OOC INTRO & PLOTTING

[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 our arrival event! Please use the information below to guide your plotting as you settle in:


Central City —

A new confluence is the last thing anyone expected — especially not two within a single week. First in Little Love (the Test Drive Meme), and then in Central City (tomorrow's Arrival log), the oddities of these particular confluences have ground guild activity on both sides to a halt as the metahuman community comes together to solve this mystery.

Ever since the confluence in Little Love, time travellers are reporting that they’re locked in this era - neither magic nor technology appear to be working. Similar reports are pouring in from heroes and villains who hail from alternate universes. All of them appear to be bound to this particular place and time. Seers can no longer see the future spread out before them - things are now chaotic, mutable, constantly shifting and changing.

Metahumans around the world are working to solve this mystery and get the new arrivals home. All the guild members seem (falsely) confident that it won’t be long before they have a breakthrough. Characters are promised that they will be able to go home soon, but in the meantime, are being put up in Central City’s illustrious DIADEM HOTEL.


Lodgings —
The DIADEM HOTEL offers guests 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.

Characters will be given cell phones with three months of pre-paid unlimited data, and access to the guild networks.

Given the unexpected 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.

As the dust settles and rooms fill up, the GUILDS confer. They will determine that they do not have the manpower to handle this if it's going to be an ongoing problem - and the Diadem is going to run out of rooms. But they can use this to their mutual advantage. 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.


Superzeroes —
The people of Central City are all too familiar with what comes with powers, and some of the locals will be immediately inclined to help, But to others, the new metas' lack of control over their powers makes them a bigger threat than whatever they were trying to stop.

That's right — expect the new metas' surprising powers can go haywire in myriad ways, including property damage and death. Powers may activate unexpectedly, backfire, or similar, even for those who have experience with other kinds of supernatural abilities, even for the well-intentioned heroes among the new arrivals.

The more villainously inclined arrivals may take advantage of the chaos, or of their own new powers, to live out their villainous dreams, making things worse for everyone in the process.

Feel free to develop and use NPCs in your threads!

Please remember to report any major damage your characters directly cause, or incidents that would be noticed by authorities (murders, arson, etc), or things you think other players would take notice of to the PLOTTING post, so we can keep track.

Sticks and Stones—

The upcoming confluence will also have the nasty side-effect of transforming words into spells! It seems to be taking colloquialisms, metaphors, and turns of phrase fairly literally. This effect will last for the rest of the week, so mind your ps and qs!

“A Penny for your thoughts?” for instance, may compel someone to speak their mind if you hand them a coin.

Saying someone is “Strong as an ox” may have them transform temporarily into an ox. “Beat around the bush” may make someone want to start beatboxing around a shrub. Whatever way you want to take it is the right way!

Who Let the Dogs Out?—

Finally, the guardian of the underworld himself is going to be making an appearance. That's right, Cerberus is going to be crashing through Central City. More details will be available at the arrival log, but rest assured three heads are not better than one. You can set up teams to take down each of his heads! We will not be threading this battle out, but we encourage you all to work together to fell the beast.

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> ? <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? <B>Character Motivations:</b> What does your character want? You can list short term and long term goals, but also emotional needs that aren't being fulfilled. <B>Potential Roles:</b> 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?

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roxi | Logan | Marvel-616

[howlett]

Player Name & Pronouns: roxi | They/Them
Preferred Communication: roximonoxide | roximonoxide#9229 | DM howlett

Character Name & Journal: Logan | howlett
Guild Affiliation: Never one to trust authority, let alone the government, he'll be too skeptical to pick a side for a while. Chaotic Neutral to the core.

Plot/CR Hooks:

Being the kind of guy who doesn't look too far beyond the present moment he'll probably be spending some time snooping around the hotel, the city, looking for people he knows and staking out any places of importance for either the Guardians or the Reform Society. He'll be looking for answers out of the mouths of someone who doesn't belong to a faction, because he isn't liable to trust information handed down from a single authority.

He's liable to go looking for ways to start slipping under the radar around here. He'd like to know what it takes to get out from the under the observation of their keepers.

He gravitates towards the gritty. He'll find his way towards Red light districts and underworlds pretty quickly because he tends to think the people there have a more honest understanding of how the world really works.

Character Motivations:

Making himself useful is hugely important to him. The man lives and breathes acts of services. Specifically the kind that take some physical toll.

