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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:

chewiedout: (heh)

[personal profile] chewiedout 2023-07-01 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Three (She/Her)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] endtransmission

Character Name & Journal: Carol Danvers [personal profile] 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: (The exact problem is currently unclear)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2023-07-01 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
don't let him get punched, carol.
chewiedout: (sparkle fists)

[personal profile] chewiedout 2023-07-01 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
bahaha. we discovered civil war 3 somehow.
dothelokimotion: (We do not have answers)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2023-07-01 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
lmfao
mostdangerousbird: (010 meet me more than halfway up)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-01 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Tim needs to meet more reasonable, tactical people because his life is full of chaos. If she's going to be in Central, she should bump into him as either TJ or Rook (he's swapped names to differentiate between himself and the younger Tim Drake).

He's met Tony and Steven and is currently running an anti-guild, anti-government message board so uh. Viva la resistance?
chewiedout: (hey there cutie)

[personal profile] chewiedout 2023-07-02 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yes that would be great! I really need to restudy all the details of to the extent of everything that's going on with the current game but I would imagine she's very likely to try to see what's going on outside of Excelsior given the current alliance push there. (I just need to reread to get a grasp on the whole scope of it)
mostdangerousbird: (Default)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-02 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's where all the cool kids are (Tim is not a cool kid).
chewiedout: (hood)

[personal profile] chewiedout 2023-07-04 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I need to figure out a reason for her to go there, a lead or something on trying to understand what's going on and gtfo of excelsior.
mostdangerousbird: (Default)

[personal profile] mostdangerousbird 2023-07-04 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the guild is giving known newbies the pitch automatically?
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[personal profile] eatsnutsandkicksbutts 2023-07-04 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
I honestly can't remember if these two have met before or had a conversation together, but hello, Doreen would think Carol is the absolute coolest!
chewiedout: (wince)

[personal profile] chewiedout 2023-07-04 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I also do not remember if they have? (Or maybe haven't read it because there's a ton of content with tiny things) but I'd totally be down for it!!!