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meta moderators ([personal profile] metamods) wrote in [community profile] metaooc2022-07-27 01:02 am
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JULY OOC WELCOME & PLOTTING POST


OOC INTRO & PLOTTING
HELLO, HEROES AND VILLAINS! Welcome to [community profile] 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:

definecat: (Default)

Sleeper | Marvel Comics

[personal profile] definecat 2022-07-27 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Bugly (she/her)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] Bugly42

Character Name & Journal: Sleeper [profile] solo_sleeper
Guild Affiliation: They really aren't much of a joiner, so definitely going to go unaligned.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Sleeper is a pretty easygoing agender polymorphic alien ooze who just happens to favor a cat-like shape. That said, they tend towards a lot of stereotypical cat behaviors, like showing up on their own schedule and not really being invested in things that don't really revolve around them. At least on the surface. They are also incredibly loyal and willing to do a lot to protect those they care about.

Sleeper doesn't have any hard goals as yet, beyond taking care of Dylan Brock because someone has to help with that, and they're the responsible sibling in the family.

Plot/CR Hooks: Sleeper blends, but only to a point. They really aren't interested in playing human or cat or anything else perfectly, although they easily could. So there's plenty of opportunity to see a cat-like thing with extra eyes and bright yellow stripes on slick black substance doing things no cat actually should be, such as using a cellular phone, talking, etc. Of course, if they have to fight, they can definitely take care of things.
codicies: (siblings)

SIBLING

[personal profile] codicies 2022-07-27 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
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Cassandra Cain-Wayne | DC Comics

[personal profile] louder_than_words 2022-07-27 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Ken (them/them)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] June_bug

Character Name & Journal: Cassandra Cain-Wayne [personal profile] louder_than_words
Guild Affiliation: Cass has never met a rule she likes following. She will not be joining any Guilds anytime soon.

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Right now Cassandra is trying to find her identity outside of Batgirl. She did not choose to give it up, but enough time has passed and she has grown in ways that means she does not necessarily want it back. Right now she is trying to reconcile who she was, what she's done, and what she wants to be. She wants to find a place in the world that she fits, and she's worried that isn't Gotham anymore.

Plot/CR Hooks: Cassandra is a fighter through and through-- both literally and metaphorically. She can't stand injustice, will try to protect anyone at any cost (even the bad guys), and has a very, very strict no-killing rule. She's terrible at not getting involved. Especially when a problem can be solved with well-intentioned violence.

Meeting her in uniform is easy-- she'll be doing what she does best, kicking ass and not bothering to take names (and looking terrifying while doing it). Her civilian identity is more complicated, but she has a tendency to find small rituals where she can (having a regular coffeeshop, taking regular walks, that kind of thing). She's not going to be using social media much, especially at first, so in-person interactions are the best way to get to know her.

OOC note: I am aware that there was a Cass in-game previously. I am okay with there being some confusion at first, I would just prefer that it doesn't become a big, long-term issue. Feel free to contact me if there's complicated CR stuff to work out between a character and the previous Cass.
Edited 2022-07-27 08:25 (UTC)
robintohood: (I don't want to be someone else)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-07-27 10:15 am (UTC)(link)
I look forward to Cass being another pain in the ass sibling for Jason.
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[personal profile] robintohood 2022-07-27 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
OOZE CAT. ♥️ I'm down to having our TDM thread be canon or we can start something new.
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yennefer of vengerberg | the witcher

[personal profile] choicely 2022-07-27 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: Carly (she/her)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] favoritings, hit me up for Discord, PMs work too!

Character Name & Journal: Yennefer of Vengerberg ([personal profile] 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!

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2022-07-27 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
eggplanting: (50 - KBIIab6)

steph brown | dc comics (preboot)

[personal profile] eggplanting 2022-07-27 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name & Pronouns: justine (she/her)
Preferred Communication: [plurk.com profile] batsecretary or journal pm

Character Name & Journal: steph brown ([personal profile] eggplanting)
Guild Affiliation:
Currently unaligned but she may sign up with the alliance if she decides she's comfortable with how they operate

Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: steph is coming from a pretty good place in canon so her initial focus is going to be on settling in and investigating this world, but eventually I'd like to work on her getting properly involved in the hero scene and to make some friends. she's been something of an outsider with the heroes in her world, and i just think it would be neat if she had more acceptance and a support system

Plot/CR Hooks: it's going to be pretty easy to meet her as batgirl, since she'll be spending a decent amount of time in that get up, and she'll definitely be unable to stop herself getting involved if she sees any kind of shenanigans happening

as a civilian, steph is pretty chill and friendly, happy to strike up a conversation and get to know someone. she makes a good sounding board, is (relatively) sensible and empathetic, so she can be there to lend a sympathetic ear and help people out when they might need it. she also has a pretty high tolerance for grumpy/closed off characters, if you need a ray of sunshine to bother your raincloud character

Other: im totally happy to keep tdm threads!!
robintohood: (I am lost)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-07-27 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You know I'm always down to play with you! I'm willing to keep our thread canon or do something fresh. Jason will have just tried to kill the Joker again so he'll be sliding closer to the crime lord side of things again.
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[personal profile] eggplanting 2022-07-27 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
if it works for you in terms of where Jason's at we can keep it!

good luck trying to go crime lord with cass and steph here to make disappointed faces
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[personal profile] choicely 2022-07-27 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2022-07-27 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
they'll be a beautiful disaster

also he'll want her on his youtube channel just saying
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[personal profile] choicely 2022-07-27 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
the running goal turns into whether he can convince her to make an appearance

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2022-07-27 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
look if she's saving people in public she can't stop him from recording, it's his duty as sidekick
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[personal profile] choicely 2022-07-27 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
it becomes a running joke on the feed that she keeps trying to prevent him from filming her
robintohood: (I don't want to be someone else)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-07-27 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It works for me!

Please bug the shit of him. I love the idea that it's both Batgirls who keep stopping him from going full murderhobo.

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2022-07-27 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
chat starts calling her Jask's tsundere GF
choicely: (pic#15495758)

[personal profile] choicely 2022-07-27 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
yennefer just like

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2022-07-27 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
very cowardly of her considering she was the one to bring fake dating into this relationship!!!
choicely: (pic#15495622)

[personal profile] choicely 2022-07-27 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
she just doesn't know this "tsundere" of which they are speaking

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

[personal profile] rollstoseduce 2022-07-27 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
oh she'll have to learn quickly because as soon as Jaskier learns the word he'll call her that too

AND POTATOS, POTATOES
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[personal profile] definecat 2022-07-27 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
We can totally keep it. Means they have a reason to look Jason up. For book recs if nothing else.
robintohood: ([D] Couple of walking armories)

[personal profile] robintohood 2022-07-27 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent. Jason needs more friends to talk about books with.
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[personal profile] eggplanting 2022-07-27 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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

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