June EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

ENABLEMEPLZ meme goes up on the Second Saturday of every month FOR GAME ADS: ➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / kink 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 fonts and other html that make ads super long, 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 canon 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. ➤ There is a "Pairings You Want to Play" section, where you can ask for castmates or crosscanon you'd like to ship with. Please format this with "[YOUR CANON] seeking [CASTMATE/OTHER CANON (if crosscanon)/SEE DESCRIPTION (if a general character type)]. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Pairings You Want to Play" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. Alongside castmates and crosscanon, you can choose to ask for OCs or general character types as well. Try not to get too wordy and please don't outline entire scenarios. ➤ 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. ➤ All mod responses regardless of whether they're rule breaks, correction requests (like someone posting in the wrong section), or thwapping someone for spamming copy-paste ads, have always been and will almost universally be public. If someone sends a PM and the conversation gets combative, this will also be made public and posted to the comments of the mod contact page. This is for the sake of transparency so people can judge the emp mod's communications for fairness themselves. There are times where the player's post may be screened (such as if they posted to the wrong section) but the mod's response will be left unscreened. ➤ Players may sometimes be allowed more than one strike for copy-paste ads since this is often just enthusiasm behind it, but game mods should know better. They'll get one warning for copy-paste ads, and if they spam anymore copy-paste ads after the warning, they'll be banned from the meme. ➤ The meme is for fiction-based RP only (with the only exception being involvement of fictionalized historical figures or historical settings.) Celeb or RPF RP advertising, whether for games or players, is not allowed. MOD CONTACT: If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please! RESOURCES: enablemeplz - The plurk for Enable Me Plz. Follow for monthly, replurkable EMP reminders dwrpmasterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. pslfinder - an alternate psl meme that runs every 2 weeks between emp memes GAME/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 Pairings You Want to Play Latest Page Textboxes

PSL Ads (Optional): <b>[Offering]:</b> <B>[Looking For]:</b> (Alongside specific characters, feel free to note if you want general character types or tropes). <b>[preferences]:</b>	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>
Find a Castmate (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).	Find Crosscanon (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).
Pairings you want to play (Required): <b>[Where]:</b> State a game name or note "psl" <b>[who I play]:</b> Character / Fandom <b>[wanted]:</b> Character / Fandom | OC | or talk about a general character type <b>[why]:</b> (Here is where you can talk about their dynamic as castmates. If crosscanon, maybe explain the dynamics you're interested in and how you think the characters would mesh interestingly.) <b>[game/psl info]:</b> (If you have a set game or psl setting, you can provide some info about it. Or note you're open to something new.)

➤ 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

[hermeneutics]

offering 💫

forfeiter - light yagami (death note)
urvan - ike (fire emblem: path of radiance and radiant dawn)
elanprime - elan ceres (mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury)
torihiki - akira kurusu (persona 5 royal)

general preferences 💫

- i intend to apply to a single game with a single character because that's all i have time for, but i'll try out as many tdms as strike my fancy!
- open to psls with ike and other characters from tellius or elyos; light with other death note characters; and elan with other elans (do you play an elan? join our cult)
- regarding the note about psls above: i'm game to write pretty much anybody from the death note cast and feel confident in my ability to swing several from the tellius series with a bit of canon review (in particular and in descending order of preference: ranulf, soren, mist, shinon, and elincia, but honestly shoot your shot because i adore everybody from this saga...)
- no mandatory smut AC though ftb is fine; open to memloss and AU games on a case-by-case basis
- very curious to try a short-term game so long as it's happening sometime between mid-june and mid-august
- thanks for reading!! ❤️

character-specific preferences 💫

📓 for light • i'd like to take him from an early post-timeskip canon point, as that's a flavor i haven't had much chance to explore. this would put him in his early twenties. he'd do best in a small-to-medium-sized game that's on the slower side just because of the sheer amount of shit that writing him requires me to know. i'm particularly keen on putting him in a faction game of any stripe -- sci-fi, fantasy, military, whatever genre so long as it isn't slice-of-life; i'm pretty burnt out on psychological/actual horror but am open to making an exception if i like the premise.
❗️ potential angle: at this point in his canon, he's nothing beyond his masks (kira, L, light-the-graduate-student, light-the-task-force-leader, etc.). for this reason, i think it would be very rewarding to put him in a situation where he's compelled to assume L's identity entirely or to reconcile with the fact that he's become an empty shell. ("but you said no psychological horror" shh...)

