EMP 001 ● JUNE 2025

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  Behold, an opportunity to gather.

Welcome to Somnia's first EMP! 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:

- TDM: June 7th
- RESERVES: June 21st
- APPS: June 22nd - 26th
- GAME START: July 1st

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. Just like our EMP, you do not need an invite to participate in the TDM, either (only to reserve and app). Mod-run invites will also be available then, so I thank you kindly for your patience!

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  <span style="font-size: large; text-align: center; font-family: courier;">ᛗ <b>PLAYER</b></span> <b>Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <span style="font-size: large; text-align: center; font-family: courier;">ᛗ <b>CHARACTER</b></span> <b>Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>Blurp:</b> <b>Vessel Type & General ideas:</b>

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[ponderingtheorb]

  ᛗ PLAYER
Name: Anna
Contact: layonmacduff

ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: Gale "of Waterdeep" Dekarios
Canon: Baldur's Gate 3
Blurp:

As everyone who talks to him for longer than a minute will hear in graphic detail, Gale Dekarios was once an archmage so brilliant and powerful that the goddess of magic herself came down from on high to make him her lover, protege, and chosen avatar of her will.

He fumbled that so badly that she now wants him to blow himself up with the unstable magical nuke he accidentally embedded in his own chest while trying to impress her. And on top of that, he might also turn into a brain-eating squid creature. (This part is not actually his own fault. Or his ex's. It's sort of unrelated.)

Gale is a guy so rizzless that it manages to swing all the way back around into genuine romantic charm, earnest and passionate about his life's work even when forced to start it all over from scratch, intensely eager to please and impress, and not really as arrogant or hung up on his ex as he initially appears--though it takes some getting to know him before that becomes apparent. He's a deep well of Former Gifted Child self-loathing who also, at the same time, thinks he both can and should become a god. He contains multitudes.

Vessel Type & General ideas:

I definitely want to make him a Token, because a Gale who wasn't something like a wizard or sorcerer would have no idea what to do with himself and probably be too sad to play, but I'm torn between Pyromancer and Aeromancer.

I'm leaning heavily toward Pyromancer, because I have a lot of fun playing with fire motifs for him in RP, and because so much of his dialogue about magic suggests that fire is really his go-to. But I like the aesthetics of Aeromancer a little better, and I don't think he'd mind it, because (a) it would give him an excuse for stupid puns about nominative determinism, and (b) he wouldn't be weak to water the way he would with fire, which would be nice because having to avoid it would bother him.

[brewedwithspite]

(Tripping over an entire bag of onions and then scrambling about them like an episode of Scooby Doo): Hey.

[vocalistyodels]

Gale Dekarios, king yapper with the autistic rizz, I love you so. Also I know Cooper looks like Wither's cousin twice removed, but he is not.

[tache]

Ooh, Pyromancer and Aeromancer are tough choices... Either would work super well for him, I feel. Gale would be awesome in this game, though, ngl.

[devilmind]

I'd be so happy to see some BG3 rep in this game. Also your character blurb is hilarious lol

[sleepfan]

Hello. *waves awkwardly* I still haven't played BG3, but I have an also obsessive mage who has a lots of questions about the 'unstable magical nuke he accidentally embedded in his own chest' and 'he might also turn into a brain-eating squid creature' things. Those are interesting! As are people better than Linhardt at magic: That means he can pelt them with questions.

He would be utterly unable to understand Gale's self-loathing and desire to impress people, though. Isn't this supposed to be fun and interesting?