APRIL STATE OF THE GAME & ARRIVALS

[etrayamods]

⏵ 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! <b>PLAYER:</b> your name/handle, and your preferred pronouns if you want to provide them! <b>CONTACT:</b> feel free to link to your plurk, provide a discord handle, or state any other preferences! <b>ABOUT YOU:</b> 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? <b>CHARACTER:</b> who have you apped? what canon are they from? <b>CHARACTER INFO:</b> 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? <b>CR NOTES:</b> what kind of cr are you looking for, or not looking for? <b>PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> 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! <b>OTHER:</b> this is for pretty pictures or gifs. or possum pics, if you like possums.

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[etrayamods]

[westcoasts]

PLAYER: laura, she/her
CONTACT: spandex, i have discord but like, i forget to login almost all the time, so... ur better off w/ PMs and PPs.
ABOUT YOU: oh fam. i'm ur average average 30-something east londoner who FUCKING HATES superhero comics and thinks they're a terrible mistake but here we are. here we fucking are. i'm in deep with marvel. i have one (1) cat and i drink a lot of coffee. i cycle, i play guitar and i watch a disgusting amount of taskmaster. i have hobbies that i like to use in place of having a personality!

COOL THING ABOUT ME once i ended up hanging out with dexter and the offspring gang at a club in osaka, and i'm thinking about spending like £70 to see the fucking descendents play in june? extortionate but there's like fifty bands playing, so it almost seems reasonable. this is where i'm at with my life, fam. please tell me i'm cool.

by-the-by wrt tagging speed, i'm just transitioning into a new role at work after having a couple of weeks vacation time thanks to some personal stuff, so i'm about to go from being shockingly fucking speedy to my much more typical pace of "ah, can I do tags on a workday?? lol no."
text tags are generally a lot faster, but i'm based in the uk so gestures. depends, innit.

CHARACTER: clint barton / hawkeye (og) — marvel
nb. as like, a thing, i'm obvs v. familiar w/ fraction's run but i generally prefer gruenwald/busiek/nicieza so, like, i'm out here trying to strike a balance between pre and post matt fucking fraction.

CHARACTER INFO: well, you know, it just happens, doesn't it? clint recently had to deal with being judged in canon (he was ... better than a mailbox, apparently. look i mentioned comics were a mistake, yes?), so this genuinely is just another day ending in -y. he's not going to be thrilled. he will be a snarky shit about it and everything else. cocky and insecure, it's a look!!
or— circus lad grew up to be an archer who was briefly (very, very fucking briefly) a villain and now he's a good guy who's, like, BEEN THROUGH SOME SHIT recently so it's a little complicated. but he's both really good with and really likes arrows. so it's cool.

the other hawkeye's kinda cool too though.
(jokes he loves kate y'all better have been treating her good)

CR NOTES: obligatory unhelpful ota. clint's fairly easy to get cr with in a general sense, but he is pretty obnoxious. good guy, just — a bit of a shit. professionally, he's great at what he does (aka shooting arrows, sometimes using swords, sometimes wearing fetish gear), but his personal life is a disaster because he's just a regular dude running around shooting people with arrows and that, like, takes a lot of time and energy.

also, you know. nicieza (or busiek icr who wrote this issue) letting us know clint fucks before fraction let us know clint fucks, just in case we were ever unsure.
(except his ex-wife is here too and he's a simp for her.)

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: fam, i love it all. mystery, horror, exploration, what-the-fuck-ever, i just like to explore characters being shits (varying, affectionate) to each other, y'know? whatever excuse i have for that is fucking a+

OTHER:

[notthatstraight]

So sorry to everyone Kate talked about Clint to as she forgot to mention what mess he is.

[westcoasts]

he's an absolute delight what are you talking about

[notthatstraight]

She loves you Clint but come on

[westcoasts]

he makes it look good........

[westcoasts]

okay but fr, speaking as someone that knows fuck all about the batfam et al


i'm kind of ENTERTAINED by the world of difference between bruce and his kids and


the hawkeyes wheeze

Chrono | Asuka Langley Soryu

[redheadcarrier]

PLAYER: Chrono, he/him
CONTACT: Drop me a PM or find me on plurk (dragoon1940
ABOUT YOU: Hey hey! I'm in all kinds of fandoms - I think my "forever" fandoms are Tolkien, Evangelion, Crest of the Stars, the Ancillary Justice series... and lately been very into Frieren and Dungeon Meshi. I played FFXIV for a while, but I've kinda fallen off, even if I still appreciate a lot of it.

