⏵ 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.
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ABOUT YOU: my main fandoms are on a constant rotation but i'm always obsessed with one piece, marvel and dc movies/comics, final fantasy, persona, altered carbon, godzilla/mothra, universal monsters, etc. i am huge on movie watching, especially old hollywood stuff and horror, and i will happily watch terrible movies frequently because mst3k has trained me to appreciate them. i also really love dinosaurs!!! 🦕
CHARACTER: logan from the x-men cinematic universe
CHARACTER INFO: logan's that one very identifiable x-men who's got claws coming out of his knuckles, looks cool smoking cigars, calls people bub, and can't seem to die (except for the one time he did, but this one's before that). he's coming from near the end of days of future past where he's trying to fix his own timeline where his kind is beginning to go extinct, so he knows a bit about world-saving missions. he likes to act all gruff and the loner time but he's a natural babysitter and softie, even if he gets a kick out of being a little shit when he can.
CR NOTES: using the cheat option of all kinds! logan tends to get mixed up with a wide variety of people and can either be a thorn in someone's side, a protector, a teammate, a father/uncle figure, etc. he's an x-men which consists of every kind of weirdo you can think of, so he can definitely branch out well with meeting people.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: i love character trauma type plots and exploring horror elements!
OTHER:
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take hank's place be his buddy be his pal
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everyone needs their honorary old man companion and logan's here to fill the job
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right.
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No, for realsies, I am super excited to get up to fun and mischief in the future for these kids (/these two/all the x-men/all the cross canon of a crazy multiverse world still building itself and figuring itself out), and getting to know you as well.
I love Old Hollywood. What kinds of movies are your favorite?
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and oof, that's such a tough choice! i really love the old universal monster films, but also absolutely anything noir. the absolute fave though is probably any of the katharine hepburn and cary grant romcoms since i have three of those posters in my room.
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when I matched it to your un a few seconds later!)
Or, more aptly, which poster don't you have of the four? Or do some repeat?
I am a sucker for the noir, romcom, and the musical types.
[ Ack! Still me, but Babs' account while in her tags.]
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Logan maybe happy to know that there is in fact a bar for him to haunt around here!! So he'll have all his basic needs perfectly covered 🍻👌
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he's got his bar and his best pals 🙏 he really is set
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i'm excited to play with you again!!
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HellO! Welcome to the game. Would Logan like a traumatized teenager (who's a natural born little shit) to adopt? Cass is 14, fresh from the middle of some torture and imprisonment by the people who murdered her family, and kiiiiiind of a half-feral cat about everything.