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?

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Kate Bishop | Marvel Comics

[fledges]

Player Name & Pronouns: Jenny (she/her)
Preferred Communication: cephalopods or cephalopods#5148 on discord

Character Name & Journal: Kate Bishop | fledges
Guild Affiliation: she'll likely join the guardian alliance, but will need a bit of convincing to fully trust them!
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
- kate's a crau from meadowlark, so she's coming straight from there. that means she'll be a little disoriented and behind her castmates in terms of canonpoint, so she'll have a lot of catching up to do.
- her initial goals will mostly be to touch base with her friends and get the lay of the land. after that, she'll probably fall into her usual superhero schtick.
- she'll be starting a business with billy and living with tony and damian, most likely!
- eventually i'd love for her overconfidence and intensity to get her into trouble somehow, but i don't have solid plans there.

Plot/CR Hooks:
- kate is very type a, nosy as hell, and doesn't usually keep her opinions to herself. that means she's really easy to throw into things, whether that be for positive or negative cr.
- she tends to be very chatty, very social, and very sarcastic/playful. she has a sincere side, too, and can be brutally honest, so if you want someone for your character to get drunk with or someone to scold some sense into them, she's your girl.
- in canon, kate's a pretty established superhero! she's not as experienced as the big hitters like cap or iron man, but she's been working for a few years and generally knows the ropes.
- she's mostly a street level superhero, i.e. she doesn't have any powers or magic. she relies solely on her skill as an archer, but she has done some multiverse hopping with her team, so she has experience there.
- she comes from a rich girl background with a dad who is basically a supervillain at this point, so uh, that could be fun to play with??? who knows
- since kate's a crau, she might recognize some characters. atm this will probably mostly apply to batfam characters because of her cr with damian, so if you want to skip this, just let me know! and on the other end, if you'd like to play with that at all, also let me know!

[mostdangerousbird]

He's a few years younger than the YA set, but I think Tim and Kate would get along. They might not be personality twins, but there's a lot of overlap in the details.

Also, I have no problem with dealing with any of the CRAU stuff. Tim's no stranger to the multiverse and has hopped himself.

[fledges]

tim and kate would be SO CUTE i agree! funnily enough tim is like... the lone batboy kate knows nothing about lmfao

[mostdangerousbird]

Oh well, then they both get to meet for the first time. They can debate the accuracy of the lyrics of “Common People” by Pulp, and how it is sometimes exhausting to look at your mentor hero, and if he’s lucky their getting along will irritate Damian.

[robintohood]

A-okay with the CRAU stuff! Also, I'm really behind on YA but I think Jason and Kate might become great snark buddies, especially if she doesn't know about the Red Hood stuff.

[fledges]

she doesn't know a ton about the red hood stuff! she was like, bffs with rebirth jason and got pretty close with titans jason in ml, but you know, batfam, so there are a lot of holes in her knowledge. BUT since she's so used to multiverse messiness she'll still treat this jason as his own person, if that makes sense? so she'll pretty much take him as he is rather than assume things, even though she'll recognize him, if that works!

but yes, they can totally be snark buddies, and she will absolutely give him shit about killing people if he ever does that here (':

[robintohood]

All sounds good to me! And he'll absolutely try to kill someone so we might need a "it's been X days since last murder attempt" sign.

[kid_flash_found]

Bart's more Bat-adjacent, since he's a Flash, but he'll totally run roughshod over things at some point.

Also, I'm pretty sure he knows how to make trick arrows thanks to his friendship with Arrowette back in his Impulse days, so if she ever needs a glitter-bomb arrow....

[fledges]

she would complain that the glitter bomb arrow is absurd and then be annoyed when she realizes it's perfect for some super specific task, so yes please

[kid_flash_found]

Arrowette was basically a vigilante version of the daughter of one of the moms on shows like Toddlers and Tiaras, so showmanship was important. She actually used soap bubble arrows and crazy stuff.

Trick arrows are an important part of an archer's repertoire. Just ask Green Arrow. He using a boxing glove arrow.

Re: Kate Bishop | Marvel Comics

[eatsnutsandkicksbutts]

Kate!! I don't think she and Doreen have ever really hung out in canon, but they absolutely should!

[fledges]

yesss i would absolutely love that! they'd be super cute!

[thecoolerloki]

join the villains it'll be fun

[fledges]

hmmm

what if loki joined the good guys 😘

[thecoolerloki]

give him a good reason and he might consider it because kate's pretty

[corpuslingua]

adds another Bat here

Cass could use a Stephanie substitute and Kate would absolutely fit the bill.

[fledges]

yesss that would be so cute! your family is so TENSE cass, come have chill hangouts with kate

[corpuslingua]

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

[hevenly]

If Kate's gonna be hanging out with her brother and her former teammate Billy, I imagine Angela's going to want to meet her just to get a sense of who she is (when they're not just observing crazy dino villains from the rooftop)

[fledges]

yeah, absolutely! come vet her, angela!

[tochnyy]

what about drunk times + scolding?

mal would appreciate that kate's a superhero without powers! so cool! teach him your ways (he doesn't want to use his powers, oops.)

[fledges]

haha YES PLEASE i adore mal! they'd be super cute! and probably get in a lot of trouble together, but details

[tochnyy]

there would be great banter! and respect. and yes, so much trouble but like... they need a little trouble!

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.

[fledges]

i love that idea! i've always wanted cr for kate with a kon, ngl. bonding over supervillain parents is a really sweet idea, too. and she can admire his fashion choices (':