I'm also, sadly, into Fate/. I bounce around between a lot of different things, though - I enjoy a lot of sci-fi and fantasy stuff and I'm also a big fan of historical fiction (and reading about history in general). One my my hobbies is painting tiny models so I can wargame with them! I tend to be a pretty quick tagger and tag length varies, depending on the thread and the action in it! Looking forward to meeting all of you.

CHARACTER: Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion, specifically at the end of End of Evangelion.

CHARACTER INFO: Asuka is a deeply traumatized child soldier with a inferiority complex and a lot of complicated emotions about emotional intimacy and being close to others. She's a little messed up and is definitely going to be a bit hard to get along with - both because she's a teenager and because she has trouble connecting with others in a constructive way. She's not sure she wants to even save her planet/world, but she figures she might as well make a go of it. She has mixed feelings on making friends, but will probably be lonely if she doesn't find any.

CR NOTES: Hoping for Asuka to find people who are willing to put up with her bullshit long enough for her to sort of come around and realize hey, people are worth sticking with and allowing yourself to be open with people is a good thing! Also willing for her to butt heads and make enemies/rivals and just really dislike one another. Sort of hoping she'll get some healing and start working through her bullshit, but it's a long road. So - looking for friends, rivals, people for vicious hating, and everything in between.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: She's going to be a bit more direct and will be focused on the missions, but she's a smart cookie (even if she's a teenager with an attitude problem) and poking into the greater mysteries sounds like a lot of fun, honestly. So does maybe building a new place for herself in this strange in-between place.

OTHER:

[mostdangerousbird]

Hello! I can't tell you how much I want to have Tim mistake Clint for Ollie.

[notthatstraight]

the Bats all try to prove they are adult enough to do what they do

Kate has no option but to be the adult in the relationship, but she believes in Clint

[westcoasts]

clint's way cooler

purple's 100% a better colour than fucking green, like, who wears that, man?

[brat]

i mean are you really into comics if you aren't also hating them because they suck. isn't the whole system you get really into them, then they start sucking worse, but you believe in them, maybe they'll get better, but no, instead marvel and dc find ways to make them worse but here we are, eternally buying them, wondering why we continue to do this to ourselves...

anyway.

hi! i'm jessi, i've got damian wayne here, and also billy kaplan (wiccant) who will be in clint's space about as much as kate is, given they're besties and he's stuck with them. probably.

[westcoasts]

it's uhhhh

clint's just going with

exposure therapy

or whatever.

(it's been a hard few years..........)

[furiousfists]

PLAYER: Chris (she/they)
CONTACT: millennialfalcon
ABOUT YOU: my main hyperfixations fandoms at the moment are all various D&D actual play franchises (Dimension 20, NADDPOD, TAZ, Dungeons and Daddies, Legends of Avantris, etc.), and also playing D&D myself. But aside from that, I like Star Wars, Marvel (both comics and live action), My Hero Academia, and a bunch of other stuff. I tend to prefer text tags over log tags, but happy to do either. I either boomerang or go many, many days in between tags, with little in between.

CHARACTER: Adaine Abernant from Dimension 20: Fantasy High
CHARACTER INFO: Adaine is your standard teen elf divination wizard, studying at a high school for adventurers. She has anxiety, anger issues, and probably a fair amount of undiagnosed PTSD. Having saved her world a couple of times now, she won't be too happy to learn that it's under an even bigger threat, and will do her best to stop that from happening.
CR NOTES: Fellow teens! Other magic users! More non-humans! Adaine's not really romance-minded, so while I'm not completely closed off to the idea of a ship, it will be the ssslllooowwweeesssttt of slow burns.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:Adaine is going to be champing at the bit to figure out the mysteries behind this world and the powers keeping them here. I'm not afraid of horror, and really just can't wait to see what happens!

OTHER:

[revengeisalie]

hello

[revengeisalie]

Hello fellow teen and figure-outer of mysteries! Because Rin wants that too.

Re: mod queries

[furiousfists]

Out of curiosity for potential future apps, would a Bat-character who is not Gotham based (and has only met Batman once) still be excluded under this cap?

I'm thinking specifically of Wang Baixi, aka Bat-Man of China.

[westcoasts]

the venn diagram of being a comics fan is genuinely a circle of "what the fuck are comics?" -> "oh hey, okay, there's this one run that's pretty cool, huh" -> "WHAT THE FUCK ARE FUCKING COMICS".

like christ, they're the worst
but

here we fucking are

HEY BRO i am actually painfully dc-blind because i just kind of glaze over at the thought of trying to understand dc's timeline and also because i know i'd end up deep in batfam hell and i'm not willing to do that to myself
also, soz billy, you're stuck with ......... being clint adjacent.......

