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MAY STATE OF THE GAME & ARRIVALS

⏵ May State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴

Hello, Etrayans!

As previously mentioned, we have changed our player cap to ten new players per application round. This will be in effect until we hit under 60 players. With May's round of applications, we're currently at 78 players.

Given our new player limitations, we will be moving our TDMs to every three months. Our next TDM will go up on June 13th, and the one after that will go up on September 19th. To make sure players can keep TDM threads as game canon, we're going to be changing our TDM formatting a little! This will become more clear when our next TDM goes live.

Mingle logs will continue going up during months when we do not have a TDM. These will be simplistic logs with a couple of prompts to play with.

As a friendly reminder - Etraya's network does not have private filters! If it's posted on the network, it's accessible to everyone. The exception to this are threads happening in character inboxes.

There is a player plot in progress to develop something for player characters, but as it has not been released yet, it's still inaccessible.

We'll be updating our LOCATIONS page over the next week with additional places based on those who applied and were accepted; if there are any locations 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.

⏵ 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.

We also have the plotting post going up on June 3rd.

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, 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!
OTHER: this is for pretty pictures or gifs. or possum pics, if you like possums.

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PLAYER: Fade (she/her)
CONTACT:

mirrorfaded, ask for discord
ABOUT YOU: Sup, I'm Fade. I'm into horror nonsense of all kinds, my cat (her name is Frida, she's awesome), books, and art projects. I'm in EST, fairly fast as a tagger, and tag a lot on my phone so let me know if you see any weird typos. I currently work as a magazine editor but am in the process of going back to school for a doctorate in the next year.

CHARACTER: Brandon Carver from The Walking Dead
CHARACTER INFO: So, Carver a former mercenary and current raider in a zombie apocalypse death cult. He's paranoid, twitchy, reflexively violent, and has a tendency to get in people's face and talk about God at them. It'll become apparent pretty fast that something is very, very Off about him within a few minutes of interaction. He's dealing with more than a decade's worth of untreated PTSD, trauma bonded with his cultist veteran friends/adopted family, and will swing hard between thinking this whole thing is a hallucination or a test from God. Most of his friends are dead! A big part of that is his fault and he's going to be feeling Some Way about that, but the thought of protecting their graves and avenging them is enough to keep him going and at least making attempts toward teamwork.

He's going to be so good at it, guys. So good. However, it's important to note that Carver is a trained interrogator and despite his whole....self and the extreme paranoia, is pretty good at reading other people. He will assume literally everyone is out to kill him and is actively planning out ways to do that, though. He's also a little button pushing asshole who likes to get a rise out of people for the hell of it.

On a more serious note, Carver has a lot of heavier elements in his backstory, including torture, abuse, cult dynamics, and the death of a child. I've got an opt out post if needed.
CR NOTES: Everyone and everything! Carver's social skills have taken a giant dive during the apocalypse, people who will call him on being a violent, paranoid weirdo, people who'll roll with that and/or encourage it, soldier types he can commiserate with, etc. As a note, he's going to be exceptionally weird and awkward around younger characters, but he's surprisingly good with kids and younger teenagers. Also, do you want someone to suggest murder for solving your problems? Carver will suggest murder for solving your problems and then help you hide and/or display the body. He's cool like that.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: My kingdom for horror shenanigans! I'd also be interesting in exploring questions of what makes a world/character worthy and the implications of that.
OTHER:

Hi and welcome! Suggesting murder to solve her problems is the last thing that Sam needs so naturally I require this CR.

Hell yeah, bring it on!

I just wanted to say I really have been enjoying our TDM thread! Carver is so intense I can only hope Baixi is doing ok holding up against him!

I have, too! It's lots of fun to toss this asshole at people. We can probably have something break them up and/or disable Carver if you want, I'm down either way.

We can always have the tranq dart wear off on the cougar and have it run away!

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fortitudosalutis - 2024-05-31 20:14 (UTC) - Expand

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pangzi - 2024-05-31 22:19 (UTC) - Expand

omg ... let's get weird

Oh fuck yeah, let's get super weird :D I've been doing a rewatch of Hannibal recently so I am HERE for this.

yes good, excited for any weird cr that may evolve

(all of his cr is weird)

oh man he solves his problems with murder? eobard does that all the time for even minor inconveniences.

Yep! Murder and hanging the bodies from trees to scare people because that's totally normal and cool, folks.

In all seriousness, I'm real curious to see how these two will get along.

i only know carver from what i saw of him in dupe (i'm over there with geralt and yelena) but i really wanna toss jessica at him and see what happens.

I THINK IT MIGHT BE KIND OF AWEOSME>

I love Jessica and I too want to see this happen! Let’s do it

I feel I'd be remiss if I didn't throw a very much high fantasy originating archangel at him.

You know, just to see what he does with "am archangel".

I can guarantee it'll be weird! There may or may not be semi coherent ranting involved, so, you know. They can have fun with that.

Love a good incoherent rant or several! Sandalphon is a very literal sort, so he will have a grand time with it.

hello there!! I've been enjoying our tdm thread so much, I'm excited to see more of Carver!

Shadowheart's juuust starting to get over her own cult situation but it seems like these two have some things in common that'd be fun to explore

Hard same! Shadowheart is delightful. I'm curious to see how they'll bounce off each other moving forward since she's getting away from the cult nonsense and Carver's whole hog into it. Plus their very different world experiences, which has been hilarious so far.

Natsuno is a vampire with the classic aversion to religious stuff so I think someone who randomly talks to him about God would be hilarious.

He's also a teenager (17, but physically 15 forever) with bucketloads of trauma, and while he has strong principles he's surprisingly down to murder when circumtances call. He also has previous game history of getting along with extremely questionable people and the worst adults around.

Oh man, I am down for hilarity ensuing. Carver's extremely down with murder (oh boy should he not be) and his cultist buddies get up to weird, violent shit they think is normal and everyone else is understandably horrified by. Carver's adopted nephew/son would've been around 12 if he'd lived so he's going to be Weird around younger seeming characters but also inclined to watch out for them once he decides murdering everyone isn't the best course of action. Should be fun!

fade!! i already mentioned this on plurk but i'm so hyped to share a game with you. i play octavia blake from the 100, another post apocalyptic canon so i think it would be super interesting and maybe something to bond over?? she trained to be a warrior so can be very fight-y and stabby but anyways i need this cr obviously.

Oh man, this'll be fun! Carver's much more comfortable with stab happy characters, so there's a good chance they could vibe! He's reflexively paranoid but having another person around who doesn't think he's a complete weirdo for preparing for a fight every time he walks into a room will be good.

haha yes. i think so too from the sounds of it. if you want to jumpstart on some cr, i do have her mingle if anything from there pings you but alternatively i can toss her your way on the network tomorrow or whatever is easiest!

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fortitudosalutis - 2024-06-05 10:47 (UTC) - Expand

As it so happens, I also play a violent, paranoid weirdo! :D Fett here is a former bounty hunter whose even-more-paranoid father taught him from a young age to trust no one and solve all his problems with violence. He's learned somewhat better over the past decade or so in novel canon, but old habits die hard. I'd be happy to throw him at Carver some time to see if they vibe or clash!

The best kind of weirdo! I'd love to toss these two at each other, let's see where it goes!

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