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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[etrayamods]

[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.

[beagoodgirl]

PLAYER: DG (he/him)
CONTACT: generaltrash or generaltrash7986 on discord!
ABOUT YOU: hello! i am extremely normal and am very good at introducing myself. my current debilitating obsessions main fandoms are warframe, world of darkness, ZZZ (unfortunately), worm at parahumans dot wordpress dot com, and when they cry. i am also eternally plagued by D&D (mainly planescape and forgotten realms) and some other VNs. i dont really have a preference when it comes to tags or anything? just please feel free to poke me because i get distracted very easy

CHARACTER: Riley Grace Davis, AKA Bonesaw, from the web serial Worm
CHARACTER INFO: riley, former child mass murderer (that is, mass murderer who is a child) current extremely important child medical expert (that is, medical expert who is a child) blindly seeking a form of atonement will be... pretty okay with being here, overall? in many ways it's just a flatly better situation for her, given how she's now under significantly less surveillance and the whole "world destruction" bit might actually be less pressure than the slow, inevitable decline back home if only for having a clear-ish victory condition. she's absolutely angling to Win and Save The World or whatever, but you'd be forgiven for thinking that she's treating this like a vacation
CR NOTES: i'm game for absolutely anything and am in fact hoping i get the full breadth of both apologists and people who think she should die terribly and not in a cool way
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: i'm really interested in the horror stuff and exploration! beasties and body horror and the particular way riley and her power interfaces with that, and finding out more about the world since it just seems interesting
OTHER:

[utinam]

Welcome to the game! I'm so happy to see Riley made it out of the space station. Nuvia will be so happy to see her again. She promises not to use her telepathy on her by mistake again as she hugs her.

[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.

[ontologically]

Amy would just like to state for the record that she doesn't know this child.

[beagoodgirl]

this child would like to strike the above from the record on the grounds of it being "complete bullshit"

[beagoodgirl]

thank you!!! riley will be happy to see a familiar-ish face and even happier to not have a second round of mind whammies

[redheadcarrier]

They definitely share a few traits...

[ontologically]

This child's request has been dismissed and overruled because she's not the legal authority here. Get wrecked.

[levelshift]

Hi5 kids who happen to be mass murderers! I'm Pan and I play Accelerator, who is also a child who has killed a lot of people. Welcome to the game, looking forward to seeing Riley around!

[beagoodgirl]

typical silencing of girls voices

[beagoodgirl]

tysm!!! i am actually familiar with raildex (albeit. very not up to date) and was REALLY looking forward to getting riley to interact with him, another fucked up teenager who is seeking a redemption they fundamentally believe is beyond them

[levelshift]

Oh nice, always cool to run into someone who is familiar with this precious garbage canon. I'll be sure to toss Accel at Riley so they can bond and she can bully him lol

hello!!

[decohere]

PLAYER: valerie she/her
CONTACT: don't have plurk, but dms and discord (Ghostesque) welcome.
ABOUT YOU: idk

CHARACTER: the elusive ava starr from mcu's antman and the wasp, future thunderbolts member
CHARACTER INFO: Ava thinks this entire thing sounds sketchy af, might be willing to play along just enough to be left alone, but honestly who are you to get to decide what world's are "worth saving" because that's some absolute nonsense. But also she isn't entirely fond of her own world to begin with, and will avoid admitting from being from the same one as the rest of the mcu as long as she can get away with it. She's pretty sure she's a terrible representative. Her cooperation might be iffy.
CR NOTES: anything honestly, she's been living in isolation since forever and only really has one person she trusts, who is not here. So the whole making friends thing js entirely new to her. She's a bit difficult on purpose so negative cr is welcome. But she's also sweet i promise. She doesn't know any of these mcu people personally but she knows OF them. Also she enjoys stalking and spying on people, so if anyone wants to have fun with that?
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:
Definitely here to get involved in fun missions and the overarching plot, and wrangling Ava into actually caring about any of it beyond "i hate this." Horror is great!!! Definitely anything that forces or heavily incentivizes participation. She loves to get into trouble and cause trouble, and go about things the wrong way because rules are dumb.
OTHER: sdcc mcu panel is tomorrow and im gonna gnaw my arm off tbh

[equivo]

Well well well, if it isn't the cutest unlicensed medical malpractitioner!

As long as she keeps leaving Krouse's brain alone he doesn't care what kind of stuff she builds in her fridge. That's Amy's problem, apparently.

[beagoodgirl]

amy voted "least probable parole officer" on earth gimel, or any of them really

[utinam]

Hahaha. xD I bet she wouldn't. Nuvia has been practicing so no mind whammies but she will definitely want to help her settle in and be friends.

[merciekills]

PLAYER: March (She/Her)
CONTACT: marchingon
ABOUT YOU: My timezone is GMT+8, so I usually tag when people are just waking up or at work. I'm currently learning how to raise vegetables for fun, and work full-time during weekdays. It's the rainy season now so I'm a bit more homebound, but occasionally I'll run off to the mountains when I need to destress. Fandoms are mostly just Enstars, some shounen manga and manhwa, and currently still playing FE3H. I might switch to Eiyuden Chronicles soon since I'm about done with Blue Lions.

CHARACTER: Mercedes von Martritz from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
CHARACTER INFO: Calm, pious, motherly, and pretty much a girl who goes at her own pace. Mercedes loves housework and baking, and is a devout believer of the goddess. She's a great healer and has a high aptitude for magic, and a special talent for the bow. However, she doesn't like exercising, and tends to move at her own pace. She's sweet and very understanding of others, but can be easily angered by injustice or bullying. Overall, just a nice older sister you can hang out with and expect baked treats from.
CR NOTES: I'm new so anything goes! I'd like to have her get established, so knowing all kinds of characters would be good since she'll get a better feel of the place. Also, anyone who wants cookies I guess.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I think her main concern right now is to figure out how to help their world, so anything that drives towards that is her mission. Otherwise, she would probably settle down in a routine that allows her to help out in day-to-day tasks, and maybe eventually get a job in between missions.
OTHER: Here's my mission ooc toplevel. But also:

[wolfish]

I have two guys with which to make with the grabby hands.

Please join the cafe crew Mercie.

[merciekills]

i'm still laughing at yuri and dimitri's situation

also their ai child


and someday she will join the cafe crew once she remembers to leave the house... sometimes you just clean all day long

[merciekills]

hello is this her new child

i'd love for them to bond over being housemates! mercie is super chill and likes to take care of things, but she might be concerned about riley's... everything lmao