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.

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[repaintress]

I'm tagging in to you right now! :D Also as I tagged in, I realized it would be really funny if Clive assumes she's better than she is and just like...demolishes her at this...

Clea is very intense and does not do coddling. She's like..the anti-coddler. Deep down it comes from a decent place, but it's almost all tough love all the time. With emphasis on the 'tough' part. She also shares his tendency for self-neglect, but that's recent and grief-induced. She generally takes pretty good care of herself when she's not on the verge of a breakdown...

I think dancing could be really interesting. Clea loves art in all it's forms and it's a good in road to seeing her...not being a giant bruise emotionally. It's where her joy flows from and she's pleased to share it. Clea's not noble, but her family are rich Parisians, so she knows all the (what she'd consider) stuffy old classical and partner dances as well and they would have been some of the foundational dances she learned so she knows how to build on that knowledge. Plus she's into pushing the boundaries of art so she can introduce some different, odd styles.

I used to play a FEmblem so I know those medieval feels! Clea is really early modern, so she's before pole dancing but during its predecessors and would immediately cotton on that it's an erotic artform. Not that she'd object - in fact, she'd take to it rather well and find it enjoyable. It would just be funny for her to be like 'oh, I don't know this style - Oh now I get it.' so quickly when he's like '?' Clea just like oh no it's fine, keep going. Keeeep going.

[herofhopeless]

He definitely would. Clive generally assumes that his opponents are capable, especially when they seem like they might be on a cursory glance. He might... feel a little bad after destroying her. Maybe. Depends on how it goes.

Clive hasn't been coddled a day in his life haha. The closest he gets is his brother's affection. Zero coddling growing up then went straight into the military then straight into needing to save the world so. No chances for tenderness there. But he does have a really big heart and just. Loves people. So that is sweet.

They should totally learn how to pole dance together. That would be fun and kinda cute. Clive is a pretty quick study himself, but seeing someone who can master it easier that he can also learn from would be invigorating.

(also I love FEmblem)

[repaintress]

Yeeesss. No, don't feel bad! Clea would see it as the compliment that it is. She's taken seriously! (And it's also something that happens when you're decent at something and run into somebody who does it seriously/professionally. Like I'm the best Tetris player pretty much my entire social circle knows, and I would get bodied hard in any kind of professional competition.)

He does sound sweet. Clea wonders how people like that survive. Genuinely.

They SHOULD. Don't feel bad, Clive. She's a dancer and is also really damn flexible. She'll be happy to watch you do it, no matter how long it takes you to learn. Maybe a little too happy and will she explain? Probably not. Shhh. Don't take this from her. (She's an artist, let her appreciate good views.)

(FEmblem is fun! I fell off FF after XII but I still love it. XV is on my to play list but it keeps being bumped. Although as a Michigander I definitely want to see the Japanese take on a buddy road trip. YES, COOL CARS ARE COOL. LET'S APPRECIATE THAT. <3)

[herofhopeless]

Clive knows that he would want to be taken seriously, so he takes others seriously, too. It's common courtesy to him. If he chooses to interact with someone, that person is worthy of his full attention and effort. He doesn't really do things half way.

Sheer force of will?? And an eventual good support system helps. Clive is strong, but he will maintain that he is nothing without the people who support him. He's a good bean and downplays a lot of what he can do and who he is.

He LOVES learning from people who are better than him. He has an itch to be really good at everything that he does, so finding someone who would be willing to work with him and have patience so he is able to learn with him (without being an asshole about it) would be really nice for him.

Also, please appreciate the view. It's a good view. Maybe one day if they get comfortable enough with each other she can even use him as a model ;) As long as she doesn't... you know.. Paint him.

(I hadn't played a FF game in a long time before 16 and now I want to play so many but I'm moving so it has to wait until responsible stuff is done. I live in MN so I am also very familiar with the road trip. Love em actually. I want to play the game for the fishing mini game ngl)

[repaintress]

Clea and Clive share that in common. Half-measures? Half way? Did you mean 'GIVING UP?' Absolutely not! Clea also loves to learn and push herself, though uh...she might need work on the 'without being an asshole' part of teaching. She's got obscenely high standards - for herself and everyone else. And she'll let you know it. I'm not sure if patience is really her thing, honestly. Ope.

A support system? WHAT'S THAT LIKE, CLIVE? HUH? Clea just over here drowning, telling people she's drowning, and being ignored. This is fine. (See above: Nobody ever had patience for HER, so she thinks it's a sign of coddling...*sigh*)

Look, Clea likes good looking people and there's no shame in it. And luckily for Clive, one of the few morals she does have is she very strongly disapproves of copies of real people, so no unauthorized Paintings. Especially for those purposes. 'Do I look pathetic enough to have to resort to Painting for a lover?' is her view on it. She's only interested in genuine desire, and that's not possible from a Painting in her view.

She might genuinely have him model, though. Either for a sculpture or to help with dance, because the way she sees it, one of the hardest differences between fighting and dancing is going to be holding a position. It'd be practice taking different positions and holding them there exactly for a certain period of time.

(Boo responsible! Yes, XV being the FF Midwest version is very intriguing and you get why I see it that way. Good luck moving, moving sucks.)

[herofhopeless]

Clive has a lot of patience and stone skin. He can handle it. Which I think is probably something that will be helpful for her because she won't be able to bowl him over and he will still stick around.

Clive also really wants to watch her paint, but he thinks it might be too soon to ask if he can do something so personal. Clea is lighting the fire of curiosity in Clive and I really love that for him.

Holding positions, especially ones that might not necessarily come natural to a person, is really difficult and he would relish the challenge for sure.

[repaintress]

VERY helpful. I think it's also helpful Clive can see she's just that harsh with herself. It's not like she's visiting the energy on other people but sparing herself. She doesn't live up to her own expectations either!

Yeah, that would be too soon. :< Painting is an inherently vulnerable thing both physically and mentally, and Clea internally screams at the idea of showing vulnerability. I do love that she's making him curious! Clea encourages exploring and learning things, so she's appreciating that as well. Get her going on The Arts.

"Okay, now stand in that position for an hour." "Why do you hate me."