May EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

ENABLEMEPLZ meme goes up on the last Saturday of every month FOR GAME ADS: ➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed. ➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad. FOR GAME QUESTIONS: ➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme. ➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be screened and/or deleted. FOR CHARACTER ADS: ➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL/1-on-1 ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join. ➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL/1-on-1 section, where you post the canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form. ➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above. ➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be screened. IN GENERAL: ➤ Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be screened. MOD CONTACT: If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please! RESOURCES: enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. DWRP Game Directory Spreadsheet - A more detailed spreadsheet of DWRP Games that anyone can edit. AD LINKS: General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link - New Games - Small Games - Medium/Large Games - Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc. - Game Questions - Game Start Discussions/Questions 1-on-1 PSL Offerings Find a Castmate Latest Page Textbox for Character Ads (Optional): <b>[character offered]:</b> <B>[fandom]:</b> <B>[rp you're offering for / rp type you'd wanna play in]:</b> <b>[preferences]:</b> Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required): <b>[game]:</b> <B>[fandom]:</b> <B>[game's current cast]:</b> (Please list this in sentence form with commas. Ex: "Bucky, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor.") <b>[who I play]:</b> (Who you play in the game you're advertising for) <b>[wanted]:</b> (Who you'd like to see) <b>[game info]:</b> (You can list some info about the game or what's been going on for the cast you're trying to lure people into).

Comments

[beeboy]

OFFERING: Hugh Apiston (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
ABOUT: An oddball child (about 12) full of sunshine and literal bees. From an obscure, quirky little series that is a mix of fantasy, historical, colourful, and dark. More information here!
PREFERENCES:

🐝 Child-friendly, obv! I would love somewhere with other kid muses around, too.
🐝 No total power nerfing. I'd like somewhere Hugh's bees can come with him, since they're an important part of his character.
🐝 Open to both SOL and plot driven games.
🐝 Horror type things are also fine, as he could suit that pretty well. I'm basically open to checking out anything (except for sex games)!

Other: I already have a muse at Deerington, so I'm familiar with that game. I think he'd fit in pretty well there too, but I wanted to check out other options. I'm also very open for psls with him, as well as sandbox/musebox things!

[teamfun]

Oh my god a Hugh. I love the Miss Peregrines series so props to you already. Might i suggest entranceway ? It's set in Wonderland with game events based on the memories of characters living there so it has a good mix of SOL and plot. You also have the option of making a mirror version of your character beyond the looking glass, so that's a thing. His bees should be fine, no power nerfing here. There's also plenty of kids from all kinds of bizzare canons so he'd be in good company.
The FAQ is here and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

[beeboy]

Oh man, I'm really glad someone's familiar! It's such a fun, whacky little series, and this kind of thing sounds like it would suit him really well.

Thank you for the information! I'll definitely be reading all the info, and will hit you up if there are any questions :)

[teamfun]

Yes indeed, it's such a good series! And yes, Eway really suits the bizzareness of Hugh's canon.

You're welcome! Happy game hunting.

[boo_berry]

Boomtown? He would need a guardian but plots run the map from silly to action. Several have magic so powers should be fine (I play a post war Luna from HP) too.

[beeboy]

Ohh this looks really interesting.... I'm reading up on everything now, and I think it's definitely a great contender for him. Thank you recommending it my way!

[postictal]

drapes over u

HELLO this is zero from deerington and i'm here to tell you about lifeaftr. we have a TON of kid characters and we love obscure muses and i want ur bee boy. since it is a survival/exploration-fueled game, there would be some nerfing, depending on what his bees are capable of, but he wouldn't have to lose them if you don't want them to!

LifeAftr is plot-driven, with an emphasis on interaction with the plot, but your character can also roll with the punches if that's more your speed! we have more or less monthly events paired with explorations of new islands, and characters often vote on what kind of destination they want to see next.

AC is also super light! it's all automated, so you don't have to do any comment counting or math or anything like that. you can participate in non-compulsory monthly ac if you want to trade that stuff in for items and the like, but it's completely optional!

we've got an active tdm right over here! apps are open until June 1st - usually they'd be May 31st, but we opened them a little late, so we extended them a tad. let me know if you have any questions!

[agereversal]

YEAH COME TO LIFEAFTR we like bees

[beeboy]

I am VERY PLEASED to know that this is a bee-welcomed environment!

[reflash]

still me and I just want you to know that the current new island we're exploring has a god of celebration who is literally just a swarm of bees so like... the place is buzzing

[beeboy]

Oh my god

That is literally the best thing I have ever heard..... This child would bee very thrilled

[beeboy]

!!! holds; feeds you snacks

Hello! Ahhh this looks like a ton of fun, and it seems like it would definitely suit an odd bee child really well.... And as far as his bees, they don't have special powers or anything! He can control them mentally, but that could even be nerfed down if needed. Basically they're just kind of there.... buzzing.

Thank you for all the information! I'll absolutely hit you up if there's anything :)

[beeboy]

AND A QUESTION FOR YOU, MY LIEGE.

I won't be able to make it to apping this child somewhere immediately, but I'm definitely considering LifeAftr next round! I just wanted to make sure he wouldn't be in danger of breaking any rules beforehand, since, after reading through the FAQ, I wondered if a couple of things might not work for him. (And I can ask this question on the official FAQ if you'd rather answer there!)

