OCTOBER STATE OF THE GAME

[etrayamods]

⏵ October State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴ Hello, Etrayans! Welcome to the end of October! We hope you enjoy the Halloweeny mingle log that is going up alongside this post. 🎃 As a heads up: headmod will take a bit of a break through November due to life getting busy elsewhere! However, the mission, TDM, and everything else will go up as scheduled. Mod responses may be a little slower (as they have been through October also due to how unexpectedly busy it's been, our bad!) but outside of that, everything should still be running as usual! November is a mission month, but it will be a little more light-hearted in comparison to the previous mission! Using the feedback we received on our last post, we will be condensing the amount of time missions run down to one to two weeks, but will keep our schedule otherwise the same as it has been. This should, hopefully, give players time to complete their mission threads while also leaving plenty of space for characters to get into shenanigans around Etraya itself. If you have any questions, please put them under the mod queries top-level below. Additionally, don't forget your Activity! This is just a comment with your handle and characters' names for new players. ⏵ 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> your plurk, discord, carrier pigeon's name to call out to the wind to get their attention <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> are they rowdy and loud? an introvert who needs an extrovert to adopt them and take them out into the world? how are they going to settle into game? is there anything in particular you're looking for with them? <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.

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[etrayamods]

[ornithologist]

PLAYER: Liv (she/her)
CONTACT: chirality / whiskeyqueer@discord
ABOUT YOU: Right now I just play from Person of Interest and Avatar: the Last Airbender, because apparently I only care about 10+ year old canons. I live in EST time zone with an extremely old person sleep schedule, I'm sorry. I'm an avid reader and horror fan, and sometimes I convince myself to cook or knit something. I'm flexibly into both logs and text threads, and I tend to be pretty consistent about tagging several times a week, so ask me if you ever want to boomerang!

CHARACTER: Harold Finch from Person of Interest
CHARACTER INFO: Harold is a very smart computer guy who made his world's first super A.I. At home he is a reclusive eccentric billionaire genius with many different identities, all named after birds. He is super mysterious and hates giving out personal information about himself. If you pay attention, though, you can realize he likes to wear suits, drink tea, walk his dog, hack the Pentagon, and save lives. He has massive survivor's guilt and secretly is staunchly moral and incredibly thoughtful. Harold: could've been a supervillain, instead is a cinnamon roll.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Harold is definitely going to be making an alternate network that has security features as his first priority, and I heard someone else has been looking into this as well, so I'd love to plot things out with you!! He's going to need some equipment to get started! Harold and John also immediately heard about the hospital basement computer and would like to track it down and edit or destroy their records, or destroy the terminal entirely, whichever is possible, so I also need to follow up further with Marie and Isabella on that one.

For everyone else: Harold is super nerd tech support and absolutely useless in physical combat situations (he has a spinal injury that means he has mobility issues). Also, he really dislikes violence. However, he is an absolutely excellent voice-in-the-ear mission coordinator / handler and he can certainly perform that role for several people at a time, beyond John, his poorly socialized guard dog.

Edit -- Oh yeah, he may also make an in-character social networking site on the second network, purely to try to get people to spill information about themselves. Let me know if anyone thinks this would be fun or if it's not an aspect anyone else is interested in, LOL.

OTHER: this is all you need to know about John and Harold

[bigpoofymammoth]

PLAYER: HyperGaming999, He/Him
CONTACT: HyperGaming999 / Discord (hypergaming999)
ABOUT YOU: I’m generally a lurker in several different fandoms, with the ones I frequent the most being Fate, Jurassic Park, Sonic, Minecraft, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Danganronpa and Super Smash Brothers. I can adapt to any style from logs to texts threads, although it really depends on my mood along with RL schedules.

CHARACTER: Manny | Ice Age
CHARACTER INFO: Manny may seem like a no-nonsense, reserved creature that has little tolerance for anything out of the ordinary and may come off as being rather harsh. But at the same time, he’s also compassionate around those whom he looks out for and has a strong love for his family and friends.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: As long as it doesn’t involve Manny in anything related to ships/smut, I’m open to all sorts of missions. It’s practically the norm for Manny to get into all sorts of weird adventures, given his canon. That being said, I think Manny would be more interested in finding out the true purpose behind why Echo called everyone in.
OTHER:

[aimsforknees]

PLAYER: Em (she/her)
CONTACT: biowafers / biowafers on discord / PM
ABOUT YOU: Liv got me into Person of Interest so right now I care very much about about this tv show. I also play a variety of video games with a focus on farming/management sims and FFXIV. I have a siamese cat named Felicity. I live in PT time zone, stay up late, and work from home so my tagging schedule is all over the place. I'm happy with basically any format of thread and happy to backtag things!

