EMP 001 ● JUNE 2025

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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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[tache]

oooh, that fight is so good, I hope you enjoyed it! Lune is so wonderful, I love her. MAYHEM GO BRRRR

I'm passingly sort of familiar-ish with FE3H (I'm actually trying to get a copy to play because of someone else I've been threading with) and I absolutely can see the two of them working well together. She really appreciates people who value The Work. I haven't decided on a canon point yet for her so it may determine how she...handles things here and being away from home. I saw you're also considering Runecaster!

[sleepfan]

Everything is a nail and my hammer is Mayhem. That fight was so good! And the level designs are just...chef's kiss. And how they lampshade it: spoiler hover. Like I don't usually pay that much attention to level/world design, but they really knocked it out of the park. I love how surreal and French it all is. I do anticipate I'll be done by the time game opens: I have some days off in June and I know what I'm doing with them!

I have a cart if you get really desperate and take mail from strangers. I don't think I'll ever fully replay it again and I like for things to get used/enjoyed rather than stay in a box. It's not as good as E:33 (I mean, high bar) and has some weaknesses, but it's an enjoyable game and the cast is huge.

But yeah, Linhardt is one of the token scholar/nerds and he canonically has an interest in weird old structures, sigils, legends and weird history, etc. Plus magical theory. And while he hides it, one of the reasons he's so averse to responsibility is he worries about making mistakes/being listened to and it hurting people. Given how the game starts...I feel like Lune might understand that. :|

Also they could compare their magical systems and contrast them to this world's magical system! And be nerds. Neeerds. He's as bad as Lune is with the invasive sudden questions too.

[tache]

So, funny story, you and the other FE3H player I've been hanging with got me to get the games sooooo they'll be here this weekend lmao and I'll be playing them on my week off later in the month.

me @ myself: do not pick up another character, do not do it

Anyway, I would absolutely love that kind of CR. MORE NERDS. And hilariously being able to understand each other like, yeah, why would we NOT be asking invasive questions? What would be the point otherwise? Some people just don't understand it :V

[sleepfan]

Oh, excellent! You said games plural, so Hopes too? Nice! How do you feel about spoilers? I just want to accommodate, and since 3 Houses and 3 Hopes both require at least 3 play throughs to get everything, it...takes a while.

I'm also fighting the character bug: Sciel's become kind of a dark horse for me after the end of Act II. So I feel you on the 'no, not another one!' talk. Especially because I'm usually a one at a time type!

End of Act II talk for E33

I really vibe with the 'rediscovering hope after what you think was putting something tragic to bed/coming to live with it' aspect of her character and it's not something that I see in many characters to boot.

Also...Lune being all 'wait there's a whole other world I won't get to see?' makes putting her in games = chef's kiss. That sounds so fun! And here I was worried the twist was going to make every banal, but instead the world building just got weirder and I am here for it.

NERDS. ALL THE NERDS. Like just ping ponging invasive questions and requests out of curiosity. Any time they spend in small talk is time they aren't spending discovering the secrets of the universe. Waste of time!

[tache]

Yes, both lmao. I'm going all in. And I'm good with spoilers! I know a lot by rp osmosis over the years but not the details.

Sciel is SO GOOD, I love her... I pick her up in my hands and cradle her, she deserves the world. All of the characters in CO are so very good and nuanced and interesting. I have been rotating this game in my brain for weeks now and need to do a second playthrough soon.

And YES, you see what I'm putting down. I think end of Act 2 allows for a lot of interesting stuff to happen. I always want to be mindful of how a character comes into a game and if they're gonna spend the entire time railing to go home or if there's flexibility in them diving into the world they're in, etc. So that context will really let her open up into the setting and allow herself that leeway of discovery... Get involved in things, meet people, know the secrets of the universe! (And then, you know, take that info back home and deal with it.)

[sleepfan]

Alright, just wanted to check! I hope you enjoy. I'm a fan of tactical RPGs myself (FFT rerelease GET HYPE). I'm definitely going to do a second play through; I want to use the French language track. My reading French is good enough that with captions I can keep up, and I know there'll be extra stuff to chew on. (Although I can't listen to French at all, which makes the soundtrack hilarious. A lot of *random ethereal singing random ethereal singing* random words and/or phrase I can understand *random ethereal singing*.)

I love me some Sciel but those reasons are why she would be hard to play in a game setting, I think. She'd be so pissed. And have like...zero interest in the people around her, honestly. Valid, but alas. Whereas Linhardt is more like Lune in that he can roll with it and get into some really interesting situations depending on the way things develop.

[tache]

Be careful if you look up the lyrics like I did (I waited til Act 3 but I looked up a specific song from a fight in early Act 2 and was like OH HI SPOILERS/CONTEXT), but that still sounds like fun to catch variance in words and phrasing... I would be super interested in seeing what you gleam from it.

But I'm excited for the TDM and to see how things roll out!

[sleepfan]

Oh, man, that's good to know. The record names were already giving Context. I do look forward to playing in French: The names are already all very on the nose so I want to see what else is Like That/Full of Puns, and while a lot will go over my head, I'm curious about things like pronoun usage. (Like, does Lune 'vous' everyone she peppers with questions? Or does she dispense of formality altogether? Etc.) I'm a Retired Language Nerd...

Same! *makes grabby TDM hands*