APRIL'S OOC INTRO & PLOTTING POST

[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.

LITTLE LOVE, KANSAS —

This month appears to be a little different. Though all the signs of a confluence appear there is no sign of any new arrivals. The gathering waits with baited breath and then finds nothing of interest occurs. Lightning strikes a potato field and that appears to be that.

People in town begin to go missing the next day. Both the new arrivals and the missing people have been planted deep under the field by the confluence's newest creation: giant, sapient potatoes of surprising strength. These potatoes seem to function as a hive-mind. Some arrivals may have been planted too deeply and may have spent the last night in an underground cave system, unable to break through the cave due to the potato's roots. Characters can fall into this cave system during combat. The water down here is glowing and, if drank, will cause you to become temporarily bio-luminescent and empathic to plants. Down there they will be able to locate the source of these monsters.

You will need to fight or tame these potato monsters in order to get the town back to normal.

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.

BUD THE SPUD —

Finally, in the aftermath of all of this, Little Love will require some ongoing assistance with pruning its new monsterous plant population. The older of these beasts seem amenable to being taken in and given a home. The younger ones keep trying to kidnap and plant people. The town seems surprisingly okay with this new breed of potato and some comment that it's the tenderest potato they've ever eaten.

GETTING TO KNOW YOU —

Please use the 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> Is your character susceptible to being swayed into membership? Or will they take the hard path and stay unaffiliated? <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

[knight_shift]

Player Name & Pronouns: Allen | he/him
Preferred Communication: radioactivearachnid

Character Name & Journal: Terry McGinnis | knight_shift
Guild Affiliation:

He's very specifically going to avoid joining either of the Guilds. Every Bat has some trust issues, and Terry isn't any different. He didn't even join the Justice League. He's definitely not going to join some organization he's never heard of, especially when it's raising some pretty sizeable red flags.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Terry's going to be working with the rest of the Batfamily, taking advantage of the opportunity to learn from the others. He never really got that chance in his timeline. He's also going to try to clean up Central City.

He might be starting up some kind of chauffeur service to pay his bills since he's not joining a guild

Plot/CR Hooks:

Vigilantism in Central City because he's still Batman, even in another universe.

He's got a dog.

He's also going to be poking at Bruce by claiming the internet handle "batman" before Bruce can.

[knight_shift]

Did you want a half-brother? Too bad, you're getting one anyways. Not that Terry knows about that fact yet.

[robintohood]

Jason will be clashing with the Batfam (at least initially) and definitely will want to know who the hell this Batman is so there might be some clashes with the Red Hood. It's going to be fun if Terry learns what happened when a different Robin encountered the Joker.

Also, Jason's very likely to take a job as a mechanic so if Terry becomes chauffeur, that might be another way for them to interact, namely as civilians.

[monomachy]

hello i'm iola and i play diana!! from the year 1918!!! i just added you on plurk (watchet) and i'm here for whatever kind of shenanigans could happen with diana just having no clue who harley is

[metamods]

They've got all the weaknesses of a regular potato! Which is to say that they're exceptionally vulnerable to fire and slicing. Their eyes appear to be a weak point, but given that they're potatoes, that means almost their entire body is one giant weak point.

[curar]

Player Name & Pronouns: Brandi (she/her)
Preferred Communication: trashpanda

Character Name & Journal: Laura Howlett @curar
Guild Affiliation: Laura is eleven and wants to be a good hero to honor her father because she knows it's what he'd want for her. However, she's a feral eleven year old and is probably easily swayed one way or another. Right now, I have plans for her to eventually affiliate with the heroes but who knows what will happen once she ends up meeting people and developing CR. She could just as easily end up unaffiliated, simply due to the fact she's reluctant to trust adults.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Laura primarily just wants to survive and exist without being experimented on and hunted. She also desperately wants to get the other x-generation children to Eden. But she's here now, and will make the most out of that. I'd like to get her involved in doing some normal people things like:
- making friends
- finding mentors
- going to school for the first time ever
- eventually doing the whole found family thing
- beating up adults that annoy her
- learning how to read and write
- having the best horse & unicorn collection in the entire world most important goal here
Plot/CR Hooks: Laura is curious and is prone to roaming/exploring. She can literally be anywhere and everywhere. While she is eleven, she looks younger and acts like a feral honey badger. She's pretty independent and capable for an eleven year old, but she still needs to be taught a lot about social standards and how to exist in among other people. Being created and raised in a lab as a weapon has made it pretty difficult for her to assimilate easily. She's a character I prefer to play in the moment and see where things go, though I never object to planning out more simple interactions! But I do know I'm going to have her fighting potatoes since it would be a shame not to put her claws to good use. I'd prefer to not have her double booked with an adult at the Diadem Hotel, but if there are any teens or other kids that would want a roomie for a while, I'd love that! Otherwise, I imagine she'll wind up with npc guardians until she finds some CR icly that will put up with her that she can crash with.

