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OOC INTRO & PLOTTING - FEBRUARY


OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to [community profile] metaheroes! We're absolutely delighted to have you here. This is both our OOC introduction and plotting for our arrival event! Please use the information below to guide your plotting as you settle in:


Excelsior City —
New characters will arrive in a terrible storm that seizes Excelsior City and kills the power in Silicon Valley in the midst of old characters' tour of their potential housing locations.

During the arrival log, characters will be faced with vloggers-turned-supervillains who can alter time. This may mean characters who actually appeared on the original test drive meme are suddenly yeeted forward into the Excelsior City Confluence, allowing people to keep their TDM threads AND just now arrive into the game as they were yanked out of their original arrival.

These vloggers can be killed. The Guardian Alliance would rather apprehend them and hold them accountable for their crimes, but the Society of Villainous Reformation will put out a kill order for making them look bad.


Lodgings —
Once the Guardian Alliance arrives on the scene in Excelsior and controls the situation, characters will be provided with lodgings in the DIADEM HOTEL. Here, guests are offered the finest home away from home experience you could ever hope for. Their culinary staff are capable of cooking up everything from hotdogs to gourmet cuisine. The pool, lounge, and fitness rooms are all open 24/7. Given the unexpected influx of new guests, arrivals may find their rooms have been double-booked. Hopefully it's a room with two queen-sized beds instead of a king!

Characters are also free to roam CENTRAL CITY and get their bearings, though at the moment, with the guilds distracted and the city doing major repairs following the damage by the Confluence, there is plenty of crime to stop or cause. Characters will be given cell phones with three months of pre-paid unlimited data and access to the guild networks, as well as credit cards to help them start a life here.

As the dust settles and rooms fill up, the GUILDS confer. The Guilds are aware that they do not have the manpower to handle this ongoing problem of Confluence arrivals - and the Diadem is going to run out of rooms. To this end, player characters will be offered the chance to join the guilds. Those who join will be offered housing at one of the four major cities, with each one offering a different living experience. Note: characters who have been in the game for two months will reach their deadline to decide! Two months of living off the Guilds' dime is coming to a close for some of the oldest characters, and decisions should be made in March.


Superzeroes —
The people of Excelsior City are all too familiar with what comes with powers, and some of the locals will be immediately inclined to help, But to others, the new metas' lack of control over their powers makes them a bigger threat than whatever they were trying to stop.

That's right — expect the new metas' surprising powers can go haywire in myriad ways, including property damage and death. Powers may activate unexpectedly, backfire, or similar, even for those who have experience with other kinds of supernatural abilities, even for the well-intentioned heroes among the new arrivals.

The more villainously inclined arrivals may take advantage of the chaos, or of their own new powers, to live out their villainous dreams, making things worse for everyone in the process.

Feel free to develop and use NPCs in your threads!

Please remember to report any major damage your characters directly cause, or incidents that would be noticed by authorities (murders, arson, etc), or things you think other players would take notice of to the newly redesigned PLOTTING post, so we can keep track.

Disney's Haunted Mansion —

The upcoming March event will offer a chance for some reality-shifting horror in a cursed house, so you can start thinking about if you'd like your character to be a victim of the house or a heroic rescuer.

Getting to Know You
Please use the (updated) form below to introduce yourself and start plotting:

doctopoda: (smile (evil))

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-25 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG YES love a science mentee!
voicelog: (019)

[personal profile] voicelog 2022-02-26 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
#Doubt
doctopoda: (Default)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, as long as he's not out here murdering people or something, they can be friendly! He does love a science bro!
monomachy: insomniatic @ dw (cheap thrills)

[personal profile] monomachy 2022-02-26 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
venom arrives at walmart
tentacles: out
teeth: pointy
chocolate: in hand
he is not forcibly removed from the premises because of the tentacles and teeth
doctopoda: (:D !)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, maybe he'd be a little less Like That if he hung out in the dark cabals and made some friends :( this Otto is significantly more friendly and has no clue who Loki is outside of like, Having Heard Of Norse Myth, so yeah he's down to chat! definitely not in a good mental place either, but you know, in a Different Way
doctopoda: (anti-recovery)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well, shit, maybe he will. He is trying to act like the Stable Okay one here!

