APRIL INTRO/PLOTTING POST!

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Hello everyone, and welcome to our new players! This is our second Route 666 OOC Intro and Mingle post! We're also using this as our April Plotting Post!


APRIL EVENT

ACROSS THE THORN SCRUB

Hello Drifters and welcome to April’s plotting post! We’re taking a break from TDM and Apps this month to focus on a story event and unique location: the thorn brush wastelands, and the strange Tower that stretches towards the sky and takes up the scenery.

First off, we have unique properties from the Tower. As long as it is visible (and it will be visible all month) any wounds a Drifter takes will trigger transformations and trait activation! Drifters can either select from their own pre-selected traits, or they can choose from two event monsters with Chimera and Unicorn! Notably, Chimera monsters will have be able to incorporate these new changes, while Unicorns will be able to heal wounds and staunch any transformations.

The terrain is also going to be causing plenty of bleeding hazards, in the form of thorns, razor brush, and plenty of angry (and twisted) wildlife. Early in the month, there will also be an attack on the Convoy, in the form of cyborg hunters and raiders who are determined to cause death and damages... But who will also be carrying a smorgasbord of electronics, guns, and bullets to loot.

We’ll also be dealing with Moon Warps changing the scenery and making it chaotic, and eventually bringing the Tower down at the end of the month!

And that is our route planned for the month! We hope you enjoy this event, and feel free to plan in the comments below!

PLAYER MINGLE
Also, players can feel free to introduce yourself or plot with this handy box, if you would like!

<u>INFO!</u> <b>Player Name:</b> Alias you’d like to go by! <b>Contact:</b> If you want! Please note if you would like people to add! You can delete this section. <u>RP STUFF!</u> <b>Character Name:</b> Your character name! <b>Canon:</b> Their canon! <b>Character Info:</b> A quick blurb on them! <b>Monster Plans:</b> You can list your monster here. You also get six traits to start with from a monster type! If you’ve got ideas for which ones you want, you may list them here! <b>Event Plans:</b> Got any ideas for the upcoming event? Post them here! <b>Extra:</b>Other RP plans you have! Car shenanigans, character stuff, gifs, etc!

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Apophis | IM: Great Priest Imhotep (New!)

[forsakensun]

INFO!
Player Name: Picaro
Contact: PM, comment here or ironykills (pls only add if you actually want CR, being stashed in your pokebox makes me sad)

RP STUFF!
Character Name: "Djoser" (actually Apophis)
Canon: IM: Great Priest Imhotep
Character Info: I'll come up with something shorter next time.

He's that one big evil from Ancient Egyptian Mythology. His epithets are Serpent of Darkness, God of Chaos and Discord, Pharaoh of the Magai (false gods),... and so on. In truth he used to be a guardian deity created by the original creator gods, who made Lovecraft's Ancient Ones look cuddly, to fend off even worse. He was repurposed as the original sun god, and then later used for spare parts for the current sun god after it turned out that he was too entrenched with primordial darkness to fit the personification of light specs. A little later humans decided that he has no right to exist anymore because 'god of darkness' = automatically evil, and the rest of the gods just went along with the blame game. His story is pretty much the god version of Give A Dog a Bad Name, except Apophis literally cannot die and stay dead for as long as he's part of one of the fundamental dualities that make up the world. So now he's everybody else's problem because his new goal is to destroy the world for both revenge and so that he can finally kill himself.

He usually pretends to be prince Djoser, the main character's best friend who fell into corruption after he was sacrificed alive in order to help hush up the wrongdoings of the priesthood and their gods. Tl;Dr Imhotep effed up saving Djoser so badly that it gave Apophis a chance to merge his and Djoser's souls and use his body for his own -- so he's basically an evil god hijacking a zombie while also rping as a swell guy for additional emotional damage. All that and he's actually STILL the easily most decent Egyptian god you could encounter as a human.

Personality-wise Apophis tends come off as your typical hero-slash-BFF guy. He's empathic, has a good sense for what's right and wrong and loves chaos just enough to be unable to bail you out of jail because he's sitting in the cell right next to you. He will happily pretend to be your character's friend and support them, but he also loves to fan the flames of a person's inner darkness and toy with their desires and dreams, so handle with care.

Monster Plans: He's a Serpens of the Naga kind! Mostly because 1) there's canon art that can be used for icons and 2) him thinking that it's just his powers corrupting his stolen body will keep him somewhat stable and off the worst murder-sprees.
Event Plans:

• Apophis will be (maybe a little) too eager to fight and maim any of the convoy's attackers by any means possible, which might include trying to run them over with his new war chariot. His aim won't be too discerning during this, so battle buddies and people to yell at him to learn how to aim or bail him out after he's overestimated himself would be loved!
• He'll get several smaller injuries that will leave several small trails of snake scales on his body.
• He's going to end up with a small unicorn horn that he'll try to tear off for this month'd monster shenanigans.
• Anybody want to joing him on a looting ride or trying to punch a hole into that tower? That thing looks sturdy, so it's gotta make for some good materials!

Extra: I'm always up for all kinds of new CR!

[undyingcrow]

I'm canonblind, but I think there's some interesting possible parallels with Akechi here. He also was embittered due to stigmas and forces outside his control and also had a ridiculous revenge plan (even if he's no longer pursuing it). He even had a princely facade at one point, even if he's no longer acting as such.

[forsakensun]

BIG SORRY FOR THE LATE, LIFE DECIDED TO MAKE ME A CHEWTOY!

Those sound all like good reasons for why they should meet! Do you have any preferences for which one of the prompts could work out for them?

[guidemyway]

Ruby has a habit of picking up friends who have less than stellar intentions down the road.

She'd be happy to get to know this guy.

[forsakensun]

Haha, awesome! Apophis has a bad habit of getting way too friendly with everybody he meets, so this sounds like a glorious mess in the making! I'll apologize for any bro-hugs or nicknames Ruby might end up with in advance!

He'd also be interested in her weapon crafting forays and maybe they could talk tech upgrades/repairs too? He's only got a chariot with easily breakable golem horses and a ship on wheels with a big hole as riding options right now. (Will he ask Imhotep if he wants the ship repaired? Don't sweat the details, let's redecorate the Sunbark into a pirate ship already, he'll definitely love it! ♥)