#lost in space 2018 rp

[rp-partnerfinder]

Hello! My name is Nyx. I'm attempting to match with fellow active roleplayers! A little about me is I'm 25 and have been role-playing for a little over twelve years. I prefer literate and third-person roleplays. My dm's here are open! I can also be reached on discord at aesthetic_amethyst_creations_nyx.

I will roleplay most topics, but this can be discussed more in detail. I also do mxm or wxw, as well as mxw. I prefer my rp partners to be 21+. I am fine with NSFW.

I do tend to lean more to angst than a lot of fluff, but balance is key!

I'm open to oc x oc, oc x Canon, or Canon x Canon.

Here are a few fandoms I'm involved in. The ones with stars are the ones I'm most interested in.

Vikings

The Last Kingdom ☆

Dune ☆

Reign

Stargate Sg-1 ☆

Twilight

Masters of The Air ☆

HOTD ☆

Lost in Space 2018 ☆

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[ollvrsicons]

Actor: Ajay Friese Media: Lost in Space (2018) Icon Count: 89 Size: 100x100 px Link: HERE These base icons are free to use for the purpose of rp. Feel free to edit with a PSD or boarder. Please do not redistribute. Like and reblog to share them around!

[spacenutspod]

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) have a long history of service in space exploration. Since the first was tested in space in 1961, RTGs have gone on to be used by 31 NASA missions, including the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Packages (ALSEPs) delivered by the Apollo astronauts to the lunar surface. RTGs have also powered the Viking 1 and 2 missions to Mars, the Ulysses mission to the Sun, Galileo mission to Jupiter, and the Pioneer, Voyager, and New Horizons missions to the outer Solar System – which are currently in (or well on their way to) interstellar space. In recent years, RTGs have allowed the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers to continue the search for evidence of past (and maybe present) life on Mars. In the coming years, these nuclear batteries will power more astrobiology missions, like the Dragonfly mission that will explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. In recent years, there has been concern that NASA was running low on Plutonium-238, the key component for RTGs. Luckily, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently delivered a large shipment of plutonium oxide, putting it on track to realize its goal of regular production of the radioisotopic material. The recent shipment of 0.5 kg (over 1 lb) of plutonium oxide from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory to its Los Alamos National Laboratory is critical to realize NASA’s planned future missions. It is also the largest shipment since the DOE issued its report to Congress in 2010 – “Startup Plan for Plutonium-238 Production for Radioisotope Power Systems.” As per this plan, this delivery is a significant step toward achieving the goal of a sustained annual production rate of 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs) by 2026. Like all radioisotope power systems (RPS), RTGs rely on the natural decay of the radioisotope plutonium-238 to provide heat for a Light Weight Radioisotope Heater Unit (LWRHU) or heat and electricity for a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG). These systems are vital to space exploration since they enable exploration to some of the deepest, darkest, and most distant destinations in the Solar System (and beyond). In short, they enable missions to locations where solar power is limited, intermittent, or unavailable. Consider NASA’s Opportunity rover, which explored the surface of Mars for almost 15 years, establishing multiple records in the process, but was lost in 2018 when a planet-wide storm caused a huge dust buildup on its solar panels. A similar fate claimed NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) lander, which recently concluded its mission to explore Mars’ interior structure and seismic environment after four years. Once again, the culprit was dust buildup on the mission’s solar panels, which caused its battery to die. The first spacecraft to benefit from this restart was the Perseverance rover, which carries some of the new plutonium produced by DOE. An MMRTG continuously provides the rover with heat and about 110 watts of electricity, keeping its instruments powered during the day and its batteries warm at night. As Carl Sandifer, the RPS program manager at NASA’s Glenn Research Center, said in a recent NASA press statement, “NASA’s Radioisotope Power Systems Program works in partnership with the Department of Energy to enable missions to operate in some of the most extreme environments in our solar system and interstellar space.” NASA and other space agencies are also investigating nuclear systems to provide power for future exploration missions. This includes compact nuclear generators for powering habitats on the Moon and Mars, known as Kilopower Reactor Using Sterling TechnologY (KRUSTY) reactors. There are also plans to resurrect the Space Race-era Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA) technology to create spacecraft equipped with nuclear-thermal and nuclear-electric propulsion, which could enable missions to Mars in less than 100 days. For over sixty years, NASA has relied on radioisotope-based electrical power systems and heater units to advance space exploration and the frontiers of science. With the restart of this program, NASA and DOE have signaled their intent to maintain their long-standing partnership to ensure that the U.S. space program can enable missions requiring radioisotopes for decades to come. As we explore farther from Earth, establish outposts beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and contemplate missions to nearby stars, nuclear power will play a vital role. Further Reading: NASA The post NASA is Getting the Plutonium it Needs for Future Missions appeared first on Universe Today.

[dangerfound]

“ You want to belong. ”

Independent. Semi-Selective. Oc/Crossover Friendly. Rules.  About.  Verses.

[satorugojowidow]

My fault, but what about the thread? Can you share thoughts? I don't know many k-pop fans personally so I want to know, be prepared for their joining. On here I only see gifs and fanfics.

A few things about me that are fair to know to judge my opinions. I'm a second gen fan, I began to listen to kpop in 2009, actually a fan in 2010. My first favorite band was DBSK/JYJ and was part of the whole “activism” to support JYJ in their way out of SM. Started in tumblr as an exo fan and my last fandom where I was active was loona in their golden days (2016-2018). To be honest I’m not active in fandom since 2018/19. I keep listening to kpop but I don’t keep up with new bands or whatever is going on in the kpop world. But it is actually pretty easy to assume this twitter user is talking about BTS and particularly RP. 

I can’t answer everything she is saying because it has been some years since i don’t keep up with what is going on there. However, I can confirm that the army acts like BTS invented kpop lol. They love to speak about how they made kpop popular overseas when there was an actually large fandom base in europe, usa and latin america before they even debuted. Actually some bands like JYJ did quite successful concerts at that time in latin america. Even the expansion to Japan is something that Boa and DBSK did. Of course, BTS is a massive success, but they didn’t happen in the nothing, there was a whole process and context. I can confirm this thing about how they glorify their artist as the only true artist and the others idols are just fakers. But to be fair, that is something that vips (big bang fandom) did before. Well, the army is large so everything will be more annoying with them for a matter of numbers. 

Army does act like they found the final gem, but it is not fair to say that only them are toxic with other artists because fanwars are old as kpop. I believe it is more a generational attitude or even an attitude with the past. I hear many young fans from different fandoms talking about a past where fanwars didn’t exist when such a thing never happened. We can recall fanwars from second gen groups with events like “black oceans” during festivals. 

I do agree, in theoretical terms, that each phenomenon has their own features and with BTS there must be some specific issues. I’m just not that invested or updated to talk about this. However, in my opinion there are some inherent issues with the phenomenon of being a “fan” that can’t be avoided no matter the fandom. The idealization of the artist, the feeling of belonging and loyalty, are all problematic. We surely need to build ways to interact with artists less toxic. But for the music industry (no matter how annoying it may be for artists who have obsessed fans) they gain more money from people who are willing to give everything to their artist. This is also a problem of capitalism and consumer culture. 

About twitter as a platform for fandom organization. Well in the old days 2011-2014, facebook and tumblr were also a big part of “spaces” for fandoms. Tumblr went down, facebook lost relevance yet fandom groups were still working until 2019 (when i last checked lol). Twitter has a specific feature for fans actions like TT, but fandoms won’t fall because the app falls, they are already important on tik tok and IG. With apps it’s a matter of adaptation, a big problem would be that twitter was still at its best but kpop fandom became irrelevant and can’t pull a TT. Why? because it is a battle to push your consumptions, make them relevant and gain space. Promotion helps to succeed and success sustains your cultural consumption. There will be more as long as they sell. Nevertheless, it is fair to say there are alot of “identity” issues in why kpop fandoms promote their artists. 

What is actually in danger with twitter is the capacity of collective actions in social websites. Other websites have tags and trendings but can’t pull like twitter does. Regarding kpop fandoms, in my opinion twitter was a space of action but not the source of organization. Fandoms tend to agree with their actions in closed groups (like facebook at the time) and go to twitter with a tag and schedule that was already decided somewhere else. 

In my opinion, being active in a fandom will consume too much of your personal time and will keep you frustrated because there is always some drama and fans are super annoying. However, you can still enjoy kpop from “outside”. IG is a good option, you find images and videos but don’t come across with the drama (not that much). Tumblr has very little these days but still can enjoy some gifs. I don’t have tik tok so I can’t talk about it. I’m not sure how is discord, but sound like the last place to be regarding fandoms (like forums) 

*Yes, I am naming fandom by their names because I fear nothing. 

[vvakarians]

I need to be vulnerable for a second.

It’s been a year. I’ve made a lot of progress and am still uprooting shit I’ve been wading in for a while now. I’m growing and learning. But I’ve never gone into detail really, maybe on twitter and mentioned it a couple times but yeah. Been thinking a lot.

TW for Homophobia / Abuse

TLDR; My best friend was a shitlord and I spent ten minutes painfully sobbing about it. I’m fine lmao just needed to make a messy post.

