metaooc | STATE OF THE GAME: MAY EDITION

STATE OF THE GAME
Hello and welcome to all of our new friends for joining us in our early stages, and thank you to the playerbase at large for bearing with us as we iron out some of the kinks in our structures and info pages.

HOUSEKEEPING

⚔︎ Tifa has decided to step down from mod team. I hope you will join us in thanking them for all their hard work. Metaheroes would not have its distinctive style without her incredible coding, let alone launched without their expertise and guidance. It has been an absolute joy to mod alongside her and we're excited to see where life takes her!

⚔︎ We are reopening mod applications. If you are interested, please revisit this ooc post. We will particularly need folks willing to draft and edit OOC communications, code posts, and monitor schedules.

⚔︎ The mods are adjusting the structure of Confluences and arrivals. Starting with the May application round, Confluences will be described in the OOC Intro & Plotting Post and there will not be a mod-posted log to accompany them. There will be a toplevel for players to ask questions, and another for new arrivals to post their arrival/intro logs.

Players are encouraged to post their own logs to play with these prompts. New arrivals are also free to handwave their arrivals, as the Guilds are setting up a means to catch players before they hit the ground.

If this ends up being detrimental to the overall health of the game we will look at reintroducing mod written confluences after the end of Arc One.

⚔︎ We will be posting a mingle log on our non-event months. These logs will be set in each alignment's respective meeting place. There will be prompts to encourage characters to get to know each other, including a mentorship program for new characters and those who have acclimated. The center focus of this will be the updated Mission Board which will include all new prompts. Characters are free to claim prompts and thread them out.

Our hope is that this will give players more power to impact the setting.

⚔︎ To that end, we would like to open the floor for PLAYER PLOTS to cause Confluences and trigger arrival events! These players will be responsible for log drafting, as Gee was with the Haunted Mansion plot, as well as a short bulleted list of plot hooks for the OOC intro and plotting post. These events can be caused by player characters, or by short term villain NPCs who players invent. Players who want to volunteer to craft a Confluence log should volunteer at the PLOTTING POST or MOD CONTACT

⚔︎ For the May application round, any current player can extend one invitation. Players planning to invite someone this round should comment below with the player's information!

⚔︎ Just a reminder that as of last month, this game has an unofficial DISCORD SERVER! As a reminder, the moderators will not be monitoring the server's contents. However, players who have issues in the server are still welcome to bring their concerns to us at MOD CONTACT, just as they would with Plurk.

THIS MONTH

⚔︎ MARCH ARRIVALS LOSE THEIR FREE RIDE! When characters first arrived, the guilds promised to help them get their footing. Per notices sent to each occupied room, characters have until MAY 27TH before their stay at the Diadem Hotel comes to an end. Characters who commit to a guild may take advantage of the associated housing subsidy or may use their own personal income to secure private housing.

01 MAY 2022
⚔︎ STATE OF THE GAME
⚔︎ WORLDBUILDING MEME

04 MAY 2022
⚔︎ test drive meme

13 MAY 2022
⚔︎ RUE MOORE HAS IT

19 MAY 2022
⚔︎ RESERVES OPEN

20 MAY 2022
⚔︎ BALTHIER'S PLAYER PLOT

23 MAY 2022
⚔︎ RESERVES CLOSE
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS OPEN

26 MAY 2022
⚔︎ APPLICATIONS CLOSE
⚔︎ OOC INTRO POST

27 MAY 2022
⚔︎ GUILD DEADLINE
⚔︎ CONFLUENCE
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN

30 MAY 2022
⚔︎ ACTIVITY CHECK-IN ENDS

Players unsure whether this affects their characters can check on the GUILDS page. As characters are removed from the Diadem Hotel, players should comment to the HOUSING page with updates on where they are staying. The deadline for April arrivals is JUNE 27.

⚔︎ CENTRAL CITY — It's Root Canal Awareness week, so says Dr. Smile. This sinister message has been plastered all over town. It seems that the good Doctor has escaped from prison yet again and is eager to capture unsuspecting citizens to give them horrific smiles.

⚔︎ LITTLE LOVE The Potatogeddon is finally over. The fields may be ruined and a number of mysterious space-ships have been dug up again. In an effort to distract from what will surely be exhausting weeks of work, the people in town are hosting a Biggest Spud contest. If you can catch the largest potato beast you win a prize!

⚔︎ FREE MAGIC LESSONS IN SUNSET FALLS — The ASTRALIST SHOPPE is welcoming all budding psychics and mystics to come see their wares and take a complimentary magic lesson. Try a wand, see if you’ve got a knack for it! Hopefully you won’t turn yourself into a toad!

⚔︎ EXCELSIOR'S NIGHTLIFE - Excelsior is definitely the place to be if you’re young, hip, and happening. The much hyped NYGHT CLUB is having its grand opening on the 8th. Nyght is a club exclusive to metahumans. A mask and a quick display of power required to enter. The drinks are enchanted, the dance floor is zero g, and the music is hypnotic. Leave your cares at the door and lose yourself in the moment.

DROPS

The following characters will vanish in the coming Confluence: Vidana, Flint Carson, Jessica Jones, Norman Byrd, Norman Osborn, Harleen Quinzel, Luther Hargreeves, Ken Kaneki. If you were swept as a result of missing AC please reach out to the mod team as soon as possible.

Please coordinate with the mods if you would like to claim some or all of their belongings.