Hadriel Newbie Integration!

[dedikated]

If you've joined the game in the last few months, you've come at an exciting plot time. But it's also pretty difficult to navigate the long-sailed waters of this game, right? There's a lot of history and metaplot that your character has missed, and the older characters are so used to this brand of crazy that they might not be as helpful as they want to be.

So, in the spirit of helping people out, and after discussions on plurk, we thought it would be a good time to get some feedback and hopefully set up potential ways your character can get involved. As the CR meme is coming up soon, we don't want to make this too much about specific CR, but rather your character's integration in the city.

Older characters and players, help out by commenting to new players' posts, please! Or by adding resources I may have missed.


— newbie guide
— a history of the null
— player projects
— clinic comm | guard comm | firefighters comm | lab comm | speakeasy comm
— teachers list



Again, this isn't intended to be used like a CR meme, but a way of getting your character integrated in the city.

Character Name: [ Self Explanatory ]
Skills they have: [ Is your character a fighter? A cook? A painter? Let us know what your character could bring to the table. ]
Things your character would like to achieve: [ Does your character have ambitions to hose the greatest party Hadriel has ever seen? Do they want to keep people safe or heal them? Let us know! If you have ideas of development you would like to achieve, skills you'd like your character to learn or otherwise, please also state that here! ]

<b>Character Name:</b> [ Self Explanatory ] <b>Skills they have:</b> [ Is your character a fighter? A cook? A painter? Let us know what your character could bring to the table. ] <b>Things your character would like to achieve:</b> [ Does your character have ambitions to hose the greatest party Hadriel has ever seen? Do they want to keep people safe or heal them? Let us know! If you have ideas of development you would like to achieve, skills you'd like your character to learn or otherwise, please also state that here! ]

And finally, in the comments, you'll find sections for general feedback and for older players to speak about their player projects and what assistance and such they'd like to have!

Comments

general feedback;

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Is there something you want to see which isn't covered here? Do you have an idea for something older characters / players could do to improve integration in the game and city? Leave that here!

existing structures & projects;

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Are you a player who has a project going on in Hadriel already? Please tell us about it and how people can get involved!

newt's bestiary

[completelycrazy]

HELLO I'm Mippins and I play Newt Geiszler here, resident biologist and general science disaster. Newt put together and manages a bestiary cataloging the monster that come into the city each month. He's always looking for folks to help him out with that, either via bringing him monster corpses (or sometimes living monsters...) or by helping him out in the lab. If you'd like to get involved, you can hit me up in a few different places! I'm available oocly via PM, mippins, or you can drop a comment on the bestiary page (there's a section for contributions and getting involved). Your character doesn't need to have any science-type experience to help either!! Newt might snot at them a bit about it, but he's an idiot, ignore him, he could use all the help he can get.

Newt also helps run the lab, so wandering into the monthly mingle or checking out the lab comm underfunded is also a good way to get in on the bestiary or whatever other weird crap he might be up to.

Re: existing structures & projects;

[closerift]

hello! i'm kai, player of inquisitor trevelyan. sharon da silva and glacius started a memorial garden a while back where people can remember those who have left hadriel (and those who have died, whatever they want). there are some mementos left there and flowers, that kind of stuff. if your character wants to help tend to the gardens and make sure the mementos aren't knocked over (which is what cecily here does), then feel free to get in touch with any of those three characters icly to ask about getting involved!

you can get in touch via pm or at plurk at kairaptor with any questions /o

[tongueamok]

And an extra note - Carlisle also hangs around the memorial garden on occasion, and it's one of the few places in town with one of his magic barriers over it to protect the plants, so folks can feel free to assume they saw a weird glowy dome over it if it'd draw their interest!

Sewing Shop

[roseofthetyrells]

Margaery Tyrell runs the Sewing Shop. She can make just about anything, from more modern fashions (she took examples from the shops, took them apart, and put them back together to teach herself how) to more fantasy-medievalesque fashions. She's willing to teach others how to sew and will produce a garment in exchange for a bolt of fabric from Tranquility. Helpers and patrons are appreciated and welcome!

