◣ OOC MINGLE & CR MEME ◢

[raiamods]

AUGUST MINGLE & CR MEME ❀

OOC intro/mingle posts in Ethyraia serve a dual function as CR memes for current players. The hope is that this will encourage current players to scan through and greet our new players. Take this opportunity to get to know your fellow players, plan hatching log threads, check-in regarding the keeping of TDM threads (which can be made game canon), find plot hooks, and plan for future CR.

NEW PLAYERS, please link your comments in reply to the appropriately labeled thread at the top of the post. Our goal is to boost your visibility. Established players will be looking there to welcome you!

Note: If we find that combining these functions isn't working, we'll reevaluate this set-up. Please don't hesitate to share your feedback on our SOTG posts.

REMINDERS:

☆ The HATCHING LOG, which will now be mini-event logs, will go up on 08/08. There will be plenty to do in addition to the hatching.

☆ Remember that the ACTIVITY CHECK for this game is a static post that you reply to each month. New players, remember to get yourself all set up there and on the TAKEN LIST — this counts as your first month's AC.

☆ Player plots and questions should come through our PLOT ENGAGEMENT page, and the more PCs you have on board, the more we can give you. Please use these CR memes to find people to group up with for plotting purposes.

☆ You can ask general setting questions on our FAQ page.

☆ There will be two mod logs this month! Keep a look out on the 8th and the 22nd for summer rain.

☆ Trish, Bruno, Yakov, Mops, Adora, Catra, Eda, Wanda, Spensa, Steve, Bucky, John, Daenerys, Illumi, Jack, and Dorothea have vanished, leaving behind:

(character specific items)
steve rogers' depression notebook, bucky barnes' dog tags, a picture of sarah connor, wanda maximoff's spellbook, mops' monocle (held to eye by magnets, creates a HUD and acts as a smartphone), an owl-headed staff, and one very angry dragon (25m);

(weapons)
a flip-knife, two daggers, a glock 17, a m4 carbine, a rifle, an ammo box, a laptop with a charging cable (circa 2010), a mauser c96 semiauto hand pistol, a box of c96 ammunition, and two collapsible/extendible staffs;

(utility items)
a variety of clothes, three sets of sewing needles, two mugs (one reads "thirty and flirty"), a box of matches, a cigarette case, a beat-up copy of what is to be done? burning questions of our movement by v.i. lenin, a cleaning/maintenance kit, a vacuum cleaner, a cosmetics purse (comb, makeup, hand mirror), a flask of expensive whiskey, a crown, and a silver ring.

Unless someone claims it (please drop a note in Mod Questions if you do), the community outreach department will be collecting and redistributing these items.

Complete the form below:
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NAVIGATION ❀

Comments

MOD QUESTIONS

[raiamods]

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[portolan]

Balthier is taking the thirty and flirty mug.

And the whisky if I can have 2 but the priority is the mug.

[unwings]

Can Cas take the spellbook (and set of sewing needles if 2 are allowed)?

[northerndragon]

I’m not sure what all of this was Dany’s, but Jon would be insistent in trying to claim whatever was hers. (The ring, probably?) He would have been moping over it since he figured out that she was gone.

Past that, the dragon would IC-ly claim Jon, unless there’s something in this environment that changes/overwrites canonical GoT dragon behaviors. (Which I can explain, if you need it, but it’s kind of tl;dr and gets into the technicalities of dragon/rider bonding.) He should chill around Jon, but I don’t think anyone, including Jon, would be able to ride him.

[unclesam]

Sam will be taking Bucky's dog tags. If we can take more than one item, he'd love to grab that flip-knife in addition. But the dog tags have absolute priority.

I've spoken to Natasha's player and been asked to pass along that Natasha will claim Steve's depression notebook.

[deathpending]

For Matthias one of the sewing needles and a set of clothes, and for Jonathan the book by Lenin and the laptop. If only one item per character then the first one mentioned for each :>

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[spalten]

he'll take the two daggers! and the vacuum cleaner as well if that's ok otherwise he'll settle for the daggers

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[portolan]

Hi mods!

Would it be possible for Balthier to use either a Protect, Shell, or Reflect to (temporarily) repel the rain or protect people/objects from it? In the games, this has a countdown before it dissipates so I figure he'd need to recast fairly regularly, and it would take more MP/energy the larger area or more people he needed to protect.

[wittingly]

Ian would like to take Mops' monocle, he thought it was dope as fuck when she showed him. If it's 1 per character and not 1 per player, Dean gon yank that flask so fast u won't even be able to blink. If not, that's cool.

