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JULY STATE OF THE GAME
STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ 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?
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
⚔︎ 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.
⚔︎ 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.
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:
avi | original (dungeons & dragons)
Preferred Communication: sentinelbeach @ plurk | ryebreading @ discord | PM are all fine!
Character Name & Journal: Avi
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)
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