⏵ 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 at the moment are probably Worm, DC Comics, Fantasy High and Fallout, only one of which doesn't give me constant psychic damage. I'm a bit all over the place wrt to tagging, but I try to at least do a few tags a day. Very much open to boomeranging though. Also I play Amy Dallon, I haven't mentioned that yet lol.
CHARACTER: Aelwyn Abernant from Fantasy High, plus three years of CRAU from a game themed around the Magnus Archives
CHARACTER INFO: Aelwyn... couldn't give less of a shit about her world. Either her original world or the world she arrived from. She's a self interested asshole with a palpable amount of resentment for the world around her, and has shifted from being a competent and potentially dangerous henchman to an active supervillain. Having said that, there is one person in the universe that she'll sacrifice anything and anyone for, and she doesn't know which world she's ended up in so she'll have to fight her absolute hardest to save her world just in case she's there.
Aelwyn became an Avatar of the Desolation in her time on Earth, meaning she has to feed on people's fear of pain or losing everything instead of like, eating food or sleeping. Don't worry though, she mostly feeds on other "monsters", whatever her definition of that is at the moment. Regardless, she is capable of being friendly and making friends. She tends to be playfully mean and casually flirty, and used to be a "party animal" to escape the stress of her traumatic upbringing and the pressures of magical elf private school. And despite what a lot of her exterior presents there is a very present part of her that cares very deeply for the people she allows into her life. Her sister, for one, you may have heard of her.
CR NOTES: Aelwyn tends to gravitate towards people who can play off her energy. Fellow smug bastards and morally dubious rich kids, people who have a particularly strong relationship to magic or the arcane in general, or people with a similarly terrible relationship with the context of "family." However, she also tends to attract negative CR which I'm also 100% down with. Moralizers for her to clash with, people she'd look at and try to feed on in some way, anyone who might find her lack of humanity to be offputting and dangerous (it is). Or even people recognizing her as the victim that she is and trying to sincerely help her. The only thing I'm not looking for is a ship atm, since she's very much taken. Flirting is more than fine though, and it's her preferred method of manipulating people lol.
Also be nice to her baby sister OR ELSE
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Very much interested in a healthy mix of horror and mystery, as well as opportunities for characters to both work together and clash horribly. But I also like having downtime, which makes the new setup ideal! I've really enjoyed my time in the game so far and I think the mods are doing a great job.
OTHER: Now presenting Aelwyn as a possum.
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And absolutely. Aelwyn needs magic buddies with dubious morals and a tendency to hurtle themselves towards self destruction.