⚔️ for ike • i'd take him either from the end of path of radiance (17) or the end of radiant dawn (20), with a slight preference for the latter just because it's easy to accommodate in a jamjar setting (iykyk 🤪). a game of any size is fine; all genres, too, with the exception of slice-of-life because it might drive him a little bonkers. that said, i will consider literally any game if it features one or more characters from his canons, provided it doesn't have mandatory smut AC.
❗️ potential angle: i'm very interested in him coming to grips with the past that was essentially denied to him, as it's arguably in virtue of that denial that he was able to become the person he is... (a bit like soren's situation, come to think of it, lol.) and while these aren't strictly speaking "canon" as far as the recollections books go, i really like his "bittersweet" endings -- ones where he never learns the truth of his own history and as a consequence never has that pivotal heart-to-heart conversation with soren, etc., but does find meaning elsewhere (like in his travels with ranulf). ← ikesorenranulf is my ot3, btw, in case anybody is interested in psling that...

💸 for elan • he's tricky because he's a matt-from-death-note-type character -- that is, he has limited screen time; he pretty much only matters because of his relationships to other, more important characters; and most of his personality/backstory is headcanon. i'm not sure that many games would accept him, but i think hardly anyone plays from gwitch, so? maybe it's not that much of an issue... ? lol. my kingdom for any game in which he can apply with his clones that upsets the basic power relations between them. any size is fine. i have a slight preference for faction and/or sci-fi games here, or ones that lean into psychological horror.
❗️ potential angle: i'll be real, he's most interesting as a package deal with his clones, and what that package deal looks like will depend upon the game, so -- i've got nothing at the moment. if you'd like his character type around your game and have a pitch, though, do let me know!

🃏 for akira • another tricky one in that much of his voice is up to the discretion of the particular player; he's a half-blank protagonist. i don't rely on any canon beyond royal to play him, so his voice and personality are truly my own (within the limitations that the game provides). i'd take him either from the bad end to the original game where he agrees to the false god's pact or from the "true" ending to royal. any game of any size is fine; it's really just a function of seeing how he jives with the setting and existing roster, give or take any castmates. i prefer slice-of-life and similar for him.
❗️ potential angle: i am extremely interested in seeing how he might develop from having a very contractural view of intimacy to a more genuine/vulnerable/equal one. for this reason, he could be pretty interesting in a game that explicitly features a lot of contractural elements (ex., partnerships, deals, exchanges). will he buy into them? subvert them? make them his own? break away from them entirely? really depends upon the relationships he forms and the extent to which he comes to learn that people can love him regardless of what he's able to do for them.

[skeletonkeay]

Hi, I would absolutely LOVE to see Light in pumpkinhollow

I'm actually the lead writer and would LOVE to play out his relationship with the local death deity, and I would love to see him sink his teeth into the plot's mystery elements and supernatural political drama. I have a HUGE soft spot for Death Note and I'd be so jazzed to have you!

Admittedly psych horror elements do play a role but it's a horror-comedy game with a heavy focus on the mystery, so I like to think that interpersonal drama, exploration, mystery-solving, slice of life, and spooky-flavored gaffs allow players to space out just how much psych horror they're up against to prevent burnout. I'd be delighted if you'd check out our TDM!

