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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[blondshell]

Player Name & Pronouns: milk, they/them
Preferred Communication: brainmeat on plurk

Character Name & Journal: Katsuki Bakugou blondshell
Guild Affiliation: He is not easily swayed and will determine what he wants to do / stand by, but he will also more likely be convinced by what his castmates defer to. But like, please feel free to try.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Canonically Bakugou has recently gone through a good chunk of development that has made him more willing to Try and be a better version of himself. He's still emotionally stunted AF and incredibly rude, brash, proud, and will absolutely come off like he's already sick of your character before even knowing them!! But don't let that put you off. He's ...an aquired taste. I, however, am all for throwing him at anyone and everyone.

Currently, he will be interested in:

- Finding a mentor-type figure.
- Getting back to his usual means of training / finding training partners.
- Adjusting to the new world and quietly studying up on it.
- Will definitely be beating the hell out of some potatoes.

Plot/CR Hooks: Bakugou is invested in becoming a pro-hero in his own world so he actually will stop and help anyone in need. He might not be the hero you want, but he's the hero you need - or something. He's not like,,,the most comforting guy to save someone,,,but he'll absolutely get the job done! He is hyperaware of other people and if anyone gives him villain-type vibes, he'll just call them sketchy to their face.

I'm very open and comfortable with antagonistic relationships and working towards more positive or negative places. Bakugou doesn't really do "nice" but he can take up the role of leader or partake in team missions surprisingly well - if you can tolerate the yelling and swearing anyway. Even though he is a hero-type, he definitely is easy to make enemies with even if you're another hero.

[hevenly]

Welcome to the game! I'm Chris and I have Angela here from Marvel Comics, as well as Harry Osborn from The Amazing Spider-Man movies. and I may or may not be enabling myself into apping an MHA in the near future, shh

Anyway, Angela is a CRAU from a game where she had some CR with Bakugou, not enough to be super close or anything but enough to know him as a young hero and have a decent amount of respect for him, if that's something you want to play with. Either that, or Harry is available to be a sketchy asshole to butt heads with your heroic asshole (whoops sorry that's a strong word... but you know what I mean).

[blondshell]

Hi Chris! Good to meet you. Yes join our trash pile. I'm unfamiliar with Angela but psyched to get to know her! And Harry's always great.

I would totally be cool with that. He's experienced enough weird stuff to just roll with it tbh...and I love sketchy assholes /grabby hands for both. And don't worry - Bakugou is filled with strong words whoop!

[hevenly]

The TLDR on Angela is that she's Thor's older half sister who was kidnapped as a baby and raised by the Angels, aka the sworn enemies of Asgard. She didn't learn who she really was until a few years ago, and is now exiled from both Asgard and Heven, though she's on better terms with her Asgardian relatives than any of the Angels. She spent the year prior to coming into game in Ryslig, where she was turned into a cannibalistic minotaur against her will. One of her in-game powers is shifting into her minotaur form every new/full moon, though I've gotten rid of the cannibalism part (bc I don't want to scare people off lol).

[chin_godzilla]

Glad to have you in the game! I'm Riki and I have here one very large, very good boy who goes by Godzilla. Not exactly the Godzillo Bakugou might be familiar with, but hey, the important parts are there.

G is absolutely willing to be patient with the boy and help him out as much as a kaiju can! Sometimes you wanna be an angry boi and that's valid. And sometimes you smash a few buildings but what can you do

[blondshell]

Hi Riki! Wonderful to meet you. I would love this so much oh my god yes ....Godzilla is the best.

Katsuki would probably think it's v badass to have a kaiju helping him out ;o; I love it already.