MARCH OOC INTRO

[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.

SUNSET FALLS —

New characters will arrive by crashing up through the floorboards of Sunset Falls' gymnasium.

During the arrival log, characters will be faced with ghosts of long dead heroes and villains who have been reawakened by their arrival. These ghosts do not appear to respond to reason and seem to view te player characters as some sort of threat, have full control of their abilities and must be fought until their energy has been exhausted.

A fire elemental will also be manifesting in the city, setting it ablaze with every step it takes. Player characters will need to work together to contain this blaze and defeat the source of the inferno.

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 continued 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 assistance with setting up social media accounts on the guild networks, as well as credit cards to help them start a life here.

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. Characters have two months to decide if they want to throw in with one of the guilds and enjoy the perks of membership, or deal with making their own way in the world without their support.

PACTS MADE —

Finally, another entity has followed the new arrivals to Central City. A disembodied demon will be taking up residence in the city and will be attempting to coax characters into making a pact with it. Anyone who takes the demon up on this offer will have a wish granted, in exchange for a fragment of their soul. While there is no immediate consequence to this - selling part of your soul to a demon surely can't go without consequence. This plot is here for player plots and conflict rather than holding overarching narrative significance.

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

[dothelokimotion]

Player Name & Pronouns: Timmy (she/her)
Preferred Communication: timmtams
Character Name & Journal: Loki Odinson / dothelokimotion
Guild Affiliation: N/A
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: HE WANTS TO GO HOME well not really because he's absolutely fucking tired of getting killed every time he manages an iota of character growth, but he's stressed out of his mind for Thor and wants to believe Thor doesn't really think he's the Worst Brother Ever (please love him) and also all the dumb Thanos stuff.

But, he will also look into establishing himself. Maybe see if he can manage a life outside of all the drama he's always been caught in (and perpetuating). Even start his own theatre.
Plot/CR Hooks: Loki will probably look into the magic of his place, broaden his knowledge, maybe cause some . . . chaos among the guilds because their premise kind of Sucks . . . He doesn't really know what a Friend is, help him out.

[exasperation]

Player Name & Pronouns: Timmy (she/her)
Preferred Communication: timmtams
Character Name & Journal: Ripley Arkwright | exasperation
Guild Affiliation: N/A
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: All he wants is a nice apartment with three cats and zero interaction with stressful events and people. Maybe get a job as a minion again? It worked fine before . . . He's not chomping at the bit to get home but also . . . so many superheroes ☠
Plot/CR Hooks: Ripley is very much the kind of person who lands up in the wrong place and the wrong time. But also his power is great for locating lost things or people, so if anyone needs to find someone, Ripley's your guy. He'll also start to suss out who are the power players, who keeps to the background, just so he knows what to avoid and how to engage in the city.

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

Player Name & Pronouns: Molly, she/her
Preferred Communication: sonopants
Character Name & Journal: Doreen Green eatsnutsandkicksbutts
Guild Affiliation: independent at first, and she'll prrrrobably join the guardians?

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Doreen is here to make friends and do superhero things! She won't be too freaked out by being stuck in another world; she has a pretty weird life and is good at rolling with the punches, so she'll be helping out where she can. Once it sinks in that she'll be stuck here for a while, she might start looking for some university courses to enroll in (she's a computer science major in her second year)

Plot/CR Hooks: Doreen is an optimistic ray of sunshine who genuinely loves being a superhero! She fights crime with squirrels, punches, and excellent listening skills and empathy. Doreen has been doing the superhero thing for a couple of years and is pretty confident in herself, so she'd make a good sympathetic listener to any younger heroes who are having trouble adjusting (she also gives great hugs!). She's also really good at talking down villains and figuring out where they're coming from - Doreen is the type of superhero who tries to talk things out and help everyone before resorting to violence, and she firmly believes that everyone can change for the better. She's also big into computer science and terrible puns, so if those are any of your characters' interests, they'll get along just fine! She'll probably be spending a lot of time at local parks, chatting up the squirrel population, and foiling small-time crimes like bank robberies.

Doreen also has a paper-thin secret identity that she'll be trying to keep up (she doesn't wear a mask as Squirrel Girl, and her 'civilian disguise' is literally just wearing regular clothes and stuffing her tail down the back of her pants) so feel free to recognize her in or out of costume!

