Story Game Prep

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Hello all! From June 12th to Jun 19th, there will be a pseudo-explora game that is all about your characters' psyche.

This is an INFO-GATHERING post, so you can tell me things so I can put them in the game! Below I'll have some examples of what I'm looking for. The game is not inherently trauma but basically whatever people put down I'll integrate into the setting.

Sign-up post is HERE -- here's some details!

=> You can sign up for TWO sessions max but one team and one mixed.
=> Each mixed session can have up to FIVE people in it, and needs a minimum of TWO to happen.
=> Team sessions have NO limit to number of people, but there can only be ONE session per team. (For example, Theseus could sign up for Session A with some friends and then Session O with the rest of his team. Or he could sign up for just A or O.)
=> I have a fairly open schedule so I can probably make some weird times work for your teams if needed.
=> The session times listed on the sign-up sheet are mostly for organization but if you (and your group) needs a different time I can probably make it work! Ping or DM me on discord!

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INFO-GATHERING
This can be in their Limelight AU OR their true canon, it is what YOU as the player want to interact with.

You DO NOT have to fill it out to play.

You DO NOT have to fill out every section/fill out every section fully!

Character please list their TRUE NAME and their nom de plume
Family

A Place of Significance this should be a location that someone can experience. A subway car. A meadow with a fairy circle made out of death angel mushrooms. A classroom. Etc. Include as much detail as needed for it to be recognizable to the characters. For example, "A normal classroom" is probably not enough detail. But even something like "A 6th grade geography classroom with a row of jackets hanging on the wall. Each jacket is high quality, except one that has several patches sewn into it. There's rows of desks, a teacher's desk at the front and a large hanging map." is adequate.

Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the location.

2 Items of Significance these should be small enough to be HELD and with defining features easily recognizable to the characters. Something like "A well-worn coin with the face of a mermaid on one side, and on the other, a hatless man."
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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the item.

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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the item.

2 People of Significance
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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the person.

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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the person.

3 Items of Significance These can be any size!
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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the item.

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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the item.

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Meaning => Please also describe the significance of the item.

Five Emotions You Want Your Character to Experience The more specific the better. Like "Fear of being lonely" is mid but "Fear of an empty house, everyone they know is dead except their parents who once supported them now turning their back on them because they're the Anti-Messiah." is better.
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5 Anything Elses This is basically anything else you wanna include. A pet. Another location. A memory. Another item. A feeling, a dream, a specific scenario. A sin, a regret, an event. Once again, detail/significance/etc is useful!
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<b>Character</b> please list their TRUE NAME and their nom de plume <b>Family</b> <b>A Place of Significance</b> this should be a location that someone can experience. A subway car. A meadow with a fairy circle made out of death angel mushrooms. A classroom. Etc. Include as much detail as needed for it to be recognizable to the characters. For example, "A normal classroom" is probably not enough detail. But even something like "A 6th grade geography classroom with a row of jackets hanging on the wall. Each jacket is high quality, except one that has several patches sewn into it. There's rows of desks, a teacher's desk at the front and a large hanging map." is adequate. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the location. <b>2 Items of Significance</b> these should be small enough to be HELD and with defining features easily recognizable to the characters. Something like "A well-worn coin with the face of a mermaid on one side, and on the other, a hatless man." 1. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the item. 2. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the item. <b>2 People of Significance</b> 1. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the person. 2. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the person. <b>3 Items of Significance</b> These can be any size! 1. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the item. 2. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the item. 3. <i>Meaning => </i> Please also describe the significance of the item. <b>Five Emotions You Want Your Character to Experience</b> The more specific the better. Like "Fear of being lonely" is mid but "Fear of an empty house, everyone they know is dead except their parents who once supported them now turning their back on them because they're the Anti-Messiah." is better. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. <b>5 Anything Elses</b> This is basically anything else you wanna include. A pet. Another location. A memory. Another item. A feeling, a dream, a specific scenario. A sin, a regret, an event. Once again, detail/significance/etc is useful! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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Aloe

[featherduster]

Character True name: Vash the Stampede
Nom de Plume: Aloe
Bonus PGAU name he has some feelings about: Minuet
Family: Acidia

