acatamemes | EMP/ATP FEBRUARY 2019.

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EMP/ATP FEBRUARY 2019.

I ▫ main	IV ▫ premise			XI ▫ applications	XIV ▫ activity
II ▫ logs	V ▫ rules	VII ▫ bestiary	IX ▫ canon updates	XII ▫ taken	XV ▫ drop/hiatus
III ▫ ooc	VI ▫ faq	VIII ▫ setting	X ▫ mods	XIII ▫ reserves	XVI ▫ players

EMP/ATP: FEB. 2019
WELCOME TO ACATALEPSY.

Welcome to Acatalepsy's third EMP/ATP meme! Our players suggested this meme as a way to advertise the game and toy around prior to our Test Drive Meme on January 21st. We won't be giving out the prompts ahead of time, but here's a fun clue!

. . . Astoria is having something of a difficult time, lately.

Anyway! Some quick facts about Acatalepsy before we drive in!

✔️ Astoria is the game's main NPC! She is usually around during your time at the Temple.
✔️ The TDM always takes place in the Temple of Beginnings, the home-base of the Game! We will have several prompts available for the players to choose from.
✔️ Expect some light-hearted shenanigans for the TDM. ;) The last TDM can be found here!
✔️ Established characters will be at the Temple to greet the potential new characters.
✔️ the TDM threads are considered canon if the players so choose!
✔️ Acatalepsy has a 100 player cap. You may app/reserve one character per round. We currently have 61/100 players in game.
✔️ Reserves open January 24th at 9:00 PM EST.
✔️ To avoid difficulties with player placement, there will be a reserve cap. This means that 39 new players will be allowed to reserve.
✔️ Returning players will not be affected by the reserve cap.
✔️ Acatalepsy has an eight (8) character cast cap. Here is our taken list!
✔️ Applications open February 1st at 9:00 PM EST and close February 5th at 11:59 PM EST.
✔️ Reserves will be given first priority. People who do not reserve can still apply in the case of more slots becoming available post AC (aka if all 39 reserves do not app), but will be considered after reserved applications are processed.
✔️ We have an every-other-month app cycle!

ACATALEPSY 101

Acatalepsy is a plot-driven world-hopping RPG, in which characters travel from world to world through the powers of Astoria, the Head Witch of the Circle that your character has been drafted into. Your mission, should you choose to accept it? Save the universe.

All magical items are nerfed upon arrival, but Astoria allows you to keep one (1) magical weapon/weapon. It may not work within the Temple of Beginnings, but it may work on your travels. Only time will tell.

To make up for the lack of powers, your character is gifted an ability by Astoria herself. If you ask why? Astoria will simply smile and say, Because. ♥ . That gift can be anything from creating fire to creating spontaneous birthday cakes to rain from the sky for about an hour -- however, Astoria does not grant anything too game-breaking to her Circle members. She does, however, get creative in her gifts -- she likes to think she's funny.

Every decision a character makes can change the course of the game, and Astoria keeps a watchful eye over those in her service. The universe is full of problems, troubles, war -- and your character, through their travels, has the opportunity to alter fate.

Hang on tight. The universe, as Astoria likes to say, awaits.

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Robyn
POSSIBLY APPING: Oerba Yun Fang, from Final Fantasy XIII.
TELL US MORE: Fang is one of the six Gran Pulsel'Cie in FFXIII — doomed humans branded by a god known as a fal'Cie and fated to complete a task or risk becoming monsters.

Described as a woman "unconcerned with trivialities," Fang is fierce, brave and determined. Her often lackadaisical, self-confident, sarcastic nature belies an iron will and a dangerous recklessness. Has a good sense of humor, but can be aggressive and volatile if provoked or pushed into a corner. One thing is certain: her friends' well-being take precedence over all other things, and Fang is willing and able to perform terrible acts to guarantee it.

She serves as the game's Dragoon, and is extremely dedicated to one (1) person. She's a jerk! But she's fun and funny.
POTENTIAL MAGICAL POWER? I have one written down:
Empathy Sponge: Fang will be able to detect and absorb negative emotions, i.e. grief, anger, and so on. She will be able to absorb these things via touch. The ability will manifest as follows:

Those affected by negative emotions will appear to Fang to have a l'Cie brand on some part of their body. Depending on the depth of the negative emotion, the "stage" of the brand will differ, with the 13th stage being the most severe. In the case of extreme emotional/mental distress, an individual will appear to Fang as a Cie'th. She is only able to see one person at a time with this affliction, and is only able to absorb this degree of emotional anguish 1x a day.

