EMP & ATP 005 ● MAY 2026

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ATP&EMP

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Behold, an opportunity to gather.

Welcome to Somnia's fifth 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!

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR THIS APP ROUND: With September marking the start of the game's second arc, there will be a setting shift and thus we'll be skipping a TDM/app round for that month to better situate our current players. With that said, our next app round after this one will only being in October, so I've decided to uncap the game and thus the number of apps coming in this round and going forward (at least until where I feel like I can handle it).

IN SUMMARY, If you have interest in apping, now might be a good time if you do not wish to wait three months for the next round, or risk the game getting capped again!



Dates to note are as follows:

- EVENT/TDM: June 1st
- RESERVES: June 12th
- APPS: June 19th - 24th

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 to send an invite (note that this does not guarantee one). 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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Re: EMP

[furtitude]

I feel like Bart would seriously disarm Cato's distrust bc he really needs silliness in his life.

He's had a similarly rough life with grief and loss and also mistreatment.

That said, a possible clash is he's a sweet kid but pretty comfortable with killing.

[outofresets]

Bart needs to have a "Let's go be kids!" moment with Cato XD

One idea I already have is for Bart to find an old, rundown arcade and try to bring it back to life, so the teens all have somewhere they can just hang out. Decorate it old YJ hangout style, with personalized graffiti on the walls, just anything to really make it theirs.

And I think Bart is going to be in for an interesting time when he finds out just how many people here are comfortable with killing or even enthusiastic about it. Probably gonna be a particular shock when it comes to adorable Lil'Cato. It'll be one thing if he "jokes" about it, something else to actually see him just going at it

Man, with the Teathering and memory-sharing, imagine these two bonding over being forced to grow up and be 'the responsible one', after a good chunk of their family died/got caught in another dimension. Then being de-aged back to a kid and having to act like that all just didn't happen. Plus, picking up unhealthy coping mechanisms revolving around being more like their parental figures/mentors (Lil'Cato pretending to be his own Dad and imagining the crew to comfort himself/Bart trying to be Barry or Wally because "Bart is unreliable" and Barry and Wally are what everyone really needs and wants) and being let down by the father figures/mentors that they looked up to their whole lives.

They just have some weirdly specific trauma in common that they avoid talking about, because how do you even begin to explain all that to friends/family without just making them worried about you?

[furtitude]

God they do have a lot of weirdly specific time shard/speedster shit in common wrt to weird time shenanigans.

And yes the let down is so similar and huge. Wally instilled a whole complex in Bart and Avocato turbo fucked up. Cato's hurt not just bc of the lies but bc if he was crown prince Avocato should have known Lord Commander would target him eventually.

[outofresets]

Man, when/if Bart finds out about everything that went down with Avocato, he's not gonna know how to feel about that man. On one hand, in some of Cato's memories, he seems like a really awesome Dad, but then holy shit, everything about how he got to be Cato's Dad and never telling him about it, is so fucked up! How he reacts to all that is going to depend completely on how Cato feels about Avocato in the moment.

I also just noticed Cato is a Chronomancer, too. So if I go with that for Bart, that's something else that would be fun to explore. Like, the different ways they utilize those powers, and exploring Cato's own trauma over time-stuff, and being stuck with time powers.

Cuz I've been rolling around an idea for how I would play that. I know one of the big drawbacks of the power is that it's supposed to require immense concentration, but I kinda like the idea that for Bart, it's like in the comics, where using his powers was as unconscious as breathing. He just has such clear intent and confidence that it should work, that it just does what he's aiming for it to do. But then the ease of use makes the other issues that come with being a Chronomancer so much worse.

Like, it shouldn't be that easy to use for a reason. He's definitely going to unconsciously overuse it, to his own detriment, and worse than that, it eventually comes to him so easily that it reacts to his emotions. So like, when he's calm, it's safe and works great, but if he gets too excited, too anxious, or too angry, it just goes off chaotically.

Instead of struggling to learn to carefully concentrate and use it properly to get it to work at all, he has to learn to stay calm and cool-headed to keep it under control, or else he's a walking threat to himself and everyone around him, whether he means to be or not.

Given Cato's trauma with the time shard and his own experience with the Chronomancer powers, it would be interesting if he were the one to confront Bart about it, have the serious talk, and help him with his struggle to keep it under control. Because he'll definitely just be trying to deal with it on his own at first, and keep it under wraps, cuz god damn it, he can't let himself be the problem that everyone else has to fix again.