JUNE STATE OF THE GAME

[etrayamods]

⏵ June State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴ Hello, Etrayans! We hope you enjoyed your time at Summer Camp! Or if your character had the fun of going off to Solmara, we hope they enjoyed fighting beasts, and convincing Borealis to come out of hiding! For this application round, we have opted to keep them open an additional week. We announced this over plurk, but realize not everyone checks there! Their new closure date will be July 4th. This will not impact our log or posting schedule at all. In addition, as of today, June 27th, the X-Men cast is no longer under cap. We've got our arrival mingle going up later today to welcome new characters! Please keep an eye out for it. On July 11th, our mission announcement and plotting post will be going up. We do want to note that this next mission will be off world, and we intend for its' duration to be four weeks. As always, we strive to be flexible and build our missions up to suit our player base/characters currently in game, so if we need to slow it down some or put up any additional logs mid-mission, we may check in with our players during to get a feel on if that would help any. Our last feedback post went up on June 19th with our next coming up on September 18th - but we welcome feedback throughout the year regardless of if there's a specific post asking for it! You are always welcome to comment to our older feedback posts with any concerns, comments, or ideas of what we can do to improve the game. We can't promise to bring everything into play, but we do listen to the ideas that have been brought our way and have implemented many player suggestions in the past. Our Mod Contact page is always open in case you would like a screened location to reach out to. Don't forget your Activity! This is just a comment with your handle and characters' names for new players. You are welcome to submit TDM threads for activity points if wanted. Our activity results post always goes up on the 1st of the month, and we have switched to providing a warning list for characters who have yet to responded to AC with an additional five days to respond from the date our results post goes up. ⏵ 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 want 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. <b>PLAYER:</b> your name/handle, and your preferred pronouns if you want to provide them! <b>CONTACT:</b> your plurk, discord, carrier pigeon's name to call out to the wind to get their attention <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> are they rowdy and loud? an introvert who needs an extrovert to adopt them and take them out into the world? how are they going to settle into game? is there anything in particular you're looking for with them? <b>PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> mostly for us mods: tell us things you're interested in! are you here more for horror elements, the mystery, soft fluffy missions, 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.

Comments

[ornitiers]

He is the cutest. I also love Zidane and Garnet, and Steiner really grew on me, but. It was always gonna be Vivi for my favourite. To the point that I had a little plush before I even played it (years prior), just because he was adorable. I blame the anni and all the merch that is making me nostalgic for IX.

I'm down for Vivi meeting all types, though. That should be interesting.

[ornitiers]

Oh, if it's like. Readily available info from like the basic premise sort of thing/blurbs from the site/back of the game case sort of thing, I don't so much mind that. Just for stuff you only find out later on as you play through the game, sort of deal! I appreciate the caution, I know a lot of friends have been playing it/have played it, and it's still pretty recent in comparison to IX (25 years how.........????)

Thanks for the link! I'll have a look at the prompts and tag in.

Cass | Dick Grayson | DC Comics

[auderes]

PLAYER: Cass they/them
CONTACT: volantes feel free to add me if you like!
ABOUT YOU: I'm all about DC comics at the moment, but I have an enduring love for MCU and Star Wars and Supernatural among other things. I am a sometimes mid, often slow tagger because of work and also recent medical issues (it's been/is an ongoing whole thing) but please don't hesitate to give me a poke if you want to tag or just drop in on a top level/in the ic inbox!

CHARACTER: Dick Grayson of DC comics fame, specifically Rebirth flavor
CHARACTER INFO: Dick is an outgoing, positive and all-around supportive sort of guy, even when he isn't swinging around in a suit doing his vigilante hero thing. He's also a fairly shameless showboat (honestly what would anyone expect from a former circus kid that was adopted by none other than Bruce Wayne) but he genuinely cares The Most about his friends and family and helping people because that's not just a job, it's his mission in life. That said he sticks to his metaphorical guns on morality, so that can get very friction-y with types that are willing to do a little murder and such to accomplish a goal.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: A little bit of everything really! I like to even out the fluffy stuff with more tense, dramatic interludes, and Dick is a very flexible character (lol) as far as getting involved in just about anything, so I'm looking forward to letting him do what he does best as well as stretch out and get into the best/worst the the multiverse has to offer.
OTHER:

he's a dork tbh

[demainvient]

his arm is VERY cool, thank you for noticing!