Fang will receive an "imprint" of whatever is causing the emotional distress. This imprint will cause negative physical side effects. In minor cases it'll create mild headaches, nausea, cold/flu like symptoms. In major cases, such as purging a "Cie'th," the physical effects will be more severe (major nosebleeds, temporary loss of consciousness, partial and temporary crystallization of her own body). Occasionally the imprint will be clear to her, but with Cie'th it will mostly come out as muddled shrieking anguish and she will have to struggle to understand it until getting an idea of what her power does.

Purges of any emotional distress will give unburdened individuals a mood boost. This is temporary as well.

ANYTHING ELSE?

Edited 2019-01-19 01:38 (UTC)

PRINCE
POSSIBLY APPING: Mettaton.
TELL US MORE: A robotic star among monsters who has a dream of performing for humanity, Mettaton is enterprising, grandiose, and vain. He's an outrageous performer who has a love for the spotlight, operates a resort, sells products under his brand, and televises more genres of shows than should be legal for one person. Loves his fans, adores himself, and has eccentric inclinations. There were plans to allow the player to marry him during Undertale's development, but this feature was likely removed because it would require coding in the ability to divorce him. One of these claims might be false.
POTENTIAL MAGICAL POWER? Oh I am absolutely entertaining invisibility or a similar power because I think that's funny. Mettaton won't use it. He'll claim his good looks are too powerful as it stands, so he wasn't given a power. Astoria nerfed him. I am open to other suggestions, however.
ANYTHING ELSE?

xander
POSSIBLY APPING:

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the first option is frisk!

then, yumeko jabami (papa georgio, perhaps) from kakegurui

and finally, hajime ichinose from gatchaman crowds.

TELL US MORE: so! frisk is a literal child who likes to approach things with a quirky and weird mindset. they like to help people and will play along with just about anything. they also aren't afraid of big bad floweys, so they're kind of cool.

ON THE OTHER HAND, VEGAS VACATION GOES ROGUE. yumeko is big into gambling. it's all she thinks about and she loves to stake everything on them. she comes off as pretty normal and nice until she gets excited (only about gambling. only about gambling, ever.) but for some reason people are scared of her!!! why is that. i couldn't imagine.

and in the last corner we have hajime from gcrowds, who is an eccentric weirdo who likes to cuteify things. she never comes off as normal and could not be normal if you paid her to do it. what you see is what you get with her, she's just here to be your friend. hajime is also a HERO!! and loves to help people overcome things.

POTENTIAL MAGICAL POWER? i'd really love to brainstorm on these since i'm not 100% on any of them, so any comments on them would be helpful.

for frisk: their power in game would likely be something like an inventory joke, maybe just a straight up homestuck rip off. frisk has a fetchmodus and it malfunctions all the time. imagine all the earthworms they could keep in their inventory.... but i have another idea, and i'm stuck between the two; if not the inventory joke, frisk can use an infinite pack of band-aids called Hopes & Dreams to heal people with them.

for yumeko: i think that something i'd like to do is memory gambling. in short: when you agree to a game with yumeko, your memories will manifest as gambling chips that work on a sliding scale. if you lose your chip, you lose the memory. you can win it back from yumeko, or vice versa, but the more important to you the memory is, the more it's worth. i am thinking perhaps they can be used as some kind of boon if you so choose, THOUGH I AM NOT SURE WHAT...perhaps they are just worth money or can be converted into it. i don't know. if you have any ideas let me know.

for hajime: i think i'd like to give her something dealing with communication! my thought right now is perhaps she can make notebooks that are all interconnected to her's and can be used to fill in with your thoughts and feelings, perhaps involuntarily ?? maybe a literal translator so it'll tell her, plainly, what people mean even if they lie to her? :la

ANYTHING ELSE? i posted gifs but if you guys ever wanna see baldi from baldi's basics as a backpack, well, here you go

this cr

CHRIS
POSSIBLY APPING: Mollymauk Tealeaf, disaster in a technicolor silk coat of Critical Role fame.
TELL US MORE: Former circus carnie, consummate bullshitter with two years of memories and a dark past that has nothing to do with him. Nope don’t want it. He’s a bitchy sensualist, an occasional grifter, and has his own complicated set of ethics and the self-righteousness to go with it. Do you love having someone impose their morals on you while being loud and belligerent? No one does! But Molly will try to make you like it. He’s so so complicated and a giant problem.
POTENTIAL MAGICAL POWER? You know how in Dragonball Z, Saiyans get stronger every time they almost die?

