march state of the game and arrivals

[etrayamods]

⏵ March State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴ Hello and welcome to Etraya! We were very excited to see all the players interested in our new game when we put up our interest check, and are glad to have you guys join us! Thank you for applying to join Etraya and giving our game a chance. At this point, we have 35 Characters who have applied in for our first round. Given that applications do not close until 3PM PST today, there is still time to get in any last-minute applications! As a heads up, we have updated our FAQ to reflect that mod posts, including mission posts and OOC intros, will be posted at or before 3PM PST on the day they are meant to go up. We don't want to give ourselves a strict time, given we appreciate having the flexibility to make last-minute changes as needed to suit our player base, but do promise we will get them up by 3PM PST. We'll be updating our LOCATIONS page over the next week with additional places based on those who applied and were accepted; if there's any location 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 the dates of the upcoming mission and Activity Check due dates. For new characters, activity is simply responding to the ACTIVITY CHECK page using the formatting provided. Those who have not completed this by the day AC closes will be removed from the game. ⏵ OOC INTRO ⏴ Please use the below form to introduce yourselves (or don't, we're not cops, introduce yourself how you want) and let us know of any upcoming plans you're looking forward to in game! 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. <b>PLAYER:</b> your name/handle, and your preferred pronouns if you want to provide them! <b>CONTACT:</b> feel free to link to your plurk, provide a discord handle, or state any other preferences! <b>ABOUT YOU:</b> do you like possums? what fandoms are you in? what cool thing about you do you think would be fun to share? are you more of a texty tagger, a log tagger, quick boomeranger? let us know! <b>CHARACTER:</b> who have you apped? what canon are they from? <b>CHARACTER INFO:</b> how excited are they to be told their entire world is going to be destroyed if they're not invited to the cool kids table? are they prepared to make friends? or stab people in the back? or are they planning on finding every kitten available, taking over a couple of apartments, and starting a cat colony? <b>CR NOTES:</b> what kind of cr are you looking for with them? are you after the nice notes of a found family? tragic betrayal? casual friends? or friends who are clearly friends but neither of them will acknowledge it because they both refuse to talk about their feelings? <b>PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> this is more for us mods at this point. tell us things you're interested in! are you here more for horror elements, the mystery, or the plot behind why echo has called everyone in? do you want to explore the world and figure out what's beyond the bubble etraya is in? let us know! <b>OTHER:</b> this is for pretty pictures or gifs. or possum pics, if you like possums.

Comments

[mostdangerousbird]

He’s going to ask at some point. But at the beginning, not much. Tim avoids information quid pro quos. Surface level nerd bonding is definitely welcome.

[equivo]

Gosh I can't imagine why Tim would want to avoid that kind of conversation (said with immense affection for him as a character).

How's Tim feel about the arcade games down in the apartment building rec room?

[mostdangerousbird]

As with many things, I blame Bruce Wayne. Tim won’t blame anyone, he’ll just try to lean hard into “I am a nondescript dork” until someone ruins it for him.

I’m torn between him being like ooooh spare parts and trying to use them to hack into something and actually playing them, because he DOES like arcade games.

[equivo]

When in doubt, it's always Bruce's fault. (Sorry, Bruce.) I enjoy that Tim is also going incognito, I really like interactions where all characters involved are doing a bit of some kind.

Krouse would be affronted at the suggestion of dismantling classic retro arcade games and then get annoyed with himself for being affronted, because that's stupid, if Tim can make something useful out of them he should do it...but...the games...maybe they should at least get some high scores in first? You know, for honing hand eye coordination.

[mostdangerousbird]

No, it's definitely always Bruce's fault (maybe not the Bruce that's here though). Tim would only actively blame Bruce if they were on the outs, though - so like 50% of the time.

I mean. It would be a shame to not... try them ... for establishing multiversal differences...

[equivo]

Yeah this Bruce is just walking into the fire the other Bruce set holding a pizza and wearing a bewildered expression, one assumes.

Krouse likes the way Tim thinks. This is research and so on. Gotta pin down the divergences.