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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[restingstitchface]

OKAY SO I double checked and she was young during The Dark Knight. 6-8ish going by the limited footage? He might have an inkling the name is connected to her father but he's far enough removed from Gorden that it doesn't have to be a thing if we want to keep him in the dark. She's something he'd have categorised but she's not that important at the same time becaue Jim isn't really in his life until he gets caught and interrogated?

Also she can hack anything she likes because Crane and Silco aren't doing their illegal business there. Ever heard of misdirection, Barbara? Can't a man cook paracetamol in peace? Tl;dr Silco is offering to use his own place as a base to preserve Crane's cover.

Also the fact she doesn't know this version of Crane means she knows nothing about his background? That's something she might want to dig into? Cause I have his headcanon in his journal's app page and yeeeeah there's some stuff there. But it might not come out unless he talks [ha ha no] or there's an event.

[her_own_rules]

Oooooh. I needa go read your backgroundy things! It's now on the list. Because I do think it might be something interesting to play with. While Babs will never be okay with "Silco + Crane are making drugs/Crane wants to play with Shimmer + Fear Toxin," she is one of the Bats that does (if hesitatingly) truly believe in people's ability to make different choices and change who they choose to be/how they act toward others. That rehabilitation is truly possible.

I super do not mind Crane remembering her as a kid. Even if it's just vaguely, or if it's not at all, if you think it wouldn't have come up for Crane ever.

(She's gotten used to things being super weird where it comes to her in other worlds. In Titans!Dick's world she was never Batgirl, but a theif who later became Comissioner, and created an "Oracle" full-on AI computer. Baby!Bat doesn't really know her, but she's mentioned in a script scene. Sr!Bat knows her as a previous !Batgirl, current!Commissioner, and never Oracle. WFA!Jason knows her as previous!Batgirl, current!Oracle, but also one who never got the ability to walk again.

So, I'm like 100% down for whatever you think might be most fun for Crane & you. I don't mind it constantly being different or being her only as a kid or even not knowing her at all. I'm down to be easy-peasy with all the Crossing-Media-BatCanon people.)

I'm also totally down for mission hijinks and discoveries NO ONE EVER WANTED.
But also might lead to other something something somethings.

[restingstitchface]

Yes and then we can plan things! I used comics background ages ago but I wanted to really dig into something with a Nolanverse feel and cooked that up. Barbara's approach goes counter to some of what Crane gets into - which at it's core is behaviorism. Input. Output changes only according to external influence. People need appropriate stimuli to make their choices and change their behavior.

I think it wouldn't have come up for Crane ever honestly. Gordon having a daughter and all. It also puts Crane on the backfoot in not knowing anything about anyone from the other worlds which is interesting for me? Like of course he'd know about Bruce Wayne and Batman (separately of course) and Gordon being in the force. I'd like him to pin the pieces together about Barbara if they get talking?

Also YES MISSIONS. That might get them talking but so might some Arkham shenanigans hmm...