[ february ooc mingling post ]

[barrayarmods]

Hey all and welcome to For Barrayar! We'll be getting the OOC info/signups post for the first half of February's plot up soon, as well as the February Game Update (which details the weather and each side's status and resources for the month), but in the meantime, please feel free to introduce yourselves and get your mingle on! Tell us about yourselves, what you're looking forward to and what you're hoping to do in this game, and just generally get down and friendly with each other. And if you haven't joined the Discord server and would like to, hop on in.

The February I log will go up on the 1st. 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.
ETA: The log will probably go up on the 2nd due to time constraints because the OOC post went up late and I unfortunately have a day job.

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!

Comments

[skelepun]

I actually noticed Lakshmi while I was apping and WHILE I AM CANONBLIND, SHE INTRIGUES ME GREATLY. I'm really excited to bounce off -- so thrilled you're on the ceta side of things right now!

Supernatural weirdness is my Favorite. What u kno about magic, burh.

[vorrutyer]

HELLO HELLO I'm Hope, I'm really looking forward to your puns a lot
Anyway Byerly also has a shitty sense of humor but it's less punny and more uh just plain ol' mean

[vorrutyer]

HELLOOOO, I'm Hope! I'm super pumped to have a Natasha in this game because she is LOVELY, plus we need more actual Russians up in these space Russians. So welcome! This guy here is also a spy, so if we end up having the chance I'd love some spy-bonding some day.

[shri]

SHE IS, oh man her canon is a BIT OF A TRIP, basically it's the same as real world history except, WAY BACK IN THE DAY King Arthur was real, and there were these things called the Purebloods and Halfbreeds who are werewolves that appeared and fucked up everyone's day. So when the Knights of the Round Table went out to find the holy grail, they actually came back with a thing called the Blackwater, which grants eternal life, and they have been fighting with the Lycans ever since.

Except now they've been doing it for centuries and are like 43924 years old and have become corrupt and have no idea that they are being used like the rest of the Empire by Vampires and Werewolves to INFECT ALL THE COLONIES of the British Empire. Which is where Lakshmi comes in, she's a Queen in India who has been fighting a one-woman war against the werewolves first in India in the Independence War of 1857. When she lost that one, she faked her death, took up the blackwater as well ( from this other knight idk COMPLICATED ), and went to England to start a rebellion there and has been a colossal pain in everyone's side SINCE THEN. Also she's the #1 cause of destruction to important english landmarks whoops.

basicaly tl;dr WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES ATE EVERYONE SHE LOVES and she really, really hates colonizing empires, AND SHE WILL FITE EVERYONE.

[durango]

Hello! My name is Alice and I'm bringing in Deanna Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation! For those who are not canon familiar, Deanna is half-human, half-alien - specifically, Betazoid. Betazoids are not too different from humans in appearance, save for their black irises, but they are a telepathic race. Deanna is not a full telepath, but she is an empath. However, for the time being, this ability is capped... which means she will not be a happy camper. For her, it's not a power, it's a sense like sight or hearing or touch, so she will be much more snippy than usual.

Deanna is a psychologist and diplomatic advisor on the Enterprise, so it should be interesting to see how she gets along with her new home with the Cetagandans. Their tech will definitely be familiar to her but their philosophy... not so much.

I look forward to playing with everyone and feel free to add me on curiouslyenough!

[natalia_vdova]

Hi! I'm so pleased to meet everyone! And yes, Nat is supergreat even if she spends a lot of time pretending otherwise. She is a horrible polyglot, but she will eventually be v pleased to find some people to speak Russian with, tbh.

Man, spy-bondng would be awesome. She's missing her spy partner here, so meeting other spies eventually would be A+.

[skelepun]

LMAO THAT'S MY FAVORITE!! Sans kinda hates mean people, but in that fun, passive aggressive way where you can still get a drink together he'll just park his chin in his hands and listen and nod and privately hate you the whole time.

Which is like.

My entire brand, tbh

[skelepun]

HOHOHOHOHOHO

HOHOHOHOHOHO

God I'm almost sad Sans is human for this because the alternative would be amazing. BUT. THERE'S ALSO. NOTHING BETTER THAN BECOMING FRIENDS WITH SOMEONE (sans also hates colonizing empires and/or bullies of anny stripe, considering his whole. race's fate) AND THEN. REALIZING THAT THEY'RE SOMETHING YOU AIN'T COOL WITH. like say, an undead monster. and a person who has killed a bunch of monsters.

