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OOC INTRO & PLOTTING


OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to [community profile] 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:

highborn: everyone knows a girl requires a car (Default)

Vidana | original (dnd)

[personal profile] highborn 2022-01-15 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Zee, she/her
Preferred Communication: Feel free to add me at [plurk.com profile] zeeco! I'm also at zee#5555, but please pp/pm me to let me know if you are if you add me :]

Character Name & Journal: Vidana de Vadarta / [personal profile] highborn / please enjoy how i have like 8 correct icons and all the others are a different version of the character. that's a work in progress :'|
Character tl;dr: Vidana is a rich kid party-hard Mean Girl elf from high society, who has never worked a day in her life and is mostly just out for her own amusement. She will 100% flirt with anyone. (Well, anyone attractive because she's shallow — but let's be honest, that's pretty much every character here.) Having to earn money will be a rude awakening, wish her luck.
Guild Affiliation: I plan to make some NPC villain who will make a compelling recruitment speech to her right away, because it won't take much and she will have SO much fun over there. (On the other hand, if you play a villain who would give the spiel, hit me up!!)
Plot/CR Hooks:
- She's going to be the fantasy guy in a modern setting for a good long while -- someone please teach her Phones. She'll love the idea of it, but my version of elves are really big on reading and using body language, so she'll hate not being able to use that. Oh texting, you double-edged sword.
- Once she does get the hang of it she will be ALL about modern luxuries. She'll need a Treat Yoself mentor, please come show her how to spa day.
- I also want some rivals or enemies! She's a rude little dickhole when she wants to be, and I'm all about any negative CR that earns. And if she's a villain, plenty of room for a proper rivalry with a hero >:)
- I'm also interested in getting her in over her head, either with a more villainous villain who is willing to go farther than she is, or with a hero-type making her face consequences. I wouldn't be after that angle for a while, but I'd love to build up to it.
Character Motivations:
- She wants to be comfortable, pampered, freshly washed, get new nails, etc etc etc. Every creature comfort goes here, including banging as many new and interesting people as she can manage to.
- She also wants to be liked, but you'll never get that deep dark secret out of her. I'd love for her to form some genuine connections, because she has so few at home and doesn't know what to do with that :'|
Potential Roles:
- First of all, villain. She'll be signing on with them and ready to do any kind of heisty/break in job for the fun of it, so she's available for any of that. More specifically:
- Vidana is the rogue of your party. She's sneaky, dextrous, good with a sword, and can see in the dark. Throw her down any dark corridor to quietly take out guards, she's game!
- Want someone to be mean to your really nice guy? I GOT YOU. I am here to provide the mean service, here's my card, call any time.
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[personal profile] hydaelyns 2022-01-15 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
please ... gay ...
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[personal profile] sunmon 2022-01-15 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
actually alina cr too please except i feel like alina's gonna bite down hard on the mean girl thing and haaate vidana

still in a vaguely gay way
Edited 2022-01-15 19:22 (UTC)
highborn: everyone knows a girl requires a car (3)

[personal profile] highborn 2022-01-16 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I WANT BOTH. i YEARN for the alina/vidana hate, vidana knows very well how to play that game. and (as u may assume from your plurk) idk much about WOLs, but i promise you she would be ALL ABOUT a bunny girl >:)
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[personal profile] survivalrate 2022-01-15 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
hello hello i have the world's most awkward nerd here come bully and/or flirt with her

also josh i guess he's dumb and bullyable
highborn: everyone knows a girl requires a car (5)

[personal profile] highborn 2022-01-16 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
I'M GONNA BULLY BOTH YOUR CHARACTERS SO GOOD. but with a bit of awe for kumoko because honestly driders are just cool