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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:

reneger: (i've grown familiar with all of them.)

[personal profile] reneger 2023-07-02 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
time to team up to take down fantastic

and then kyle
thwikt: (pic#16554620)

[personal profile] thwikt 2023-07-02 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
sounds like a solid plan to him
whistlestoptea: (mask off)

[personal profile] whistlestoptea 2023-07-02 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
I DO say!
whistlestoptea: (gotta impress the kid)

[personal profile] whistlestoptea 2023-07-02 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
xD I'm gonna see about putting up a toplevel at the Convergence log, maybe we can go from there :3 Really excited about these two meeting!
hackingyoursensors: Young Justice, Robin and Batman smiling while standing side-by-side (R • smiling; the dynamic duo)

[personal profile] hackingyoursensors 2023-07-02 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Ellie | she/her
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] starpaths or PM

Character Name & Journal: Dick Grayson (Young Justice) | [personal profile] 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.
hackingyoursensors: Young Justice, Robin looking unconvinced (R • smirking; a likely story)

[personal profile] hackingyoursensors 2023-07-02 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Dick will offer to teach Bruce some of his acrobatics and a few of the skills he picked up from other mentors over time. Please don't fall on your face too much, not-his-Bruce.
mostdangerousbird: (008 that i'll never talk again)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-02 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
hackingyoursensors: Young Justice, Robin and Batman smiling while standing side-by-side (R • smiling; the dynamic duo)

[personal profile] hackingyoursensors 2023-07-02 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Jason gave him knives and a batcomm. :)
mostdangerousbird: (125)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-02 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Acceptable for now.
ofgoldenfoil: (Default)

[personal profile] ofgoldenfoil 2023-07-02 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Devi, she/her
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] devimelete

Character Name & Journal: Aurican [personal profile] 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.
Edited 2023-07-02 15:00 (UTC)
batsymbol: 𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚢𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚕 (pic#15630085)

[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He's absolutely not used to this.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
He'll just be glad he's with someone... even if that someone stabbed him and has whiplash moods around him, but. You know.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Batdad will make it fine.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean.... depends what that news is.
welcome_summer: (D-did that baby get eaten?!)

[personal profile] welcome_summer 2023-07-02 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
mostdangerousbird: (064 send up a signal i'll throw u a line)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-02 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Tim is going to handle it!
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
ofgoldenfoil: (Default)

[personal profile] ofgoldenfoil 2023-07-02 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that’ll work! In his world he became heavy into poetry and the arts, so that can be worked in.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Not this child saying Batman needs a Robin and doesn't even have any gear.......
vaudevision: (Default)

[personal profile] vaudevision 2023-07-02 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
look if he has one going on ... eye emojis ...
vaudevision: (pic#14724473)

[personal profile] vaudevision 2023-07-02 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
CRIES THEY WILL HAVE SUCH A GOOD CONVO ABOUT IT PROBABLY and then idk steve can try to physically restrain him when he tries to bodycheck stephen strange
vaudevision: (pic#14724477)

[personal profile] vaudevision 2023-07-02 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
oh no it's my dad but younger and hip and being a different kind of weird at me ... yes please vision would love to pick his brain tbh
harageous: (the key is not to get caught。)

[personal profile] harageous 2023-07-02 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
NO IT'S A PROMISE, BAYBAH
reneger: (a chest filled with diamonds and gold.)

[personal profile] reneger 2023-07-02 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
good
dothelokimotion: (Comfort was the answer to all)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2023-07-02 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
he needs help exploring arcadia for secrets, be a good shield.

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