Won’t be mentioning who they were on SM here but if mutuals who are and were friends w/ both of us want to know, hmu lmao. I sincerely hope y’all didn’t get shit on like I did

I’m so tired. I’m tired of knowing that someone I used to call my best friend literally cyberstalked me in a discord server and when I told them I wanted to have a space without them/wouldn’t be interacting with their character, they lost it.

I’ll call this person A. They were there for me through a lot but it got weird towards the end for sure. A was always clingy, always needed to be right (passed it off as an OCD thing), and always felt like they needed to be included in things I was doing. Abandonment issues due to trauma they said, still doesn’t excuse it but you know? Fine.

I identified as aro/ace for a long time bc I was severely traumatized. Someone thirst followed me and cornered me into a relationship/took my kindness for granted (Not A, not yet). A’s reaction was to assume I would never have time for them and we would drift apart, just because I had a partner. They complained about this to me and said that even if I was just their friend and QPP (we were both aro/ace) that they still felt I would abandon them. I tried to calm them down the entire time, this was October 2018. Three days later I had a severe PTSD break (unrelated trauma) and broke up with my ‘boyfriend’. A said it was the right decision and we left it at that.

Cut to me a year later having recovered a bit and realizing I had romantic feelings still. That I *wanted* to kiss and take someone out, and do heavily romantic things. During this time A and I had severe issues with D&D parties also where they would break down if they didn’t know everything and said that I couldn’t produce any part of my worlds for profit bc theh had contributed in a small way. It was a bad time. It lead to the complete disintegration of two relationships that I can...probably never get back. One of which I’m not sure I *want* back, but that’s a different story.

Basically they wanted to be the DM with half the credit despite only making npcs I could easily replace or cut out entirely. Now that I started playing again, I have.

I still was friends with them, still waveringly QPP’s with them. Though I’d often feel my skin crawl when they touched me or wanted to be in my space. This was all the time, not when I got triggered into a PTSD episode. I was annoyed when they wanted to always be in my space and have all my attention. But I felt obligated to A and had been recently traumatized again.

Even with all of this I wanted to come out as gay / mlm but still keep part of my aceness with me. Of course in feeling this, I approached A to let them know. Their response was to immediately come back with ‘we can do all of those things you want to do with a romantic partner’. Which I felt may be true for some aspecs but not me. I wanted to *be* with someone and not just...a friend. I wanted to have a boyfriend and be cheesy. I told A that it was probably true but I wanted something else. That I wanted space to think on what they had said. They came back with ‘you’re abandoning me. You just don’t like me. Everyone always leaves me’. Once again with the ‘you get a bf you’ll forget I exist’ rhetoric 🙃.

I told them that they weren’t the person I wanted to be romantic with. I was looking for someone else. I wasn’t attracted to them that way. They took that as an insult. Though to me they relented. Come to find out A got one of our mutual friends involved bc they lived in the same area. They vented and complained to them that I was going to abandon them, that I was punishing them, that they didn’t know what they did wrong. Which was behavior my parents exhibited when I was forced out as trans to them. That Inwas punishing them somehow for a misdeed or that they knew me better, they did something ‘wrong’.

The only outlet I had away from A was TikTok, we weren’t really doing D&D anymore because the party had dissolved due to their controlling habits. Every account I had was heavily monitored by A, I would vent and they would immediately pull it up and ask if I was okay. Even if I had explicitly said before that I was alright and needed some space. But TikTok was a place they barely went on. So I cosplayed more after our last visit (October 2019), and got a small following after joining a lovely d&d tag ran by one of my now closest friends. I also met my boyfriend through this tag, and several other very close friends. I made an oc that I integrated in one or two sessions of D&D before I completely stopped DMing.

Now, it gets worse. I get a following for cosplaying my oc Asariel Whately, join a server, and for a time have a pretty okay place away from A. Some breathing room. When I mentioned that Asariel (who we had talked about maybe being w/ an oc of theirs) was going to romance my now boyfriends oc in the tag, they got upset. They said that they were sad to see them with someone else, and asked if it could all be before my campaign/not actually be real. I told them no and that I’d continue doing what I wanted.

Well, after that and scouring my TikTok (i made the mistake of saying anything in the first place), they got invited to the server and started RPing/cosplaying in the tag. Which they’re allowed to do, but A has a history of wanting to be in my things and being the center of attention. When I say A got involved with *several* other characters, including a possible *minor*, that doesn’t even cover the worst of it. They got involved in a huge polyam relationship (which is fine, i’ll explain why their behavior was weird tho) that LITERALLY took up chunks of the whole server. Any time my bf and I got into chat to rp out some scene for Asariel and Fraanic, A was there to bury our scene in their own garbage. Could have been conicidence but who knows. Then the minor got added into the mix and most of us just had the server on mute/rped in DMs. It was so bad that other people noticed their bad behavior, meta gaming, and needing to be right.

Our relationship ended when someone from a private close knit server made up of all the people who wanted to remove ourselves from the toxic environment, outed our server. Said there was an nsfw server and A immediately jumped to say they wanted an invite. I panicked and DMed them for the first time in weeks to say that they couldn’t. That I needed space from them and this was the one place I had. We had a fight, they said ‘they’re my friends too’ and I pointed out that they had forced their way in, that I said I needed space. Eventually they gave up on it, thank god. But it left me wrecked for months. I didn’t create, I retreated into a two person server with my best friend who is now my boyfriend and just never looked back.

While I’m grateful that this massive upheaval gave me a new support network, got me into a good place for a romantic partnership, and allowed me to heal...I still have a lot of pain. I felt like I had been commodiefied, like an object because of how kind and soft and pliable I was. Because someone thought I was beautiful and *theirs* in the worst way. My ocs who are some of my largest coping mechanisms were tainted, I could barely play Dragon Age, couldn’t think about it. Because someone had conpletely obliterated my love for it. I hate to think they then continued to do that same thing to other people but I honestly have no clue what A is doing now. They dropped off the planet and honestly good riddance.

[joeymiya]

These, These are the only two remnants of the digital drawings I made on my former laptop before they broke.

I had a lot of other drawings I drew on there, especially a dangan fanart mini video for a friend on a dangan-fan RP server on Discord I used to be at with my mostly first OC. I put a shit-ton of work on a lot of those digital drawings with only the mouse back then, it was around 2018 to early 2020 before I lost access to my laptop.

I sadly can’t access the laptop or finish the last unfinished drawing, the drawing of Jay, I haven’t even colored it, much less clean it up a little. It’s a drawing for a guy’s Villain OC for a JoJo RP Server called JoJo: Europe, I think.

It’s...sadly gone, but We’ve went to space now. So there’s that.

It’s a little sad, but I do think in the future, future-future, I’ll be able to recover the drawings.

[merelliahallewell]

Community Organization - A Kul Tiras RP Postmortem

I should probably preface this whole ridiculous thing with the fact that I genuinely don’t want to upset anybody with it, but just do something of a postmortem. I removed all names save for those people I’m explicitly calling out for being great and handling this community well despite what’s happened to it. These are genuine observations from somebody who’s tried to both run events and be as involved in Kul Tiras as I can be for the last yearish.

I wish there was a way to make Kul Tiras roleplay a thing again but I genuinely don’t really have the connections to do so or the time to put together a lot of events personally- I already run two communities on Moon Guard and officer for a small guild. 

I’ll keep ranting after the jump I suppose.

The early cross-realm Kul Tiras community started off with a huge bang. I think despite how bad the gameplay of the early expansion came out to be, there was a lot of energy around the setting and a ton of excitement for Boralus as a whole. We had not one, but two in-game communities that had a good deal of crossover in membership between them. Surprisingly, BoralusRP and PortRP proved that in-game communities could still remain strong despite the total absence of a Discord to back it up. It broke the conventional wisdom I’d heard about how in-game RP was dead and there was RP to be found in abundance during the early days. While a discord server was later created for PortRP (now Living Kul Tiras), the in-game communities always remained far more popular and active than it. 

Unfortunately, I think the biggest blows to Kul Tiras RP weren’t sharding, but more that those who had created the communities didn’t necessarily have very many intentions past making the space for roleplay to maybe happen. Were it not for the awesome and very regular bar nights being hosted in the early expansion, we’d very quickly realize that there was nothing actually going on in the communities besides them. People made these groups with seemingly no intention of hosting events- unless it was a guild event that had open invitation.

What was more, there wasn’t any support from the leadership of these groups for the kind souls willing to run these awesome events. Nobody in leadership was interested in helping event runners get the word out regarding their stuff or otherwise promote them save for leaving calendar invites open. I know firsthand, after all, having tried to run the Shadows over Duskford arc back in October 2018 and having a hell of a time trying to invite Kul Tiras-based guilds to it. 

A number of dramatic things also seemed to undercut the efforts being made in the community- Having a prominent community member wind up to be a neo nazi didn’t help the image of Kul Tiras, nor did one of PortRP’s admins getting in a huge fight on the forums and caught using alt characters to back themselves up. 

Kul Tiras limped along on life support after the new year. Community events got hosted still and I can only voice utter appreciation at that. I absolutely adore my memories of the Shattered Glass (miss you a heck of a lot, Mac) despite this fact, but things were rough in January/february. 

Hype about the addition of Kul Tirans as an allied race infused the community with new life, at least for a little bit. Three new discords were created for each of the zones in preparation for this infusion of new people the community expected to get...

