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

[faceguy]

Player Name & Pronouns: Dandy, she/her
Preferred Communication: dandywonderous or Dandy#1297 (I use plurk more than discord but I get notifs so feel free to message me on disc if you prefer)

Character Name & Journal: Leonardo Hamato-Lou-Draxum-Splinterson @ faceguy
Guild Affiliation: Leo will be unaffiliated at first (he's gone his whole life undocumented, why start now?) but could potentially be swayed to Alliance if people try hard enough (or maybe even Society, who knows)
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Leo is coming here fresh off the most traumatizing experience of his life, but it's cool, he's cool and everything is fine! His powers are on the fritz because he lost one of the katana that are a literal piece of his soul, which is probably the first thing he will want to address, the problem is that last time they manifested from a huge surge of love and trust in his family and it's kind of hard to recreate that in a place where you don't know anyone. So for now he's just dealing with trying to get that shit under control along with all the normal jamjar nonsense.
Anyway his ultimate motivation will be getting home, because his family thinks he's dead and he should really get back before they start selling his stuff on ebay. But he's enough of a hero now thanks to Character Development that he'll help with other stuff too.
Plot/CR Hooks:
Other Teenagers: Leo currently knows like 4 people in his age group that he isn't blood related to and one of them is his adopted son from another timeline so his social circle is more like a social dot. He's pretty outgoing though and would love to make friends! He's super annoying but if he likes you he'll commit crimes for you so it's worth it (probably).
Help with Training: Leo was supposed to be trained from birth to fight great evils but his dad got super lazy about it and didn't really get on that until the world was a few days from ending. Leo has had more training now but still not a lot, so having people who can help him with swordplay, physical fitness, general leader-ing, etc would all be appreciated! (Oh yeah also his superpower is portals/teleportation so help with that is good too.) Just a warning though that he thrives on validation and if your character gives him any he'll stick to them like a barnacle. Something to keep in mind!
Nerds: Leo loves comics and sci-fi b-movies and kung fu films and anything else with a nerd flavor. He'd probably get into anime too if someone showed it to him. He will absolutely go to conventions, they're one of his favorite things.
Nonhumans: Oh yeah did I mention he's a turtle?

[torchbearer]

LEO god, I loved him in the new movie. I made a whole bunch of icons from there if you ever need them!

Also Kyle is absolutely a nerd and would love to hang out with Leo.

[faceguy]

Are you kidding, I would love to have some movie icons! Thank you!

Perfect, we will make it happen.

[torchbearer]

boop

Excellent ♥

[faceguy]

wonderful, I now have more icons than I ever will know what to do with lmao

especially happy about this one

[torchbearer]

just as planned.

[definecat]

Hi, I'm Bugly (Bugly42) and I've got this non-human here who is sorta internet-famous in Meta. I also play Bart Allen/Kid Flash, but while he's totally unphased by non-humans because he's originally from a time where aliens are everywhere, he's not quite the same visibility.

[faceguy]

Hi! I'm sorry Leo's initial reaction to this will be "kitty!" lmao, but I look forward to them interacting!

[definecat]

Considering their most recent online thing was a picture of them in a washing machine here they aren't always acting the kitty.

[faceguy]

omg shapeshifting kitty(?)

incredible

[definecat]

Sleeper is basically the host-less symbiote offspring of Venom, and sibling to one Dylan Brock. We have an entire family of ooze in game.

[codicies]

Hi Leo, meet Dylan Brock! He is 2/3 human, 1/3 goopy alien (his dad is Venom) and he totally gets the really complicated parentage that Leo has going on with that intensely hyphenated last name.

He just turned 15, and he is Down For Shenanigans. Perhaps also some petty crime.

EDIT: OH and that four-eyed cat that replied above is his sibling!

Also my name is Tsa, can't believe I forgot to add that. My plurk is thepreciousthing

[faceguy]

Hi! He will be happy to meet him! Even if he's currently a little biased against goopy aliens (sorry). Teen shenanigans woo!! /o/

Leo's dad is a rat so honestly Dylan's sibling being a four-eyed cat is just par for the course as far as he's concerned alsjdf;l

Nice to meet you Tsa!

[effiomsfavorite]

SUP NERD

[faceguy]

SUP

[effiomsfavorite]

LET'S DO THINGS

legit though I'm here for what you want/need

[faceguy]

ABSOLUTELY

Leo will be spending a lot of time just kinda… flailing around at first because he’s never been on his own like this so I’m sure we can have them run into each other somehow… Is Huvrye in Central atm or does he live somewhere else?

[effiomsfavorite]

He's in Central - he's only a month in, so they haven't punted him out of the Diadem yet.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[formerspybrat]

How do you do, fellow teen?

I'd love to have Leo and Danny hang out in game. Danny could definitely use some nerd friends his own age.

[faceguy]

why hello, fellow youth!

I'd absolutely love for them to hang out, I really enjoyed our tdm thread! I'm sure there is much nerdery to be had!