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!

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

  <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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[clockgears]

ᛗ PLAYER
Name: Kei
Contact: begleiter

I've got two characters I'm considering! Putting them in different comments just to keep things tidy.

[clockgears]

ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: Ozpin
Canon: RWBY

Blurp:
Former headmaster of a school for monster hunters, full-time immortal with a really inconvenient way of reincarnating. Ozpin is like any typical mysterious and powerful mentor figure that's never as much help as it seems like he should be, only the audience actually gets to see why he's like that. Turns out the answer is that he's depressed, exhausted, overly cautious, still reeling from a violent divorce 2000+ years ago, and way too passive. Overall he's a well-meaning guy that's running himself ragged trying to keep the world turning, but he's still a manipulative lair.

He's also just kind of a weirdo who's way too amused by his own antics. Mind you, said antics include giving children swords that are also guns, embarrassing his successor in front of his peers, launching his students off a cliff on their first day at school, and drinking hot cocoa out of a fancy teapot.

Vessel Type & General ideas:
It's always so hard to choose monster types for me and this time I can't even choose between token or vessel! So my tentative ideas for each are:

For token, my top choice is Chronomancer! Ozpin can use time magic in canon and already has themes of fractured memories/personalities in his backstory! Also he's got a fixation on clocks, and I think it would be very funny to inflict the 'aura messes up clocks' weakness on him.

For offering, I'm torn between Trickster (trickster aspects + identity horror just suit him), Seraph (he is on a literal mission from god even if he's not enjoying said mission), and Lycan (because he's Wizard of Oz themed and I can turn him into Toto do you guys see my vision).

[saudades]

hiiii kei

if i end up apping beast dazai i think he and oz could vibe over some identity horror!! also lmao manipulating ppl for "their own good" is such a thing they have in common lkjalsf

[clockgears]

holy shit their CR would be such a mess lmao

It starts out okay, but Ozpin is the man who literally cannot stay dead and Dazai overturned the natural order of the world to try to save the life of the person he cared most about, and when each of them realizes this about the other they immediately break out into hives.

[saudades]

GOD the salem energy of it all just hit me i am losing it. they would be the least normal ever lksjldjf.

[closetdweller]

Sliding in late but the Toto idea is inspired I swear!

[glowstones]

NOTE: Olly is a very tentative choice, since 4/5 most important castmates are under the age of 16! Still, I wanted to toss him here because I do think he'd be a lot of fun.

ᛗ CHARACTER
Name: Olruggio
Canon: Witch Hat Atelier
Blurp:
Olly is a Witch and inventor of magic contraptions! He's your classic 'grumpy guy that is actually a huge softy'. You know, he insists that he doesn't want apprentices, then looks after his best friend's apprentices like they're his own, to the extent of putting himself in very real, very mortal peril for their sake. Or he puts a ton of effort into monetizing his work and then gives some of his work to the common folk for free.

He's basically a gifted kid who did not suffer gifted kid burnout, but also never quite learned how to take care of himself. He complains that his room is only clean when he's avoiding a deadline. He finds it easier to invent a magical device to make himself look better than to just shave and get a solid night's rest. There's an entire chapter dedicated to how critical of and frustrated with his own work he gets the more he works on it. There's a Defunctland quote that goes "I hate literally every step in the filmmaking process. The only thing I hate more than making a film is not making a film." and that's basically Olruggio about magic!

Vessel Type & General ideas:
For Olly, I'm only considering token options! My top choice is pyromancer, since this is basically what Olly is in canon, and I think he'd be delighted (if freaked out) to suddenly be able to control fire without having to draw all his spells out first. Artificer is next because, again, that's exactly what he does already. And for a wildcard 3rd choice, I'm thinking beastkin! Because he gets along with the family pet in canon.

[ar_cane]

My interest was piqued at "magic contraptions" and would definitely love to throw Viktor at Olly if you app! He's definitely not on the same level of artificing since he's mainly created things that use magic as an energy source, so it would be interesting to see them compare notes, so to speak

[glowstones]

Ohhh, I agree, I think Olruggio and Viktor would be very neat CR! Especially because a lot of Olly's inventions are pretty small scale, like cobblestones that light up when you step on them or rings that function as magic blowdryers. So Jayce and Viktor's 'break the universe' machine would be both really impressive and really unsettling to him.

[ar_cane]

Ooh that's so fun! They definitely didn't go small with... anything they made, really. It would be neat for Viktor (and our Jayce would agree I'm sure) to see the smaller level applications of magic that can feel practical if there's a lot of magic going around

[moonsomnia]

both characters are so interesting and so different, i would love to see how either of them cope in this new realm! ozpin and identity horror sound especially juicy after reading his blurb, even though i'm canonblind... you have so many good ideas!

[clockgears]

Thank you! I think I'm ultimately leaning towards Ozpin but it's extremely hard to choose.

Though I think either of them could have some very fun CR with Kafka.