JULY MISSION PLOTTING

[etrayamods]

⏵ mission prep ⏴ On the morning of July 19th, a glowing purple portal opens up on Etraya just outside of the apartment building. Characters will be ushered out of their apartments, living quarters, or other areas by companion bots and instructed to continue through the portal. On their way through the portal, they are handed a small slip of paper with an address, and their family assignments listed below the address. Through the portal, characters will find themselves in the city bubble that had been visible from the sky of Etraya. Rather than the empty space as Etraya had been when they first arrived, this one appears to be an idyllic suburban residential area: houses that are identical outside their pastel colors line the streets, numerous vehicles are parked alongside houses, or just outside their garages. As characters approach their assigned houses, some will find a basket just outside their doorstep, with a small note attached. “Hello! Give me a name and raise me, please!” In the basket, is a child. Or, something close to one: a doll that cries every couple hours until it’s cared for, a very realistic android that mimics the behavior of a newborn, or perhaps it’s an android that’s shaped like a newborn puppy or kitten, with all the needs of a real child. If they are receiving a player character as a child, that child will receive the same note as the rest of the characters, but led to their temporary dwellings by one of Aurora's companion bots and told to wait for their arrival, if they have not arrived first. The mission parameters are simple: family units are to live together peacefully and act like a real family. Whether that means raising a young ‘baby’ together or caring for one of the younger player characters as if they are their own, they are to coexist on this new planet together as if they had always belonged within these familial units. Welcome to life in a middle-class, suburban residential area. ⏵ welcome to moorecroft village ⏴ Moorecroft Village, the name for the area characters have been dropped into, is rather peaceful. Surprisingly, player characters are not the only ones residing in the village. ‘Natives’ occupy several of the houses. However, it won’t take more than a few exchanged words to discover that the people here are in the same boat as the characters from Etraya: they are from other worlds, dropped onto this planet to try and convince Echo to save their home worlds. Unlike Etraya, those on this planet are immediately assigned houses and family units to cohabitate with. A few of them have been on the planet for several years, and have adjusted to how life is on the planet: every few weeks, their own AI, Eos will assign them a mission to complete. They will complete their mission, and return home to their family unit until the next mission is assigned. Some are newer, too: ones who arrived just before the citizens of Etraya were dropped into their world. Some seem settled, some are bewildered by their circumstances and angry at having been left here. ⏵ submerged in suburbia ⏴ Characters will be expected to fully integrate themselves into the world of Moorecroft Village. They will be expected to raise their new ‘children’, taking care of their mental, physical, and emotional needs, while also participating in happenings around town. They’ll be assigned a normal ‘job’ to work around town, whether they know how to work that job or not. A calendar will be placed in the kitchens of their homes noting important events happening throughout the week, and they will also receive a checklist of tasks they need to complete before returning to Etraya. Examples of tasks could be: Make dinner from scratch for your family. Don’t forget to go to work! Some characters will be assigned to new jobs. Do they know how to do their job? They’ll figure it out. Attend the company picnic. Take your child out on an evening stroll. Discuss future plans with your spouse. Buy clothes for your child. In addition to their to-do list, there is a very strict curfew of 8PM. They will be warned that those who are not in their assigned housing units by 8PM will experience serious repercussions, and it's best for everyone if they choose to obey the rules of this world. There are no companion bots native to Moorecroft Village out during the day. They come out after curfew to "clean up". This can include 'cleaning up' anyone who happens to still be outside when they shouldn't be. ⏵ spooky vibes ⏴ Not everything is as it seems. While it may appear idyllic during daytime hours, it's clear there is something more going on here. The residents are terrified of being found outside after curfew, rushing home if they realize they're running even a few moments late. Curtains are automatically shut during the nighttime, and while they can be reopened, characters will find the windows pitch black and their doors locked from the outside - regardless of if they had even gotten over there to close them. Noises can be heard coming from outside that don't sound... normal by any means. Croaks, whispers, scratches against doors and walls alike. But when the sun comes back up, the doors unlock, the windows brighten, and everything seems to appear just as perfect as it had the night before - or even more so! The streets have been cleaned, anything broken, scratched, or otherwise damaged has been repaired, and the residents continue to go through their daily tasks. ⏵ NOTES ⏴ Welcome to our fourth mission! Please comment below to the mod queries thread with any questions related to this mission. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ. There will be three logs going up for this mission! The first will go live on July 19th, when characters are moved onto Moorecroft. The second will go up on July 27th, introducing this round's new applications to their environment, as well as adding some extra things into the setting. The third and final log will go up on August 9th, which will include some ending notes for their time in Moorecroft Village, as well as what happens as they return to Etraya. Please feel free to post your own logs and don't limit yourself to just these! Family units can have up to three adults and two children but as few as one of each. We have sign-ups for family units HERE. Please note any preferences, and be as specific or as unspecific as you would like. If you want Dean and Cas to be partners but want them to try their hand at parenting one of Etraya's youth, you can list those specifications in your comment. If you don't have a partner preference, but a specific character you want yours to parent, you can list that also. We're going to try our best to work with everyone's preferences while still maintaining the original intent behind the mission. You're welcome to edit your comment any time up to July 17th if any of your original plans change, or if you decide you want something else. If you already have a family unit picked out, please put that in your sign-up comment. We will be responding to these comments on July 18th, the day before the mission log itself goes live, to fill in any missing gaps. Characters who are between eighteen and twenty-two can choose between being an adult or a child. This won't be an IC choice, but a player choice! Feel free to pick whichever sounds more fun! If you're signing up for a randomized assignment for one of these characters, please include any preferences one way or the other. Characters below eighteen are considered children. Characters above twenty-two are considered adults. Job assignments will be included in the mod responses on July 18th. More information will be included in future logs. This post will be linked to each log for plotting purposes. ⏵ plotting form ⏴ <b>Player Name:</b> <b>Player Contact:</b> How should other players reach out to you? <b>Pacing:</b> Do you prefer to boomerang threads, or are you more comfortable with backdating at a slower pace? <b>Limits:</b> Are there things you don't want to play with in this mission? <b>Character name:</b> <b>Family Unit:</b> We recommend linking to your sign-up comment with preferences here if you are signing up for randomized assignment. We, the mods, will go through and respond to these comments with assigned family units later. If you've already got a family unit picked out, please include that information on the sign-up comment! This is just to more easily track who is where. <b>CR Goals:</b> Are there particular goals you want to achieve with this mission? Do you want to expand your CR net, or work on deepening current connections? <b>Mission Ideas:</b> Things you think would be fun to play with during this mission! If there's something above that sounds particularly fun, list it here! Or if there's something that we haven't covered that you think would be fun to see in future logs for this mission, here is a good place to put that, too. ⏵FULL NAVIGATION⏴

