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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[sequinns]

Player Name & Pronouns: Mel (she/her)
Preferred Communication: harlequeen

Character Name & Journal: Harley Quinn | sequinns
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated. She has a complicated relationship with teams.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Harley’s here for trouble and a good time. I’d say not necessarily in that order but… it’s definitely in that order. She thrives on chaos so she’s less likely to be worried about joining a guild and more interested in figuring about these nifty new powers she has (which, speaking of, if you recognize them from another game it’s not plagiarism… I played a comic Harley there and lifted those powers because they were fun to play with!)

I’d definitely love any and all CR, both positive and negative? Though I also understand that there are a lot of characters here who won’t trust her right off the bat (and with good reason!)

Though she probably won’t actively be looking at guilds at first, joining one isn’t completely off the table… it’ll probably just depend on whether she ends up thinking it’ll be beneficial enough to her to do so.

Plot/CR Hooks: Definitely an antagonist. But the best thing about Harls is that it’s pretty easy to explain away why she’s in… pretty much any situation because so little of what she does makes sense 😂 If there’s any characters who’d be interested in roller derby let’s chat! Or anyone who’d be into a throw down (she’s got some new super strength she’d love to have fun with).

She’s also got Bruce the hyena with her for plenty of hijinks and nonsense! And, lbr, any scenario where she could be minding her own business/looking out for her own best interests and then accidentally end up being heroic would be fabulous!

[robintohood]

Harley exists in Jason's Gotham and presumably is still with the Joker. Soo... this CR might be a great disaster or Jason might somehow eventually get past his anger and respect DCEU Harley for no longer being with the Joker.

[monomachy]

hello i'm iola and i play diana!! from the year 1918!!! i just added you on plurk (watchet) and i'm here for whatever kind of shenanigans could happen with diana just having no clue who harley is

[curar]

If you'd be up for interacting with Laura, I know she would love Bruce and would think Harley is amazing since she is equally chaotic and does...whatever she wants, whenever she wants to do it.