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etrayalogs2024-12-21 05:15 pm
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Entry tags:
- !mingle log,
- arcane: caitlyn kiramman,
- arcane: jayce talis,
- batman beyond: bruce wayne,
- batman wfa: jason todd,
- dimension 20: gorgug thistlespring,
- fe3h: yuri leclerc,
- have you seen my brother: chu wenshan,
- ice age: manny,
- jl gods and monsters: kirk langstrom,
- penny dreadful: vanessa ives,
- person of interest: sameen shaw,
- remnant 2: the custodian,
- the walking dead: brandon carver,
- ✘ blade of the immortal: asano rin
DECEMBER MINGLE
WHO: Everyone!
WHEN: December 21st - Early January
WHERE: Etraya
WHAT: Newcomers, a surprise gift from Tatianna, and a visitor!
NOTES\WARNINGS:
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 ⏴ 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. 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. 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. 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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Really, Bruce should be grateful that it's Jason testing out his safehouses' security systems than some rogue.
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"Then I suppose it wouldn't make any difference if your father were to get you your own set."
If he were being honest, that sort of behaviour is something he had only heard of and seen in others. He had never felt secure enough in his place in his family to attempt anything like that. Ouyang Duyu was a child abandoned at the Chu Family's door, the adopted second child that nearly everyone gossiped about. So maybe there was just a little something wistful to how he said it.
He drew one one of his knees up and rested his arm on it, propping his head on his palm.
"I guess it was too much to hope for that inconsequential confessions would do it." After all, it's a lot of effort to kidnap people just to hear some gossip.
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"Yeah, it figures," he says. "You got something else then?"
Sorry for the late reply. I was horribly sick for a while there.
So he sat there for a moment, thinking.
Perhaps something less well known...?
"I was pushed off a cliff as child. I nearly died."
When that didn't earn his freedom he kicked the bars a little. It's a half-hearted effort but it made him feel a little bit better.
No worries! Glad you're feeling better
"How'd you survive?" Jason asks, curious.
Sure, he comes from a world full of people with superpowers but the feat is still unusual enough.
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He didn't particularly want to elaborate on those consequences. Who wanted to admit that their health was frail, that they couldn't properly practise martial arts or anything like that?
Well, there was one that didn't matter so much.
"That's when my hair turned white."
He glared at the bars in front of him. Still nothing. He let out a quiet 'tch' and kicked the bars again.
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"I spent several years as a teenager learning from assassins, traffickers, and a lot of other fucked-up people," he says. "I wanted to know how they work."
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Whether the study was for nefarious purposes or for understanding, knowledge was always advantageous.
"Did you get what you needed out of the experience?"
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Those were dark years and he never wants to be in that mental space again. But he knows he would be the kind of vigilante he is now if it weren't for that.
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"Knowing the enemy is key to victory."
After all, that was why he had studied everything he could about Chu Wenshan in those years when vengeance had been the goal.
This wasn't working and if they keep going like this they're going to spill too many secrets and then what would even be the point? And so, the thought of Chu Wenshan suddenly made him think: what would that idiot do?
Then, without really meaning to, he let out a short laugh--that then turned into a short coughing fit. Damn his delicate constitution!
"Excuse me." Was a rather raspy attempt at salvaging his dignity.
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"You alright there?" he asks.
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But he realizes as well how weird that was. In an effort to explain himself so he didn't seem like he'd lost it, he said, "I was just thinking of what an idiot I know would do. The last time we were stuck behind bars he said bending metal with his barehands wasn't something a human could do. Then he just pulled the whole thing out of the foundation as if that was anymore normal."
He said it with a roll of his eyes, the words are judgmental but his tone is noticeably fond. "That idiot probably would have done something outrageous like that."
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"Hell of a useful ability he's got though," he says in an amused tone.
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(Even though, in fact, both of the previous topics also had to do with Chu Wenshan.)
Does he even realize any of this? Not really.
"Not that I'm in the habit of speaking poorly of people behind their backs." He totally is though. "But growing up, the only times Chu Wenshan wasn't a nuisance was when he was carrying my books or eating my scallions for me or taking care of me when I'm sick." The rest of the time he totally didn't desperately try to impress him or try to be his friend or anything!
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But they really hadn't even understood each other until recently.
"He was very hard to communicate with. Still is, really."
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