WELCOME, BETA TESTERS.

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⬣//WELCOME. IT'S TIME TO BEGIN THE TEST."

GAME: START!

Welcome to The World! We're excited to have you all joining us for our merry little MMO adventure. Consider this your Official OOC Intro Post™! Go on, introduce yourselves.


AU PLOTTING.

If you've yet to solidify your character's AU or want to plot with others, please take the opportunity to do so before the game launches on July 29th. If you have any questions or comments, grab a mod! We're here to help. Additionally, please ensure you've familiarized yourself with the premise before sticking out feelers for any additional planning.


EVENT PLOTTING.

Events go live on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month. You may preview tomorrow's event here. Going forward, all events and plotting will go up on the same day.

<b>Name:</b> Who are you? Introduce yourself! <b>Contact:</b> How can people reach you? <b>Plotting:</b> Do you want to do more AU plotting before the game launches? If so, what are you seeking? Any event plans? <b>Anything else?</b>

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⬣//NOTES

⬣ Your first event goes live 7/29/23 at 12PM EST.

⬣ Please keep your plotting within this post as not everyone has Plurk or Discord.

⬣ Contact a mod with any questions or concerns.

⬣ Follow theworldrpg for updates.

Comments

[horologia]

Name: not me sprinting in late with toast in my mouth like— anyway hello! i'm mii or mauyn, i answer to both!

Contact: yelling at me through discord is the most reliable! but i am also available at ellipsesinaction over on plurk.

Plotting: I have left a lot of the specifics of Homura's au open just to be flexible but I am going to say I'm surprised by how many people are in the states lmknhgbfsgd. Anyway, she's a shy, reclusive, almost-hikikomori who's living on her own and has been Not attending school in person since a bullying incident went bad. This happened when she was 14/in middle school; she's been aged up to 18 here, so suffice to say she does not do a lot of socialization! We're pretending the terminally online nature of the world meant distance/remote learning took off a lot sooner than it did in reality. Which does mean I can put her geographically a lot of places, if we want? She's moved around a lot on account of her heart condition and going to different specialists/hospitals for treatment, so what are friends. She's going to be entering uni via the remote learning angle though, nods. Though as a chemistry major. . . hm.

She doesn't look particularly different from her avatar outside of presentation; real world Homura is mousier and more unassuming/plain looking than her canon counterpart, and her avatar is ... Less so! Matching her to her avatar will likely not be difficult because of how different the are, but more for the fact that she's not out and about often and like, her features are pretty common, gosh everyone has a doppelganger somewhere in the world right?

Listen, the concept is basically Moemura larping a cooler version of herself online because that's the only version of herself she's had some success in dealing with people with. Someone once upon a time gushed about how she saved a run and was so cool years ago and she went and made being 'Cool + Good At Game' a personal mission in life, except she is such an uncool person in reality playing herself online is ... Not unlike a performance of sorts, help. Larping your online MMOsona. Swan Lake may have made it onto my app, for reasons.

I like to think she's the kind of cryptid player that's never really joined a guild or static or competitive esports team or anything but is still decently known in the gaming sphere as a good soloist, who just shows up/gets matched into your instances sometimes and helps carry the run while they're there, says maybe 10 words total in case mechanics need explaining, commends the people who need commending then disappears back into the online ether again because she still doesn't know how to socialize properly and talking too much means more opportunity for her natural awkwardness to reveal itself. Feel free to recognize her online persona in a 'hey wait are you THAT player from that other game?' sort of way; if we want anything more than that then please feel free to hit me up and we can discuss! In the beta test she'll be one of your four Steam Gunners, ver. Dark. Please drag her into your parties and befriend her against (?) her will.

Anything else? this is where the memes go right, anyway

if this is huge on desktop I'm sorry but I'm on mobile therefore

[weaseled]

basically Moemura larping a cooler version of herself online

too real, there's a little homu-chan in all of us

[horologia]

sometimes the person you are in real life is a little miserable so you become your tryhardiest self in escapist hobbies, it's fine???

[weaseled]

it's fine!!! there's no way this could ever backfire on her

[ogsaberface]

Mauyn I'm so excited to see your Homura in action!! I find the idea of these two just in their "looks stoic but socially awkward" corner funny

[horologia]

wow... look at them... so stoic... calm, cool, collected...

them, internally: how do words aaaaa

[fluorite]

i love homura so naturally i'm excited to see her!!! fai will cheer on her cool persona

[rebelles]

i adore homura and support her larping!

haru is also larping a cooler version of herself, sorta, without knowing what that term means since she is a total newb to the space. but being another steam gunner, perhaps she can take pointers from homura!

[horologia]

haru can learn to game from homura ... and we can only hope that some of her social graces rub off on the latter, nodnod

[fatalitea]

POINTS AT EYES

POINTS AT YOU???

[horologia]

EYEZOOMS AT

POINTS AT YOU

DO WE WANT THEM TO HAVE HISTORY!!!

[fatalitea]

It's up to you!! I didn't think to age her up sadly so Mami is still 15 in AU land here, but maybe they can recognize each other at least via the spiderman pointing meme at recognizing each other from other games online?? Or if Homura has heard of the Wings of the Magius website which I included in Mami's history as a, uh, questionable online forum of sorts that she used to frequent.

[horologia]

Oh no, not the Wings of Magius ... That is to say, I'm cool with that! Spiderman pointing meme away.

What is the salvation cult doing in this alternate universe anyway...

[fatalitea]

So far details I came up with is that they like to get really morbid talking about death, the possibilities of life after death, fates worse than death to be avoided in this day and age... you know, healthy things to talk about with people online...

Mami didn't realize that's what they were about until a while in trying to talk to them and now she's like "please lose my email address" with these people at the moment.

[horologia]

Oh yeah, super healthy... The kind Homura probably avoided like the plague after she caught wind of it because she's at least self aware of her mental state and what probably isn't good for it.

... Huh, flipping the age dynamic here is actually kind of interesting though? I don't have any concrete thoughts about it yet but it sure is something. thinking emoji

[fatalitea]

Perhaps... this is finally Homura's chance to be the true experienced senpai as a magical girl online gamer??