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FEBRUARY CR MEME & PLOT WORKSHOP
PLOT WORKSHOP
Guidelines
In lieu of a CR meme, Meta Heroes will be holding bi-monthly plot workshops. These memes are designed to help players brainstorm, develop, and shape their character arcs and personal plots into something that engages them. (If players feel that this meme is not serving the function of a traditional CR meme and would like to see the inclusion of a more traditional CR meme in the future, please reach out to us!)
Players with player plot and character arc ideas — no matter how pie in the sky or early in development — should post top levels to this entry using the form below. These posts will include character hooks and motivations, general plot ideas, and potential roles in others' plots.
Your ideas can be as specific or as general as you want — e.g., "I want my character to start pursuing politics" or "I want to run a plot where Spider-Man takes down a serial bank robber who's funding meta-drug experiments on children." This is not the place to censor yourself! Put it all out there!
What we do want to impress is more specific posts will make plotting smoother. Try to avoid 'down for anything' posts and comments — if you do not feel you have specific ideas to throw out, we encourage you to simply tag around and collaborate with others. This meme can't succeed without both posts and replies!
In addition to player replies, the mods will have two top levels.
The first, MOD QUESTIONS, is a space for players to ask clarifying questions about things like player plot tier of certain ideas and the ability to impact aspects of the setting or world in substantial ways. We can provide quicker approvals on these memes to help get things rolling to a player plot submission.
The second, SETTING IMPACT, will have a form for players to pitch larger-scale plots (including those that they may not want to run themselves, or that they don't have a character who can spearhead). This section is for players to brainstorm and collaborate on big ways to engage and alter the setting. We encourage players to think creatively! We will also offer our two cents where possible, but if you feel something needs our attention, feel free to drop a direct link to the comment in the 'mod questions' header too.
Event Information
To facilitate your plotting for the coming month, here's a quick preview of the February event, which will be Valentine's themed! Love Potion #9 will take place during a love-themed festival in Sunset Falls while the characters are touring their new housing. Your opt-out option is to not be in Sunset Falls at that time.
The main thrust of the event is a love spell that will push characters into rom-com trope scenarios like Meet Cutes, as well as prompting confessions of real (and manufactured) feelings. Not just romantic love confessions, but also the compulsion to just tell people how you really feel — family, friendship. Get sappy!
The event will also include options for bizarre effects as a result of some of the festival food. Effects include exceptional boldness, emoji eyes, and fireworks when touching.
Form
Please use the form below to pitch your character-specific plots and ideas.
Player Name & Pronouns:
Preferred Communication: Plurk, Discord, DM, etc.
Character Name & Journal:
Guild Affiliation:
Plot/CR Hooks: 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?
Character Motivations: What does your character want? You can list short term and long term goals, but also emotional needs that aren't being fulfilled.
Potential Roles: 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?
Plot Ideas: What plots do you specifically want to run with your character in them?
Roles Needed: What kind of CR and skills do you need in order to make that plot happen?
Players with player plot and character arc ideas — no matter how pie in the sky or early in development — should post top levels to this entry using the form below. These posts will include character hooks and motivations, general plot ideas, and potential roles in others' plots.
Your ideas can be as specific or as general as you want — e.g., "I want my character to start pursuing politics" or "I want to run a plot where Spider-Man takes down a serial bank robber who's funding meta-drug experiments on children." This is not the place to censor yourself! Put it all out there!
What we do want to impress is more specific posts will make plotting smoother. Try to avoid 'down for anything' posts and comments — if you do not feel you have specific ideas to throw out, we encourage you to simply tag around and collaborate with others. This meme can't succeed without both posts and replies!
In addition to player replies, the mods will have two top levels.
The first, MOD QUESTIONS, is a space for players to ask clarifying questions about things like player plot tier of certain ideas and the ability to impact aspects of the setting or world in substantial ways. We can provide quicker approvals on these memes to help get things rolling to a player plot submission.
