JULY STATE OF THE GAME

[metamods]

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:

<B>Player Name & Pronouns:</b> <B>Preferred Communication:</b> Plurk, Discord, DM, etc. <B>Character Name & Journal:</b> <B>Guild Affiliation:</b> Is your character susceptible to being swayed into membership? Or will they take the hard path and stay unaffiliated? <B>Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:</b> What does your character want? You can list short term and long term goals, but also emotional needs that aren't being fulfilled. What do you want to do with them in game? What ideas do you already have? <B>Plot/CR Hooks:</b> What kinds of things does your character get up to that might throw them in the path of someone else's plot, or that you would like other players to engage with? What role does your character play in their canon plot? What role might they play in others' plots, and what would it take to get their attention? Are they an antagonist, a researcher, a tech whiz?

Comments

laws

[thwikt]

Player Name & Pronouns: laws (he/him)
Preferred Communication: voicelog

roy harper | dc comics

[thwikt]

Character Name & Journal: roy harper thwikt
Guild Affiliation: unaligned

Relevant Links: info + permission | inbox

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: he just came back from the dead and now finds himself in a different dimension, so honestly, at this point, he has no idea wtf his goals are, aside from staying low on the radar, doing some recon and maybe potentially infiltrating arcadia because he has issues he needs to work through and there's no better way to go about it than through reckless behavior.
Plot/CR Hooks: roy will be adopting a new persona, so he'll be going by orchard greenwood (aka flamebird) online and in person. he will be actively avoiding anyone he knows if he clocks them out in public, especially if he's out of costume. (although, tbqh his costume is just a beanie, hoodie and a full face mask, so it isn't exactly ingenious. he's working on it though ok.) since he wants to get into trouble, catch him in arcadia, catch him doing some snoopin', catch him around town in excelsior or catch him on the network post. 👉

[robintohood]

Care to meet a younger Jason who's still in his crime lord phase and hasn't worked with any Outlaws, Roy?

[thwikt]

yes would love to! 😌

time to power of friendship the heck out of him

[robintohood]

Ewwww, friendship???

Also, if the opportunity ever somehow comes up, Roy can totally have a flamethrower aimed near this Jason.

[thwikt]

it's funny you say that bc flamebird's weapon of choice will be very closely akin to a flamethrower

it's basically bound to happen

[robintohood]

Excellent.

[thwikt]

but pls don't actually make him use a flamethrower on you, bby jay

roast bird's not a good look on you

[torchbearer]

rooooooy

[thwikt]

kyyyyyle

[torchbearer]

he's gonna be thrilled don't double team w jason.

[thwikt]

sry to say but he'll always double team w jason

[torchbearer]

boo!!

[mendelian]

"Orchard Greenwood". Really, Roy.

[thwikt]

what?

you have to admit it's clever

[mendelian]

Was Forrest Sherwood taken?

[thwikt]

that's way too obvious

orchard greenwood can still go under the radar

[reneger]

time to team up to take down fantastic

and then kyle

[thwikt]

sounds like a solid plan to him

tony stark | marvel comics

[voicelog]

Character Name & Journal: tony stark (aka T) voicelog
Guild Affiliation: unaligned

Relevant Links: info | permissions | inbox

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: T admittedly has been in a far too peaceful lull these past few months. all he's been doing is getting his apartment building renovated and playing stocks in new york. has he been keeping up with the news? yes. has he decided whether he wants to get involved in it? no. i'm hoping to throw a wrench into his little self-induced staycation, so he might get involuntarily dragged into some Cult Business™. also it's really about time he starts to face at least some of his demons because he's been conveniently ignoring them for like a year now and that's just not conducive to anything.
Plot/CR Hooks: he's mostly around new york tbh. T hasn't bothered visiting any of the other major cities in a while, but with arcadia becoming more and more of a prevalent thing, he might eventually fly out there to check it out. otherwise, he does have his morning routine in nyc. daily jog, donut shop visit, etc. he has deactivated his online accounts though, so it's a little hard to reach him. contact stephen rehandle if you want to get a hold of him. atm he's using a stealth account because that's how he rolls. he might be reactivating some accounts again in the near future though. dude just takes self-isolating too far sometimes.

[chewiedout]

If Tony ever comes out of hiding Carol would love to get to check on him because well, you're supposed to do that for your sponsor if you find out he's also trapped in another world with you.

[voicelog]

oh he'll be coming out real soon, whether he likes it or not

what's carol gonna be up to? it might be likelier for him to find her than the other way around

[chewiedout]

awe poor tony.

she's gonna be super trying to overcompensate by trying to help people, but also figure out wtf is going on. and generally probably pretty loud about how we can't preemptively try to stop shit from happening because that goes horribly wrong :(

i'd imagine she's probably pretty loud and flashy because carol. probably desperately try to make some friends/allies because she's pretty dependent on people anymore. her general avoidance of alcohol happens in the order of 1. fight enemies, 2. be with friends, 3. go to space and hang out, so at the moment it's going to be a lot of 1 + trying to find new people for 2 since 3 is off the table.

[voicelog]

yeah tony's typical go to methods have been pretty limited too so he gets it. at this point, he's really just relying on superheroing and working on projects, but the latter is depleting by the day.

he can always run into carol either in excelsior or during the upcoming event, depending on how quickly you want their reunion to happen. could possibly clock her on the network too, depending on how active she'll be on there.

[chewiedout]

perhaps she just needs to be like "anyone know where a girl can find an AA meeting around here" lmfao.