JULY STATE OF THE GAME

[metamods]

STATE OF THE GAME

THIS MONTH

01 July 2023
⚔︎ STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ CONFLUENCE/DOWNBURST II

17 July 2023
⚔︎ DOWNBURST III OOC PLOTTING

19 July 2023
⚔︎ DOWNBURST III

20 July 2023
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN BEGINS

25 July 2023
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN ENDS

⚔︎ LITTLE LOVE - Little Love has been. . quiet, over the last month. With the changes going on in Excelsior and the shift in power in Central City, it's no wonder that Little Love has been trying to stay out of the mess. Some locals have been working on building small shelters on their farmland, passing through whispers that their doors are open to those who need safe housing. Their world is meant to be shared, after all. Separating people by whether or not they were born on their planet goes against everything Little Love believes in, and if they can offer safe haven for people who need it, there are several old cranky farmers who will open up barn doors - no questions asked.

⚔︎ CENTRAL CITY - Central City's borders are still "closed", but only when it suits Mechanima himself. Alliance heroes will find it difficult to get in past it's borders, being stopped by Red Hood's crew in some areas and other Society villains at others. Unaligned Starfallen will have no difficulty passing borders, nor will Society ones. While Mechanima is avoiding directly interfering with Arcadia business, people may notice that, while some of the Arcadian guards had been within Central City when the city takeover had been announced, there's been less of them visibly wandering the streets - and several Society villains messing with whatever ones manage to sneak their way in. This is their turf, not Arcadia's.

⚔︎ SUNSET FALLS - With Loki's absence, things in Sunset Falls have started getting tense. It feels like the air is working hard to strangle the life out of it's residents; the local were-teens are getting rowdier than usual, antsier, and have begun causing issues on the edge of town: breaking into shops, leaving a lot of colorful graffiti over unguarded buildings, throwing parties in old abandoned buildings and not cleaning up after themselves when they're done - which is leaving others in town feeling more agitated, too. Witches are getting angry that their sacred grounds are getting stamped all over, they're laying curses for the next poor group to step up, those curses are causing kids to get sick or vomit up frogs, which is angering parents, which is causing work places to get even more tense. Something foul is in the air, and it's making everything worse.

⚔︎ EXCELSIOR - Once again, plants have overtaken Excelsior. Heroes currently stationed in Arcadia are asked to come help eradicate them while officials search for the source of the return. There are. . . new buildings being constructed on the edges of Excelsior where it meets Arcadia, tall skycrapers being built up by friendly looking drones. Their purpose isn't quite clear, but given how swiftly Excelsior is working to get them put up, they must be for something, right?

HOUSEKEEPING

Hello, Heroes!

⚔︎ We've updated the NPC engagement page to reflect some of the changes with the current roster: namely, Fantastic's takeover of the Alliance

⚔︎ The FAQ has been updated with the following: the Battlements of the Shining Gods info blurb has been updated, added return home trips, clarified where to go to interact with NPCs, and cleared up some of the information surrounding OurPowers. We'll be working on updating this through August, too! Please let us know if there are any changes you think could be useful for our FAQ.

⚔︎ We're updating the Activity Check system for new characters: specifically, we'll be requiring that new characters respond to their first month's AC check with links to their taken list and guild page comments.

⚔︎ While we've been working to be more on top of Engagement posts lately, we've also realized managing to keep up with event engagements on top of non-event engagements can be a little extra taxing! To counteract this: we're going to be putting non-event engagements on hold during very involved events, to ensure we're able to help players interact with the event. Once events have completed, we'll return to answering plot engagements submitted by Thursday on Fridays.

The CALENDAR reflects our current schedule accurately up through September, including estimated shifted dates.

⚔︎ 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.

DROPS

The following characters will vanish in the coming Confluence:

Thad Thawne II, Ken Kaneki, Darth Nox, Alina Starkov, Aleksander Kirigan, Peter Parker, Lila, Kell Maresh

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:

<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

QUESTIONS & ENGAGEMENT.

[metamods]

Re: QUESTIONS & ENGAGEMENT.

[codicies]

So Dylan's gonna start a punk rock band and start writing & performing protest music. The band will be doing a Jem and the Holograms thing, using Gus's illusions to disguise their appearances.

Would it be possible for the band to either hijack one of Fantastic's broadcasts and/or crash a major public appearance, like a rally or a speech?

