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APRIL STATE OF THE GAME & ARRIVALS

⏵ April State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴

Hello, Etrayans!

We’ve had a huge second application round. Our original planned player cap for Raya was about 30 players. As of this post, our count is 67 players, and 72 characters. Our mod team’s excited about how big our little project has become, and we’re so glad to have you guys here!

To that extent, we’re going to be raising our player cap to 60 and keeping it there. The number of players we have over this is fine! We’ll just be planning to maintain it at under 60 going forward.

Our FAQ notes that we do not have caps on casts, but may implement them if a particular cast grows too large. At this point in time, we have 9 members of the DC batcast. Instead of implementing a cap on the entirety of DC Comics, especially given the variety of casts within it, we're going to implement a temporary cap on Gotham specific DCs. Until this is removed, players are welcome to app others, such as Zatanna, Supergirl, or Hal Jordan, but cannot app Harley Quinn, any of the Robins, Batmen, or associates that generally stay within Gotham. We recognize this line is not clear-cut. If there are any questions, please feel free to direct them here. If we receive any reserves or applications for characters that may be riding the line, we’ll reach out to the player affected.

Applications are still open until 3PM PST today, April 26th, for any last-minute app needs.

The mod team has been editing other FAQ entries as well! Our What is the city like?, Added Locations, Native Population, Appable Characters, and Cast Caps have been edited for clarity, and to add in a few modifications as listed above.

We'll be updating our LOCATIONS page over the next week with additional places based on those who applied and were accepted; if there's any location you would like to see in particular, please feel free to use the provided form so we can get it added! Additionally, please check out our CALENDAR noting the dates of the upcoming mission and Activity Check due dates. For new characters, activity is simply responding to the ACTIVITY CHECK page using the formatting provided. Those who have not completed this by the day AC closes will be removed from the game. For this round of activity, we will provide a warning - please note that we will not be issuing warnings after April.

⏵ OOC INTRO ⏴

Welcome to the game, new arrivals! Please use the below form to introduce yourself, tell us what you’re looking forward to, and CR you’re wanting to play. We also have a mod comment HERE that you can use to ask us mods anything about our upcoming plans, add suggestions, or anything of the like.

We also have the mission plotting post that will be going up on April 29th alongside Aurora’s announcement, for mission planning!

PLAYER: your name/handle, and your preferred pronouns if you want to provide them!
CONTACT: feel free to link to your plurk, provide a discord handle, or state any other preferences!
ABOUT YOU: what fandoms are you in? what cool thing about you do you think would be fun to share? are you more of a texty tagger, a log tagger, quick boomeranger?

CHARACTER: who have you apped? what canon are they from?
CHARACTER INFO: how excited are they to be told their entire world is going to be destroyed if they're not invited to the cool kids table? are they prepared to make friends? or stab people in the back? or are they planning on finding every kitten available, taking over a couple of apartments, and starting a cat colony?
CR NOTES: what kind of cr are you looking for, or not looking for? 
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: this is mostly for us mods: tell us things you're interested in! are you here more for horror elements, the mystery, or the plot behind why echo has called everyone in? do you want to explore the world and figure out what's beyond the bubble etraya resides in? let us know!
OTHER: this is for pretty pictures or gifs. or possum pics, if you like possums.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

PLAYER: fey, she/her
CONTACT:

wisdombitch, also available via PM!
ABOUT YOU: Hey folks, nice to meet you! I'm Fey, local TTRPG liveplay enthusiast who likes a little bit of everything, including musical theatre, animanga, comics, and an overwhelming amount of indie games. Considering the makeup of the casts here, I feel obligated to add that I also played Blue Beetle & Saint Walker for a very long time and all of you are making me feel very nostalgic!!!! I'm someone who largely favours log tags, and I look forward to playing with y'all!

CHARACTER: Riz Gukgak | Dimension 20: Fantasy High. I'm taking him from in the middle of Sophomore Year, so if you haven't caught up with the current season, no spoilers here!

CHARACTER INFO: I'm here with Riz Gukgak, certified Little Guy! He's a goblin adventurer from Aguefort Academy, which is a school geared towards training children in the art of adventuring and heroism largely by training them how to kill things really, really well. Riz here is a Rogue, a licensed Private Investigator, a champion catastrophizer, and overall a very intense (though polite) young man who has a tough time making friends. That's what his business cards are for. He's generally a pretty friendly, excitable little nerd, he loves his mom, he's small enough to be easily carried around in his friends' backpacks, hisses at his enemies, and he has a gun, which is something all sixteen year olds should probably have.

