No apps / drops

I feel more settled at Etraya now, which I'm happy about. I need to build up some solid CR for Julie because she's a person who thrives on friendship and having people to bounce things back and forth with

And as for Paine, she's formed some good connections with people, largely based around being suspicious lmao, but she's also got a more concrete motivation and goal than "save Spira through being good at missions"

which is to start recording and archiving things going on inEtraya and on missions. She's got a sphere camera now that she'll break out, and she's going to go home from San Fransisco with some fancy digital cameras probably >>

And she's starting to learn Computers now

Altho I haven't had the time to explore it much yet, I think a lot of Julie's issues are going to be about the fact that she thought she was done with this, and instead she's been plonked into something worse and even more hi-stakes, without any of her friends

She's at least got Kera with her, but she feels more than a little lost and really upset and she doesn't have a release valve for it yet. Fighting the kaiju in San Fran is going to both help and not help (but "not help" in the way that it will in fact help me by giving me something to build off of LOL)

One thing I want to do is have her record / write diary entries to her friends from canon. Which will be basically just for her but a way to feel like she's not quite so on her own, by "talking" to Bina et al. and giving them tips about Etraya. She'll probably do a network post asking people for their pointers, so she can "help them"

(I don't expect to ever get canonmates from Monster Pulse LOL but also never say never)

So that's !

: I am so glad I got back into the game bc I am having a blast with Faris again

HONESTLY ALMOST TO A SURPRISING DEGREE considering how long it's been since I played FFV

Faris has jumped right back in with both feet. He's super motivated to help persuade Elah to come back home, and he's also just having fun doing adventures. I do recall that I started having trouble last time with Faris not having enough strong connections, but he'd been starting to form them around the time I dropped

(I feel like that is usually my problem tbh and has a lot to do with my own shyness, and the fact that it's not productive to be shy about pursuing CR when you are the Lone Canon Admiral since pretty much all the reach-out has to be from me. BUT I'VE DONE IT BEFORE AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN)

Also, even though in retrospect I should have just taken a full-on hiatus after dropping Expiation, I feel like I have successfully recovered from my exhaustion and lack of motivation that was caused by it

I'm not going to lie, that whole thing was incredibly demoralizing. And there's still a part of me that's wary about reaching out and trying things with new people, because that's what happens when you're in a cliquish environment with jerks in it for a long time, even though I did still get a lot of satisfaction abt the arc I played out with Ethlyn & her CR

So it's just going to have to take some time to work through that and reach out anyway in spite of being a little gunshy. It will fade! Most people aren't jerks

Part of me also wants to app Myrrh at Escordvi eventually lmao. but there's no way I can carry four characters sadly!

I do also want to finish setting up & open my Orrery game but that's not happening till 2026, also I need to have comods for that because a whole DWRP game is not a solo project for anyone and certainly not for me

ooh, what's your game like?

theSSjuli: It's heavily ripped off from inspired by both Myst amd Forbidden Planet! A dead / deeply hibernated world, full of strange machinery that PCs have to figure out and reactivate to help revive the world and make it habitable by the survivors of What Happened There

that was meant to be the word "sleeping" not an emote LOL

So based on exploration & restoration, with the promise of reward, except also you didn't get to choose being there and there's potentially mischief to be made with Vast Underground Machinery Facility

oh man, that sounds AWESOME, I love Myst!

I DO TOO... I never completed it or even got that far but I played when I was a kid and loved it