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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:
Bucky Barnes | MCU
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Character Name & Journal: Bucky Barnes (
Guild Affiliation: n/a; new arrival will stay "neutral" until he's forced to pick one
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Bucky is brand new to the game and while he would love to be old man yells at sky and get off my lawn about all of this, I'm a mean person so he's definitely not going to be allowed to have that kind of peace or tranquility. I'd really like to get into exploring the idea of self with him: not only living for himself, but actively choosing what kind of a life he wants to lead and what kind of a person he wants to be. Until now his life has very much been scripted by HYDRA and their complete control over him, and even after escaping from them he lives more as an anonymous drifter who moves around. Exploring the idea that he could be a member of a community and valued for something other than being a brainwashed assassin is definitely a long term goal.
Plot/CR Hooks: Being brand new, getting used to this world is going to be an adjustment; superheroes exist back home for him, but he doesn't consider himself one of them and honestly wants nothing to do with them or that life, Steve. Things that push him toward having to use his powers are more than welcome because he'd quite happily be a hermit forever if allowed. His canon point is near the beginning of Captain America: Civil War (specifically, right after his apartment has been invaded and the rooftop fight with the Black Panther), so his life has been hiding from the worlds and trying to be anonymous; thrusting him into a place where he can't do that will definitely shake him up. He's also been given some minor healing powers — which he won't realize on arrival — so that could be a hook into interactions with others and realization that he can't be anonymous forever. He also has the Winter Soldier programming completely intact and can be triggered into complete obedience. This isn't something I want to dive into right away, but it's on the table for the future.
Regarding this event specifically, I welcome all the team ups, especially of the "I just wanted coffee but now I'm bench pressing a van because I didn't want it to crush a little old lady" variety. You wanna go punch some hipster vloggers? Let's go punch some hipster vloggers. Lodgings-wise this guy will take advantage of the whole free housing thing, at least for a bit; if you really want him as a roommate, we can absolutely discuss it. And powers going haywire? Yes please have some accidentally crushing doorknobs or ripping car doors off their hinges through a strength surge; I am here for all the ridiculousness that can come from this kind of thing so lay it on me.
Also please try to sneak up on this assassin and pin refrigerator magnets to his metal arm, I need this like burning.
Canon-wise I am still trying to avoid spoilers for the latest Spider-Man movie (I only have to hold out a few more weeks!) so please, uh, avoid me for a bit if you fall into that territory.
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i've got someone that would definitely attempt to make that happen
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Seriously though I honestly do love this interpretation of Harley and welcome any and all shenanigans
Re: Bucky Barnes | MCU
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Re: Bucky Barnes | MCU
He's also very much in a "well what if i just lived a normal life but i can't resist helping when it falls in my lap." He joined Society for the money and freedom but is pretty good-hearted.
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The best friendships are born out of pranks right? Someone once said that right? I think these two could end up getting along in the "why does this keep happening to me I mean I just wanted a cup of coffee" kind of feeling. I'm excited to see what happens!
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And yes please. This is a delightful running gag.
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Peter's met Bucky before (a little) but doesn't really know him or anything, but a forced team up in the future could be pretty funny as well.
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But yes please mess up this man's arm I am all here for shenanigans especially of the "trying to make things better accidentally make them worse" thing.
Bucky's probably a little bit earlier in canon than Peter but I'm absolutely here for it! Please let's team the grumpy old man with the hyperactive spider child, nothing could go wrong.
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I am looking forward to SHENANIGANS thank you for going along with my ridiculous suggestions :D