Scout | Clea Dessendre

[repaintress]

PLAYER: Scout
CONTACT: PM or ScoutRPsStuff. I pretty much only use my Plurk for RP stuff.
ABOUT YOU: I'm a silly mostly one fandom at a time sort and right now I'm in the midst of Expedition 33 brain rot. Outside of that, I'm a Instructional Designer who reads a lot of non-fiction and plays RPGs. I try to tag at least once a day, but since I tag at work, this can vary if I have to actually do my job or if my disability is acting up (I have MS. It's not a good time - no time for more fandoms, too busy sleeping.) I code sometimes.

I used to go here and was Linhardt von Hevring. New brain rot unlocked so. You know how it is.

SPOILER NOTE: Clea is by nature pretty much a walking CO:E33 spoiler. If you'd like to opt out, please hit me up and I'll be happy to avoid you to save spoilers!
CHARACTER: Clea Dessendre from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I'm on the hype train choo chooooo. All aboard!
CHARACTER INFO: Clea Dessendre is a menace to society.

Oh, more than that?

Clea is an artist from fantasy Fin de siècle Paris, where painters have the ability to create literal pocket worlds inside of their Canvases. Clea is a woman whose soul is dedicated to the mastering of the arts. She's a skilled Painter. She dances beautifully. She plays the harp exquisitely. She sings. She has all of the refinement one might expect of a rich, artistic Frenchwoman from the early 20th century... and she also solves all of her problems with the threat of violence and is more than happy to engage in fisticuffs or a duel in the street.

She's also kind of the stone age predecessor of the goths in that she has a fascination with the weird, eerie, and macabre. She loves the broken, the abandoned, the strange and the unusual. The more unconventional and offputting, the better. This extends to people. Are you weird and interesting? Good.

Right now, Clea is in the throes of very raw grief and most of it comes out as anger. Alas. The rest is repressed. Let her be extra at you, or engage in some 'friendly' competition. She's extremely competitive and a perfectionist to her very core: beating her at something will result in her dedicating her time to proving herself.

Big older sister energy. She's going to pull your hair.


PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

• Let her make monsters for you! If you're a figher type, Clea fucking loves making weird disturbing creatures that kill and injure people in a variety of horrifying ways. (She's working through some things...). It's not real, so it's a good way to train and she really likes showing off her monsters. She just encountered the Tonberries and she's going to make them so much worse better. :D


• Alternatively, people to have fun with. As Clea finally gets some space to grieve, she's regressing a bit and it would do her good to just...mess around and relearn that life can be fun. Friendly competition, her being frustrated by being surrounded by people with super powers, her mercilessly roasting your lack of sartorial taste...


• Allies in the missions: Clea thinks being tasked to save her world tracks. OBVIOUSLY, Paris is the center of the world and OBVIOUSLY art is the center of the world and so OBVIOUSLY they chose her. (She doesn't lack in the self-esteem department.) She's fully here for the missions even when she's full of snarky commentary, and allies would be welcome. She also is the type of person who needs a purpose/something to do, so she'll be grabbing onto this pretty hard.


• Related to the above, re: her regressing. She needs surrogate younger siblings. Let her be your irresponsible older sister. Parent? Absolutely not - she's the aunt/sister who will facilitate your irresponsible escapades. And roast you. Possibly dunk you in a lake. Or shove you. She doesn't miss them. At all. Stop suggesting it.


• Other art people and/or snobs. Clea has a very, very strong passion for art and will pontificate if she's allowed. She's very talented and likes multiple forms of art and will happily talk about all of them.


• Please, dear God, have her meet some people with some emotional health. Clea needs help expressing her emotions in non-violent and non-angry ways.You can't punch/stab/monster your way through grief, Clea. Just any kind of person or space where she can learn that expressing herself is okay, actually, and people aren't going to despise her if she slows the slightest bit of vulnerability.


• Alternatively, people to try making her worse? She's definitely bordering on villain territory. She has to deal with her grief, who's to say she does so in a healthy way?


