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.

Comments

[furtitude]

So I play this little alien guy, from a universe where humans occupy the usual roles alongside other aliens. But! Earth was destroyed there too. (Little Cato's crew couldn't stop it.)

Cato's adoptive dad is human and he'd want to explore human-ey stuff just as much, because he loves what his dad has introduced to him so far. (Like the music of Loggins Kenneth, esp the song about loose feet.) He found out his Ventrexian dad turbo fucked up recently and lied to him his whole life, so he has even more reason to want to learn about stuff from his human dad's sphere.

Maybe they could be buddies in exploring stuff?

[pethetic]

oooh! i have… NO idea how till will feel about all that lol! might be fun for him to kind of wrestle with. i’m pretty sure he has no idea what a cat even is, so a ventrexian’s still gonna be foreign enough to him to just register as full alien…and till’s extremely distrustful of non-humans.

maybe! till is more skiddish and homey than the exploring type, but i’m sure they can still have some interesting cross-cultural discoveries together

[furtitude]

I definitely figured on maybe cultural stuff? He's already been exposed to Earth music by his dad and loves it and would be the type to just go like "BAM, check this human music out," and share some song or album he found, as well as be interested in Till's music. I think he'd be fascinated by Till's art because art just hasn't been a big part of his life due to a very combat-oriented upbringing.

What'll be interesting about the distrust is Little Cato grew up in a military dictatorship and his father (a general) ran afoul of the dictator by refusing to kill Lil C to show his loyalty. (Cato saw the kids of the other generals all get shot to death around him).

Since his dad wouldn't do it, Cato was captured and imprisoned for 3 years from when he was 11 on and it was...bad. (I have an opt out in his journal for anyone that needs it, but he tends to keep it close to the vest anyway.)

The circumstances are different, but he completely understands distrust because some alien asshole hurt or controlled someone. He'd be gentle with any distrust he notices, even without knowing the cause, because he has a lot of reasons to feel the same sometimes, although different things trigger it.