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

[vexish]

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

Character Name & Journal: Harley Quinn (vexish)

Guild Affiliation: Harley's going to be running wild and free for as long as possible before eventually settling into something. She's had enough of being under Amanda Waller's thumb, she's not looking forward to repeating that anytime soon.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Harley's biggest emotional need is found family. She craves it, even if she won't own up to it. People she can connect to despite her plentiful issues and her...uh...colorful personality. So making friends and working toward deepening that CR is my biggest goal for her at first. I realize it will likely take most people a long time to warm up to her, if they ever do. But she's post The Suicide Squad and is at a point where strangers are just friends she hasn't met yet, okay.

She's not necessarily going to care about finding a way back to Gotham right away, because she just goes with the flow. But I'd love for her laid back approach to life to conflict with someone that is more high strung. I'd also love for her to come across another other chaotic types who she can unapologetically be herself around.


Plot/CR Hooks: Harley is an antagonist by nature. She goes between chaotic neutral when focused on common world saving goals to chaotic evil when left to her own devices for too long. She's easy to shove into literally any kind of zany hijinks, and is always technically up to no good (even when she's really trying to be good). In canon she has worked her way up from Joker's eye candy in booty shorts to being a reluctant antihero that has found her voice and independence. She's looking to carve out a life for herself, so she'll be doing a lot of soul searching and trying all kinds of odds and ends until something sticks for her. If you need someone to be committing a crime for your hero to lecture or yell at? She's your girl. If you need someone loud to drag your character into wild antics or some kind of scheme? Harley's got your back and is here to be the best influence ever. Want someone with a vibrant and very decorative sense of fashion to give your character a makeover? She's able to do that, hope they like fantasy colors in their hair. And if you'd like to join a roller derby team, she'll be looking to get one of those together right away. She misses her old one.

Oh, and she'll have Bruce the hyena here with her. So if you're looking for hyena antics, hmu.

[kid_flash_found]

Hopefully Bruce won't think Kat-El the not exactly super-kitten is a potential meal. Bart has a tiny black ball of fluff and PTSD for a feline sidekick.

[vexish]

Brucie is a very (almost) well behaved hyena! He only eats what Harley tells him to. And she loves kittens so, Kat-El is safe! If Bart ever brings Bruce out and about, Harley is likely to take Bruce on walks and they're going to be a duo that's hard to miss.

[kid_flash_found]

Kat-El has major social anxiety issues, so he's usually with one of his emotional support humans one a harness and lead when they're not at home.

[sunmon]

yakety sax intensifies

[vexish]

are you ready for this freaking amazing influence in alina's life??


u better be

[sunmon]

at least she'll have someone around who understands when this thing with the darkling inevitably implodes ..........

[nepotis]

I know I mentioned wanting Harley and Gwen CR (if/when she gets in) but I would also love Harley to be some kind of (good? bad?) influence on Harry! He's a little high strung to start with but he knows how to let loose once he gets a few drinks in him.

[vexish]

Getting high strung people to relax is one of her favorite hobbies. Time to go out for a night on the town!

[jikukan]

god, please can we have hyena antics... i'll have sasuke summon a snake it'll be a grand old time.

[vexish]

yes i insist upon this happening asap

tho i apologize in advance for harley likely trying to steal said summoned snake

[ikols]

harleyyyyyyyy

[vexish]

Lokiiiiiiiiiiii

he's gonna be one of her pals, I'm determined

[anthropophagite]

hyena? hell yes!

kaneki is a baby, but he is 100% a super needy person looking for a found family himself. And tho he is no hero, look, he can absolutely still deliver a "but that's bad" speech, although it will probably look ridiculous because he is the most awkward thing in the world too.

[vexish]

Harley has a semi-soft spot for kids after protecting one for a short time, so she'll be pretty open to at least...letting him give his speeches. lmao even if it goes in one ear and out the other. her attention span is the worst

but as someone that is also 100% super needy, it sounds like found fam in the making right here

[amenace]

hello, older cooler self!

welcome to the game, I'm NoL and I play Harleen Quinn from Breaking Glass, basically a teenage/high school AU.

[vexish]

Ahhh Harley isn't going to know what to do with a teenage version of herself at first but it's going to be great for her to have someone that she will be hell bent on protecting. Not that younger Harley needs the protection. But Harleys need to stick together!!

[optionwhatever]

may I propose chaos goblin kinship with Spin, a grunt of the Evil Alien Invaders that tried to blow up humanity once

He just got separated from his own dingy little found family and is gonna be kinda sad about it

[vexish]

Chaos goblin kinship granted

may they be chaotic and obnoxious and find ways to be their best selves!

[the_caped_crusader]

pushes

[vexish]

batsyyyyy

are u ready to be friends??

[forasecond]

Please pester this cranky grandpa stuck in his teenage body, Harley. I need it.

[vexish]

she will absolutely love pestering cranky teenage grandpa

i foresee a lot of snarky banter in their future

[helpdesk_hero]

Hello, delayed slipping in to poke here. I wanted to check something on this, since I don't know what your stance on light canon familiarity may be. David's a Marvel character that comes with some CRAU from another game...

Where he literally spent a few months living in a house with Harley and Joker there was an incident where Bruce chewed up his favorite scarf and everything

As I don't want to assume familiarity when a player is comfortable with it, I am prone to selective character memory wipes for characters that would be familiar to him but are played by someone new. I would enjoy him interacting with her because honestly she's a wonderful character, I just want to make sure that whether he 'remembers' a version of Harley or not is your decision. As a summary of his CR with her in his last game, mostly he just had really standard awkward housemate shenanigans and was hired by the Joker to handle making them a romantic dinner once a month, but David didn't have any deep relationship or friendship with her, so it's easy enough to erase it all.

[vexish]

ahhhh i am so late getting back to this, I'm sorry!! But I don't mind him remembering another version of Harley! She'll probably take it in stride or assume he's making things up. But will def react to any Joker mentions, so that'll be a fun ride!