EDIT: it'll probably be hijacking the broadcast, it'd be difficult to maintain their safety out in the open like that

LIGHT THE BAT-SIGNAL

[lightmyself]

Player Name & Pronouns: Kathrine
Preferred Communication: chocolateisbrainfood

Character Name & Journal: Duke Thomas/The Signal | lightmyself
Guild Affiliation: Unaligned right now, and he isn't sure he wants to join up, because he knows you don't do that kind of thing lightly. Not impossible but it would take time.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Duke just wants to do his best and Do Good. He wants to take care of his family (whatever or whoever that may be) and grow into a hero he can be proud of (and he thinks Bruce and his parents would be proud of.) Short term goals is deciding if he'll be going to school or not and having him settle in. Long term goals, I want him to grow into his own as an individual hero with a lot of trials and tribulations. I'd also love for him to grow his skills in his abilities as he has no idea what he's doing with them most of the time.

Plot/CR Hooks: He's kind of naive at times because once he judges you to be a good person, he struggles to unsee it. Which leaves him a bit open to being manipulated or to have him collect adults he looks up to and wants advice from. He also superheroes in the middle of the day, weird for a Gothamite, yeah, but it's his schtick. He's also really good with riddles as he spent years as a kid training and studying them because the Riddler kept messing with his area in town (thanks Nigma.) One of his powers also happens to be Power Amplification so he can accidentally boost other people's abilities or even cause them to gain temporary new abilities. Could be fun to play around with for accidental shenanigans or an more serious plot.

Duke could also work is someone just needs a more level headed person to get dragged along on their wild adventures. He's most often the Straight Man when dealing with his family--until suddenly he is doing something crazy and even if surprised it happened.

[robintohood]

So I really enjoy the few interactions Duke and Jason get in the comics and WFA is always a delight so down for more! See if you get this Jason to be a little more squishy, Duke.

Jason's already intrigued by what Duke's schtick is because yellow sure is a choice for a Gotham vigilante.

[bocchitime]

I'm not canon familiar, but from what I've seen of Duke he seems like a really cool character!

Hitori is a big ball of vibrating anxiety that could use a level-headed friend, if you'd be interested in these two having CR?

[batsymbol]

This Bruce is probably going to be a bit of a shock to the kiddo here. Sorry about that in advance.

Re: LIGHT THE BAT-SIGNAL

[mostdangerousbird]

Duke help everyone’s running off to join cults.

[reneger]

poor duke, walking in to immeasurable chaos

but it'll be nice to have their daytime cape running around, to, you know, guard the daytime while the rest of them hibernate

[threephds]

Player Name & Pronouns: carro & she/her
Preferred Communication: cartooncarro or _carro @ discord!

Character Name & Journal: Dr. Rebecca Holiday & threephds
Guild Affiliation: For the past several years she's worked with a large organization, currently she's been working alone. It could go either way. Chances are, she'll tag along with what Agent Six is doing because she knows him (and he is currently one of five people she trusts back home.)
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Her goal is to cure a significant ailment effecting all living beings back home. She's also very, very worried about her not-son who is always in danger and she doesn't want to be away from him. Her emotional needs are literally never being fulfilled lol she's very touch-/love-starved but recently hasn't been focusing on that 'cause there's too much going on in her life. But here, she has a lot less to focus on. Who knows what could happen?
Plot/CR Hooks: Holiday is a scientist with three PhDs (hence the name lol) and she's likely to help with...well, science things. Wherever she's at. She's going to help with monitoring Six's nanites, first thing, but once that's settled she'll be open for other research and engineering opportunities. (Note that her mun is not a scientist but she is very anal and will probably do a lot of googling make sure Holiday isn't saying complete nonsense. So. Apologies if sciencey responses take a bit.)
In her canon plot, she's the main hero's doctor/engineer (he needs both). She's a researcher and very technical and is considered one of the best in her field. She'd be happy to help anyone that needs it - Holiday got into her work to help people, after all. She's not a Dive Headfirst Into Danger kind of gal but she's not...not that, either. You get me. Sometimes she's just very excited for science.

She's also really not used to having superpowers, that'll be a slow development and very very confusing for her. But she's going to be able to move metal with her mind and that'll make her work easier! Yayyyy

(OOC she's canonically super hot and I enjoy seeing her embarrassed, especially since her Love Life Situation is really really strange right now. About to be even stranger. Also she's going to be friendlier here than she's been in a while and would love to hang out with other scientists since she never gets to anymore. Generally I just want her to make friends and meet people her own age 'cause she does not get to do that often.)

