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SEPTEMBER STATE OF THE GAME
STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ September 1st repeats, continuously, although the length of time of this repeat seems to vary from person to person. The order of September 1sts doesn't seem consistent, either, timelines branching out from each other before melding back together. The reason behind this becomes clear when the Willow Maiden approaches the Starfallen - although Chaos Gate traveling to the past isn't the only thing currently happening. . .
⚔︎ For those who choose to stay in the present:
⚔︎ LITTLE LOVE - the wildlife who had escaped from the underground cavern still need to be rounded up, and there are several farmers who have stations set up throughout their land for holding the pre-historic creatures. Bounties go out for particularly rough to capture animals, with farmers also requesting assistance protecting their livestock from the invasion. Some of the animals are quite friendly, albeit confused regarding where they are given how unfamiliar 2023 is to many of them. But not all of them, and those who are a little more feral need to be dealt with.
⚔︎ CENTRAL CITY - While native metahumans continue to see a decline in their abilities, the D'Amicos and the drugs they have made to replicate metahuman abilities don't seem to be suffering the same fate. And with rumors spreading about the weakening metahumans, clearly that means it's time for them to step out and try to regain some of the power they had lost during the Pod People invasion several months ago. They start out small - sending some low level croons out to rob a few banks on opposite ends of the city all at the same time to test the Alliance's forces. When they manage to get away with a couple robberies, they start going bigger: targeting rival families with full intentions of removing them from power entirely.
⚔︎ SUNSET FALLS - The Annual Harvest Festival continues. It usually runs from September 1st to 10th, but given the endless repeats of September 1sts, this one feels especially long. Townsfolk continue to go missing, bodies turning up hours later. As the days of the festival continue, one may notice that when the bodies do turn up, they're missing. . parts. Whether it's a hand, a heart, a tongue, they don't quite return whole.
Towards the end of the Festival, it gets worse. Instead of one or two townsfolk going missing, towards the end of the festival an entire classroom of teenagers goes missing after their first day of school. Yet strangely, none of the townsfolk seem to think anything of it. Their parents don't even seem to remember who the teenagers were, ignoring areas of their homes where the teenagers had frequented.
⚔︎ EXCELSIOR - Power outages continue, although with the extra help around, they're keeping most the damage to a minimum. However, on September 10th, the power goes off and simply. . . doesn't turn back on. Back up generators are able to keep some businesses afloat, but those without generators simply don't turn back on at all. It seems the power grid has failed, and they're struggling to figure out why. Nothing seems wrong at the power generation plants, they're still producing energy, but it just seems to . . dissipate. Could it have anything to do with the hole in the sky?
THIS MONTH
01 September 2023
⚔︎ STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ CONFLUENCE LOG
08 September 2023
⚔︎ PLOTTING MEME
20 September 2023
⚔︎ EVENT: STARSTRUCK
⚔︎ RESERVES OPEN
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN BEGINS
25 September 2023
⚔︎ RESERVES CLOSE
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS OPEN
27 September 2023
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN ENDS
30 September 2023
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS CLOSE
⚔︎ STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ CONFLUENCE LOG
08 September 2023
⚔︎ PLOTTING MEME
20 September 2023
⚔︎ EVENT: STARSTRUCK
⚔︎ RESERVES OPEN
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN BEGINS
25 September 2023
⚔︎ RESERVES CLOSE
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS OPEN
27 September 2023
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN ENDS
30 September 2023
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS CLOSE
⚔︎ September 1st repeats, continuously, although the length of time of this repeat seems to vary from person to person. The order of September 1sts doesn't seem consistent, either, timelines branching out from each other before melding back together. The reason behind this becomes clear when the Willow Maiden approaches the Starfallen - although Chaos Gate traveling to the past isn't the only thing currently happening. . .
⚔︎ For those who choose to stay in the present:
⚔︎ LITTLE LOVE - the wildlife who had escaped from the underground cavern still need to be rounded up, and there are several farmers who have stations set up throughout their land for holding the pre-historic creatures. Bounties go out for particularly rough to capture animals, with farmers also requesting assistance protecting their livestock from the invasion. Some of the animals are quite friendly, albeit confused regarding where they are given how unfamiliar 2023 is to many of them. But not all of them, and those who are a little more feral need to be dealt with.