[doctopoda]

heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy there buddy

heard ya fuckin died, same hat /fingerguns

[nerdylilspidey]

YOOOOOOOOOO WASSUP BROOOO

WHICH WAY TO DEAD DUDES ANONYMOUS CUZ WE SHOULD TOTALLY SIGN UP and like maybe figure out where we went so terribly wrong omigodomigod

[doctopoda]

oh otto has a real solid idea of where he went wrong actually! also dead dudes anonymous does include Norman Osborn The Man Who Murderized You so fair warning on......that......

Anyhow! Is Spidey gonna be still like, actively bleeding when he shows up, because Otto will absolutely lose his shit.

[nerdylilspidey]

peter can probably track his mistake back to jumping in front of one of punisher's bullets too tbf haa...hahaa....

BUT! NGL i am so very tempted to have him still bleeding. i'm thinking maybe not so to the brink of death, but this boy is still gonna be pretty tattered and torn :P

[doctopoda]

well THAT seems like an extremely obvious mistake!

Yeah, I checked last month and characters don't generally get magically healed upon entering the game - at least, Otto's one claw was still severed. I'm sure "fatal wounds" are another category though so that makes sense to me? idk? Anyway yeah, you want another fuckin Doc Ock to just Descend on that? That sounds...so comforting...

[nerdylilspidey]

in retrospect yes. yes it was. but y'know what they say about hindsight!

my dear doctor when did you get your practicing medical license?! do you promise not to dissect him and use his DNA for unscrupulous deeds?! will you hold him gently and say nice things like "you'll get a chocolate for this when you wake up"??

[doctopoda]

lol, he's mostly going to Panic and try to find someone who can help for real probably, but it's the thought that counts??? He's probably taught himself enough field first-aid skills, just due to that time he became a crazy person who fought spider-man regularly and lived in an abandoned warehouse, that he can stop him from like Actively Dying, but kid you need to see an actual doctor.

[nerdylilspidey]

Peter will definitely probably have a little freak out of his own with an Ock swooping in to help him out because LOL OCK, but hey the thought does count!! it's not like Ock was one of the guys that attacked his house!

but what is this... "actual doctor" you speak of. it sounds suspiciously not dangerous and therefore should not be trusted!!

[exasperation]

drag him into trouble, clara

[dothelokimotion]

😮😮😮

[bestversion]

I think Kamala and Jaime could be super cute! Earnest heroes who love their fam.

[arrowsguy]

Player Name & Pronouns: trace, she/her
Preferred Communication: jortles

Character Name & Journal: clint barton with this journal
Guild Affiliation: he'd probably end up with the guardians, if he joins up with anything.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: of course, he'd like to get back home eventually since he's got a lot going on there but he's also going to want to (begrudgingly) make sure the younger population is taken care of and isn't about to end up getting themselves killed.

he'll be coming off a major loss and maybe a little desperate to see if there's any magic in the world that can bring someone back from the dead.
Plot/CR Hooks: clint's a tired old man, really. he's a regular human who uses a piece of wood and string to take out baddies. but he's been doing it for a long time and he's still alive so he must be doing something right. he's an avenger though he'd say he's retired at this point in time and he just wants to sit on his porch and rest.

of course, that's not going to happen. he's a pretty good mentor when he wants to be though he's kind of grumpy. also, he's partially deaf so that'll be a thing that'll be noticeable too.

[dissemblance]

hey sailor

[dissemblance]

we are gonna do so much fun shit brandi!! so much!!

[doctopoda]

Oh no I got you! I read the wiki and I'm pretty sure he was ~fucking murdered~ before that happened!

Honestly we could try to rope Josh into it, he has magic healing powers.

[arrowsguy]

oh nooooooo he's gonna cry like some baby.

[dissemblance]

chin up, clint. how many people get to say they died saving half the universe?

[arrowsguy]

that list shouldn't include her, that's his story and he's sticking to it

[azulescarabajo]

YEAH also they just have a similar through-line in their cultural background and stories about the importance of family and community. Jaime is also at the very least implied to come from a religious family so I think they'd vibe really well.

[wordiness]

gross AND rude

[wordiness]

another loki to tuck in his pocket

[dissemblance]

too bad c: she doesn't regret it at all c: