etrayaooc | NOVEMBER STATE OF THE GAME

⏵ 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.

PLAYER: your name/handle, and your preferred pronouns if you want to provide them!
CONTACT: your plurk, discord, carrier pigeon's name to call out to the wind to get their attention 
ABOUT YOU: 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?

CHARACTER: who have you apped? what canon are they from?
CHARACTER INFO: 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?
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: 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!
OTHER: this is for pretty pictures or gifs.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

PLAYER: Marie, she/her - they is also fine.

CONTACT:

seemarierun
ABOUT YOU: Mostly comics, comic books adaptations, and comics adjacent properties. But also British murder mysteries in grand houses, Only Murders in the Building, Broadway musics, The Raven Cycle, Dimension20, I will not hear bad things said about Brennan Lee Mulligan he is rapidly making the transition to Millenial Mister Rogers.

I'm 13 months into a health journey, so sometimes I babble about protein and macros. ASK ME WHAT YOU TOO CAN DO WITH COTTAGE CHEESE. I have a ninja creami because ice cream makes protein shakes taste better, but now it's winter and I'm cold so I'm trying to figure out how to make Hot Ice Cream a thing.

I work ostensibly five days a week M-F during normal ET working hours, and my job is has gotten heavily writing based since I got suckered into a management role so when work gets Nuts I tend to not have time to do much. Luckily, things are slowing down right now. Mostly weekends and nights, though. I also have Tim Drake here.

CHARACTER: Tommy Shepherd, Marvel Comics
CHARACTER INFO: Tommy doesn't enter a room. Tommy takes it over. If you're going to get people to treat them the way you want to, you have to bring your A game. Note that that's "treat", not like. He'll go to his grave swearing he doesn't give a shit if you like him. But you have to earn him liking you.

Getting along with Tommy takes a certain personality. He's loud, rash and impatient. He has little filter and generally tells people exactly what he thinks. If it's negative, there's often no effort made to cushion the blow. He is moody and surly if prodded about his own faults or challenged. He always has an excuse or chip on his shoulder, because he’s aware enough to try to work the angles in his favour. If he had a shitty childhood, he might as well make it useful. It’s part of his overall brand of pragmatic cynicism. If he’s the one playing the sympathy card, then any sympathy can’t hurt him.

He doesn’t turn into cotton candy once someone has known him long enough to for him to trust them and care about them. It’s more like “you dumbass, of course I like you. We’re cool.” He likes to hang out with interesting young people, go to clubs, break a few minor rules, etc. He’s bitchy in a fun way, snarky, and free-spirited. He doesn’t outwardly pay much heed to what people think about him, or else he’d probably be less willing to wear avant-garde suits and dance in public.
PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: This requires too much brain for me.
OTHER: Since an MCU Billy (his twin brother) is here, I found an old PB I've used for him in the past. I won't be changing his icons from the comics, but we've decided that the overall impression should be that they're absolutely recognizable as related, possibly even as brothers, but Tommy's not just a white-haired, green-eyed Joe Locke. So they're not identical.