MARCH ATP/EMP

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Hello all prospective Drifters, and thank you for taking a look at Route 666! Our second TDM is going up on MARCH 15th/16th our Reserves open on MARCH 20th and Applications open on the March 25th through the 31st!

And in the meanwhile, this post is for potential players to introduce themselves and characters they’re thinking of playing! Get excited, get planning with other folks, talk about potential monsters you’re interested in, etc! We are also opening this up for current players to post ATPs to draw in some new castmates and the like!

New Players, if you would like a template, here is one:

<u>INFO!</u> <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Character Info:</b> <u>PLOTTING!</u> <b>Monster Ideas:</b> Monster forms you’re eyeing up? Trait combos you might try out? <b>Vehicle Ideas:</b> Vehicles you might use? Qualities that catch your eye? <b>Game plans:</b> How will your character react to being on a spooky roadtrip, and what sort of trouble might they get into? <b>Desired CR:</b> What are some relationships you would like to build with you character? <b>Other:</b> Whatever else you want to list goes here!

Current players can use this template if they wish!


<B>Fandom:</b> (You may list this as either a singular fandom, or a series! We also recommend putting an ATP: CANON NAME in the subject bar!) <B>Current cast:</b> (Who is currently in the game?) <b>Wanted:</b> (Who would you like to see?) <b>Assorted About:</b> (A space to share what's been going in with the game cast lately, any ongoing plots with characters, or stuff you are currently plotting/looking forward to?) <b>Extra:</b> (Anything extra/memes/gifs/etc that you'd like to place here!)

And thank you again for checking out the game!

Comments

[thetatters]

OH BOY I think this CR could be completely insane, I'm so ready. Totally canonblind to your guy, but mine is a fragment of Hastur, a Cthulhu-tier eldritch god from realms beyond reality etc. An adventuring party fucked up his summoning ritual, so he lost his memory and became bound to a human host. By the time he remembered he's a god intent on cracking the world like an egg, his host won him over with ~the power of friendship~, so now "John Doe" is all in on living as a mortal. Would you like a lecture about how humans are great actually? No?

Apophis will probably remind him of his own sadistic chaos villain, so the negative CR will be mutual. If John recognizes the fumbling attempts to care for humans, he'll become grudgingly fond despite himself.

[forsakensun]

Oh man, that sounds so fun I'M SO READY FOR THIS! Apophis might not quite be as happy about it, especially if John somehow figures out his godly identity early, but he's just gonna have to deal with it.

(Fun fact, his own 'parents' are actually described as something akin to the Great Old Ones and just fucked off after doing him some seriously dirty and just leaving him stuck in an endless circle of being abused, murdered and forced to respawn immediately the moment he's killed, so meeting one that's actually decent? It's going to mess with his mind so hard!)

[thetatters]

Awkwardly enough that does sound like something John would've done as his former self, he once threatens to make [human protag] his cyclically flayable skinless pet for all eternity. Cringe behavior tbh. If he ever gets to hear Apophis's backstory it might inspire him to feel freshly weird and guilty about his past, which is delicious to me.

OH AND John can sense an aura of light or darkness around people that are possessed by particularly powerful eldritch forces. Would he get a darkness vibe from Apophis? That would be a fun early clue, tho John is from too early a canonpoint to have many points of comparison, so he'll just be nebulously suspicious and wary.

[forsakensun]

Adghjs what a thing to threaten! I bet that helped their relationship grow real well.

Yep, that's totally good with me! It's actually a canon plot point that Apophis is radiating dark miasma pretty badly, be it for dimension hopping from place to place, attacking, or outright forcing other living creatures to turn into horrible monsters that are at his beck and call. So he's pretty used to showing up as a pretty bad case of 'evil spirit' on most people's radars as long as they have some kind of 6th sense. If John asks him about it he'll just roll with it and blame it on Imhotep and his botched rescue attempt, since that left his and Djoser's shared existence kinda undead~♫

Can Apophis sense anything about John in return?

[thetatters]

You can lie to John about lore pretty easily bc he remembers very little from his eldritch deity days. He'll distrust this guy on vibes alone.

Definitely! Other powerful characters can sense that John is an eldritch entity possessing a human body (but he's a podcast character, so we don't know exactly what they see). Feel free to use any of this:

John is anchored primarily in this body's eyes. He's specifically a piece of "the King in Yellow," who is twice the size of a human and cloaked in trailing, tendril-like tatters of beautiful amber light. John normally has the ability to project that form beyond this human body, though he hasn't regained that power yet in the jamjar. His only permanent, visible monster transformation in-game is a yellow radiance in his eyes when he's startled or emotional.

[forsakensun]

Haha, it's gonna be fun since Apophis will have zero qualms tossing those vibes around just to mess with John, yet scramble to put them away and stick 'em in a pocket the moment Imhotep looks because he's going to pretend to be his BFF Djoser once again. (Also have a sneak peek at what Djoser's body looked like back when Apophis fresh got it, but CW GORE.)

And that sounds interesting! Apophis won't be able to pick up on the Eldritch thing (unless you want him to) since he'll be strongly nerfed, but he might make out that there's something dark going on and maybe that the soul doesn't match the body once he regains some of his powers. (Again only if you're cool with that, ofc.)