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meta moderators ([personal profile] metamods) wrote in [community profile] metaooc2023-07-01 11:22 am

JULY STATE OF THE GAME

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:

torchbearer: (Trigun)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
he's gonna be thrilled don't double team w jason.
thwikt: (pic#16554270)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
sry to say but he'll always double team w jason
torchbearer: (Bastard!!!)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
boo!!
thwikt: (pic#16554296)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
look, they're best bros

he's gotta abide by the bro code
torchbearer: (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
what bro code??
thwikt: (pic#16554050)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
when one inevitably does something stupid and reckless, the other must go along with it

something to that affect but don't actually quote him on it
torchbearer: (Digimon)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
squints.
mendelian: (Default)

[personal profile] mendelian 2023-07-02 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Was Forrest Sherwood taken?
thwikt: (pic#16554627)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
don't squint at him

maybe he's the one who wants to do smth reckless and stupid, ever thought of that?
thwikt: (pic#16554266)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
that's way too obvious

orchard greenwood can still go under the radar
torchbearer: (Cutie Honey)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
he thinks about that all the time.
mendelian: (45)

[personal profile] mendelian 2023-07-02 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
I know you said "not team arrow" but like. Hi Auntie. Ollie's never mentioned you.
thwikt: (pic#16554095)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
wow ye of little faith

talk about an 💘
withasouvenir: (♔ hold up)

[personal profile] withasouvenir 2023-07-02 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
YES PLEASE beloved nephew she doesn't know she has ...who is older than her
torchbearer: (Slayers)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
he calls it like he sees it.
voicelog: (086)

[personal profile] voicelog 2023-07-02 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
yeah tony's typical go to methods have been pretty limited too so he gets it. at this point, he's really just relying on superheroing and working on projects, but the latter is depleting by the day.

he can always run into carol either in excelsior or during the upcoming event, depending on how quickly you want their reunion to happen. could possibly clock her on the network too, depending on how active she'll be on there.
mendelian: (6)

[personal profile] mendelian 2023-07-02 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah this is gonna be weird. Connor's down for blaming it on Ollie.
withasouvenir: (Default)

[personal profile] withasouvenir 2023-07-02 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
blame everything on ollie tbh
thwikt: (pic#16554628)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
this is why you're not invited
mostdangerousbird: (014 sprung from cages on highway 9)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-02 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Tim is definitely cutting him off at some point.
torchbearer: (Castle In The Sky)

[personal profile] torchbearer 2023-07-02 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
wow!!
batsymbol: 𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚢𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚕 (Default)

[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
You know he'll just be like "ok" about it.
mostdangerousbird: (Default)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-02 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
It's the principle of it.

Also he wants B's attention.
mendelian: (Default)

[personal profile] mendelian 2023-07-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
He makes the worst decisions.
batsymbol: 𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚢𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚕 (pic#15630105)

[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
That's going to take some getting used to for him. Although he might be some way about Tim when he discovers what happened to him, so.

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