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yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote in [community profile] hexarchate_rpg2018-11-11 05:57 pm
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new player welcome post

[Hello, new players! This post is for new and old players to get acquainted with each other in-character (IC) and out-of-character (OOC). I will be updating the character roster shortly for easy reference. Characters from the first arc who are still wrapping things up in Move 24, feel free to continue; I'll get to y'all shortly.

In the meantime, feel free to introduce yourself in OOC threads, including any information you want other players to have about you (including pronouns if relevant, or what time zones you're usually on, that kind of thing.]

[IC]
Ashari has just recruited a number of newcomers to the team in the hopes of shoring up its weaknesses and is, in classic Andan fashion, throwing a party on the Cantata (the moth ship formerly known as the Wasp and/or Bumblebee) so that folks can meet-and-greet. There are canapés, and Ashari promised Sulen that there are no recreational substances other than the alcohol if anyone wants it; Ashari is currently in the galley mixing drinks for anyone who asks. The public spaces of the interior have been decorated with somewhat lopsided and overly colorful artificial flowers (the matter printer was feeling cranky) as well as plush moths. There are in addition six friendly levitating baby moths, all wriggly tentacles and eyes, who will gravitate toward anyone who sings to them, and who like to be petted.

For the purposes of this post, "public areas" include the galley, the common room, and the storage hold, which has been temporarily pressed into service as a place where people can hang out. People are also welcome to hold private conversations elsewhere. For the moment, however, the cockpit, engine room, commander's office, and communications room/gunnery are off-limits.

[See this wiki entry on the Cantata-Wasp for more details on its layout.]
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

questionable life choices

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-11-12 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sasha asks Ashari for tequila.
zuhrovet: Close-up photo of a black-and-white moth in the grass (moth)

OOC: ursula

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-11-12 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Hi! I'm Ursula, playing Zuhrovet Sikandaret, who usually goes by Sasha. She or they pronouns are fine. By default I'm in the US Eastern time zone and a morning person, though I travel quite a bit, so I'm calendrically variable. Email to ursula at yarntheory dot net or messages to Ursula#2854 on Discord are good ways to contact me.

I am very excited about gaming with everyone!

I should note that Sasha is intense in ways that I am not; if you ever need me to dial back the aggression or the weird family memories, just say the word.

I'm GMing the meta-RPG as Ankat, a minor Kel from Ninefox Gambit, borrowed from [personal profile] talifabian. You are welcome, though not required, to join in!]
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OOC: Rue

[personal profile] bariolage 2018-11-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello! I'm Rue, aka [personal profile] delight; I can never RP from my main journal because it's a disaster, so here I am via Ione's instead. Feel free to add me-as-me, though, if you like. DW PM to either journal is the easiest way to contact me and/or get other contact information for me - I'm not gutsy enough to give out my email publicly.

I am in US Eastern time and am (also!) dramatically a morning person, very little I say after 4pm or so makes a lot of sense which is why I'm not doing anything IC yet. :) I use she/her pronouns and am very bad at talking about myself.

As a note, my character and I are both medical clinicians of slightly different varieties and therefore my natural tendency is to be pretty accurate and detailed about that sort of stuff -- please feel free to kick me if there's too much surgical detail in your pretendy fun injuries, as that isn't everyone's cup of tea.]
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Re: OOC: ursula

[personal profile] bariolage 2018-11-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[I will probably want to request more weird family memories.]
zuhrovet: Close-up photo of a black-and-white moth in the grass (moth)

Re: OOC: Rue

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-11-12 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[I read some decidedly unnerving PubMed articles for Sasha's backstory!]
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[personal profile] mafyyil 2018-11-12 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello! I'm [personal profile] eller and I play Zagfehan Mafyyil. She/her pronouns are fine both ingame and ooc. I live in Germany but have irregular sleeping habits so never trust the time zone... I'm so excited about joining this game with you guys! The easiest way to contact me is probably a private message to my main account.]
zuhrovet: Sasha with a brimmed hat (hat)

Re: questionable life choices

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-11-12 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I would like the special, and I would like to know how it is special, please."

Sasha looks out into the common room. She's early, but there must be someone to toast with.
kese_seyli: face of an androgynous person with a pulled back undercut ponytail (Default)

OOC: Asher

[personal profile] kese_seyli 2018-11-12 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hey! I'm Asher, I'm non-binary and use they/them pronouns. I live in NYC (Eastern Time Zone) and while I have a day job as a librarian, I can usually post while I'm at work, provided I'm not swamped. I'm typically offline by 11pm, though.

I've never really used Dreamwidth, but you can message me here, it will bounce to my email. You can also email etiennetelling@gmail or discord Asher#7621.

I typically hang out on tumblr, also have an pillowfort.io account, and an (mostly) inactive tarot blog ]
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Re: questionable life choices

[personal profile] bariolage 2018-11-12 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
If she is comfortable toasting with a total stranger, there is an Ione lurking about! Wallflowering being more accurate than lurking, though her focus is not on the humans as much as it is on the mothlings with an expression that is best described as 'delighted awe.'
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Re: OOC: Asher

[personal profile] bariolage 2018-11-12 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, hello neighbor! I'm in Upper Manhattan myself. xD]
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Re: OOC: Asher

[personal profile] kese_seyli 2018-11-12 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh that's hilarious! I'm in Harlem!]
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Re: OOC: Asher

[personal profile] bariolage 2018-11-12 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Where I grew up and still work!

