etrayaooc | JUNE STATE OF THE GAME & ARRIVALS

⏵ June State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴

Hello, Etrayans!

Thank you so much for your feedback! Based on player responses, we're going to make a few changes to help balance out the game and make it easier to interact with:

Instead of large monthly missions, we'll be moving to a more flexible schedule.
We'll have mingle logs up after every application round, with mini optional 'missions'. These mingle logs may include prompts within current missions if a mission is running long.
Mingle logs will also include prompts using a few of our locations. We won't be taking private spaces (IE, the Batcave), but will be utilizing other added locations for prompts to encourage exploration. For any areas belonging to characters that we're a little unsure of using for open prompts (S.T.A.R Labs, the Academy), we'll be messaging the player who submitted those locations for confirmation it's alright to use them before adding them to logs. Please don't be too worried if you get a DM from the mod journal!
We'll be leaving a comment on our State of the Game post for mingle suggestions! If Dean Winchester wants to play with some of his magical books in his bunker and have hijinks occur that affect the player base, we'll add that in! Or if Barry tries to mess with the timeline (when he knows he really shouldn't. Look at all the disasters he's caused) we'll add a few prompts regarding that on our monthly mingle!
Large missions will go up every other month at most.
Missions may occur over multiple logs depending on the mission itself! For example, missions like the Labyrinth may take a couple of months, with a few logs going up with prompts for things to do within the mission. We will continue using only one plotting post on the OOC comm, linked within each relevant log.
For lengthy missions, we will still have, at minimum, a one-month break between them. Continuing with the previous example, if the Labyrinth runs over two months, the third month will have the usual mingle after the application round with mini, optional missions but won't have a larger, meatier mission. The mission will instead be put off until the month after, to allow for at least four weeks of cooldown time between missions. This will allow more time for CR development outside of these logs.
We'll keep offering opportunities for characters to drive the direction the game is going! This was always part of our intention; while the game is larger, and thus a little more difficult to keep up with the individual actions of characters, we've got our eyes peeled for what characters are up to and will reach out to players if we think there's something fun we can implement off of what they're getting into! If players have ideas, please feel free to reach out to us via the plotting post, or mod contact. When creating Etraya, one of our goals was to be able to respond to player inquiries with "yes, and" as often as possible.
Opportunities for characters to "choose" the next mission will continue to be offered where applicable.
TDMs will continue to function on the comics logic of, it's happening but happening out of time and thus, can whenever you want it to. This helps us integrate new characters, gives fun opportunities for dropping them into the game, and gives current players more flexibility to play with TDM prompts.

If you have any additional feedback, please add it to the feedback post, or even to the state of the game under mod queries! As stated in the original post, we'll put one of these up once every three months or so. We want to make sure our game is fun for everyone who wants to join us, and we welcome input from our players! After all, there would be no Etraya without you!

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 dates of the upcoming mission and Activity Check due dates. For new characters, activity is 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.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

PLAYER: Signal, she/her
CONTACT: DM
ABOUT YOU: I'm an avid gamer and read comics. Obviously, I like The Sandman but also read some Marvel comics (mostly Spider-Man related). I'm also a fan of One Piece. For games, I love horror games and action games, as well as anything that has strong characters and stories. I am also a huge retro gamer. My favorite consoles are the PS2 and the Nintendo DS.

CHARACTER: Robert "Hob" Gadling from Netflix's The Sandman
CHARACTER INFO: Hob is going to be skeptical at first, of course. At least he'll know some people here! Sort of? He is not taken as CRAU from the previous game I played Hob and will be starting fresh at Etraya, but castmates can feel free to tell him all about The City so he can give you weird looks.

He is a friendly guy by nature and easy to get along with, so he'll probably make some new friends in no time and manage to settle in at an apartment as he wraps his head around the impending end of his universe.

CR NOTES: I'm open to anything. Please pitch me your ideas.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: As my personal blurb might indicate, I do love horror and action, so anything like that would be aces, but I'm just looking forward to feeling things out here.
OTHER:

FANCY MEETING YOU HERE

WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

Retro gaming is the best. I haven't done it in a while, but when I do game I always go back to all my old favorites.

Sometimes I just get an itch to go back to them.

I feel the same way with several of my favorites (especially the PS2 games). I think what's worse are the itches I have to go back to my simple Nintendo games. /ages self terribly.

Haha. No worries, I had an original NES, too!

hi!!! c: we played together in the city, i was the daniel larusso there! i'm playing an entirely different sort of character here (fabian from dimension 20, who is.. basically just a kid with the biggest daddy issues, so i guess it's more like i inverted my character compared to daniel...) but i'd love to get cr with hob anyway!!

Hello again! So happy to be in another game with you. I'll look forward to meeting your new character.

also an old city peep popping in to say hi! i played robby keene there and it's nice to see you again!! i've also been going back to retro games (weep, calling playstation games retro now...) lately, what's some of your faves??

Hello! Glad to see you again! It's still weird for me to think of the PS3 as retro.

I'm partial to retro horror games like Resident Evil (Code Veronica is my favorite), Silent Hill, and Fatal Frame. GTA4 is a favorite. I'm also a huge Metal Gear Solid fan.

PS3 is considered retro? gosh.

absolutely adore those three games! i never actually played code veronica, but used to always have the first three to repeatedly go through. i only played GTA vice city, but by "playing" i mean i put in cheats and had a time, lol.

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100more - 2024-06-29 16:29 (UTC) - Expand

Oh hey, we played together in The City, didn't we? I played Astarion there, and Boba Fett here! Welcome to the game!

Nice to see you again! Thank you for the welcome.

Oh my gosh, Hob! What a lovely character.

Hi, I'm Marie, I have no suggestions but I wanted to squee.

Nice to meet you! I appreciate the lovely welcome. :)

joining the City expat brigade...!!! Hello, I played Kim Kitsuragi back in City, am here with a very different character! Nice to see you again! :>

Hello! Very nice to see you again.

HOB HOB HOB - I mean hi yes hello :3 I have played with you in the wild as

tastedofdesire!! Welcome to the game.

Oh HEY! So nice to run into you again!

I can definitely bring you some horror wrapped in a pretty dress

Oh dear. What would Dream say?

Don't worry friend, the horror is mostly hidden for now. Hob can get a decidedly nice introduction possibly maybe!

100more - 2024-06-30 03:10 (UTC) - Expand

Johanna like "what the fuck do you mean you don't remember the City, I'm not putting all that work into building a friendship again, you're just going to have to put up with this one-sided trauma bond"

lol. Hob will wonder why such a crazy woman is attaching herself to him. Do the same thing to Loki in the TDM. ;D