JANUARY 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 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 - LITTLE LOVE

It’s been a year since the first confluence rocked Little Love, and so it’s no surprise that once again the sky opens and people begin to plummet towards the ground. If you are one of the lucky few tumbling towards the frozen earth - don’t worry! After a year of these, the Guilds have it pretty well in hand. The mages throw up their hands and catch you in a barrier, gently lowering you down to the ground.

Little Love isn’t much to look at. It’s barely a dot on the map. A cow moos balefully and fixes you with its soulful gaze. Someone sneezes. Another person offers you a jacket, while someone else tries to gently discourage anyone from screaming and panicking. You’ve been whisked away to another world, one where superpowers are very real - and yes, you have them. Please be very careful and do not try to activate them until you are in a safe space.

Some among you might not listen, too eager to test out your new powers. Others maybe find their powers suddenly activating at the rush of emotion that comes with being told that you have strange new abilities. The second that happens, you’re thrown headfirst through a portal into a large white receiving room. There are pamphlets labeled WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE DIMENSIONALLY DISPLACED and BEING ONE OF THE SKYFALLEN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Evidently, they’ve gotten sick of calling everyone “those people from away” and gone with the popular public nickname.

There are heroes and villains in this neutral space, and each will offer you their own pitch. But once you’ve gotten the rundown, you’re allowed to go free.

If players so choose, they can handwave their characters escaping from the crowd to explore Little Love on their own. If they so choose, they can later be be picked up and brought to the DIADEM HOTEL.

LODGINGS —

Once the Guardian Alliance arrives in Little Love to offer new arrivals an explanation and transport back to CENTRAL CITY, 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.

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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

[robintohood]

HI KIMMEH. Like I mentioned before, I definitely want Jason and Eda to know each other because of their mutual connection with Hunter. Recently Jason had to help him get to a clinic after he got shot and was also trying to keep an eye on two of Hunter's other friends. Help. Being a responsible adult is hard.

Oh and I'm planning to deage him this week so! Fun times.

[sixthdeadliest]

Hello!

Six would work as a trainer, I think. Even more convenient, he's stationed out in Little Love, so it could even be she lands in his backyard.

He doesn't have any powers (not even from the Confluences). Just years and years of training to do crazy things that would make people giving that "seems sus" squint in regards to his "powers-free". We're talking "this guy can deflect bullets and be able to aim them in the process with a katana" kind of garbage. And don't get me started on hand-to-hand combat.

And I always feel morally-obligated to link this video whenever people call "BS" on me and will probably serve as a good audition tape LOL.

[a_gaggle_of_ghosties]

Oh good, someone as dead-set on remaining unaligned as he is. Even if it's not for exactly the same reasons. But this is someone so committed to the concept that when one of the guilds was opening membership to everyone for their own safety he was still on team Fuck That Noise and refused to go along.

Nox is the resident Angry Space Wizard, and while he's technically still human (probably? There was a lot of experimental genetic fuckery going on and now he'll outlive just about everyone), he's probably not going to be of much use on the How To Be Human front. Both because he's from a place with a much different tech level than even this version of Earth, and because he's Sith which means he's probably going to be asked "why are you like this" a little too often to be a reliable source. But he'd share what he could if she's willing to offer other knowledge in exchange.

Not even like, forbidden world-destroying stuff, he's a gigantic nerd and would literally be content to learn about wherever she came from / more about how magic works in her universe. Since Sith Sorcery is proving to work differently than every other kind of magic he's encountered so far, and learning all the differences is something of a hobby at this point.

Of course, with Eda showing up this means he's also not the only person with company living inside his head / sharing a body, though instead of a feral owl beastie he's got five angry ghosts that did their best to kill him and/or drive him insane. Because he was fucking around with ancient Sith rituals and forgot that you should never, under any circumstances, trust dead Sith lords.

[sixthdeadliest]

Hello there!

I think these two would probably be good training buddies. He also typically uses two swords, and he's used to superpowered teenagers. (He dealt with Rex, after all.) He'll probably chalk up Leo as some version of EVO or whatever the equivalent is in Leo's world.

[sixthdeadliest]

Hello!

What are Eda's thoughts on badass normals? XD

[weakest_ninja]

Oh, my gosh, yes, that would be awesome for her to do! If I get around to doing an intro log, then I'm certainly making sure they meet!

