CR With Me | March 2015

[ironwood]

GUYS GUYS I REMEMBERED THE BIMONTHLY MEME IN THE CORRECT MONTH LOOK AT ME GO

hey! it's time for a cr with me meme! Welcome to the spring edition of the CR Meme! Now that we've gotten settled into the new storyline, it's time to start heating things up in the big turtle city. For players who've joined us since our last meme, these ~bimonthly memes are our opportunity to help establish an idea of what sort of CR you're looking for your characters. Because of this, we do ask that you be as specific as you can when replying to this meme! 'Our characters should team up to moon Tu Yunxu' is more useful than 'omg tag me.' We have two helpful sections titled "Current Status" for a summary of what your character's been up to, and "CR Goals" for the plotting and discussion of gaps in your character's CR spectrum that you would like to fill! We've also got a section for indicating what kinds of CR you're especially looking for, as well as types of threads you're not interested in. ALSO this month, we have a special addition called "4th Wall Plans", in case you want to talk about or be enabled into some ideas you have for the upcoming April 4th wall event. Want to inflict extra chaos on Keeliai, but not sure who to bring? Link your muselist! CR With Me Form: <div style="font-family: Impact;font-size: 30px;color: #bf0206;padding-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;">PLAYER NAME HERE</div> <font face="georgia"><b>CHARACTER:</font></b> <b><font face="georgia">CANON:</font></b> <b><font face="georgia">PERSONALITY:</b></font> Please give us a brief description of your character, to give anyone canon blind an idea of where the CR might go! <b><font face="georgia">CURRENT STATUS:</font></b> Optionally, you can give a quick rundown of what your character's been up to in the game and their short-term goals. <b><font face="georgia">CR GOALS:</font></b> What's your dream CR to obtain this month? Do you want to work on developing current CR or splash into something new? <b><font face="georgia">SCENE-DOS:</font></b> What sort of things are you looking to write with this character? Are you a prose sort of person or action spam all the way? Do you prefer network interactions to face-to-face? Do you like angst, fluff, drama, plot-based scenes, all of the above? <b><font face="georgia">SCENE-DON'TS:</font></b> What sort of things are you a little more lukewarm about in regards to this character, or would rather flat-out avoid? Do you absolutely hate writing negative CR? Would you sooner chuck you laptop out a window before you write one more slice-of-life thread? All those considerations can go here. <b><font face="georgia">4TH WALL PLANS:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here. <b><font face="georgia">ADDITIONAL:</font></b> Anything else you might want to add that doesn't fit into the above goes here.

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[skeletonenigma]

AMARAQ

CHARACTER: Skulduggery Pleasant
CANON: Skulduggery Pleasant
PERSONALITY: Genius, detective by trade, stubborn, persistent, dryly sarcastic most of the time and possessing a bit of a hypocritical inability to accept help where his own darkness is concerned. Though, to be fair, that's actually mellowed a bit in Tushan. He's also slightly less allergic to infringements on personal space (see: hugging Solomon), but... yeah.

CURRENT STATUS: He's working on the console symbols puzzle, and quite frankly I don't see him not solving it by the end of the month. Good opportunity for CR? He's also keeping an eye on the thing with the Dust at the Palace, and - oh yeah. HE HAS HIS BENTLEY BACK. Compliment him on the car currently parked outside the Central Sector entrance to the Hotel, and you'll instantly be in his good books.
CR GOALS: I'm always up for threading with new characters, but I would like to put more of a focus on developing existing CR as well. There are people Skulduggery should touch base with again. Other than that... I don't have anything specific planned anytime soon, but if you've been waiting for an opportunity to thread with Skul when he was more cheerful and spontaneous, now's the time to do it!

SCENE-DOS: Skulduggery's the sort of character who doesn't use the network/radios if he doesn't need to. It helps to be able to fly to whoever you need to speak to. >_> So by default I generally prefer face-to-face prose third-person stuff, but I also usually default to whatever style is already being used, so I'm not too picky. And he does watch the network, and he owns a radio, so it's always possible to contact him that way.
SCENE-DON'TS: Pure slice-of-life small-talk tends to bore both me and Skulduggery pretty quickly. I don't like having threads/interactions completely planned out, but neither do I like long drawn-out 'let's just see where this goes!' type conversations where nothing is happening.

