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MAY STATE OF THE GAME
STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ LITTLE LOVE - Negotiations between the local farmers and the cows seem to be going well; with the goats' assistance, they've bartered for fairer conditions and better quality food. The goats and the cows have settled while the farmers are looking for assistance in building up better barns to house their animals to prevent further problems. Posters go up, asking for help from anyone handy, promising a good wage for the help. Some posters ask for permanent residents, offering small pieces of land on the farms for those who can stay and help make sure the animals are well taken care of.
⚔︎ CENTRAL CITY - Central City has seemed. . off since the April Confluence. Crime rates have significantly lowered, and everything else seems to have slowed down significantly. No longer is there the lunchtime rush, traffic at the end of the workday is no longer a disaster to get through. Everything feels quiet. Too quiet. People continue to go to and from their day jobs, but without their usual rushed pace. Some have been reported missing, only to be found a couple days or a few hours later unharmed without recollection of where they had wandered off to.
Hospital admittances have also significantly decreased, even if the amount of sick days taken by employees and students has increased. People are tired, but the amount of people getting sick is lowering. Rumors start spreading through social media about something being in the air, asking if it's a new metahuman's influence, but most of them get shut down quickly by others chiming in to provide either scientific evidence that nothing is wrong, or asking for any evidence, because it doesn't look like anything's wrong, does it? Everyone is fine, everything is fine, there is nothing to worry about.
⚔︎ SUNSET FALLS - Mayor Loki has decided to use his newfound power to make a few changes! Residents of Sunset Falls who receive their paychecks on Thurs—ahem—Lokisday will find their paychecks have been delayed indefinitely due to the name change. Strike talks continue to escalate by the day as paychecks continue to not be received. How are they supposed to pay off their car payments, buy groceries, if they're not getting their money? Who is going to take responsibility for late mortgage payments? No one outside of Sunset Falls had to observe the change, and outside of local businesses - no one is forgiving late payments for this!
But another change, a requirement for all dogs to wear bow-ties, does cause another kind of chaos: because who doesn't love a cute little puppy wearing bright colored bow-tie on their collar? Reprobates, that's who. While the local jail cells may temporarily be overrun by dogs disobeying the new law until more bow-ties can be manufactured, the dogs who didn't get caught by the law are helping to grow the economy in a different way:
Bow tie competitions are advertised at near-every business, with several of the local clothing stores having sold-out bow-tie stands. On May 10th, there is to be a local bow-tie convention with different bow-tie creation competitions (most creative, cutest, most technologically advanced, etc) and on May 13th, a cutest dog in a bow tie competition will be held at the high school gymnasium.
⚔︎ EXCELSIOR - Widely known as the City of the Future, Excelsior is looking a little - Prehistoric these days. Buildings towards the outskirts of town are being taken over by vines that wind themselves up walls, curling tight with no intention of letting go. It starts slow; at the end of April, one may overhear whispers about a science experiment gone wrong, about a contagion they're trying to isolate to keep it from spreading. As May begins, a few buildings edging towards downtown are looking a little overrun.
And if that's not bad enough? A wayward vine managed to break it's way into a very carefully sealed off lab and spread it's way over the floors, breaking through glass containers, destroying machines meant to keep things on ice - well, on ice. Towards the end of May, the Citizens Alert System wakes up every resident of Excelsior City: there are velociraptors on the loose. Not one or two, but a dozen of them, all in varying stages of life. Was trying to re-create Jurassic Park a bad idea? Probably! But that didn't stop a team of teenagers from Silverleaf High from trying.
The unfortunate side effect of one experiment getting out of hand is that any other experiment, small or large, may find itself compromised by their plant overlords. Excelsior is in need of help, and they need it now. While usually hesitant to rely on metahumans, now they're sending out messages to those who can help, asking for them to please, please come help them clear out this mess. There's only so much their flame throwers and drones can handle.
