[ 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

[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!

[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.

[durango]

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

[pigsfeet]

hello i cant wait for this cr

THE SNIPPIER THE BETTER T B H

[durango]

PASSES THE SALT

[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.

[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

[standsentinel]

Mutual huffing about the Evils of Colonialism and the Benefits of Interstellar Diversity, y/n?

[durango]

yyyyyy

[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.

[durango]

Ahhh I'm so excited to get started, this game looks so good - I also can't wait to see what she gets up to!

[littlemissfutility]

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

i'm still so excited

[durango]

IT'S DOVE <3

[mirrortide]

im sorry about lapis already

[durango]

Iiiii haven't actually seen Steven Universe so what's Lapis like?

[mirrortide]

shes uh, kind of a huge jerk and has a superiority complex like most gems because organic life is dumb

Shes also has done a bunch of terrible things but shes slowly getting better??

[durango]

at least she's trying???

[mirrortide]

i mean it's pretty sad when you're 6,000+ years old and a small child is your moral compass,

but yes.

""trying""

[durango]

you have to start somewhere i guess

[natalia_vdova]

Deanna! Ohmygosh that's so awesome! Nat is also in the Unhappy about losing her powers... she has enhanced senses along with being a general badass, so she'll definitely commiserate even if she doesn't get the empathy thing.

Hopefully they can run into one another because man as a youngun' I absolutely adored Deanna! :>

[durango]

absolutely! it looks like they'll be EAVESDROPPING together so soon they will meet!

[natalia_vdova]

Oh, that'll be great! Nat can be all trying to give her a bit of calm, even as admitting that losing senses sucks x100. Nat had all her genetically improved peak human nonsense taken away so she feels vaguely deaf and blind, etc. XD

She understands! Let's just.. be chill about this okok.