[whistlestoptea]

Would the good science doctor like to learn about ~MAGIC~?

(aka Raine also needs adult friends. like desperately lol)

Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh | Bocchi the Rock!

[bocchitime]

Player Name & Pronouns: Gwiggs (he/him)
Preferred Communication: mcgwiggles
Character Name & Journal: Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh bocchitime
Guild Affiliation: Hitori currently unaligned and she isn't inclined toward heroism or villainy. But she's also kind of a spineless teenager in a scary new world, so feel free to peer pressure her.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Hitori is BRAND NEW to the game so most of her motivation will be the usual stuff you'd expect (trying to see if she can go home, making sure she has a way to feed herself, etc).

Beyond, that, though, Hitori suffers from debilitating social anxiety. She's afraid of people and is prone to freakouts and panic attacks so she's going to try to find some place where she can feel safe. And then she's going to do what most teenage shut-ins do: Take to the internet.

She's a musician, so she'll probably eventually post some of her music on the network, and eventually work up the nerve to put on a little street concert, but that's definitely something she'll have to work her way up to.

Plot/CR Hooks: Like I said before, Hitori is a kid with really bad anxiety and coming here has given her sonic powers. So I will probably have put up a post where she is trying not to freak out in public, failing, and emitting some sort of high pitched frequency for people to investigate.

Beyond that, I don't have a ton of ideas for plot stuff just yet. I'm new here so I just want to get my footing.

[whistlestoptea]

Hello fellow musician with social anxiety

Tho Raine mostly has a problem with performing in front of crowds 8D

laws

[thwikt]

Player Name & Pronouns: laws (he/him)
Preferred Communication: voicelog

roy harper | dc comics

[thwikt]

Character Name & Journal: roy harper thwikt
Guild Affiliation: unaligned

Relevant Links: info + permission | inbox

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: he just came back from the dead and now finds himself in a different dimension, so honestly, at this point, he has no idea wtf his goals are, aside from staying low on the radar, doing some recon and maybe potentially infiltrating arcadia because he has issues he needs to work through and there's no better way to go about it than through reckless behavior.
Plot/CR Hooks: roy will be adopting a new persona, so he'll be going by orchard greenwood (aka flamebird) online and in person. he will be actively avoiding anyone he knows if he clocks them out in public, especially if he's out of costume. (although, tbqh his costume is just a beanie, hoodie and a full face mask, so it isn't exactly ingenious. he's working on it though ok.) since he wants to get into trouble, catch him in arcadia, catch him doing some snoopin', catch him around town in excelsior or catch him on the network post. 👉

thea queen ➝ arrow (dctv)

[withasouvenir]

Player Name & Pronouns: emma (she/her)
Preferred Communication: baleinette @ plurk / dostoevskyish @ discord

Character Name & Journal: thea queen aka speedy (withasouvenir)
Guild Affiliation: i think it would be funny if she went society because of a misunderstanding and thinking the society is like the justice society because she would be peeved about being aligned with "villains" but also probably not swap sides because of all of fantastic's shit so someone talk her into that
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: so at her current canon point (mid-season 4) she is suffering from the effects of the lazarus pit bringing her back to life so she has some Anger Issues and also Bloodlust because of some dumb arrow shit. she is just trying to live her life and be a good person but her bloodlust also makes her want to kill people, whoopsie doodle, and when she doesn't....the bloodlust feeds on her own energy and she gets weaker and the wound that killed her begins opening up again. haha cool cool cool. SO THAT'S FUN!

she's a big ol' mess in desperate need of therapy, but an alternate universe is neato too. i would like her to make friends that aren't team arrow because team arrow are judgmental bitches who blame thea for their choices so she needs people that don't treat her like garbage.

mostly i'm looking to settle her and make some friends that weren't friends with her brother first because that, it turns out, is a terrible way to make friends who will actually have your back.
Plot/CR Hooks: nighttime vigilante with a bow and arrow in a red suit with the last name queen, sometimes she sits on roofs feeling sorry for herself because she is baby, probably she will accidentally beat some jerks up so maybe will need to be reeled in, also she doesn't feel pain generally which is like a fun thing to notice lmao

[thwikt]

time for a nighttime vigilante meet n greet

enter one baby bat/vengeance.

