Meet your lovely¹⁾ GM team! We're very excited to participate in this game with you all, and if you need anything (advice, clarification, emotional support) please feel free to reach out to us at gm@exnihilo.oxfordrpg.com or on the game's Discord.

Note that Ex Nihilo GMs will be playing slightly different roles to GMs in other Society Games, in particular, we do not have NPCs! See Start Here! for more details.

OC Pronouns: he/him
Main Themes: Everything. Rationalising the unknown, assigning explanations to the incomprehensible, and listening to voices in the darkness.
If you woke up as the only member of your species in an unfamiliar world, what would you do: Utilise my expansive materials science knowledge (yes, I get to start out with that) to rebuild all of modern technology.
If you had big glowing runes across your body, how would they describe you: They might describe me as a plotter. But they would never describe me as a schemer (I don't do that).
If you were a Core, what would that look like: Core that makes you take on a fair and balanced number of responsibilities.

OC Pronouns: she/her
Main Themes: You are not the dominant species. You are not alone. Building societies. Funny rock people.
If you woke up as the only member of your species in an unfamiliar world, what would you do: Invent literature from first principles. Failing that, die in an archaeologically interesting manner.
If you had big glowing runes across your body, how would they describe you: C₁₈H₂₄O₂
If you were a Core, what would that look like: The Monkey's Paw. Frequently correct but rarely in a useful way.

OC Pronouns: she/her
Main Themes: How do you make an identity for yourself when there's nothing to craft one from? Do you have a purpose sculpted for you, or do you need to carve one out?
If you woke up as the only member of your species in an unfamiliar world, what would you do: Find another intelligent species. Do they have opposable thumbs? If no, we're in business. If yes…. ngl that's all I had going for me. Pick a god and pray, I suppose?
If you had big glowing runes across your body, how would they describe you: They would have at least three puns, maybe even a fourth.
If you were a Core, what would that look like: Very similar to the Ravenous, but only for biscuits. Tesco's bourbon biscuits hate to see me coming.

OC Pronouns: any
Main Themes: Freakiness quality control. Have you ever been a part of a society game which doesn't have freaky, (or weird, etc.) stuff happening? You may be entitled to a compensation. But also, I was definitely not GMing that game.
If you woke up as the only member of your species in an unfamiliar world, what would you do: Start a “society game” where I “role play” a member of a weird new species made of flesh which does a “university” most of the days.
If you had big glowing runes across your body, how would they describe you: Just tired a lot of the time.
If you were a Core, what would that look like: It would be called The Ambitious: the player character who has a lot of ideas of things to do, but wastes their time instead of pursuing them.

OC Pronouns: he/him
Main Themes: Survival in a dangerous world very different from the regular one. The birth of a society ex nihilo.
If you woke up as the only member of your species in an unfamiliar world, what would you do: Probably punch a tree.
If you had big glowing runes across your body, how would they describe you: ²⁾
If you were a Core, what would that look like: Something like The Chekov's Gun, where things I see or do somehow foreshadow future events, but I don't know which things I see or do are the foreshadowing.