⚔︎ CENTRAL CITY - While native metahumans continue to see a decline in their abilities, the D'Amicos and the drugs they have made to replicate metahuman abilities don't seem to be suffering the same fate. And with rumors spreading about the weakening metahumans, clearly that means it's time for them to step out and try to regain some of the power they had lost during the Pod People invasion several months ago. They start out small - sending some low level croons out to rob a few banks on opposite ends of the city all at the same time to test the Alliance's forces. When they manage to get away with a couple robberies, they start going bigger: targeting rival families with full intentions of removing them from power entirely.
⚔︎ SUNSET FALLS - The Annual Harvest Festival continues. It usually runs from September 1st to 10th, but given the endless repeats of September 1sts, this one feels especially long. Townsfolk continue to go missing, bodies turning up hours later. As the days of the festival continue, one may notice that when the bodies do turn up, they're missing. . parts. Whether it's a hand, a heart, a tongue, they don't quite return whole.
Towards the end of the Festival, it gets worse. Instead of one or two townsfolk going missing, towards the end of the festival an entire classroom of teenagers goes missing after their first day of school. Yet strangely, none of the townsfolk seem to think anything of it. Their parents don't even seem to remember who the teenagers were, ignoring areas of their homes where the teenagers had frequented.
⚔︎ EXCELSIOR - Power outages continue, although with the extra help around, they're keeping most the damage to a minimum. However, on September 10th, the power goes off and simply. . . doesn't turn back on. Back up generators are able to keep some businesses afloat, but those without generators simply don't turn back on at all. It seems the power grid has failed, and they're struggling to figure out why. Nothing seems wrong at the power generation plants, they're still producing energy, but it just seems to . . dissipate. Could it have anything to do with the hole in the sky?
HOUSEKEEPING
Hello, Heroes!
⚔︎ We're updating AC a bit more! Instead of the warning list going up on day 3, we're going to start putting it up on day 5, and leave the 25th-27th for buffer space for players who end up on the warning list to respond. This will be effective for the September activity round.
⚔︎ Have any fun plans? Hit us up on PLAYER PLOTS! If you want to follow up on an event, investigate the setting or interact with a NPC, you can also hit up SETTING ENGAGEMENT and NPC ENGAGEMENT respectively.
⚔︎ The CALENDAR reflects our current schedule accurately up through October, including estimated shifted dates.
⚔︎ As a note on the calendar and dates - we're going to be doing some adjusting here in the future for event logs! This is to allow for more room for players, and ensure we're able to get everything up on time. We want to note that our plan is to allow time for players to affect the outcome of logs. We'll be keeping an eye on how players interact with events and logs, and if it looks like players could use a little more time to reach a certain outcome, we'll be asking on the OOC comm if players would prefer to adjust the timeline a little to allow for more room to play with the setting.
⚔︎ This may mean that the State of the Game won't accurately reflect dates once we get further into events. We will be updating the game CALENDAR as this comes up, and will make sure to let players know via the OOC comm also.
⚔︎ To that end, we're going to be moving introduction logs to the first Friday of the month and the event log to the third Wednesday. If an event log is delayed due to needing more time for players to interact with it, we will delay it until the next Wednesday.
⚔︎ There will be a bonus intro option on acceptance notices going forward, to allow players to play with the game before our intro log goes up if they would like to.
⚔︎ 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're updating AC a bit more! Instead of the warning list going up on day 3, we're going to start putting it up on day 5, and leave the 25th-27th for buffer space for players who end up on the warning list to respond. This will be effective for the September activity round.
⚔︎ Have any fun plans? Hit us up on PLAYER PLOTS! If you want to follow up on an event, investigate the setting or interact with a NPC, you can also hit up SETTING ENGAGEMENT and NPC ENGAGEMENT respectively.
⚔︎ The CALENDAR reflects our current schedule accurately up through October, including estimated shifted dates.
⚔︎ As a note on the calendar and dates - we're going to be doing some adjusting here in the future for event logs! This is to allow for more room for players, and ensure we're able to get everything up on time. We want to note that our plan is to allow time for players to affect the outcome of logs. We'll be keeping an eye on how players interact with events and logs, and if it looks like players could use a little more time to reach a certain outcome, we'll be asking on the OOC comm if players would prefer to adjust the timeline a little to allow for more room to play with the setting.
