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?

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[violentia]

Player Name & Pronouns: Nudl, she/her
Preferred Communication: DM me at cupnoodles or this journal!

Character Name & Journal: Norman Byrd, violentia
Guild Affiliation: Undecided
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Norman will initially be laying low. As the former face of the cult he was raised in, he wants to leave his past behind really badly and is more comfortable in the background rather than drawing attention to himself again. By doing so he believes he can get a better understanding of his surroundings and learn important information. As he is not interested in heroics or villainy, leaving will be his primary goal, however realistic that is. It will be a primary motivation for his early months and will likely persist as his time progresses.

He's had zero close friends since he left the cult he grew up in, and I'm a sucker for developing CR, so that would be my favorite thing to explore: actually opening up to people and stop hiding his past so deep in the closet.

While Norman puts his own self-interests first, he is a homicide detective and may be persuaded to take up similar positions of work to earn money / better acquaint himself with his surroundings.

Plot/CR Hooks: When he was in the cult, a surgery was performed to carve symbols on the inside of his soul to give him weird abilities. In-game, they will be limited to wearing the skin of Eldritch-y monsters and temporarily gaining their powers and weaknesses. (Will be finishing the list of monsters soon!) If your character is magically inclined, this ability might be of interest. If your character is up to no good, he might be interested in keeping tabs just in case the trouble stops him getting to go home, somehow.