It’s gonna be something like that.

For reasons.
ANYTHING ELSE? I literally already have an app written. A gentle fart could convince me to app at this point, but I AM EXCITED.

frisk is baby and zero WILL make them wash their hands

i know little abt yumeko and hajime but zero probably wont make them wash their hands

Fang, my love! Please do the thing.

Oh no, if you both do the thing, I will be filled with FEELINGS.

Kingdom Hearts
HAVE: Kairi!
WANT: Anyone!!! But Sora and Riku in particular would be grand, but also Namine and Aqua and Xion would be grand too. But really anyone would make me happy. She's fun to play against people she hasn't met!!

we are 90% sure we are gonna do the thing!!!

I already hassled you on the general EMP but! PLEASE APP METTATON I love him with all my heart and HE'D BE SUCH A FUN ADDITION TO THIS GAME. We need more characters who are just. Out there. Everywhere. And that power is such a fun idea I love it...local robot yells about being invisible.

Digimon Adventure tri.
HAVE: hats hat hats (+Ruki from Tamers, who deserves better than this association)
WANT: Anyone! I know it's the longest of long shots but insert hope joke.

me @ my nonexistent fandom

Frisk starts their no dirt diet today

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
HAVE: Maes Hughes, Riza Hawkeye, and Roy Mustang!
WANT: Elrics? ELRICS. More team adult! Havoc! Some Homunculi would be amazing, too. Anybody, really. Come join our shitty military squad!!!

I'm pretty set on at least TDMing, but god I love playing Mettaton for that unyielding socializing quality. He is such a headache, but it's good. Bad, but good.

you get away from that invisible life and some witch decides that's going to be your gimmick? not very glamorous!

(prince yelling in the distance about hajime's power) she can have a polygraph party

No matter which one of these characters you app, they are going to get a tub of glitter upended over their head at the earliest convenience, as far as I'm concerned. All of these are good CR opportunities.

slams hands down

MORE ROBOTS

VEE
POSSIBLY APPING: Hisoka the Magician
TELL US MORE: He is the absolute worst human being. This is in no way an exaggeration. He grossly daydreams about when he'll get to murder super power twelve year old boys. He's a shit stirrer and a liar and a sociopath. Only cares about how strong he is and how good of a fight he would get out of someone. Clown is a trash fire.
POTENTIAL MAGICAL POWER? "The ability to summon a toy. It is random every time. He can only summon one at a time, but can do that as many times as he wants. No toys will be secretly be 'weapons'. If they happen to have weapons (toy soldier, etc) they will still be blunt/plastic/just toys."

He really only works in games where you can nerf the shit out of his powers, otherwise he's a pain. He'll still be a pain, but just slightly less OP of one.
ANYTHING ELSE?

Edited 2019-01-19 02:55 (UTC)

I'm all about bolstering the numbers of robots, sign me up 👌

i really miss playing with your mtt bring him back. bring him BACK and make him pretend that astoria had to nerf him to make the rest of us feel better

unfortunately frisk would actually wash their hands but they'd do it and look at her for approval like "oh? am i done yet?" because they are a baby

i feel like zero would ultimately like hajime but i think she'd had yumeko bc yumeko is......................weird...... either way hajime would love her aesthetic and want to have sleepovers and do girly things together unfortunately. its sad. and bad?

sounds false, because they're eating oreos crushed up in a bowl of milk RIGHT NOW

frisk? it's frisk. they will do something stupid together. mettaton is like, the big brother no one but frisk wants.

yumeko? well, you know what? there needs to be an announcer and referee for her matches, doesnt there. honestly.....

as for hajime, she can make the mttburger palatable, and that would be the beginning of his new empire.

He'll pretend so hard that we'll all be convinced. Invisibility? Who? Never heard of it, but check out THIS angle of his face. That's a power to put all powers to shame. No wonder Astoria left him with nothing, because he already has so much to give...

i love molly please app

also inej was in the circus and was an acrobat please be her friend

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