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

[robintohood]

That all sounds perfect. Hooray trauma buddies!

Jason's still going to be pretty brutal against criminals and won't regret shooting them but he'll make a point to not get civilians get too caught up.

[tochnyy]

the city is doomed.

right now he's just trying to find a place to live + job, since he's not super keen on being affiliated with a guild. but while he's at the hotel, he can be spotted trying to eat all the free food offered whenever there is food around. really, please help this poor dude understand the modern world.

he is not fight clubbing, as he has not found one yet, and he's not super-heroing in any flashy way but will be trying to help anyone he can at the street crime level!

[tochnyy]

mal's a soldiers, he understands you gotta kill the enemies in a war!! he'll make sure no civilians are harmed and protect anyone who's innocent tho.

[thecoolerloki]

he's 13 and trying to get over leah so yes. she kinda looks like leah too

[fledges]

god you're right

this is going to be a wild revelation for her if she ever realizes

[thecoolerloki]

how could she not realize when this boy is the most obvious ever

[robintohood]

Excellent. Moral codes that don't allow killing are dumb.

[fledges]

okay that's adorable though? i love it

[hevenly]

Welcome to the game! I'm Chris and I have Angela here from Marvel Comics, as well as Harry Osborn from The Amazing Spider-Man movies. and I may or may not be enabling myself into apping an MHA in the near future, shh

Anyway, Angela is a CRAU from a game where she had some CR with Bakugou, not enough to be super close or anything but enough to know him as a young hero and have a decent amount of respect for him, if that's something you want to play with. Either that, or Harry is available to be a sketchy asshole to butt heads with your heroic asshole (whoops sorry that's a strong word... but you know what I mean).

[blondshell]

Hi Chris! Good to meet you. Yes join our trash pile. I'm unfamiliar with Angela but psyched to get to know her! And Harry's always great.

I would totally be cool with that. He's experienced enough weird stuff to just roll with it tbh...and I love sketchy assholes /grabby hands for both. And don't worry - Bakugou is filled with strong words whoop!

[hevenly]

The TLDR on Angela is that she's Thor's older half sister who was kidnapped as a baby and raised by the Angels, aka the sworn enemies of Asgard. She didn't learn who she really was until a few years ago, and is now exiled from both Asgard and Heven, though she's on better terms with her Asgardian relatives than any of the Angels. She spent the year prior to coming into game in Ryslig, where she was turned into a cannibalistic minotaur against her will. One of her in-game powers is shifting into her minotaur form every new/full moon, though I've gotten rid of the cannibalism part (bc I don't want to scare people off lol).

[buildallthethings]

would you like another feral to hang out with at times

because I can absolutely see GM 'adopting' Laura as a little sister and trying to teach her How The World Works. (spoiler; GM is not an expert at How The World Works). Xey don't go to school, but the two could easily meet up outside of such if Laura's ever in Central City!

[corpuslingua]

they really are it's a good thing she's so chill to start with

[corpuslingua]

I can offer the worst social norms teacher ever, or someone for Laura to sit and ??? about them with.

also just want that X23/Batgirl combo

[corpuslingua]

look some people would like to avoid another battle for the cowl
that and she thinks she deserves it more

[knight_shift]

Too bad, it's his. Also he literally can't take it off now, because it's bonded to him Extremis/Blue Beetle style.

[doctopoda]

SO EXTRA ROBOTIC LIMBS FOLK SHOULD PROBABLY TALK RIGHT

[corpuslingua]

Guess it's a good thing she's made that Face turn or it wouldn't matter. now you just get sad disappointed Cass faces

[buildallthethings]

and this is why i said im demand CR between them 8D

BUT YES. I have zero doubt Otto might recognize GM's tail, at least, as as disguised 'limb'.

[corpuslingua]

all the mulitverse fun

[corpuslingua]

it'll be fine she'll just love Angela period

Re: QUESTIONS

[kid_flash_found]

If Bart wants to offer the fields attached to the farmhouse he's living in as a home for wayward spud monsters, how would he go about doing this?

[tosavethisworld]

cool, got it! she’s gonna be making a LOT of roast potatoes then.

oh now that the log is up: if Aloy were to scan the terraforming machine with her Focus, what would she get out of it? in fact, if she gets into contact with the machine via her brand-new technopathy, what would she learn from talking to the machine itself? I’m going to guess she can’t override it the way she could to machines back in her world, but I’d like to know if it’s willing to listen to reason somehow.

[doctopoda]

PROBABLY, he knows all the tells! Although frankly, he respects it - he can't really hide his own limbs particularly effectively, and this does make his life harder!

anyway he has like no reason to be in a mechanic's shop, not owning a car and being perfectly capable of his own repairs in any case, but since they live in the same city they could probably run into each other easily enough! Otto's pretty fucking noticeable when he's out and about.

[buildallthethings]

It's easily possible GM would take xeir own interest; I have an open log right now if you don't mind Otto having someone following him who thinks they are being sneaky but they are, in fact, only so good at such?