4TH WALL PLANS: GARRUS. I was originally going to app him into the game, but I've since decided I don't have the drive to be able to handle him as a full-time character. STILL GOIN' TO TOSS HIM INTO 4TH WALL THOUGH. And if I can finagle it, I'm hoping to get some SP characters played by non-Tushan-players into the event, too...

ADDITIONAL:

[aquanimity]

DARKNESS YOU SAY

[skeletonenigma]

DARKNESS INDEED

[valevectorian]

So Skul will probably want to follow up on on that cantankerous guy on the network he talked to about abilities and shit, right?

[skeletonenigma]

He was definitely intrigued. /chinstroke./ I would totally be up for throwing the pair of them together again and watching the explosions results. :3

[valevectorian]

Fabulous. So, what sorts of places would you say they are most likely to run into each other?

[skeletonenigma]

This month? I've got an open log up for Skul over here, but basically he's splitting time between the Palace demolition, the Hotel, and wandering through Sectors solving the console symbol puzzle. Would Accelerator be anywhere along those routes?

[valevectorian]

Quite a few, actually. He's working at the demolition site using his vector manipulation powers to do a way better and faster job (and cheaper) than normal methods like wrecking balls and explosives can accomplish, and he currently lives in room 22 of the hotel - usually found in the common rooms or kitchen when he's actually there and not in his room. The console symbol puzzle doesn't interest him, sadly, but ah well.

[skeletonenigma]

Considering that Skulduggery would definitely be interested in asking about Accelerator's abilities, how does running into each other at the demolition sound? :D

[valevectorian]

That sounds great. I have a top-level for him in the demolition catch-all log. The first prompt in it would work for this.

[skeletonenigma]

Cool! I'll hit that up once I get home. ^_^

[ruinsprofessor]

I don't think he and Raine have talked since December, if that's something you'd like?

Something something palace and planes business idk. And I love her tendency to logically extrapolate his absurdities, though that's not quite enough to base an entire thread on probably :P

As for China... China.

I wish I had something more concrete besides just 'yes please', but I don't really right now. Just mark me down for 'high interest' I suppose. I'm failing hard at plotting, my apologies.

[skeletonenigma]

More discussions with Raine, definitely. They've probably touched base a couple of times by now, actually? Slipping beneath the notice of us players? Just because the palace and planes business isn't something Skul would let fall by the wayside, and with the Dust contamination, Raine's one of the first people he would have gone to with Theories.

China is always a distinct and ongoing possibility, and Skul would probably go talk to her eventually just to talk, y'know? For old time's sake. Only he'd wait until she was better settled and in a better mood. And under the guise of an overdue 'thank you for getting my car back.'

[ruinsprofessor]

...Come to think of it, they probably have. I don't think she'd really have let it fall by the wayside, either, it's something kind of important. Good point. But more active discussions are always a good thing.

Skulduggery is probably making a wise choice with the waiting till she's a little better settled thing, but I know what you mean and the chance for them to just... well, I hesitate to say catch up, but with the difference in their timeline points and how much longer he's been here there's probably plenty of ground to cover. Soonish maybe?

...she's not going to consider that he owes her a favor, I think. I mean, he said he would iirc, but she... might let that slide.

[skeletonenigma]

Aww, China. One might think you're getting sentimental in your old age.

[ruinsprofessor]

Whoever mentioned the word sentiment to you was definitely lying and should not be trusted.

also good gravy if anyone says that to her face it had better be from a safe distance

[confirmationbias]

haha we wound up deciding the same thing with our ME characters xD

Maybe we can have both of them meet each other in Fourth Wall? Can we handwaive the TDMS as happening in the fourth wall event? :D

[skeletonenigma]

Yeeeeeaah. I think I just let myself get carried away a bit by my love of the games. :P Love of a character does not equal passion for playing said character, at least long-term.

I'm up for both meetings and handwaves, definitely!

[redlightgreenlight]

Valdis should talk to Skulduggery more!

[skeletonenigma]

Given their last conversation, most definitely! Skul's got his hands full this month, though. He probably wouldn't be the one to initiate it unless something became suddenly relevant.

Or unless Valdis tries to kill someone again.

[redlightgreenlight]

That...umm...has been in discussion...

[skeletonenigma]

... Valdis. Valdis, no.

[redlightgreenlight]

She doesn't do it on purpose if that helps?