He's saved the world once, is in the middle of saving it a second time, is currently unaware that saving it the third and probable fourth time will be coming up later this year, so he's an old hat at facing down existential terror. That said, he's going to be diving headfirst into the mystery with his trademark paranoia and will be more than happy to rope anyone interested right in there with him. Come down the rabbit hole with him, or maybe just switch out his coffee with decaf because he hasn't slept in three days.

CR NOTES: The boring answer, but: everything!!! I would love for some dumb teen CR, for him to be a general menace to the adults, to find others willing to go with him on his wild conspiracy plots about what's happening in this world, or to find people who might be willing to yank him out of that particular spiral. I'm open to positive/neutral/negative CR, so however things go, I'm happy to roll with it.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm truly down for everything! I'm a great lover of horror elements, so I'll be diving headfirst to whatever those will be, but in the meantime, Riz is pretty much tailor-made for figuring out mysteries. Riz here is extremely focused on hunting down the plot, whatever the plot may be, so that's going to be the path he's charging headfirst down. That said, I'm also a fan of humour and silliness, so any and all slice of life shenanigans and teen nonsense is extremely welcome.

OTHER:

looking forward for more shenanigans with these two shortstacks

Yesss I'm looking forward to it too! Their first interaction has already been really funny and... mutually clueless...... these kids!!!

though I do feel obliged to share that my understanding of shortstack is. short + stacked, aka endowed with a huge rack. I fear this applies to neither of ours LOL

oh

yeah that apparently passed me by lmfao. Thanks for telling me |D;;

BUT YES the mutual confusion upon meeting with a giant cat. Chef's kiss. Let's do more of that. :3

LOL no worries, I thought I'd just pass it on, courtesy of someone who deeply misunderstood Netflix and chill for many years.................

anyway yes!!! definitely interested in continuing that, and maybe pursuing whatever the next mission is going to be!

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revengeisalie - 2024-04-29 08:51 (UTC) - Expand

I am happy to throw this particular teenager at him, although Asuka is gonna be like WAIT WHAT THE- at first.

HAHAH yes, I think Riz will be getting that a lot, and I'll be enjoying every instance! I'd love for them to get some CR -- Riz's whole circle is made up solely of troubled teens, honestly, so Asuka will fit right in!

Yessss, I'll look forward to it.

THE BAAAALLLLLLLLLLL

MY DARLING BOYYYYYYYY

listen I gotta channel bill, we have no in character nicknames. gotta come up with one!!!!

Hello! I’ve mentioned twice now that I’m a huge Fantasy High fan, so I will be throwing Tim at Riz at some point.

Ah, hello hello! I'd love that -- I'm a big batfam fan too, and Tim's my favourite Robin, so we're approaching from similar places! TBH I think these two boys have maybe a little too much in common lol, I expect that they'd get along!

Tim wants Riz to know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being prepared, carrying a briefcase, or short. In his soul, he should know that.

Riz would likewise like to let Tim know that there's absolutely nothing wrong with having several clue boards, descending down the path of possible paranoia, or not sleeping for days at a time. They'll be fabulous influences on each other!!!

REACHES FOR

REACHES FOR....!!!!

have fun with all of these AWFUL CHILDREN, nicky!!!!!

i think you mean favourite children

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stresstokens - 2024-04-28 06:19 (UTC) - Expand

feyyyyyy im excited for our little nerds to hang out

vash has never met anyone so VISIBLY nonhuman so it's going to be a wild time for him

oooh yes, that sounds like a fun jumping off point for CR too!! I'm excited for them to meet too... I'm so canonblind but I have a feeling they'll get along okay :>

FEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

AHHHHH HELLO MY FRIEND!!!!! VERY excited to be in the same game again!!!

these guys GOTTA stick together as two of the very few visible non-humans around here, though peeking at your info for him, I'm cracking up at the sheer size disparity between them. riz is gonna look like a whole toddler next to him.

IT'S GONNA BE GR9

LMAO YES ffxiv elfs are huge... about how tall is a dnd goblin? out of curiosity

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stresstokens - 2024-05-04 01:52 (UTC) - Expand

you can't be tempted by your old characters they literally mentioned hal up there!!!

UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE BOTH PLAYING TO TYPE.... you can't app another flyboy, and I can't app another mama's boy, woe upon us

we'll just have to throw these dudes at each other instead and see what happens (for the record, riz would be firmly in the camp of "hey clone wars staff, the darth vader theme wasn't necessarily needed when stabbing that one dude")

so anakin can stab someone as a treat? excellent become his new friend to make excuses