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∎ ETRAYA MODS ∎ ([personal profile] etrayamods) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs2024-12-21 05:15 pm

DECEMBER MINGLE

WHO: Everyone!
WHEN: December 21st - Early January
WHERE: Etraya
WHAT: Newcomers, a surprise gift from Tatianna, and a visitor!
NOTES\WARNINGS:



⏵ arrival ⏴

Welcome to Etraya!

Arrival goes as expected - characters awaken on hospital beds and are offered an explanation of their situation: that they have arrived in the city of Etraya, and they are their world's only hope. They are welcome to wander the hospital if they would like to - the upper floors are mostly empty, full of pristine hallways and numerous rooms filled with supplies, cots, and things one would expect from a relatively average 21st-century hospital.

The lobby is filled to the brim with tables of freshly baked goods. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" banners are taped to the walls, and several other typical birthday decorations can be found in this area. A few of the baked goods tables are lined with massive cakes covered in unlit candles, just waiting for someone to grab a lighter and sing off-key. Is it anyone's birthday? Who knows! The companion bots seem to believe it's every new arrival's birthday and will greet them as such - with friendly waves and cheers as they make their way to the lobby.

A coat rack is situated by the doors leading out of the hospital, covered in warm clothing that fits the new arrivals just right - whether it's to their preferred style or not is something else entirely. Some of them appear normal enough. Others? Well. They can't all be perfect, now can they?

Outside the windows, the grass is covered in a couple of inches of loosely packed snow.

We hope you enjoy your stay.


⏵ an unexpected gift ⏴


Out by the hospital stands a tall, decorated tree covered in candles and golden pinecones with a handsome, red velveteen tree skirt. In front of it are a few oversized wrapped gifts for show- and atop one of those sits a familiar woman. Or unfamiliar, if this is your first time.

It's Tatianna in a slutty Santa outfit with a big ol’ burlap sack.

“Hey, I got something for you,” she says, digging into the bag and rummaging for a moment.

She produces a painted egg and holds it aloft.

“It’s your Winter Solstice Egg! This is the egg holiday, right? Wait, shit. I’m mixing them up, aren’t I? ...Well. It’s a little late to change it. Here you go!”

How one treats their egg is fully up to themselves. They can choose to ignore it entirely, or destroy it and leave the yolk and innards to rot on the ground. They can hand it over to someone else or care for it as if it were something precious. No one will prevent them from doing whatever they please with it!


⏵ naughty or nice ⏴
However, how they treat the egg will define how the egg treats them in return.

Those who keep the egg and tend to it will get the benefit of being able to watch it hatch seven days after they are handed the egg. Eggs that are treated with attention and love may yield a loyal companion, or a weapon of choice that always returns to its owner, while neglected eggs may yield a curious, cursed trinket or an animal who treats its new owner very much the same way its owner had treated it before it was born.

Please submit an egg request below for what items you would like your character's eggs to hatch into! Please note that these cannot be things that would be applicable in the game.

Those whose eggs are destroyed or forgotten will simply get the gift of... nothing!


⏵ free your spirit ⏴


With the winter chill gripping the air, a mysterious figure makes their presence known in Etraya - a towering, horned creature dragging a massive sack behind them.

𝓐 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 𝖇𝖚𝖎𝖑𝖙 𝖔𝖓 𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖍𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖜𝖊𝖆𝓴 𝖋𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓.


Regardless of a character's strengths or weaknesses, they will find that when Krampus raises his massive sack over their head, they are powerless to stop him from catching them. Those capable of great magical feats or other supernatural abilities will sense something... otherworldly about Krampus, but will not be able to place the source of that sensation.

Once within Krampus' sack, they are welcome to fight, but escape is impossible. It will feel as if Krampus is dragging them over every rock possible, dragging the sack in through the rivers to the point it soaks through and drenches them - potentially almost drowning them.

When the sack opens, they will find themselves in an impossibly dark space. Around them are others who have also been captured and dragged here by Krampus, trapped in small cages hanging from a massive, wiry tree.

Krampus will return often, banging clawed hands and birch rods on the walls of the cages and knocking them into one another.
𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖘𝖘𝖘𝖘𝖘.

The whisper resonates through the darkened area, regardless of Krampus' presence. Confess your secrets, and be freed. Otherwise? You'd better hope someone figures out where Krampus has set up base; those who refuse to confess may find themselves stuck here forever.

⏵ NOTES ⏴


Krampus' base is under Etraya! Deep within the catacombs, he has set up multiple cages to capture those who inhabit Etraya to punish them for their naughty habits. Fighting him is possible! Defeating him by means of combat is not, however, possible. Think of it like fighting a god: Krampus creates the rules in the space around him, including who can use what ability.

For all questions relating to this log, please refer to the mod queries comment. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ.

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[personal profile] metrop_lois 2024-12-29 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
I love this so much. Thank you. She'll endeavor not to have it float away.
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[personal profile] once_reborn 2024-12-29 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
I almost never have reason to reply to these, but just wanted to reply with a thank you to the wonderful mods here for not just granting my idea, but making it funnier in the process.
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[personal profile] once_reborn 2024-12-29 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
She winces a bit, sympathetically, and nods.

"Well, I can show you, if you like? Get you sorted out for somewhere to sleep that's warm, at least."
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Re: egg requests.

