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

[doctopoda]

Oh, that sounds fun! GM could probably determine that the arms also have eyes in them after some observation, but by the time you've observed that it's probably already too late

[buildallthethings]

THUMBS-UP

If you want me to set up a thread on the post, lmk; otherwise you're welcome to start one. Either way, off to bed with me wheeeeEE

[metamods]

It has very, very rudimentary AI that struggles to communicate in any known machine language. It has been here for some time and appears to be malfunctioning quite badly. If a machine can feel loneliness then surely this is the loneliest little creature in this cozy town.

Aloy may need to try a few times to get it to pay attention and talk to her. The lighting appears to have done a number on it and it's scanners are not properly picking up on life. The machine will be somewhat confused to find another entity trying to communicate with it. It is certain that it has landed in an inhospitable planet and that it is doing the necessary work to make it safe for the people who were following after... But it has been alone here for a long, long time. It doesn't seem malicious, but it does seem desperate to accomplish the task that it was given to fulfil its purpose and does not want to stop.

[metamods]

While Bart's offer is appreciated, by the townsfolk, the spuds that are not adopted (or baked, or fried, or mashed) are very content to bury themselves deep underground in the field they were grown in.

For any events which may feature a potential pet or adoptable we'll be employing a One Per Person rule.

[chin_godzilla]

Glad to have you in the game! I'm Riki and I have here one very large, very good boy who goes by Godzilla. Not exactly the Godzillo Bakugou might be familiar with, but hey, the important parts are there.

G is absolutely willing to be patient with the boy and help him out as much as a kaiju can! Sometimes you wanna be an angry boi and that's valid. And sometimes you smash a few buildings but what can you do

[chin_godzilla]

Welcome to the game! Izuku's gonna have a good time with all the shenanigans that happen here. I'm Riki and I've got a very good scaly boi here, Godzilla. I know exactly enough about MHA to know there's a facsimile in Godzillo, so I'll be plenty happy to work with that as much as you'd like!

So long as Izuku doesn't mind an actual kaiju.

[defendure]

Thanks so much! And I don't think he'd mind an actual kaiju at all? He's used to metamorphs (physical mutants) from home anyway. :]

Spock | Star Trek (Discovery era)

[intermingled]

Player Name & Pronouns: Lauren, She/her
Preferred Communication: blauren or kobrakidding#0888

Character Name & Journal: Spock intermingled
Guild Affiliation: Spock will want to learn about the world here before committing himself completely, but his morals line up very well with the Guardian Alliance.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Spock would very much like to find a place where he belongs, having spent most of his life feeling torn between his parents' two cultures and fitting in in neither. He does not allow himself to admit that he wants these things, but he has admitted how painful it is to hide so much of himself all the time once or twice. Given a new environment, Spock will immediately be looking to understand the world around him and find a place where he can at least do good by his own moral standards. Having just been given heartfelt advice to reach out to people instead of further isolating himself, he will also give it his best fumbling attempt to make connections with other people. Longterm, I would like him to succeed in making connections and finding a place, but for him to have to work for it all.

Plot/CR Hooks: Spock believes very strongly in helping people and working for the betterment of the many over the few. He also really loves science and any opportunity to combine these will make him about as happy as a Vulcan will allow themselves to be. He will easily offer scientific assistance to any heroes who might need support and though he does not have his Starfleet or Vulcan technology, he does have an eidetic memory and has a wealth of scientific knowledge within his own mind. He is not particularly tactful or kind in his approach to people, but he is also not intentionally cruel (most of the time) and can be trusted to be honest, even if he is also likely to sometimes be withholding. Though he is very confident in himself and his skills and knowledge, he is a little brother who has just lost his big sister and if given an opportunity to fill a little brother role, he might be inclined to lean into it if someone were to remind him of Michael. He is also very early in his long life and long career (this is pre-The Original Series by a few years) and not as likely to take command of a situation unless he sees a vacuum of leadership. He's not used to not having orders at this point.

tldr: Does your character need a salty space elf science nerd sidekick who will talk back?

Re: QUESTIONS

[knight_shift]

Is there enough time between the machine's destruction and them being teleported away for Terry to hide and switch out of his suit so he can pretend to be some guy when the Guilds collect them?

Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[lowercase_el]

Player Name & Pronouns: Korel | ey/em/eir
Preferred Communication: Plurk | korel

Character Name & Journal: Kon-El/Conner Kent/Superboy | lowercase_el
Guild Affiliation: Probably going to wind up unaffiliated because his response to "go be a superhero on an officially sanctioned superhero team" is going to be "sure!" right up until he knows it's a law, and then he'll flip to "don't tell me what to do"
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Kon's a go with the flow kinda guy. His long-term goal will be to get home; his short-term goal will be to help everyone get home in one piece, and make sure that when they leave, the world they're in is no more banged up than it was when they arrived.

