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Oof! Pow! Zocko!: Tales of The Emerald City Application

I am launching a livestreamed actual play to build up hype for the launch of the second edition of my superhero TTRPG Oof! Pow! Zocko! and I need players!

The game emphasizes creative interpretation, and provides a countercultural and deeply anti-authoritarian take on the superhero genre. Oof! Pow! Zocko! is meant to showcase characters from underprivileged and varied backgrounds, people of colour, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, pagans, goths, punks, and kids who grew up with nothing and have found themselves with the power to help others. Players take on the role of vigilantes, operating outside the law to protect their communities when the powers that be leave them to die.

In this actual play, the players are a recently formed team operating in Oz City, investigating a brutal antihero who is bringing heat on them and other vigilantes from the cops and Oz City's government lapdog "superheroes" The Futurists.

Please fill out and submit this form if you are interested in playing.
1.What are your pronouns?(Required.)
2.The game is going to run Saturdays, 2:30pm to 6pm EST. With a break halfway through. Session zero will be on November 14th, where I'll be talking about the game and walking players through character creation on stream. This will be followed by a 10-shot arc, skipping December 16th and January 2nd, with the final session February 6th.

Are you able to commit to these dates?(Required.)
3.My table and the universe of Oof! Pow! Zocko! is meant to be a safe an empowering space for ethnic minorities, all gender and sexual identities, and outsiders. I do not tolerate bigots, homophobes, transphobes, SWERFs, TERFs, Christian nationalists, zionists, generative AI users, cops, or anyone who apologizes for them. Are you on board with this?(Required.)
4.Do you have a stable internet connection and microphone to join the Virtual Tabletop and voice call?(Required.)
5.Do you have a webcam and are you comfortable appearing on camera during the stream?
6.I will be running a voice/video call on stoat.chat , do you have a Stoat account or are you okay with making one for the game (it's free and takes 5 minutes)?(Required.)
7.I would love for my players to stream the game to their own channels as well if they like, do you stream anywhere?
8.The game will deal with some heavy themes, I always seek to treat them with empathy and nuance, but it can get dark. Do any of the following make you uncomfortable?(Required.)
9.At the end of the day, this is a collaborative storytelling game, tension and conflict between CHARACTERS can be compelling, but every PLAYER at the table needs to be on board with playing as a team. If your character is a lone wolf, then YOU need to be actively looking for reasons why they are still working with others despite that. If "what your character would do" involves you being a dick to the other actual human beings at the table, you made a shitty character. Seem reasonable?
10.What is an email or social media handleI can reliably contact you at?