Comments

mod queries.

[etrayamods]

[levelshift]

Is there a school (or schools) that kids will be expected to attend?

[neverleave]

Will "Raz" be available if Natsuno tries to find him?

[tinflower]

If someone went around asking if the name of a canon location (for them) is familiar to people in the bubble city, is it possible to find out that a castmate has been in this bubble city previous.....

you know. just checking!!!

[morethan084]

Are there any part of Daisy’s powers that would be dampened/completely nullified during this mission?

[reconstruction]

would connor be able to interface with said AI baby and/or deactivate some of its programming (ie whatever makes it uncomfortable)

aka how to make a crying ai baby stop crying????

Techno Goddess Questions

[her_own_rules]

1. Can the 2nd network work for its 1st time of actually being what it was made for/is used for in the comics, which is "In-the-Field Mission Networking" heroes together, especially since everyone's mostly stuck indoors at night time? (You know I'm easy peasy if the answer is no, too! But I'll always be askin' in case now.)

2. Just as a note, I'm ssssuuuuppppeeeer excited that it got its first public shoutout. I think both the above and that will drum up even more public knowledge of it, and I'm super here for it & the mad dominoing out.

3. Hackable things questions since learning things in plotting with mods for the Space Station: The babies? Eos' network? Anyone other houses and business? Whatever the underlying technological infrastructure might be here? Anything else applicable you know would fit here?

4. Can she bring her personal from-home laptop?



(Extra. I do want Barbara to have to sit on talking to Aurora, probably as Oracle rather than Barbra Gordon. Since she's only got a week for before mission, and I'm off to vacation starting tomorrow, maybe we could plan it for post-Mission 004, since she'll have to toss the idea around a lot in her head, and maybe with her closest CR, while she's stuck in suburban hell? Both the continued work on making different groups, filters, and etc in hers and in having a sit-down with Aurora herself.)

[levindicated]

Are there cars, and can characters drive them?

[agoddessonce]

What happens if a character insists on staying outside at night? Storm will keep herself in the sky if she has to, to be safe! :)

[heartofthedream]

How many bedrooms are in most of the houses?

[stresstokens]

Hello hello mods! Riz will be grilling the extant NPCs on life here, about the curfew, the strictness of having to maintain their roles, and anything else they can tell him about their missions -- is there anything he can find out? Totally fine if the answer is "no, also they're annoyed at being incessantly pestered".

Are they warned there will be any repercussions for shirking their duties, i.e. playing hookie? Do they need to be inside their own domicile post-8PM, or can they get around it by being in any house? And lastly: I'm assuming that stealthing past the curfewbots isn't a workable solution and that they'd be able to find a rulebreaker no matter how sneaky they may be?

Thank you!!

[notthatstraight]

so just wondering...what's the year in Moorecroft? are we talking 1950s 'berbs or today's?

[matermali]

1. If someone tries to do some psychic medium shenanigans to discover what's going bump in the night, will they discover anything? Would a Tarot reading reveal any hints, or go completely random? (These can go hand-in-hand with her.)