CHARACTER: John Reese from Person of Interest
CHARACTER INFO: John is an ex-CIA assassin/spy who was given a second chance by very private person Harold Finch and now saves (or stops) people in danger. This involves a lot of sneaking around, hacking phones, and shooting people in the legs or occasionally shoulders. John loves to not give out any information on himself, hold people at arms length, clean his guns, and do his job. He has a rather poor opinion of himself and has essentially made saving people his life's purpose now. He is very slow to trust people but will also just sacrifice himself to protect people, so /shrugs.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: John will be working with Harold in all things, as he is Harold's, quote "poorly socialized guard dog." Harold is planning on making a private network and they're both invested in the hospital basement computer so John will be helping where he can despite having little to no technical skills. John is primarily interested in learning as much as possible about Etraya and trying to unravel the mysteries of this place. He'll likely also be stalking people who interact with Harold in some capacity, because aforementioned "guard dog."

OTHER:

[wundagores]

PLAYER: caitlin, she/her
CONTACT: lensflares/ lensflares on discord / PM
ABOUT YOU: i am a college educator living in the EST time zone, so there are times of the semester when i'm busier than others (registration just opened for us this week, so sorry for the slow on tdm tags!). star wars and marvel make up my personal hotel california, aka i can check out anytime i like but i can never leave, and i'm into a lot of other tv, both prestige and... less so, films, comics, and books! as previously mentioned, my tag speed can vary wildly depending on what's going on with work and other things, but i am always happy to boomerang if we're both online and we want to knock something out quickly c: i love logs, and text threads are great, too! i also really enjoy the spontaneity of rp and just seeing what happens when we throw things together, so i'm pretty much easy peasy lemon squeezy

CHARACTER: wanda maximoff, marvel cinematic universe edition; her canon point is post-dr. strange in the multiverse of madness
CHARACTER INFO: have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined childhood trauma, an obsession with television sitcoms and a penchant for escapism to deal with said trauma, a continual conga line of grief that keeps moving past childhood, and magic so strong it can remake reality? look no further than this witch! wanda's had a very hard life, which has been made even more complicated by the fact that she's arguably one of the most powerful magic users in her universe. ultimately, she has a good heart and wants to help, but it can be especially hard for her to control her powers in states of emotional distress. she's also grieving the losses of pretty much everyone she's ever loved, so it may take some time for her to fully open up to others — but she's got a lot to give, and as she heals more, that will come through more and more.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: at the current time, wanda feels like she has much to atone for, especially her actions in wandavision and multiverse of madness — so she'd leap at the chance to try to be a "good representative" for her universe. ultimately, though, she will be interested in what's going on outside of missions; she'll want to know how and why they got here, what's outside of the bubble, etc. eventually, she may even start to test the boundaries — which can totally end well for everyone involved, right? those are just some ideas coming from me spitballing as of right now, so i'm also open to seeing how things evolve and what sorts of shenanigans we might get into!

OTHER:

[twin_blade]

PLAYER: Signal
CONTACT: DM
ABOUT YOU: I like video games, Marvel comics, and I work and rp. I never know what to write here! This is my 2nd character on the game. I also rp Hob Gadling.

CHARACTER: Vax'ildan from The Legend of Vox Machina (animated series based on Critical Role)
CHARACTER INFO: A half-elf shunned by his father along with his twin sister Vex'ahlia, Vax and Vex joined the adventuring group Vox Machina and became protectors of the realm. After engaging in a contract with the Matron of Ravens (the goddess of death), Vax serves as her loyal champion and wears her vestige, the armor called the Deathwalker's Ward. He's taken from the end of Season 2. His full app and powers list is in his journal.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I love horror elements but am really just happy to enjoy this character in a game. He can get into just about anything from dark to light-hearted stuff.
OTHER:

[abit_ofboth]

I feel there should be some dagger bonding! They should at least have some sparring.

[abit_ofboth]

Loki miiiight just have some information that Wanda would be interested in. Namely that as God of Time he's sure this place is a total shame.

Also, commiserating over guilty feelings? y/y?

[wundagores]

excellent on both counts, tbh! wanda and loki have a lot to talk about, and i am so here for all of this ❤️

[twin_blade]

Yes! At least some sparring. Vax would love that.

[messenger]

PLAYER: dmitri, he/him
CONTACT: hayyot on discord, feel free to message me for plotting. i joined the game disco, too, so you can ping me there.
ABOUT YOU: still deep into supernatural and in the middle of playing disco elysium. finished mouthwashing recently, and as ever i'm watching outer wilds LPs. i'm very excited for subnautica 2!

