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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:

redhourglass: <user name=megascopes> (Default)

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!
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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 👍
redhourglass: sways (pic#7800470)

[personal profile] redhourglass 2023-07-04 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
look very understandable that tony’s life is suddenly complicated with a second him + half the alt universe crew suddenly running around!

would love sneaky times with roy!!
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[personal profile] voicelog 2023-07-06 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
yeah it's going to be a real test to his sanity lmf

i'll send roy her way soon though since he's hanging around arcadia rn
redhourglass: bangparty (pic#7757268)

[personal profile] redhourglass 2023-07-07 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
perfect! let me know if you want me to put up a special top level for sneaky sneak things - she’ll be pretending to be want to be a new recruit