OCTOBER OOC PLOTTING & WELCOME

[metamods]

OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to metaheroes! We're absolutely delighted to have you here. This is both our OOC introduction and plotting for your initial arrival! Please use the information below to guide your plotting as you settle in.

You are free to post your intro after reading this post! We will not be posting a log for this.

The GUILDS have begun employing safety measures to prevent new arrivals from destroying the cities they land in. As seen on the last TEST DRIVE MEME, the cities have set up ways to intercept the new arrivals and bring them to headquarters as quickly as possible.

ARRIVAL - SUNSET FALLS, UNDERWORLD

This time, the skies of the world above remain peaceful. New arrivals instead find themselves plunging from the heavens of the afterlife, plummeting into any location of the player's choosing. They may seek an audience with Hades to demand answers, or be swept up by one of our intrepid heroes (or villains, or vigilantes) who can bring them up to speed on the (under)world they've fallen into.

The denizens of the underworld seem keen on them, though. Keener than the rest of those present. You may find yourself being followed by the dead, who remark on your warmth and light. If pressed they can't put it into words, you just seem so much brighter than even your fellow falling stars.

If players so choose, they can handwave their characters being picked up and brought to be DIADEM HOTEL.

LODGINGS —

Once the Guardian Alliance arrives in Atlantis to offer new arrivals an explanation and transport back to the surface, characters will be provided with lodgings in the DIADEM HOTEL. Here, guests are offered the finest home away from home experience you could ever hope for. Their culinary staff are capable of cooking up everything from hotdogs to gourmet cuisine. The pool, lounge, and fitness rooms are all open 24/7. Given the continued influx of new guests, arrivals may find their rooms have been double-booked. Hopefully it's a room with two queen-sized beds instead of a king!

Characters are also free to roam CENTRAL CITY and get their bearings, though at the moment, with the guilds distracted and the city doing major repairs following the damage by the Confluence, there is plenty of crime to stop or cause. Characters will be given cell phones with three months of pre-paid unlimited data and assistance with setting up social media accounts on the guild networks, as well as credit cards to help them start a life here.

Player characters will be offered the chance to join the guilds. Those who join will be offered housing at one of the four major cities, with each one offering a different living experience. Characters have two months to decide if they want to throw in with one of the guilds and enjoy the perks of membership, or deal with making their own way in the world without their support.

LINKS.

➢ Prompts from SEPTEMBER'S TDM also remain available!

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU —

Please use the form below to introduce yourself and start plotting:

<B>Player Name & Pronouns:</b> <B>Preferred Communication:</b> Plurk, Discord, DM, etc. <B>Character Name & Journal:</b> <B>Guild Affiliation:</b> Is your character susceptible to being swayed into membership? Or will they take the hard path and stay unaffiliated? <B>Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:</b> What does your character want? You can list short term and long term goals, but also emotional needs that aren't being fulfilled. What do you want to do with them in game? What ideas do you already have? <B>Plot/CR Hooks:</b> What kinds of things does your character get up to that might throw them in the path of someone else's plot, or that you would like other players to engage with? What role does your character play in their canon plot? What role might they play in others' plots, and what would it take to get their attention? Are they an antagonist, a researcher, a tech whiz?

Comments

[alchepistol]

Player Name & Pronouns: Mari (she/her/hers)
Preferred Communication: gibberditz

Character Name & Journal: Saint-Germain, alchepistol
Guild Affiliation: Saint-Germain is anti-monopolies-of-power. She is staying firmly UNAFFILIATED and if you follow your side because they say so, not because you believe in what you're being told to do, she may judge you.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Saint-Germain is one of those Anime Villains (tm) who meant well but their methods wound up involving a whole shitton of murder - and, on top of that, she was tricked into doing the murders by someone who never intended to work on behalf of humanity anyway. Then she died performing alchemy on a nuclear missile fired at Japan by Donald Trump, because Symphogear is Like That. So now that she has received a second chance, she would like to actually be of use to mankind. She would like to liberate them from oppression! Which forms of oppression? YES.
Plot/CR Hooks: Saint-Germain is a NEEERRRRD! She's an immortal alchemist so she's used to playing a long game and being hypercautious - lots of experiments, lots of info-gathering, lots of highly technical and ideological discussions about the nature of reality and how man can exceed the power of God. While her hard work is all for others' sakes, and she's a Mom Type who tanks hits in battle if it means she can shield people and prevent unnecessary casualties, she has terrible people skills so sometimes she sounds really combative when she's just trying to hold a conversation. Then she doesn't understand why all of a sudden things are escalating.
Of immediate hook interest perhaps is that she is someone that Hibiki had really wanted to get to know but Saint-Germain blew herself up (see: Donald Trump, nuke) before they really had a chance to talk. So while she has no idea how to smalltalk, or indeed how to function in any circumstances beyond "I have a goal, here is a concrete, safe, and efficient way to achieve it", I fully expect her to be tossed into the fray of Hanging Out. Whoo!
Also I'm looking for suggestions where to drop her for her intro! Sell me on your characters' hometown.

We have great priorities here in THE REVOLUTION.

[determinationtofist]

Fortunately for everybody, though, now both her and Hibiki are here. TIME TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER!! WITHOUT ANYBODY BLOWING UP THIS TIME!! PLEASE??

[alchepistol]

She makes no promises, save that such measures shall be taken only if they are guaranteed to benefit all mankind.

[defenderoftomorrow]

'Then she died performing alchemy on a nuclear missile fired at Japan by Donald Trump,' --- I have so many questions and yes I feel like I don't want context, ever.

Hell Mari, nice to meet you, I'm Lylith. I Play Jayce talis from Arcane. He's also a scientists/inventor nerd with questionable social skills (more the anxiety variety rather than problems with small talk) who just happens to look like a linebreaker. Perhaps they can chat one day and ramp up that nerdiness to eleven? what could possibly go wrong?

He got here last month so he's still in the Diadem hotel, but he's looking into Little Love because there people don't go around throwing bricks at people's heads. Also that city has a lot of space to build workshops, if you like barns.

[alchepistol]

Nice to meet you, Lylith! The nice(?) thing about Symphogear is that the more context you learn, the less sense things make. It's incredible.

Nerdiness up to eleven sounds excellent, though I apologize in advance if Saint-Germain accidentally intimidates Jayce. She has resting Revolution face.

Saint-Germain will be finding her way to the Diadem as soon as....I find my way onto the IC comm.....so look forward to that!

[defenderoftomorrow]

Likewise! Man I love that sort of crazy canons, they can be nuts or a delight. Usually both, both are good.

Nah, no need to apologize, freak him out to your heart's content. If a woman isn't bullying him in some way, then something's not right, haha.

I've seen the new post (sorry I was hella busy this weekend) so I'll pester you girl there asap.