As far as his bees, they have distinct "personas" -- though nothing that is enough to warrant being an appable character. Canonically, they pretty much just have names and the semblance of personalities? (Some are just described as being "stubborn" or "shy", etc). I just want to make sure that wouldn't make them count as "companions" here, in which case, he'd only be allowed to bring two along.

He's... kind of an odd case, because his "power" is made up of a swarm of sentient things. Hive-minded, for the most part, connected to Hugh -- but they do still do their own things from time to time. Would it be against the rules if they were to gently interact with other characters in-game, sometimes? It's all very vague, nothing like each bee being able to have their own CR or anything like that. It'd just be "the bolder ones don't mind settling on people's shoulders" and things like that.

I feel like it could seem like he crosses the border between "power", "companion", and "sharing a body with another entity" gjaokg why did I choose such a complicated character

The way I see it and would plan to work it out is that the bees would be in the "power" category, but I just thought I should explain more and make sure Hugh would be workable here! Thank you for your time!

[postictal]

I DID ACTUALLY CHECK WITH THE REST OF THE TEAM ON THIS since i mod at this game too waves hello

companion characters are like...pokemon, pets, that sort of thing. we've never had anyone app in an entire swarm of bees before SO THIS IS NEW TERRITORY FOR ME TOO.

i guess the main question would be "how sentient are the bees" lmao because the way i think we'd nerf a power that amounts to a swarm of bees is like...a certain radius, or degree of intricacy in what they can do away from him for a certain amount of time. basically, since it's an exploration game, we'd want to make sure that one character could not simply Release Their Bees and then have them explore everything and report back - that kind of thing. generally, bees just hovering about and settling on people's shoulders and the like, i think that's pretty much fine?

i hope this makes sense? this is conjecture rn so i will check with my fellow mod hivemates and get back to you if any of this information is inaccurate!

[beeboy]

Apologies for the late reply, I've been out of town! Canonically, they usually stick pretty close to him; most of them stay inside him with a few just kind of... consistently circling his head. But as for their potential... I'd say that his bees ordinarily would be able to go the typical radius of honeybees from their hive -- which would be about two miles from him. In canon, he does use them to get information about the environment, but that all of that could easily be nerfed down to however the mod team feels would be best!

I could have it that his mental connection with them is nerfed down to be extremely weak, so that he's only able to stay connected with them when they're very close to their "hive". I'm definitely open to whatever radius you guys think is fair. It could even be that they can't be out of his line of vision? That would make the whole package of kid + bees seem more like one entity, and not like they're little drones who can fly off on their own to mess with things. And that way, they wouldn't be able to gather any extra information at all, apart from what Hugh himself is able to see; they'd all have to stay pretty much in the same space.

[postictal]

i mean as long as you're willing to work with us, that's the most important thing, and you definitely are! honestly, that would be pretty on point for how we'd nerf a character like that, just making sure they kinda gotta stick close to him, or limiting how far they can go or how many times they can start nosing around outside the radius per day?

sorry about the lateness of this reply but on the plus side, our tdm is coming up soon if you wanna try poking around on the setting!

[beeboy]

No worries at all, I'm always running a little late sobs... but I will definitely hit it up, thank you! And for SURE I'm willing to work with whatever Mod Team envisions as best, so if I do end up apping to y'all's lovely game in the near future, I'd certainly be open for suggestions / revisions / etc. as needed. :)

I'm honestly thinking it would be best all around if they could only stay very close to him and couldn't get outside of the radius? That way they don't really feel like a "power" so much as just... a part of him.

[postictal]

yeahh i feel that lmao. honestly if you're willing to be flexible thats the most important thing, and i...can't see why we couldn't make it work? the bees are important to the boy, the bees ought to remain with the boy, and we can figure out the hows and whys as we need to!

AND now that it's up - if you wanna get a feel for the setting, a link to our latest test drive meme! there aren't really any nerfs present for tdms, but if you wanted to test out what feels most "natural" in terms of nerfing, it's a good place to do it!

[catted]

If you'd consider looking into an AU/mem-loss game (he could have regained his bees prior to his entering the game, even), how about saveourearth?

The canon characters have been reincarnated into the setting in modern day England and the reincarnations now need to figure out what is going on with all the odd things that are happening in their formerly mundane lives all of a sudden. We have children already, it's definitely kid-friendly, and located somewhere between SoL and plot driven I'd say.

...really I'm mostly stopping by because I'm also the player of stormfinder and greatly enjoyed our thread, and play one of the people from Colin's backstory in saveourearth, this lady here. But the game does fit all the prefs you mentioned - it's not horror, but it is also to a good degree what players make of it genre-wise because of the regain system.

[beeboy]

Hey again! I'm not opposed to AU/mem-loss, so I'll definitely be reading up on everything! I love the idea of reincarnations, so it already sounds like it'd be a lot of fun.

Oh man, I'm enjoying our thread a ton, and it's actually been extremely helpful for me in testing out this weird kid's voice.. and his buzziness. Thank you for sending the recommendation my way, too :)