February 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 either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content). FOR CHARACTER ADS: ➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL 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 section, where you post your character's 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. ➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences. ➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR. ➤ 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 frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game. 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 frozen or 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. dedoralive - A more detailed listing of DWRP Games. 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 PSL Offerings Find a Castmate Find Crosscanon 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). For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required): <b>[game]:</b> <b>[who I play]:</b> Character / Fandom (Who you play in the game you're advertising for) <b>[wanted]:</b> Character / Fandom (if it's a specific character. You may list more than one character if you have a few specific ones in mind character types you'd like to see.) <b>[why]:</b> (Maybe explain the dynamics you're interested in and how you think the characters would mesh interestingly. Explain what they have in common or how they might clash if you're looking for something more negative.) <b>[game info]:</b> (You can list some info about the game itself and why it'd be a good place to app to). ➤ Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases.

Comments

[youandher]

Hello!

As someone who absolutely adores Monika, I've actually been vaguely interested in a potential thread with Miyuki over here with her, as their circumstances are very similar without me going into heavy spoiler territory, and I think that it might be interesting to have the two of them deal with each other in one of their worlds, as it could lead to some interesting psychological horror.

I do have some ideas/concepts, but they do go into spoilers for Totono, so let me know first if that's cool or not with you before I dive any further.

[peninhand]

Hello-o! Yes, I'd be happy to try and see if we can plot something! Psychological horror is always the best kind of horror, more so with kindred spirits.

I'm not familiar with the character, but I don't mind spoilers at all. I have too many things I need to read, watch and play so I doubt her canon is something I'll ever discover on my own. So it goes without saying, feel free to spoil away!

[youandher]

That is absolutely fair!

Anyway, Miyuki is from a spoilers (highlight to read) visual novel series where she becomes self-aware that not only is she from a visual novel, but that due to the player's actions, they made a choice that essentially cursed her to only be able to fall in love with the protagonist after the game was 'patched' so to speak. Basically, there's a cell phone that one of the other characters owns that connects to the god of the world - specifically, the "visual novel god" that, when someone inputs things in and goes to the 'center of the world', it becomes the new reality.

She finds out later on - after the protagonist essentially betrays her and tries to use the phone that patched the game in the first place to recode the game to her own personal liking. But she's a complete newbie at coding so things wind up being 'imperfect', in a lot of ways.

So basically playing with elements of like, the whole existential-ness of that and like maybe the idea of one of them showing up in the other character's world is some sort of weird "bug" that causes a lot of errors/glitches to happen in the game that could potentially mess with them? What do you think?

[peninhand]

Oh, it does sound like they got a lot in common. The only major difference is that Monika is fiddling with the code of the game itself against the will of the game, whilst Miyuki uses a built-in game editor that is part of the intended lore, at least that's what I think it sounds like?

Did Dan Salvato rip off another game? As if Monika didn't have enough reasons to hate her creator as is.

But yes! Actually from one sentient visual novel character to another, I think there may be something they share: the void. The "flashing colors" and "screeching noises" void that Monika finds herself whenever the game is turned off. I feel that could basically be what the bugs end up leading in and that's how they can end up in the other's world. Kind of like a, er, wormhole?

[youandher]

Sorry for the delay in my response, I wound up not feeling so well in the last couple of days. But yes, that's essentially correct!

And yeah that definitely works 100%, especially considering that there are mentions in Miyuki's game of something similar - not to mention that the few seconds when you are closing the game is a spot that even the normal characters who have access to the code can easily see in her world.

[peninhand]

No worries at all! RL always takes precedence over RP!

Well then it does sound to me like we have a way for them to meet! The question is, do they meet in Miyuki's or Monika's world? And oh, feel free to add me on plurk if it's more convenient to plot for you!

[youandher]

Sorry for the delayed response again on my end.

And perhaps Monika's world, since it's something that's more familiar for the both of us? And will do, actually - I tend to reply faster on plurk versus on Dreamwidth; I'm tsundereban so expect an add from there!