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OOC INTRO & PLOTTING - FEBRUARY
OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to
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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
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:
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Character Name & Journal: Dr. Otto Octavius /
Guild Affiliation: Guardian Alliance, largely for the resources but also because he'll panic the second anyone suggests the villain club to him
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Short-term, Otto's mostly worried about securing housing and a job, and about Norman. Long-term, he has no specific goals, because he's kinda fucked up and still getting used to the fact that he will not be dying in a river anytime soon! His vague ambitions are mostly to do some good (to prove he's not a totally irredeemable monster) and to find one or more new projects to focus on (to continue ignoring the Crushing Weight of Trauma and Despair). Just because he's not running around trying to kill Spider-man anymore does not mean any of his other issues are actually resolved! He's just trying really hard to pretend like he's fine, and it is so untenable!
Plot/CR Hooks:
- Easy one first - who here is gonna immediately recognize him as Doc Ock and what is that gonna look like? I'm not that familiar with comics canon but I did read 616 Ock's wiki page, and like...wow! Otto thinks he did some shit!
- Science stuff! Otto doesn't really have any personal drive to return home - he has nothing to go back to except maybe turboprison - but he'll want to help everyone else get where they need to go. Definitely interested in joining any ongoing Confluence research efforts and making science friends! Also, he's from like 2004 so he's got some catching up to do around here technology-wise, but honestly that part will be kinda exciting for him! Tell him about all these new developments! Show him how to use a smartphone!
- Fellow people who Done Fucked Up! Is there like, an ex-villain support group or something? Do we need one? He likely still won't want to associate with anyone who's actively causing harm, but he'll be pretty understanding with people who are struggling; it's not like he's got a ton of room to judge.
- Mentorship stuff! Otto's universe absolutely does not have a million teenage superheroes running around, so he's gonna be sort of perturbed by all that? Especially after his experiences with Young Peter, he'll want to try and help look out for these kids as best he can. He'd be a pretty solid Science Mentor, and while his own life is a fucking mess, he actually gives good advice on interpersonal stuff?
- He and Norman are gonna be forming a unit to navigate all of this together like immediately (oh my god they’re roommates) so if you're dealing with one you're pretty likely to encounter the other sooner or later. Also Harry, although they have not met yet.
As far as the actual intro log goes, while he's low-key kinda pissed about the vloggers, he doesn't really want to be involved in any more fighting right now. He'll intervene if he sees anyone else in danger, though, or if someone tries to murder a vlogger in front of him. Also please god someone try to explain to this man what the fuck a vlogger is in the middle of all this chaos
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Also hey does Harley have any ideas about shirts one could easily wear with back tentacles, we've got some sartorial issues here
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And she has tons of ideas on what he could wear. Let her help him be ~stylish~
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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
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he will probably not be a bad influence! and totally doesn't have a chip on his shoulder regarding guilt that he absolutely should not be responsible for but does so anyway!
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ALSO how are you going in terms of arriving in this Confluence vs. having actually shown up a month ago and been yeeted through time
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.....it should probably be said, though, that he absolutely knows Spider-man's identity and absolutely will not sell him out for anything! He kinda already got involved in enabling one Harry's vendetta and he is not about to do it again.
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But even if he thinks that's the best thing to do, he won't out Peter himself. He's already pretty committed to having the back of literally any Spider-man.
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however!! new beginnings and all! he's going to try and be nice to figure out whereabouts otto is mentally, since he's ... kinda weird on a good day in 616
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