• Gods or powerful beings or really anyone in a position to dig into Clea's attitude towards her family's creations. She's terribly abusive of her power and incredibly dismissive of the pain of anyone she considers 'not real' or who lacks agency. I really want to put her in positions where she's the vulnerable/not real/mortal one and cause her to question herself or have that attitude judged. Potentially with breakdowns. The shoe needs to be on the other foot.


• Related to the above, situations where she's vulnerable and needs help from other people. Her self-loathing will flare so much. Let's make her suffer.

OTHER:

Re: Jonathan Crane | Dark Knight Trilogy

[repaintress]

[repaintress]

Re: Zorn | Emet-Selch | Final Fantasy XIV

[repaintress]

he can peep people's souls and whatnot, making little notes of their soul densities and the like.

If you look at Clea's soul, she'll stab you with a chisel. (Do it.) Also parts of it are missing?

But no for serious, having someone pull the 'you're not real/not a person' thing on Clea would be A+.

[repaintress]

Spoilery meme

[demainvient]

lkjdslkhs THAT MEME


Gustave is ruining EVERYTHING!!!!!

[repaintress]

Angry, prickly people with abandonment issues club meeting?

With shitty coffee?

Spoilers

[repaintress]

It's a good thing Alicia likes him so much! And that he's pretty.

GIVE HER CHROMA BACK.

[repaintress]

Vivi should never talk to Clea and there should be 500 feet between them at all times minimum, but I wanted to jump in and squeal because I love Vivi and FFIX and am so glad he's here. <3

[bonding]

!! I loooved playing off your Kris i love them.... Thank you for tagging me/the welcome!! I played here once before back when it first opened but the character didn't work out so its fun to be back and see all that's changed since then.

Noelle might not have a great time but i sure will

[repaintress]

I was looking through mingle threads and Clea wants to encourage him to crush the robots as they are offending her so...abrasive bonding times? Potentially?

Spoilers

[repaintress]

Don't let Clea use your hammerspace as a packrat. Can she please have the Tonberry drawing and one of the little cactus statues she likes them.

oh dear clea...

[betenoir]

DRUGS

Excuse the wrong journal (because lol) but yes! Crane can keep her supplied with the finest drugs of choice. Especially hallucinogens. Which are ENTIRELY LEGAL here go away vigilantes.

Also he's really good at it so she'd get the highest grade 100% pure stuff.

This will work out great.

[repaintress]

WANT TO SEE THE ELDRITCH HORRORS SHE PAINTS ON HALLUCINOGENS, CRANE?

You just gotta come over here...

[betenoir]

He's gonna be so conflicted. Does he help her in a mission or let her die? SPOILERS you know why it'll be the latter.

[repaintress]

Spoilers

Haha if her world dies your wife dies. SUCKS TO SUCK.

Plus think of how ANGRY she'd be if he saved her. THINK OF IT. She would HATE it. Don't you want her to suffer?

[repaintress]

Clea is on the lookout for younger sibling replacements, but if he wants a stable and functioning family please run far away, Apollo. FAR AWAY.

[betenoir]

Commission a magic canvas for DRUGS? Sounds like a fair trade.

I can see him wanting something like The Scream where he can throw people inside and they're just trapped in that eternal moment of existential dread. I think his own reaction to it might interest her because... he's not normal when it comes to that sort of thing.

[repaintress]

Yes, solve your problems by smashing them! Clea would love to solve her problems that way. She likes making monsters for smashing if he's a training/fighting sort. All he'd have to put up with is her alternating between seething jealousy (because she would like to have muscles for smashing) and some light objectification.

[betenoir]

Spoilers.

Oh, I'm already thinking of how ANGRY she'd be. The Francois icon would never be good enough.

I think some part of him would enjoy the shoe being on the other foot. He's only human (ha ha shhhh). But mostly he wants the experience to teach her about being in that position. It's a cruel choice to make but she needs to learn that lesson. Because if you keep treating people are you are Clea, who will be there to help you?

[repaintress]

Oh you KNOW she'd do that. She wouldn't even take convincing. She'd also enjoy sitting in there. Weirdos.

Clea and Crane like that Spiderman pointing meme: "You're not normal!"

She'd probably devote time to figuring out a way to create a Canvas that actually unnerves him.