[ 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

[eugengineer]

RUBS HANDS TOGETHER

Lady Diya's going to be very interested in Natasha's altered biochemistry, also, with how perceptive Natasha is of people I think that'll be very interesting because most of what people see of Diya is about five layers of facade and front

likewise she's pretty perceptive herself and I anticipate some interesting CR with them B)

[natalia_vdova]

/squints at that icon

Okay, so, awkward question time! Is her PB Ming-Na Wen? Cause. She totally plays a SHIELD agent that I verry much think Nat was friends with from one of the MCU TV shows. So that could.. be hilarious in a "you kind of remind me of one of my friends" sort of way. XD

But yes, come poke at Nat and her weird biochemistry, and she will probably consider Diya to be the most interesting puzzle in this place. (People are more interesting than wormholes)

[barrayarmods]

YES her PB is Ming-Na Wen! And yeah, I've seen some of AoS! Ofc since it's a PB deal, she doesn't look exactly like Melinda May -- the haut are genetically designed to be preternaturally beautiful (through several centuries of genomic refinement). Not that Ming-Na Wen isn't already a babe, but the haut consider themselves works of art just as much as anything else they do, and the haut are very Extra. Haut women also never cut her hair, so Lady Diya's hair is EXTREMELY long, but she tends to wear it up so it doesn't get in the way.

THAT SAID, feel free to have her remind Nat of May -- it's just not quite that level of face twin-ery.

And yes, Diya definitely is a puzzle here, and by all means try to decontruct her, Nat :B

[natalia_vdova]

Oh, yeah, that's usually how I play it anyway, tbh, so the Haut being super Extra just makes it that much moreso. I'm not sure she'd even comment on it so much as headtilt and have Feelings she tries to ignore having, LIKE YOU DO.

She will happily and gladly do so. She's gonna want to learn ALL about the Cedagandans, and probably start adopting things as she picks things up, because that's what she does. :D