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]

Player Name & Pronouns: Pinky (she/her)
Preferred Communication: Plurk (angriestbird) or on Discord (Pinky#1275)

Character Name & Journal: Jason Todd (robintohood)
Guild Affiliation: Jason will most likely stay unaffiliated as he doesn't trust either guilds and isn't a fan of their rules, particularly the "no killing" rule.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

- Jason's IC long-term goal will be to find a way back to his Gotham. So he'll want to investigate and learn what he can about this alternate Earth.
- Until then, Jason will also see the new setting as an opportunity to refine his approach as a crime lord/vigilante. Until he finds a way back to Gotham, Jason thinks he might as well also try to help ordinary citizens.
- One of Jason's confluence-provided powers is the ability to summon dual swords. He'll absolutely want to learn how to be an efficient fighter with them.
- I would like Jason to go through development that shifts him from villain/violent antihero to a slightly less violent antihero. DC has never explained how the hell the shift happened so fuck it. RP-ing it.

Plot/CR Hooks:
- Jason is post-Under the Red Hood movie which means he's still a villain/violent antihero who believes in "an eye for an eye" and that the ends justifies the means.
- He works best with street-level/city crimes.
- He'll most likely set up base in Central City because it's a lot like Gotham.
- Although one of my long-term goals is to shift him into a less villainous character, I'm totally down with playing him as a villain and clashing with other characters.
- Besides getting to know this weird alternate Earth he's now in, he'll likely want to try to aggressively take down or take over chucks of the criminal underworld.
- Like I mentioned before, Jason will want to learn how to use dual swords properly.
- Jason's swimming in Denial about just how traumatized he is. He thinks the way he's handling things is Just Fine. Clearly, it's not. Most likely it'll take a long while but it'll be great if whatever CR he makes gets him to reconsider some things?
- Outside of being the Red Hood, Jason's more of an introvert and will want to keep people at arm's length, or at least at first. Once he gets talking though, he's a great snarker. Although he's no longer an idealistic happy Robin, he's still capable of caring about people and will be protective of his friends once he's comfortable and trusts them enough.

[mostdangerousbird]

Like literally come at me bro.

Also you want to talk about denial:

[robintohood]

Jason's going to be so royally pissed off energetic seeing that a new Robin showed up after he died. What a great mess this is going to be.

Also, the Bat-Family's got great coping mechanisms so that seems like a perfectly healthy response.

[kid_flash_found]

Bart is just going to offer the farm as a place to relax for any and all BatFam. Come help with passive-aggressive weed-whacking or something.

[robintohood]

God... Jason really could use that and it would be cute. It just might take a while before Jason's willing to visit the farm because lolololol Massive trust issues with BatFam.

[kid_flash_found]

Bart's like "Come. Or don't. But you're welcome to drop by."

Also, Kat-El will probably decide that since he doesn't care, he's got to be won over to the cult of feline worship.

[robintohood]

CUTE. Hard to resist cats.

[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 :)

[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]

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.

[robintohood]

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