[batsymbol]

Player Name & Pronouns: missy. she/her
Preferred Communication: telekinetics or you can always PM!

Character Name & Journal: Bruce Wayne/Batman, batsymbol
Guild Affiliation: Unaligned and probably going to stay that way knowing Bruce.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Bruce is going to try and hunker down somewhere here while he tries to figure Everything out. This is going to be his first time "on his own", without his resources, and not having Alfred to fall back on, so he's going to have to figure out how to handle that. He's already caught wind that there's a Joker around here so he might get a little obsessed in finding out whatever information he can about that because he's handled his own Joker already back in his Gotham and the two are definitely on a path together. Also he's going to need a batcave because, you know.

I would like for Bruce here to learn how to work with a partner (or many) and try to tackle that fear of his he still struggles with when it comes to the thought of losing people he cares about, as well as come to terms with his not having to Do It All Alone or even be alone. He's very much in his There Is No Bruce, Only Batman phase right now, much to Alfred's dismay. This could definitely take a little to work through since he's only a Year 2 Bat and is still carrying a lot of anger and trauma with him while also trying not to lose hope in saving Gotham. His patience is being tested with the Riddler currently. Basically, we gotta get him to be a better Bat and Batdad.

Plot/CR Hooks: Batman's a vigilante back in Gotham and he's probably going to stay that way here, no matter how difficult that might be. Although if this place has it's own version of Jim Gordon in the ranks, he might cooperate there.

Bruce's power, because he has none back in Gotham, is Darkness Manipulation because, you know, and so he's going to have to learn how to use all of that. He's also come in with his version of The Batmobile that comes with Shadow Stealth to keep it away from nosy batkids the public eye. That said, at some point he'll be driving around in that beauty (look at her) as well as just being on rooftops and out and about as Batman. Depending who you are, he might give you the name Paul because he's already been bombarded by his kids so he's aware he's got some sort of presence here among others.

Looking forward to whatever shenanigans he gets into here.

Re: enter one baby bat/vengeance.

[overlyprecocious]

how is he supposed to keep up his driving skills if he can’t use the Batmobile DAD

Tony Stank | MCU

[ingeniar]

Player Name & Pronouns: Robin (he/him or they/them)
Preferred Communication: laetificat (though I prefer to only add if we have CR!) or PM

Character Name & Journal: Tony Stark ("the older hotter one") / ingeniar
Guild Affiliation: He's staying unaffiliated for the moment. Had enough of joining someone else's boyband for one lifetime, thanks.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Above all else, Tony wants to go home to his wife and child. When he realises he can't do that, he wants to find out 1) why, 2) how he can dismantle it, 3) how he can enable other people to dismantle it (in that order). He also wants to circle the wagons a little and figure out what's up with all the weird Google searches he's getting on his name.. something about vibrators..? He's going to be deeply sus about Arcadia but will probably end up there anyway because it's funny and he'll be so pissed off when he keeps getting 'ported back.

Plot/CR Hooks: Unlike the Other Guy, this Tony lives out loud. He's not going to be quiet about who he is or what he wants, so he'll probably be doing some hardcore investigating, i.e. turning up outside someone's place of work to demand they tell him what's going on, that kind of thing. He'll be busy burrowing down into the dark web and whatever else is happening on the tech side of things, so can ping into people's inboxes and/or data servers when he tries to hack his way in. He'll also be doing some superheroing.

Happy to have cases of mistaken identity (he's the Dad Bod version of MH's current Tony), random encounters, fanboys/girls who actually know who he is (that is going to be weird), etc. If/when he gets free of Arcadia he'll probably be heading straight for New York or LA, depending on how things go.