World: *shrinks*]
zuhrovet: A green frog (Default)

Re: questionable life choices

[personal profile] zuhrovet 2018-11-12 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)

"Hey," Sasha says. "Those are Eikosany and Decany, dancing there. What are you drinking?"

[Did Sasha get a chance to do some due diligence on the newcomers' backgrounds, or did Ashari keep that information to themself?]

venndaai: (sulen)

OOC: Venndaai

[personal profile] venndaai 2018-11-12 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hello, I'm venndaai or Tal, I play Sulen, we're both they/them people. I'm on PST and stay up late/sleep in late. I'm trying to use dreamwidth more and would be happy to friend people/subscribe/grant access or whatever it's called! I'll respond to messages on dreamwidth, or my discord is tal#7831.

I'm an art student who likes doing portraits as a break from my homework so let me know if you'd like an icon of your character.]
Edited 2018-11-12 17:54 (UTC)
mafyyil: Mafyyil icon (Default)

Re: questionable life choices

[personal profile] mafyyil 2018-11-12 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Meanwhile, Mafyyil sits in a corner trying to stay unnoticed, which is admittedly difficult in the brightly yellow and pink striped sleeveless dress an uncooperative matter printer had insisted on. (She suspects this is not fashionable even among barbarians. Unfortunately she arrived without luggage and the only Hafn garment the matter printer seemed to know was a robe reserved for the contact with the irredeemably unclean. It wouldn't do to offend her new allies on the very first day!) It's been only a few weeks since she woke up for her holy mission, she has not been briefed properly and she's unsure how to make contact. Also, she's not entirely sure whether what she's watching is a party or some kind of religious ceremony.
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Re: questionable life choices

[personal profile] bariolage 2018-11-12 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible Ione knows people who would find Mafyyil's dress the most beautiful thing they had ever seen; while it would look awful with Ione's hair she has definitely not given it a derisive glance! Just a curious one. She might have spy training but it's much easier to be around people who know she's been planted there from somewhere completely different.

"Those are ..." Thoughtful headtilt. "Something to do with pitch, those names?" She should know better than to throw out guesses, but her guard is down enough it might as well not exist for the immediate time being. "They're very cute, I hope I'm not offending anyone by saying that. It would be so awkward to call someone cute when they're actually the ship's captain and three hundred years old. Um, something carbonated."
kese_seyli: face of an androgynous person with a pulled back undercut ponytail (Default)

Scoping the Room

[personal profile] kese_seyli 2018-11-12 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Seyli was out of time, which isn’t to say they were personally out of time for anything, but that they were literally out of their timeline. Clothing was different, the people were different, and for another they were back in the fucking Hexarchate. But at least, this time, they had a purpose beyond fodder. Still, with everything being so different, they were hesitant to dive into any situation.

They scope the room before they walk in, catching the person at the bar, two people chatting around the…moths? And the person in flamboyantly yellow dress, which they appreciate. Seyli puts their back against a wall, squares their shoulder, sets themselves, and watches, but it doesn’t look like anyone is a risk.

[[OOC: Seyli isn't the type to approach strangers first, even if they are suppose to work together.]]
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Re: Scoping the Room

[personal profile] mafyyil 2018-11-12 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Mafyyil is quite relieved to discover another newcomer also seems to be a bit wary of the party - or whatever it is that's going on there! Thinking that she has to talk to one of these people sooner or later, she decides to pick the person who looks like they feel almost as out of place as she does. So she walks up to Seyli, smiling brightly (and a lot more confidently than she feels).

"Hello! I'm honored to meet you!" (Technically, meeting some barbarian can not be an honor, but she's being very diplomatic, she thinks. And anyway, in this company she cannot be picky.) "Do you happen to know the occasion of", she waves her hand vaguely at the dancing and drinking people and some flying tentacled beings she can't identify, "all this?"
kese_seyli: face of an androgynous person with a pulled back undercut ponytail (Default)

Re: Scoping the Room

[personal profile] kese_seyli 2018-11-12 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Seyli look at the stranger and blink again, this time noticing...are those fucking plants growing out of her fucking shoulders? Honored to meet them? Their eyes sweep over her, taking her in critically. "You're not from the Hexarchate." Blunt and too the point, he doesn't bother with a greeting, mostly from surprise.
mafyyil: Mafyyil icon (Default)

Re: Scoping the Room

[personal profile] mafyyil 2018-11-12 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Surprised, Mafyyil blurts out, "Of course not!"

She cannot decide whether this stranger was trying to be offensive or just unaccustomed to civilized behavior, the poor thing. She has heard that some of the more liberal philosophers harbor the notion that hexarchate inhabitants might actually be normal albeit uncivilized humans. Of course, she also knows the life expectancy of liberal philosophers so she never thought about this too much. Still, Mafyyil decides to help the Barbarian out.

"I'm a proper citizen of the empire, on holy duty! So you are, um, a hexarchate person? That's so charming!"
kese_seyli: face of an androgynous person with a pulled back undercut ponytail (Default)

Re: Scoping the Room

[personal profile] kese_seyli 2018-11-12 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ash and fire is she a child? Seyli fights to keep their face neutral. "No," they say, without elaborating any further than that. She's so...perky, that it makes them want to be extra bristly.

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