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

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.

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.