[purplexing]

GMTA! Donnie's been determined in getting to the bottom of this Confluence crap and how to Fix Things, especially in concerns to his brother's current status back home (so far as they are both aware of anyway).

lol hackwars

Raine Whispers | The Owl House

[whistlestoptea]

Player Name & Pronouns: Val, she/they
Preferred Communication: honeyfoot or honeyfoot on discord

Character Name & Journal: Raine Whispers whistlestoptea
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated so far! Listen, they already joined a coven in a world where not doing so is not really an appealing option, but turns out joining a coven screws you over too. They're fine for now, thanks.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Raine wants LA REVOLUCIÓN. They want to overthrow their homeworld's evil dictator and save witchkind from his plans. Besides that, they're also very invested in the safety and wellbeing of one Eda Clawthorne and her kids. They also love bard magic a latte and used to be a teacher. In Meta, I kinda wanna go with the flow, and hopefully develop their character a little more, and let them make some friends!
Plot/CR Hooks: I mean... they're a whole anarchist revolutionary at home. They have a strong sense of justice, so that might well throw them in the path of some villain or hero, depending on what the hero's idea of heroing is. They're pretty good at coordinating plans and have various bard tricks up their sleeve, such as changing the chemistry of liquids, puppeteering people, making people sleep, and downright destruction. They're also happy to contribute silly, animal-themed group names.

[harageous]

WE GONNA SMOOCH

[chokedout]

Player Name & Pronouns: syd (they/them)
Preferred Communication: pm or witchpunk

Character Name & Journal: Theodore Price (chokedout)
Guild Affiliation: Currently unaffiliated!
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Theo's coming with CRAU from Duplicity so he needs an adjustment period back in a the "real" word (or as close to the real world as he knew it,) when it comes to social graces and self-esteem. He's also fresh out of the jamjar so being able to travel and move around (ironic considering what's happening ic) is calling to him, so he'll be pushing to do that and resisting any pulls to be herded inward. I'd love for him to make friends, relearn social graces and learn from other magic users since he's a very untrained yet talented witch with white/green magic vibes.
Plot/CR Hooks: Theo likes to attach himself to people and is a little bit needy when it comes to knowing people want him in some way. Previously he used to sleep around and while that's still quite possible (hit him up 🤙) I would love for him to learn other ways to connect such as reestablishing his art background, working to better his magic and use it in positive ways such as healing or influencing green growth with plants, medicines and charms. He can be a little recklessly stupid and needs to be reined in, too. Also he's a texting maniac so pls let him harass you IC.

[ingeniar]

hi sugar baby

the vision | marvel cinematic universe

[vaudevision]

Player Name & Pronouns: randy | she & her
Preferred Communication: chiefbeef or docfission on discord!

Character Name & Journal: the vision (vaudevision)
Guild Affiliation: unaffiliated for now! he will be hashtag unbothered by the lack of material support, on account of being an immaterial girl. tbh for comedy reasons i might be open to him fumbling his way into a guild in the future, but that’d be dependent on how his cr shakes out
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: vision has no real goals as he knows he is a fully dead dude and way too cool with it—and he’ll be struggling with the idea that he should probably be less cool with it. in general he will have no idea what to do with his new lease on life and will be laying low; specifically, he’ll be quietly extremely online, getting up to speed on this universe, figuring out how best to assimilate and contemplating what to do next. this will result in baby’s first crimes™ as he uses his extreme posting power to start to gently pull some darkweb strings and begin to develop a civilian identity, a dork-ass dork by name of victor shade.

Plot/CR Hooks: he has a very low concept of personal agency so i think it’d be great for him to get roped into some bullshit, e.g. by people who want to get into schemes and could use a flying metal brick with a forehead laser who has trouble with boundaries. the technologically astute might also notice someone nosing around on the network or even on their own personal tech with perhaps too much deftness and find the culprit is ... some kind of ... british contooter ...

happy for mistaken identity stuff with people who know 616 or other varieties back home, people who have any magical capacity realising he is a fucked up tulpa roomba with a space bazooka in his forehead, people hurting their hand punching his robot tummy, etc. he’ll be geographically flexible location-wise as he can fly and will be doing a fair amount of surveying the landscape so pls ... hit me up ... winky face ...

[dothelokimotion]

oh schemes.

loki loves those.

Steve Rogers | Marvel Cinematic Universe

[shield]

Player Name & Pronouns: Lia, she/her
Preferred Communication: cosmology | howlites @ Discord

Character Name & Journal: Steve Rogers shield

Guild Affiliation: Unaligned and likely staying that way. He has Strong Feelings about superhero registration.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Steve's immediate goal is to get back home and finish the job of reversing Thanos' snap. He might chill out a little once he (presumably) learns from Strange or Vision that The Avengers eventually succeed at this. But chilling out for him means throwing himself headfirst into some other endeavor where he can fully focus on helping others and ignore his own wishes and desires. Group therapy, anyone? Just kidding. He'll probably lean back into the superheroing where plot allows/demands.

