forbarrayar_ooc | [ january i ooc info/mingle post ]

welcome to barrayar.
It's the dark of night when you come to in the foothills. Snow on the ground, chill winter wind whistling. A steep mountain range towers just ahead, its peaks illuminated by the light of two moons. Whatever you last remember, it isn't how you got here, and you feel oddly jetlagged, slightly queasy.

And you're not alone. There are seven other people close by, all looking equally lost and confused. But before any of you have a chance to figure out what's going on, the soldiers arrive.

Welcome to For Barrayar! We are so very excited to kick off this game with such a fantastic opening cast. The game will open on January 2nd, when the intro logs are posted. In the future there will be only one log per event, but just for the opening, there is a separate intro log for the Barrayaran and Cetagandan sides each.

For now, you can take a look at the opening status quo, which lists the weather conditions and status of resources on both sides for the month of January. There will be a game update like this one posted every month. And if you haven't had a chance to look at the culture pages and want some extra reading material, those go into more depth about the Barrayarans and the Cetagandans. (The Barrayaran page is almost done, I promise!)

Also, please note the tagging system -- all of your characters should already have tags (and if they're missing, please let me know), and there are also location tags for the guerilla camp and the Cetagandan base, so please use those for your logs too!

Feel free to introduce yourselves and meet your new fellow players and get hype for game launch. We're also happy to answer any questions you might have. Mingle away, my friends.

Please also check out these SWEET ATMOSPHERIC PLAYLISTS that Ammay made for the game:

Barrayar ⚔ Cetaganda ⚔ The Invasion

ETA: I realized there were certain parts of the game that weren't made clear in the game info and it got lost in the mad rush of me being sick and running through the first app round, SO! It was also partly because until reserves, I thought only people I knew would be joining and they'd been privy to some of the info as we were developing the game and asking for feedback. And then reserves happened a whole bunch of people I didn't know joined, which was AWESOME, and I only just realized today that this wasn't clear to everyone, so firstly, I apologize! And I will also be updating the FAQ & premise with this information. But here are some things that I don't think I made explicitly clear in the game info:

The metaplot has an endgame. This is not an indefinitely-running jamjar; this is more meant to be a short, plot-heavy game that will run less than a year (the goal is around 6-8 months, but, given how DWRP goes, may run a little longer).
Part of the metaplot is about finding a way home. This is the endgame. The WAR!! stuff is absolutely a large part of the plot -- it is one of the major driving forces behind it -- but the endgame you're working toward is a way home (although if your character decides they'd rather stick around after the end of the game, then they are absolutely free to do that). This is going to be discussed in more detail in the next plot post, but WORMHOLE BUSINESS is the root cause of all this, and both the Cetagandans and Barrayarans have their own agendas and incentives for getting to the bottom of it. How it is investigated, and how the solution comes about, will be very much influenced by IC action. The endgame is about going home, but the way that happens is halfway in your hands, folks. After the first month of the game, this will be a very present concern ICly.

This means there will be plenty else to do for characters who aren't inclined to fight, especially for those with more Science-y pursuits, HOWEVER! I don't want you to think this means there will be LESS options for wartime fightytimes than previously advertised. There will still be tons of opportunities for that. It just won't be the only kind of opportunity available to you. But the goal isn't to help either side win the war, because otherwise we'd be here for another ten years, and let's be real nobody wants that.

ANYWAY, I apologize again for the lack of clarity. I'm going to update all the relevant info pages, and if you have any questions, by all means, please ask!

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hiii! i'm z, and also the latest of the late. i'm bringing in arthur pendragon from bbc's merlin and he'll be on the barrayaran side. he's a nice guy, except when he's being spoiled or supercilious or trying to be like his father. he is also That King Arthur, and feel free to confuse him by fourth walling lore! like that joke about merlin being a wizard, ridiculous. ha ha ha. he also has serious hang ups about magic being evil, on that note, please fight him about it. i'm looking forward to all and any kinds of cr, so come at me.

feel free to add me on plurk at ~tintagil which i'm still setting up bear with me. i might be slow on the adds and commenting around for a day or so but i'm really stoked about the game and writing with all of you!!

Edited (LAST ONE ) 2016-12-31 06:33 (UTC)

OH BOY I AM SO eXCITED FOR THIS.

Because she spends all her time fighting the knights of the round table kind of?? and they're a giant pain in her side??? and most of them want her dead??? but no one knows about actual King Arthur at all anymore. ~~Except Nikola Tesla maybe????~~. So she is going to side eye him to hell.

BASICALLY, I am super hyped about this.

ALSO HI I AM LILY forgive me I get so over excited fdjasfkd

Edited 2016-12-31 09:25 (UTC)

HAHA THAT SOUNDS AMAZING o m g arthur's going to be so ????? about her

the knights of the round table exist at his canon point but they're never called that because the show is weird and he might think she's crazy

this is going to be great

ALSO I SEE SHE'S SUPER RECKLESS they should be inevitable med tent buddies because arthur's idea of duty involves horrible recklessness and then trying to walk off injuries

broken ribs never stopped anyone from winning a fight, clearly!! etc

THAT IS SUPER HER IDEA OF DUTY TOO. Come one what's a broken rib between friends, let them up they've got work to do!! She's probably going to end up super liking him despite herself. She's got a soft spot of tough assholes who are secretly large dogs that just want to do the right thing.

Ahaha they're called the Knights of the Order in her time, but they have the round table, and rather unfortunately in her time they're the by-word for the British Empire's corruption and the oppression of the aristocracy. So her opinion of them is basically the pits. Basically, everyone in her time is like THOSE FUCKING GUYS WHY DO WE EVEN HAVE THEM ANYMORE o wait no, werewolves, werewolves are why we have them gdi.

She's also responsible for killing Sir Perceval, and destabilising the Empire at this point, sorry Arthur. She'll just keep that to herself. That and mostly squint at him being like shouldn't you be older??? more imposing??

HAHA oh man they may yet get along them. he isn't even that much of a tough asshole, it's more like a stoic facade that gets progressively less convincing the longer you know him.

oohhh HAHAH her canon sounds intensely interesting and i'm looking forward to learning more about it through her!!! LMAO PLEASE SQUINT AT HIM that's going to be h i l a r i o u s. thankfully he's respectful of queens and pretty over the "UNSURE IF GIRLS CAN FIGHT" thoughts of his youth....i mean he's still very Medieval and not used to the idea but better about it at this point thank...goodness....

are you serious though werewolves

p e r f e c t. basically, her type, especially if she can tease him.

So much squinting. And she is thankfully very used to that. Sighs about being a woman in the 1800s. But mostly just GUNNA GATHER UP BABY KING ARTHUR AND BE LIKE IDK WHEN YOU GUYS GET IMMORTAL BUT I SUPPOSE I OWE SIR GALAHAD A FAVOUR MAYBE.

Werewolves. And I haven't even gotten to Actual Vampire Jack the Ripper and His Evil Dastardly Vampirey Plans.