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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:

ingeniar: (pic#16507426)

Tony Stank | MCU

[personal profile] ingeniar 2023-07-01 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Robin (he/him or they/them)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] laetificat (though I prefer to only add if we have CR!) or PM

Character Name & Journal: Tony Stark ("the older hotter one") / [personal profile] 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: (dubious leo plans)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-07-01 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
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
ingeniar: (pic#16507424)

[personal profile] ingeniar 2023-07-01 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
HACKWARS

is there anything he's left around the place, possibly on dark web message boards?

purplexing: (not now i'm updating my social)

[personal profile] purplexing 2023-07-01 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
HMMm There'd be some recent posts starting up around May probing for info on the Confluence and on Alliance teleporters and dimensional travel...
levelshift: (just because I'm weaker)

[personal profile] levelshift 2023-07-01 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Robiiiin we need cr now that we're in a game together again!! I have one asshole teenager who manipulates reality by being extremely good at math and quantum physics and makes a lot of poor life decisions!
bocchitime: (Pleased)

[personal profile] bocchitime 2023-07-01 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm probably going to have Hitori end up in Arcadia as well, unless someone comes and scoops her up.

How would you feel about them living next door to each other? Fair warning, Hitori is a rock musician who practices her electric guitar 6 hours a day, so she will be a TERRIBLE neighbor.
vaudevision: (pic#14724534)

[personal profile] vaudevision 2023-07-01 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
BANGS DRUM FOR TERRIBLE DADSON HOURS
definecat: (Default)

Re: Tony Stank | MCU

[personal profile] definecat 2023-07-01 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm looking forward to Tony's reaction that a previous him started a sexual wellness company that is now held in trust by a minor.
withasouvenir: (Default)

[personal profile] withasouvenir 2023-07-01 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
politely requesting tony stark and thea queen become friends bc


i said so
dothelokimotion: (Comfort was the answer to all)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2023-07-01 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
more interactions plz. loki is stuck in arcadia atm.
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.
eatsnutsandkicksbutts: (SG - BOOT)

[personal profile] eatsnutsandkicksbutts 2023-07-04 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Hey there! Doreen is friends with Tony in her universe, so she will be a bit confused by this older version, but that will absolutely not stop her from hassling him. (He may end up being nicknamed 'Two-ny' or something, sorry in advance!)