...but then we didn’t really get a lot of new people. What was more, the community suddenly found three new discords to have to be involved in, but the Tiragarde Sound and Drustvar ones were basically just empty and dead most of the time. It was the same discord just copy/pasted for the zones, with the same leadership team. While I’ve heard the Tidesage one was active, by the time I joined long after it was made, the place was incredibly quiet. I don’t really know a lot about the leadership teams of these discords, but I don’t think any major events came out of them.

On Moon Guard, the Boralus Law Project (a sort-of clone of the very popular Stormwind Law Project) was started in June, had one meeting, and then barely ever met again. While the effort was earnest, the delivery was... lacking, really hard. The solitary meeting was mostly argument over Drust relics and being told where we were allowed to stand. 

At this point in time, about a year after the trio of new Kul Tiras servers got started, all five public discords related to it are dead and most of the stuff in that vein is over, save for what I’ll list below. 

Some Praise

The only time I’ve seen life infused back into the Kul Tiras community as it was fading was the hosting of @caelin-tautstring​‘s Kul Tiras Market. I know things have gotten quieter there, but I think he’s absolutely done the best with what he’s been handed. I wish the market had more patronage than it does now, but I’m not really a huge member of WrA’s community and MG’s Kul Tiras groups are laughably distant, small, or don’t play retail so I have no real way of getting the word out about it. 

Jacquell has been at it hosting bars in Kul Tiras for as long as I can remember. Seriously, it may not be every week but that’s absolute dedication that no other event runners have had. I wish I made it to more of these just to show up and support her because she absolutely deserves it. Go give her forum thread some love and go to the next event on the 6th. 

@atc-wra runs the HARBOR GAMES. Gosh, those are awesome. go to them! support them! Support Kul Tiras. They’re really cool people and I wish I had gotten more opportunity to interact. 

Some Takeaways

Don’t start a community unless you intend to provide for it.

I appreciate the various Kul Tiras communities being founded. I absolutely, 100% do- my own character wouldn’t be around there if I hadn’t been given a great place to be. However, my main gripe with the people who founded these communities is that they just made them as a place to congregate, and very little else. 

The same goes for the trio of discords that got founded- where are the events? Bar nights, roll events meet & greets, stories. We’re all here to write stories, yeah? I feel like it is the role of moderators or leaders to do their best to provide for these communities with events, support, and most importantly, direction. People need to know what a community is for, rather than just being “the kul tiras community” or “the tidesage community.” 

Support community events!

Seriously, I remember being discouraged when my events weren’t supported. If you can’t make the event, then hawk it to your friends or guild members who can. Hell, make a guild event out of attending. Give them praise, feedback, anything. People who make events are the lifeblood of communities. They will die if they do not have a variety of events happening at frequent intervals.

If you’re going to abandon something, pass ownership off to somebody else in the community.

BfA sucked. yeah, we all know. I don’t blame anybody for going to FF14 or ESO or any other game, but I do blame them for leaving and failing to put other people in charge of the communities they ran. If you don’t want to host a bar event anymore, then give it to one of your customers or take on an apprentice or something. If you don’t want to run a discord, see if a community contributor can help.

I think the community would have been better off if they weren’t left waiting for things that weren’t going to happen.

A couple of prominent event runners left people waiting for events that never came. I feel like it’s important to be communicative, and if necessary, pass popular events off to other people if you’re no longer interested in running them. Promising how there will be more bar nights soon, or that you’ll do an event in the future, and then never following up on it? That sure sucks, especially if the event runner moved to FFXIV or Classic. 

I’m grumpy about Moon Guard’s Kul Tiras community.

Nobody is responsible for supporting a community if they don’t want to. That is very important to preface this with. However, I do feel like if one is trying to position themselves as the center of Kul Tiras roleplay, they should engage themselves and their entire guilds in the community. Refusing to show up to the cross-realm events (or host anything) despite having like... at least 20 people around in your guild really sucks. A golden opportunity to beef the RP up was lost. If you want an example of what should have been done, <Kul Tiran Admiralty/Commonwealth> hosted open events for people to come to, supported other events, and generally was super active. 

Hell, MG’s most active Kul Tiran groups were <Boralus Merchant Marine> and <Outliers> and they were both really small guilds. I love ‘em and I wish I’d helped support them more. The big ones should have taken lessons from their involvement, because at least they did it.

Now the people who ran the big guilds complain a lot about the death of the community, and i’m like... hello?? You had your chance and didn’t bother until it was too late. 

- - - 

This has been an extremely long rant about Kul Tiras. Is it fair? Maybe? I don’t know. I’m trying to throw out whatever I can for this without being too harsh. 

[accxlades]

Stop making up these tragedies. You used to do it on your old accounts too.

i usually delete these but i’m going to answer this since i’m sick and tired of being followed by you stupid fucks.

i’m sure you’re talking about my old account from back in 2014 when i made a post about my dad passing suddenly and how i was going to need to go on a hiatus.

then in 2016 when my cousin passed.

then in 2018 when my great uncle died.

then in 2019 when my great aunt died.  and when my cousin i grew up with died.

not to mention all the other deaths that occurred before i even joined rp or krp or whatever the fuck you want to call this.

the fact you’re saying i’m making up my great aunt being sick is pathetic.  you have nothing more to do with your life than to try to keep people down because you’re worthless and want to push your own insecurities onto people.  you’re pathetic for dismissing someone’s feelings about their own family having actually passed as well as ones that are who knows how long from actually passing because they’re laying at home crying to themselves since they’re left alone from their own selfish son leaving them with no means of communication or transportation whatsoever.  the fact i’ve spent over 2 years not only taking care of my own disabled mom but also taking care of my disabled and dying aunt.

the fact that i’ve lost a majority of my family from them dying.  between hearing about it on the phone to waking up to screaming at 7:43 am to find my dad stiff and cold and watch my mom try to resuscitate him with cpr despite the fact he had been dead for hours.

now the possibility of being there with my aunt and her passing at any time is something else on my shoulders, and i’m not even sorry that i don’t consider you or anyone else worth of stressing me out any longer when you used to make death threats and tell me to kill myself so long ago.  when you sent a message telling me that my dad deserved to die.

so fuck you.  go fucking die in a ditch somewhere because you as a person are a waste of space and air and are nothing more than a pathetic speck of dirt that i wouldn’t even give a second thought to.

[eponymous-rose]

Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role C2E12 (Apr 3, 2018)

Happy 60th episode, Talks Machina! Take that, only-12-episodes-of-Critical-Role! (NB: Brian made the same joke like five minutes into the episode. I don’t know what this says about me.)

Tonight’s guests are Pillow Matt Mercer, Matt Mercer, and Marisha Ray!

Announcements: the first five episodes of Key Question are available on Alpha, Dani Carr’s Critical Recap will be on Thursdays before the show, C2E12′s podcast will be available this Thursday (”How neat!”), Wednesday Club will be on tomorrow, Critical Role will be attending C2E2 in Chicago on April 7-8.

Matt names all the episodes (he now comes up with a name right after the episode, which may or may not match his working title for the session) and Dani writes the descriptions (for early episodes, it was Taliesin).

@critrolestats for this episode:

Sam held his pose for 12 minutes and 12 seconds. Travis’ thumbs-up moment in C1E61 was 7 minutes and 51 seconds.

Episode 12 had the first point of damage dealt by Frumpkin.

This was the first time this campaign we’ve had a friendly KO.

There were 21 bird calls made in this episode.

This campaign has now passed 1,000 d20 rolls. 1,052 total!

This campaign has also now passed 50 natural 20s. 55 total!

Joe Manganiello pops up on FaceTime, calling from the very fancy Gary Gygax Memorial DM Chair. As one does. There’s a brief discussion about amazing minis and casting him as Wolverine. Brian: “Dude, can you believe... that guy’s a nerd.”

Had Beau been involved in the infirmary debacle, Marisha suspects she’d be a lot less nice than Fjord.

If the team hadn’t picked up Ulog, he would’ve tried to infiltrate the High Richter’s house by himself partway through, and possibly could’ve ended up in an altercation with the party. There was also the chance of developing a rift with the Knights of Requital if things had gone badly in a different way.

Beau can step up to a leadership role when the group’s goals are in jeopardy, but it’s still generally rooted in selfish reasons.

Was the Rug of Smothering revenge for the magic carpet-related antics in the first campaign? Matt: “In hindsight, subconsciously, maybe?”

There was another chamber with some extra information they could’ve acquired, there were some challenges they avoided, but Matt doesn’t want to get into specifics in case the party decides to go back at some point.

Gif of the week: a valiant struggle against a flying foe.

Matt briefly considered having the Metagaming Pigeon make an appearance to drop a hint about mage hand, but decided it was more fun to bring it up after the fact.

If Fjord and Caleb had been actively in combat when she arrived, the High Richter would’ve turned around and brought in the guards instead of coming in alone. Many of the group could’ve wound up being arrested.

Matt is enjoying being able to space out the intense moments and give people a chance to explore their characters, especially after the constant intensity of high-level D&D at the end of the last campaign.

Everyone is delighted at the second username of the night that ends with a “69″.

Marisha suspects that Beau and Fjord might have similar morality beats, although Fjord’s better at holding his cards close to his chest.

