etrayaooc | JULY MISSION PLOTTING

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JULY MISSION PLOTTING

⏵ mission prep ⏴

On the morning of July 19th, a glowing purple portal opens up on Etraya just outside of the apartment building. Characters will be ushered out of their apartments, living quarters, or other areas by companion bots and instructed to continue through the portal. On their way through the portal, they are handed a small slip of paper with an address, and their family assignments listed below the address.

Through the portal, characters will find themselves in the city bubble that had been visible from the sky of Etraya. Rather than the empty space as Etraya had been when they first arrived, this one appears to be an idyllic suburban residential area: houses that are identical outside their pastel colors line the streets, numerous vehicles are parked alongside houses, or just outside their garages.

As characters approach their assigned houses, some will find a basket just outside their doorstep, with a small note attached.

“Hello! Give me a name and raise me, please!”

In the basket, is a child. Or, something close to one: a doll that cries every couple hours until it’s cared for, a very realistic android that mimics the behavior of a newborn, or perhaps it’s an android that’s shaped like a newborn puppy or kitten, with all the needs of a real child.

If they are receiving a player character as a child, that child will receive the same note as the rest of the characters, but led to their temporary dwellings by one of Aurora's companion bots and told to wait for their arrival, if they have not arrived first.

The mission parameters are simple: family units are to live together peacefully and act like a real family. Whether that means raising a young ‘baby’ together or caring for one of the younger player characters as if they are their own, they are to coexist on this new planet together as if they had always belonged within these familial units.

Welcome to life in a middle-class, suburban residential area.

⏵ welcome to moorecroft village ⏴

Moorecroft Village, the name for the area characters have been dropped into, is rather peaceful. Surprisingly, player characters are not the only ones residing in the village. ‘Natives’ occupy several of the houses. However, it won’t take more than a few exchanged words to discover that the people here are in the same boat as the characters from Etraya: they are from other worlds, dropped onto this planet to try and convince Echo to save their home worlds. Unlike Etraya, those on this planet are immediately assigned houses and family units to cohabitate with. A few of them have been on the planet for several years, and have adjusted to how life is on the planet: every few weeks, their own AI, Eos will assign them a mission to complete. They will complete their mission, and return home to their family unit until the next mission is assigned. Some are newer, too: ones who arrived just before the citizens of Etraya were dropped into their world. Some seem settled, some are bewildered by their circumstances and angry at having been left here.

⏵ submerged in suburbia ⏴

Characters will be expected to fully integrate themselves into the world of Moorecroft Village. They will be expected to raise their new ‘children’, taking care of their mental, physical, and emotional needs, while also participating in happenings around town.

They’ll be assigned a normal ‘job’ to work around town, whether they know how to work that job or not. A calendar will be placed in the kitchens of their homes noting important events happening throughout the week, and they will also receive a checklist of tasks they need to complete before returning to Etraya.

Examples of tasks could be:

Make dinner from scratch for your family.
Don’t forget to go to work! Some characters will be assigned to new jobs. Do they know how to do their job? They’ll figure it out.
Attend the company picnic.
Take your child out on an evening stroll.
Discuss future plans with your spouse.
Buy clothes for your child.

In addition to their to-do list, there is a very strict curfew of 8PM. They will be warned that those who are not in their assigned housing units by 8PM will experience serious repercussions, and it's best for everyone if they choose to obey the rules of this world.

There are no companion bots native to Moorecroft Village out during the day. They come out after curfew to "clean up". This can include 'cleaning up' anyone who happens to still be outside when they shouldn't be.

⏵ spooky vibes ⏴
Not everything is as it seems.

While it may appear idyllic during daytime hours, it's clear there is something more going on here. The residents are terrified of being found outside after curfew, rushing home if they realize they're running even a few moments late. Curtains are automatically shut during the nighttime, and while they can be reopened, characters will find the windows pitch black and their doors locked from the outside - regardless of if they had even gotten over there to close them. Noises can be heard coming from outside that don't sound... normal by any means. Croaks, whispers, scratches against doors and walls alike.

But when the sun comes back up, the doors unlock, the windows brighten, and everything seems to appear just as perfect as it had the night before - or even more so! The streets have been cleaned, anything broken, scratched, or otherwise damaged has been repaired, and the residents continue to go through their daily tasks.

