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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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zauneyete: (pic#17505594)

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-02 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
Hm?

[ The man's eyes are suspicious on the boy. His fingers drift against the metal, and he considers the proposal.

On the one hand, he has literally nothing to lose. On the other, misery loves company, and were the boy to be deceiving him, he would be left having helped him for nothing. Silco's good eye narrowed, and he tipped his head upward, and his fingers move upward to draw along his lips with a curious gesture. Considering.
]

Now tell me, how do I know you will?

I have no guarantee.
zauneyete: (why are you here)

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-02 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
That is the question.

[ He says it bluntly, with a derisive sneer in the direction of the creature. ] It took us, ergo it has something to gain. Perhaps it is a lazy creature with enough power that it can run roughshod through us, to get what it wants.

We could, after all, be the collateral, and it is looking for something specific.

[ A shrug. ]

Or it could be that it wants us to confess... secrets, that it will aim to use later.

Perhaps this will be only our first encounter with it.
leastdramatic: (Eye roll)

[personal profile] leastdramatic 2025-01-02 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Yup. It was literal," Jason says. Tripping balls would've been a more logical cause but Etraya too eccentric to just leave something metaphorical. "I was stone cold sober when that was going on."
zauneyete: (pic#17504544)

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-02 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ A disbelieving scoff. ]

There is a creature that determines the morality of children?

[ His tone says, very clearly: what kind of fucked up world do you live in? ]

And now it wants us to confess... likely our misdeeds, then. [ A quirk of his lips. ] Does it think this is an appropriate way to... reform us?
Edited 2025-01-02 03:47 (UTC)
clavesregni: (108 02 02)

[personal profile] clavesregni 2025-01-02 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Old enough to remember it. [Caitlyn refrains from giving an exact age. If Sevika knows that, she could work out how old Caitlyn is now, and Caitlyn would prefer to leave open the possibility of the other woman mistaking her for older than she is.]

Are you going to answer my question?
leastdramatic: (Maybe)

[personal profile] leastdramatic 2025-01-02 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Krampus isn't real... usually. And yeah. Maybe that's the idea.

[Again, Jason taps on a bar]

But we're also in Etraya and there might be another explanation.
zauneyete: (pic#17504546)

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-02 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Unfortunately for Sevika, she's a Zaunite, which means that by proxy she has been collateral for a decades-long divorce proceeding that has turned the entire undercity into two different versions of their city, and neither of which were the ideal. Also unfortunately for Sevika, she is Silco's right-hand woman, and he actually trusts her.

As much as a man like him can trust, anyway.
]

What I learned from the machine sounded ludicrous to start. Anything new that you've gotten beyond that?

Who are we chasing down, and what to we know about them already, if anything?

Or are we going to be starting from the ground up?

[ As always.

At least when redirected like this, Silco's focus narrows to what his purpose was. Running a tight ship (except for Jinx) that can change the very fate of a city. Maybe even a world this time? Unlikely, but they would start moving, regardless.
]
bigpoofymammoth: (Ice Age 3)

[personal profile] bigpoofymammoth 2025-01-02 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
It’s a bit of both actually. That said, not every animal in my world can speak.
codicies: (01 bored)

[personal profile] codicies 2025-01-02 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
Dylan raises his eyebrows, eyeing Jason curiously as he guides his beetle friend back onto his shoulder.

"That's what they all say." He's only half-joking.
ascarylady: (sarcastic bitch face)

[personal profile] ascarylady 2025-01-02 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
I told you I'd confess if I were responsible, not that I would lay bare the whole undercity's dirty laundry.

[ So calm thy tits, copper. Grayson, though...

How much to say? That one isn't too difficult.
]

On that note? That little rat Marcus isn't one of us, so I don't mind shitting on him for the fun of it. I wasn't there myself, but I do know Grayson was in the Lanes to make an arrest. I also know Marcus sold her out.
Edited 2025-01-02 04:21 (UTC)
zauneyete: (pic#17504615)

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-02 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you didn't mean to try and kill me? So sorry, what an accident. [ Vander lets him go, backs up from him, and Silco very quickly rearms himself, before he tucked it someplace closer to his hand, and straightened his clothing. Here he was again, losing his mettle before he could do anything else. As always.

Once, he'd goaded him into letting that beast out again. Here, he can't do it. Silco doesn't want to die, but he also hates this. Seeing him cowed and cowering, backing off as quick as he starts the fight. He should put an end to him right now, but who knew if that would work. They've already brought the both of them back from the dead. Could they do it again? It stayed him from starting the fight anew, even though he was tempted.
]

I didn't walk away, Vander, I escaped with my life. I knew you were looking for me — trying to finish the job you couldn't the first time, so of course I kept out. It's nothing like her.

[ Silco had gone to ground after, squirreling himself away, secreting to those dark parts of the fissures where the people most forgotten by society had been. Where he could recuperate, and recover. Where he could build a base of operations, build a gang with those society didn't care to look for. Battery and assault, information brokering and drugs, none of it was off limits, and it's how he was able to build enough capital to move forward.

Then, of course, he'd met the doctor, who'd been curious about his condition, and what he could do with it.
]

All I did with Jinx, is make those her strengths. Something you, I will point out, were never able to do.

[ He doesn't dare say the words. Her daughter, he says, Silco thinks my daughter, but he doesn't dare speak that out loud. Not into the open air, where he could get caught. Where anyone can here, where Vander can learn his deepest secret.

He doesn't dare.

He Can't. He holds it close, like a guard.
]
ascarylady: (061;)

[personal profile] ascarylady 2025-01-02 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

[ They covered that when considering setting the Krampus on fire. She pockets the lighter after one final click of trying to relight it. ]

We can't be too far. The air is a lot fresher where we're at now.
ascarylady: (048;)

[personal profile] ascarylady 2025-01-02 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
"You say that, but I'm not in the business of confessing anything to anyone," Sevika says after a moment, considering. He says he won't tell anyone. There's no way to guarantee that.