[sunmon]

can alina have the whiskey for her post-thessyx failure depression haze

NEW ARRIVALS

[raiamods]

If you just apped this round, link your comment here so old players know where to find you!

[agnicry]

Hello I am new here w/ Zuko and my top level is here !

jay (castiel)

[unwings]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: Jay
PRONOUNS: he/they
CONTACT: wuzzafuzzle

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Castiel
CANON: Supernatural
JOURNAL: unwings
INFO: Cas here is an angel old enough to remember the first fish-human and moses parting the sea, but somewhere in the early 2000s, rebelled against heaven for love of some dumbass humanity and the concept of free will. through 13 seasons of fuckery and bullshit, he eventually comes to find all he once believed in to be a lie and basically breaks God/Chuck's master plan by being gay. Idk, I didn't make the show, I'm just here to suffer through it. he's an awkward little alien baby who is also 2 billion years old, help him learn about showering and toaster ovens
SKILLS: Castiel has those magic angel powers, so he'd be well suited for security or medical related things (apparently he can smell recent disease??), and would be more likely to go for the latter after being told by Remi to fuck off (just "ok then" and proceeds to fuck right off)
AREAS OF INTEREST: Team Free Will are big on lore and research, so Cas will be all about trying to figure out the nature of the world around them and the creatures within it. He'll be especially interested in the Thessyx and want to get to know them and learn about their culture and history and etc.
PLANS/GOALS: honestly, just get settled and grow his CR atm. he's a really helpful dude, with the patience of a saint (most of the time (when he deems the cause worthy of it (people being jackasses = not worthy))), so if your person needs an assist with anything, hit me up.
CR PREFERENCES: friends! frienemies! people to regurgitate weird facts about the universe at! i'm open to pretty much everything but romance, he already has issues to deal with in that department 8(
MISC HOOKS: hit cas up if you're looking for - angels/demons/judeo-christian fuckery, supernatural stuff, dudes who look like sad accountants in too big trench coats, dad figures to aggressively dad at youngins, dudes who will never lose drinking games, people who take things entirely too literally, fuckin nerds, gardening pals, an endless source of semi-useless trivia
NOTES:

tifa (alina & yennefer)

[sunmon]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: tifa
PRONOUNS: she/they
CONTACT: protects

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: alina starkov
CANON: shadow and bone
JOURNAL: sunmon
INFO: ya fantasy protagonist summons light, fucks russian magneto, power trips about becoming a saint
SKILLS: visual art (drawing/painting), cartography, light source, babysitting, sarcasm
AREAS OF INTEREST: just posted a player plot about trying to find the thessyx so she's going to be Depressed about failing on that for a while. may eventually try again. in the interim, see next bullets.
PLANS/GOALS: (1) go live with the thessyx and never go back to ravka again, (2) develop a map for the hatchlings to use that makes them less dependent on the adamant survivors.
CR PREFERENCES: alina wants to get better at manipulating people for villainfucker reasons, so she's seeking tutors. but i think it would be useful for her if someone had long talks with her about how to wield power responsibly so she doesn't just deep end it. or so that she does deep end it! love a bad influence & bad end.
MISC HOOKS: can babysit all the youngins at the theater, (cw: grooming) has a disarmingly charming Much Older Boyfriend (?) who lurks around her please protect her and point out that this is Concerning because she already knows, will teach you to paint/draw/etc., may go out on missions of all kinds as the Designated Map Person

CHARACTER NAME: yennefer of vengerberg
CANON: witcher netflix
JOURNAL: angerberg
INFO: hot mess eldritch abomination of a witch decides to burn the village down to feel its warmth
SKILLS: ambiguous Chaos Magic, diplomacy, courtly manners, resource and community management, politics
AREAS OF INTEREST: yennefer is interested in the power structure of the basecamp and in all ethyraian interests in the hatchlings, trying to protect the hatchlings from being scapegoated
PLANS/GOALS: develop a hatchling-only settlement away from the adamant survivors, investigate dragon
CR PREFERENCES: I'M HAVING A HARD TIME INTEGRATING HER and i just took a hiatus, so i'm open to literally anything? if anyone has something specific in mind i'll get really hyped about it i promise.
MISC HOOKS: yennefer is a bitch so feel free to assume she has maligned your character or fucked them over somehow

NOTES: i am sorry for my problem children

[deathpending]

man i feel he and yen might... get along...Pursuit of Knowledge and all

Re: tifa (alina & yennefer)

[portolan]

I'm waiting for a good spot to throw Tina at Yen.

