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OOC INTRO & PLOTTING - FEBRUARY


OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to [community profile] 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:

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[personal profile] nepotis 2022-02-25 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
They have not met yet but they need to. It's going to take Harry a while to be able to trust Other Norman, but somehow judging by personalities alone, I feel like he might have an easier time connecting with Otto.
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[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-25 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I was sort of thinking the same? Otto also values personal relationships and honesty very highly, and tbh he probably just has an easier time with people than Norman. He's a cordial dude!

.....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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[personal profile] nepotis 2022-02-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh, yeah, the Spider-Man thing throws a wrench in things a little bit, or at least until Harry gets the full story and has a chance to decide what to do with that information, vis a vis either coming to begrudgingly accept that Peter had his best interest at heart, or (more likely) completely going off the deep end
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[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-25 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeeeeah, I feel like Otto would encourage Peter to give Harry the whole story once he figures out what all the drama's about! Honestly, he kinda thinks that confrontation went better than it really did in his world? All he knows is that Harry and Peter were close, and they must have reached enough of an understanding for Harry to help Peter find Otto, so he just kinda assumes they worked it out? So hey, why can't these two do that as well?

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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[personal profile] nepotis 2022-02-25 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll see how things shake out in me and ghost's thread w/r/t how and when that reveal will happen. And while Harry won't appreciate that Otto is loyal to his (perceived) #1 enemy, he will at least respect that he is loyal just in general
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[personal profile] doctopoda 2022-02-26 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sorry bud - Otto would totally have Harry's back in other circumstances, just not this one.