Caleb Cleveland & the Q&A/Interest Check!

[imaginarymods]

Hello and welcome to the official Caleb Cleveland & the Imaginary Island Q&A/Interest Check! This is the place to ask your burning questions and let us know if you're interested in joining!

Please check out our Premise and FAQ before diving in! No questions are too small to ask. If you have any queries that you'd prefer to ask in private, our Mod Contact is always open. We'll be answering all questions on this page that are submitted by Monday, March 9 at 11:59 PM EST. After that point, please direct all questions to the FAQ itself.

Interest Check 🌴 Q&A

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[aceso]

Excellent! I was kicking myself for apping in too late to pick up Astrologian.

[parfaitgirl]

Name: Kayla
Balance Transfer or New Player: Balance Transfer
Preferred Game Start: I would prefer early April please as I will likely be traveling through the end of March!

Character: Natsuki
Canon: Doki Doki Literature Club
Five Words: Stubborn, grumpy, defensive, thoughtful, insecure
Path(s): Barbarian, Monk, Ninja
Island Goals: Developing closer/further CR with people, mostly!! I'd really like her to get a chance to get to know everyone better (and for them to be able to do the same!)

[ribticklers]

Name: Mel
Balance Transfer or New Player: Balance Transfer
Preferred Game Start: as long as it's not May I'm fine

Character: Sans
Canon: Undertale
Five Words: clever, jokester, apathetic-but-improving, tired, skeleton
Path(s): sorcerer⟹wizard⟹technomancer
Island Goals: satisfying my insatiable desire for closure in stories, developing old and new cr, napping but on a beach, maybe some cool fight scenes that would be neat, idk I'll roll with things

Character: Rose Quartz
Canon: Steven Universe
Five Words: personification of "you tried" star
Path(s): druid⟹paladin⟹beastmaster
Island Goals: developing cr, beach episode, memory regain drama, still rolling with it

[ribticklers]

Will we have any/all of our inventories?

If inventory comes up, I have to ask specifically about the status of the wish spell rock.

[snyaiper]

Name: Caitie
Balance Transfer or New Player: ttttransfer
Preferred Game Start: April would be easier for me!

Character: Ogata Hyakunosuke
Canon: Golden Kamuy
Five Words: delusional lonely cat bastard w/ gun. (the with doesn't count bc I abbreviated it.)
Path(s): Ranger, Warlock
Island Goals: learn more better how to Have Friend and not be such a miserable bitch all the time! Or just to shoot more things. Either are acceptable in his book. Also: find an IC opportunity to use this blessed icon

[philoxenia]

Name: michelle
Balance Transfer or New Player: transferrrr
Preferred Game Start: anything works 4 me

Character: mira delacroix
Canon: original
Five Words: determined, earnest, unsure, kind, curious
Path(s): dancer -> paladin -> beastmaster
Island Goals: develop more cr and to get to a point where she can be more comfortable with herself!

[janthony]

So here's a few questions!
1: if we the player are a balance transfer, but for whatever reason we decide not to import our Balance character, do we still need an invite from a player?
2: if we are interested in bringing a new character, either alongside or instead of a Balance transfer, is there any restrictions, or anything we should know about how people who weren't already in Faerun get to the island? (eg. they have to be AUed into a Faerun native, or something like that)
3: no question just love <3

[imaginarymods]

You'll have your inventory, don't worry! Anything your character was physically carrying will still be there, but anything past that - such as your BIAS, for example - might be... elsewhere. What's an island adventure without a scavenger hunt? ;) 'How' you'll get those back will be better explained in the mission write-up.

The wish spell rock is also accounted for. However, due to its unpredictable nature, we'd like to work out exactly what it does with you when the time comes.

[kaleeopee]

Name: Lynny
Balance Transfer or New Player: Balance Transfer but shiny new character
Preferred Game Start: anytime!

Character: Blaze Dudely
Canon: Airlocked (Murdergame CRAU)
Five Words: Determined, Leader, Remorseful, Humourous, Flavor
Path(s): Paladin
Island Goals: the ability to introduce people to space pirate jedi Flavortown mayor and former cyborg Guy Fieri is all I ask

now under the right header, ack

[kaleeopee]

Just so I can get this question out here officially, would murdergame NPCs for multi-round interlocking games (i.e. Airlocked, Foolish Mortals, ect) count as appable?

[imaginarymods]

We love your questions!

1: As a returning player, you won't need an invite. Feel free to switch it up!

2: The main OOC restrictions are listed in the FAQ - that is, what can and can't be apped, and that new characters start with a full Path (so 10 skills) and their optional canon skill. IC, nope! While the full story of how our newest Reclaimers arrive will be revealed in time, they can be assumed to have arrived the same way as the pre-existing Reclaimers - though you're certainly welcome to AU them into a Faerun native if you wish.

3: Aw, thank you. ❤️

[janthony]

Follow up to question 1 - the character cap is 2 per player, does this mean if we had only one character in Balance we can bring them and a piece of fresh meat? (There was a character I wanted to app in the last open app round, but I was not fated to get a reserve)

[imaginarymods]

The exact classification that would fall under is tricky, but they're definitely appable! Go forth and dungeon those dives, young Dudely.

[imaginarymods]

Correct! You would be able to bring your previous character and an entirely new one, or two completely new characters, or only one. The choice is yours.

[coolranchbaby]

[usamin17]

Name: James
Balance Transfer or New Player: Transfer
Preferred Game Start: April for me since I'm moving to Japan toward the end of March.

Character: Nana Abe
Canon: iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls
Five Words: hysterical, determined, fanciful, manic, sympathetic
Path(s): Warlock, Dancer
Island Goals: Completing any sort of character arc since there was almost no time for the new apps (or at least me) previously.

