Thank you all for joining! We're really glad to have you and hopefully we'll have some more on their way. Assuming that you all know the basic info available in the navigation, if you have any other questions feel free to ask here or on the FaQ! If we don't know the answer it gives us a chance to work one out.
Introductory Plot: "Psychic Flatulence"
In our first news post (which you can ICly respond to and make comment threads off of like you can comment to web articles, though Jeffers himself won't respond), there's mention of an outbreak of a minor illness, the Neuralflu...
"Symptoms of the Neuralflu include headaches, sinus pressure, and a desaturation of colors. Those infected also become prone to psychic flatulence, colloquially known as "brainfarts", where someone in close proximity may occasionally hear one of your thoughts. The effects of psychic flatulence can be mitigated by the wearing of a tinfoil hat."
Your characters can have random thoughts broadcast to people nearby if they're afflicted. This means the other person can maybe catch the Neuralflu too (but they don't have to). This will be logged down as recurring illness for anyone new that wants to come in and catch it. For people that do get it, they'll have seasonal (four month) immunity after it passes.
Getting to Know You This is both a plotting post for our first event and a way to introduce yourselves. Since some people will have had characters meet in previous games, it's alright if players assume their characters have been here for up to a month and have met (this counts threads on the Test Drive). Meetings in enough games can get repetitive, even if they're not CRAUs. This is mostly for people whose characters haven't formally been introduced, though, and will count for the first full week of people joining (new members will be directed back to this post). So you can discuss how your characters met/know each other/have CR here. Or you can work out who you'd like to meet!
So go on and introduce yourselves and say a little bit about who you're dragging in. Also remember the jobs listings, because knowing who does what is going to be really helpful in our planning.
Hello I'm Rae! I'll be bringing in just this grumpy Gus here:
Charon is a companion character in the game Fallout 3. If you don't know anything about the game all you really need to know is that it's post apocalyptic, takes place way in the future, but everyone in it is culturally stuck in the past (40's/50's to be exact). Charon is a ghoul -- basically a result of being exposed to deadly amounts of radiation without dying. He's also one of the lucky ghouls who have been alive since before the bombs fell, which is over 200 years ago, so he's got a bit of a "I don't have time for this shit" attitude, oops. I'm going to say he's been around for a little over a week now working patrol, so some peeps might notice the 6ft zombie-dude walking around looking like all business. He's not very chatty and probably replies to a lot of attempts at conversation with a grumble. Also he doesn't sleep, so he's likely out and about working practically all the time.
I would love for some CR that's willing to push for Charon to be more social and to do things that don't involve work, even if it's just...sitting down at a place and having a drink. Also would love CR that is just as serious and no nonsense as Charon is. Grumpy bros, silent bros, someone to somehow get him into trouble because he's totally used to that (coughLONEWANDERERcough). Or anything really. So yeah, hi!
I might say that Niko probably started saying hello to Charon almost because it was funny. "Hello!" "/grumble/ /walk on/" But has only, over the past couple of days sort of started feeling sorry for the guy and is about to get to the point of, "Hey, where are you from, anyway?"
Oh my god that's hilarious, let that be a thing. Charon's grumbling replies probably almost sound like some kind of greeting but mostly seems like a random noise.
Bertie has probably screamed at least once upon seeing Charon. I'm sorry Charon. (But once he gets over it, he's good for chatting at even unsociable people.)
And Narvin is another really damn old grumpy workaholic who appears to barely sleep. (But his poor social skills range somewhat towards the "offending people and making enemies" side rather than just grumpy and unsociable, so it's a toss up whether they could be grumpy bros or if throwing their grumpy selves together would just lead to mutual dislike.)
HAHA. It's okay Bertie Charon is expecting this kind of reaction a lot. But at least he's capable of...sort of responding to chattiness at the start!
Charon doesn't offend too easily, at least! And when he does get offended he tends to get over it fairly quickly because who has the time to make enemies. But it'll be interesting to see which way it goes.
