JULY OOC WELCOME & 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.

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.

TRUST NOT JULY SKIES — CENTRAL CITY

The first well-needed thunderstorm of the July season brings with it yet another storm of falling people. A crack of thunder, a flash of brilliant lightning, and bodies are sent tumbling to the earth. The mystical failsafes will reach out to catch you before you hit the ground, though they’re only as competent as the wizards who cast them and you may find yourself lost in an unfamiliar city.

Fear not. There are heroes (and villains) combing the streets for new arrivals such as yourself. However you are free to slip further into the city, investigating the world you've fallen into and learning how to make your own way within it.

Throughout the week the sky will be behaving... oddly. Gaze for too long at those dark rolling clouds and you may feel yourself unmoored. The world around you stops feeling like this one you've come to know. You may feel the sticky heat of the one you've left. The ache of wounds you bore upon your arrival. Something seems to be pulling and you feel yourself falling, the world only righting itself when your body forces you to blink and look away. You gasp, drawing air into your lungs, and feel the compulsion to run for shelter.

The people of this world don't seem to have this problem. Yet others who fell to this world will report similar feelings. A sense of being drawn back, of being unbalanced. Perhaps it would be best to get out of the city. To find somewhere else to stay, enjoy a nice beach vacation until those stormclouds blow away.

The Guilds both appear to be relatively satisfied that this confluence only brought new people and didn't empower the populace any further than it already has been. The sheer amounts of destruction are getting hard to keep up with.

But it feels like you've arrived on the cusp of something... major. There's a spark in the air just waiting to catch fire.

LODGINGS —

Once the Guardian Alliance arrives in Atlantis to offer new arrivals an explanation and transport 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.

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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yennefer of vengerberg | the witcher

[choicely]

Player Name & Pronouns: Carly (she/her)
Preferred Communication: favoritings, hit me up for Discord, PMs work too!

Character Name & Journal: Yennefer of Vengerberg (choicely)

Guild Affiliation: Yen is definitely going to be sussing out her options first before immediately jumping into an affiliation with any one side — she'll want to determine where it benefits her the most to align herself, and possibly even settle on being unaffiliated at the end of it all depending on what she learns. Basically, right now she's feeling things out.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: The Cliff's Notes version is that Yennefer is a sorceress from a place in the world of The Witcher called the Continent, and as of her canon point has a bit of atoning to do for recent past actions, up to and including brief child kidnapping (not her finest moment, but definitely her most desperate hour!). Anyway, she won't be entirely convinced that her arrival here isn't another Convergence (which is a phenomenon that happened in her own world wherein several worlds combined in on one another and led to things like humans and elves and monsters co-existing in the same space), so she's going to be looking pretty deeply into how she got here and what it might be a sign of, as well as talking to whoever she can about what they've gone through so far. She tends to like to acquire information without always offering any in return (mostly about herself), so folks can look forward to being light interrogated without necessarily learning much beyond what she's willing to share!

Plot/CR Hooks: Yennefer at her current canon point is in a very different place, emotionally, than she would be at any other time in the series — she's still very guarded in terms of her feelings, but she's also been somewhat more humbled by her experience with losing her magic for a time and isn't in the same position of taking it for granted. I don't have any immediate goals or aims for her, and I tend to do a lot of CR-based plotting as well, so the closer she gets to certain people, the more potential there is for plans to take shape and evolve.

In terms of CR wishes, really just here to toss her at everyone and anyone! Some types she might more inclined toward are: people who hail from any kind of magic-based world (or worlds that include magic or another form of power) would be a source of fascination for her, ladies especially; fellow olds/immortals who are actually much older than they appear (Yen is in her early eighties or so); children/young adults that she might make an attempt to mother in her own misguided way; more talkative/outgoing characters for her to either tolerate or barely disguise her annoyance for. Romance, at this stage, is probably not in the cards for her, at least outside of a select few, but she could potentially pursue some type of casual physical relationship with someone she found intriguing enough or wasn't seriously irritated by — even a friends-with-occasional-benefits situation where there's no risk of deeper emotions coming into play. I'm definitely not opposed to negative CR in the slightest because she's got a tendency to rub people the wrong way by her very nature, and she could even lend herself to more than a few frenemies or begrudging allies as well.

I have a small permissions post written up for her as well; Yen's canon has some particular warnings of note that could be triggering, so if you'd prefer to avoid any mention of certain subjects in her tags (or opt out of interactions where those subjects might come up), please let me know!

[rollstoseduce]

[choicely]

[rollstoseduce]

they'll be a beautiful disaster

also he'll want her on his youtube channel just saying

[choicely]

the running goal turns into whether he can convince her to make an appearance

[rollstoseduce]

look if she's saving people in public she can't stop him from recording, it's his duty as sidekick

[choicely]

it becomes a running joke on the feed that she keeps trying to prevent him from filming her

[rollstoseduce]

chat starts calling her Jask's tsundere GF

[choicely]

yennefer just like

[rollstoseduce]

very cowardly of her considering she was the one to bring fake dating into this relationship!!!

[choicely]

she just doesn't know this "tsundere" of which they are speaking

and for the record, it was fake MARRIAGE, not dating

[rollstoseduce]

oh she'll have to learn quickly because as soon as Jaskier learns the word he'll call her that too

AND POTATOS, POTATOES

[eggplanting]

carly!!! we're in a game together again!!

this is justine btw I've gone back to my DC roots and I'd love to toss Steph at Yen at some point, she'll think she's so cool

[choicely]

hiiii! and yes please! yen may attempt to disastrously mentor her, we'll see how this goes!

[eggplanting]

she's never had any kind of powers before so tbh she could actually use a lil mentoring

and maybe down the line they can get into Complicated Feelings About Motherhood considering stephs pregnancy 👀

[choicely]

Complicated Mom Feelings are actually one of my favorite things to write with her even though she does not care so much!!

but yes I would love this a lot! and to get to write with you again!

[eggplanting]

come on, yen, talk about your feelings! what could go wrong!

😊 i'm excited!! imma add you on plurk again for ease of plotting if that's cool

[choicely]

allow her to roll out a SCROLL of possibilities

of course! go for it!

[eggplanting]

shh its fine, dont worry about it. it'll be great, they'll bond and never talk about it again. which is exactly how emotional chats should go

Re: yennefer of vengerberg | the witcher

[codicies]

jaskier has taken some delight in corrupting stoking the flames of anti-authority in this little teenager's heart, so yen can do with that what she will

[choicely]

yen's initial reaction always is pretty much f the police/any kind of authority, she'll do what she wants — so she might only pick up where jask left off... in a less effusive way?

[a_gaggle_of_ghosties]

In terms of CR wishes, really just here to toss her at everyone and anyone! Some types she might more inclined toward are: people who hail from any kind of magic-based world (or worlds that include magic or another form of power) would be a source of fascination for her

...feels like an opportune time to mention Sunset Falls has a ghost-eating Sith Lord in it, just vibin' amidst all the crazy.

Well. He doesn't literally eat them, he just absorbs them and binds them so he can siphon off their power. Kind of like the Energizer Bunny, if the Energizer Bunny dabbled in necromancy (you know, publicly. I'm on to you, you immortal pink bastard!).

[choicely]

iiiinteresting! well, Yen may be looking into potentially living in Sunset Falls in the semi-near future, after she pretends she's not interested in shacking up with Jaskier at all

and coincidentally, necromancy is sort of Frowned Upon as a form of magic in the Witcherverse (though that doesn't stop some sorcerers from doing it sort of in secret), but hey, she's all about drawing power from one source to channel another!