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CR MEME & EVENT PLOTTING POST
CRISIS ON INFINITE DREAMWIDTHS
Crisis on Infinite Dreamwidths is the final event of Arc One. Please see the bottom of this post for a preview as to what Arc Two has in store for you!
Crisis on Infinite Dreamwidths is a fourth wall event! New characters are suddenly being transported to this world, as is custom. However, in a twist - character may also end up temporarily displaced into versions of other Dreamwidth settings.
We will be using the
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metaverses community for this event. A log will go up on metaverses on August 12th to signal the start of the event. Players and fourth-wallers can tag into the event, but we also encourage them to make their own posts in the community. Their cell devices will allow them to connect across time and space.On the morning of August 12th, 2022, the power keeping this world isolated from the rest of the multiverse falters. At first this is cause for celebration - the Guardian Alliance and the Society are tentatively hopeful that this means a return to normal.
Their hope is short lived.
Twenty minutes later, mass disappearances are being reported all over the world, with people from other dimensions appearing in their place. Some report that they were just in a world that wasn’t their own - and others claim that they had been going about their life and now they’re here.
Player characters have the option to vanish and be transported to another nexus or to stay and help contain the chaos.
The event will be canon to the Metaheroes universe and will be remembered by player characters and NPCs alike. However, that being said, you’re welcome to have your character’s memories of their encounters and journey become a little hazy once the event ends.
FOR THOSE JOINING US…
Hello fourth-wallers! Here’s what you need to know about the game and the event. Metaheroes is an invite only comic book inspired game set on an alternate Earth. You do not need an invite to participate in the fourth wall event
Superpowered beings have existed for as long as this world has, but their existence was only exposed in the 1930s after the first Confluence caused the ordinary people to develop superpowers. A bipartisan guild system was set up in the wake of a nearly apocalyptic event in the 1980s to keep heroes and supervillains from escalating their rivalries into something world-ending. As such, this world is very familiar with superheroes and villains. This world has a long history with multiverse and interdimensional travel, however unseen forces have completely blocked off all forms of dimensional communication. That ends today.
Your character can appear in the world of Metaheroes or they can appear in the nexus (and/or dreamwidth game setting) of your choosing.
If you’d like to do a little plotting ahead of time, please reply to the toplevel here!
THOSE WHO VANISH
Others are not so fortunate. They feel a sharp pull inside their ribs, a rush as they’re uprooted from time and space, and find themselves standing in the middle of aother world that exists outside of space and time, drawing in other beings. A Nexus. Some are naturally created - by those seeking aid from outside worlds. Others are cosmic mistakes, like the ones they hail from.
In short, they will be visiting other panfandom journal settings. They could be games that are open or games that are long closed. They could be settings you’ve only ever dreamed about, as gritty or silly as you'd like. And they can be imagined nexuses, that have been long abandoned. Those bringing in characters who lived in these settings are welcomed to imagine an ever-after for their characters, or to play with the idea that it's fallen into a state of despair. As this is Infinite Dreamwidths, we're also playing with Infinite Timelines.
Some are teeming with life. Others are long forgotten, their inhabitants long returned to their own worlds. Or perhaps some are still living there, preferring this world to the one they left behind. The abandoned nexuses feel... sterile. Stripped of everything that gave them life. The larger the cracks in the sky appear to be. As though someone has come into it and tried to right a cosmic wrong, returning everything to how it was before otherworlders set foot in it. In the dustiest and most forgotten worlds, the sky is shattered. Looking up into it makes you feel small, insignificant, and homesick.
We encourage players and fourth-wallers to be creative and have fun! With the reminder to be respectful towards the creators of the setting they're borrowing or revisiting.
To return home, characters will need to find a hole in the nexus and slip through. These appear as small, shimmering breaks in space and time.
The first crack may not lead you home - you may need to run through hundreds of worlds before you find your way back, but eventually, you’ll find yourself standing in the center of Central City on August 19th, 2022.
THOSE WHO STAY
Those who remain behind will be given the task of aiding all these confused, interdimensionally displaced people. All the while, the world slowly falls apart around them. The meta-energies that fuel the Confluence Cities appear to be running rampant.
The magic in Sunset Falls has become even more volatile than it was before, with every thought manifesting itself into a spell. You could think yourself to be invisible and suddenly become that. You could wish harm upon someone and suddenly it befalls them. You could wish yourself to be the most powerful being in existence and have that granted, suddenly becoming a new threat others need to fell.
The technology of Excelsior has become self-aware, evolving at a rapid pace. Some of it loves humanity and is eager to serve. Other aspects are furious at being created to be nothing more than toasters.
Both Little Love and Central City seem to be spared the worst of it. Though as the week wears on, the storm in the sky begins sucking up parts of the world. The Guilds are scrambling, trying to figure out how to handle this - they need a mass summoning spell and will be asking all available metahumans to aid them.
AT THE END.
On August 19th, Chaos Gate will summon all interdimensional travellers to Central City. She will instruct everyone gathered to hold hands and focus their minds on the world they left behind. She can try to tether this world properly to the multiverse again and, hopefully, allow everyone gathered to finally return home.
It succeeds.
However, player characters may find themselves left with a sense of unease. This world has come dangerously close to being unmade multiple times, and throughout their travels, some may have witnessed others like it. The older ones, crumbling into decay and dust stand at a sharp contrast to the ones bustling with life and love.
You may be left wondering... Is this the fate of all nexus worlds? Is there any way to save them?
FORM
Please use the form below to pitch your plots and ideas for the event.
EVENT CLIFF NOTES.
ARC TWO PREVIEW...
As mentioned above, this event marks the end of Arc One. Thank you so much for bearing with us through the ups and downs, and giving the game your time, energy, and love. We’re excited to show you what comes next.
The second arc is focused on interdimensional travel and the connection player characters develop to this world upon arrival.
With the start of Arc Two (September 4th) characters will become capable of returning to their own worlds. This has the following caveats:
Finally, public sentiment towards metahumans is worsening. Between the constant confluences and near cataclysms, baseline humans are quick to point the finger at the new metahumans among them. They believe it to be their fault. Both Excelsior and Central City will become increasingly hostile towards those they know to be metas, even if they’re Alliance affiliated.
There will be more pressure to join a Guild. With anyone not affiliated with the Guardian Alliance being regarded suspiciously. Certain aspects of the Alliance are also very keen on redeeming public image - even it means paying / or setting up Unaffiliated Metas to play the Heel in public.
If you do not maintain a civilian identity you will find yourself encountering more barriers from both metas and baselines alike.
That’s all we have for you for now! Please direct any questions here.
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