[sixthdeadliest]

Sounds good! I was also thinking about putting up just a generic open log if you'd rather hit that up than make something specific.

[faceguy]

Oooh yes that's perfect! It would be much appreciated, even if Leo will probably be kind of a bad student at first lol (he'll work hard he's just insufferable).

he can call him a mutant it's fine he owns it

[weakest_ninja]

Either or'll be awesome! More the merrier!

[sixthdeadliest]

Look, if he can train Rex, he can at least help you polish up your skills. :)

At least Six won't say it in a derogatory way? XD Not sure how familiar you are with the hellscape that is Generator Rex.

[faceguy]

I'm not very familiar with it other than vaguely remembering commercials for it from back in the day haha. But I can imagine given the superhero cartoons of the time period!

Leo will take not derogatory.

[harageous]

Oh man, that sounds fantastic. When you get to that point, I'll have to rub my filthy interested hands all over you.

Hopefully I'll have Eda a little more established by then!

[sixthdeadliest]

TL;DR summary for if you might want to watch the series:

Five years prior to the present, a bunch of scientists thought playing around with nanites that could manipulate DNA would be a fantastic idea. They had high hopes they'd cure diseases and other fun stuff. But before they were finished, there was an accident where the facility blew up, scattering the nanites across the world and infecting every living thing within a matter of days if not hours. Mostly they just kinda chill, hanging out, but at any point they can activate and mutate their host into a rampaging monster or a mutated person who still has their mind...or if they're Bobo, give them human intelligence. (These mutations are known as "EVOs".) One year prior to the present, Six found Rex and brought him back to Providence when he saw the kid could cure some EVOs, so it's basically a war of attrition on Six's Earth where if a more permanent way of shutting down the nanites isn't found, eventually humanity will literally mutate out of existence...assuming other mutated species don't just wipe them out.

Fun stuff.

[harageous]

Hi Kia! It's nice to properly meet you. Or I guess this is proper?

I'm not familiar with Broken—which is a shame because it looks fun from your application and I appreciate many a webcomic—but from what I can tell, I think they would be a pleasant match.

There are some questions about taking a bullet for Hunter, mind. Why, exactly, is it this child is getting shot so much?

But company is company, take her to the bar! We don't have to live by TV rating standards anymore! And this kind of wacky-wavy nonsense earns anyone a drink.

[harageous]

WOW WHO ARE YOU

STRANGER DANGER

[harageous]

I cannot wait for everything to happen to her at once.

Her entrance is truly like:

[robintohood]

wlu, Owl Lady? Help us get/keep our shit together.

Oh and I forgot to mention that Jason's also the owner of a bar that sometimes attracts questionable customers. And karaoke!

[harageous]

Should probably ask someone who actually does have their shit together, but sure! She'll whip you nerds into shape.

Oh, fantastic! But be careful, she might start a tab and just never pay it.

[faceguy]

ah so it's like rise's first season plot but with less comedy lol (idk if you're familiar but mutating mosquitos are released on NYC in a deliberate attempt to mutate the human race out of existence).

[robintohood]

gdit. Though maybe her being the adult Hunter trusts the most will work in her favor.

[harageous]

> "you should never, under any circumstances, trust dead Sith lords".

Man, ain't that a whole fact.

I'm grateful for this explanation because my knowledge for Star Wars is low. Keep it safe and secret, but I spent too many years being absorbed with Star Trek to have room in my heart for another....

Anyway, but! Nox sounds like he would have plenty in common with Eda and thankfully with her being from the demon realm (and all of its oddities), she's got a lot more grace for quirks. Also man, she'd really understand the whole. . . making a mistake in the search of knowledge thing.

[harageous]

Are they a good hang?

Fun is always way more important than powers.

[harageous]

Take pity on her, she's perma unaligned and money is gonna be tight.

Or you know, consider it support. For Hunter.

[sixthdeadliest]

I guess? Never saw Rise but I might look it up to see if it's something I wanna watch.

I'm just telling you what's known at the start of the series. As it goes on, there's lots of mysteries to unravel and, damn, does it get dark. I just don't wanna spoil if you ever wanna watch it. ^^

[sixthdeadliest]

Depends if she's one of those teens who gets along better with adults. XD He's in his 30's so probably more of a potential mentor in defending oneself without powers than someone to just casually hang out with.