NOVEMBER STATE OF THE GAME

[etrayamods]

⏵ November State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴ Hello, Etrayans! Welcome to almost December! Our December plans mod-wise are fairly minimal - we have our intro/mingle log going up later this evening (with a surprise twist!) and then another intro log going up December 20th, but no other mod logs planned between then. We will use this time to focus on individual player plots (so please submit those if you'd like!) and catch up with other mod work, such as the locations page. In the meantime, we hope you all have a nice holiday season! Our next feedback post is going up on December 19th - but we welcome feedback throughout the year regardless of if there's a specific post asking for it! If you have any comments, questions, concerns, our Mod Contact page is always open! The feedback post provides a non-screened space for players to communicate with the mod team, and we do our best to respond to concerns brought to us there - as well as respond to suggestions. Don't forget your Activity! This is just a comment with your handle and characters' names for new players. You are welcome to submit TDM threads for activity points if wanted. ⏵ 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> 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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[furtitude]

PLAYER: Throck (ey/em/eir)
CONTACT: throckmorton, PM, and cuzthrockmorton @ discord, feel free to add me
ABOUT YOU: Sup, I'm radically skateboarding in after being enabled by a few people and after figuring out I know a bunch of folks here. I work as a pharmacy tech in a hospital, and went to school for writing, but am also going back to school for geoscience. I'm hoarding degrees in a pile like a dargon. I would like to do some science and write on the side.

I guess a cool fact about me is I've road tripped cross country through the US, the Canadian rockies, and Alaska, lived in AK a while and have done a lot of amateur nature photography. When money is less tight I wanna finally invest in a really good camera. I sometimes share pics of Various Places on plurk.

I'm into comics, animation, and the usual genre hodge podge of sci fi, fantasy, and horror. Big fan of Star Trek (love Lower Decks rn), LotR, Final Space, Love Death and Robots, Arcane, and sci fi horror like Aliens and the Thing. If you want zombie fiction recs, despite the years of inundation, hmu, I was obsessed for a while.

I like long prose tags but also talking heads and boomeranging. It's all good. I'm mostly afternoon and evenings PST.

CHARACTER: Little Cato is from Final Space, a dramedy space adventure about a ragtag crew of misfits facing dire circumstances and constantly failing to stop the end of the universe.
CHARACTER INFO: Little Cato is a Ventrexian, an alien that only coincidentally resembles an Earth cat in many ways. He's rambunctious, thrill-seeking, tough, and sometimes goofy. Despite being a little too murder-happy and inured to violence, he's a mostly good-natured kid, but it's in spite of a lot of suffering due to being the personal hackey sack of an interplanetary dictator for a while, who kept trying to take everything from him. (I have an opt-out for some of the more serious cw's in his journal as the show wasn't shy about stuff like child murder, child abuse, etc.) He also spent 60 years alone in a shard of frozen time, in a slowly rusting decrepit section of his crew's ship. He went entirely insane there.

(He's better now, though.) He's simultaneously 14 and 74. Though he reverted back to a fourteen-year-old mindset and development and reoriented to that place in time, especially since losing it meant he didn't really mature, he still has deeply, deeply repressed memories of 60 years of madness alone.

Basically he's got the energy and sweet nature of a normal kid his age, with a fighty, bitey, slightly ruthless, and sometimes deeply sad and traumatized undercurrent.

I'd like to have him start to mature and come into his own, embracing an acceptance of the darkness that lies ahead in his world even if it survives the challenges in game. And an acceptance of the responsibility that he needs to embrace - he's secretly the rightful king of his planet and his people need to be led out of the dark of their endless warfare and directed at the true enemies of their universe. It seems like a lot of characters in the game have the kind of nature that might help urge that along, and in turn he's got a lot of fierce loyalty, kindness, and a surprising edge of insight sometimes to give in exchange.

Also after a lifetime of being like the "Father, I crave violence" meme and doing a lot of murder, he's trying to be slightly less murder-ey. A friend of his that he lost taught him that being a warrior doesn't have to mean being a killer, and he's recognizing maybe his father - a man who lied to him his whole life - raised him slightly wrong. I'm interested in things that nudge him in either direction: better or worse.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm interested in horror, mystery, and the main plot with Echo. Little Cato's in a unique position of feeling like his world might be doomed by the narrative no matter what, which would make him not as timid about questioning the nature of the competition. He'd also be curious about the world outside the bubble and if any secrets are to be found there. He's not keen on being imprisoned again - even if it's a cozy open-air one.
OTHER:
here is some of my photos!

[slowmotionbuscrash]

Look what that cat(o) drug in. So I’ve got Tim and Tommy, because I love them, and neither is exactly Cato’s age. But I think Tommy might fare okay with the murder kitten. I don’t know if he’ll help with accepting the future with a sense of gravitas, but there’s more than one way to be good.

[furtitude]

It's going to be cat puns forever now.

I think he'd absolutely adore someone as high energy as Tommy and the age difference would just kind of pan out to big bro-ish. I feel like we can get some mutual enabling on, both of them getting into a little trouble, but also at heart they're both good people.

And embracing all the ways to be good isn't exactly a bad thing: sometime he'll have to learn to zig zag and pivot like crazy.