JUNE OOC INTRO AND 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 your initial arrival! Please use the information below to guide your plotting as you settle in.

Confluences appear to be changing. Though most people arrive together, you are free to have your character's arrival happen later in the week.

You are free to post your intro after reading this post! We will not be posting a log for this.

The GUILDS have begun employing safety measures to prevent new arrivals from destroying the cities they land in. As seen on the last TEST DRIVE MEME, the cities have set up ways to intercept the new arrivals and bring them to headquarters as quickly as possible.

OUTSIDE ATLANTIS—

This Confluence is somewhat different from most of the others. New arrivals will find themselves not falling, but floating upwards. There’s a moment of weightlessness, before a sudden pressure and wetness: you’ve found yourselves at the bottom of the ocean, drifting upwards out of glowing cracks in the earth.

There’s little hope of swimming to the surface, but those who live here are prepared. Magical air bubbles will quickly begin to form around new arrivals, allowing them to breathe and navigate more easily. Those who dodge out of the bubbles will find themselves temporarily able to breathe underwater - though you can sense that this power won't last forever. You'll probably still need someone to help you out here.

In the distance, you can see the lights of an underwater city encased in a massive glass dome. Dark sleek shapes emerge, moving with swift grace through the water towards you. They’re seals - or, more properly, selkies. They’ll gather up as many new arrivals as they can and herd them back towards the city of Atlantis. It’s possible, of course, that some of you may slip through the metaphorical cracks, and have to either swim there on your own or roll in your bubbles like giant hamster balls. Other metas can come out to rescue these stragglers - the Atlanteans have plenty of personal submersibles that they can loan you.

LODGINGS —

Once the Guardian Alliance arrives in Atlantis to offer new arrivals an explanation and trasport back to the surface, 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.

UNDER THE SEA —

The kaijuu attacks of this month may have been thwarted, but the city of Atlantis is still in the midst of massive fallout. They’ve petitioned for aid from both the Guilds and the governments of the surface, which means that nearly anyone can find their way into a relief effort if they try. Unaligned metas can easily join up with civilian charity groups, and new arrivals are of course already on the scene.

The undersea earthquakes caused by the emerging monsters have caused a great deal of damage throughout Atlantis itself. Buildings and infrastructure alike have collapsed. By now, most people have been recovered from the wreckage, but there’s still some search and rescue efforts going on for anyone so inclined. You can also help with the burgeoning repair efforts. The most urgent of these, naturally, are to do with the cracks. There’s hairline fractures in several parts of the glass dome overarching the enclosed portion of the city. These areas have been evacuated and cordoned off from civilians, but they'll need to be dealt with quickly, and any help would be very much welcomed.

Outside of the city, there’s been a significant environmental impact. You can see the kaijuu blood, iridescent and thick like some kind of mystical oil spill, still floating through the water around here. It’s made it too dangerous for any but the most cautious of selkies to leave the city and swim freely, so it must be filtered out. Volunteers can take small submersible crafts out into the ocean for this mission. They’re primarily science vessels, built to filter pollutants out of the seawater and collect them in tanks; only one person is required to drive it, although it’s recommended that someone also come along to operate the small attached turret.

Why is there a turret? Well, it seems that the kaijuu blood has had strange effects on some of the local fauna. Deep-sea creatures are already pretty alarming, but now there’s things like mutated gulper eels and anglerfish swimming around and attacking anything that moves. Their natural bioluminescence has taken on a flashing, strobe-light effect in a myriad of neon colors. Some may have even developed multiple heads, or even more rows of horrible teeth. Have fun with that!

The Atlanteans will be very appreciative of any help from surface-dwellers with any of these problems. If your character provides significant assistance - or, alternately, causes problems for them- report your actions here to find out what happens!

The repair and reconstruction efforts in Atlantis will be ongoing, with the most major problems lasting at least until JULY 3RD.

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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QUESTIONS & CHARACTER ACTIONS

[metamods]

Please post any questions with QUESTION in the subject header.

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QUESTION

[determinationtofist]

Just for clarification, is the inside of the Atlantis dome a pocket of air so people can breathe, or is it still underwater, and hence you still need the bubbles in order to breathe?