[skelepun]

Okay, straight up? Seeing a Deanna Troi reserve made my entire life. I'm just now making my way through TNG for the first time and she's the BEST THING EVER. AND. I LOVE HER.

Super excited to be on the Ceta side with you! Cannot wait to throw my perpetually closed off lying nightmare man against an empath.

[natalia_vdova]

Hey, giving up never got anyone anywhere. He needs some motivation. Maybe she can help, though she's gonna be pretty annoyed when she realizes that she's just not as cool as she's used to.

[skelepun]

same here. not that sans ever used his magic for much except, y'know, existing.

but walking?

walking SUCKS.

[pigsfeet]

hello i cant wait for this cr

THE SNIPPIER THE BETTER T B H

[natalia_vdova]

Aweh, poor York. Glad he's getting better! Delta was so cute. ;-; But, yeah, Nat's going to be a bit grumpy about being not as much of a bamf here and being cut off from her friends, so.

Tbh even looking at what you learn in the first day stuff, Nat is going to hear "warped their society into something barbaric and self-destructive" and probably be all "oh, this is political spin, right then".

[standsentinel]

OMG, my childhood. Like, seriously, there is terribly self-insert fanfic hiding somewhere in my parents' basement where 11 year old me got to hang out with Deanna and Beverly and Have Adventures and I am so glad there was no internet as we know it at that point.

Ahem.

I mean, uh, hi. I'm Wyn, playing Kaidan Alenko from the Mass Effect games, who's also on the Cetagandan side and currently engaged in being deeply unimpressed by their philosophy and baffled by differences in science.

[standsentinel]

I was just thinking that what this game could totally use was a Natasha...

Hi there! I'm Wyn, playing Kaidan Alenko, a space marine techie-type from the Mass Effect games. He's on the Ceta side and is currently involved in quietly trying to sneak around and eavesdrop on them when not trying more social ways of getting information.

[standsentinel]

Hi Em! I'm Wyn, and am somehow completely canon blind about Undertale, so I look forward to getting to know Sans.

Kaidan Alenko is my guy on the Cetagandan side, and he's already gotten wrapped up in shameless eavesdropping, Deep Suspicions about their hosts, and trying to figure out what the hell's going on and what side he wants to be on regarding it.

[durango]

Ahhh yay! Deanna deserves all the love in the world lbr because the show doesn't give it to her.

[durango]

PASSES THE SALT

[durango]

I'm pretty sure she will be deeply unimpressed from the moment someone calls her exotic who do these people think they are she is a daughter of the fifth house also colonialism is bad

BUT YES GOOD I also play Beverly elsewhere so please. Come yell at me any time you want about my ladies

[omniavincit]

HI I'M CAROLYN and I'll be bringing William from Westworld to the Barrayar...an (that's so many As)(and I have been drinking) side of this fine mess.

William's been yanked out of really fucking strange vacation at a robot cowboy theme park where he could pretty much do whatever he wanted and was incapable of being hurt. For at least a little while, he'll suspect this is more of the same, and is liable to treat everything like a game. (Which isn't to say he won't be serious HE IS PRETTY SERIOUS ABOUT GAMES.)

He's a normal human from a nebulous future setting whose only real experience fighting for survival is in aforementioned theme park, but he's pretty quick on the uptake and very trainable.

Also he has a robot girlfriend.

LET'S DO TERRIBLE THINGS TOGETHER!!

ps I'm sorry but I will probably wind up spoiling Westworld for you at some point

[omniavincit]

Hey Alice!! You come highly recommended and I'm stoked to play with you, even though we're on opposite sides. Hopefully there'll be an opportunity soon.

Also I don't really Trek BUT DEANNA SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY COOL CHOICE FOR THE GAME, can't wait to see what she gets up to.

[littlemissfutility]

Welcome to the game! I'm Dove, and I play Beth from The Walking Dead. They're on opposite sides of the conflict, but maybe they'll run across each other on pvp adventures.

[littlemissfutility]

IT'S ALICE IT'S ALICE IT'S ALICE

i'm still so excited

[littlemissfutility]

THERE WILL BE SO MANY TERRIBLE THINGS TO DO

welcome 2 the shitty version of living off the land, william

[omniavincit]

I mean

it wasn't spectacular before

He won't turn up his nose at perfectly good horse meat, though.