In the short or long term, he's probably more than willing to be helpful. Especially with any dangerous jobs or dirty work that needs done. Always willing to mutilate himself a bit if it gets something useful done. All the better if it keeps someone else from having to do it. Or maybe you're just looking to test out your powers here. For science.

He's got an incredibly circumstantial sense of morality, and he's apt to do a lot of wrongs if he thinks it'll make a right.

He also can't resist an underdog. He'll back a total stranger in damn near anything if they're a David-type facing off against some Goliath.

Potential Roles:

Getting is attention can be tricky. He likes to mind his own business and can be obnoxiously apathetic, but generally if he's asked for help point blank he'll do what he's able. Especially if someone's in real need. If he's antagonized he won't hesitate to fight about it— win or lose, he walks away feeling like he's learned something. And he almost never says no to a beer or a bed.

So just be fighting, flirting, or fleeing really.

The Sacrifice - He's a meat shield. If there's a suicide mission he's the type to volunteers for it.

The debatably positive role mode or father/big brother figure - Is he good for this position or not? Depends who you ask. Happy to have him be a bad influence or a wholesome one.

The skeptic/cynic - He's a useful part of a team, but he's not known to hide it if he thinks things are going the wrong direction. Need someone to put reign in your ego? Put your plans in check? Slap some sense into you? Right or wrong, he'll make himself an obstacle if he thinks he's doing what needs to be done.

The Beast - Like the dog in Sandlot he's often the thing people fear before they get to know him. Love to have him put people off before they come around on him, or have him play the role of the beast with a thorn in it's paw in need of someone with a more delicate skillset to help him out of a bind.

The Mysterious Stranger - Sometimes he comes and goes from people's lives and lies about his name or just forgets to give it. If you're into slow burn character dynamics happy to have him pass through under some strange circumstance or pseudonym until they and cross paths again later on.

[bestversion]

She's gonna latch on so hard once she know he's here LET'S GO FOR GYROS again

[howlett]

Logan, of course, will act like the whole thing exhausts him while he secretly adores her company. <3

[bestversion]

ohhh she knoooows.

[howlett]

ok not so secretly. shut up and enjoy your gyro.

[doublethex]

There is going to be a lot of complicated feelings here.

[howlett]

it wouldn't be family without complicated feelings!

admittedly though, i am pretty canonblind to evo so I'm kind of stoked to let them learn some of the differences here.

[doublethex]

One of the major differences is she went through the full weapon x process. And she doesn't have a name. Jean has mentioned that they are important to each other though so she'll be curious.

[howlett]

watch how many times he trips over calling her Laura.

i'd love to know more about your favourite parts of their relationship or if there's a particular dynamic you'd like to see for them now vs. later.

[resurrxion]

hey logan

hey logan

are you ready for the most awkward reunion ever

[howlett]

i JUST read where your canon point is and now i have to go back and refresh to remember what the hell that means for their current relationship as if it's ever not been complicated.

[resurrxion]

logan was nice enough to go "i don't WANT to stab you but i'm gonna kill everybody around you but u can save marrow i guess" and josh was stressed

suffice to say josh will be Pissy but he knows about krakoa and therefore less pissy than he'd usually be

[howlett]

LOL perfect. great compromising skills.

well he's always welcome to be pissy of course. totally valid. and it's not like Logan ever misses an opportunity to be mad about shit. god knows i do love their disappointed ward / reluctant role model dynamic.

[ikols]

best friend ever don't stab him again pls that hurt so much :'(

[howlett]

then don't pretend to be a redhead or try to skip the beer stops!

[ikols]

always keeps a beer on him for logan

[howlett]

<3 what are transactional friendships for

[heartofthedream]

Just everything.


Only that.

[howlett]

oh is that all. ;)

[heartofthedream]

Maybe.

[kindofamazing]

Not the Peter you know, Logan, but.





That's it. That's all I got. Not the Peter u know.

Would you be interested in them meeting sometime and having some confusion? :')

[howlett]

absolutely i would! i adore logan/peter team ups. they always manage to be both so completely ridiculous and still surprisingly heartfelt for the both of them.

[badtimeline]

AoA Magneto says congrats on still having both hands, Logan c:

[howlett]

two hands and no fucks.😎

[badtimeline]

That's a weirdly inspirational motto for life