[alethiological]

SORRY I WAS LATE I WAS PACKING These are for a different character I wanted to put in Balance but never had the time to. I also don't have the time to clean up a journal up yet so deal with this account.

1) TLDR said OC has a foresight ability that gets used in three ways: the first is to render all blind jokes impossible since he can still See, kinda sorta, just like constantly 3 seconds ahead, it's fine. The second is that it auto-kicks in with warnings akin to "You are 75% likely to die like a moron if you pick this Social Link choice, don't do it", but it's more like a Vibe Check than anything really foresight-y. The last and most modly relevant one is that it can be used to See a future result at 100% accuracy, with the downsides that it means whatever it was Will Come To Pass, whether good or bad. Aaaand it also kills him, but whatever, he dies a lot, it's fine.

I figure it'd get hit to shit with the nerfbat and/or require a lot of it tied up in dice rolls, but would that fly as a canon power for me to write up, or should I save myself the time and joss it. y/n me

2) Balance transfers can come in with all possessions on their person, but does that fly for new characters? Not weapons or magic anythings. I only mean mundane shit like duct tape or wallets full of pictures of your non-chimera daughter. If yes, did you want a list in the quazi-app?

3) Regarding the memory loss, is that all memories or just memories of Balance? Are they 100% gone, just kind of vague dreams and notions sorta thing, and without spoilering plot thingies how are we getting them back? IE: power of CR, through dream prompts, throwing coins at the vending machine, help me out here.

[spaghettimonster]

If potential new players haven't been invited, is it okay to post in the interest check? Like with a note somewhere that they don't yet have an invite?

[imaginarymods]

That sounds fine to us! This is more of a preliminary check then anything solid, so all we ask is that say as much when you post, and try to get an invite before the actual pseudo-apps open. And welcome! :)

/slides in several hours late without starbucks

[unrecovered]

Questions about the memloss mechanic! I have trouble as a player playing with memloss, and Wash is something of a gallivanting clusterfuck when it comes to memories - he has three distinct sets of memories in there according to canon, and a hell of a lot of trauma associated with the two that aren't his, which makes messing with them something of an IC gamble and an OOC balancing act. Given that, what are the details of the memloss mechanic (that you can share at this point) and is there anything I can do mitigate the damage on his part?

[tokenflavortownie]

Name: Drizz
Balance Transfer or New Player: New Player!!
Invited by: Luc
Preferred Game Start: Midddd April maybe?? idk

Character: Pyrrha Nikos
Canon: RWBY/Airlocked (Murdergame CRAU)
Five Words: Kind, protective, magnetic, determined, flavor
Path(s): Paladin, warlock
Island Goals: Figuring out why the heck she's here?? Trying to save this world!! Also, introducing everyone to the wonders of good cooking and her favorite space religion: The Flavor.

[mycrosstobear]

Name: Orlando
Balance Transfer or New Player: transfer
Preferred Game Start: early to mid April

Character: Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Canon: Trigun Maximum
Five Words: pragmatic, argumentative, altruistic, faithful, dead
Path(s): monk (I never managed to max that out in Balance but the plan was -> figher -> engineer)
Island Goals: make local gun tsundere connect to more people, by getting myself to actually tag more people.

[spaghettimonster]

Name: Swirl
Balance Transfer or New Player: New
Invited by: Mel
Preferred Game Start: At least the end of March, later would also be fine 

Character: Papyrus
Canon: Undertale
Five Words: LOUD, COOL, CRANKY, ODDBALL, SKELETON
Path(s): Warlock (-> Chemist)
Island Goals: Making friends, pursuing prestige, re-become a very cool skelebro, and general shenanigans

[imaginarymods]

Thanks for the question! We're eager to answer this for you and others, so here's a little elaboration on the memory loss mechanics:

-Upon arriving to the island, Reclaimers will lose their memories as if stressed; similar to how you feel after studying all night, taking a nap, and waking up wondering where the heck you've ended up. It's a very physically-induced feeling, and will give Reclaimers no indication of being tampered with. No arcana check needed here! There's no magic involved-- except for one tiny little memory: how did everyone get to the Island? (That's a mystery to be solved in the game, after all!)

-We intend for most aspects of this adventure to be as player-friendly as possible. As such, there will be an opt-out option provided. Though all Reclaimers will wake up foggy, memory loss can be remedied as quickly or as slowly as the player wants.
Memory regains are at the Player's discretion, not at the mercy of dice rolls. The only requirement to regain memories is to play with others on the island; ICly, all they have to do is recover from their stress and reinforce their bonds with other Reclaimers and the inhabitants of the Island. You can regain memories as early as an hour in or as late as right before the CTA, whichever works best for you.

-Players will also be able to choose what memories they're losing; want Mario to forget all of Mushroom Kingdom before he arrived at the Moon Base? Go for it! Only want him to forget his time as a Reclaimer? Aces! Want Mario to wake up knowing only his name and not his purpose as a world saving plumber? Done! Not comfy with any of it? Have Mario remember after a nice de-stress hour on the beach OR take our to-be-announced Opt Out option and focus your efforts on path-building, Cr-building, and island adventuring instead!

-As mentioned before, the only memory that Reclaimers cannot regain naturally is the collective memory of how they all came to the Island. Not even Angus seems to recall! And according to this OOC Arcana Check: yes! There's a magical reason for why this memory seems to have been stolen. We'll all find out together with Angus on the island why we can't recall how we got here!

[unrecovered]

This is incredibly helpful - thank you!

EDIT: NNNNNNNevermind I just saw the "invited by" section of the interest check!