I also think Balthier and Yen might work well together if they have a like "We have to get this done" situation?

[northerndragon]

Jon is probably in a very mildly bad place and Yen might wish to investigate that, due to him claiming in a dream that he owes her something. Seems like something that might interest Untitled Goose Sorceress. Failing that, he might also seek her out for further conversation.

[portolan]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: taylor
PRONOUNS: she/they
CONTACT: portolan

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Balthier
CANON: FF12
JOURNAL: protolan
INFO: Balthier is a former pirate and a former-former high society kid who ran away from his responsibilities, only to find himself supporting the queen in a political uprising to push back an evil empire ran by his father last year. Who he then killed.
SKILLS: Piracy, diplomacy, academic knowledge, flattery, flirting, healing magic, mentoring grumpy teenagers
AREAS OF INTEREST: Balthier is interested in leadership, the thessyx, keeping camp members (especially youths) safe, exploring the leviathan, and figuring out more about the dragon. He also really wants some friggin' tea.
PLANS/GOALS: Balthier doesn't see himself as a leader yet, but absolutely is, and I want to keep pushing him into that position. He needs a new community/family/friends, but is resisting opening himself up to hurt. If anyone wants to do romance, I am open (he's bi).
CR PREFERENCES: teens who need big brothers, scalawag buddies (flirts, jokesters, etc.), people he can rely on for actual diplomacy and excursions, happy to do conflict/enemies, happy to do romance but talk to me ahead of time
MISC HOOKS: loves tea, has some background in music/dancing/theater, realizing he was a moron and missed his shot with the girl he liked, missing his best friend, changed his name and ran away from home, dad issues, pirate but also has a Very Clear moral compass, his cool new Thirty and Flirty mug (he's not 30 yet but he wants you to think he is)
NOTES: pls be friends with my early adult bb who doesn't realize he's becoming the diplomatic, charming leader his shitty dad wanted him to be (minus the human parts cause his dad was a narcissistic piece of work) and thus is having some crisis about it.

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Tiny Tina
CANON: Borderlands 2
JOURNAL: skaggz
INFO: Tina is a 13-year-old explosive experts with a shit ton of trauma. She's manic and loves pop culture and faux victorian finery.
SKILLS: the EchoNet (internet), explosives, whittling adults down with her intense and persistant personality, skipping class
AREAS OF INTEREST: Tina is young and selfish, but real good at being on her own and used to working with adults. She'd be interested in the Adamant and the Leviathan (she loves creatures), and I'm honestly interested in throwing her at a thessyx.
PLANS/GOALS: She's a little chaos demon. I want to just cause problems with her lol lol. But also, she deeply needs a mentor; this is a girl who lost her parents and then lost her new family. She's reeling. She hates school but likes to learn and is trying to find herself, thus doubling down on external personality markers. Tina's going to grow up (literally) while she's here, and I'm open to how her relationships and experiences impact that.
CR PREFERENCES: (patient but firm) mentor (or hey a bad fit mentor), adults she can terrorize, people who will keep her busy/show her interesting things so she isn't blowing shit up, adults who are questionable in their use of her to get her explosives expertise, other young people she can vaguely make friends (or something) with; hot ladies she can imprint on and do everything for but not entirely understand why yet (she gay)
MISC HOOKS: Tina loves cookies and crumpets and will ask for them constantly. She has a zillion pop culture things stores on her ECHODevice (communicator) and likes to share. She really likes animals/creatures and tends to make pets out of vicious ones. While she's manic on the outside, she's highly curious and will follow an interesting adult around and learn whatever they have to set her to. She also is always ditching school.
NOTES: tldr pls help keep this 13 year old disaster genius from exploding camp. or help her do it!

