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

[monomachy]

Player Name & Pronouns: iola (she/her)
Preferred Communication: watchet - feel free to add me!

Character Name & Journal: Diana Prince a.k.a. Wonder Woman | monomachy
Guild Affiliation: None yet! But she'll probably join the Guardian Alliance.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Diana is getting dropped into the game right after the end of WWI (1918), so it's going to be a definite culture shock for her! Her first order of business is going to be finding out what in the heck just happened, and where/when she is. She will do her research and figure out what's happened over the past century, probably racking up more guilt about not being there, but will take this opportunity to do the good she can when/where she is now. My bigger goal for her is to set her on a different path from the one she took in DCEU canon, where she spent 100 years on her own, figuring out how to be the hero the world needed her to be while also not dealing with a lot of trauma and guilt and loneliness. This game is an opportunity for her to continue her hero's journey in a different way, with resources and people she can turn to when figuring it all out. We're here for the healing, baby.
Plot/CR Hooks: Diana is still pretty new to the (mostly) full scope of her powers, and it's going to take some time for her to figure out how to use them in a way that will maybe avoid causing millions in property damage every time she fights a villain or monster. I'm talking training! I'm talking teamwork exercises! This era of Diana also has a lot of hope and curiosity in her heart still, so she's going to be poking around everywhere she can, learning about this new world and the others in it. Diana can also act as a mentor to the younger crowd (points to eyes, points to all these Teens), but would also benefit from having a mentor of her own. Give her friendship, give her people to love, give her ways to casually benchpress a school bus. I'm here for it all.

As far as arrival goes, she'll be around Excelsior City, helping where she can and knocking out baddie vloggers when able. Let's do some team-ups! If anybody would like to accidentally have to share a room with her, lmk as well.

IC Contact
Further Info

[thecoolerloki]

May I offer you a teen godling

[monomachy]

yes, and i accept

[thecoolerloki]

he will teach her about the superior form of ice cream: milkshakes

[monomachy]

i am not exaggerating when i say that a flavor other than vanilla ice cream would blow her mind, and a milkshake would make her absolutely lose it

[thecoolerloki]

this is how he felt when he was reincarnated so he gets it. bacon and milkshakes are the best things midgardians have ever come up with

[ikols]

steps over tony stark making a fool of himself

loki would love to buy this lady a drink sometime 3:)

[monomachy]

she hasn't even met tony yet and she can't believe she's somehow in the middle of this!!
yes, buy her a drink and teach her how to be a god (i say, knowing it will most likely be chaotic)

[ikols]

yeeAHHHHH TEAM GOD !!!!!

[monomachy]

team god!!!

[ikols]

they can wear pantssuits and have fabulous hair to brunchhhhh

[vexish]

Iola! It's been so long but I'm so pumped to be in a game together again!! I'm gonna add you on plurk.

Also I apologize for any interest Harley takes in Diana. As the one recognizable thing from her world, she's going to be pretty 👀 👀 👀 in her direction

[monomachy]

yes it has been!! hello again, i accepted your friend invite

rip diana when she doesn't recognize harley but eyes her right back out of principle
it'll be great

[vexish]

yessss Diana has no idea who she is. time to be pals

[fairhair]

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~

[monomachy]

i would also love for any or all of these things to happen! she's going to be looking for anything or anyone that seems familiar, and he definitely fits the bill

[kid_flash_found]

Bart will be both surprised and disappointed that she's the only Wonder here. He's much closer with her "sisters."

[monomachy]

she'll be so happy to hear about having more sisters, and also planning to adopt bart immediately

[kid_flash_found]

That would make him very nervous because of the rare times they've shared panels in comics was when she grabbed the Justice League to come drag Wonder Girl away because Diana didn't think she should join the Titans, but should train with the Amazons instead.

Also, he's male.

[monomachy]

oh no!! i am only familiar with the dceu and dcau, unfortunately. my only knowledge of the comics is out-of-context panels. but there would be no dragging anyone away from their team with this diana

[portolan]

Balthier could use a friend who is also Not From This Time (his world is vaguely 1700s, but it has like magic and flying ships and stuff).

Balthier is a sky pirate with a noble heart; he's technically villain aligned, but he's mostly chaotic good. He just doesn't trust people who say they are Organized Good Guys due to a shitty government/aristocracy he was born into.

[monomachy]

hello! i am definitely here for diana to find kinship with someone else who isn't from modern(esque) times! i am also a huge ff fan (ffx is my love) so i am extra into forming this cr

[portolan]

ffx my heart.

awesome I'll put something up on your top level :)

[the_caped_crusader]

ew gross it's a girl

[monomachy]

ew a man