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∎ ETRAYA MODS ∎ ([personal profile] etrayamods) wrote in [community profile] etrayaooc2025-01-17 09:24 am
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JANUARY STATE OF THE GAME




⏵ January State of the Game and Arrivals ⏴


Hello, Etrayans! Welcome to 2025!

We've got some big plans for this upcoming year, and we look forward to getting the opportunity to share them with you! Our next mission plotting post will be going up on January 20th, with the mission log following that Friday, January 24th. While we won't spoil too much of it, we will note here that we do not have a set end date for this mission - meaning the outcome of it is fully up to you, the players! We will be putting up a log or an OOC post with the end results of the mission depending on when we know the results there.

We have also gone through the CALENDAR and made sure that everything there is aligned through June.

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.



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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-17 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
PLAYER: Jhey
CONTACT: [plurk.com profile] horreur / hagfishs @ discord / pm ♡ I tend to keep my plurk list to folks I share a game with, so please feel free to add/re-add if we're bumping into each other again!
ABOUT YOU: Hey there! I'm a Cat Lady and Psychology Person who lives, eats, and breathes all things horror. Books, movies, nifty little indie horror games — I love it all. I also collect horror-themed pins and figures, Niche Merchandise, and anything bones... My favourite way of indulgently treating myself is buying yet another anatomically-inaccurate skeleton of some creature or other. You know those people who don't have to decorate for Halloween because their house just Always Looks Like That? That's me

CHARACTER: Peter Graham from the psychological horror A24 movie, Hereditary. As a heads up, this is an extremely dark canon with a lot of very heavy material involved. I'm absolutely not going to be throwing out the worst stuff or gnarly details without discussion & content warnings, but Peter's introspection will often just generally include dark themes!

CHARACTER INFO: +1 tragedy stoner riddled with demons both metaphorical and literal, here... Peter is a severely traumatised teenager from a severely dysfunctional family who also happens to have ~inherited the fate of being the vessel for an ancient, goetic demon king of Hell known as Paimon. Unbeknownst to him, this was all the work of a cult headed by his grandmother, who has been working towards this goal and manipulating things since long before Peter was born. Due to the nature of his possession, the demon is here with Peter in-game (more information about it can be found here, with a link to Paimon's abilities & other details!) However, the demon has been just as traumatised and messed up by this cult as Peter tbqh, so he's coming in pretty confused and weird, and won't be capable of doing much to begin with. I'd definitely love to explore more of Paimon over time!

Prior to his arrival here, Peter was in another game (The City), where he lived for about half a year and met a couple folks who are also here at Etraya. He made contact with the exorcist Johanna Constantine and was gently spooky-adopted by Vanessa Ives and all of the horrible things haunting her

Personality-wise, Peter is very shy and nervous, highly depressed, and triggered by a variety-pack of things. (If he starts screaming, crying, or throwing up, just know it's not you, it's him.) He doesn't actually explicitly know that he's hosting a demon, but he does know there's something very wrong with him, and is on the cusp of finding out the deeper truths. Coming in, he's a bit wonky (all the magic in that library made Paimon start fizzling and crackling and coming up to the surface quick) and he'll be struggling and trying to make sense of things as best he can. He'll also be in desperate need of weed, if anyone can help, please,,,,

Something else to note is that Peter displays a ton of symptoms of his possession, and it's probably pretty obvious after being around him a few times. I'm totally cool with others being aware of it, whether it's sussing it out or being able to sense it because of their own abilities, etc.

PLOTS YOU'RE INTERESTED IN: I'm definitely here for all the horror and mystery things! Peter's a character who comes with a smorgasbord of his own horrors, and I'm very interested in seeing how those might be shaped by the setting / might impact others as well! He's not much of a mission sort at all, and there's not anything left for him to protect or fight for back in his world.... so I think seeing how he'll do here will be really interesting?? He's kind of the worst possible candidate for something like this haha, but he hosts an immense power inside of himself that could potentially be utilised to help others? Or terrorise them horrifically?? Paimon can go both ways.... I'm just so down to see what develops, and indulge in things. Let's get spooky 👻
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[personal profile] ingestion 2025-01-17 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm finally sharing a game with jhey again *screams* ♡♡
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-17 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
✨ ~reunited and it feels so good~ ✨ aaaa I'm stoked to be in a game with you again and I'm so excited to have our cult-traumatised horror teens meet! ♥
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[personal profile] matermali 2025-01-17 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)


You want some weed Mom's got some weed ofc
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mom's got the horrors AND the weed.... this is why she's the best!!