CHARACTER ACTIONS

[a_gaggle_of_ghosties]

Nox would stay behind in the city to assist with search and rescue efforts. He does have the benefit of the Force after all, so he'd be able to sense anyone alive trapped underneath any debris or rubble, as well as have the means to help with any kind of heavy lifting to get to them. Once that's over and done with, he'd move on to helping with any kind of rebuilding / repair efforts.

Naturally, he'd also try to find out more about the culture and history of Atlantis during his stay, if that's something the selkies would humor him with. He'd try to learn more about them as well, but since xenobiology isn't remotely in his wheelhouse it'd be more in the way of general knowledge than anything too detailed (e.g. how long they usually live for, what's their diet like, etc.)

[rollstoseduce]

Player Name & Pronouns: Sofi (she/her).
Preferred Communication: PMs or returning. Feel free to add me!

Character Name & Journal: Jaskier | rollstoseduce
Guild Affiliation: He'll spend his two hotel months unaligned to get used to things, and then he'll join the Guardian Alliance. Usually, Jaskier is on the chaotic side of things, but he knows you gotta play the game to get access to those precious resources. Besides, he can get behind an organization that actually helps people??? (sounds fake) Anyway, this means he may still be up to help any unaligned and "fuck da police" people if he sees something interesting, and won't hesitate to drop the Alliance if something suspicious comes to light.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Jaskier is a barker for a hero in canon, and that will be his role here as well. Once he begins to understand technology, he'll have two youtube channels: one for the civilian musician, and the other for the superhero bard. Part of his act will be teasing the audience as a civilian, implying something about his identity and support of metas. Jaskier has magic similar to a D&D bard, and he's a support class. He wants to offer boosts to other heroes in exchange for recording their adventures and putting them on his channel. He'll write songs about anyone that lets him (and by that I mean OOCly, ICly he doesn't care about permission, oops) and his ultimate goal is to improve the metas' reputation. Once he gets a decent following, he'd love to organize charity events. listen, with this amount of himbos in one place, we clearly need a carwash going

Plot/CR Hooks: Later, Jaskier would love to help a situation like Atlantis', but he just got here so he'll spend his first few weeks getting used to technology and new magic. His tdm thread is kept as his game-canon intro if you want to jump there (just change nets for the sea haha), but I'm not opposed to someone rescuing him from the waters, lmk if you wanna be that person!

I also have a network post already planned for mid-July about him testing his powers, but meanwhile, I'm open to closed log threads! Some possible hooks:

-Medieval fantasy guy needs to learn modern stuff. Indoor plumbing has already been a blessing. Still unsure about pens, they destroy his calligraphy. Condoms? Best invention known to a man. Please teach him important words like "himbo" and "MILF". Any tips for the washing machine? He cares a lot about his outfits. ALSO WHERE CAN HE GET A LIFE SUPPLY OF THIS CHOCOLATE THING?
-Anything art related if you want to bump into him at the museum or library, but he's a musician and writer first. He'll try every instrument and make ten dozens Spotify playlists. Teach him how to dance these new-to-him rhythms and how to rickroll. Also, you may find him at every karaoke bar in the city. Have music-related arguments with him. ♫ Baby shark doo doo doo ♫
-He's curious in general so if he sees your character doing something ~special~ he'll have a hundred questions for you.
-Loves shopping and the guild's credit card must be burned with expenses. Also he loves looking fashionable and learning grooming techniques.
-Fandom calls him the Taylor Swift of the Continent. Offend him and he will write a mean song about you.
-This is more for the long run, but he'll want someone that can use a spell/technology to make him a camera that follows him around.
-Magic training montage!!!
-(cw: mention of torture and drinking) Probably also for the long run unless someone catches him in the hotel, but Jaskier is arriving at the game after a few weeks of heavy plot in his canon. He didn't have time to recover from his torture and he's been dealing with it by drinking. Being here allows him to ignore the issue and while the new setting is helpful for his health and mood, he still deals with nightmares by drowning them in alcohol. Heroes giving him tips of how to deal with it are welcome. I know, I know, >anyone here having healthy coping skills
-Wildcard! Hit me with your ideas.

Note: Jaskier is a shameless flirt, but please don't take his tags seriously or as a sign of me ship pushing, it's just him being an idiot. Lmk if you need me to tone it down or drop it completely. (Though for the first month or so it'll mostly be for the women, since he needs to wrap his mind around the fact he can openly hit on guys here.)

