Grand Opening OOC Post

[theearth]

Hello, everyone and welcome to Save the Earth!

I'm extremely excited to say that our game will officially be opening on April 1st. I deeply hope you're all classy enough to avoid making fake drop posts on the first day.

The reason for the short delay in opening is simply because I'm spending Sunday with family (as I'm sure some of you will be too) and won't have time to give the opening the attention it deserves. Sorry!

But in the meantime, we can have this post here to get to know one another. Tell us a bit about yourself and your character. Tell us the sorts of direction you want to take them in, any plots you've already half formed, etc.

Some points of business:

• Anyone who was accepted before I began requesting them with application acceptance, please create and link to an info post for your character so I can add it to the taken list.

• A more detailed post regarding the circumstances of the first three plot threads will go up Monday, which will introduce characters to the invasion and the dangers of revealing themselves. One of the three plots is closer to foreshadowing than anything that can be directly be interacted with at the start, but with a game like this you never know.

• You won't have to make AC for the first two months, but I will be requesting you fill out the form when it comes up and then giving me your feedback regarding how easy or hard you found it, both times. The current AC requirements may change in the future based on that input.

• Although applications aren't open yet, I'll be looking for two extra mods soon enough! Duties to be shared will be applications (which will be dealt with in shifts), organisation help (including AC and the taken list), being my American culture expert (what the heck are 'grits' and why would I eat them?) and finally, being privy to and assisting in running plots (so don't consider yourself for the position unless you're okay with spoilers).

As always, questions and comments are welcome.

Comments

[secondcomingof]

Classy? Sir, you suffered through read my app. You know I am the very definition of classy. Also, yeah, I'm pretty sure very, very few people will be around tomorrow, so no worries about the delayed opening.

Anyway, my name is Deus (or Desu, or Lisa, whatever your preference) and I am bringing to you one (1) Full Frontal from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, that wonderful series about fabulous giant robots and the fabulous men (and women!) who pilot them. More specifically, Full Frontal is the Big Bad, cloned from the kindly gentleman (maybe you've heard of him) who tried to throw the world into nuclear winter by means of colony/asteroid/various objects of massive size drops. At the moment, he's thinking less nuclear winter, more FREEDOM FOR THE SPACENOIDS, but he's still a pretty nasty guy who'd shoot you in the face if he thought it would aid his glorious cause. He's fond of candlelit dinners, long walks on the beach, terrorizing civilians, and shoving young men against hard metal surfaces.

You could've stopped this, Banagher. You could've stopped this.

Also, he is merely a vessel. Once he reacquires his memory, expect to hear this a lot. Like, a lot a lot.

As far as plans go, Full Frontal has EVOLVED INTO!!! Casval Mass, a former captain in the Royal Air Force and current bigwig politician who has some Issues, primarily with popping pills, also primarily with finding out the hard way how shitty humanity is. Expect to see him nosing about as a major military presence here and getting in everyone's business. And likely setting up a black market of sorts because hey, we gotta work up to that Big Bad status eventually, right? I am a terrible person so expect to see poor Casval put through the ringer as he gradually comes to learn that the Earth he's been saving was the same one he declared fit for eradication in his past... past... life. Feel free to call him Captain Mass/make his life even more terrible however you see fit.

Beyond that, I've got nothin. Feel free to add me on my plurk, notagundam, and listen to me fangirl over things absolutely no one cares about.

[shiromadoushi]

But isn't that the point of plurk? :D

[secondcomingof]

POINT TAKEN I'm just warning you in advance okay

Also, second nostalgia bomb of the day, thanks Bakura. YGO was my first fandom love (crazy as it was) and always will be. Hnnnng.

[shiromadoushi]

*bro fists* It's been my longest running fandom love and hell if I can put into words why.

[twopercent]

I swear to god I know nothing about Gundam other than "big robutts" but this guy sounds like he could be a Metal Gear villain.

Jack here probably still knows some people at the base even though he's been discharged... we should talk military shenanigans~.

[secondcomingof]

Jack and Casval need to hook up and have drinks over how terrible their respective (current and past) lives were because seriously, man...

And actually, I used Casval's arrival at the base as his sample post! And I think I'll be reusing it so any military-minded folks can swing on by since he'll be requesting their assistance. He was a captain so he kind of knows the score by now. Your CR is more than welcome and adored. ♥

[twopercent]

For a whole lot of reasons, drinking and chatting about the past might not be so great for Jack (which is why we should make this happen obviously.)

Oh! That's handy. Jack's no mechanic, but anyone else on the Network, with military connections, will definitely have him curious.

[secondcomingof]

Yeah, originally I had it as "CALLING ALL MECHANICS", but I think I'll add an additional line or two so pretty much anyone who's interested can show up. Granted he'll grump at them if they have no business being there, but that's part of the fun.

Angry, angsty drunk people being angry, angsty and drunk. At least he can empathize with the FUCK I'M A ROBOT THING now? FOREVER A CLONE...........

[twopercent]

I can really see these guys' interaction going either way... but good, bad, or just weird, I think it's gonna be really fun.

They can drunk-fight it out until they're both KO'd. It's how real men do it.

[secondcomingof]

Oh, yeah. And from what I've seen, your Raiden looks awesome (DAT SAMPLE), so I expect good things! Equally looking forward to where their interactions lead.

Manly fisticuffs: the only true way to settle the score.

[chalicejoker]

Captain Mass sounds like it could be a great superhero name, just so you know. XD

And this guy here spent his canon life learning just how awesome humanity is, so...yeah, disagreements will probably be inevitable.

[secondcomingof]

I was thinking more porn star considering his... original name is Full Frontal, but that'd work, too. Porn superhero, maybe?

Ah, sentai, come to me! My only experience with the genre is Shinkenger, but I loved what I saw of it (and some of the Kamen Rider suits looked pretty damn neat). Yeah, Casval is in for one hell of a rude awakening down the road. Poor guy. Except he kind of sort of deserves it. I feel bad for the worst villains, I swear.

He'll be a fairly good guy at first, though? But definitely cynical of humanity, so yes, all of the disagreements... that will eventually be disagreements involving giant robots, which are clearly the best kind.

[chalicejoker]

Full Frontal? Wow, that's just...porn superhero it is.

Ahhh, Shinkenger's a great series; I've played Ryunosuke before. X3 And there is absolutely nothing wrong with the villain getting what he deserves, even if you do feel guilty for it, hehe.

See, the thing about giant robots is that Hajime will attempt to ram them with his motorcycle if he has to. Only by that time it would be a superpowered motorcycle, so there's that. (Still normal-sized, so...yeah. Entirely possible that will not work as well as he hopes.)