⏵ 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: EST, slow but steady. Exhausted lawyer by trade. Get ready to see lots of pictures of my cat against your will. In my freetime I like to play the guitar, suck at PC gaming, watch bad movies, and tell people things they don't want to know about tornadoes.
CHARACTER: Mike Wheeler, least popular co-protagonist of Stranger Things
CHARACTER INFO: Awful gangly youth from 1980s Indiana, made of 50% anger and 50% loyalty to his friends. This guy's familiar enough with multidimensional crises that he won't be completely lost, but he was taken right in the middle of trying to save his girlfriend from the US government so he'll probably spend the first several weeks making that everyone's problem and refusing to cooperate. Even after that it's going to take a lot of work to get him to chill out and make friends. He already has, like, five friends, okay? Why would he want anymore? And don't even THINK about trying to look after him, he's almost fifteen which is practically an adult!
Under his bad attitude he's actually a decent kid who is very interested in helping out and saving his world. He just has to be re-socialized like a feral cat first. Once he calms down he's a very proficient strategist (thanks D&D) who is going to have Opinions about everything going on, and who will definitely be getting in the way of people twice his age while trying to stay involved.
CR NOTES: Open to it all! Fellow youths, concerned adults, people for him to antagonize, cool people to look up to. I love borderline-negative CR with this kid, but I also love people trying to surrogate-parent his surly ass. Also fellow nerd types, and eventually maybe even some pals to play D&D with.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: My greatest love is and always will be horror elements, but I also love to worldbuild and see how a setting grows and how characters develop their new little lives in the midst of it.
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I've always been tempted to pick Mike up, but I've never been brave enough. Maybe one day!
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I've only seen like a season and a half of Stranger Things, but happy to see a Mike! Hello tiny nerd, hope he survives this experience!!
If he's still into comics, I'm personally ok with a bit of fourth wall breaking! Just don't get surprised if Storm reacts all "???" at the mention of a Hellfire Club 🥲
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I love that you've seen this kid at his babiest. Get ready for slouchy unpleasant teen version! He's still a huge nerd, just twice the height and twice the attitude.
And while I tend not to do direct fourth-walling, he'll definitely be familiar with some suspiciously similar, unnamed comic book heroes.
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I took her from pre-Critical Role campaign 1 things so she's 14 and a half-feral cat about EVERYTHING.
Welcome to the game!