⏵ NOTES ⏴
Welcome to our fourth mission! Please comment below to the mod queries thread with any questions related to this mission. All other questions can be directed to the FAQ.

There will be three logs going up for this mission! The first will go live on July 19th, when characters are moved onto Moorecroft. The second will go up on July 27th, introducing this round's new applications to their environment, as well as adding some extra things into the setting. The third and final log will go up on August 9th, which will include some ending notes for their time in Moorecroft Village, as well as what happens as they return to Etraya. Please feel free to post your own logs and don't limit yourself to just these!

Family units can have up to three adults and two children but as few as one of each.

We have sign-ups for family units HERE. Please note any preferences, and be as specific or as unspecific as you would like. If you want Dean and Cas to be partners but want them to try their hand at parenting one of Etraya's youth, you can list those specifications in your comment. If you don't have a partner preference, but a specific character you want yours to parent, you can list that also. We're going to try our best to work with everyone's preferences while still maintaining the original intent behind the mission. You're welcome to edit your comment any time up to July 17th if any of your original plans change, or if you decide you want something else.

If you already have a family unit picked out, please put that in your sign-up comment.

We will be responding to these comments on July 18th, the day before the mission log itself goes live, to fill in any missing gaps.

Characters who are between eighteen and twenty-two can choose between being an adult or a child. This won't be an IC choice, but a player choice! Feel free to pick whichever sounds more fun! If you're signing up for a randomized assignment for one of these characters, please include any preferences one way or the other.

Characters below eighteen are considered children. Characters above twenty-two are considered adults.

Job assignments will be included in the mod responses on July 18th.

More information will be included in future logs. This post will be linked to each log for plotting purposes.

⏵ plotting form ⏴

Player Name:
Player Contact: How should other players reach out to you? 
Pacing: Do you prefer to boomerang threads, or are you more comfortable with backdating at a slower pace?
Limits: Are there things you don't want to play with in this mission?

Character name:
Family Unit: We recommend linking to your sign-up comment with preferences here if you are signing up for randomized assignment. We, the mods, will go through and respond to these comments with assigned family units later. If you've already got a family unit picked out, please include that information on the sign-up comment! This is just to more easily track who is where. 
CR Goals: Are there particular goals you want to achieve with this mission? Do you want to expand your CR net, or work on deepening current connections? 
Mission Ideas: Things you think would be fun to play with during this mission! If there's something above that sounds particularly fun, list it here! Or if there's something that we haven't covered that you think would be fun to see in future logs for this mission, here is a good place to put that, too.

⏵FULL NAVIGATION⏴

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That sounds all good! I may poke around to see if anyone will be interested in being a kid, but this is a good start haha. He can stare as little or as much as he likes, she's used to it lol

I googled Hob and had a nice laugh. Ororo's from a canonpoint where she's recently rejected resurrection and has a pretty poignant outlook on accepting death when she allows it to come for her, so.. that might be fun?

They can talk about it while sorting out regular suburbian concerns!

It sounds like they'll have a lot to talk about! Feel free to add to the household.

Oh, also... I'll ask before doing anything with the idea of course, but she might go/stay out for curfew and fight the bots out there! The consequences are not fun. But I haven't decided on this yet, it'll depend what the mission log details might tell us!

So they'll have "mostly" normal domestic bliss. Feel free to go for it. Hob will care for her or at least keep an eye on the returned body until she wakes up.

Would you be alright with Natasha joining as our 3rd adult in our house?

Yes, sure! Ororo and (this) Nat have not met yet, potential awkwardness there lol.

I have a 16 year old coming in as a terrible son if that's okay too! (Riz)

It depends on how terrible? Like my rp notes said, I'm not looking for an antagonizing home life for Hob for this one.

Ah, he won't be antagonistic!

Riz is a sweet and polite kid, and will not be antagonizing other pcs, but will be generically Naughty at school.

But! he's also currently spearheading an investigation into what's going on at night - shooting for it to be done in a safe way (i.e. if caught, just head back home, don't try to fight the robots), but that may have repercussions 🤔 if Hob (or Storm lol) try to talk him out of that, he might get irritable

All good if that's too much though! Nothing's set yet so I can let em know if it won't work out!

