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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: Gen
Contact:
α CHARACTER
Name: Alex Mercer
Canon: PROTOTYPE
Brief Info: Presenting the protagonist of an old-ass 2009 action/horror video game with a twistβ’: Man wakes up in morgue with no memories, gets shot at so he freaks out and runs away with nothing but an overheard name, and discovers he has monstrous abilities when he rips a black ops soldier in half and assimilates their biomass (and memories) into himself. Accidentally releases a grotesque zombie plague into a now-quarantined Manhattan Island put under harsh martial law, then tries to fix his mistake as he figures out what the fuck happened to him.
He does explode many helicoptors in the process. And reconnect with his sister, Dana. And at the end of his revenge quest, it turns out he's not Dr. Alex Mercer, PhD with amnesia, he's just the blacklight virus who ate and genetically replicated his corpse when it entered his bloodstream as it got riddled with bullets. The original Dr. Mercer worked in Gentek on the Blacklight project, and saw a purge happening. So he smuggled out a vial of blacklight as insurance and ran for it. But when he was cornered by Blackwatch soldiers in crowded Penn Station, he smashed it open out of spite anyway and promptly died.
Yeah, not much to live up to. And then he had to save Manhattan from being nuked lol, but he made it out. Also, Alex constantly wears the same stupid outfit - jeans and a button-up shirt, hoodie, and a leather jacket on top of all that as well. With a slutty, unbuttoned popped collar because it's what Mercer was wearing when he died. No identity issues here.
Vessel Type & General ideas:
I haven't played in a game for a hot minute, so def looking forward to the TDM! Thinking Alex as an Illusionist could be interesting to explore, considering that he's a writhing viral biomass cosplaying as a dead man who thought he was human. The face and clothes he wears habitually and identity he clung to was never 'his' to begin with, and he has the memories of everyone he's consumed jumbled up in his head, yikes. And since he would become an actual human once pulled into Somnia, that's extra interesting!
I would love to explore Alex's burgeoning morality post-game, and what it means to really interact with humanity. So if this game is interested in a baby viral abomination who only ever wears a leather jacket with his hood up and doesn't realize he looks at people like he wants to eat them...... hi hello π