Just wanted to drop a note that we did open just a couple days ago! Still in those early growing stages, everyone making the first characters and such, but for anyone that was watching this thread, we open fam!

Hello! Aftermath is an Arknights inspired roleplay that's non-canon, focusing on player made stories with the occasional site-wide event to get a few balls rolling. For anyone who hasn't played or heard of Arknights (a mobile gatcha style game with gameplay that resembles a tower defense style game, but the towers are anime catgirls) here's the basic premise:

Arknights is set in a futuristic alternate world where Catastrophes, the common name of a collection of devastating natural disasters of unheard of destructive power, have completely changed the way the world functions. Cities now move, massive crawling islands across the countryside, constantly orbiting their territories to avoid these storms of devastation. And in the wake of these storms perhaps the most curious of artifacts is left behind: Originium, a semi-transparent black crystal charged with power and combustible energy. Originium has changed both warfare and power sources, being a source of both the ammunition used in guns, making firearms very rare, something that a user can draw magical energy from to increase their arts power, and even harnessing its combustible energy for small combustion engines akin to nuclear reactors. Perhaps the most important thing is increased exposure to Originium can result in Oripathy, a disease where the material actually grows in or on a person, currently resulting in a 100% mortality rate. Individuals with Oripathy are often segregated and discriminated against due to this. Also there's like, 26 different races from catgirls to bunny girls to literal angels with halos and demons with horns, so like, there's something for everyone. We've taken the settings and the story of the game and tossed it, making our own setting to focus more on a mysterious sea-living people who have contained these storms at sea, and also on the people attempting to cure Oripathy.


Now the staff I'm looking for is just basic staff. The site is set up with templates and I can work my way around some basic coding as needed, same with graphics. I'm more looking for a few people to help with basic upkeep of the discord/site. Accepting profiles, answering questions, general stuff, as I work an average of 40-50 hours a week on grave shift. (midnight to 8:30a est, so I'm around at hella weird hours.) I would like any staff to have knowledge of the source material to better judge a member's character best in regards to abilities and such.

Basic duties include:

• Accepting members when able (I understand some may require some deliberation with other staff)
• Answering questions and greeting new members or guests in the discord.
• Basic advertising
• Friendly and approachable, available at least three days a week on average.

My extended vacation officially begins! I'll be launching a staff search soon and writing up the last few things, like settings and a few claims threads. I'll edit in a link to the staff search when it's up! Hopefully all y'all can join soon! I'm excited to get things going!

Currently complete:

• Basic rules and plot/premise for launch (plans for story events upcoming)
• Member groups made and all RP sections made
• FC / Member Directory / Job Claim is complete
• Shipper app complete and main-profile app is complete for a 2-part app process
• Ad banner made
• Discord made and roles made / categories made (Need to look into bots)

Few more days and a few more updates!

Basic rules and guidelines, races, and the site itself are all up and coded. (Used a premade code for the member directory) and I'm currently working on coding a simple shipper app.

The bulk of a traditional app is actually in the main profile section of the site! Which is neat! I have some basic story points laid out and the member groups are made, I just need to write up some blurbs for that section. But we're chugging along. Once I get the basics all complete I'll be launching a staff search since I work 40+ hours on grave shift I'll need some helping hands for stuff like accepting profiles and basic moderating/advertisements. If all work goes as planned I'm hoping to have it complete and ready for a launch around the 18th to 20th, since I'll be on a vacation! Gives me time to devote to an opening and initial influx of members.

I hate to double post so soon, but I am curious as to some thoughts from the people that've shown some interest: Currently I have characters split into Operators or Civillians, with those Operators split into 7 factions (or member groups) to sort of keep track of where everyone is. So the member groups would be as follows:

• Civillian
• Rhodes Island
• Rhine Labs
• Kazimierz Knights (including outliers like Platinum)
• Penguin Logistics
• Kjerag Trade Co. (Silver Ash's company, houses Ops from the country of the same name)
• Lungmen Guard Dept
• Unknown, housing smaller groups like the Glasgow Gang, those from Abyssal, the Followers, etc. Small groups that in game have maybe one to 4 units and no real ties to any single city-state or major group (like PL)

I'll definitely keep you in mind! Just started my weekend so I'm hoping to make progress on getting the basic info filled in. Need to decide if I'm going to commission or just code a shipper app myself, since it can be really simple. The nice thing is the main profile doubles as a traditional app.

Yeah the dragons are an easy condense. Also the horses/hooves creatures can probably get condensed as well since I think they're broken into like 4 categories if you include Courier. The artist I got with just got the codes to me yesterday and I'm finishing up putting everything in and making some font/color changes then I should be able to show a bit of what it looks like. Was waiting for that since it comes with matching templates.

EDIT: Didn't want to double post myself but I wanted to include an image preview of the site skin. Pretty pleased with it, purchased from Lux over on tumblr and edited to have a color scheme that more matched to the gold/red UI that arknights has for most of it. (teal didn't really pull too well with graphics). Still working on a name and filling in all the templates with info, making a placeholder discord server, etc.

I'm just a little lemon who has no idea how to code on proboards. BUT! I am a little lemon that likes making graphics. So we compromise y'all. *shrugs in pain*

Y'all out here thirsty for some disenfranchised catgirls (I mean, same tbh)

I'm working with a coder at the moment to purchase a skin for the site, not exclusive but enough to set the site apart from most, and working on filling in some basic lore/info posts. I'll know more about application style once the skin is installed since I believe it comes with some custom codes for that and I don't want to overwrite too much. Once that's done thought I'll maybe start looking for some staff if anyone is interested??? (I'll start looking more seriously once I can get all the base info and site aesthetics down.


But since I got so many of you liking the concept!!! What are y'alls thoughts on the races of Ancients? I think there's 26 named races in the game at present and some of them are literally for one character total, looking at you Courier, so I'm thinking of maybe condensing some of those. Like Pero and Lupo, just keeping Lupo as a catch all for canines instead of one for dogs and one for wolves, etc. Thoughts?