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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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wolfish: (setback)

[personal profile] wolfish 2024-12-31 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"I can safely say we don't have some lunatic clown legion back home." Yuri finds himself grateful for it now, having never conceived of such a thing before. How many worlds are plagued by that special brand of madness?

Kirk being his first Batman, Yuri has no idea...
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2024-12-31 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Luckily for Kirk and for many in Gotham, he did permanently end at least one psychotic clown.

"Consider ourselves lucky," Kirk says dryly, deciding not get too into explaining Gotham's rogues gallery. "Has anything similar happened here since then?"
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[personal profile] wolfish 2024-12-31 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Fortunately not," Yuri replies, and he does consider that much a mercy. If it was an endless parade of insanity, the lot of them would be in serious trouble. "Of course, once it happens the once, nothing's to say we won't get a repeat performance."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2024-12-31 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Possible. Or our esteemed wardens don't like reruns," Kirk says, going back to the theory they could be just here for someone's sick entertainment.
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-02 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Fair point, they might favor variety." Yuri can easily concede that. He's only had a couple of missions under his belt, and beyond that he can only refer to others' network commentary. "One thing though: that blighted business seemed unanticipated by our keepers here."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-02 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Kirk furrows his brow.

“Blighted?” He asks.
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-04 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yuri flaps a gloved hand in the open air. "Don't know the proper name for whatever it was we dealt with a couple months back. Others surely do, but it seemed like a blight to me."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-04 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"What happened?" Kirk asks. He hadn't finished combing through the network posts yet.
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-04 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Referring to that business I mentioned before, with people being influenced and the like." Yuri's quick to clarify, not having intended to suggest that particular brand of madness had occurred twice.

He doesn't quite know what that business with the stuffed animals was, though. It came before his time and is hard to conceptualize. Evil stuffies, imagine.
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-04 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
“Ah right. How often do strange occurrences happen? I’ve been warned about even food being not what it seems,” Kirk says.

The more he learns about Etraya, the more he’s seeing it’s going to be a very unusual adjustment for him.
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-04 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good question. Yuri considers it with a low, thoughtful hum as he shifts the egg bundle closer against him. Eggs need warmth, after all. "In my time here, missions come near monthly. Oddities come with it, though not all of them dangerous."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-04 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Kirk mentally notes that. Maybe it'll be like trying to keep track of the weather. Kirk also shifts his egg so that it's not too cold.

"Small mercies I suppose," he says. "Maybe they're monthly tests then."
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"It does strike me as something of a loose schedule," Yuri agrees easily, considering that while it may not be rigid, he has the distinct impression of a routine. "What they ask of us is less predictable so far, but the general timing's there."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-05 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
"And how often do people arrive?" He asks. So much of Etraya feels... deliberate. Deliberate in what Kirk isn't sure about yet.
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-05 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Now that one I'd call much more regular. From what I've observed, it's routinely once a month," Yuri replies before fumbling to procure a little well-worn leatherbound notebook from somewhere in his fitted attire. This is followed by more fumbling to reach the right page (Kirk needn't know he writes down the name of every person he feels he's failed to save) before awkwardly maneuvering the notebook to show Kirk the arrival dates he's recorded in his tenure. "Been keeping track here."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-05 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Red eyes behind red goggles scan through the dates Yuri wrote. Kirk sees how consistent the dates appear to be. It somewhat reminds him of a lunar cycle.

“Perhaps those were the times easiest to pull people across the multiverse,” he says. “As if the usual barriers were at their weakest.”
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-05 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Your guess'd be better than mine. Proper astronomy isn't even a thing in my homeland, let alone the concept of a multiverse." The scale of it, for that matter, is deeply unnerving. Yuri tries not to dwell on it overlong, tucking his notebook away once more now that it has served its purpose. "I do my share of reading, but I'm running from well behind."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-06 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
"I doubt most of us are familiar with this level of cosmology," Kirk says. It certainly isn't one of the sciences he's an expert in. "Where I'm from, the multiverse was always considered just theoretical."
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-06 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
"So not necessarily common knowledge then." Yuri hums as he ponders that. "Well, maybe I'm not so far behind then."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-06 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
"It's possible," Kirk says calmly. "Magic doesn't seem to exist in my world. Or if it does, it's being kept well-hidden. But what I'm hearing so far here is there are plenty of worlds where that's not the case."
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-07 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Mine among them," Yuri responds, shifting his egg once again, slow and deliberate, so as not to lose hold of it. Once he's done so, he lifts a hand, and a soft sphere of light flickers into being in his palm. "My country's got an academy dedicated to the subject, though I didn't attend."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-07 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
Kirk looks at the orb with interest and wonders how solid it is. He had never seen light condensed so freely like that before.

"Fascinating," he says. "Could anyone in your world do magic or are there only certain people born with the ability?"
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-07 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"It's like most any skill — some people have an aptitude and some don't. For those that don't, it's nothing that can't be achieved with hard work, though what kind of magic you lean toward varies." Some elements or spell types come to a person naturally. Some never do. But being able to use magic to some degree is possible for all.

Yuri releases the spell, energy bounding into the air above them and bursting, showering them with glittering light before vanishing. "That one's a healing spell."
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[personal profile] godsandbats 2025-01-07 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Kirk looks up as the bits of energy fall on them like snow.

"Healing cuts and bruises?"

It's a guess as he's assuming that like a science, magic has to have some limitations.
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[personal profile] wolfish 2025-01-07 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
"Cuts, bruises, sometimes worse. I'm not a dedicated healer, but I know my way around. Sometimes field medicine's preferable to a spell though, particularly if you need a specialist." Yuri explains this, feeling the two skillsets fill in gaps for one another. "Both disciplines have their value and applications."

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