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

[defendure]

Player Name & Pronouns: Maggie, She/her
Preferred Communication: roseburst! Please feel free to add me if you like.

Character Name & Journal: Izuku Midoriya / defendure
Guild Affiliation: Honestly, Izuku is friendly and doesn't mind working with others so he's not strictly opposed to affiliation - but he's a giant nerd so he'll want to research all the options and think about it. Probably also more likely to be swayed by where people he knows fall, if they fall anywhere, but he's basically willing to hear anyone out and add it to his mental lexicon as he considers things.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: I tend to play loose and fast with game plans to allow myself flexibility - I love doing plotting posts for specific events and tagging around those, but overall game arcs I tend to allow to form as I go, though I come up with goals as I play in games and get the feel of them. Izuku loves Quirks (meta abilities) and can chat about them endlessly, taking a million notes - he's also just very friendly in general. He's very curious and loves to learn, so he's good at chasing down plot lines and being involved, and I just want him to go out there and make friends and learn about new powers and give people ideas on creative and dumb ways to use those powers!! He doesn't mind losing in fights although he always tries to win - he's very graceful as a loser and loves to better himself endlessly, so I think he'll just be a very positive and active person overall. Meeting so many other superheroes will have him over the moon, too. He can fanboy all of them. Every single one. Even though they're not superheroes in his own world? Also, he will...probably be tracking down any and all comics he can read for whatever exists in this world, because he's a nerd and he has needs.
Plot/CR Hooks:

- Izuku's very, very nerdy and loves to take notes and research things and generally chat with people about powers. Since everyone pretty much has powers, he's? Going to have a grand old time? So he's willing to talk to anyone and geek out about what they can do. He'll also just be fascinated by other worlds and the like. He's very chatty and excited about everything.
- He actually started out in his own world as powerless! So he's happy to help anyone who is getting used to new powers with ideas for training plans or ways to utilize things, if they like? But also he just would be happy to find people to train with and such, he absolutely is cool with losing fights etc he just likes to learn and better himself and do his best. He's pretty easy to get along with.
- In terms of "extra" powers, I gave him a healing power that allows him to heal by taking on other people's pain, so that could be fun to play with (he's...self-sacrificial and needs to be watched closely), and a second one I picked was touch-empathy, but it needs skin to skin contact and ofc will only be used with permission!
- Surely someone in game will watch whatever tv shows exist about nerdy hero shit and also read comics with him. Surely. Let's be nerds together, maybe.
- I am generally willing to throw myself at anyone and figure out a reason to interact if people like, so hit me with anything!

[pinkxeno]

MAGGIE HIII!
I'm so excited to see Deku here! And Mina will be so happy too she has been waiting for her classmates to show up for ages sob

But welcome to the game! I hope you have lots of fun. And of course I will be throwing the pink girl at you whenever you post up something with Izuku (=

[defendure]

HIIII I'm glad to get to play with you again!! I will definitely be topleveling on the intro log!

[pinkxeno]

Expect a lot of excitement from Mina because she has seen Some Shit and is ready to share it all

[defendure]

Izuku will OF COURSE be just as excited...!

[survivalrate]

HELLO i'm shikki & i play two superheroes (josh foley & damian wayne) and this unholy creature named kumoko.

josh is a healer who might be a person this kid needs on speed dial

& kumoko is a hardcore hikkikomori otaku type who kind of desperately needs friends but has -0 social skills unless you bring up manga, anime, light novels or comics she would very much like to be friends with anyone who understands

[defendure]

Hi!! I actually follow Kumoko's manga and I would love them to be nerd friends? Maybe they can get wildly into some kind of superhero anime/manga here...

Also, he definitely needs a healer on speed dial. HE LIKES TO BREAK BONES...

[hevenly]

Hi Maggie! I'm Chris (she/her) and I'm so happy to see more MHAs coming into the game! (I played Momo for a long time)

I'm here with Angela from Marvel comics and Harry Osborn from the Amazing Spider-Man films. Harry and Mina are sort of unlikely friends, even though he's pretty anti-heroism, but I'd love to get CR with Deku in some way, shape, or form!

[defendure]

Momo is great!!! And as to the rest, we can totally throw them at one another and see how it goes? Izuku is inclined to be nice to friends of friends! And...everyone.

[mostdangerousbird]

Hmmmm. Tim’s nerdy but not comic book nerdy necessarily. More high fantasy, analogue gamer.

[defendure]

I think they could totally swing talking high fantasy? Izuku would love to read some.

[mostdangerousbird]

Sweet. I will keep an eye out for need opportunities.

[blondshell]

opt out of everything bye

[defendure]

illegal & not allowed

[blondshell]

damn i guess i'm committed for life then

[defendure]

I am a hard to cancel subscription service!!

[chin_godzilla]

Welcome to the game! Izuku's gonna have a good time with all the shenanigans that happen here. I'm Riki and I've got a very good scaly boi here, Godzilla. I know exactly enough about MHA to know there's a facsimile in Godzillo, so I'll be plenty happy to work with that as much as you'd like!

So long as Izuku doesn't mind an actual kaiju.

[defendure]

Thanks so much! And I don't think he'd mind an actual kaiju at all? He's used to metamorphs (physical mutants) from home anyway. :]