JULY STATE OF THE GAME & ARRIVALS

[etrayamods]

⏵ July State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴ Hello, Etrayans! As we're sure you've noticed: Etraya has quickly grown from the small game it was originally intended to be, to having almost one hundred players. While the game has continued to grow, our moderator team has remained the small group we originally started with. We're confident we're capable of maintaining gameplay and putting out missions with our current team. Still, we realize there are areas players may want to interact with that we lack the availability to support as efficiently as we would like to. The game will continue to run regardless of any additional moderator support we're able to get, but we would like to put out an interest call to see if anyone would like to join the mod team! Things we could use assistance with: Listkeeping Running activity check Throwing spaghetti at walls NPCs, if playing an NPC is of interest! Getting completed posts up on time Weekend availability would be extremely useful, but isn't necessary Proofreading RNGing characters into roles, such as the family units of the current mission Mission ideas! This is just an example list; if there's another aspect of modding you may be interested in, feel free to reach out! Our current team shares all tasks, but we're relatively flexible and like to think we're pretty chill. We don't have any requirements, nor will we put up a form for this! If you are interested in assisting with modding Etraya, comment below with what you might like to do, or reach out via the MOD CONTACT post! Please offer a form of contact - either plurk, discord, or Dreamwidth PM, and we'll reach out! We're currently looking for one additional mod. As a note, new characters will not arrive in Aurora's hospital! They will arrive either by the space station, or will be dropped in with EOS. We will be detailing this in the log going live tomorrow, Saturday, July 27th. ⏵ 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. <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> 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? <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, or not looking for? <b>PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:</b> this is mostly for us mods: tell us things you're interested in! are you here more for horror elements, the mystery, soft fluffy missions, 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 resides in? let us know! <b>OTHER:</b> this is for pretty pictures or gifs. or otters, if you like otters. we're taking a possum break.

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[topgradesandbraids]

PLAYER: Basil
CONTACT: woodrift
ABOUT YOU: Oh gosh, where to begin? I'm a nerd who is familiar to a lot of you, and I've been in this hobby for quite a long time. Fandoms I'm in right now include DunMeshi or Delicious in Dungeon, depending on what you want to call it, RWBY, Fate/, and a variety of others that veer onto the fantasy/adventure genre, with some outliers like The Devil is a Part Timer and Laid Back Camp. I like photography, I've been into legos lately, and I recently moved North after spending most of my life in Sunny FL, so I'm still getting used to how the seasons up here work again.

I'm hoping to do more hiking and getting more wilderness photography in before the summer ends. Fingers crossed!

CHARACTER: Marcille Donato from Delicious in Dungeon

CHARACTER INFO: Just because Marcille was an honor student and teacher's assistant at her magic school does not mean she's prepared to hold the entire world in her hands. She is well aware of the limits to her understanding of the world and frankly believes that she isn't necessarily Hero material. However, lotteries and numbers have as little morality as magic-- and who is she to question circumstances that she doesn't fully understand yet?

She's curious about learning everything she can, and will be very happy she doesn't need to eat monsters for every meal for the time being, although she's very concerned about her party and her friends.


CR NOTES: I'm open to a variety of things, but I'm not into negative plots that don't have a planned resolution and romantic stuff will require some discussion and flexibility.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm intrigued by the mystery and exploration, the opportunity for a variety of plots, and the flexibility we have here to push this nerd in directions that isn't necessarily comfortable for her. The variety here is awesome and frankly I'm giggling at the possibilities that just fell into my lap with this application round.


OTHER: She'll do this if you make her eat another monster right now.

[redheadcarrier]

Heeeey, it's Chrono - welcome to Etraya!

Currently I have this ball of angst. I imagine they'll get along great (no).

[topgradesandbraids]

Teacher's Pet Grad Student and the Sassiest Teen to Ever Sass? Oh, there's gonna be no problems here at all.

[redheadcarrier]

Nothing could possibly go wrong.

[topgradesandbraids]

Too bad my girl hasn't met the teenage cat yet-- she might find a lot of similarities between Asuka and Izutsumi.

[redheadcarrier]

They definitely share a few traits...

[merciekills]

aaah i love marcille so i am excited to get to play with her

they can be magical girls together

[topgradesandbraids]

Oh yeah! When I saw all the FE3Hs on the app list, I was a little sad I hadn't picked Lorenz to try this round, but this might work better because Marcille is a good deal better with people on so many fronts.

And! We might have an excuse to tag anyway since Marcille has been RNG'd with Claude as her housespouse and doesn't like the general idea of that assignment for anyone.

I'm excited for what could happen!

[merciekills]

HELP not the femblems being largely housespouses I'm crying

I feel they'd be fun together too! Mercedes is a little closer to Falin personality-wise so there's that...

[topgradesandbraids]

Yeah, she's sweet and gentle. It's been a few years since I played, but I remember. The characters were all so fun ...

[wolfish]

Please let them discuss their royal house-spouses somehow...

But also Yuri will feed her a good and monster-free meal if given the opportunity.

[topgradesandbraids]

No one deserves to be assigned as house spouse... Unless, of course, that's what they want.

And please. She doesn't regret going into the dungeon while completely broke but it's been a struggle!

[wolfish]

So true. All that free time might drive some folks crazy.

I hope they get on the topic of dungeoneering sometime, seeing as Yuri has lived in Abyss. Two pretty different versions of underground... In the meantime, he'll sure find a reason to feed her. Zero monsters, all normal, tasty meal.

[topgradesandbraids]

A discussion about their different dungeons would be fascinating-- and I'm sure that, at the going rate, Marcille will figure out enough of what's going on in Fodlan to have some questions about things.

Regardless: any meal that she didn't need to help kill would be Very, Very Welcome.

[wolfish]

Fódlan sure does beg some questions, not to mention everyone's from a different time(line) so far.

Will you be posting to the mingle?

[revengeisalie]

HI BASIL I'm so excited about Marcille and have a mighty need to throw Rin at her, a girl who would also balk at eating monsters (her bodyguard's roast frogs are gross enough for her already!!)

[topgradesandbraids]

At least she didn't need to wear the frogs!!

[revengeisalie]

adfljsd TRUE, at least not that

she just gets to deal with lots of murder instead

[topgradesandbraids]

Ugh. I'm canon blind but that is very True!

[nimbuster]

Oh man, I love Marcille! I'm juli and I feel like CR with her and Cloud could be hilarious. XD

[topgradesandbraids]

Any CR is going to end up hilarious and I look forward to it!

[furiousfists]

Hiiii! I'm Chris, with Adaine here from Fantasy High, aka Breakfast-Club-meets-D&D! She'll be very happy to have another elf mage around. I'm actually currently playing Laios at a different game so I on an OOC level am also very happy to have Marcille here!

Let me know if you want to continue their TDM thread or just wrap it up... I went on vacation earlier this month so am very behind on old threads but would be happy to continue if you want.

[topgradesandbraids]

Oh yes! One of the fantasy podcasts, right? The number of elves here was what got me excited. Usually elves in games are associated with LotR, but the sheer volume of fantasy podcasts is increasing the variety of possibilities.

July was a month that felt like a decade-- we don't have to continue the TDM if it's too far gone for you. I hope you had fun!

[equivo]

More elves!!

[topgradesandbraids]

Don't you know it!!