oh no please have mercy he is just an old man who's tired of tearing holes in all his shirts and awkwardly wriggling his tentacles in and out of them
doctopoda: (Default)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm down for whatever! Having them arrive just now might be easier? We could handwave our thread of them meeting up in the hotel as happening later, or we could just do a new meeting thread!
ikols: i save dick by giving it cpr (tight as a virgin boy don't get nervous)

[personal profile] ikols 2022-02-26 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
ex-supervillain bros!!!
doctopoda: (Default)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
EX-VILLAIN BROS come join the club!
ikols: i would say anything (& i think i just realised)

[personal profile] ikols 2022-02-26 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
also he's peter3's boyfriend BYEEEE
doctopoda: (sarcasm)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sorry bud - Otto would totally have Harry's back in other circumstances, just not this one.
helpdesk_hero: David Alleyne  / Prodigy - From Young Avengers (Default)

[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2022-02-26 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hello! I'm Churby and I play this local mutant genius. He's already been asked by Jean Grey (I suppose in the past because Tony's here now, damn that weird temporal rift throwing Tony into the future), to talk to Tony about his other world experiences, sorta compare notes.

I also bring with me some interesting awkward CR potential. David's from after a point in comics (though it was in an Ant Man comic) where he tried to get a job as head of security for Stark Industries and lost out to Scott Lang. He doesn't have any hard feeligns about that,but from his point in time he would have met Tony beyond the general influence Avengers always seem to have in the lives of Mutants.

Other than that, come hang out with a currently-a-technopath?
rehandle: (Default)

[personal profile] rehandle 2022-02-26 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
wow, such flattery

also not to toot his own horn but soon enough he's going to be living in the above-mentioned Disney's Haunted Mansion so there are worse places to end up if you do get bullied into living with a grown up, kiddo
kid_flash_found: (Default)

[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2022-02-26 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone needs a soft, smol friend. Who can play king of the king of the monsters perched on his head of clinging to his back scales.
thecoolerloki: (03.)

[personal profile] thecoolerloki 2022-02-26 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Disney’s haunted mansion you say...
Can he sleep in the attic with the bride
doctopoda: (too good for this world)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
oh, otto loves Peter 3! he's great! loki will probably be genuinely weirded out by how warm and cordial this version of otto can get!
ikols: that's separating your thighs (there's a light in the crack)

[personal profile] ikols 2022-02-26 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
gonna assume otto has a plan to take over the city LMFAO
kid_flash_found: (Default)

[personal profile] kid_flash_found 2022-02-26 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Bart doesn't know how to people all that well, so I gave him an adorable convenient plot device.
doctopoda: (beckon)

[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
yeah he and norman are gonna rule together it's gonna be sick
ikols: don't get cut on my edges (he says ooh baby girl)

[personal profile] ikols 2022-02-26 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
dad cabal, this time they have wards or sons lmfao
magija: (𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 ᱬ ₁₂₃)

wanda maximoff | mcu

[personal profile] magija 2022-02-26 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: arisa | she/her
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] hepburns

Character Name & Journal: wanda maximoff ( [personal profile] magija )
Guild Affiliation: unknown!! she's too much of a hot mess right now to steer one way or another.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: wanda is coming fresh from the end of wandavision, so she's not in the most positive place mentally, but she's a work in progress. the events of wandavision had her accidentally traumatize a small town with her magic after surrounding it with a hex that allowed for her to create a hexed sitcom-inspired world within. from her magic, she'd been able to bring to life the love of her life, vision, and two children, tommy and billy. however, when realizing that her magically-created world was actually causing pain for the citizens trapped within, she had to sacrifice the family she created and banished herself away from the public to hide away in a quiet cabin by herself where she would begin training herself and reading more on the truth of her powers which make her the chaos magic-using scarlet witch.