[curar]

If you'd be up for interacting with Laura, I know she would love Bruce and would think Harley is amazing since she is equally chaotic and does...whatever she wants, whenever she wants to do it.

[blondshell]

okay but a foul-tempered older brother type that also helps mentor/train her with fighting...???

will also be willing to teach her to read and write...!

[blondshell]

opt out of everything bye

[defendure]

illegal & not allowed

[blondshell]

Player Name & Pronouns: milk, they/them
Preferred Communication: brainmeat on plurk

Character Name & Journal: Katsuki Bakugou blondshell
Guild Affiliation: He is not easily swayed and will determine what he wants to do / stand by, but he will also more likely be convinced by what his castmates defer to. But like, please feel free to try.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Canonically Bakugou has recently gone through a good chunk of development that has made him more willing to Try and be a better version of himself. He's still emotionally stunted AF and incredibly rude, brash, proud, and will absolutely come off like he's already sick of your character before even knowing them!! But don't let that put you off. He's ...an aquired taste. I, however, am all for throwing him at anyone and everyone.

Currently, he will be interested in:

- Finding a mentor-type figure.
- Getting back to his usual means of training / finding training partners.
- Adjusting to the new world and quietly studying up on it.
- Will definitely be beating the hell out of some potatoes.

Plot/CR Hooks: Bakugou is invested in becoming a pro-hero in his own world so he actually will stop and help anyone in need. He might not be the hero you want, but he's the hero you need - or something. He's not like,,,the most comforting guy to save someone,,,but he'll absolutely get the job done! He is hyperaware of other people and if anyone gives him villain-type vibes, he'll just call them sketchy to their face.

I'm very open and comfortable with antagonistic relationships and working towards more positive or negative places. Bakugou doesn't really do "nice" but he can take up the role of leader or partake in team missions surprisingly well - if you can tolerate the yelling and swearing anyway. Even though he is a hero-type, he definitely is easy to make enemies with even if you're another hero.

[blondshell]

damn i guess i'm committed for life then

[drubs]

volunteering gil for potential teaching her to read and write, if she's going to be his delivery person for pies in the future! also he's got experience on the whole "made for a purpose" front so available to support anyone dealing with that! especially someone so young.

[defendure]

I am a hard to cancel subscription service!!

[tochnyy]

hello friend! mal can't teach aloy about modern day, since he's still figuring it out, but i feel like these two would get along on the experience with hunting/trapping and survival front and competitive streaks.

he's trying to get his bearings so having someone who's curious in his circle would be helpful. i can see these two being friends, they have similar personalities!

[tochnyy]

what about drunk times + scolding?

mal would appreciate that kate's a superhero without powers! so cool! teach him your ways (he doesn't want to use his powers, oops.)

[tochnyy]

if he wants a buddy who's like "this is totally fine" when talking about a terrible level of trauma, mal can provide!

he'll be in central city too, probably going the street-level crime & helping people angle instead of anything big and flashy since he's not comfortable with the idea of powers. so chances for them to meet through that :)

[fledges]

haha YES PLEASE i adore mal! they'd be super cute! and probably get in a lot of trouble together, but details

[tochnyy]

there would be great banter! and respect. and yes, so much trouble but like... they need a little trouble!

[fledges]

hmmm

what if loki joined the good guys 😘

[thecoolerloki]

give him a good reason and he might consider it because kate's pretty

[fledges]

yesss that would be so cute! your family is so TENSE cass, come have chill hangouts with kate

[fledges]

yeah, absolutely! come vet her, angela!

[fledges]

kate does tend to cause trouble, rip

what's mal usually up to?

[fledges]

is that all it takes!!