[determinationtofist]

I'd like to keep our TDM thread canon, if that's fine then! Funnily though, since that thread, Hibiki will have uh... gotten a smidge popular, so he could have also heard more of her songs at this point.

[nepotis]

Yay, I'm glad you're here! Sorry I've been so slow (and will continue to be slow the next couple weeks whoops), but I'd love to keep Harry and Jaskier's thread canon. Harry can be a drinking buddy, shopping buddy, modern life consultant, etc. Jask should also meet Angela, who is basically a lesbian Geralt in a lot of ways.

[whetter]

if jaskier still needs help swimming, he has a buddy that will be arriving with him that can (1) swim really well since he's from a snowy town by the coast and (2) has water-based elemental powers (that he occasionally uses to throw water whales at ppl).

childe also has some pretty hefty trauma in his bg that he's streamlined into becoming a battle-hungry violent gremlin, but he?? actually comes off surprisingly light about the whole thing. like the boy could have edgy angst about it but he doesn't at all. how do we channel our trauma effectively?? FIGHT.....

[acaseofyou]

Hey there! It's been a while but we tagged on memes a few times with Bard Nonsense.

Birdie is always good for music discussions, workshopping mean songs, and other potential collaborations.

Birdie Lewis | Original (Vampire: The Masquerade)

[acaseofyou]

Player Name & Pronouns: Gidget (she/her)
Preferred Communication: barbequed | fruitlets#2046

Character Name & Journal: Bridget 'Birdie' Lewis (acaseofyou)

Guild Affiliation: She'll be as unaffiliated as possible for as long as possible, though if anyone can sway her it'd be the villains.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: First off, here's a brief nonsense glossary of V:tM stuff and her app. Long story short, folk music singing anti-war hippie vampire from a small group of singing vampires in a world of subterfuge and politics is kinda bad at out-manipulating someone in power, gets stuck in Denver for nearly ten years, and is now ready to not be stuck anywhere thanks so much.

Birdie is coming in (up?) after both being very much stuck in one place, and also something very distressing. She's used to changing scenery and moving around, and is going to be very glad to be out of Denver, but she's going to have none of the usual resources at her disposal. Main goals are going to be figuring out what's going on and who to trust, and who not to trust. And while any blood provided for her at the Diadem by the guilds will be nice, she'll want to make sure she's got a quiet spot to perform and get her own little group of fans to feed off of outside of that.

Plot/CR Hooks:
• She's a vampire! More traditional in some ways, and typically trying very hard to hide that whole being dead issue. (Sun bad, so she's only ever around at night, doesn't have a beating heart, all that fun stuff.) Would be a shame if that whole secret was blown immediately for anyone around to notice she doesn't need to breathe underwater.
• Her more signature powers come from her specific vampire bloodline, and all involve her voice. Most notably the ability to manipulate her audience's emotions with her song. In Denver she used this for crowd control, essentially keeping everybody calm and receptive to the Prince's plans, and typically she's found it handy in getting fans in the mood to have her get real close to their necks. But also one time before Denver she went too hard on 'You're So Vain' and nearly started a riot, so there's many wonderful and terrible ways that can go.
• Given the usual level of secrecy she's used to, she'll probably try to network with less-than-virtuous contacts when she's able to, but she's genial enough to get along well with heroes, too. Birdie doesn't pay any mind to looks or general weirdness, either, especially after hanging out a lot with Nosferatu and Malkavians.
• Would you like to be a vampire's juice box? (Don't worry she's nice about it.)

[hevenly]

Angela here is a CRAU from a monster transformation horror game (Ryslig) where she knew a couple vampires, so she's well aware of their specialized needs and lifestyles. I'd be happy for these two to meet and talk about monstery stuff and have Angela volunteer for blood banking!

(IDK if there would be any different effects with Asgardian/sometimes-a-minotaur blood...)

[a_gaggle_of_ghosties]

Hello and welcome! Darth Nox here is from that one famous sci-fi soap opera, you know, the one where no one ever gets any therapy and usually ends up becoming a problem for the rest of the galaxy as a result.

He's incredibly Tired and mostly keeps to himself, but he does have a habit of roaming around to see what he can learn about his new surroundings, usually at night. And he'd definitely recognize a vampire, even if he'd have absolutely no idea what the hell a vampire even is. But when you navigate the world around you with a constant connection to the Force (and by extension, just passively sensing life in general), I imagine any kind of undead would stick out like a sore thumb.

