MEME ∞ INTRO & CR — June 2025

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Meme ∞ Intro & CR

June 2025

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Welcome!

It's time to introduce yourselves! Use the form below to get out there and start plotting. New and old players alike are encouraged to post to the Intro & CR.

A mingle log will be posted on June 8.
While we won't be doing intro/mingle logs every application round, we'll have one for the first two rounds (June and August) to help everyone get settled! You can also check out the Bulletin for information on weather, broadcasts, and incidents.

Notes

• Characters can arrive in-game on any date throughout the month of the TDM. This means characters do not have to, and typically will not, arrive all at once. Arrivals will be scattered and more difficult to predict. Use this to stagger CR, give characters a couple weeks without seeing each other, or whatever you feel makes it interesting!
• Since base AC is low, players need to make AC for their first month. TDM threads continued into the month are perfectly acceptable as long as the comments submitted take place in the current month.

Updates

• We've made some updates to the Invites page to reflect the game's current player cap status and added a player cap count to the Taken page. Our player cap is formally 70 players. The FAQ has also been updated to reflect these changes.
• A reminder that the 2 characters per round allocation was for the first round only. Moving forward, all players, current and new, can only apply for one character per app round. (You may still have a total of 2 characters.)

∞ Intro & CR Form ∞

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Comments

[exoterminator]

if Lucina asks, yes. if not she's That Mysterious Chameleon Eating woman

[exoterminator]

POINTS AT EYES, POINTS AT YOU

what if she just keeps feeding him new things

[catharses]

PLEASE COURT WE GOTTA, sunday being the least helpful person to go camping with just to add to fern's state of Being Tired Of Him would bring me so much delight

in the meantime he WILL keep pestering her both intentionally and not, which i'm sure she will absolutely love (i'm sorry fern)

[virtuose]

Hello hello! Both Francois and Esquie can be right at the same time.

I don't know much about Jack, but I'm absolutely down for this. Would be good to have someone she can share the burden with.

[exoterminator]

PLEASE DO!! I have 4 right now but I'm shuffling fish & inverts around as they grow out and want to breakdown the smaller tanks (1.5 gallon plants & snails, 2 gallon tiny betta and shrimp) and merge them eventually into a 14 gallon. I've been so pleased with the sparkling gourami in a 10 gallon, they're so cute when the croak. 😭 The worst is my tap water is really hard so I feel like I can never do just a pure rock-scape, wood has to be in there to help soften things up. TANINS ETERNAL.

She's going to use him like an armrest immediately

[exoterminator]

yeah! Samus gets the impression Fern is competent just not in motorbikes. Kind of wants to take her in under her wing and then let her free, like a stray... dog...

[littlemushroom]

honestly that would be very excellent. getting to eat new things was one of the things he was looking forward to most at his canon point.

perhaps someday he could make her potato soup (the friendship reward)

[virtuose]

Welcome to pain the fold! I'm glad to hear Gustave and Sciel made you interested in the game. Kira and Kal have been doing wonderfully with them.

And new friends she will accept! Slowly, but eventually. We can definitely hit each other up on the mingle.

[exoterminator]

fighting for a better future is such a central motivator for her so I think they will definitely get along great

time travel not so much WHAT'S THAT LIKE

[kitetsu]

at least he'll get plenty of tips, being a waiter and all c:

[virtuose]

She's going to need it Modern Life Skills. The age of Belle Epoque is strong in her. Take her under your wing, Cable.

Parcel | Agent 8 (Splatoon)

[flyoctofly]

Player

Name: Parcel
Pronouns: She/Her
Contact: Caligraphunky / Caligraphunky @ Discord
About: Hi I plurk about whatever pops into my head at any given moment and if you add me you'll just have to make your peace with that. I love video games and music and animation especially and I am always sharing links to cool stuff I find. I know almost none of you but that has never stopped me even one time.


Character

Name: Agent 8 (or just Eight)
Canon: Splatoon
Age: 19 but he's 5 foot nil and so if you mistake him for a little kid that is understandable
Links: WIP Info page!

About:
"Pale summer moonlight shimmers on the seafloor.
An octopus, unaware that dawn will bring capture,
Rests within a trap, dreaming fleeting dreams..."

Eight is a quiet, low key, deeply shy but very extroverted person who's even demeanor belies his almost single-minded sense of determination. Seriously, once the boy gets a task/mission in his head he will not rest until he's completed it. The only caveat there is that he often needs some kind of leader to really set him on A Path, he's not super good at taking initiative by himself.

Eight also likes poetry and sports and especially fashion and especially especially shoes. If his tiny apartment back home had the closet space he'd have just so many sneakers.

Agent 8 is an uplifted octopus who was born into a society at war with squids (it's unclear if the squids even noticed). He started training for the army at 6 years old and probably would have been a loyal soldier if a lone agent hadn't whooped the head of the Octarian army with a magical song and a glorified squirt gun. Witnessing this made Agent 8 have a change of heart and he left to see if he could find his place under the sun rather than in a dingy underground hovel.