(ACTUALLY SIDE NOTE i mostly play moon knight and i think??? we might have tagged like once?
eta: also i may be wrong bc i can't remember usernames to save my fUCKING LIFE)

[furiousfists]

Yes! I saw that Rin already met Riz, so that's definitely an in for these two to meet!

[mostdangerousbird]

Tim dresses like a stoplight; he has zero room to throw stones.

But as the Batgirls will come for him if he slanders purple, yes, purple is superior. Also there's a slight hypocrisy to dressing up like Robin Hood if you're a billionaire, Ollie.

[mostdangerousbird]

Hey Chris! I love Fantasy High, need to catch up on this season but I see Adaine is from episode 2 so I'm safe. I'll probably throw Tim at her, because why not and also he's a nerd and she's an elf.

[maximumlegend]

PLAYER: Jelle, she/her!
CONTACT: queeningsquare
ABOUT YOU: I'm a true dutchbag from the Netherlands! So if you ever get tags in the middle of the night and wonder if I'm just always awake at 3 AM, no, that's just the European in me.. I'm not much of a boomeranger, but I'm definitely the type who will backtag a thread into forever with you regardless of your speed. Style-wise I'm up for anything - dumb quick network threads, deep emotional log threads-- anything! I could be your angel or your devil, baby.

CHARACTER: Fabian Aramais Seacaster from Dimension 20: Fantasy High! Please note that I'm taking him from the latter half of Junior Year. It's unlikely big spoilers will come up from that season's main plot, especially stuff that's not specifically Fabian-centered, but if you're absolutely trying to avoid spoilers, feel free to let me know and I'll keep them entirely away from you!

CHARACTER INFO: Fabian has been his world's last hope along with the rest of his adventuring party pretty much three times already, so.. really, this is just another typical day for him. It doesn't mean he won't do his best, but. You know. He's just got a little bit more experience! A little bit less likely to freak out, maybe! (I say about a boy whose emotions are all over the place at all times.)

He sure is a character though. He's the captain of his high school sports team. He cries at the drop of a hat. He's the son of a legendary pirate. He accidentally shat in front of his entire class. He ended toxic masculinity by dancing. He constantly acts like your average obnoxious Youtuber, but with weird dramatic archaic speech sometimes slipped in. He has a golden neck tattoo that reads "Maximum Legend."

He is somehow, inexpicably, the most popular kid in school.

CR NOTES: I'm excited for any CR, really! Fabian is generally a friendly guy, so as long as the other person is willing to put up with his wild energy levels, it's pretty easy to get to know him. He's very good with other teens and has really got that himbo bro energy going with fellow male teens. And if an adult wants to look out for this boy a little bit.. please do so. Please. You don't know the levels of trouble Fabian gets himself into because he was never properly socialized as a kid.

Fabian might also want to start a sports team here depending on how things unfold, so if anyone is particularly interested in that, I'd love to build some CR that way!

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Honestly, it all sounds so good! If I'd have to choose, I would say that because of the way Fabian is, I'd definitely be interested in some exploration, that's right up his alley! (And mystery solving, but that's more in combination with his friends.. He's not too good at it on his own..) Putting him through some horror stuff is also always great though.

OTHER:

[brat]

it's okay, i have the opposite problem of i can't understand marvel's timeline despite playing uhh, a couple mutants, plus a few of the yas. luckily, most of mine also don't give two shits about the timeline so i can just pretend i know what i'm doing.

dc has also rebooted so many times, and then it retcons reboots, but only some of the reboots, not all of them, and the batfam is a disaster, dni.

and 90% of batfam comics suck now, only nightwing has survived suckage. and mostly because everything else is just really, really shitty.

we tagged once i think, but i'm p sure we've also been circling each other for... a while. i think i left dup right around when you apped.

[westcoasts]

look! clint has way more of a leg to stand on here! orphan, guy that veers wildly between a broke-ass piece of shit vs hilariously rich depending on how much of his brother's money he has at any given time........

clinton francis barton is a man of the people, you heard it here.....

[etrayamods]

Bat-Man of China is a treasure and should come beat Batman up.

Given he's not Gotham-based and not close to the current cast, he would be allowed! Our cap is mostly to avoid having a massive group of characters with pre-established CR.