Fortunately, his first instinct would be to find out more rather than go all Van Helsing on anyone. Because he's a nerd, and also because as a general rule he doesn't care what anyone gets up to so long as they don't become A Problem. So he might make for a good unaligned (and morally gray) contact for her, especially if you plan on her being anywhere around Sunset Falls!

He might also be down for helping with the blood problem, though it'd definitely be contingent on whether or not they get along / whether he has any reason to believe she'd become a threat if she drank it.

Dylan Brock | Venom / Marvel (Earth-616)

[codicies]

Player Name & Pronouns: Tsa, she/her
Preferred Communication: thepreciousthing & Tsa#8398 (Disco)

Character Name & Journal: Dylan Brock (codicies).

• Yes, "Brock" as in Eddie Brock. Everyone congratulate Eddie and Venom on becoming parents!!

Guild Affiliation: He'll probably join the Guardian Alliance eventually, but he'll be pretty hesitant for a while. He'll be eyeing the offer like "What's the catch?"

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

• Figure out if he should even tell Eddie who he is - I keep saying Dylan is Eddie's son, but technically he's the son of Earth-616 Eddie Brock, not Sony Eddie Brock. He's going to struggle with that reveal for a bit. Is it fair to dump the responsibility of a kid onto someone who... technically isn't responsible for you and doesn't need to be? He's probably going to start reaching out for advice on that.


• Find some Super Teens to befriend - Back home, Dylan was struggling hard with coming home from the war against Knull and trying to relate to his peers again. He needs some super-friends his age he can relate to! Friends who understand what he's dealing with. Especially half-human friends so he doesn't feel like such an outsider!


• Figure out his powers - By his canon point, Dylan's had his inborn powers taken away thanks, dad and I'm giving him a whole NEW set that is more in line with his alien heritage. Dylan's a human-symbiote hybrid, so he's now got abilities that echo Venom's more! He won't be taking on the Venom mantle here, and will try to invent himself as a new hero & figure out who he is.
  
  • BONUS: I wanna get this boy some good and bad influences, if I can swing it. Dylan's always admired the Edgy Anti-Hero archetype more than the Paragons, but he's so inexperienced and has no idea where, exactly, the line between "anti-hero" and "villain" actually sits. He certainly thinks he does, though. He also has no idea what the actual day-to-day superhero grind is like, or what kind of toll it might take on him emotionally. Especially when he's more into anti-hero aesthetic, and hasn't really given any thought to the philosophy and morality.
    
    Ultimately, he wants to be a good guy and protect the innocent the way his dad does, but like, what does "good" even mean, man? Having different friends & mentors pulling him in different moral & ethical directions would be a lot of fun to explore.

Plot/CR Hooks:

• Dylan has met a LOT of heroes from Earth-616 - Anyone whose canon point is up to the King in Black arc from 2021 and was there for the main battle against Knull probably at least recognizes who Dylan is. He didn't get particularly close to many of the heroes, and I'm certainly not expecting anyone to come flocking to him in recognition, but if your character ever wondered "Hey, what happened to that kid? Eddie Brock's son? What was his name, Danny or something?" Well, here he is.


• Late Night Vigilante Runs - As Dylan starts to suss out what his powers are and what kind of hero he wants to be, he's going to start sneaking out at night to try and do the (Anti)Hero Thing solo. This could not possibly backfire in any way and he's definitely not going to get in over his head. (He is going to get in over his head.)


• Also I'm gonna get him a guitar - angsty grungy teen needs an outlet for his anger trauma so I'm gonna find a way to get a guitar in his hands so he can start channeling that anger creatively. As he learns guitar he'll post videos of him getting better at playing it, and maybe even start a band. We're getting a lot of musicians in game! That's cool. We should all jam. Or maybe do like, a battle of the bands? That could be a while off.


I'll probably think of more right when someone replies and i can't edit anymore. :p Nice to meet you all!

[hevenly]

Welcome, welcome! I don't think Angela knows who Eddie Brock is, but she has fought alongside Flash Thompson!Venom once or twice!

And my other character, TASM Harry Osborn, knows a bit about meeting alternate universe relatives/friends. But he might not give the best advice there, seeing as he was very antagonistic towards Raimiverse Norman until Norman ended up dropping... But oh well!