Ulog’s item was a Necklace of Fireballs with only one use left. His final fatal attack was a last-ditch secondary plan in case things went south.

Marisha points out that Beau doesn’t know yet that Ulog’s dead.

Fanart of the week: a glimpse at the events at the end of the episode.

Matt placed the scroll purposely as an invitation for character drama: “I put it there knowing it was going to cause a ruckus... but I didn’t think it was going to cause that much of a ruckus.” Marisha: “Fuckin’ reality show director here.”

Marisha’s reaction to the ending was: “Wow, that escalated quickly!” Beau’s still in shock over all this, and right now her only thought is, “Run.”

Matt is a little defensive over people pointing out how many towers he’s brought down between the two campaigns (there’s a great back-and-forth where he points out that one of them was the party’s fault, but Marisha insists that they were inspired by a previous tower falling, and I’m really dodging spoilers here so let’s get out of this parenthetical). Marisha gets into how a tower is generally a symbol of power and established order.

Marisha points out that the whole party is trying to keep in mind that they’re just level 3 and they’re not established heroes, so they can’t run towards the problem the way VM could. Brian points out that VM was also already at will-die-for-each-other levels of loyalty at their big crisis point, whereas MN are still begrudging allies for the most part.

Matt, on the players now knowing to look for plot clues in smut: “I am so excited for them to be hoarding all the smut and have none of it inform anything for the rest of the campaign.” Later: “Please... please don’t keep doing that.” He loves the idea of some ultra-powerful future-seer in-universe hiding all this stuff in smut.

Matt is continually surprised at the weird parallels between the campaigns that keep creeping in here and there, like the intra-party conflict right before the big upheaval.

Marisha tries to RP her combat and find in-universe reasons to do new things. She’s looking forward to having the Cobalt Soul abilities really start to kick in. Matt points out that the Cobalt Soul abilities are situationally useful.

Asked about Lord Sutan being from the same family that lost the Plate of the Dawnmartyr in a game of cards last campaign, Matt says: “...maybe.”

Matt put in a few red flags for Ulog to see if the party would pick up on just how desperate he was (like giving away his life’s savings to the party).

There was an alternate plan out there for the party to learn about the Crick (that they can still avail themselves of), but the smut plot was made up on the spot as a tease of information.

Who does Beau trust the most in the Mighty Nein? Marisha: “Probably Jester, believe it or not. Jester’s the most open book thus far.” Brian asks to what extent she trusts what Jester says. “Beau thinks that Jester believes what she believes, and that’s enough for Beau. She sees her as being 100% forthright.”

Matt is enjoying being able to bring in these lower-level enemies he didn’t get a chance to use in the last campaign.

Dark Times at Talks Machina High on Alpha:

Pillow Matt is the true power behind the throne and gets his own splitscreen.

Matt had a plan in mind if the party had opted to turn in the Knights of Requital. They would’ve received a reward, gotten in good with the Crownsguard and the High Richter, and probably would’ve been invited to the Gala. It was possible that they could’ve taken plot hooks that took them further from the tower, and they may have only heard about the events of that night the next day.

Marisha feels like, compared to the other team, she and Jester did “pretty fuckin’ okay” at casing their building, and they even managed to retain their dignity.

Of everybody, Matt most fears the notion of Jester getting her hands on a Deck of Many Things.

Matt’s priority as a DM is always to keep his players excited and engaged. He finds D&D to be a great exercise in renewing friendships and relationships. Marisha has really come to appreciate the problem-solving aspects of the game.

Matt’s moving mouth has been superimposed on Pillow Matt. “What have you done.”

Information about VM is not common knowledge in the Empire, especially since Wildemount either wasn’t directly involved in or didn’t really believe a lot of the threats they faced. It would be a history roll for the current characters to learn more about them.

Matt does an alarmingly good Keyleth impression when Brian points out that Marisha’s perfect attendance means Matt’s never had to play her character.

Marisha recommends getting Dwarven Forge by running a D&D game at your work as a corporate team-building exercise. Some talk of tax fraud gets bandied around. It’s fine.

[maptoourescape]

At least promise you’ll be back on roleplaying and writing when Lucy is back. In fact when will she be back? Maybe you still have contacts with her, even though you don’t rp?

Hey anon!First of all, I’m terribly sorry for not having been able toreply to your previous ask (because I assume it indeed was you who sent it?). There’s honestly no proper excuse I couldthrow your way in regards to my silence. All I can say is that I simply don’tknow where to even start in regardsto the whole Bill/Tom/Klum topic anymore. Truth be told, my thoughts on it areso complex and all over the place, that I rather just avoid thinking about italtogether most of the days. The mere prospect of having to word theentire mess makes me tired already.So I’m sorry if I’ve disappointed you, butI really don’t think I’d even manage to write anything substantial in the firstplace. With the tour approaching, though, I’m pretty sure I’ll be indire need of a rant soon enough, seeing how I’m convinced Klum is going to join it as well at some point. I also thinkthe tour will provide me with some much needed first hand insight as well,which will be crucial in putting the pieces of what the fuck is going on togetherin a more coherent way. But let me not dwell on that other ask too long now, andaddress the matter of RPing at hand.I can’t promise that I’ll be back roleplaying - at least not in the format that you’re used to read, that is. Iwish I could, and I’d love nothing more than to jump right back in, but just asmuch as you’ve been left in the dark, I’ve been left in the dark as well.You see,I don’t even know if Lucy will becoming back at all.For lack of a more appropriate wording: she bailed on me.She’d hate this wording, I’m sure (I still know you so well, Lu) – she would think it’s harsh of me to say so,and hold a grudge against me for putting it so bluntly. But that’s literallywhat it was - or well - is. You might think I know something more about thematter, seeing how I’m part of what we had going here – hell, Imyself would expect of myself to know something more as well! – butalas, I really don’t.One day she was here, then the next - she was gone.The timeline of how this came to be is blurry when I think back on it. It’sbeen quite a few months in between then and now after all. But I think it allstarted with her being online less and less in the end of 2017/beginning 2018.She was working on her thesis back then, and asked me for some space – she is awoman who is very much so enjoys her educational prospects, and someone who cherishesher career a lot. A bit of a Hermione Granger, if you will. Her disappearanceswere not so far stretched out at first, but as time passed by, she only ever came online everyfew weeks, until she finally disappeared for good in March of 2018. That meansthe last I heard from her was actually more than a year ago now.And it evenfeels longer than that, in retrospective.I tried texting her on Skype a few times. Although I was hurt and feltbetrayed, I didn’t really word that out loud to her, because knowing her, she’dtake that as ammunition to justify her being away even more (“how could I evercome back, knowing you were mad at me” sorta scenario). So my texts consistedmostly of saying that I’m sorry if she felt pressured by me in any way, andthat I’d love to have her back.I still stand by it: I miss her. I am not someone who holds grudges, and I amnot someone who lets people go lightly once I hold them as dear to my heart as Lucy. She still holds, and probably alwayswill hold, a special place in my heart – she is an extraordinary individual whocomplemented me as a writer and artist, but more importantly as a person and asa friend, as well.I’d love nothing more than for her to come back and fill mydays and nights with artistic excitement and nerdy blabber.But I would belying if I’d say I don’t feel hurt, still.So long answer short: yes, I have ways to reach her. More than she mightimagine herself, actually. I could reach out to her irl friends as well, if everything elsefailed. I have my ways.The thing is though – I don’t think Lucy wants me to do that.I doubt she evenwants to be contacted at all.I’m pretty damn sure she knows I’m still around here. She knows where to find me if she would ever choose to do so. Andthis isn’t about pride – as said, I did try reaching out to her a couple oftimes (to no avail). This is about basic human decency. Lucy chose to walk outon me, so I feel like it isn’t exactly on me to pursue (nor persuade) her any further. That is a step she must make herself at this point. If she wants to be away from me, then I don’t feel like intruding her personalspace is really the way to go. She distanced herself from me, not vice versa,and protruding myself into her face just doesn’t seem fair.I love her, so I respect her decision not to be around me, even if I amdisappointed and hurt by not knowing exactly why she decided to just wordlesslyabandon ship.My suspicions are (ones that I voiced out to her as well, way back), that shefelt way too “imprisoned” with what we were doing, but had no idea how toproperly break it to me without hurting my feelings. I told her numerous timesthat if she ever gets bored with what we are doing, she can just tell me so,and that we’ll try to work our way around the issue. See, when I made thisblog, I was always very specific in what I wanted to do. I always wanted toexplore the relationship the twins have in a very “canon” way, if I may call itso. A straightforward, and very day to day like way. I wanted to exploreeveryday issues that they were facing, wanted to take the life they shared withus on social media and make it into a coherent little psychological explorationof their relationship. I was monotonous as fuck. And I think Lucy eventually grew tired of that. Of me. She wouldtell me, repeatedly so, that that’s not the case, but I don’t know if she was being entirelytruthful in that. It certainly doesn’t seem so now. BUt it makes sense. She was always the one that was gleaming with ideas. Ideas fornew and exciting things, AUs, all of it! In that regard, we were different.I feel like maybe I was holding her back – like maybe with me, she couldn’treally fulfil her full potential. I figured that that’s why she made a new blogaccount as well, eventually - in the late stages of our online interactions. She would say it was “because she had way too manythings piled up on her old blog, and couldn’t keep track anymore”. That “she justwanted to start fresh with all the other people she was RPing with, and that ithad nothing to do with what we were doing”. But I don’t think that was reallyall there was to it. Part of it, maybe, but not the entire reasoning. I wasshocked by her making another account, and it left a bitter taste in my mouth.She didn’t tell me she was making one, nevermind why she was doing it, so Ifigured she just wanted to start fresh with me as well, which meant ignoring the building upof our characters that we had going on for more than two solid years at that point. And that was harsh. We were deathbykaulitz andmaptoourescape, you know. It was an experience. It was ongoing, and personal,and very close to my heart. And with her making a new blog, it felt like shedidn’t really feel the same way anymore. Maybe that’s when “the beginning ofthe end” truly began. Perhaps she just wanted to start anew, and felt likethere was no way to do it without hurting my feelings. Perhaps she just feltlike there’s not much more she could begin to do with me any longer. That itwas boring, and repetitive, and exhausting, and unexciting.Last I heard of her, she told me she was “ashamed that she couldn’t keep up herpromises of doing more”. That “she didn’t keep to her word she gave me, when shesaid everything will go back to normal once she finished writing up her thesis”.She said, and I quote this time: “I value reciprocity a lot. Whenever I receive, I want to give back.And I couldn’t do that.”Maybe at the end of the day, what drove her away washer inability to understand that I really wouldbe okay with it eventually if she truthfully told me that she just can’t do this with me anymore.Maybe what drove her away was her thinking “I can’t give back to her as much asshe’s giving to me anymore, so I guess the best way to go about it is just toabandon ship entirely and never come back again, because not facing it is lesspainful than having to admit it and along the way maybe hurt her feelings”.As much as it pains me to say it, I haveto:her leaving me was more painful than her being tired of my RP skills couldever be. But me being me, I still want her back. Perhaps she mightthink I feel like I only lost a RP partner that day. But it was more than that.She robbed me of a very dear friend, and never gave the two of us anopportunity to actually work around whatever the issue at hand might have been.Iimagine she is happier now. I can’t begin to tell you about the amount of timesI went into the GOT RP community, to maybe find her excellent writing amongstthe sea of other, new people – better role players and better friends. Tryingto find her amongst the Cerseis and Jeamies that would excite her more than Iever could. It still gnaws at my conscience that I seemingly wasn’t enough. Butwhether she’s happy in a new found fandom, or maybe just blissfully busy withonly her career which I know she loves so much – honestly, there’s not much moreI could ask of her.Even through all of my misery, I love to see my friends thrive and be happy.Hell, I’m someone who at 13 years old wrote a long ass letter to a girl who wasalso in love with my crush to go get him if she is what makes him truly happylmao. I’d choose my friend’s happiness over mine, anytime.I hope she isdoing well. That she’s happy and healthy wherever life’s road is taking her.Maybe a bit of a TMI answer. But I feltlike getting it off my chest. You deserve to know what went up with us, atleast vaguely. And she also deserves to know how I feel, if she ever stumblesonto this - what seems to have turned into an open letter of sorts.GG for reading through this pile of emotional crap if you managed to get thisfar lol.But most of all, thank you infinitely for caring. For being interested in what we did, and in whatI do here. I never thought anyone would really care for what we were cooking upwith our roleplay, and the fact that there’s people out there who care, andread, and appreciate humbles me so fucking much. I don’t give you nearlyenough credit or appreciation – perhaps because it’s so hard for me to imagineanyone would take a minute of their time to indulge in something I made. But know that when it hits me, it hits me hard. There is no better feeling than knowing someone loves and enjoys what you created.Much love, and in hopes I didn’t disappoint you all too terribly,Tina

