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EMP & ATP 005 β MAY 2026
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:
Use the forms below to show us those pretty white jaws!
EMP:
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 1stAn 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.
- RESERVES: June 12th
- APPS: June 19th - 24th
Use the forms below to show us those pretty white jaws!
EMP:
EMP
Name: Possumbreath (PB)
Contact: Possumbreath @ Discord, Shanklin @ Plurk
α CHARACTER
Name: Stanford Filbrick Pines, PhD12
Canon: Gravity Falls
Brief Info: Twelve fingers, zero chill. Ford is an old man (somewhere from late sixties to early seventies but the timeline is [waggles hand] because Alex Hirsch can't do math) who is so weird that studying weirdness is his special interest and lifelong passion. This led to him making a Faustian deal with a demonic triangle in a top hat, building a portal to hell and spending thirty years of his life wandering the vast multiverse. He's voiced by JK Simmons, he has a warrant in half of the known dimensions, he can voluntarily shut off his own fear response, he shaves by lighting his face on fire and he absolutely loves jelly beans. He is also equipped with the emotional maturity of a sixteen year old because he's deeply undersocialized and prone to pushing people away on purpose because he expects every interaction to go badly from the jump. I'll be taking him post-canon, meaning he is trying to make an effort to trust other people and be a better person, but decades of ingrained paranoia and survival instinct and grudge-holding are hard to break. Bully him, he deserves it.
Vessel Type & General ideas: Runecaster is pretty much the only choice. Ford knows thirteen languages, loves ciphers and codes and often writes his own notes in formats that only he can understand. Glyphs and repeating images are kind of the bread and butter of his story, to the point that the main villain refers to most major characters by their associated symbol. My plan is for him to invent not just one system of runes but multiple different ones with various complexity based on different use cases. He's obnoxious and extra like that, and also paranoid enough to have a set of languages he's willing to make open source and a set that is proprietary and fiendishly complicated to try and stop anyone from decoding or replicating it. He also has tattoos and is an accomplished artist, so I want to play with the concept of enchanted ink/tattooed sigils/illustrations imbued with magic and things of that nature.
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Also your navigation page on your journal is incredible? The cards????
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OH.
You tempt me with my Dip Dop journal. But even this little rascal from a cosmic horror space opera dramedy universe would maybe get into trouble with Ford and admire his many arrest warrants.
They could bond over their universes having otherworldly horrors trying to get in and start the apocalypse.
Thats what Cato would be going home to bc his friend let the monsters in.
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More seriously a Dipper would be fabulous, but with Ford, it almost pays to not have his family around so he's forced to try and form new connections. He can't just point at Stan, Dipper and Mabel and be like 'see, three whole friends. Ignore that they are my family members. I don't need to make NEW friends'. He'll be so excited to talk to somebody else who has extensive space/cosmic horror experience.
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They're gonna have so much to be like "that's rough, buddy" about.
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Consider: weird steampunk magical tattoo pen
are they just gonna open a tattoo parlour
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THEY ARE JUST GONNA OPEN A TATTOOO PARLOR IN THE FRONT OF THE CLINIC/SCIENCE LAB
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no, it's because they both think they've got the universe figured out. and they definitely don't.
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