[robintohood]

Late night vigilante runs with an antihero, eh? Jason's going to be concerned given how young Dylan is but he'd be willing to try and guide him depending on how things go.

[determinationtofist]

Pokes my head out of the ground. Did I hear something about... super teen friends? Granted, Hibiki doesn't have any non-human genes in her, but she's still a radiating beacon of Friendship so...

[thecoolerloki]

hands you a bad influence super teen

Mark Bryant | The Bright Sessions

[atypical_echo]

Player Name & Pronouns: Churby, She/Her
Preferred Communication: churbooseanon but also available on discord at Churby#4290 (I'm not in game discord and will not be)

Character Name & Journal: Mark Bryant atypical_echo
Guild Affiliation: Unless someone builds a bond with him and invests in trying to convince Mark to go Alliance, he's going to be super Unaffiliated. (please someone over time encourage this boy to be second string Alliance or Society for giggles)
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:
Short Term
Mark doesn't trust that the things the Guilds have given them to get settled don't have serious strings attached, so he's going to be looking pretty early for a way to establish himself until he can figure out how to get home. This includes looking for employment (he's a photographer), a home (he's going to be Unaffiliated and likely either in Central or Sunset), and honestly, people to talk to who have more experience here. Any advice he can get will be appreciated.

Long Term
Mark is going to come to realize over time that, as before, he's really stranded. At least this time he can interact with people. However the boy has been through a LOT of trauma in the last several years, which hasn't really ever stopped being a thing. He's got untreated PTSD, tons of personal traumas, and experience in life at dealing with strange powers and not always having control. Anything that feels like he's being trapped or used by someone else triggers serious panic attacks. To this end the boy needs to develop an emotional support network. Including a sober buddy or sponsor.

Longer term than that, I would love to see Mark getting into messes because of his powers, perhaps even being used by others because of his mimic powers (see below). He's a great pinch hitter in emergencies because he can copy powers around him, meaning he's a great tool to kidnap for villainous plots, or great backup when you need some unique power but you need more of it.

Mostly Mark needs people who are like him, people who grew up with abilities rather than gaining them here as Metas, or people who knew those who were born with powers. In his world he's very scared of people not in the know, or in the know but malicious, coming after him. To get to know people who deal with this stuff on a daily basis and don't mind him around is a serious boon.

Also please someone recruit him into a guild or unaffiliated support group because he won't do it himself, he will actively avoid it, and his life might be more interesting with them.

Plot/CR Hooks:
Mark's best, at first, as a bystander to plots that is accidentally a wrench in the works. This could be a positive wrench that helps clear up a gap, or a negative one, where his power mimicry (see below), ends up ruining a plan. While he likes to act like he's a normal kind of guy, Mark definitely attracts trouble in his own canon and is likely to here as well. As he gets to know more people he might be a great pinch hitter for other people who might want to stretch their powers to do more, or cover more area metaphorically by having two people using some key ability at the right time and place.

In canon Mark is sort of a MacGuffin at first. He's the goal that the central character is reaching toward, an attempt to claw at freedom. Later he serves more as a Chekhov's gun, in that his powers and the research that was based on them distorts the lives around him until at least power balances are usurped. But Mark doesn't want to be involved in all of this mess, he wants to refind purpose in life, acceptance, and safety. Which, well, that's never going to happen back home.

Here he's not hunted. Here he doesn't need to fear experimentation (though he doesn't know it). Here he might actually be able to be open with who and what he is, and he doesn't know it. Mark will, at first, only get into other people's things by accident and proximity, but with time it might be possible to lure him into helping others because that is in his nature, no matter what he denies. Mark's pure support, but in a strange way. He can be the powerhouse Meta if he's with another powerhouse. Need more telepaths to read a city? Well, he's there too. What about some help redirecting some sort of super storm? Well, put him near another person who can control weather and he can do that too.

Really, he's a chameleon that, once you point him at a task, will be very helpful. The problem is first someone has to find a way to assure him that they'll have his back and keep him safe and free. Then they just have to remind him that, as others saved him before, sometimes people need a hand up. So really, he's the guy you need in most situations, you just have to find a way to get him into the situation and helping.

Otherwise, Mark's a delightful burst of chaos to add to any situation. Would your plot become just a bit more complicated if there was another person that could accidentally be blamed for a villainous plot because they're using the same powers? Please, have Mark. Have a character who doesn't know one of their new Metapowers and you need to find a way to get them to realize it? Mark's your man to reveal it. Or do you just want a sorta damsel in distress that accidentally saves himself or makes more problems? Look over here at Mark, he's got you covered.