⚔︎ This may mean that the State of the Game won't accurately reflect dates once we get further into events. We will be updating the game CALENDAR as this comes up, and will make sure to let players know via the OOC comm also.
⚔︎ To that end, we're going to be moving introduction logs to the first Friday of the month and the event log to the third Wednesday. If an event log is delayed due to needing more time for players to interact with it, we will delay it until the next Wednesday.
⚔︎ There will be a bonus intro option on acceptance notices going forward, to allow players to play with the game before our intro log goes up if they would like to.
⚔︎ 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 at the beginning of September:
Danny Chase, The Joker, Hunter, Wally West, Claudia Donovan, Gus Porter, Edalyn Clawthorne, Avi, Galatea, Tony Stark (MCU), Connor Hawke, Stephen Strange, Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh, Otto Octavius, The Vision, Link
Please coordinate with the mods if you would like to claim some or all of their belongings.
Danny Chase, The Joker, Hunter, Wally West, Claudia Donovan, Gus Porter, Edalyn Clawthorne, Avi, Galatea, Tony Stark (MCU), Connor Hawke, Stephen Strange, Hitori "Bocchi" Gotoh, Otto Octavius, The Vision, Link
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:
INVITES.
QUESTIONS & ENGAGEMENT.
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Can Ororo keep a friendly pre-historic puma (... or panther, or lion, some giant cat!) from the Little Love event? Will the Diadem Hotel let her keep it with her while she's staying there this month haha
Storm can see/track energy. What will she find if she tries to track the seemingly dissipating energy at Exelcior's power grid? If she tries to fly up to the hole in the sky, will she sense anything in particular?
Thank you~ 😊
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Storm can take her kitty back to the Diadem to keep it there. They won't be happy about it, but they're used to wealthy residents having exotic animals, so they'll suck it up and deal. Since things will be on a timeloop, she'll have to "time" grabbing the cat at the right point since she may need to grab it repeatedly.
If Storm heads up toward the hole to investigate the energy, she'll just be able to see that it's vanishing. There won't be any way to trace where it's going, since it's more that it's there one moment and gone the next.
Heading up into the hole to investigate won't provide any answers, but she will feel an overwhelming sense of dread and loss – like her own energy is disappearing with it, and her future along with it.
Barbara Gordon | Gotham Knights 2022
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Character Name & Journal: Barbara Gordon (this one)
Guild Affiliation: She’s likely to stick with the family and go unaffiliated
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Okay first she needs to work out this mess of a family. She’s also going to ignore her own problems.
That said she needs to be useful.
Plot/CR Hooks: Even though she’s taken back the Batgirl role, Barbara can still play the info broker.
Otherwise I have no idea.
I should also note that I live in Florida and am dealing with hurricane aftermath. No power/ no Wi-Fi so I will be slow on things to start.
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Also why respectfully? They’re both hot. Enjoy the view.
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and like himof the groupRe: Barbara Gordon | Gotham Knights 2022
Re: Barbara Gordon | Gotham Knights 2022
new player!
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Character Name & Journal: Ororo Munroe (Storm) of X-Men/Marvel 616 comics canon! (
Guild Affiliation:
She is currently unaligned because she doubts their motivations. Might eventually be convinced to Alliance!
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Storm is motivated by some intrinsic need to help anyone who can't help themselves :") She might be unaffiliated, but she'll want to try and assist wherever possible. All the event notes in the different cities ping her so I'll have to decide which ones to focus on lol (maybe the blackout or the creatures one?)
She also knows a few people in-game, and will intentionally spend some time seeking them out to learn more about this world! If they have plot ideas she might go along with them to see how things operate here. And then figure out where to stay, since she'll be unaffiliated and not get to stay in a hotel indefinitely.
Also "emotional needs" lmao what emotional needs Ororo was busy ruling Mars when she pulled into this! She'll need friends who remind her she's human on top of being a goddess tho. Might be nice to slow down and appreciate things like free time with loved ones, friendships.
Plot/CR Hooks:
Ororo is presumptuous and steps in to help if she thinks someone needs help in a jiffy! But if it's not an emergency, she'll stop and be a listening ear.
She's also bossy and commanding and used to being listened to even if no one really knows her yet; she's a leader who makes decisions (sometimes bad ones lol)
Other than that, anything goes?! I'm brand new and open to any sort of CR!
