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

[shendude]

Hi, people!

I'm Malicious Insect, usually called Mal because that's a pain to type. I'm your resident Mod and my player character is Shendu, the most persistent villain from the TV show Jackie Chan Adventures.

Usually he's a giant dragon demon sorcerer, except for when he's a statue or a ghost and he's all of those at least twice each at some point. In game though, he's an old man and an ex-member of Chinese organized crime who has chilled out a lot these days. His first Echo gave him the power to... float!

My eventual plan for him is to slowly shift from being a creaky ol' grumpy guy who mostly has to sit around at the back and offer advice to being a dangerous guy who abuses his powers for personal gain and who wants to save the Earth only for the chance to carve a chunk of it out for himself.

I'll also be playing what will probably be the only NPC who gets Echoes at first, based on The Walking Dead game's Ben Paul. For those of you unfamiliar, he's basically the Squeaky Voiced Teen from the Simpsons but forced to fight zombies. Don't get attached, he'll be dead in a week, because two universes want to screw him over apparently.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to vibrate with excitement until Monday.

[secondcomingof]

Dude. Dude.

I was totally the Deathwing that tagged you on the villains meme awhile back. Your Shendu is boss and you are boss for playing him. Seriously, you just went up ten million cool points in my book. Also, fellow future partners in genocidal crime, y/y? The hair, man, you can't deny the hair.

[shendude]

Oh really. What a welcome surprise, it's almost like I planned this ahead of time.

Sounds like a party. Especially considering by the time that's viable Shendu will probably be bald :(

[secondcomingof]

It's alright, Shendu. If you ask nicely, you can borrow some of Frontal's slick 'do, he's got plenty to spare. It'll look fetching with your... your, uh... yeah, it'll look good. Probably.

Giant dragon + giant robot. The epic, murderous bromance that was always meant to be. ♥

[shendude]

It should be seriously cool. I am imagining a magically tricked out turbo-robot.

[twopercent]

Yu mo gui gwai fai di zao! Yu mo gui gwai fai di zao!

[secondcomingof]

ONEEEE MOOOOOOOO TIIIIIIIING

[shendude]

NOT AGAAAAAaaaaaaaain...

[professorwolf]

I am anxiously awaiting the opening, tooooo :D I am so excited for this game, man.

Also, playing creaky old grumpy guys FTW. I have a couple fandom characters like that and half a dozen OCs XD

[shendude]

Man, I love playing old dudes. Rarely do they get a chance to shine, though.

[really8adegg]

what an excellent choice of character

i will be right over here vibrating with you O_O

[shendude]

Why, much obliged. Surely I can return the sentiment.

[chalicejoker]

Just gonna sit over here and flail in excitement too...

...and taking over chunks of the world might irritate the resident Kamen Rider, just saying. 8D Assuming he's got his act together by then; Undead instincts make these things hard.

[shendude]

Soon. Soon.

That just sounds like a big party waiting to happen.

[chalicejoker]

It is going to be the best party.

[struckout]

Isn't it interesting how many villains this game has picked up so far? I guess it makes sense in retrospect but it's not what I would have expected at first given the premise. |D;;

By the by, had you realized app_this_plz has a new entry up since yesterday? I don't know if you're going for an openly advertising approach or more of a word of mouth thing, but...

[shendude]

You know, I thought that too. I'm kind of hoping for internal power struggles and what not, as much as cooperation.

I had, yeah. It's just that between timezones and family toay I haven't had the chance to get to it yet. Some game stuff, then adverts.

[struckout]

GUYS YOU'RE ALL PRETTY CAN WE PLEASE FOCUS MORE ON SAVING THE WORLD INSTEAD OF TAKING IT OVER...??

Totally understandable! I was just curious. :>