THIS MONTH
01 MAY 2023
⚔︎ STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ CONFLUENCE LOG
13 MAY 2023
⚔︎ RUE MOORE HAS IT
20 MAY 2023
⚔︎ RESERVES OPEN
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN BEGINS
25 MAY 2023
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN ENDS
⚔︎ RESERVES CLOSE
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS OPEN
30 MAY 2023
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS CLOSE
⚔︎ STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ CONFLUENCE LOG
13 MAY 2023
⚔︎ RUE MOORE HAS IT
20 MAY 2023
⚔︎ RESERVES OPEN
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN BEGINS
25 MAY 2023
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN ENDS
⚔︎ RESERVES CLOSE
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS OPEN
30 MAY 2023
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS CLOSE
⚔︎ LITTLE LOVE - Negotiations between the local farmers and the cows seem to be going well; with the goats' assistance, they've bartered for fairer conditions and better quality food. The goats and the cows have settled while the farmers are looking for assistance in building up better barns to house their animals to prevent further problems. Posters go up, asking for help from anyone handy, promising a good wage for the help. Some posters ask for permanent residents, offering small pieces of land on the farms for those who can stay and help make sure the animals are well taken care of.
⚔︎ CENTRAL CITY - Central City has seemed. . off since the April Confluence. Crime rates have significantly lowered, and everything else seems to have slowed down significantly. No longer is there the lunchtime rush, traffic at the end of the workday is no longer a disaster to get through. Everything feels quiet. Too quiet. People continue to go to and from their day jobs, but without their usual rushed pace. Some have been reported missing, only to be found a couple days or a few hours later unharmed without recollection of where they had wandered off to.
Hospital admittances have also significantly decreased, even if the amount of sick days taken by employees and students has increased. People are tired, but the amount of people getting sick is lowering. Rumors start spreading through social media about something being in the air, asking if it's a new metahuman's influence, but most of them get shut down quickly by others chiming in to provide either scientific evidence that nothing is wrong, or asking for any evidence, because it doesn't look like anything's wrong, does it? Everyone is fine, everything is fine, there is nothing to worry about.
⚔︎ SUNSET FALLS - Mayor Loki has decided to use his newfound power to make a few changes! Residents of Sunset Falls who receive their paychecks on Thurs—ahem—Lokisday will find their paychecks have been delayed indefinitely due to the name change. Strike talks continue to escalate by the day as paychecks continue to not be received. How are they supposed to pay off their car payments, buy groceries, if they're not getting their money? Who is going to take responsibility for late mortgage payments? No one outside of Sunset Falls had to observe the change, and outside of local businesses - no one is forgiving late payments for this!
But another change, a requirement for all dogs to wear bow-ties, does cause another kind of chaos: because who doesn't love a cute little puppy wearing bright colored bow-tie on their collar? Reprobates, that's who. While the local jail cells may temporarily be overrun by dogs disobeying the new law until more bow-ties can be manufactured, the dogs who didn't get caught by the law are helping to grow the economy in a different way:
Bow tie competitions are advertised at near-every business, with several of the local clothing stores having sold-out bow-tie stands. On May 10th, there is to be a local bow-tie convention with different bow-tie creation competitions (most creative, cutest, most technologically advanced, etc) and on May 13th, a cutest dog in a bow tie competition will be held at the high school gymnasium.
⚔︎ EXCELSIOR - Widely known as the City of the Future, Excelsior is looking a little - Prehistoric these days. Buildings towards the outskirts of town are being taken over by vines that wind themselves up walls, curling tight with no intention of letting go. It starts slow; at the end of April, one may overhear whispers about a science experiment gone wrong, about a contagion they're trying to isolate to keep it from spreading. As May begins, a few buildings edging towards downtown are looking a little overrun.
And if that's not bad enough? A wayward vine managed to break it's way into a very carefully sealed off lab and spread it's way over the floors, breaking through glass containers, destroying machines meant to keep things on ice - well, on ice. Towards the end of May, the Citizens Alert System wakes up every resident of Excelsior City: there are velociraptors on the loose. Not one or two, but a dozen of them, all in varying stages of life. Was trying to re-create Jurassic Park a bad idea? Probably! But that didn't stop a team of teenagers from Silverleaf High from trying.