which brings her to the present of the game where wanda's intentions are still much of the same in that she wants to better understand herself and her abilities, as well as try to learn the kind of person she could be. she's attempted to be a hero with the avengers for years, but ultimately made too many mistakes which crafted herself into being seen more as a villain by the public. so is she hero or villain — ? that's the question she's posing herself as she explores the kind of person she can be in this world.

whether she takes a more positive or negative route going forward entirely depends on the development of cr and how the world here might respond to her abilities, so a lot of things remain up in the air.

but maybe she can make some actual friends ... c':

Plot/CR Hooks: wanda's the type who's going to want to keep her head low as much as possible on account of ... everything she's just freshly gone through. but despite her intentions to keep to herself, she does have a tendency to want to help if she has the ability to (even if she's constantly in a state of believing herself ready to fuck something up at any moment), so she might end up on the hero front here and there if anyone's in any trouble.

she's also really trying to learn more about her own magic, so she might be more inclined to study powers and abilities with others, particularly if there's enough similarities. she may also focus on building a home for herself to just be a little isolated witch, with lots of gardening to pass the time.

vexish: (88)

[personal profile] vexish 2022-02-26 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
What a wonderful surprise this is


I truly have no idea how they're going to get along but I'm excited for their interaction all the same!
fastandcurious: (Default)

Drift » Transformers IDW1

[personal profile] fastandcurious 2022-02-26 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Emmy (she/her
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] gravenrose, Starligh#5914, PM this journal.

Character Name & Journal: Drift, @ [personal profile] fastandcurious
Guild Affiliation: None. He's likely to try to avoid guild affiliation for a while since neither of the established guilds appeal to his personal sense of morality. Maybe the Society of Villainous Reformation, eventually, if character stuff takes him that direction.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:Drift is coming from a canon point where he's lost basically all of the precious stability he's managed to scrape out of life and has gone back to being a wandering bounty hunter. He isn't sure what he wants, except that he wants to feel like he matters to someone and that he wants to have someone who can accept him--the only problem is that even he has a hard time doing that thanks to all the anger and guilt he carries around. The Hedgehog's Dilemma is in full force, so for right now short term he's just trying to carve out a niche and survive, maybe find a way off the planet if he's lucky (but he doesn't expect to be that lucky in the near future). So he plans to explore this version of Earth and try to see it as a chance to see the world without a gun (or sword) in his end. Whether that actually works out? We'll see.

Plot/CR Hooks: Drift is the kind of person who can't stand to see the 'little guy' suffer and ultiumately will probably end up doing something stupid to try and defend the downtrodden. He's also a natural driver and racer and might put himself out there on the rally circuits or do some dubiously legal street racing as a method of making local currency. He might use his holoform to create a very flimsy human identity to hide behind, but we'll see.

Ultimately, he needs fuel and while local stuff is fine (even, ugh, crude oil) the better refined and higher octane stuff is better, and harder to get hold of for obvious reasons, which might put him in the path of others.

He's also a giant (28 ft tall!!) alien robot, so any tech heads might want to try and recruit (or capture) him for study.

In his canon, he's supposed to be a redeemed bad guy, someone who joined the wrong side for the right reasons and is now trying to make up for it. I can see him playing a similar role here in other's storylines--his desire for justice and his conception of it isn't always going to line up with the way governments or heroes might (Drift is ACAB at all times thanks to some really bad stuff that happened to him when he was younger) and I can see him getting into the role of an anti-hero or foil to some good guys in a satisfying way. He's unlikely to end up going full baddie, though, since he's had his fill of being an on-call assassin.
Edited 2022-02-26 02:54 (UTC)
fairhair: (040)

[personal profile] fairhair 2022-02-26 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Fandral will be besotted by her.

I'd love to do something with them, whether it's beating up baddies together or being reluctant roommates or just Fandral trying to charm her without any success (Diana is really too good for him). But, I think they're also quite similar in a lot of regards so they could end up working well together in a team up~
fairhair: (Default)

[personal profile] fairhair 2022-02-26 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
you bedtime is right now

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