One of Wander's goals in life is to make other people happy, and he would be more than willing to cheer up this grumpy-looking ghoul by any means! He'll first be kind of pushy about Charon needing to socialize more, but if you're willing to develop CR enough, he'll become more understanding of Charon's comfort zone.
He could use the pushiness (though that usually depends on how it's went about, haha). But yes he would probably end up appreciating (in his own grumpy way) the respect for his comfort zone if their CR developed to that point, which I'd be more than willing to do!
Since Wander's been here only a few days, he probably saw Charon sitting alone, pulled up a chair, and begin chatting away to attempt to start a conversation, and it might be what they usually do for now.
He's more pushy in the sense that his first instinct is to shower people in affection and comes off as annoying, mostly because Wander forgets that not everyone appreciates that. That's kind of his problem: He's pretty excitable guy.
Charon probably just sits/stands there and switches between tuning him out and listening because he's just so used to doing that, haha. If Wander gets too annoying Charon probably grumbles and mumbles shit at him.
I'm sure Boone and Charon can grump and brood together! Boone will just be happy to see someone from even the same world as him. They can stand around and look vaguely pissed off
But yeah it'd be sort of comforting for Charon to see someone from the same world who he wouldn't have to explain his ghoulishness to. And who also favors standing around looking vaguely pissed off.
Hey, what about a scientist from a 1960s/70s canon that included cocktail hour on distant planets? Come have cocktails and tell Ben how the radiation affected the flora and fauna where you're from.
Yes, this is a good idea! Though he will likely have to prod and ask questions, but when he does Charon will grumbly-answer to the best of his ability.
That is being short and one-wordy about it.
He almost might get frustrated at trying to explain things he doesn't actually understand because he's not...that smart.
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Charon is a companion character in the game Fallout 3. If you don't know anything about the game all you really need to know is that it's post apocalyptic, takes place way in the future, but everyone in it is culturally stuck in the past (40's/50's to be exact). Charon is a ghoul -- basically a result of being exposed to deadly amounts of radiation without dying. He's also one of the lucky ghouls who have been alive since before the bombs fell, which is over 200 years ago, so he's got a bit of a "I don't have time for this shit" attitude, oops. I'm going to say he's been around for a little over a week now working patrol, so some peeps might notice the 6ft zombie-dude walking around looking like all business. He's not very chatty and probably replies to a lot of attempts at conversation with a grumble. Also he doesn't sleep, so he's likely out and about working practically all the time.
I would love for some CR that's willing to push for Charon to be more social and to do things that don't involve work, even if it's just...sitting down at a place and having a drink. Also would love CR that is just as serious and no nonsense as Charon is. Grumpy bros, silent bros, someone to somehow get him into trouble because he's totally used to that (coughLONEWANDERERcough). Or anything really. So yeah, hi!
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And Narvin is another really damn old grumpy workaholic who appears to barely sleep. (But his poor social skills range somewhat towards the "offending people and making enemies" side rather than just grumpy and unsociable, so it's a toss up whether they could be grumpy bros or if throwing their grumpy selves together would just lead to mutual dislike.)
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Charon doesn't offend too easily, at least! And when he does get offended he tends to get over it fairly quickly because who has the time to make enemies. But it'll be interesting to see which way it goes.
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He's more pushy in the sense that his first instinct is to shower people in affection and comes off as annoying, mostly because Wander forgets that not everyone appreciates that. That's kind of his problem: He's pretty excitable guy.
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Charon probably just sits/stands there and switches between tuning him out and listening because he's just so used to doing that, haha. If Wander gets too annoying Charon probably grumbles and mumbles shit at him.
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Feel free to grumble if his enthusiasm is overbearing, though he might not fully get the message if you're too subtle.
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But yeah it'd be sort of comforting for Charon to see someone from the same world who he wouldn't have to explain his ghoulishness to. And who also favors standing around looking vaguely pissed off.
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That is being short and one-wordy about it.
He almost might get frustrated at trying to explain things he doesn't actually understand because he's not...that smart.
So YES this should happen.