AUGUST 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.

Your characters are arriving in the middle of our fourth wall event, Crisis On Infinite Dreamwidths. Why they're staying behind will be explained in our final log.

FOLLOW THE YELLOWBRICK ROAD - ???

The sky has cracked open, the world has shifted on its axis and here you are in the middle of the greatest crisis this world has known.

You arrive more or less as the unmoored have done. Thrown into this world with little to do but adapt, take stock and wait for the worlds Heroes to fix things. While people move from dimension to dimension, you always end up back here, like a tether pulling you home. It doesn't make much sense, because you weren't here before, but what does make sense in the midst of all this chaos?

What matters is maybe there's something comforting in that pull, that warm drag back here. Home is where you make it, after all.

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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[grivences]

Player Name & Pronouns: Chris (she/they)
Preferred Communication: millennialfalcon + ©hris#1234

Character Name & Journal: Robin Buckley (grivences)
Guild Affiliation: She just got here so she's currently unaligned but she likely will join up with the Alliance after doing some research.
Character Motivations & IC/OOC Goals: Robin first arrived during the 4th wall event, so she's supremely interested in learning more about the rifts between worlds that will be more prevalent now that the game is launching into Arc Two. She also wants to get caught up to speed on the big, bright future of 2022 (36 years past her canon point), and learn how future technology like social media, etc. works. She also wants to learn more about the LGBTQ+ scene these days, since that was not something that was talked about in 1980's rural Indiana. ALSO, she wants to figure out more about her superpowers and learn how to use them effectively.
Plot/CR Hooks:

• Robin is big on researching mysterious phenomena and trying to protect people from monsters
  
• She loves movies, music, and literature (and has so much catching up on these things to do)
  
• She's very much the type to stick her nose in where it doesn't belong, whether that's into big conspiracy theories or interpersonal conflict.
  
• She is not a leader, but more of a support character.
  
• She's got two brand new superpowers to figure out:
  • Backing Track — If Robin sings or plays music while someone tries to do something, she can increase their likelihood of doing the thing (essentially granting Bardic Inspiration like in D&D).
    
  • It's Zorbin' Time — Robin can enclose herself or one person she can touch inside a giant inflatable ball, aka a zorb. The ball is impenetrable and can be used either as a shield or as a giant rolling battering ram.
    
  • More info on Robin's powers etc. in her app!

[mostdangerousbird]

Your honour, if it pleases the court, I would like to make a case for why Tim and Robin should hang out.

First of all, Robin + Robin shenanigans.

Second, she likes conspiracy theories, and Tim is dating a conspiracy theorist back home. I think that he's secretly amused and endeared by them. He's really good at connecting things with red yarn and thumbtacks.

Third, I'm actually planning to put up an open for him at one of the NPCs LGBTQ+ support groups on the upcoming long weekend. If they're both attending for the first time...

[grivences]

I like all three of these reasons. Case approved! Tim and Robin need to be pals.

I say she'll probably join up with the Alliance, but she's still going to be hella suspicious, especially once her research brings up the Godfall event with Starstruck. So they can definitely chat conspiracies over that.

And she will definitely go check out an LGBTQ+ support group because what is this novelty???

[mostdangerousbird]

Nothing bad can come of us. Clearly.

It's a place where you're supposed to. Talk and stuff. About your experiences and feelings.

Or just hide in the corner.

[grivences]

Are you kidding? They're the good guys. Only good can come of them swapping conspiracy stories and talking about their budding gay feelings.

[eggplanting]

hi chris!!! it's justine, of taako adventurezone infamy and i totally did not realize you were in meta when i joined BUT its cool to run into you again!!!

i think robin and steph would probably get along like a house on fire. steph is also kind of an awkward disaster sometimes, rip

[grivences]

OMG Hi, small world! Glad to be back in game w/ you! I have yet another sci-fi lesbian for you to get CR with. (Two if Angela counts as sci-fi)

I only know about Steph tangentially from fandom osmosis but I definitely think she and Robin would get along. Do you have anything open with Steph I could hit up, or any plans for the month?

[eggplanting]

comics count as whatever genre you want them count as tbh and im glad you continue to be on brand by playing lesbians

i tossed her at loki's theatre thing here! if that might be something robin's into. in terms of plans i have a grand total of zero bc these past couple weeks have been a bit of an irl disaster so im just getting back into poking around the game, but im 100% down to plot something

[grivences]

Awesome! I threw her at Steph's theatre TL, so let's see where things go from there!

[lowercase_el]

Kon would totally be willing to help Robin get hip to the 2020's and he just figured out he's bi himself so he's doing some similar exploration of the LGBTQ+ scene.

He plans to start hitting the clubs. If she wants to come with, she'd have a buddy. While he's new to it, he's a really gregarious guy that's very comfortable with himself in general and he'd be encouraging to her about all of it.

[grivences]

I'd love Robin to have LGBTQ club buddies! She and her castmate Chrissy are beginning to check out the club scene but I definitely want Robin to discover that LGBTQ clubs are more her scene.