Plot/CR Hooks: He is a leader/motivational type but that part of himself has taken a major blow due to letting down the literal entire universe. That was all his fault and his fault only, you know. So he will be hesitant to step back into that role but characters who need that kind of influence might inspire him in that direction.

[withasouvenir]

pls i want thea to be friends with steve, hasn't he always wanted a baby sister????

[chewiedout]

Player Name & Pronouns: Three (She/Her)
Preferred Communication: endtransmission

Character Name & Journal: Carol Danvers chewiedout
Guild Affiliation: Carol likely will stay unaligned as generally the last gigantic super hero war she got into was a mess. It would take a lot, likely people she's become close with to push her otherwise.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Carol's historically had to deal with a lot of weird world hopping in her cannon, so she won't immediately start panicking or trying to figure out how to get home. Typically though her expectation is that something needs to be fixed so she'll be keeping an eye out at what she expects could be the big reason for being here. The idea that this many people with powers keep showing up will be a bit shocking to her and she will want to get to know other people because she's realized she works best when not alone. Overall though, she will want to be working on how to help people.
Plot/CR Hooks: Carol is a tactician still and generally very capable at being blast-y and explosive so she tends to not fly under the radar much anymore. (Also she's great if you ever need to charge a battery). She tends to be super supportive of her people (more then herself) so she's super easy to drag into anyone's mess. She tends to generally lean into friends who are military / general hero / science-y types but she's working on getting over her nerves of magic and even brought her cool wizard outfit in her inventory.

It looks like we have a big push about preemptively keeping people from hurting things, and boy that's gonna bring back some memories and feelings for her that she'll probably speak strongly about.

Happy to get together with any sort of multiverse messes with people who are not 616 and all sorts of heroes from different places. Bring on the shenanigans!

[dothelokimotion]

don't let him get punched, carol.

[hackingyoursensors]

Player Name & Pronouns: Ellie | she/her
Preferred Communication: starpaths or PM

Character Name & Journal: Dick Grayson (Young Justice) | hackingyoursensors
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated. Expecting a Bat to trust an organization that isn't theirs? lol
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
At the moment, he's just getting his feet under him. He just came from a canon point where there were a ton of big revelations back-to-back so he's still reeling from that a little. Also he suddenly has an entire flock (heh) who knows about him and had gone/currently go by Robin. He is not whelmed. :(

I don't have any big OOC goals right this moment-- I'm just playing with his actions/reactions to being so far from home and in a familiar-yet-unfamiliar environment.

Plot/CR Hooks: He's currently doing his best to appear like a Normal Teenager. Even so, he's drawn to helping people in trouble. He won't be flashy about it, choosing subtlety over efficiency. Running from a guard? Weird how he just tripped. Were those marbles there before? Anyone who confronts him about it will get a very confused look and a calm denial. Take your eyes off of him during this conversation and he'll just suddenly disappear. Right now, he doesn't have gear, so he's not out and about as Robin.

Dick's an outgoing person, so it won't be hard to get his attention and strike up a conversation. Granted, you could talk to him for twenty minutes and get no real information about himself but that's just how he is. He's not easily fazed by others or put-off by blunt, sarcastic, or withdrawn people.

[mostdangerousbird]

He doesn’t have gear?? Tim is going to track him down and later he is going to read Jason Peter Todd the Riot Act.

[ofgoldenfoil]

Player Name & Pronouns: Devi, she/her
Preferred Communication: devimelete

Character Name & Journal: Aurican ofgoldenfoil
Guild Affiliation: On the surface the Alliance is the sort of thing gold dragons like Aurican would establish. Instinctively Aurican will feel drawn to such a guild. The problem it’s being run by flawed mortal humans Aurican will also have some reserve about joining. Not to mention Fantastic won’t strike him as a proper leader. The only way to go around this “lesser beings” attitude is to promise him education (he needs to learn how to read and be a member of society) and teach him magic. The Alliance have the edge in terms putting up a Lawful Good aura to give the initial draw but the Society can have an equal opportunity to draw him to their side if they can show off their access to education and magic. His Lawful Good nature will make him a difficult member in the Society, however. But would it be worth it to have an actual baby dragon? Who knows.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: To list from most important to least:

1) Education. As a baby dragon that grew up inside a mountain, Aurican have only Patersmith’s (his maybe human, maybe not tutor) teachings and none of the experience. He was barely about to fly when taken away to here, so he’s at a disadvantage. He needs to learn how to function within society and to read first and foremost to anything of worth plot-wise. Fortunately dragons’ learning rate is incredible fast, almost savant, so this part will be short term in plotting.