"You got a name?"

If nothing else, she should at least figure out who she may inevitably have to track down later.
clavesregni: (104 04 08)

[personal profile] clavesregni 2025-01-02 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She's suddenly much more interested in learning about his world than about the specifics of egg-rearing. Though she does hug it carefully to her chest, making sure to fold the coat around it to cover every part of the shell.]

It must be complicated, I suppose, cohabitating with humans and non-speaking animals. The city buildings must be very large to accommodate elephants. Have you and the other speaking animals got jobs? How do you operate things like doors if you haven't got opposable thumbs?
clavesregni: (201 05 01)

[personal profile] clavesregni 2025-01-02 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[She looks over sharply when Sevika mentions Marcus.]

Sold her out? To Silco?

[So he'd been in Silco's pocket before he even became Sheriff. And the horrible possibility rears its head that he sold Grayson out specifically to become Sheriff. Did he lead her to her death to get her out of the way?

Surely not. Surely even Marcus couldn't be so cold in his ambitious as that.]


Was Silco responsible for Grayson's death?
bigpoofymammoth: (Ice Age 5)

[personal profile] bigpoofymammoth 2025-01-02 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Manny couldn’t help but raise his eyebrow at her assumptions about his world.]

As far as I know, there isn’t really any sort of cohabitation between humans and animals outside of wolves. Most animals just simply live out in the wild while the humans live in small settlements. And the architecture in my world is nowhere near as advanced as the ones in here or your world.
knightowl: (008)

[personal profile] knightowl 2025-01-02 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce remembers their first meeting. Remembers thinking Jason is exactly the kind of kid he would have taken in all those years ago. The exact kind of kid he'd have put in harm's way. Somewhere, some version of him had and if Jason's answer is any indication, it ended about as well for him as it had for Tim.

Who was he to ever recruit these children, like they were little tin soldiers? None of them deserved the danger being associated with him - with Batman - brought on them.

He's quiet.
knightowl: (004)

[personal profile] knightowl 2025-01-02 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
"You need to worry about yourself." But if she really wanted to be helpful. "If you can contact anyone outside of here, try to find Damian Wayne. Or Dick Grayson."
ascarylady: (109;)

[personal profile] ascarylady 2025-01-02 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ To Silco? Of course. Who else would it have been? Only Sevika won't confirm that herself. Sorry, Caitlyn. You'll have to do a little more digging for the whole story. ]

I told you. I wasn't there. [ She saw nothing, copper, and that's the end of it. ] What else you got?
simpcard: (hey i just met you)

[personal profile] simpcard 2025-01-02 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
"But if you - if you give a secret, we can leave together." She brings her hands together, interlacing her fingers.
knightowl: (022)

[personal profile] knightowl 2025-01-02 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
All things considered, Bruce doesn't trust this woman either. He knows how to keep a secret and he knows that. She doesn't. And it's all the same to him if she doesn't want to talk. Not like he was in any position to do anything about it. "Fair enough," he says and shrugs.

When she asks for his name, he almost considers an alias. But decided he didn't have the energy for it.

"Bruce. You?"
cantilevers: (65)

[personal profile] cantilevers 2025-01-02 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He curled a lip, but he didn't contest Silco's rebuttal. It was no excuse even now, nothing he could say to change the past, his actions or anything that led up to that moment. So, he didn't bother. They could go around and around, and it would solve nothing at all.

Vander kept the egg clutched in his fingers still as he rubbed the egg residue that Silco had smeared on his skin before he flipped the edge of the gauze wrap and began to curl it around his forearm to cover the scar again. He had never liked to exposed and now it was less about his shame and more about not providing anyone reason to ask about it in the first place.]


Believe whatever you want, Silco. My intention in trying to find you was never to finish the job back then. I wanted to make amends, to... do whatever I could to help. [He shrugged his shoulders, tucking the edge of the gauze into the last wrap of it.] It doesn't matter. We had our eye-for-an-eye moment at the cannery. You got what you wanted. You're king of the undercity. Congratulations, Silco.

[There was nothing in his tone that was congratulatory. He turned to look at the other man, eyes flicking down to note that the kitchen knife was gone, back on Silco's person somewhere.]

Is that all? You drowned Powder out with this Jinx persona, I bet. Whatever, she will always be Powder to me, but this time around, I'll get to know her as Jinx too. I can accept whoever she wants to be.

[He grabbed another two rolls of gauze and tucked them into the hand holding the egg. He looked at Silco.]

You wanna beat a retreat now?
leastdramatic: (Quiet contemplating)

[personal profile] leastdramatic 2025-01-02 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Luckily(?), Jason is fluent enough in Bat-Speak to know what that silence could mean.

"We both made a lot of mistakes," he continues. "I... crossed lines he told me to never cross. Big ones. He was so damn stubborn and wasn't listening. It took a while before we could talk to each other again without trying to beat the shit out of each other. And now we're much better. My relationship with the big guy still isn't perfect. We both still have problems. But we've moved past a lot of the anger. He's even mentioned he was proud of me despite everything I did."
cantilevers: (Default)

Re: egg requests.

[personal profile] cantilevers 2025-01-02 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
He has nothing better to do than care for the egg. He will be keeping it close and tending to it, and it's about all that he can talk to at this point. Sorry egg, you're his buddy now.

He is hoping for his clothing from home (shirt, jacket, pants, boots, and his arm brace).
clavesregni: (105 06 09)

[personal profile] clavesregni 2025-01-02 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. Yes, she had made assumptions, hadn't she.]

You live in the wild? You don't even have shelter?