[personal profile] arach_kid 2024-12-29 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Pete will take eggcellent care of his egg. Yes, the pun was intentionally. No, he will not apologize.

I'm thinking it's gonna be a kitten sized jumping spider along the lines of Lucas the Spider.
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Re: egg requests.

[personal profile] codicies 2024-12-29 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's a very pretty egg and Dylan doesn't have a lot of nice things even back home, so he'll take care of it until it hatches. It's his responsibility now, after all.

Can it be a cool bug? Maybe a hercules beetle?
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[personal profile] wolfish 2024-12-29 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Seems to me that whatever sort of operation this is, they've expanded over the years. Those other places are still up and running." Yuri's a layman where universes are concerned. What the stars even really are isn't common knowledge in his world, and all of this goes beyond that by orders of magnitude. "The trouble with comparing notes with the neighbors is they might just decide fresh meat's an easy target, yeah?"

It's difficult to ply any other cities for information when they have to be careful not to tip their hand. Vulnerability is dangerous.
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[personal profile] cantilevers 2024-12-29 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[It was true that his exposure to Shimmer was the one lethal dose that he had taken, descriptions of it from Sevika and Silco and seeing how it had changed Powder. Of course, the last one he hadn't seen her in action per say, so he wouldn't know how Shimmer had affected her life as it did his. Still, the description of the side effects and experiencing them himself had been... horrid.

Vander was a realist enough to understand that for all the good intentions of measured doses, so many of their people suffered and scraped out a living for any sense of control of their lives. A drug like that? Measured doses would never be enough for those people; they needed the high, needed to feel powerful, needed to feel. And that down swing was bad enough that addiction would create a cycle that would destroy them and everyone around them. He'd seen it before.

However, he didn't discount that such a potent material would make Silco and all his associates rich and powerful. They would have a strangle of power in the Lanes and beyond; the gangs would fall in line for a piece of the pie. Businesses would resist at first and then be forced to endure.

All of that made him so angry. He'd begged Silco to spare the Lanes, but that was never good enough. Yet, he couldn't deny that the dream of freedom had never slipped passed Silco's gaze, and the other man had set the full groundwork for that to happen.]


You're right, I don't. I'm dead, remember? [He snarled that, pushing Silco a little harder into the wall.] But why don't you explain why giving back their technology, shutting down shimmer was such a problem? [His mouth moved to Silco's mouth.] Or was it this terrorist they wanted?

[He ignored the kick, ignored the biting, ignored the shoving. It meant nothing to him, even as his finger remained closed on Silco's chin while his pinky and ring finger still held his egg.]

So we're free then, is that it? Piltover Council went to a vote. You did it, Bozo One... except you died.
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[personal profile] nobraincell 2024-12-29 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
In my bedroom.

[Ouyang Duyu could be envious, or he could tell himself that Chu Wenshan looks like a monkey the way he's hanging off that cage right now. Goofy! Or possibly ominous! Depends on your opinion of monkeys.

Anyway, Chu Wenshan nods (which might be hard to tell when he's hanging from a swinging cage), carefully timing it before...throwing his umbrella at the lock.

The umbrella may break, but so will the lock!]
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[personal profile] littlestderolo 2024-12-29 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Cassandra would be suspicious, but absolutely take SUCH GOOD CARE of the egg. Because maybe it's a trap, sure, but if there's anything in it, it didn't ASK to be part of the trap. Probably. Either way, she can't bring herself not to care for it.

This might be a weird ask. But could her egg hatch into a smaller version of a Trico from The Last Guardian? (Because a canon-sized Trico, the adorable birds/cats/dogs that they are, is probably WAY too big.)
Edited 2024-12-29 03:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2024-12-29 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Kirk nods.

"Too many unknown factors for now and not enough certainties in what to trust," he says. "Not too many people have experience with the multiverse."
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[personal profile] wolfish 2024-12-29 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I certainly don't." Yuri admits it readily, airily, because it'd be abundantly clear to anyone with that knowledge that he lacks it. "But the premise here's one hell of a motivation to learn, whether it's true or not."

So many people, so many worlds exist beyond the small scope of his own.
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2024-12-29 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Kirk already missed Bekka before arrived in Etraya but part of him wishes she was here. She's seen so much more of the universe than he ever will. Plus, maybe her sword could be their means of escaping.

"The premise establishes a dramatic entrance for everyone at least," he says. "How did you come here?"
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[personal profile] wolfish 2024-12-29 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Funny thing about that." Yuri pauses for dramatic effect, shifting his egg to one arm so he can point a finger at the sky. "I was among a few poor saps who popped up in some vessel that traverses a sea of stars. There was, of course, something terribly wrong with it, including an endless parade of murderous mad jesters."

It sounds like the most terrible jest, and he delivers it with full flippancy, but it's all true. "Imagine my surprise waking to that."
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Re: egg requests.

[personal profile] godkaru 2024-12-29 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Hikaru would absolutely take good care of the egg, talk to it, tell it stories, keep it safe and warm. She loves animals and can mostly understand them, so she'd be happy to look after whatever hatched.

As for what it hatches into, a weird cat-dog animal the size of a kitten would work.
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2024-12-29 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ugh. Of course there would be murderous mad jesters. Kirk has not had the most pleasant experiences with them. Though at least he can say he makes sure they're not a long-term problem in Gotham.

"How pleasant," Kirk says dryly. "How did that ended?"