I get it. That all sounds fine with me. Consider us a full house!

A very full house full of fun personalities!!

When the log goes up, what do you think of having a toplevel closed to the household? They could chat each other up in sub-threads, maybe discuss what information Riz has helpfully scrounged up by rolling high on his investigation checks? Whatever works!

Sounds like a plan!

I made us a top level! Please use it however you'd like: here

Ah, excellent! Thanks for this, I'll tag it when I get up in the morning! (it's midnight where I am, haha)

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100more - 2024-07-20 17:21 (UTC) - Expand

hello, the riz player here!! the storm player kindly laid out all the deets already, but I wanted to touch base too -- the investigation stuff may have larger negative consequences (we don't know yet), and while Riz is not generally at all antagonistic when not being provoked, he's very independent and comes with some mental health issues that lean more towards reclusive paranoia (clue boards and mad theories in his bedroom) than lashing out, for which someone reminding him to take a breath and eat some dinner is generally helpful. If you're looking for a more idyllic life for Hob here, I'm happy to duck out and let RNG take the reins for my fella, so please let me know!! player comfort >>>>

I appreciate the consideration and the details. :) As long as Riz isn't going to antagonize others or pick a fight for the sake of negative CR, I'm fine with what you described. Hob isn't going to take his 'father' role too seriously since they're obviously not an actual family and won't likely provoke Riz. Especially since Riz is not a small child. And if Riz can discover something useful about their situation, Hob will certainly think that's important. He'll just leave pb&j sandwiches at the door while Riz works on his clue board.

Okay, lovely, we're all set then!! Riz is pretty difficult to provoke too badly anyway, and will be sharing everything he learns as he learns it, which will be all of this -- he'll also be on his best behaviour considering he doesn't want his adults dinged for him being too much of a shit LOL. He'll appreciated the sandwiches!!

I made us a top level! Please use it however you'd like: here

Being the third parent in this house, Nat will do her best to remind him to eat. She's also never had any sort of normal life growing up, so paranoia and mental health issues will be nothing all that new to her. She'll be also investigating this place as deeply as possible, so hopefully they will get along.

Paranoia buddies!!

I'm sure they will get along -- I look forward to playing w you! He will be very immediately forthcoming about the information he's able to dig up, and will definitely invite her to brainstorm/investigate if she wants to.

Hi! Looking forward to the awkward meeting, and the crazy life of trying to raise any sort of child when Nat has no idea about doing this and has set herself apart from any thoughts of a normal life for so long. Save her Ororo!

Hello, I'm looking forward to it too! Ororo and Nat have met and worked together in the comics, however briefly, but like... she holds no grudge or ill will on her because she's cool (unlike Cap and Tony lol)

So she'll be sad she doesn't recognise her, but eager to be friends again! If they can't be wives, they can always be work wives 😌

Nat wants to have a midnight margarita party, so she does hope that she and ororo can at least enjoy that together. Maybe sneak a few other women over for it. :3

Hello it's me again! Ororo is a woman in STEM (meteorologist) now lmao and while I'm not sure what this means for her yet, I think she and Nat and Hob could put their heads together regarding what their good, enterprising, and not at all in trouble kid has found out from his investigation checks!!

(local companion bots are SCARY at night, locals think points are very very important, perceived infidelity = public shaming lol, etc)

All that to say, I think it might be fun to have a little toplevel or log just for the Gadling-Munroe-Romanoff house!!

I think that's a very good idea. I know that Nat was thinking of getting into a little trouble, because it's her job to. >> I would have her fight, but not die. She might be in need of a little patching up one night, but that would be up to hob and ororo

I was also thinking that maybe the ladies could have a date night too. Why not, right? I wouldn't mind writing up a starter for any of this in our house tl if you want. Let me know what you think?

we could try trouble for sure! I'm not committed to having Ororo die so they can scuffle with bots and get sent home haha (Riz put an OOC plot post on this in the OOC community!)

BUT I'm also here for a date night at home, that's real cute. I have some related prompts for that in my toplevel on the mission log!

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