Character-wise, Kon's sort of adjusting to being someone that bypassed all the reboots back home, and left Earth to come back and find it changed. Even though the heroes all remember the past timelines now, it's still an adjustment. Being stuck in yet another different dimension will be another. He's struggling to get his feet under him again.

Along the way I'd like to have him poke and prod a little at the history of clones in the game world, and plan for him to live that unaffiliated lyfe. He won't have a deep distrust of authority here, but just enough he'll worry about how all the other unaffiliated metas that just want to keep their heads down are doing.
Plot/CR Hooks: Kon pack bonds pretty quickly so all it'll take for him to want to help other people out with whatever they've got going on is just liking them a little bit. He'll also be quick to grab people and drag them into something bad he sees going on.

He's reliable in a fight, trustworthy, and while his powers are dialed down a little, he still has a small grab bag of them and is pretty powerful. He's especially good at manipulating complex components with his teke. While he'd never do it for the sake of stealing if the good guys have to get into some impossible to open safe without blowing it up, he'd make a hell of a safecracker.

[lowercase_el]

A feral clone-child you say? =D

I'm slightly familiar with the comic X-23, and the movie version is one I've wanted cr with for a while.

Kon would think she's absolutely precious and default right into clone big bro mode. And also try to mentor her in the ways of adjusting to the world when you're a weird clone child pretty much raising yourself.

He'd try to help guide her towards the straightish and narrowish bc he had people try to take advantage of his trust and naivete many times.

Also, he never got to be a kid, so he'd be pretty enthused in encouraging her to be one and just have fun.

[lowercase_el]

CASSSSSSSS

I really would love to have them fully get to be the friends canon didn't.

Re: Kate Bishop | Marvel Comics

[lowercase_el]

I think Kon and Kate have strong personalities but in a way where they'll probably get along. He's used to nosy friends. Oh boy oh boy is he used to nosy friends. (Tim isn't even the only one).

also oh boy oh boy supervillain parents

He could offer all the sympathy. He's kind of on the other side of processing his Luthor trauma.

Re: Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[kid_flash_found]

Bart is going to be so stoked to have both his best friends in a game. His mun is just trying to keep her spoons in order to keep up with a speedster without being too flighty-seeming.

Re: Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[lowercase_el]

Kon'll be really glad that, since Bart was off in other dimensions for a while, he and Tim are finally there to have his back.

Re: Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[kid_flash_found]

Well, he had a Kon, but....yeah, multiverse shenanigans....

He won't mention much unless asked specifically. Kat-El (his cat) may be a little confused since that Kon rescued him as a kitten and he and Bart raised the floofball.

Re: Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[lowercase_el]

Yet more multiverse shenanigans, ain't that the way of it.

Re: Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[kid_flash_found]

Always. He's got people to introduce to his besties amd trouble to get up to. In the best ways, of course.

The Joker | DC Comics

[thelastlaugh]

Player Name & Pronouns: Korel | ey/em/eir
Preferred Communication: korel

Character Name & Journal: The Joker | thelastlaugh
Guild Affiliation: Extremely unaffiliated
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Mostly just introducing myself rather than doing a full cr building post.

The Joker won't be played like a normal day to day character. I plan on having him cause periodic problems, ending in his usual faked deaths or captures, until his final defeat, whatever form that takes.

I'll be periodically testing the waters to see when people would like a joker plot and submitting player plots to the mods for approval. I plan on running them in a way where clues and puzzles and figuring out his plans will be left to players oocly to puzzle out. (If people hit a wall I'll give some hints, but I'd like to let people enjoy a little ooc mystery).

I have an opt out. But in general, so people can avoid them, all of his plots will be aggressively opt in or have very easy to explain opt outs.

And just so people have a heads up on tone but while he's absolutely awful, I'm not a fan of like "feeds batfamily what they think are their own faces" awful. He's an edgy dickhead but we're gonna dial it down a few pegs to, y'know, gas attacks, trying to torture Robins, and killing people because they won't let him copyright the world's fish.

[robintohood]

Well, you know I'm absolutely for awful fun times.

[mostdangerousbird]

The Robin conga line starts after Jason right?

[corpuslingua]

yes! fill in all the missing details

[corpuslingua]

trying to torture Robins

and then getting ignored by Batgirl so she can piss him off enough to punch him in the face

[corpuslingua]

oh wow baby Spock

I know nothing of Discovery but so much love for Spock in all forms. Cass would find him so weird and yet amazing

[thelastlaugh]

He will try at hurting other batfam as well but lbr you're right she'd just roundhouse kick him in the head so hard he'd go backwards in time and meet Anthro the first man.