The unfortunate side effect of one experiment getting out of hand is that any other experiment, small or large, may find itself compromised by their plant overlords. Excelsior is in need of help, and they need it now. While usually hesitant to rely on metahumans, now they're sending out messages to those who can help, asking for them to please, please come help them clear out this mess. There's only so much their flame throwers and drones can handle.
HOUSEKEEPING
Hello, Heroes!
⚔︎ As a reminder, teleporters are individual, provided by the guilds to their members. Unaffiliated player characters who are passed their two month adjustment period will not be able to utilize teleporters. These are small, handheld devices generally good for one trip per day. There are not large teleporter pads that exist within the main four cities. We hope this helps clear up some confusion.
⚔︎ Additionally, there is guild presence is most larger metro areas, not just the four cities mentioned in our settings page! These four cities are where most events are held, but the guilds exist throughout the United States. Characters are not limited to staying within them.
⚔︎ Rue Moore Has It is going up on May 13th! Please submit any hot goss you'd like for her to dish out HERE by May 11th.
⚔︎ We've updated the tagging system in the network and log comms! Instead of CHARACTER NAME | CANON, they are now CANON: CHARACTER NAME. Please let us know if there are any errors.
⚔︎ Have any fun plans? Hit us up on PLAYER PLOTS! If you want to follow up on an event, investigate the setting or interact with a NPC, you can also hit up SETTING ENGAGEMENT and NPC ENGAGEMENT respectively.
⚔︎ For the May application round, any current player can extend one invitation. Players planning to invite someone this round should comment below with the player's information!
⚔︎ This game has an unofficial DISCORD SERVER! As a reminder, the moderators will not be monitoring the server's contents. However, players who have issues in the server are still welcome to bring their concerns to us at MOD CONTACT, just as they would with Plurk.
Players unsure whether this affects their characters can check on the GUILDS page. As characters are removed from the Diadem Hotel, players should comment to the HOUSING page with updates on where they are staying. The deadline for February arrivals is MAY 27.
⚔︎ As a reminder, teleporters are individual, provided by the guilds to their members. Unaffiliated player characters who are passed their two month adjustment period will not be able to utilize teleporters. These are small, handheld devices generally good for one trip per day. There are not large teleporter pads that exist within the main four cities. We hope this helps clear up some confusion.
⚔︎ Additionally, there is guild presence is most larger metro areas, not just the four cities mentioned in our settings page! These four cities are where most events are held, but the guilds exist throughout the United States. Characters are not limited to staying within them.
⚔︎ Rue Moore Has It is going up on May 13th! Please submit any hot goss you'd like for her to dish out HERE by May 11th.
⚔︎ We've updated the tagging system in the network and log comms! Instead of CHARACTER NAME | CANON, they are now CANON: CHARACTER NAME. Please let us know if there are any errors.
⚔︎ Have any fun plans? Hit us up on PLAYER PLOTS! If you want to follow up on an event, investigate the setting or interact with a NPC, you can also hit up SETTING ENGAGEMENT and NPC ENGAGEMENT respectively.
⚔︎ For the May application round, any current player can extend one invitation. Players planning to invite someone this round should comment below with the player's information!
⚔︎ This game has an unofficial DISCORD SERVER! As a reminder, the moderators will not be monitoring the server's contents. However, players who have issues in the server are still welcome to bring their concerns to us at MOD CONTACT, just as they would with Plurk.
Players unsure whether this affects their characters can check on the GUILDS page. As characters are removed from the Diadem Hotel, players should comment to the HOUSING page with updates on where they are staying. The deadline for February arrivals is MAY 27.
⚔︎ FEBRUARY ARRIVALS LOSE THEIR FREE RIDE! When characters first arrived, the guilds promised to help them get their footing. Per notices sent to each occupied room, characters have until MAY 27TH before their stay at the Diadem Hotel comes to an end. Characters who commit to a guild may take advantage of the associated housing subsidy or may use their own personal income to secure private housing.