[forfeiter]

a local death deity, you say?? 👀 anyway, thank you for scoping me out! it's nice to run into people who are still fond of this series, hehe.

i've read through several of ph's pages, but would you happen to have one that runs through the development of the game's lore/plot since its inception? (i might have missed it; my bad if so!) also, i noticed your TDM threads are all prose-style -- is it possible to write in brackets, too, or is prose a hard norm? (i do both, ftr, but default to brackets atp.) thanks in advance for answering my questions!

[skeletonkeay]

Most folks write in prose just kinda by default but no one minds if you write in brackets! Also we do have a google doc that runs through all the lore here! I didn't realize it wasn't on the nav, easy fix tho!

[torihiki]

sorry i'm not even logged into the right account rn but i need to tell you i SALIVATE at these kinds of documents, omg... usually when i play light in games i have to sit my ass down and spend like 2 - 3 days doing the "alright, what would he know and how would he reason" dance while combing through 395769704898 network posts so thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this for players with information-obsessed characters

[skeletonkeay]

Dude it makes everyone's lives SO much easier. It makes it so new players have a crash course already prepped, players with investigative characters have an easy reference, and the color coding makes it easy for people to decide how much their character knows, all without the mods having to field 800 questions a day. And it's super easy to edit due to being a google doc! Since it's a mystery, we do love our nosy characters lol!

Hope we see you soon!

[el5n]

👀👀👀👀👀👀

BOY HOWDY DO I HAVE AN OFFER FOR YOU, the question is uh, how do you feel about. Monster TF horror games.

Sounds like you've already got a squad of clones lined up, but I feel I'd be remiss if Id didn't let you know I've got Fivelan over at Karteria where he's having a terribad time dealing with uhhh... MANY different flavors of horror. I've also got a friend who's planning on test driving and hopefully apping El4n next round. And we would both be EXTREMELY down with playing with the power dynamics between all three.

I'm also lone-wolfing Five over at Labyrinthum where he's having a slightly less bad time, but I would also love for Prime to show up there and blow up his spot, lol.

[elanprime]

HELLO?? never in a million years could i have imagined the package deal would come to ME??

i actually have a friend playing at karteria right now 👀 from a quick skim of the game pages, i'm not sure that the premise/mechanics are for me, even if i am SORELY TEMPTED by the presence of not one but two of e1an's clones... when is the test drive? maybe i'll tag into your top levels there or throw one up myself anyway and see how it goes (in any case, you're both very welcome to get in contact with me for psl shenans; feel free to pm me for my discord username if that's easier)

re: laby, i'm actually planning on putting ike on their TDM next month! so i'll see you there regardless hehe

[el5n]

Assuming the game calendar is up to date, the next TDM is in a few weeks on July 4th! TOTALLY ok if the mechanics/setting aren't really your vibe, I would absolutely love even just to test drive briefly :3 if it winds up clicking for you then, awesome! If not, I'm pretty sure the game actually has mechanics built in to make TDMs canon...? Like, even if the test driven character winds up not apping. So you could still throw him at a top-level and have a very fun impact on the clones. I'm usually allergic to top-leveling but I will absolutely make an effort for this!!!

I'm also totally down for PSLs and I'm p. sure my friend who plays 4 would be too. I'm a bit busy until next tuesday-ish, which I mention only because I might not be as like. present, brain wise, to plot/discuss stuff right away? But my discord is robotkibble and my plurk is awkwardpossum if you wanna hit me up in either place :3b

And, YES, EXCELLENT, I will keep an eye out for you at Laby too! I'm not FE canon familiar but I have a lot of friends who are who're like "yes, Ike, good taste" LOL.

[elanprime]

ooh okay! that overlaps a bit with laby's but i've got a whole lot of nothing going on for a while so i'll do my best 💪 great to hear that whatever we end up threading could count as game canon for you and your friend regardless!

i'll add you on discord shortly 😌 and not that i'm biased or anything but ike is truly the best fire emblem """"lord"""" (he is not a lord. he hates that life)