OOC INTRO & PLOTTING - FEBRUARY

[metamods]

OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to 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:

<B>Player Name & Pronouns:</b> <B>Preferred Communication:</b> Plurk, Discord, DM, etc. <B>Character Name & Journal:</b> <B>Guild Affiliation:</b> ? <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

[chin_godzilla]

Player Name & Pronouns: Riki, he/him
Preferred Communication: rikimaruhitori, rikimaruhitori#6431 on Discord, or you can PM this journal if you prefer!

Character Name & Journal: Godzilla @ chin_godzilla
Guild Affiliation: The big guy will definitely be joining the Guardian Alliance as soon as possible. He's a good boy and can get a decent grasp of the situation, but he also knows it's better to have human friends who can handle the finer details for him.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Interestingly enough, this version of Godzilla works very well with people! Mostly humans, but he's not picky. One thing he'll absolutely want is a community of friends and fellow weirdos to hang out with, especially people who can handle more complex human things like technology or talking to other humans. Thankfully, he will have a charm to let him be...not...three hundred feet tall all the time, so on top of easier interactions, he'll definitely want to see things how tiny humans do. Who knows? He's a smart boy, so maybe he can learn to read or type or wear the most thinly veiled secret identity one can imagine.
Plot/CR Hooks: Godzilla's used to living in (or at least near) a big city, so there's a good chance for him to just. Up and decide to take a stroll and learn about his new environs. Or inexplicably show up when someone's in danger because he does that (usually to save his adopted dad, but he's not here right now). When he's not being a literal Big Damn Hero, he's being a big aquatic lizard who sometimes gets into trouble, himself. Literally having him walk in (or swim by) and accidentally breaking something or getting someone wet is pretty normal. Accidents happen when you're out for a stroll or hunting for fish. The big guy loves fish.

Godzilla is sapient, so it'll be quick to realize he's actually paying attention to your character. Could be fun for anyone who's not so comfortable around people or psychics/mind readers or any similar abilities to actually get some thoughts from him. Look, he's a big friendly reptile; the plot writes itself and you do want a big friendly reptile friend, right? Of course you do. You're welcome.

[survivalrate]

i have been so hoping someone would bring a kaijuu and you did not disappoint WELCOME TO THE GAME

[chin_godzilla]

Hello, yes, this is kaiju

Glad to be here! I fully admit to not having too many plans besides "let kaiju be a superhero and make small friends" so I'm definitely looking forward to whatever may happen!

[planetary_bonds]

GOJIRA

[chin_godzilla]

Stomping on over to a city near you

Big G ain't no Stardust Dragon, but he's got your back, Yusei

[tinglesense]

HELLO I am glad to see you joined us :D

[chin_godzilla]

HI FRIEND, I'm glad to be here! I have very few plans for the big friend here and that's okay, superhero shenanigans go all over the place anyway.

Granted, this is probably my most out there character choice yet, but you don't always choose who you RP, sometimes they choose you

[tinglesense]

Would you like to keep it game canon that Peter and Godzilla met already since we had the story thread? That was a fun time.

And tbh I mostly yolo my plans too so I get it!

[chin_godzilla]

I'd love to keep that canon! That was a good, goofy thread that makes no sense when you explain what happened to people out of context. Reminded me why I love dreamwidth RP.

I plan to have Godzilla's toplevel up today and he'll be remembering his TDM threads, so he'll be glad to see a familiar face after dropping on down again. time shenanigans are exhausting.

[kid_flash_found]

Yay. There's a part of me that kinda wants Godzilla to become one of his kitten's minders. Because a kaiju of any scale with a kitten on a leash just seems like a fun combo.

[chin_godzilla]

This but with a big lizard
Protect and raise precious tiny friend

[kid_flash_found]

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.

[chin_godzilla]

That's the rule of having smol friends. They gotta pretend they're the best of the best and then you playfully roll their eyes and remember that you love them.

Godzilla usually has his band of humans for that, but tiny animal friends can also work.

Cat might struggle whenever the big guy goes for a swim, though

[pinkxeno]

to her, he will always be Godzillo, the pro Hero.

or not, but she can't help but to love him because of it

[chin_godzilla]

He will do his best to live up to the legacy!

Might not have the great outfit (or any clothes, really), but the spirit is there

[pinkxeno]

good!!!

but also
what if Mina got him so accessories like a scarf. He could wear a scarf

[chin_godzilla]

Oh my god. The scarf would be absolutely perfect.

It'll do so much to help him look cooler.

Maybe it inexplicably adjusts to his size and instantly dries when he leaps out of the water so it can whoosh in the wind.

[pinkxeno]

this is perfect and must totally happen

i hope he is ready for Mina's amazing fashion choices 

[optionwhatever]

Spin’s quirky friend group back home includes a robot Tyrannosaurus rex so I’m obligated to have him try to make friends with Godzilla

He’s going to be a mangey unaffiliated opossum, though. The drama!

[chin_godzilla]

Grimlock would be proud to know there's other dinosaur friends out there.

I'm pretty sure it's Grimlock, anyway

But hey, big G loves his quirky friend groups. Who's a big lizard to judge if one of his buddies is an alien robot? He's all about found family.

And trying not to step on people accidentally.

[optionwhatever]

(it is indeed grimlock in all his dinosaury glory)

and ugh, tell him about it! Spin used to get bonus points for stepping on people and now he has to be careful B(

[chin_godzilla]

The woes of being very, very tall.

At least there's the size changing charms to help mitigate that, but I figure that's not an option Spin's really fond of.

[calldw]

Honestly hysterical at the thought of Godzilla accidentally stepping on D.W. and just leaving him in the shape of a pancake?? It's fine. He'll be okay.

I am SO EXCITED to see him here!

[chin_godzilla]

Definitely glad to be here!

And man, is Godzilla lucky the one person he steps on would be as near invincible as D.W. Cartoon physics save the day! I already love the idea.

Big guy would probably check on him afterwards. Might need to peel him off his foot

[calldw]

i wish i could say he doesn't deserve it but he definitely does