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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:

hackingyoursensors: (DG • PB; too cute to punch tho)

[personal profile] hackingyoursensors 2023-07-02 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Technically he just said Bruce shouldn't be alone.

Not that the lack of gear would stop him but...
batsymbol: 𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚢𝚖𝚋𝚘𝚕 (pic#16557448)

[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-02 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
hackingyoursensors: (R • smiling; it was a joke)

[personal profile] hackingyoursensors 2023-07-03 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
qualityfriend: (Default)

[personal profile] qualityfriend 2023-07-03 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"You end up driving away all the friends and sidekicks (which you haven't made yet) and abandoning the city for twenty years until a teenager drags you out of your funk.

"Also everyone knows who you are."
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avi | original (dungeons & dragons)

[personal profile] koboldlygo 2023-07-03 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Rye, he/they
Preferred Communication: sentinelbeach @ plurk | ryebreading @ discord | PM are all fine!

Character Name & Journal: Avi [personal profile] 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)
Edited 2023-07-03 02:32 (UTC)
ofgoldenfoil: (my acre of Heaven)

[personal profile] ofgoldenfoil 2023-07-03 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
one baby bat looking for a batcave…one baby dragon looking for a lair… I can see them cross paths if they are looking for actual cave real estate. Although I can’t guarantee if Aurican will stay in a cave as he’s most likely to stay in urban areas to lair in.
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[personal profile] ofgoldenfoil 2023-07-03 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Aurican is obsessed with magic so he will totally bother them with questions about their spellcasting. Aurican would love to have a teacher!
koboldlygo: all icons by <user name=koboldlygo> (Default)

[personal profile] koboldlygo 2023-07-03 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
dragonnnnn

I don't know how much DnD lore you know (and tbh I'm new to it too) so stop me if you've heard this before, but a defining trait of kobold culture is fanatical dragon worship. They have a dragon (Kurtulmak) as their patron deity, are distantly related to dragons, consider it a great honor to serve under a dragon as minions (no matter the cost to themselves), etc.

Now, Avi here is a weird rare kobold who's been trying to unpack everything his upbringing instilled in him, including the above dragon worship, so he wouldn't be doe-eyed upon encountering Aurican so much as conflicted, but I do think there's potential there for some really interesting CR! He'd be more willing to help Aurican from the jump than he would a random human, and would be all about that "cultivate a society" stuff.
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[personal profile] batsymbol 2023-07-03 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
He might look into it, even though he's probably going to find himself an abandoned subway station or tunnel...
ofgoldenfoil: (In the meadow of life)

[personal profile] ofgoldenfoil 2023-07-03 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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shhh ignore my earlier comment I missed this one

[personal profile] ofgoldenfoil 2023-07-03 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I read a lot of DnD lore and I’m actually patchy on Dragonlance lore (there’s so much!) but I know all the lore that involves Auri. I think he knows of kobolds but has never met one, so it would be an interesting time for them! Auri will definitely need the help ha ha
codicies: (01 gaze)

[personal profile] codicies 2023-07-03 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry about the Thanos thing, Cap. Dylan's from a version of your world where stuff like Thanos happens like. Twice a year. Have you heard of Galactus yet? You're gonna fuckin' love hearing about Galactus.
codicies: (01 dammit)

Re: Tony Stank | MCU

[personal profile] codicies 2023-07-03 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
So if Tony digs far enough he'll discover that the first Tony Stark in Metaheroes started a sexual wellness company, and through a series of Situations and Inheritances, it's now owned by a trust fund in the name of a 15 year old boy.

(not that he isn't grateful, but he really wishes it was literally any other kind of company, and OOCly I'll probably work on having Dylan try to change the company's direction bc I'm kind of flustered over it too)

If I had a nickel for every time Dylan Brock lived in an apartment paid for with Tony Stark Money I'd have two nickels.
codicies: (01 fist)

Tsa plotting

[personal profile] codicies 2023-07-03 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Tsa (she/her)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] thepreciousthing or thepreciousthing on Discord
codicies: (Default)

Dylan Brock | Venom (Marvel Comics)

[personal profile] codicies 2023-07-03 06:11 am (UTC)(link)

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.
daybroken: (Default)

Link | The Legend of Zelda: Twilght Princess

[personal profile] daybroken 2023-07-03 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Character Name & Journal: Link [personal profile] daybroken
Guild Affiliation: Society
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: I'm hoping to have Link make efforts to undermine the Alliance but I'm a little lost with him, admittedly.

Plot/CR Hooks: I really don't have any right now, open to ideas!
whistlestoptea: (come hither)

[personal profile] whistlestoptea 2023-07-03 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
WHATEVER YOU SAY, LOVE~
whistlestoptea: (neckrub)

[personal profile] whistlestoptea 2023-07-03 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
omg I'm in love with this. Teaching a dragon! They'll do their best!!
otherflash: (162)

[personal profile] otherflash 2023-07-03 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, Ellie!

I'm Cor and I have this speedy guy here. Wally will probably find this situation way more amusing than he should.
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natasha romanova | marvel cinematic

[personal profile] redhourglass 2023-07-03 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: sel (she/they)
Preferred Communication: plurk at [plurk.com profile] iothe or discord!

Character Name & Journal: natasha romanova [personal profile] 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!
chewiedout: (eek)

[personal profile] chewiedout 2023-07-03 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
perhaps she just needs to be like "anyone know where a girl can find an AA meeting around here" lmfao.
redhourglass: (buckybear42)

[personal profile] redhourglass 2023-07-03 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
the gangs gettin' back together again!!!!
voicelog: (Default)

[personal profile] voicelog 2023-07-03 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
lmf that's an excellent question bc ngl this guy hasn't been to one in almost a year
voicelog: (Default)

[personal profile] voicelog 2023-07-03 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
it's funnier bc t isn't responsible for vision in his verse so he's just gonna be so confused, man
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[personal profile] voicelog 2023-07-03 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
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 👍

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