DROPS
The following characters will vanish in the coming Confluence:
Pavetta Fiona Elen, Angela, Chuck Taine, Cassandra Cain-Wayne, Link | Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tommy Shepherd, Jonathan Samuel Kent / Superman, Mana Aiba, Tsubomi Hanasaki, Billy Kaplan-Altman, Sakura Haruno, Lavrentios Argyris, Chris Yukine
Please coordinate with the mods if you would like to claim some or all of their belongings.
Pavetta Fiona Elen, Angela, Chuck Taine, Cassandra Cain-Wayne, Link | Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Tommy Shepherd, Jonathan Samuel Kent / Superman, Mana Aiba, Tsubomi Hanasaki, Billy Kaplan-Altman, Sakura Haruno, Lavrentios Argyris, Chris Yukine
Please coordinate with the mods if you would like to claim some or all of their belongings.
GETTING TO KNOW YOU —
Welcome, new heroes! Please use the form below to introduce yourself and start plotting if you'd like:
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QUESTIONS.
Ken Kaneki / Tokyo Ghoul / Alliance
Preferred Communication: Plurk is easier for me!
Character Name & Journal: Ken Kaneki
Guild Affiliation: Due to Kaneki's dietary restrictions (he is a cannibal), he will be following the Alliance.
Plot/CR Hooks:
- Resident cannibal. Kaneki is a (half)ghoul which are human-looking creatures that predate on humans, thus he can only eats humans and somehow he can also eat coffee (but nobody knows why). He will puke whenever he tries to eat normal food )=
- Despite the above, Kaneki is a REALLY GOOD BOY who just wants to live a peaceful and kind life.
- Desperate for friends. I can not stress this enough, kaneki has SO FEW FRIENDS in canon, and here he will be so lost. He is 19, but honestly he can befriend people who are younger or older, despite being awkward he is a very caring person.
- Desperate for mentors, parental figures and found family.
- Joined the Alliance for the perks. Basically, he needs food and the Alliance gives it to him without sounding really shady like a certain Society.
- Knows how to make AMAZINGLY GOOD coffee. But that also means he is an elitist about most other coffee, although he will be polite about it, don't worry.
- He is so so so so so so terrified of his powers/biology. Kaneki will also downright lie about them.
- Loves and adores books, and he will build his own library while here.
Kaneki will HIDE everything related to his biology and pretend he is not a man-eating person. He just wants a normal peaceful life, fam )=
Currently, I want him to get settled into the game, make friends and try to live a peaceful life. Sadly that also means starving himself and pretending he has no trauma when he is, in fact, very traumatized.
sophie devereaux | leverage
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Character Name & Journal: Sophie Devereaux |
Guild Affiliation: Probably going to stay unaligned for now, but I'm open to seeing how things go.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Plot/CR Hooks:
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(Do not let her act, though, she's a terrible actress when she's not doing crime.)
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also i'm snooping and yes where sophie goes, so goes hardison! sunset falls here we come~
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Preferred Communication: pm!
Character Name & Journal: Alec Hardison
Guild Affiliation: Unaligned! Circumstances would have be to dire for this to change.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Half of Hardison's steez is taking care of people! The other half is having a meltdown until someone snaps him out of it. His priorities post-entry will be: 1. Find Sophie 2. Have a panic attack at her and try to miss her shoes when he yartzes 3. ???? 4. Steal stuff in order to get safe 5. Ask Sophie to chill his orange soda after every single sip please and thank youuu
I would love to explore his new power-charging ability in fun and chaotic ways, so hit me up if you want to have your character accidentally juiced! Looking forward to anyone willing to deal with a freak out or three. Magic will bamboozle him, as will anyone that doesn't look human. Eventually it would be fun to delve a little deeper into him adjusting to a world where he's extremely small potatoes, but for now I just want to see how he vibes.