Then an evil AI caught him, stripped him of his memories, and forced him through a subway system full of grueling challenges and his reward was to be blended into a slurry! Turns out he was the ten thousand and eighth Octoling this happened to! Whoops! After escaping from the skin of his teeth (and sans memory) he spent his time living a very normal life with sports and snacks and collecting sneakers. After five years of that, his super smart friend calls him and tells him that she's figured out a way to restore his memory and also hopefully the memories of however many Octolings are left alive in the subway. Then he ended up here before he could complete the mission that would have saved everyone. He's...not thrilled.

Wanted CR:

-FRIENDS. Eight's entire life has been about Getting By With A Little Help From His Friends. The one time he tried to do things alone he ended up getting attacked by the world's strongest squid AND an evil AI at the same time. He needs people and he's not ashamed of it either.

-Mentors. Eight's a soldier, and a strong one, but he is not a leader. He's much more comfortable following someone else's lead, and he knows it. There's a lot of strong personalities around here.

-~Fashion~ The society he escaped to is ALL ABOUT clothes and looking good and Staying Fresh and Eight has jumped in with both feet. Someone here has to care about the latest trends as much as he does right?

-Misc ideas: Well, he's from Earth 12000 years in the future after mankind drove themselves to extinction, someone's gotta feel some kind of way about that. He's also big into sports, but uh, he only knows sports where you shoot your body fluids at the other team so someone should teach him about basketball at least. I am also down with any negative CR you throw at me, though Eight doesn't enjoy making enemies.

Plots/Plans: OK SO Eight got it in his head that there may be a way to send a message to his super smart friend and she can help him get home. He is going to do everything in his power to make that happen (shhhhh don't tell him it's not possible) and of course if he finds anything he'll share with the class.

Beyond that I'm pretty flexible! Let's just try shit and see what works!

Limits: Nothing comes to mind

Free Space: Allow Eight's bestie, Pearl, to serenade you with a voice kissed by the angels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2HomITeoaw

[chuju]

That gif!! Definitely one of my favorite scenes. But I could say that about so many Amos scenes, tbh.

How do you feel about our TDM thread? Should we keep it or go for something else as their first meeting? I'm game for either option!

Some thoughts for these two:
- Daisy volunteers as tribute to be a texting buddy! She's a millennial who's kind of extremely addicted to her phone, and she is going to have some serious withdrawal going from her super high-tech smartphone to these old school bricks.
- Once they get to know each other a bit, she might offer him a part-time gig as a bodyguard? She's going to do some occasional cage fighting at the Dome, and while she can definitely take care of herself, she's not convinced someone might try to jump her and take her winnings after a match.
- She could also use some tips on keeping her crappy van running, since she's planning on making frequent scavenging trips out into the diffusion zones where there aren't many mechanics around.

[littlemushroom]

j'accuse i mean happy to be here 8'] I wanted to hit up maelle as well, but we can definitely get that going in mingle-time instead!

An Zhe is very good at patiently existing in people's orbits until they decide they like him (or not), so they can take many tiny steps.

[virtuose]

Hello, nice to meet you, Freya. Terra's said good things about you.

Honestly, I was thinking of hitting G'raha up too. Maelle's met the rest of the FFXIV crew, and we absolutely have to collect them all. I don't know much about the critically-acclaimed MMORPG FFXIV though, but I'd love to play with you and the rest to learn more about it. Maybe they can exchange some notes on magic too, considering she has some ability in it when she summons her weapon.

[fuckinabucket]

Hello fellow science person

Would you like to build a snowman-- I mean, a lab? Would you like to build a laboratory? And do all the questionable science things?

[exoterminator]

AMBI!! I need Samus and Robin!! she's vigilante, investigative, stubborn, techy; I think they should be friends and go look for supplies in the diffusion zones

[virtuose]

Yeah, that sounds like a plan. I'll definitely be in the lookout for An Zhe as I'm not sure if I'll be making a top-level just yet. Mind if I add you on plurk, so I don't miss it?

[exoterminator]

Alucard... would you like to learn how to tame a metal horse...

[fuckinabucket]

Sally sure does hit some of those Wanted CR notes thar friend <3

Smiling and polite and a bit murder-y inside. This girl walks into a bar and barks "Whose a girl got to kill for a sandwich around here?" and you think she's being cute and charming, hahaha, but she has killed six people before breakfast. Needs must, and all that!

More 'morally grey' than a bad person, but she'd love someone to get into trouble with. She IS a scientist though! Pharmaceutical Chemist, for to make the drugs.

[mechatheism]

WAIT I DIDNT KNOW HE HAS MEMORY SHARE STUFF

what are you hiding from him little mushroom

[exoterminator]

builds a baby seat in her bike just for him

[littlemushroom]

Of course! Absolutely feel free to. I've got a long weekend this weekend so I'll definitely be trying to throw some words up there.

[virtuose]

Cool, sounds great! I'm riyuji on there. We can definitely plot on there once we get prompts for the mingle.

[mechatheism]

he could also just stalk the outside of the motel room like a weird gargoyle