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?

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peter parker | marvel comics

[interloping]

Player Name & Pronouns: zelly (she/her)
Preferred Communication: thwip | PM

Character Name & Journal: peter parker ( interloping )
Guild Affiliation: nah bruh (jk, jk, we'll see)

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

peter's coming in pretty canonically fresh from multiverse shenanigans of his own, having just learned there are other spiders that exist in other worlds (the spider-men arc, for anyone interested) so this shouldn't be too shocking for him. of course no one can really get used to having several alts of yourself, and peter has only known of one (so far) and the poor guy has """"died"""" so he might still have a Moment.

short-term goals:
➛ settle in
➛ spend a little bit of that moola
➛ find familiar faces
➛ maybe spy on these alts of his
➛ figure out what he's doing guild-wise (if he's going to be joining one at all???)

long-term goals:
➛ make some new pals, maybe punch a few baddies
➛ help to clean up/fix/etc. this city (u kno, hero stuff™)
➛ get home :c

mostly i'm here to vibe! spider-man is no stranger to getting dumped into other worlds, mostly not by choice, and then having to figure his way out of it, and i'm treating this adventure like a comic arc. he's been at this for a while, so the change of pace would be a good refresher/reminder for why he does what he does, a kind of revitalization of his great power, great responsibility way of life. looking forward to seeing what i can get peter/spider-man up to and see him make some bonds with others.

Plot/CR Hooks:

as long as peter's got his webbing, he's gonna be thwippin around town, getting the lay of the land and maybe helping to rescue a cat out of a tree, or help an old lady (or man!) get across the street. it shouldn't be hard to sight a spider-man dashing between buildings. any rooftop dwellers may also find spider-man crashing in on your chill evening as you try to enjoy a coffee or tea or a glass of wine in the calm evening hours; and/or any other hero might find a spider ready to help out.

peter parker, on the other hand, is going to try and keep his head down. i'm looking to get a teaching position for him at the local high school, as mentoring/teaching is one of his strengths. c': and then find a real nice apartment for him to live in, complete with no heat or ac, crappy single-pane windows, a door with a busted lock, and leaky roofs and squeaky floors! if anyone can help find this perfect dream space, please lmk. c:

spider-man is the titular character of his own comics, so ... he's a superhero to a T and will never ignore the Calling. but he's learned how to work in teams, how to be a helpful distraction, and how to be a proper nuisance — complete with quips. (god so many quips.) he's very very smart, especially in the engineering/biotech fields, and can keep up with all the rest of the supergeniuses with no problem. AND he bakes cookies!

[ikols]

quietly sneaks up a building

[interloping]

SUS

[ikols]

PLENTY OF PEOPLE CLIMB BUILDINGS HERE

[tinglesense]

HELLO I'm Lyn and I play the youngest Spider-Man so far, who is an absolute disaster because the MCU did him pretty dirty honestly (also I'm mean to him, whatever). I do know some of comics canon but not as many spider things bc there's a lot and acquiring them got harder so I gave up! lol!

BUT I definitely would like shenanigans of some sort pls. Peter hasn't joined the Guardian Alliance because he's real not sure right now.

[interloping]

hi lyn! (ia mcu did peter parker dirty, but nwh kinda made up for it a bit, so we're on our way) bruh i feel you tho, the comics world is SO VAST and it gets wibbly wobbly with all the retcons and new writers and worlds exploding and multiverses expanding and —

all this to say ITS FINE ....

but yes! i would absolutely love shenanigans c': i think comics!pete will take it upon himself to be a little bit like a mentor-type, lifting his younger alts up when they need a little spiderencouragement.

also yeah, guardian alliance seems sus ... trust your gut, lil pete.

[tinglesense]

I followed a lot of comics for a lot of years, just...mostly Batfam and Daredevil and Bucky's stuff (listen, I don't have a brand and it is not dark and gritty and sidekick boys, shhhh).

I don't have any concrete plans bc I'm like shrug emoji about that but I love other mentor Peters! Peter will be like hEY YOU KNOW THE AVENGERS?? so that's at least a start haha

[monomachy]

BABE

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BABE!!!!

[kid_flash_found]

I'm now picturing Peter being the one in charge of Bart's (many) detentions. The kid probably has some of the best grades for everything BUT classroom behavior and is on his way to setting new records for time in detention.

[interloping]

smh bart

BUT YES we can totally make this a thing that happens. new teacher has to take on detention duty, meets bart, maybe even takes on a liking to him because ultimately he's a smart kid, he just needs a lil ......focus c':

[jikukan]

a wild zelly!!

hey buddy

[interloping]

ccccc:

hiya!

THINGS???

[vexish]

Cookies?!

Bake Harley some friendship cookies.

[interloping]

you're in luck, harley

friendship cookies are his specialty (with extra chocolate chips!)

and they deserve some after facing down a giant mecha

[nepotis]

holy shit when did his bff get OLD

[interloping]

LISTEN TO UR ELDERS!!!!!!

coughs dust

also harry, buddy, what happened to your hair

[thecoolerloki]

here is a completely ordinary child to teach!

[interloping]

mMHM

absolutely without a doubt ordinary

an innocent smol

[fairhair]

roping you into being friends because Fandral knows Spidey and he needs a reprieve from too many Lokis

[interloping]

hoo buddy he can relate

absolutely yes to being friends tho!!! c':

[doctopoda]

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

sooooooooooooooooo



...honestly there's an extremely solid chance that Otto just fully mistakes this Peter for one of the several other ones he knows if they happen across each other while he's doing Spiderman stuff. Doc Ock just walkin past like "oh hey! :)"

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HAHAHAHA

give this peter a heart attack and a real '?!?!?!?!'

pls

bring it on

Re: peter parker | marvel comics

[the_caped_crusader]

peter parker more like feeter farter haha goteeeeeem

[interloping]

why are u like this