2) Magic.While getting his education he will pursue magic. He wanted nothing more than return magic and its casting to his world, so if he’s away from his world he will attempt to have magic powers for himself.

3)Lair and Horde. In his world he had the childhood grotto as the proto-lair but when he was out in the world he developed a kinship to a certain group of elves. Over thousands of years he helped turn into a group of elves living in a hunter gather society in a powerful civilization creating the most beautiful city in the world. In that aspect his “lair” is the elf city and his “horde” elven culture and history.

Since there are no hunter-gather societies and millennia for him to cultivate said society, Aurican will be drawn to make his traditional dragon lair and develop his personal horde. He could use a natural cave system but gold dragons tend to stay put in urban areas and invest their horde in areas of preferred study. This search for a lair will be a more long term plot to gain CR.

Plot/CR Hooks: In search of a lair Aurican will go anywhere to find a good place so he will jump from city to city so he’s easy to catch up. (Although he won’t say he’s looking for a lair, only that he’s “exploring”) He still needs to make a choice to join a guild but I have no real decision on the matter yet and prefer to use CR to help him make the choice. As far as being an antagonist to anyone it would be very difficult. Your character have to be a real Chaotic Evil character who go on rampages to make an enemy out of him. Aurican is too self centered and too focused on magic to really care on hurting or argue with anyone.

With magic being his obsession he is most likely to stay at Sunset Falls. Anyone who is magical in nature will get his attention so he will go searching them sooner or later. However, as his human form is a young boy this will make things difficult in getting what he wants.

In terms of taking a role in other plots it will be depends how important it is to him personally. He can go after the plants in Excelsior as it’s the right thing to do but he won’t interfere in what is going on in Central City as he will consider it a human problem he has no responsibility of. He will keep a close eye in the comings and goings on in Sunset Falls and maybe Little Love.

[welcome_summer]

Mayuko will be 110% down with helping babydragon learn to read (literature teacher \o/) and acclimate? to the human world/Sunset Falls (elected city official \o/). It's a shame her boyfriend that has the Zodiac Dragon's soul isn't here, but he'd approved of this course of action.

avi | original (dungeons & dragons)

[koboldlygo]

Player Name & Pronouns: Rye, he/they
Preferred Communication: sentinelbeach @ plurk | ryebreading @ discord | PM are all fine!

Character Name & Journal: Avi koboldlygo
Guild Affiliation: Avi has a persecution complex when it comes to trusting people who aren't fellow kobolds, so he'll be reluctant to join either group without evidence that he won't be exploited. Pragmatism will eventually push him toward membership, however, though it's a bit of a coin toss as to which one he'll choose. Both the Alliance and the Society would hold attraction for him, as someone who both wants to do the right thing and who spent much of his life as "the bad guy".

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: ICly, Avi is motivated by his self-imposed quest to uplift his race from their existence as low-level Lawful Evil mooks. He wants to learn everything he can, in hopes of discovering all the pieces necessary for building a peaceful civilization that can also protect itself from enemies. A smaller, more immediate goal would be figuring out how to coexist with superpowered strangers while lacking superpowers himself; as a 2'4 lizard boy who has to worry about being stepped on, it's a concern!

OOCly, I'd love to build CR that can bring his better traits to the surface, like his instinctive need to contribute and how protective he gets of his in-group, while also challenging him to be better. Culture clash is highly desired, too; kobolds are such weird little guys and explaining their unique perspective is really fun. A long-term goal would definitely be for someone(s) to convince him to live for himself, or at least to approach his self-imposed mission in a healthier way.

Plot/CR Hooks: Avi may be standoffish and mistrustful, but he's also too curious for his own good, able to rationalize sticking his nose into all sorts of strange places. He's closer to a newly-reformed villain than a hero, so while he wants to want to do what he now understands (sort of...) to be the right thing, he needs a push to be more proactive about it, versus maybe stepping in to lend a hand when Bad Things are happening in front of his eyes. As a little lizard guy, he's got a big chip on his shoulder about risking his hide for people he's already decided to envy, and could really do with some help in unpacking that; as a little lizard guy who'll be running around with swords, doing Weird Shit and angrily spurning tech like holo-watches or size-charms, hopefully he'll be at least visually interesting enough to chat up.