Important Opt-In Note!
One of mark's powers is that he can mimic many different types of powers/abilities of Metas within 30 feet of him. I am keeping this power completely opt-in. I will include in every Log TL/Starter he is in a link to his opt-in post, and under no circumstances will he ever copy a power without a player first actively opting-in on this. If I tag in to someone I'll also direct them there. None of this will prevent me from tagging out with Mark to just about anyone and everyone, he just will not have this power figure in without you actively opting-in. If you have any questions or aren't sure about whether powers apply, feel free to contact me. I'm still refining the wording on the Opt-In to make sure it's as clear as I can manage.

As alluded to above in Plot Hooks, I definitely want to play some with the fact that copying powers in no way means Mark knows what he's doing with them and that getting him in trouble, but this is only possible with those who opt-in. Otherwise I'll get him into trouble around NPC Metas.

[whetter]

Player Name & Pronouns: veronica (she/her)
Preferred Communication: PM/discord at veronica#1133 are the best ways to get ahold of me. i'm in the game discord if you'd like to reach out! if you prefer plurk, i'm around at hadal, but please ask before adding.

Character Name & Journal: Tartaglia "Childe" • whetter
Guild Affiliation: Childe's going to spend some time doing a little scoping. Since he's going to have to re-evaluate since his duty is bound to a different world, he's going to start from scratch. The type of guild and their ideals aren't his point of sway, and instead Tartaglia will be looking into see which is ... well, the strongest guild, of course.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

• First and foremost, he's going to be looking for information. His goals will be to identify the players in the world, the strong players in the world, the gods (if there are gods), and other possible factors that may be involved. If he's going to be Guild-affiliated, he wants to make sure he's affiliated with the strongest guild, and as ambitious as he is, he'd like to move up quickly.
  
  
• He wants to get home to his family and to Teyvat, he has a duty to his Tsaritsa, so he'll be looking for a way back. Luckily, he has some experience with travelers and other worlds, so that won't be too shocking. (There will be a little bit of "lol i'm the traveler now.")
  
  
• Are you strong? Are you an opponent? He'll be taking sign-ups for strong opponents to fight because he thinks he's from a shounen manga.

Plot/CR Hooks:

• He's never used a cellphone before so that's going to be interesting. He's also going to be a little fussed that he has no pictures of his family to spam at people. How is he supposed to show everyone how cute his little brother is??
  
  
• While he's looking for information (see above), he's also going to be looking for some strong opponents to fight and challenge himself. He's going to want to test his own abilities on that of people from other worlds', as well as find new ways to get stronger. This can work two-fold! (1) The way to get him to respect people is through, whoop, fighting. He's actually not a bad loser, either. He tends to really like people who kick his ass. (2) He'll want to learn new things from people that he's decided that he likes. He'll most likely do a call-out post soon to get people's opinions on Metaheroes' strongest: gladiator addition.
  
  
• Someone please show this boy to the gym so he can be a jock.
  
  
• There is a Ley Line system where he's from! There are also "Ley Line disorders" where he's from, too, which differ wildly but usually have something to do with weird time things. I'd like to get him somewhat involved in that whole thing and possibly look into pushing him toward Sunset Falls for housing. The boy is kind of chaotic, so it also seems to fit his overall mood. Sorry everyone who lives in Sunset Falls.
  
  
• Vision, Delusion & the Boy from the Abyss – Childe has two little trinkets on him: (1) a Vision, granted to him by the gods of his world that is a manifestation of his ambitions and allows him to wield elemental energy, and (2) a Delusion, which is a manufactered little orb that is made from dead god juice and allows him to wield a different kind of elemental energy. If anyone would like to get into dead god magical trinket, lmk. He won't be readily offering up info that he has it, but if your character would sense it, we can work something out.
  
  Childe also has had a little trip to the Abyss from when he was younger, which has stayed with him since he crawled out of it. The Abyss is a void-type realm where time does not flow regularly, and is flowing with corruption. (That's the tl;dr of it.) He has a transformation and everything to turn into – uh, well, a monster-ish type large dude.
  
  
• Notes: two more quick things! He's a weapons master who can wield all kinds of different weapons, but carries a bow because he's weakest with it, and he's also very, very good at cleaning and cooking. Do what you want with that info.

