EMP & ATP 002 ● AUGUST 2025

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ATP&EMP

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Behold, an opportunity to gather.

Welcome to Somnia's second ATP & EMP Meme! This is the place to be if you're interested in the game's setting, if you're unsure about who you'd like to bring or if you just want to check out the vibes. Remember that the EMP is open to all, and you don't need an invite to participate in the slightest!

Dates to note are as follows:

- EVENT/TDM: September 1st
- RESERVES: September 12th
- APPS: September 16th - 23rd

An opportunity for players who do not have invites to post their interest in receiving one will be available on the TDM as a mod comment to reply to. Current players may extend their invites, and if you don't know anyone in the game, the mod will make a decision (note that this does not guarantee an invite). Just like our EMP, you do not need an invite to participate in the TDM, either— only to reserve and app.

Use the forms below to show us those pretty white jaws!

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fray myste/dontworryaboutit | final fantasy xiv

[beaffrayed]

ᛗ PLAYER
Name: Ruka
Contact: this journal, rukafais on plurk, whatever works

ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: Fray Myste
Canon: FFXIV
Brief Info: You know the Dark Knight quests people bring up occasionally as an example of how FFXIV has good writing? Fray is from that. He is your friendly neighbourhood job quest NPC who definitely has nothing wrong with him whatsoever don't even worry about it, he's so normal.

Depending on the amount of let's say malleability I'm allowed to have with him, Fray has a little bit of an identity blur going on; is he a dead man who imprinted on his job stone? Yes. Are they also a reflection of the WoL whose head they ended up in and ended up being a mirror for? Yes. Can Fray be a weird reflection of the person they're talking to if he's not thinking of himself as 'Fray, who was a real guy who died'? Maybe.

To prevent potential headaches, Fray would have generic WoL memories for expacs (so probably meteor) and would be kind of broad-brush about it. He was technically there but he wasn't driving the car, he sure will have Things To Say about mentally riding shotgun though if it ever comes up.

Vessel Type & General ideas:
Token of some kind most likely given the [waves hand expansively] everything. Shadowbinder seems like the most obvious pick honestly, but it might be fun to do something a bit more healy as a nod to Fray's conjury...

Alternatively, an Offering of some kind could be fun just because Fray has been the Go Apeshit Button in the WoL's head for [mumble mumble] years and giving them a more fucked up monstery form could be interesting to add to the identity jumble hahah

Given this game has some strong themes about erosion of identity and memory, I think it'd be fun to play with how much of Fray-the-actual-real-person and Fray-the-positive-affirmation-demon kind of exists in the entity that Fray is at any given time, especially with the differences between english and other translations (where he was definitely like, there. as a corpse. until they buried him, anyway). Does the starting line of DRK 80's conclusion quest also apply to Fray and his technical dual identities? I'd love to find out!

also i promise the sleep token lyrics for their icons are coincidental

Re: fray myste/dontworryaboutit | final fantasy xiv

[sorte]

Oh, wow, he sounds really neat and like he'd be really great here with a ton of potential!

[beaffrayed]

aw thanks! He's a fun fucked up guy, I really want to play him somewhere and this game seems fantastic for the kind of stuff he's got going on.

[walriders]

fray is THE most normal

i've never been more excited in an EMP

[beaffrayed]

He's so extremely normal, nothing weird going on here at all

ALSO HAHA thank you for being excited...!! i really wanted to play fray Somewhere and this game looks so good for him and all his fucked up shit

[pointedlook]

he's extremely normal of course

the gasp i let out...DRK is predictably some of my fav job quests in the whole game and Fray is a Big Delight

also im not saying Fray should be allowed to Go Apeshit as a treat but like. what if!

[beaffrayed]

extremely normal job trainer npc come closer

the drk quests are hands down one of my favourite questlines in the whole game so I AM ALWAYS GLAD TO MEET FELLOW ENJOYERS, i am excited to inflict him on the TDM hahah

i've been turning it over in my head for most of the month and i'm definitely leaning hard towards Offering tbh. maybe he should be allowed to Go Apeshit. Maybe so

[pointedlook]

> takes blade and soul crystal after passing tf out in the brume

it really is such a GOATed job quest storyline! not my fav tank class (unforch, that goes to PLD or GNB) but big sword Cool, Fray Shadow also Cool even if he makes my healer ass panic when he's standing in the bad bc i think he's a player. I will be READY when TDM goes up to bask in the darkness

oh hell yes, LET HIM LOOSE! he's moved on from WOL anger translator to WOL anger inflicter