(i could go on but my brain is meltinggg)

[ofgoldenfoil]

omg, as playing a character from dragonlance, these two have to meet. I don’t think Aurican will do anything to Avi as he’s at his canon point where he’s just about to explore the outside world and has no experience, but I’m sure he heard of kobolds.

Tsa plotting

[codicies]

Player Name & Pronouns: Tsa (she/her)
Preferred Communication: thepreciousthing or thepreciousthing on Discord

Dylan Brock | Venom (Marvel Comics)

[codicies]

Character Name & Journal: Dylan Brock
Guild Affiliation: unaligned
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Dylan has a lot of pent-up anger that needs an outlet, and one of those outlets is going to be music. The Arcadia & Fantastic plot is infuriating, and he's gonna start a band and write protest music, and will probably write a very catchy song that will be an absolutely scathing insult to Fantastic.

Plot/CR Hooks: Anyone wanna join a punk band?? I think that's gonna be my main focus with him this month.

natasha romanova | marvel cinematic

[redhourglass]

Player Name & Pronouns: sel (she/they)
Preferred Communication: plurk at iothe or discord!

Character Name & Journal: natasha romanova redhourglass
Guild Affiliation:

🕸 at the moment, natasha is going to be motivated to stay unaffiliated. she's post-civil war, meaning she's had a shit experience with the accords and taking sides/faction conflict, and she's not interested in signing up to do someone's dirty work again after years of independence outside of the mandate of the united nations and other parties like SHIELD.
🕸 for now, it'd be interesting for someone to try and sway her but she won't be necessarily receptive - that said, i love seeing where things take her so i don't want to shut this down as a hard 'no'!

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

🕸 natasha’s primary motivation will be to try and find a way home to get back to saving everyone who was Snapped.
🕸 i’d love for her to be dragged into the conflict and tensions, however — either in a way that forces her to choose a side or a way that questions her ability to remain neutral.
🕸 i’m also interested in exploring negative relationships with characters who have reasons to mistrust spies and assassins (so… everyone?) and who might see her lack of investment in this place as a privilege and further confirmation of her lack of morals.

Plot/CR Hooks:

🕸 she's a sneaky sneak who is not used to being in a city of other sneaky sneaks! would love a spider man point.png moment when/if she gets caught somewhere she's not supposed to (or, imagine — no one is supposed to be there!)
🕸 also down to continue TDM threads to establish relationships
🕸 she'll be poking around to investigate various places where people might be more inclined to share information (ok, she's hanging out at the bar)
🕸 she's also quite handy with tech and a reasonable hacker if you wanna go the super techy route!

[voicelog]

i got both an archer and an alt tony for potential run-ins

t might be a lil more slow going bc he's gonna have mixed feelings about the sudden influx of alts. meanwhile, roy is here for sneaky sneak spider man point.png moments 👍

Midnighter | DC Comics | Unaligned

[fightcoded]

Player Name & Pronouns: Claire (she/her)
Preferred Communication: slanndalous, slanndalous

Character Name & Journal: Midnighter
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated. Midnighter will likely not be swayed. He's been homeless for several years, and it does not bother him.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Midnighter is still in his "finding himself" phase. He's broken up with Apollo, his latest boyfriend tried to break him (spiritually, emotionally, physically, spiritually, you get the idea), and the Suicide Squad just finished torturing and stuffing him into a plane triggered to explode. He's looking to carve out a place for himself with friends and romantic partners that can accept him for what he is—a refurbished murder machine and sadomasochist without a past or a balanced personality that's just trying his best.

Plot/CR Hooks:

Starting Out — Midnighter is coming in very damaged and will be doing some stealin' and griftin' to get medical supplies and basic necessities while he recovers. He is happy to barter with promises or side quests, too.

Excelsior — He'll be happily burning the shit out of annoying plant life if anyone wants to team up with him. He will most likely singing show tunes, so be prepared.

Sunset Falls/Central City — Midnighter is happy to mete out some street justice, but uhh.... it's going to be violent af. So either work with him and likely torture or kill criminals, or try and stop him. Whatever floats your boat.