[agnicry]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: Lex
PRONOUNS: No preference, he/him if you gotta pick
CONTACT: cerebrah

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Zuko
CANON: Avatar: The Last Airbender
JOURNAL: agnicry
INFO: Zuko is the banished teenage crown prince of ur friendly neighborhood imperialist war machine. He is angry and self-important and unpleasant and can set things on fire with his brain, all of which he has Good Reasons for but they don't make him any easier to deal with in the moment, alas. He's a good kid after a lot of character development!! Unfortunately I pulled him from when he doesn't yet have a lot of that, so sorry in advance. His app is here if anybody would like more info!
SKILLS: How much Zuko is actually going to help with anything remains to be seen, but he is physically capable of: setting things on fire (as mentioned), martial arts, swordfighting, being virtually unkillable through sheer willpower. If you can manage to trick him into doing something helpful he will absolutely send it home, because that's how he is.
AREAS OF INTEREST: I'm always about dat metaplot!! Definitely looking to throw Zuko at exploring and maybe figure out some mysteries because that's probably the best application of his limited braincells
PLANS/GOALS: I hate being like OH ANYTHING but I just got here so I am content with just getting a foothold for now!
CR PREFERENCES: This is a bad time in his arc for Iroh to be missing from his life so any kind of Calming Adult Influence would be a huge plus lol. I'd also love for him to get like... actual friends his age... he doesn't have any. He doesn't know what they are
MISC HOOKS: If you're up for negative CR, Zuko is INCREDIBLY easy to provoke into a stupid fight! He's also, uh, definitely a bit of a project for any characters inclined to play mentor. He also comes with pre-existing baggage in the form of his Extremely Problematic Sister Azula, who is also in the game and will probably end up being an issue for anybody who wants CR with Zukes here... which is a great deal, really, two problem children for the price of one!!!!
NOTES:

Also I would like to apologize to everyone I have TDM threads with... I plan to continue all of them I just got EXTREMELY eaten by Great Ace Attorney Chronicles 😔

[portolan]

This applies to both you and Mina -- Balthier is a calming mentor presence (he's used to teens on his ship) and is already sort of attempting to mentor Alina, but is also a pirate so will not take shit. Tina is a disaster teen also looking for friends who can dish it out, but is also pretty loyal once she likes people.

[mylawn]

zuko you need a better dad

[firelords]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: mina
PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT: nehelenia & 𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬#9403 (feel free to add me anywhere you'd like)

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: azula
CANON: avatar: the last airbender
JOURNAL: firelords
INFO: mentally unstable fourteen year old princess who was just about to be crowned the next fire lord while her dad takes over the rest of the world. very recently had a very big break with reality, also thinks she might have just killed her brother.
SKILLS: do you need fire, lightning, martial arts, or a teenager who tells you what to do wrong? she has some military experience and took over a whole country once. probably good for retcon missions!
AREAS OF INTEREST: metaplot metaplot! but truth be told, i'm all new this round so i just kind of want to see what she gravitates towards naturally.
PLANS/GOALS: short term, i want her to do a couple of trips outside the leviathan. long term, i'd be nice if she could have some sort of character growth arc! find a few people she genuinely trusts, build some genuine relationships.
CR PREFERENCES: anything, she's all new! mentor types, fellow teens, people she can argue with, people who bite back.
MISC HOOKS: fire lord ozai had two perfectly good children whom he fucked up in vastly different ways – ie, if your character gets close to zuko, they're probably going to have a run in with his lovely sister here in the long run. also, she will lie about her age at least initially. she's smart, she's likely to catch on to the fact that she doesn't quite count as an adult-adult and will claim to be 16, because THAT is an adult-adult in her little world. i'm absolutely down for characters to catch onto that, though. she has no makeup at her disposal here, so it's... not exactly subtle that she's not telling the whole truth.
NOTES:

[agnicry]

And the one person who can call her out on her age believes her anyway bc he is extremely credulous 😔

[mylawn]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: Whit
PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT: whitticus OR whitticus#8139. Feel free to add me! It would be great to get people on plurk! Just an fyi that I'm recovering from an injury and slowly hopping back on the wagon, but I would love to make some new friends!