Fortification

[northerndragon]

Not sure how far it will actually go, but starting in the very near future (as in, it should have happened already, and will probably be backdated a little, Kai and I have both just not been feeling well), Jon and Dany will be attempting to get characters to think more about physical fortification of the city. This should have come out of Delight’s death.

a semi-example post;

[battlebound]

Character Name: Steak
Skills they have: Fighter, traveller and essentially immortal short of something killing him, Steak is something of a jack-of-all-practical-trades. You need a handyman? He can do that. Need something killing? That's what he lives for.
Things your character would like to achieve: Steak is all about protecting and serving the humans. He has picked up a lot of skills in his centuries of existence and he will put them to use here. :) Look out for a post soon!

[madamdirector]

Character Name: Lucretia
Skills they have: Wizard, painter, writer. Speaks eight languages. Can write with both hands simultaneously. Though she's an incredibly powerful wizard and won't hesitate to use her magic to help people if the opportunity arises, she's not particularly likely to think to volunteer it in a more general sense.
Things your character would like to achieve: She wants to research and document the story of Hadriel, and do whatever she can to collate and prepare resources for newbies coming in, because she's a big fuckin nerd.

[dedikated]

NGL, Luc and Kate's thread is a big part of why I ended up making this post! I'm hoping that I can think of something Kate can do that will help newbies get adjusted to the game and she'd definitely want to contact Luc about being part of that, if you'd like! Especially for the documentation of things.

[madamdirector]

Yes, for sure!! She'd be totally into it, and anything that gives her an excuse to get involved and meet new people would be awesome. She's already trying to look into the library a little bit and try to see if anyone managed to save anything of worth before it was destroyed, so she can start building up a more comprehinsive history/"what we know" about Hadriel.

[tongueamok]

If she's looking to document resources for newbies, she might want to get into touch with Nick Valentine! He wrote the newbie guide that's installed on all the phones and would be a good place to start.

[madamdirector]

Yes! Alphys also mentioned Nick as someone who knows a lot about Hadriel, so I've been meaning to reach out to him - thanks for the reminder!

[bloodbathing]

Character Name: Agent Maine
Skills they have: Maine is a soldier who knows very little else. He had two teammates when he arrived in December (now just one teammate) and tends to follow the lead of others. He's pure human but is extremely strong and could certainly train others, either in physical fitness or in combat. He also has an innate understanding of weaponry, so he can give instruction if people need that!
Things your character would like to achieve: Two things here, one IC goal and one OOC goal:

IC goal: GYM!! He wants to create a gym. He heard that Hadriel doesn't have one and that is a travesty. I actually have no idea how to start making this happen either ICly or OOCly, so uh. /spreads arms wide!
OOC goal: I'd like for him to start learning new methods to communicate, since he's no longer able to speak. I think that's more of a CR meme thing, unless there's a language-learning center around? ... And if there's not, heyyyy what a great OOC goal! /o/

[dedikated]

GYYYYM.

I would PP the mods and double check, but when building the clinic and guard HQs, I'm pretty sure we just handwaved finding things in the shops / buildings which could be used for furniture / equipment. Obviously, no one's about to find whole treadmills or anything, but finding things that could be made into weights, resistance bands, things like that? Probably.

It would be pretty cool to get people constructing exercise equipment too. Maybe the lab could sort out a treadmill...

[bloodbathing]

Ahhhh, okay! I'll hit up the mods and hopefully get the ball rolling. :) And it would be great to turn this into something lots of characters could get involved in! Both with setting things up and with running the place/offering classes and such.

TY for your help! ♥

[roseofthetyrells]

Margaery would be thrilled about a gym once someone explains to her what it is. It would help her do even more to get ready for her career as a vigilante once she leaves Hadriel and goes to Earth. ;)

[bloodbathing]

Hahah, excellent! I'm going to contact the mods to hopefully get the ball rolling on this. Maine will be happy to explain all the benefits of a gym to Margaery, too!