[determinationtofist]

How would you feel about meeting the Mecha-Magical Girl powered by Singing? In terms of people to fight, she's actually pretty damn strong, so she could satisfy his shounen-esque needs.

Oh, and do you mind if I add you on plurk?

[batricide]

>:[

yelan | genshin impact

[fabricable]

Player Name & Pronouns: Alison / she/her
Preferred Communication: PMs or Discord (alison#8996). I'm in the game Discord if anyone would like to message me from there. I do have the ability to message me outright off, but feel free to ask to add me!

Character Name & Journal: Yelan / fabricable
Guild Affiliation: This will depend on what the mods say when they get back to me, but Yelan is the type to join both and play both sides. I'm going to see what it takes for her to do that.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals:

Short term: Adjusting to the world's technology. If anyone would like to help her, she'd be much obliged. However, it's likely that she'll do this while being fake about herself, so the person that someone meets for that won't be the person they might run into later (if she allows that to happen). It may even involve shapeshifting.

Long term: Yelan is a spy, so she's definitely going to be assessing (and accessing) the different influencer circles. One thing I'd like her to do is confront and cause problems for Rue Moore. Otherwise, Yelan is out of her element in this world after being someone who can go with the flow back home, so I'd like to play with her needing to build up new alliances over time.
Plot/CR Hooks:

• Yelan is definitely going to be looking into setting up networks of information and acting as an information broker. However, that means she'll need to reassess how she does things, as she typically moves in the shadows. Alliances for spy work are welcome.

• On the other hand, spy versus spy.

• Yelan isn't power hungry, but she won't turn down resources. Knowing how to use the guilds both to her advantage will be a big goal.

• Hilariously, trying different types of spicy food. She'll be trying every kind of hot sauce out there (and then some) to find the best and hottest one. Does Da Bomb Beyond Insanity exist in this world? Because she's going to find it and try it if it does. If you'd like your character to stare in wonder at this about her, that'd be great.

• Since she's got shapeshifting powers, I'd like her to have multiple identities having CR with the same people, but under different names. This would be out of necessity to make covers seem real rather than her playing with someone to beat them. Unless they need to be beaten for some reason, of course.

• She's from a clan of magicians. Do I know how that works? Nope! But she'll want to understand magic and the like.

[whetter]

i can't believe they're stuck together.

[doctopoda]

Player Name & Pronouns: Lu (she/her)
Preferred Communication: lluosogrwydd

Character Name & Journal: Otto Octavius (doctopoda)
Guild Affiliation: Alliance
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Otto's largely still just Coping. He's working at doing good, being a good person, and not falling apart. His recent alignment with the Alliance, as well as his status as a technology-based hero in Excelsior, mean that he's starting to attract more attention from social media and the press, all of which he's doing his best to avoid.

Plot/CR Hooks: Otto is now an Alliance member in good standing! He low-key sort of hates it, but he'll be playing nice for now: going on Alliance missions, visiting the HQ in Central City to do paperwork and various shit, stuff like that. He can easily run into any other Alliance members who are doing stuff!

Anyone in Excelsior might hear about his growing reputation as a reclusive, cryptid-like hero. As of late he hasn't done a lot of superheroing on his own, but I plan for him to run into and handle a minor villain this month, which will draw some attention. He's a technologically-enhanced hero and a Confluence transplant, both of which make him pretty interesting to the general public, and honestly his refusal to really engage with social media or the press just adds something to it.

He's also taken in a couple of Peter Parkers (MCU and Ultimates) recently. Anyone who's close to either of them is free to come over to visit and run into Otto!

[beatscissors]

Player Name & Pronouns: michele, she/her
Preferred Communication: greenlantern or pm

Character Name & Journal: korg, beatscissors
Guild Affiliation: he will immediately sign up with the alliance because he likes the free stuff
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: his goal in life is to become better at fortnite ;w;
Plot/CR Hooks:
i'm thinking about getting him into twitch streaming. otherwise if you ever need a well meaning, but slightly dumb rock to cheer for your character, he's your guy!! he's here to have a good time. or appreciate his pineapple print suit because you bet i brought that in.

he's also taika waititi playing a very specific stereotype surely that's a draw in and of itself.

also please help him out of the water he is a rock.

[deemed]

new medium who dis