Plot/CR Hooks:
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this boy does not need his power being juiced so clearly it must be doneMagic, check. Not human, check. Hacker, double-check. If your boy's in Central then these two should have an awful playdate.no subject
let's make some chaos babyyyyes hi i love donnie's thread with claudia so i will hoard however much donnie you'll let me have tbqhhardison's gonna be based in central city,
so i'm planning on plopping a section in his arrival this week. or we can brainstorm and(eta i lied i did not do that so) let's tailor something to donnie if you'd like, i will happily plop hardison wherever's most convenient~no subject
HahaClaudia is a joy, this should be fun! What all exactly does Hardison's power do? Just like the label says?Maybe Dee could catch him doing his stealing.
Or they could both be eyeing a car except Donnie's looking for ones that look pretty much abandoned so there probably shouldn't be much competition in that market lolGot anything you might specifically like to do?no subject
yo i love the idea of donnie interrupting him, and i really would love for him to get a good dose of "some technology in this place is wayyy advanced" if you're up to really give the guy an existential crisis?? i'm thinking he could totally aim for the same type of car to yank out bits. maybe they're aiming for the same parts, or hardison yoinks something the car needs to run, etc?
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Hahah, Donnie would prefer the car stay mostly intact since he's looking to refurb something to use as transportation, so that'd tick him off if some random dude tries stealing something from one he's been eyeing. XD
Who doesn't like giving people existential crises? wait
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ok i think we're on the same page, so just one last q: would you be cool with me backdating it to before the quarantine? if not, no big, i just want to steer a bit clear of the parasite stuff. gives me the heebies and possibly some of the jeebies.
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Character Name & Journal: Guy Crood |
Guild Affiliation: Alliance, but not happy about it. He'll mostly do it out of distrust, worried they'll cut off his trips home if he doesn't join. And also because it's hard to get by when you're illiterate and from the Neolithic, even if you've had exposure to more advanced technology enough to learn to use some of it.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Guy is from an absolutely gorgeous (though dangerous) prehistoric world, where he usually lives with his mate, her cavepeople family, and his dead parents' best friends and their daughter. But he's spent the last 9 IC months as a crau in another game. A Hunger Games rp so...yikes. (Opt out here, and please keep in mind I absolutely can bypass a lot of angst if needed.)
As such, he's kind of a mess right now, whose primary IC motivation is just surviving in the game world and making sure he can visit home as often as he can until he gets to go home permanently.
However, my OOC goals are to have him slowly regain the control over his life that got taken away (he went through everything from being set up to die and hry revived multiple times, to having his clothing and grooming micromanaged bc fuck Panem and their weird Capitol media crap).
I want him to come to enjoy helping people as a superhero, and meet enough good people to restore his faith in humanity somewhat, including learning about how in a semi-normal modern world like in meta there are even many groups of people in general society trying to do good that aren't just the Starfallen.
Plot/CR Hooks: Guy is absolutely fascinated with science so he'd basically hound any scientists to learn more. He's an inventor by his world's standards and has figured out a lot of clever survival tricks like shoes and traps. He learned a lot of basic science in the old game by asking questions and would love to learn more, especially in a world where he can experiment for funsies for once.
He could also really use help learning how to read. He's currently illiterate and knows it's a hurdle to learning some of the things he wants to learn from a future society. He also loves playing games and sharing stories and jokes.
What Guy can offer others is that he is an absolute mom friend. Going through hell with other people only made any empathetic traits grow a lot stronger out of a stubborn refusal to be corrupted by the cruelty around him, and out of using connection with friends and allies as a source of strength to weather bad shit. For people that struggle to get along with others unless they're patient, or could really use someone willing to show them some intense care as a friend, he's your guy. He's also 22, which is a great age to big bro any teens, and he's already used to doing so in multiple respects.
He also still can be pretty glib and goofy and would be pretty desperate to lighten up by doing some hardcore clowning with people. So if they want a buddy to get up to stupid hijinks with he'd be 100% down. He's going to be reveling in having more freedom to do dumb fun bullshit.
Alternately, he can definitely identify with other survivors of fascist governments and whatnot.
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Doesn't hurt that age 22 is a pretty big milestone in such a dangerous world so he sees himself as closer to a middle aged adult.
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