⏵ 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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etrayaooc2024-06-28 09:10 am
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ABOUT YOU: i am the only person in the choujin x fandom it's fine. also super into blue exorcist, ēlDLIVE, classic british murder mysteries, non-fiction books about niche historical topics, and i've been everyone's designated soul eater friend since like 2010. other hobbies include plurking pictures of my cats, living on a farm, and teaching people about their local environment (send me blurry photos of snakes to id i love that)
CHARACTER: This is Kurohara Tokio! He's the protagonist of Choujin X, a superhero(?) manga by the creator of Tokyo Ghoul.
CHARACTER INFO: Tokio was already quitting high school and running away from home to go find himself/train/become a more competent person so This Is Fine. He's a well-meaning guy, fairly awkward, recently accidentally became a superhuman who's getting too much attention from supervillains.
CR NOTES:
1. superhero role models! his canon doesn't have a lot of the typical capes and secret identifies stuff, so it would be fun to have him learning and training with supers who are from more typical superhero canons.
2. friends! teenagers hanging out together doing normal teen activities (
cute girls??).3. influences! Tokio is very much the type to get caught up in what other people are doing and go with the flow, despite him currently trying to get better at not doing that.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I love horror stuff and ongoing plot and exploration!
OTHER:
behold, Chicken Kate trying to peck me while i worked on this guy's app earlier today
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damian here has a fun habit of kidnapping superheroes to befriend them bc clearly that's the right way to make teams and establish the pecking order, right? he's bird-themed, and has a very domineering personality. you know, if he wants to get bullied by a very small thirteen-year-old. :' (
welcome to the game! i was stoked to see tokio on the tdm (even if i didn't get time to tag him) and am excited to see what antics he gets up to in game.
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cannot wait for tokio to get bullied by damian. just phrase it as training and he'll do whatever.
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honestly finding it funny that these two are possibly going to. pick a clown and follow them. see what they do. how can this go wrong.
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I am so glad these two are making only the best and wisest choices with their lives. Nothing could possibly go wrong.
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