A Place of Significance

A spaceship with standard spaceship features: long metal hallways and computers and a rec room and large windows that look out over space. Also notably an enormous cavernous fuselage room with pods of thousands of sleeping people. There’s also randomly a huge atrium room with grass and a simulated sky and a gigantic tree

Meaning => This is sort of a mashup of two canon locations bc he does not remember it all but it’s the only concept he has in canon of “home” and a place where you can actually be happy. People are kind and peaceful here, rather than hard and violent. It feels like safety but also regret and grief

2 Items of Significance

(Canon) Big Fuckin silver .45 caliber revolver
Meaning => Sees it as his partner through over a century of Many Many Ordeals

(PGAU) Shepherd staff. There’s a blue bell attached to it, as well as a blue gemstone
Meaning => Symbolic of his team in Sheep (Bluebell) with many family/leadership/responsibility feelings attached, for better or worse

2 People of Significance

(Limelight) Tristamp Vash aka Eriks
Meaning => His AU twin brother he’s always been very protective of and wants the best for at all costs, in that unhealthy way where you were both cruelly raised as child assassins. But also, might be him in some other world. They never figured that out. Very unsettling.

(Canon) Wolfwood
Meaning => Terminally philanthropic selfless man who never wishes anything for himself finally makes a close personal friend for the first time in his entire life and as a result learns to be selfish for once. Who knew you could just have people of your own. Wow. Notably he did not realize he had become close enough to someone to be selfish until Wolfwood fucking died

3 Items of Significance

A white lily in a vase
Meaning => Symbolic of his dead older sister who got experimented to death

A flower that’s a weird mix of a white lily and a bluebell mixed together (probably like a lily of the valley with slightly differently shaped petals)
Meaning => Alliance, family. But also a sense of partnership that is deeply cherished in that way you cherish things you never expected to have.

(Matches Eugene's) - A single small gold hoop earring that is textured to look like feathers
Meaning => You ever fully plan to live alone and die alone but then a webtoon twink tricks you into marrying him and it's one of your favorite things to happen to you? Purely positive emotions attached: gratitude, home, a deep burning affection

Five Emotions You Want Your Character to Experience

Fear of evil science medical experimentation because he’s not human and they want to peel him open and see what he’s made out of or whatever, also a general fear of being a non-human prey animal trapped with a bunch of humans who used to be trustworthy and now are not. Or being stuck in a giant lightbulb and used as infrastructure, that also

Conflict between AU self (mob assassin without too much baggage around killing people) and canon self (staunch pacifist who goes to unhinged self-destructive lengths to preserve life); conflict over caring about that difference at all; conflict over maybe being a horrible person actually and not liking it

Love! Happiness! Peace! Everyone he loves (canon, pgau, limelight au) is together and safe and happy. He has a home and is at peace with himself and the world. The loneliness that's followed him his entire life (canon especially) is finally largely patched over with love and support. MAYBE HE'S MARRIED??? O///O

EXISTENTIAL ANXIETY ABOUT HIM AND HIS TWIN BROTHER HAVING THE SAME NAME IN VISIONS AND ALSO AN EVIL TWIN WHO IS NOT EACH OTHER. HEY! HEY!!! WHAT’S GOING ON

Paternal Feelings. He keeps accumulating kids in every universe (canon, Sheep, Limelight) and he likes it actually. He loves them so much and more or less molds his life around them. He wants to protect them and guide them and not fuck it up. Maybe???? His own kids???? Theoretically???????? One day??

5 Anything Elses

DIGGING A GRAVE - he buried Wolfwood himself and he does not remember the actual event, but he remembers the immediate aftermath which almost makes it worse because the imagination fills in the gaps

Lots and lots and lots of white feathers; family, hope, but also otherness and fear

A feeling of being home and surrounded by warmth and love with hope for the future and gratitude for being alive, an eagerness to explore and change; he has no fucking idea what any of that is about

In canon his eldritch sisters are being enslaved and used as batteries and he is decidedly Not Doing Enough About It, a point of frustration for AU Aloe but also a direct conflict with the burgeoning pacifism (cannot rescue sisters without condemning all humans to die)

General fear around his genocidal evil twin (THE NOT-ERIKS ONE) who may have rewritten his (their?) memories and just generally is determined to ruin his life and also kill all of humanity. But also a feeling of conflict because that's his brother who he remembers being a crybaby who just wanted to make friends with humans