[lespetitesmusiques]

2018-musique.

Rituel de chaque fin d’année, madeleine-musique...

Ma petite liste est faite des albums, EP, morceaux, moments qui ont marqué ces 12 derniers mois. Aucune règle précise, aucune logique réellement cohérente, j’en ai écouté certains des dizaines de fois, d’autres quasiment pas, j’en ai rien à foutre.

Poing levé pour...

03 Greedo et Ty Dolla $ign, incarcérés pour un petit moment a priori, et qui sont peut-être les meilleurs chanteurs de rap et de rnb actuellement. Alors beaucoup de force à eux...

La fellation de Drake à Kodak Black, et son album, anti rappeur conscient par excellence, qui a plus de conscience politique que la plupart des gens qui nous gouvernent, mais surtout, qui fait cette putain de musique.

Ces russes, à l’alphabet incompréhensible, faisant bugger les moteurs de recherche spotify, qui font de cette musique techno/house quelque chose de passionnants, notamment ceux de Gost Zvuk

KA et ses monologues musicaux sur twitter, qui prêcha le bon rap au moment où j’en avais extrêmement besoin.

Noz, et sa boutique http://parkblvdrecords.com, qui fait ce vrai travail de disquaire, écouter et recommander, sans imposer, travail d’histoire, travail de creuseur... Ca donne presque envie de faire la même chose ici ! Si jamais quelqu’un est chaud...

Discogs, Twitter, forums et toutes ces listes qui s’agrandissent sans jamais se terminer, plus loin que l’Univers en expansion, et qui me font passer le temps à écouter de la musique, lire et creuser.

Frank Ocean, qui a réédité Endless, album sorti la même année que Blonded, cruellement... Parce que Blonded est immense, et que Endless n’est pas loin de l’être aussi. Frank Ocean est vraiment un des plus grands.

Shy Glizzy, qui a sorti son meilleur album à la toute fin de l’année 2017, Quiet Storm, et qui a donc accompagné quasiment toute la première moitié de l’année 2018. C’est certainement ce que j’ai le plus écouté cette année.

RAP, genre supérieur à tout autre.

Positions quasi-interchangeables.

1) SOB x RBE - Gangin’ II 2) Kodak Black - Dying to live 3) Sheck Wes - MUDBOY 4) 03 Greedo - God Level 5) Lil Durk - STTS3 6) Yungeen Ace - Life of Betrayal 7) NBA YoungBoy - Until Death Call My Name 8) Le best-of de Sada Baby 9) SCH - JVLIUS 10) Playboi Carti - Die Lit 11) BlocBoy JB - SIMI 12) Roc Marciano - Behold a dark horse 13) Payroll Giovanni - Big Bossin Vol. 2 14) Koran Streets - Late 20s

Et puis...

ALLBLACK & Kenny Beats - 2 Minute Drills Armand Hammer – Paraffin Black Fortune - OsshRock Blueface - Famous Cryp Chief Keef - Back from the Dead 3 Damso - Lithopédion Drakeo The Ruler - Cold Devil Drego & Beno - Sorry for the get off Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs G-Herbo - Swervo Hermit and the Recluse (KA) - Orpheus vs. The Sirens Husalah - H Jean Grae & Quelle Chris - Everything's Fine JPEGMAFIA - Veteran Kekra - LAND Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 3 Meek Mill - Championships Mozzy - Gangland Landlord Peezy - No Hook Pusha T - DAYTONA Rae Sremmurd - SR3MM Rico Nasty - Nasty Roc Marciano - RR2 Saba - CARE FOR ME SahBabii - Squidtastic Shy Glizzy - Fully Loaded Ski Mask the Slump God – Stokeley Smino - NOIR SOB x RBE - Gangin’ Starlito - At WAR With Myself Too Trouble - Edgewood Vince Staples - FM! YBS Skola - Life of a shinner / Only Hope 3 ZMoney - Chiraq Mogul 03 Greedo - The Wolf Of Grape Street  21 Savage - i am > i was 70th Street Carlos - Compile

Mentions honorables : Bossman JD, Cash Kidd, Chief Keef, Chris Crack, City Girls, Co Cash, DaBoii & Yhung to, Glokknine, Goonew, Gunna, Jayo Sama, Lil Baby, Lil Dude, Lil Tre, Lil Yachty, LPB Poody, Lud Foe, Migos, Roddy Rich, SB Rich Noonie, Shoreline Mafia, Soldier Kidd, Trippie Redd, YG, YNW Melly, Young Nudy.

TECHNO/HOUSE, zarbi-catchy-ou-wavy-enough.

D’abord...

AEM Rhythm Cascade (AKA Flaty) - Litie Bavarian Stallion Series De Leon - De Leon DJ Healer - Lost lovesongs (mix) DJ Seinfeld ‎– DJ-Kicks DJ Taye - Still Trippin Don't DJ ‎– All Love Affairs Fail But They Never End Duckett ‎– Emperor's New Clothes Part 1 Heap ‎– The Brasserie Heroique Edits Part 5 Hieroglyphic Being - The red notes Hodge ‎– Beneath Two Moons & Exogenesis INFX ‎– Fences Of Metal Laurel Halo & Hodge - Tru / Opal / The Light Within You  Mori-Ra - Brasserie Heroique Edits Part 6 RP Boo - I’ll tell You What! Ross From Friends ‎– Family Portrait Via Maris - Glow Wall / CU2 | Shelleys  VA - Patina Echoes

Et puis...

Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 DJ Earl - W3rk Dat DJ Lilocox ‎– Paz & Amor DJ Nigga Fox - Crânio Facta - Dumb Hummer / All the time Jay Glass Dubs - The Safest Dub Jamal Moss ‎– The Anticipatory Organization Joy O & Ben Vince - Transition 2 Joy O - 81b EP Kilchhofer ‎– The Book Room Laksa - Delicates & The Amala Trick Laurel Halo - Raw Silk Uncut Wood Loidis ‎– A Parade, In The Place I Sit, The Floating World (& All Its Pleasures) Niagara ‎– Apologia Oli XL ‎– Stress Junkie / Mimetic Peggy Gou ‎– Once Ploy - Ramos Skee Mask - Compro Theo Parrish - Preacher's Comin / Gullah Geechee Topdown Dialectic ‎– Topdown Dialectic VA - Cong Burn Yu Su - Preparations For Departure

Mentions honorables : Berceuse Heroique et affiliés, Fit Of Body, Dolo Percussion, Gábor Lázár, Principe records et affiliés, Puerto Rican Space Program, Shelley Parker, Thomas Fehlmann & Terrence Dixon, Toma Kami, Traxman, Zuli, тпсб et autres soviets.

RNB, donnant-envie-de-chanter-à-tue-tête.

1) 6Lack - East Atlanta Love Letter 2) Brent Faiyaz - LOST 3) Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign - MihTy

Doja Cat - Amala Don Toliver - Donny Womack Ella Mai - Ella Mai Fatima - and yet, it's all love Jacquees – 4275 Jorja Smith - Lost & Found Kali Uchis - Isolation Noname - Room 25 Swae Lee - Swaecation Tirzah - Devotion

AUTRES MUSIQUES, passionnante-ou-dérangeante-assez.

1) Autechre - NTS Sessions 2) Yves Tumor - Safe in the Hands of Love. 3) Oneohtrix Point Never - Age Of 4) Various - Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991

Dean Blunt - Muggy Vol. 1 Eli Keszler - Stadium Elysia Crampton - Elysia Crampton Iglooghost - Clear Tamei & Steel Mogu Jlin - Autobiography (Music From Wayne McGregor's Autobiography) Kamaal Williams - The Return Kareem Lotfy - QTT10 Lolina - The Smoke Lonnie Holley - Mith Mohammad Reza Mortazavi - Focus Pendant (aka Huerco S) - Make Me Know You Sweet Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus - Chat Rosalía - El Mal Querer Sarah Davachi - Let the night come on bells end the day Sons of kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile ...Mais bon, la liste de ce que j’aurais voulu écouter encore, est toujours plus longue que ce que je viens d’écrire. Malgré tout, elle est chaque année de plus en plus courte, et cette année encore fut la meilleure année musicale de ma vie

[leaderofteamprime]

Verses (Mobile Edition)

All the Verses that I will play Optimus in

;;(Verse) We will defend our home Set during TFP Pre-Legacy (default season 2)

Optimus Prime leads Team Prime in the hunt for energon and relics from the Iacon Database. 

;;(Verse) Hunting down the beasts Set during Beast Hunters

Optimus has been newly revived and is stronger than ever. With a new base and new allies, Team Prime must hunt down and collect the scattered predacon fossils, as well as any remaining Iacon relics.

;;(Verse) If we lay a strong enough foundation Post-TFP AU

After using the Decepticon's Omega Lock to restart Cybertron's core and retrieving the AllSpark from deep space, Optimus now leads Autobots, former Decepticons and neutrals in the restoration of Cybertron.

(Only PR-compliant in that OP and Wheeljack retrieved the AllSpark. Any other plot points will vary from rp to rp. Multiverse threads will default to here.)

;;(Verse) As your kingdom falls Pre-War/War of Cybertron era

War for Cybertron era-verse. Optimus leads Autobots in the fight against Megatron and the Decepticons as it sweeps across all of Cybertron.

(Note: No WoC/FoC events will be directly referenced due to the fact I have not played either game yet.)

;;(Verse) Fall as Lucifer fell TFP Shattered Glass verse

Shattered Glass Verse. Something dark, and a hidden yearning, was always hidden in Orion Pax’s spark, stirring under the tutelage of Proteus, and awoken by the Matrix. Cruel and sinister, he will destroy his world in his search for what was lost to him in ages past.

(This verse follows the ‘canon’ of Optimus having once been the Thirteenth Prime, and in this verse, that was not a good thing.)

;;(Verse) Rebuilding refuge Bumblebee (2018) 

Bumblebee cleared the way for them, and now the Autobots have come to Earth to build a new home and rebuild their forces, until such time they can retake Cybertron. 

;;(Verse) A new world to call home Bayverse (2007 to pre-DOTM)

After the Battle of Mission City, the defeat of Megatron and the loss of the AllSpark, Optimus leads the Autobots in working alongside their human allies, defending Earth from the Decepticons.

;;(Verse) Each day’s a gift Human Verse 

Orion Prime, former military reserves, now assistant librarian at the local university. He generally leads a quiet life, but it is plenty enough for him.

Face Claim: Stephen Amell 

;;(Verse) A femme’s touch Genderbent AU

Optima Prime leads Team Prime and the Autobots against the Decepticons.

;;(Verse) The AU Pool

A catch all verse for AU threads and posts (Merformers, Knightformers, etc)

If you ever want a starter or meme response in a specific AU, feel free to ask for it. 

[erahsae-ffxiv]

Balumg RP Events for the week of 2018.02.19 - Now with fixed links

Sorry about some of the troubles with the links. Something happened in the ICS feed that screwed up my RegEx processing to pull out the URL's and started appending non-breaking spaces to them. This list should no longer have that issue. ~ Erah'sae

Have an event you want to put on the Calendar?

Submit it here or send us an email.

This Week's Events:

Monday - 2/19/2018

7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Shroudrose Teahouse - Lavender Beds, Ward 5, Plot 58

8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Ruby Light Bakery & Cafe - Shirogane Ward 2 Apartment 54

9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Lominsan Fight Club - Lominsan Lominsa Lower Decks (x9, y15)

9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Miko-to-Neko Cat Cafe - Lavender Beds Ward 4 - Plot 16 - Room 27

Tuesday - 2/20/2018

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST - Wayward Star Bar - Mist Ward 6, Plot 1

4:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Leveworks Cafe - Goblet Ward 4 Plot 5

8:00 PM to 3:00 AM EST - Keeper's Kiss Open Cabaret - Mists Ward 11, Plot 5

8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - The Burly Barnacle - The Goblet Ward 12 Subdivision Apt #39

Wednesday - 2/21/2018

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Merciful Night Tavern - Lavender Beds Ward 10, Plot 51

7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Mikky's Barber Shop - Lavender Beds, Ward 11, Subdivision Apt 1.

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Stellazzio Pizzeria - Goblet Ward 16 Plot 43

7:00 PM to 2:00 AM EST - The Jade Rose Casino: A Gambling Night - Mists Ward 12, Plot 53

8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Bountiful Chest Tavern - Goblet Ward 6 Plot 5

8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Gin Mill Backwoods Brawl - Central Thanalan, 25, 15 (Cave at Lost Hope)

8:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Wild Wings Night - Lavender Beds Ward 10, Plot 52

9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Soul of the Dragon Restaurant - Shirogane Ward 9 Plot 37

Thursday - 2/22/2018

3:00 AM to 5:00 AM EST - Red Eye at Apple Wespe's - Goblet Ward 8 Apt 69 (Non subdivision)

6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST - Black Cat Café - The Mist Ward 2, Plot 29

7:30 PM to 10:30 PM EST - Spirit Night - Lavender Beds, Ward 18, Plot 33

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - House Amlin's Cashmere Room - Lavender Beds Ward 15 Plot 36

8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Wayfarer's: Bar and Grill - Goblet Plot 58, Ward 6

9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - Venari Alehouse - Lavender Beds Ward 15 Plot 21

10:00 PM to 1:00 AM EST - Lavender Moon Creamery - Goblet Ward 10 Plot 19 Rm 16

Friday - 2/23/2018

5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST - Seabreeze Bazaar - Moraby Drydocks Near Aetherite

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Menphina Madness! Opening Ceremony - The Coral Banquet, Ruby Sea

8:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST - The Pleasure Dome - Goblet, Ward 2, Plot 30

9:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST - Bar Saisei Open Nights - Shirogane Ward 9, Plot 38

Saturday - 2/24/2018

4:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST - Drunken Moogle Open RP - Lavender Beds Ward 9, Plot 5

4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST - Tsagaan Sar - Xaela RP Event - Reunion, Azim Steppes

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Golden Fox Emporium Open Night - Shirogane Ward 12 Plot 28

6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - The Garden of Words Book & Teashop - Lavender Beds Ward 8, Plot 27

6:30 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Mandragora Munchies - Goblet Ward 9, Plot 57

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST - Apocrypha Auction - Forgotten Mysteries - Mist Ward 6 Plot 6

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Sunday - 2/25/2018

1:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST - Lala Meetup - Hermit's Hovel, Outer La Noscea

2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST - East Eerie Tavern Night - Mist Ward 13, Plot 30

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST - Dewdrop Inn & Tavern - Mists Ward 1, Plot 24

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6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST - The Dragon's Crown Tavern Event - Lavender Beds Ward 1 Plot 28

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST - Ryuusei Tea Room - Shirogane, Ward 11, Plot 43

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8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST - The Happy Raven Café - Lavender Beds Ward 8 Plot 44

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[moonlit-nightingale]

.:RP:. A Long Road Ahead

Characters: Saranqerel Qalli (male Xaela), Dain Kotodama (male Xaela), Akuro Nakamori (female Xaela)

Rating: Nothing scary, general.  

