people is good for him. His "full potential" at home is a terrible nightmare, but he doesn't have to be that! He gets to experience actual freedom, which is something he's always been obsessed with, but what does that look like? How do you forgive yourself for things you did in a time loop that technically haven't happened yet but you know about? What does it look like to just exist, forgiveness aside? ALSO I'm down for people who find out about his back home stuff to be horrified or tell him it's fucked up etc. It doesn't have to be reassurance of "you don't have to be that way" bc he is already that way blah blah time loops
Speaking of making a choice to do unforgivable things back home, I'm down to explore hideous mistakes or whatever. Let him make a shitty choice or hurt someone or something! This is dependent on what kind of events come up obviously, but.
Also more people who have seen the titan transformation thing just to have reactions to it.
I'm also really interested in the soulmates idea just as a trope, throwing that out there.
Problems With Your Character: Eren just is a problem tbh NO OKAY he has massive amounts of trauma from growing up in hell, and he shoved all his emotions in a box and hasn't really taken them back out again. Mostly he's just a big question mark. He could do with sharing some feelings but it's hard to get that out of him. He tends to share things about his world in bits and pieces, which is half because he doesn't think like a normal person and half because he's a manipulative pain in the ass like that and old habits die hard. I think maybe the only person who has gotten anywhere near close to the whole story out of him is Gideon.
Wanted CR: LISTEN, listen, I am always here to write trashy trash (the m/m kind mostly) and I'm not quiet about it so if you're here for the naughty stuff, let us talk. Otherwise, people who can pull Eren out of his nonsense even a little bit. That doesn't have to be gentle. People who will try to get him to have fun, to act like a teenager instead of whatever it is that he does instead. Other people who are/were violent, who can understand and deal with that, are always welcome too. He may not be A Villain now but he's a messed up person and he does tend to solve problems with violence, and that's not going to change overnight.
Unwanted CR: I don't want negative CR just to be negative; I like there to be a reason for it. Eren is a difficult person and can be a huge asshole and he's generally kind of pro-murder so obviously negative CR can happen, I just don't want it out of the blue for no reason.
Open/Closed to New CR: Gimme dat new CR, including CR we have planned but didn't get to yet! Feel free to remind me if we had something nebulous going on and you want to try to do that!
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BUT anyways
YES bonding over food is good! Eren's wars are all slaughter fests (some his own doing, some not) but he'll talk about them
esp with Folkmore influence. Prepare to be horrified, Flynn.no subject
BUT YES he will be horrified, Flynn is used to slaughtering monsters and very much not people. He's battle-tested but not in like a traditional war kind of way. Also, on the food note, his mouth is absolutely broken, like, the boy just has bizarre tastebuds, so they can try all kinds of weird stuff together
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Still, she knows a lot of big damn heroes and people who are trying to take over the Solar System and its her job to take the piss out of them with sarcasm most of the time.
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