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?

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[harageous]

Player Name & Pronouns: Kimmeh (She/They)
Preferred Communication: PM or discord (flares#2274).

Character Name & Journal: Edalyn Clawthorne aka The Owl Lady (harageous)
Guild Affiliation: Unaligned. Bitterly, stubbornly, permanently. Guilds aren't really her thing. Actually, it's been a pretty important aspect of her past that she's refused to align herself with any covens guilds and allow them to govern her.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Hello and welcome to the disorientation period. Eda is a fresh new arrival and she isn't going to take it very well. At all. Even a little bit. After all, she had been in the middle of something pretty important. Something that hinged around her presence. It's not a surprise that she's going to blow up over it. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. She'll calm down. Eventually.

After that eventually, one of the biggest issues she'll face is acclimation. Eda isn't as equipped as she says she is for living in the human world. She's used to only being a very brief visitor in the human realm, never actually living there. She mostly just liked to steal from humans, take a guess at what the object she stole actually does, and then scam strangers by selling it off to them.

Anything more than that is a little ehhhh. So, trying to adjust is going to be one of her initial main focuses.

Plus, of course, throwing her right into the thick of things!

Plot/CR Hooks:

▶ "How To Be Human" Mentors
Anyone ever think about starting up a little side business? No? Well, Eda could benefit from anyone who might be willing to help teach her the ways of the humans and how to better pass as one. Side business optional.

▶ Witches
Witches always get other witches.

▶ Other non-humans
You know, birds of a feather.

▶ Hunter
Do you know Hunter? The bad but sad boy? You might want to know Eda and she really might want to know you too.

[torchbearer]

Loki is not a witch but chaos god plus witch lady = success?

[harageous]

Loki is close enough, I say.

Honestly, they might be a fabulous and terrifying combination.

[torchbearer]

Yes!!

Also I want him to start a magic school so he'd be interested in learning about magic from other worlds.

[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!

[dothelokimotion]

Yesss.

[effiomsfavorite]

Huvrye hits two of the four plot hooks, as he's very obviously not human (he can hide the ears, but that twelve-foot wingspan is Something Else) and he and Hunter have fun weird Same Color Palette Homunculus CR. He would also take a bullet for Hunter. It's fine.

Huvrye has also come from a Very Not Human World, and has only been here a month, so he's still getting used to the place, but he can recommend a good coffee place and/or a good bar?

Also hi, I'm Kia (kiaxet)!

[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.

[effiomsfavorite]

Is any of this actually proper, honestly

If you do want to read Broken, it's a quick read so far and just keeps getting better upon rereads. Just mind the CWs, because it sure does go places

Huvrye would also like to know why Hunter is getting shot! It's kind of upsetting! He might be gearing up to go cause trouble over it!

Just don't start any fights at the bar, okay? Evidently they take that pretty seriously. (It's definitely Jason's bar. Huvrye definitely got in trouble on day one for putting a guy who was harassing him through a table.)

[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.

[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.

[robintohood]

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

[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.

[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.

[sixthdeadliest]

Hello!

What are Eda's thoughts on badass normals? XD

[harageous]

Are they a good hang?

Fun is always way more important than powers.

[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.

[harageous]

She'd love it terribly if someone called her a teen. She's like mid forties.

[qualityfriend]

Dana knows Hunter, and on finding out that Eda's from the same place as him, she'll want to give her a crash course in human city traffic laws. Hopefully before any accidents unlike Hunter.

[harageous]

Finally! Someone with their best interests at heart. While she is much more versed in the human world than Hunter is, she still needs any help someone is willing to give her.

ALSO WOW, I love all the second-hand info I have been receiving about Hunter just having the worst time. It's fantastic.

[tinglesense]

Peter could be a potential "this is how to human" mentor but he might also suck at it. Which, you know, could be fun too!

[harageous]

Good thing "good" or "competent" wasn't in the description!

The important part is trying. Isn't that all anyone can ask of these weirdos?