2. During the day, would Vanessa be able to sense anything unusual in any particular areas of the suburbs? What about at night (before the robots find her and drag her back)?

[upbyone]

Is there a possibility teens could be assigned part-time jobs or have a mission to find a part-time job? If so, what sort of jobs would be available to teens?

Re: mod queries.

[wannasmash]

anime-friendly mha spoilers in my question, click to expand

Danger Sense (think like Spidey Sense or Detect Danger) senses ill will in beings when they direct it at him. Are the bots sentient enough to trigger Danger Sense if Deku antagonized them? And what about... anyone else out there at night? Does anything else there hold malice or intend to attack him if he goes wandering?

[skaikru]

sighs... im so sorry

hi mods! several questions, most just to cement The Vibe in my minds eye:

1) does eos also have an easily accessible computer, like Aurora's in the basement of the hospital? will eos be included in the npc interaction toplevel as mentioned above?

2) past the suburban sprawl, is it fair to assume there's proper city/small town buildings around? hospital, movie theatre, bookstore, gas stations, etc? do we players get to sort of free for all, or will it be more explicitly spelled out for us in the mission posts?

2.5) will etrayan's be allowed to return home with any items they acquire from moorecroft?

3) just saying i'm down to throw clarke's hat in the ring for attempting to roll two nat 20's to sneak past the more severe companion bots here. even if it results in her dying horribly at the hands (paws? claws?) of whatever's out wrecking havoc at night, the girl wants to pry

4) are the houses assigned to etrayan's customized in any way to reflect the incoming family unit? or are they blank slates?

5) can i get a bit more about how current moorecroft residents will respond to the influx of others? are they wary, are they angry, are they just tired and resigned to this being another mission based disruption? are they chatty or quick to dismiss? is this to be played like a lowkey 4th wall event, or best kept vague in terms of what other characters they might meet on this planet?

[littlestderolo]

So I know that sneaking around/past the security bots is the equivalent of rolling 2 nat 20s in a row. Cassandra has some experience in hiding/moving around unseen from people and things she does not want to catch her; she spent basically a week after the Briarwoods murdered her family and took over Whitestone hiding and sneaking around the castle unseen and uncaught (while being actively searched for) until she could make her way down to the dungeons and free her brother. Would that, on top of her rogue levels/talents, lend themselves to her having an easier time doing so?

[bad_habit]

Are the houses truly all the same in the sense that they are proper cookie cutter versions of themselves and if so would they be built for the general masses and not individuals of significant heights? Basically I want to know if Angel will have to endure ducking into doorways every time he has to move through room to room as he would in an average middle America builder spec nonsense.

[maximumlegend]

What happens if someone (accidentally) breaks one of the AI babies? Aka: does it have any immediate consequences, and/or does it repair itself or instead just stay broken? Could someone repair it, if they had the right skills?

[levelshift]

c: Heyo, can you tell me a bit more about this backup computer and how it functions? Is it inserted into the choker itself or attached/plugged in in some way? Would it start up automatically if Accy loses his connection to Eos, or does it require someone to manually get it running? Lol, can he keep it post-mission or will Aurora want it back? Also any other weird details about it?

Re: mod queries.

[shabuir]

Can the android babies resemble an actual baby from a character's canon? Namely, I'm wondering if I can have it resemble Fett's daughter for maximum devastation 👀

EDIT: Adding another question: are the android babies visibly artificial in any way? If not, are characters told that they're androids, or are there any other "tells?"

Re: mod queries.

[mockingbirdy]

Will the bots require everyone to be in their assigned home each night or is the requirement just to be in a home / not leave?

[prevail]

Hi, mods! Forgive me if any of these are answered elsewhere and I missed them, I looked stuff over but there's a lot here. I have a few questions...

1. What if someone goes out at night to investigate/potentially combat whatever threat is outside, what would they find? Sandalphon is capable of demanifesting his physical form, so he potentially has bot-dodging handled, and his first reflex will be engage threat.

If that ends poorly for him, well. I'm here for consequences.

2. I saw the level of tech is modern day, and I'm curious: are available foods recognizable Earth dishes we'd see nowadays? What about convenience foods, canned drinks, etc?

3. Are any powers nerfed in this particular locale, aside the usual game-breakers?

[batsymbol]

Bruce is gonna Bruce regardless of where he is so:

1. Are there any areas of significance one can find here in Moorecraft? Something like a government building or the like and if so, is it possible to gather any information from such a place?

2. Is it possible for Bruce to stick/hide a couple bugs/bat-cameras outside on the streets as a means to see if he can get an idea of what's going on outside at night?

3. Kind of related to the previous questions, are there any areas that are capable of being bugged and listened in on?

4. Can vehicles be tampered with here to make them go faster?

[neverleave]

Is there a place vampires can get blood at, like a hospital? Natsuno doesn't need blood to survive but he can't access his enhanced strength and speed without it.