CHARACTER: castiel! technically i'm not new since i did have endverse cas here before, but i dropped him to swap him out for the og. cas is from season 5 of spn, just after having his faith destroyed, so he's really going thru it rn, though it might not always be obvious to the casual observer.
CHARACTER INFO: cas is an angel inhabiting a human vessel. he's fairly taciturn, but he also has no filter whatsoever. he can be kind of an asshole, but he means well. i brought him in from an earlier canon point as i like to play him when he's at his most inhuman. :)
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: i was drawn here by the unique events (like the stuffed animals event and the family unit event... those are really fun ideas and i'm sad i waited so long to app that i missed out on them!) so really, i'm down for anything. i always love some horror flavor too, and i'd love to get involved in some echo-related plot.
OTHER:

[abit_ofboth]

Sweet! I feel like I never get to play with Wandas. I'm looking forward to this!

[abit_ofboth]

Yay!

[twin_blade]

You wanna compare wingspans? j/k.

But I do love early season Cas. And Disco Elysium is such a good game!

[messenger]

👀

he's a lot of fun to play. i might update him in the future but for now it's just weird little guy hours. and yeah, it's been amazing so far! i'm not that far in but i've been enjoying myself

[sonofzod]

PLAYER: Kia (she/her)
CONTACT: PM is the best way. I am on plurk @ tapsters, but not often. Discord available on request.

ABOUT YOU: I've been out of dwrp for quite a long time and recently came back after I got an itch to play again. Currently in my DC era that started with Arkham Knight. I've been consuming a lot of other DC media lately (mostly batman). Am otherwise mostly into video games. I'm in EST and work during the day so tend to get to tags in the evenings. I'm off on Mondays so I'm usually available all day. I'm cool with prose or brackets, though I tend to get back to bracket tags a bit faster than prose.

CHARACTER: My absolute favorite version of Superman: Hernan Guerra from Justice League: Gods and Monsters
CHARACTER INFO: Hernan is the son of Dru-Zod and Lara, rocketed to earth after Krypton's destruction. He was raised by a migrant couple and did not have the best of childhoods. He later teams up with Wonder Woman and Batman to form the Justice League. A lot of people do not like the league because they kill criminals and generally think themselves above the law. He's flirty and loves a good time though!

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: At his canon point, Hernan's facing a bit of a crisis. He lived a long time believing his bio dad was some kind brilliant scientist/hero and has recently discovered that Zod was actually responsible for Krypton's destruction. He doesn't feel responsible for Zod or his mistakes, but it is making him question his approach to heroics. So would love to explore that a little more thoroughly than the canon does. He's also just found out the government can kill him now so there's that. He'll take on just about any mission given to him since that's his bread and butter and will be interested in figuring out the mystery behind the plot.

OTHER:

[tensibility]

PLAYER: Crystal | she/her
CONTACT: likeredgold and clickreload on discord
ABOUT YOU: I've been out of DWRP for like almost two years? So I am a nervous bean being back. I'm also a parent to a 16 month old born of chaos, so my speed might be a bit sporadic here for a hot minute. Fandoms: One Piece, Zelda, Resident Evil, Ace Attorney, Persona/SMT, Raven Cycle, Six of Crows, Percy Jackson, general anime and video games, Books???? I talk about all manner of things on plurk. I'm also a cosplayer, photographer, teacher...and am moderately fluent in Japanese?

Oh, and because aforementioned child likes to click-clack on my laptop most tags will be from my phone. I apologize for that specific brand of chaos.

CHARACTER: Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece. Specifically the Animanga
CHARACTER INFO: Luffy is the rambunctious leader of the Straw Hat Pirates who refuses to consider himself a hero even though he very much is one to a lot of people. He WILL be King of the Pirates and is currently a reigning prince of chaos. He has a heart of gold when it comes to people's causes and helping them have freedom to live (because he's a pirate and pirates are free). He's coming from a canon point where his crew is split up and he's trying to rescue one of them...so he's very much not happy about being here right now. Still, if he can not only gain favor for his world but help your character save theirs too? He's in. Come make him a friend.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: Considering the range of plotlines in his canon? I am down for almost anything. Most pressing is making him some connections and getting him established right now, but I'm in for long haul plotting so hit me up!
OTHER:

[venatoris]

hi

[venatoris]

yeeeeehaw

[sonofzod]

you're giving me a heart attack with that moon lmao

[messenger]

dean dresses up as a cowboy and makes cas dress up as a horse what happens next will shock you

[balanced]

PLAYER: Kylar, he/him
CONTACT: PM and I can share discord on request!