Vanessa Peter getting stoned together thread needs to happen soon, on that note... They deserve this
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[personal profile] matermali 2025-01-18 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Weed and story time. How to gently break it to him that she speedran a villain arc right into the mud...

Use a joint to soften the blow.
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god mom have you been Unleashing The Terrors on people again.....

It's okay, Paimon's here to help her out now! Whether that's by making things better or worse....
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[personal profile] matermali 2025-01-18 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
A little chaos builds character! The Apocalypse was averted. She has a wicked new scar. And she's only a little possessed now.

So please make it worse or else what are we even doing here.
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
Love that for her ❤ And absolutely down for Making It Worse :) So many fun awful shenanigans in store....! Also following up on / expanding those spooky talks they were having before The City ended - they have sooo much to discuss!
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[personal profile] matermali 2025-01-18 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
YES. Maybe time (eventually) for her to try that lil experiment I was going to attempt in the City. What better way to let Peter understand what's happening than to be a medium for Paimon?

JK there are definitely better ways but those are less fun
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[personal profile] levelshift 2025-01-17 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/ Awesome to be in a game with you again! Peter and Paimon are both so fun, Accelerator here is around Peter's age (a bit younger) AND in canon made a contract with an Aleister Crowley-flavoured demon for magical knowledge, so I think there is interesting stuff we could explore with cr.
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm stoked to be sharing one with you again and getting up to some more shenanigans!! I'm already loving Peter's initial interaction with Accelerator, I think they'll be super fun cr for sure — especially with nifty magical demon contract things, ohoho. Paimon would have so much 👀 going on....
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[personal profile] levelshift 2025-01-18 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeahhh Accy's canon is based on like, aaaallll of Crowley's writings, so some of the Goetian/Hermetic/etc. stuff that pops up in Hereditary also apply to Toaru. Accelerator in particular has done some crazy occult stuff but relied on his precious trash demon daughter to help translate, because he is a big newbie when it comes to magic. If learned about Paimon's whole deal he'd be 👀 right back.
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I love that?? We should absolutely get into some fun occulty shenanigans with these two. Something I'd love for Peter is to gently start getting closer to magic things and learning more about them, so they can be Magic Newbs together. And he and Paimon should definitely make contact sometime, soooo many fun shenanigans could be had :))
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[personal profile] levelshift 2025-01-18 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god they should be magic study buddies. I don't know if the magic library is sticking around but there's a normal New York library brought in by the PoI crew. Hope you like books, Peter!!

They should! I have a writeup somewhere of weird occult vibes Accy gives off, so whenever that happens I will send it your way.
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[personal profile] brat 2025-01-18 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
icb we share two games now and have yet to thread!!

damian here is best pals with accelerator, closeish in age to peter, and has... his own demons he's been battling, metaphorical and semi-literal.

which clearly means he should befriend peter and bully him into doing stuff.
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hello!! We absolutely have to remedy this! Yes please give him all the Struggling Young People to vibe and/or be bullied into doing stuff with :)))
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-01-18 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Aww yeah, fellow horror person! Hi! I’m Fade and I’ll probably add you on Plurk just for more horror joy in my life. In game I’ve got Carver, the former mercenary turned zombie apocalypse cultist who’s having a super fun and chill time and definitely hasn’t given multiple people the creeps. No idea how he’d react to Peter’s whole deal, but I’m curious to find out!
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-18 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hello hello! I'd be glad to have you, I'm always happy to Chat Horror Things!! And oh my god, that sounds like a fun time just waiting to happen, we should absolutely toss these two spooky guys together :D
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-01-18 02:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Hell yeah, I cannot wait.
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[personal profile] plangona 2025-01-20 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
hi jhey!! i'm k and i play octavia blake (the 100) over here. idk what their cr could be but i am excited to toss octavia at peter! welcome to the game!
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-20 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, thank you so much for the welcome!! I'm so down to see what might come of their interactions and looking forward to it! :D
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[personal profile] bubblegumheart 2025-01-21 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Chrissy thinks Peter should eat something and maybe take a nap is interesting and wants to be his friend. So there's that. lol
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[personal profile] possessum 2025-01-21 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm already enjoying this cr a lot and looking forward to doing more! Peter could use some people around his own age, plus he and Chrissy have the whole 'relentlessly haunted & stalked by a supernatural force they ultimately fell victim to' in common — Club Tragic Horror Teens is a go!
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[personal profile] bubblegumheart 2025-01-21 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
I am unironically here for Club Tragic Horror Teens! But Chrissy just needs to get out more and hang out with people her own age, so this is a double win! She doesn't actually remember dying (either time) and tbh most of what she knows about what was going down in Hawkins is thanks to Steve lore-dumping on her in her previous game, months after the fact. :)