Origin Date: 30 May 2018

As Sari recovers from his short capture by Imperial scientists, Dain pulls the younger Xaela into the dojo to try and divert his attention elsewhere. The clan goes out to complete a mission of a roving oni-classed monster. Sari, though performing well in conducting a plan of attack before combat started, froze up in the middle of the fight. The return to the dojo after a thankfully victorious fight is still rather bittersweet.

Note: There is a small timeline break where the combat RP occurred.

~*~

~The day after Sari’s rescue and returning to the free company estate~

Dain Kotodama had a tray with meats and tea. The man was primarily a carnivore at home after all! Coming to the side of the man’s bed he set it down on the end table. "Are you awake, brother?"

Saranqerel Qalli was half awake, still somewhat 'off' with everything. The one eye opened at the voice, not asleep really. "Aye...considering all the chaos in here earlier."

Dain Kotodama hummed a moment. Hoisting up a cup of tea, made traditionally and ceremonially before arriving, offering it to Sari. "Given how many were injured I'm not surprised. Have they brought you a change of clothes yet?"

"I haven't asked. I didn't want to bother anyone." Slowly he sat up. Never did he look at the new arm, pretending it wasn't there. The cup of tea was accepted with a nod. "Thank you...so many injured because of me?"

"Only Benha. Izzie was injured in an unrelated matter, and Benha wasn't careful enough," Dain spoke simply. His arms folding behind his back as he looked down to the other. "I have a surplus of uniforms with my Dojo, I'll have one brought before we head out tonight. I'll even show you to the baths, you should clean and relax."

"Thank you," he repeats quietly. His good arm comes up to the rough eyepatch on his bad eye. Without the normal swath of cloth covering it, the old burned skin over that side of his face was obvious. "Will this...be alright in the bath?" Even if he didn't look to the arm, hopefully the context was clear enough.

Dain Kotodama examined the arm a moment. "It should be. Truthfully I can't speak to magitek, as mine are aethertech, but I imagine it's a battle model. Water shouldn't harm it."

"What's the difference? I never heard of aethertech..."

Dain Kotodama hummed a bit. "Magitek relies on ceruleum and Garlean technology, aethertech relies on one’s own aether to control... at least that was how it was explained to me. A very Eorzean thing."

"It sounds...better." Both hands wrapped around the cup, the slight 'tink' of the new arm's fingers on the glass making him finally look at the black metal. "...I can't thank you and everyone enough for coming for me, brother. If they'd kept me longer..." Some of that anxiety was surging back. And with it, the glass cracked, the Qalli having no control of that new strength.

"It may have been both arms. Or even more innate modifications, if you were lucky." Dain doesn't flinch at the broken glass, rather sliding the second of the two cups on the tray to Sari. Then picking up a handkerchief to dab the liquid from the other’s legs and flick the glass to the floor. "It will take time to adjust to."

"....sorry." The heat of the tea didn't seem to bother him and there was no frantic movement to clean it up. Fortunately Dain was there to clean up the worst. "I don't know what to do."

"I know where you are in this," Dain spoke softly, folding the handkerchief upon the desk and returning to his standing stance.

"I mean, I don't mean to compare, sorry." Even if he had done nothing of the sort! "You've been through much worse."

Dain Kotodama snorted, reaching out to attempt to thump the top of the other man’s head. "I am not saying this to compare your pain to mine, but to tell you I have experienced what you have. I am here to help you so you don't suffer as I did. Do you understand brother?"

Saranqerel Qalli weathered the thump without the usual 'ow,' just a slight wince. "...aye, I do. Thank you." His eye wanders over the clinic and the other patients. "I still need to write the Adders and see what they expect of me next."

"If they expect more than a long recovery, I'll retire your superiors." It was the simple reply, and deadpanned as well. He may have been serious!

"I'm fine besides this though." There was a numbness in some parts of his body but no pain oddly enough. "There's no reason I shouldn't go back."

"What would you tell me if our positions were reversed... and I was more prone to listening?"

"But you aren't prone to listening in any life, I sense."

"Hoi. Now you're avoiding the question."

Saranqerel Qalli shrugged, habit making him to go rub that right arm. Where once had been wrapped burned skin was that cool metal and it made the motion stop abruptly. "I'd tell you to rest, of course. But you don't know how to rest."

"I do not. I know only how to move forwards. But you, Sari, you are a better man than I am," Dain asserted firmly. "You need to rest, to learn how to use your arm... to recover your mind."

"Don't say things like that because they're not true. You're here trying to make me feel better." His hand clutched around the magitek wrist. "I feel fine. I just need to check and make sure everything...works fine."

Dain Kotodama stared down at the man, shaking his head softly. "I say it because I believe it's true... men like me aren't healthy, where... you are, and can be again. Still, you have the stubborn pride of a great man as well." At least this drew a snort. "If you're so intent to see how you perform then the Clan has been gifted our first assignment tonight. You can wear our colors, and should you withstand what's to come, I won't even argue with you. Should you not however you will join our ranks until you are healed."

Saranqerel Qalli blinks at the offer. He was not prideful! He didn't think so...was he? "If I can do something to help in return for everything, I'll do what I can. I don't know how this will hold up though." A look down at that dark metal. "And I don't have my bow. I could heal?"

"You could. At its core the way of the Samurai is a way of mind and life. Through meditation and spiritual alignment... much of what you feel can be healed. Still. I am directly making a bet with you, consider it deeply before you accept or decline. We go to fight an Oni classed monster, there will be blood."

"I'm healthy...kind of...and able. And I owe everyone something back for rising their blood for my own. I'll do what I can." Determination in his tone at that. It all seemed to just be more layers being piled up to avoid breaking down from that shock.

Dain Kotodama stared at Sari a moment. Had he been like that? No, of course he had. A slow draining of emotion from his face. He remembered calling Nari a liar for implying his arm was missing at the docks. "Sehya's mother, or Ritsuka, will bring the robes down. I'll provide a blade and bow from our stock for you to use. At least with that arm, you'll be able to draw it now."

Saranqerel Qalli blinks once more, reluctantly looking back down. "...my shoulder doesn't hurt anymore..." A half smile. "I guess that's good?"

"In all things some small blessings are. I'm glad you don't hurt constantly now... Very relieved really."

"So there is a positive outlook to all of this!" A forced smile that didn't quite reach his eyes....eye. "I'll be glad to fight by your side again, brother."

"I'll be glad to have you there." His eyes closed a moment. Then he turned. "I'll be in the Dojo soon, we'll be meeting there before heading out. Your clothes should arrive shortly."

"Aye, thank you for the opportunity to help. I'll do everything I can."

"I know. I trust in you, brother."

 ~*~

~Sari has hidden in a corner of the dojo post-battle, combating the sudden departure of shock into what truly happened to him in captivity~

Dain Kotodama had come around the corner, his odachi being slung from his back. This storage space housed all sorts of training weapons, and real things as well, along with a mat he occasionally slept on. The man paused seeing Sari, moving to put up the great blade before speaking. "You're home now, Saranqerel. It is safe."

Saranqerel Qalli's intake of breath is sharp at the voice, hoping he'd be left alone. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he went to wipe the tears from his face. "S-sorry. I returned the bow. Y-you made need to restring it with the rain. A-and check the fletchings on the arrows."

Dain Kotodama reached his still flesh hand down. Resting atop of Sari's head, softly stroking the others hair. "I'll have to ask you to do so. You've lost the bet, so you'll be here awhile."

Saranqerel Qalli peered up at that, rain matting down the long bangs in his face. "...bet?"

"I told you if it didn't go well I would keep you until you recovered. Can you say you're ready for the field again?"

"N-no....but I managed to recover."

Dain Kotodama reached hand up to thump the other atop the head. "I can see you've recovered greatly in the closet, brother. You are hurt, broken, you cannot tell me you are capable on the field. Especially when the Alliance fights Garlemald still."

Saranqerel Qalli's hands curl a bit into fists. "I know I heard a Garlean warhorn out there. I /know/ it. It wasn't my imagination."

Dain Kotodama nodded once. "I don't doubt you heard the warhorn, only that it was a Garlean using it... We don't know what the thing we fought was, or, whom those men were."

"I heard it before!" There was a bit of bite in his tone before he looks down, resting his head in a hand. Of course he wouldn't be believed after that show in combat. That tail curled close, tangled about one of his ankles.

”Sari, the Imperial forces were pulled out of Doma. I believe it was the horn, not that it was a Garlean using it... a lot of the weapons left behind have gone missing or were never accounted for." The man finally came to sit down with Sari. "I believe in what you say."

"And we thought they were out of Ala Mhigo, too." Oh that bite was strong there.

Dain Kotodama closed his eyes. Sighing only softly. "Perhaps you're right. For right now we need to gather up what we know and move from there. And asides. You're distracting yourself now."

