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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[batricide]

Player Name & Pronouns: shikki they/them
Preferred Communication: minimoffs @ plurk

Character Name & Journal: damian wayne (injustice) batricide
Guild Affiliation: Damian is probably going to sign up with the Guardian Alliance the moment he gets there, become disgusted at the very notion of the guild system and how buddy-buddy they are, and split off.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

HE... DOESN'T KNOW ANYMORE?

Damian caught in the midst of the world's shittiest custody battle between his biological father and his chosen father, serving as Superman's right hand and surrogate son. And he's... maybe... starting to catch on to the fact that he's been on the wrong side of things. But he's his father's son and stubbornness and fear drive him more than he'll ever admit.

Damian's stance on super-criminals is that they need to be put somewhere they can't hurt anyone else. This doesn't always mean killing them. If he can secure them somewhere they won't escape and kill again, he'll do that. If he can't then he views it as the only recourse that guarantees no more innocent people will die.

Being here will be a nice change of pace for him but any relief he feels will be washed away by the subtle but persistent anxiety that someone is going to come in and destroy it.

Plot/CR Hooks: Damian's the genetic son of Batman so he has all the skills of Batman. He also has slightly better social skills.

He spent about a year and change in Meadowlark which has further improved his capacity to be a person when around other people. He's got a budding desire to take charge and be a leader, not be puppeted by the people around him. He's also got chronic daddy issues and won't hesitate to jump in and agree that his father is an asshole.

If you need a tech guy / a field medic / someone to train you in how to do this superhero thing and not get killed - he's the only Robin in his world who hasn't died so he's probably your guy!

Also if you want someone to argue with you over the morality of murder THIS IS YOUR DUDE. I'd love for him to really REALLY get into it with someone, cede their point, and then immediately get grievously wounded by the villain in question.

His powers are also super built for CR and player plots. AND HE HAS A ROBOT ARM???

BLUE GOD POWERS. Damian's rage sets him on fire. This power isn't exceptionally powerful or potent. The best he can do is channel it into a fist - it's more of a hindrance than a benefit, he usually ends up catching himself on fire.

He also possesses an empathy bond that will activate should he come into contact with someone else who was given this blessing. This power may expand out in the future.

A SPARK OF MAGIC. attribute will manifest in the ability for Damian to learn magic. I'd like to make this a CR focused ability - if Damian has deep CR with your character, he'll automatically be granted a spell based upon the relationship. This power will be quite limited in scope and so no power will be particularly grand. At best, he might be able to teleport directly to that person, conjure a small rainstorm, etc. Small things meant to solidify the connection rather than anything that could change the flow of battle.

It will also focus heavily on cross-canon CR. Meaning that he will not gain any abilities from anyone he's bonded with in canon or from the extended DC Universe, only from other universes. His own power is a limited transformation based upon how he feels about himself. Which is that he's a poor imitation of his father. What this means is he can summon a pair of bat wings.

As his opinion of himself changes, this might revert to a pair of drab Robin wings for when he's feeling lost, or a set of enormous raven wings for when he feels particularly secure as Nightwing.

LAZARUS BLOOD. Damian will find that when he bleeds, he bleeds green, glowing lazarus water. Damian's blood will also possess the healing benefits of a pit - and those same drastic side-effects. The blood cannot heal internal injuries as it has to be applied directly onto the injury. Blood for blood, the cost of his family's magic. Your mind in exchange for a life long-lived.

The nearer to death you are when you're exposed to his blood, the more likely it is that you'll succumb to a form of Pit Madness. This effect can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Anyone who takes on this effect will be disoriented, impulsive, and prone to sudden outbursts of aggression.

[a_gaggle_of_ghosties]

brb laughing at the thought of Damian accidentally picking up ghost powers from Nox at some point. Or, specifically, the consequences of it.

I'm just imagining Damian rolling up to Bruce's front door with a whole-ass ghost army, for no other reason than to be the most dramatic asshole possible before they get into their latest argument/insult exchange/fight.


Also, it's a given I'm gonna throw Looma at him so they can be ANGER BUDDIES

[mostdangerousbird]

Why are you SO TALL

[robintohood]

HI LITTLE BRO. BIG BRO? Whatever. Jason's going to be pretty upset that there's been more Robins since after his death but goddamn. Once he gets to know Damian, it sounds like they might click really well. It also sounds like Jason's more inclined to kill than Damian so that might be really interesting to play with.

Let's hate Batman together.

P.S. Jason needs a swordsmanship teacher.

[lightmyself]

It is very unfair that Damian is older than him who let this happen he didn't agree to this when he joined the family.

[fledges]

hey NERD let's figure out a spell for these two

and reunion stuff ig

[corpuslingua]

Ever think maybe you should just chill out, Damian?

[knight_shift]

Did you want a half-brother? Too bad, you're getting one anyways. Not that Terry knows about that fact yet.