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They barely interacted in X-Men Red (the first one) so I am fixing that here because she'd take care of her :( all Wolverines would be dear to Storm!
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let's kick some ass nat!!
Ragnor Fell | The Shadowhunter Chronicles
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Character Name & Journal: Ragnor Fell &
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated and likely to remain so, he's a suspicious guy by nature and won't trust anyone. He will happily cooperate with any as an unaffiliated party for perks and money tho.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: He's here to have a good time and if he can watch chaos unfold from afar, he will do that. He's got two gremlins in-game (Oliver & Theo) which is great for him bc he wouldn't get into nonsense unprompted.
Short term goals is to secure funds and housing for him and his gremlins, long-term is to find a way home, though he's coming in with a defeated outlook on that already.
Any young lost people can come to him and he'll help them. Adults can also come to him but he'll be less earnest about them.
Warlocks in his canon are usually written as facilitators, so if you need someone to cast a spell, or know a name, or misplace a cursed amulet, he's your guy. Ragnor is very competent, but new world new rules, so I'm down to have him mess up to facilitate shenanigans.
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Character Name & Journal: Gabby Kinney
Guild Affiliation: Unaligned!
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Right now her goal is to make friends, find a place to live for her and Jonathan and have fun. She's thirteen. This is as deep as it gets.
Plot/CR Hooks: Gabby (with Julien's help) has secured the dinosaurs that were rampaging around Excelsior and relocated them in Arcadia. That's right, Gabby is currently the owner of Jurassic Park (though it will be renamed) and she's going to take care of the dinos.
This is end in disaster.
Other than that, I'm open to anything! Hit me, friends!
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New player! Diana Prince | DC Comics
Preferred Communication: hmu @ blueofthebay on Discord or friend me @
Character Name & Journal: Diana Prince/Wonder Woman, DC comics (New Earth) (
Guild Affiliation:
There's potential for her to join the Alliance, if only to try and fix it. Otherwise, she'll stay unaffiliated.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Diana is coming from a complicated time in her comics. She has only just started fixing her friendship with Batman and Superman, she's been cut off from Themyscira and the other Amazons, and she's trying to rebuild the world's trust in her. She continues to be motivated by the mission that took her from Themyscira in the first place: to help those who need it and to bring peace where she can.
Here, she'll no doubt be motivated to figure out what's going on with the Alliance, and she'll want to assist the versions of her friends who are already here. She's very grateful to have Kyle from around her own time period and universe.
She's been lonely at home, so she'll be grateful for the chance to make some new acquaintances, especially with other super-powered ladies!
Plot/CR Hooks:
Diana is a warrior and a diplomat. She'll always try to talk things out first, but if a fight is necessary, she throws everything she's got into it. She has the Lasso of Truth, which compels anyone in its loops to answer any question truly (and has several other abilities she tends to keep quiet about, even to her fellow Leaguers...), and she's very willing to use it. She isn't confrontational and she tries not to be stubborn, but she's used to calling the shots and/or acting independently.
Did you need a tank? May I offer an Amazonian princess who can survive nuclear explosions?
She'll be eager to mitigate the loneliness she's been feeling at home, so she'll be actively engaging even people she doesn't know.
Otherwise, hit me up! I'm excited to throw Diana at everyone and everything!
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The previous Diana was kind of a mom for him, so if she's looking to have something mitigate her loneliness, Dylan's already got that affection built in!
Re: helloooo
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I'm completely fascinated by the Bruce-Diana dynamic in the comics and this should be VERY interesting, because she's still on slightly thin ice with her Bruce.
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you clearly need lots of help, bb Bruce.
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So even though Jason's very much an anti-hero/villain these days instead of heroic, he still has a lot of respect for Diana from when he was Robin.
I'm open to him and Diana having CR! Like mentioned before, Jason's guardian to Dylan who kinda was like a surrogate kid to a different Diana.
P.S. Plz help make baby Bruce less of a gremlin.
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Also, are you okay with making our TDM thread canon or would you rather start fresh? I'm okay with either option!
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Whoops. that was supposed to be a toplevel
BratBart here, as well as Dylan's sibling Sleeper, who is also animated Jason's sometimes suit and partner, being as they're Venom's feline-shaped kid. (The non-murdery one)Both have certain connections, given that Young Justice/Teen Titans definitely had their, uh, interactions, and Sleeper knew the cinematic DCEU Diana.