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Jack Morrison | Soldier: 76
CANON: Overwatch
JOURNAL: mylawn
INFO: 76 is a captain america-style super soldier who fought and won the robot war and then led an international peacekeeping operation for 20 years before being betrayed and blown up. Having died in the public eye he’s been living his best wanted fugitive/vigilante life ever since. He is old and bitter and tired and vaguely traumatized and if you want to know more his application is here.
SKILLS: Beyond his genetic augmentations that make him harder/better/faster/stronger than a normal human person, he’s a highly skilled combatant who is no stranger to dire situations, limited resources, and spartan accommodations, to say nothing of operating as part of a military outfit, living and working in a dangerous and occasionally violent environment. He understands that the locals at base camp PROBABLY did not expect an extra 40 people dumped on them, so he’s doing his best to make himself useful so he doesn’t get thrown out on his ass. He’s here to help out and lift heavy things and shoot alien monsters and he’ll only grumble a little while doing so.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Oh, he definitely thinks he’s been kidnapped. He’s still vaguely entertaining whether or not it’s feasible to strike out on his own, especially because he hates the idea of being caught between the Adamant crew and the Thessyx. He’s ALSO never been on an alien planet so he’s actually very interested in exploring—maybe pushing the boundaries of how far beyond base camp they can go. Maybe securing more safe areas? Maybe that’s…optimistic.
PLANS/GOALS: He's working on being a little more cooperative around base camp. 76 has spent most of his life in a leadership position working towards literal world peace—something that is not so easily forgotten. In order to contribute to a cooperative survival situation, 76 will need to reconcile that core of himself with his new jaded outlook, while simultaneously re-learning how to function as part of a team and be a contributing member of base camp society. He’s not going to be able to operate vigilante style here, which is taking him some getting used to.
CR PREFERENCES: I want everything; please give it to me. I expect a lot of his initial encounters to be on the slightly antagonistic side (he’s grumpy), but given the fact that this is kind of a cooperate-or-die situation, he’ll be less of a lone wolf and look for like-minded allies. Maybe that is you?? If you want to grab him I have a top level up on the player plot here!
MISC HOOKS: He’s a hardcore military-type and does well with other hardcore military-types, mercenaries, or fellow professionals, if only because they might *~*~*understand each other*~*~*. He fought a robot war! Possibly some of you have also done that, or are robots yourselves!!! You need dadly advice about how to fight things? He's got it. If anyone wants to learn guns or fighting or punching or War or faking your own death or sacrificing your own personal happiness for a cause that explodes, or you want to talk War Philosophy for some reason, he is your guy.
NOTES:

let’s be friends

[portolan]

Balthier just got out of a war and his primary weapon is guns. He was captain and defacto head engineer on his ship, which he basically rebuilt, so I feel like they'd have some in common.

He also can use magic and his world is vaguely 1700s. These days he's learning more toward diplomacy, so also some places for some friction.

[cryptoherpetology]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: Kabe
PRONOUNS: She/Her
CONTACT: kabriel I could really use some more in-game plurk contacts. Or poke me on Discord @ kabriel#7332

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Alex Price
CANON: InCryptid (novels by Seanan McGuire)
JOURNAL: cryptoherpetology
INFO: Science nerd raised by a family of cryptozoologists. Weird taste in pets.
SKILLS: Biology, survival, first aid, childcare, teaching
AREAS OF INTEREST: A little bit of everything, tbh
PLANS/GOALS: I have some network conversations I need to follow up on with threads but also want to expand Alex's CR a bit more.
CR PREFERENCES: He's probably not ready for any romance right away thanks to heavily repressed feelings about his fiancée back home. In the meantime I'd love to have him make some more friends AND butt heads with people where appropriate.
MISC HOOKS: He's been teaching basic bio-focused science lessons to the kids, helps out in the aid station pretty often and isn't afraid of doing manual labor, so there are a few places to have seen him around. With or without the griffin, who could potentially start getting in to things on his own (making a circuit of people to con into feeding him or making himself some new friends and/or nemeses, etc).

[spalten]

Player;

PLAYER NAME: haru
PRONOUNS: she/her
CONTACT: pm, discord @ wrryypugnant #6666

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: vidar (gaelio bauduin)
CANON: mobile suit gundam: iron blooded orphans
JOURNAL: this one
INFO: tall dark and handsome pilot of a gundam whose colours are prob stripped now bec of the acid rain. but it's just outside of the base camp and it's over 20m tall.
SKILLS: he doesn't have specific skills, but what he does enjoy doing is poking his head into things. recently he's done the little garden plot with zhongli and before that he just went into the adamant to grab some rations. mr nice guy.
AREAS OF INTEREST: vidar doesn't have any grand designs, but he doesn't like being uncomfortable, which is what the basecamp is. so in general, he wants to be able to make it a nicer place to live for all, while poking in the mysteries of the crashed adamant.
PLANS/GOALS: he's getting a cast mate soon? but im down for him to do more exploratory stuff, plus the gundam functions as a kind of carrier anyway lol.
CR PREFERENCES: for the most part i'm a casual planner. i think he's stayed enough to make friends with several people, so if you want to hang out and make plans for shit, lemme know. the one thing he will not do is lead, bec his time doing that is past.
MISC HOOKS: the gundam's just a lil off the base camp. he and zhongli are taking care of a garden plot for the veggies to grow like old men.
NOTES: my work is killing me, but in general i rp thursdays-weekend.