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

QUESTIONS

[metamods]

[mostdangerousbird]

So, if Timmers is showing up with a motorcycle, does the bike get planted too?

[metamods]

Unfortunately for Tim, it does! You can handwave that the guild recovered it or have him tromp around the fields trying to find it.

[mostdangerousbird]

Fortunately for me, that’s hilarious.

Re: QUESTIONS

[tosavethisworld]

if Aloy scans the potatoes with her Focus what is she going to get?

[metamods]

Aloy won't get much beyond the nutritional information of these potato monsters. If she tries to recreate their creation, all she will see is them bursting out of the earth and scurrying out. The most she may able to glean is that it appears this is a spontaneous evolution and it may be a result of something in the water.

There will be things underground that she can scan and pull more interesting results from once the log goes up. If you'd like to have her investigate those then swing back around once it goes up!

[tosavethisworld]

Aloy just staring at the information popping up on her Focus display like, great. thanks. good to know these are tasty and good for me when they're not actively trying to kidnap me for a potato plot.

do the potatoes have any weak points or anything they're weak to? or is that reserved for when the log goes up?

ahhh, I'll swing back around once that happens!!

[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.

[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.

[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.

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?

[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.

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?