ABOUT YOU: Hi I'm Kylar and I play mostly from Reverse: 1999 right now, but I also like Alien Stage (happy Blink Gone to those who celebrate), Identity V, Pokemon, and I've been playing Cult of the Lamb lately. Right now I'm doing my best to get more consistent with my tagging, and I think I'll generously call my current pace "average" haha

CHARACTER: This is 6 from Reverse: 1999
CHARACTER INFO: Coming from the ancient Greek year of 2007, 6 is as much of a quiet introvert as you can get. Unfortunately for him, he comes from a line of leaders on the island he's from, so he got stuck doing bureaucratics for them instead of counting steps on the beach as he deserves to do. They practice Pythagoreanism, which has a lot of fun rules like "touch not a white rooster", "do not pick up what has fallen", and most important of all: "abstain from beans". He can turn into a bird too... He'll probably be settling in somewhere together with 37, but other than that I'm winging it and excited to see what everyone is up to. Let me know if you'd like me to toss him your way!

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: IC, 6 is a knowledge guy. He reads books like it's nobody's business, and when he reads them, he's thorough about it. He is, however, a total bystander; he's not fond of when he has to participate, and I'm looking forward to twisting his arm into it. OOC, I'm always a sucker for all kinds of horrors and the respites between.

OTHER: I'm just happy to be here

[abstractly]

PLAYER: Mise.
CONTACT: PM!

ABOUT YOU: Aside from the obvious (Reverse: 1999), there's Identity V, Pokemon, Hello Charlotte, I've been getting into Cult of the Lamb lately, and I really like Fear&Hunger as well as Spirit Hunter: NG+. Fate/GO is also there, but I only open that when I have 30 quartz to roll and then close it for like 70 more years... anyway! My tag speed is pretty moderate, I can do a bit of boomeranging if time allows it, but I tend to be pretty consistent!

CHARACTER: 37 | Reverse: 1999
CHARACTER INFO: From a closed off island in the middle of the Aegean Sea in the year 2007 is where you'll meet a priestess named 37. A young arcanist who doesn't care for silly phonetic symbols and is bit of a mathhead, like, she's a big mathhead as she can see the world in both numbers and shapes which helps her navigate through life. I can't lie, she comes off pretty rude towards people, but it's not because she dislikes anyone, it's her understanding of the world prevents her from actually understanding people. Arcanists are individuals who are sort of intuitive, and humans don't tend to understand them easily. They're also pretty emotional. Anyway, 37 thinks she's always right, pretty annoying and is very much a handful. Godspeed for anyone that deals with her. As for what she's up to now, she'll be staying with 6, and she will go out to bother people because there's so many number types to talk to :)

Fun facts if anyone's interested: (1) While 37 is able to see the world in both numbers and shapes, her funny little skill allows her to see numbers in people. On the TDM, I refrained from anything too solid: Imaginary Numbers, Irrational Numbers, Fractions. These sorts of labels are given out like a personality test, but she can actually find a meaningful number for your character. (2) She's able to turn into a dolphin which is called her Udimo.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I love a little of everything, but I'm a girl who loves horror and mystery, but I guess for someone like 37 it would be why they're here so the Echo lore. She wants to learn about the echo because maybe it could help her learn how to help her world back home. 37 believes that everything before them is just a shadow and that they're all prisoners in a cave, and if they make it to the Transcendental World that they can truly see the world for what it is— she's that type of girl, she's been in the cave and that her stepping into the outside world is stepping out of the cave instead too.

OTHER:

[brat]

i would say sorry for damian stabbings but

you did start with arkham knight so i feel like you knew what to expect

i was excited to see you apped tho and look forward to the shenanigans hernan gets into! damian will be happy to follow him around with knives and potentially kryptonite, if he can get his hands on it. and if he figures out who hernan is, exactly. 🔪

[ingestion]

PLAYER: mimi (she/her)
CONTACT: pinktini @ plurk (game only plurk) | pinkwestwood discord | pm this journal
ABOUT YOU: I mostly share about my muses and fandoms I’m in. I am a Nana/Fruits Basket/Silent Hill girly 🫡✨ I will gush about my characters from time to time and share art. also forgot to mention: I have a personal goal to not drop threads and I’m more than happy to set things up. I may be slow at times but I try and tag out at least 1-4 times a day depending on the tag type. prefer brackets but I’ll match you.
CHARACTER: Heather Mason | Silent Hill 3
CHARACTER INFO: info | permissions

▸ heather comes across as your typical teenager, a bit rough around the edges, very human and real with imperfections and flaws, written to be rather relatable. however she comes from a dark and troubling past, and has reincarnated twice now due to events involving the order, cult of silent hill. as she stands now, she just wants a normal life and has a level headed understanding of how her trauma and pain aren’t meant to be used against others/it shouldn’t get her down. she was brought here to feel happiness and joy (literally on the game’s ost, it’s a great song!)

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN:

▸ I want her to become more self-actualized and grow as the person her father knew she could be via horror events and fluff! Girl can fight and I want to see her do that but I also want her to bond with others and have some sense of normalcy among the chaos. basically let Heather protect people she becomes close with and be a guiding light!

OTHER: I would post a funny image but I’m on mobile 🫠