Saranqerel Qalli grumbles at that, pulling one leg up to hug. "...sorry." It was left at that. He knew he was being unreasonable but for once he couldn't still his tongue.

Dain Kotodama reached over, attempting to draw the small man into his chest. A firm hug. "Don't be sorry. You're scared. You want to stay busy... I know these things well."

Saranqerel Qalli at first bristled at the hug. Nu, he was mad that he wasn't being believed. Black blood (even it if was ink), magitek, that horn, it had to be Garleans. And no, he wasn't a scared child. Swallowing, he gently pushed back and out of the hug. "I still need to write those letters back to Headquarters. Thank you, brother. I'll take care of that gear after I change."

Dain Kotodama rose to his feet with a sign. The metallic hand gripping the handle of the blade, he would attempt to draw. Not to slash at Sari, but to slam the handle into the other man’s stomach. "I won't let you run away from this."

Saranqerel Qalli hadn't been expecting that at all, hoping to leave with /some/ grace. But that ruined that. A loud whoosh and gasp as air was knocked out of him, hands going to his stomach as his back hit that partition when he stumbled back. <W...what...> he gasped.

Dain Kotodama slid the blade back into place. The metal left arm reaching out to attempt to grip the others man’s throat. Not so hard as to choke, but too firmly for one hand to be able to remove it. <You want to fill your head with busy work and run from what's happened. Because it makes the pain stop. But not now! If you want to run get through me.>

Saranqerel Qalli's hands of course came up out of reflex, the sound of metal on metal. Panic was instant in his eyes, even if it wasn't a choking motion. That combined with the breath knocked outta him was quite a combo. <L-let go!> But he could hardly shout after all that.

Dain Kotodama held firm, but Sari's metal arm combined with his natural strength would be enough to move it away. Even as his eyes watered he wasn't trying to actively damage the other. <No! I won't let you fall! I know where you are, so too was I... buried in death and violence until the pain would stop. But not you! You're better than that, a better man than me! If you want to run then come through me. I will permit no less.>

Saranqerel Qalli thumped back gently against that wooden wall again. He was in flight mode, tail curled close, flicking near the floor. But he noted the other's expression as he watched for the next attack, posture relaxing the slightest. <...stop saying that.> The flesh hand rubbed his throat, more reflex. He didn't like his neck grabbed. <You keep putting yourself down, speaking of your death. You're an idiot for that.>

Dain Kotodama snorted, looking down and to the left. At least his hand relaxed on Sari's neck, finally drawing away. <I am war,> was stated simply enough before those red ringed eyes returned to Sari. Certainly tears fell, but they were the only indication of whatever emotion was felt. <You can't run from this, Sari. The longer you do the further you will fall.>

Saranqerel Qalli blinked and, Nhaama take him, his own tears threatened to start up again at the sight of the older male's. Forcing it back the best he could he stepped forward and hugged the taller man. <You are Dain, whatever the name may mean. My brother, one I thought perhaps there could be more than that at one point.> An embarrassing confession but it had to be said. <No matter our scales, our past, we don't have to fight til our last breath.>

Dain Kotodama snorted. Though he reached up to muss the smaller man’s hair. Only briefly imagining what Orson would have done to poor Sari... at least he knew Kotori liked him! <If it is true for me, it is true for you then. There is no gain in trying to stay busy when you are injured. More significantly than your burns, but a wound on your mind and spirit.>

Saranqerel Qalli hung onto the hug for a few more breaths, giving the other Xaela a squeeze before stepping back, looking to the ground. <....I need to write Headquarters still. If they do recommend me to rest, I'll be sure to stay here and help as much as possible.>

Dain Kotodama closed his eyes. As per usual nodding once in acknowledgement. <Then go write. I will be... here likely in meditation. May Nhaama go with you.>

Akuro Nakamori quietly entered the dojo, making her way to spot, where she took a seat and closed her eyes, meditating.

Saranqerel Qalli nodded. <Aye...sorry for being such a pain.> He bows low before going to leave.

Dain Kotodama snorted again! <It's what little brothers do. I should know, I was the little brother most of my life!>

<And a runt, too, apparently!> Finally a bit of a smile despite reddened cheeks from crying. When he sees Akuro just on the other side of the partition, he blushes.

Akuro Nakamori was meditating, and thus did not notice Sari right away.

Saranqerel Qalli scampers past to return to the clinic and hopefully find something to write with.

[thetirisfaltheatretroupe]

This Month in the TTT (February, 2018)

Hello, folks! Atos Sunart here! The Tirisfal Theatre Troupe had a great opening month, with two performances at the Midwinter Revelry event (which, by the way, was fantastic - I’ll be posting screenshots shortly) and appearances all month! February’s events are a bit more spread out, but we’ve got plenty of exciting things to share with you all! And, in anticipation of our new Shal’dorei and Highmountain allies, we’ll be having a recruitment event this month as well! If you or someone whom you know is interested in joining the Tirisfal Theatre, send them our way, or just tag them! We’d love to hear from anyone who wishes to join!

Without further delay, here’s what we have for February, 2018!

Improv Night at the Darkmoon Faire (February 5th, 8:00 PM server time following the ETC stage performance)

The Tirisfal Theatre prides itself on always trying to raise the bar on our larger events, but one thing we’ve lost in recent months is our willingness to do smaller events. A return to form, the Improv Night event will be taking place at the Darkmoon Faire upon the ETC stage down by the docks following their eight-o-clock performance, where we will play improv games to entertain the masses, and even call up audience participants! There will be laughs, music, and prizes, so you don’t want to miss out!

The Wooination: The Great Flirt-off of the Horde (February 7th, 7:30 PM server time, Court of the Sun, Silvermoon City)

Dust off that book of pick up lines you never used at the bar, and get ready to put it to use to earn you some gold! The Tirisfal Theatre will be putting forth some of Azeroth’s most dangerous and famous figureheads in a contest where you, the audience, lines up to flirt for a date with destiny! You’ll have one-and-a-half minute to try and win over the heart of some rather intimidating folks for a chance to win 10,000 gold! Best part, there’s no sign up needed! So stay for a round and see if the embarassment of being shot down is worth the (completely free) risk of standing in line for a bit and standing before the likes of, say, Jaina Proudmoore just to tell her how you think she’s a bombshell. Then proceed to be frozen solid for your hubris. The event begins at 7:30 PM server time on Wednesday, February 7th in the Court of the Sun!

Beautiful Beast (February 9th, 8:20 PM server time, Ruins of Lordaeron) (Encore on February 10th, 8:20 PM server time, Ruins of Lordaeron)

It’s a tale as old as time! An old Lordaeronean story brought to life upon the moonlit stage of the Ruins, come bear witness as a lonely and angry nobleman who is cursed to a lonely existence as a hideous brute finds love in a merchant’s daughter. When he realizes love cannot be won through cruelty and command, will he let her go and suffer the consequences of his actions? Or will he hold on to this canary in a cage?

If you can’t make the Friday opening night, catch the encore the night after!

Tirisfal Theatre Troupe Auditions (February 16th, 17th, and 18th, 7:30 PM server time to 10 PM)

Are you a motivated, reliable person with a creative streak that just won’t quit? Do you desire to reach above and beyond to create unique experiences for those around you? Do you dream of a life in the spotlight, with hundreds of men or women swooning over the very mention of your name?

If you answered yes to one or all of these things, the Tirisfal Theatre may be the right home for YOU! Priding ourselves on four plus years of performing original plays for the denizens of the realm of Wyrmrest Accord and beyond, we are a lighthearted, fun RP environment with a unique premise and history, centered entirely around the idea of being a performing arts and entertainment troupe!

Should you desire to be a part of this experience, simply send a message to this tumblr OR an in-game letter to Atos-Wyrmrest Accord that you are interested in joining, and simply select a date from the Audition dates that you are most likely to show up. You will be granted, upon us receiving your letter, a link to a few scripts that you may alter and pre-segment for your audition, and will have time to practice and add your own unique flair and timing to. Your goal is simply to WOW us, to make us know that you are right for the job.

Applications should meet the following requirements;

Be able to make most major events, which take place on Fridays and Saturdays (generally around 7:30-8:20 PM Wyrmrest Accord realm time)

Be flexible with your posting style. While we use endless chat in idle roleplay, we put an emphasis on spacing our posts more and dolling them up in our plays (Only putting actions in emotes, dialogue strictly in /s, parting lines so that you never have to use dashes to connect two separate posts - always end on a punctuation mark!)

Be creative! Put together a costume, a clever TRP profile, work some toys or spells into your show! Creativity and a willingness to do it shows us you are truly unique and will have a better chance at earning your spot! You play an elf? Roll an alt orc for an orc role and claim it’s a suit, kind of like we do with Joe.

Be on time! If you sign up for a night, and don’t show with no word given that you would be late or unable to make it at least a few hours in advance, the odds will be against you. We don’t ask for a lot, but we do like people to be on time. It saves Atos strands of his hair.

Reminder that you should contact Atos via mail should you desire to apply to us. We only recruit during brief periods, so if this is something you’ve been wanting for some time, we recommend jumping on that application train and sending us your in-game name and IC name and getting right on it! And that is all the events we have thus far! Keep your eyes peeled for more, though, and we hope you have a lovely February!