The second, SETTING IMPACT, will have a form for players to pitch larger-scale plots (including those that they may not want to run themselves, or that they don't have a character who can spearhead). This section is for players to brainstorm and collaborate on big ways to engage and alter the setting. We encourage players to think creatively! We will also offer our two cents where possible, but if you feel something needs our attention, feel free to drop a direct link to the comment in the 'mod questions' header too.
Event Information
To facilitate your plotting for the coming month, here's a quick preview of the February event, which will be Valentine's themed! Love Potion #9 will take place during a love-themed festival in Sunset Falls while the characters are touring their new housing. Your opt-out option is to not be in Sunset Falls at that time.
The main thrust of the event is a love spell that will push characters into rom-com trope scenarios like Meet Cutes, as well as prompting confessions of real (and manufactured) feelings. Not just romantic love confessions, but also the compulsion to just tell people how you really feel — family, friendship. Get sappy!
The event will also include options for bizarre effects as a result of some of the festival food. Effects include exceptional boldness, emoji eyes, and fireworks when touching.
Form
Please use the form below to pitch your character-specific plots and ideas.
Player Name & Pronouns:
Preferred Communication: Plurk, Discord, DM, etc.
Character Name & Journal:
Guild Affiliation:
Plot/CR Hooks: 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?
Character Motivations: What does your character want? You can list short term and long term goals, but also emotional needs that aren't being fulfilled.
Potential Roles: 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?
Plot Ideas: What plots do you specifically want to run with your character in them?
Roles Needed: What kind of CR and skills do you need in order to make that plot happen?
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Jean Grey
Character Name & Journal: Jean Grey (
Guild Affiliation: Unaffiliated (/Headed to Guardian)
1st CR Hooks/Motivations/Roles Info
(The above are unchanged for the moment!)
HOUSE/CITY HUNTING:
Jean's definitely going to be headed to all four locations this month, and the sign-up perks (especially having a place that's not a hotel or a run-down flat to live in) are likely going to drop her over the divide this month. Want to help Jean shop towns and houses, or to partner up and do both of our characters together and compare notes/run commentary through? I'd love threads with all of this!
SETTLING IN:
Jean's begrudgingly (even if it looks professionally/sweetly to those watching) accepting she's going to be stuck here a bit longer. She's looking to square away this whole living place, job, guild thing. To want to figure them out and the balance of them, even if she's not content with it all.
LOVE POTION #9:
WANT TO HAVE JEAN GREY CONFESS MUSHY LOVE THINGS AT YOU? YOU KNOW YOU DO. She's got amazing things to gush out at people, and I'm absolutely down for Jean Grey having lost her willpower not to gush about what a truly, amazingly, phenomenal person you are? I want to do all of this. She's already all heart at all times, but this will be even further off the chain.
WANT TO HAVE SOMEONE CONFESS THEIR MUSHY FEELINGS FOR HER? Bring it on and bring it in. She's both willing to blush while trying to pat yourself and see you through whatever's made you mind-emotion drunk more so than you'd ever usually be.
WANT TO MAKE SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY FALL IN LOVE WITH HER, OR DEAL WITH HER ACCIDENTALLY FALLING IN LOVE WITH THEM? There are possibilities. (But. Like. Also, beware those possibilities come with a
tired old mancranky boyfriend, who has at least six very sharp points he's probably well willing to put between you two.)love potion #9
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Allison Hargreeves
Guild Affiliation: None
1st CR Hooks/Motivations/Roles Info
(The above are unchanged for the moment!)
HOUSE/CITY HUNTING: Allison will be figuring out what all to do with this whole house things. She's not inclined toward joining a guild simply because that gives you a house/a job/food that won't be given otherwise. She's not a fan of blackmailed membership, especially after the weeks of being barraged by Guild Salesmen.
While Allison is not inclined to live in a hotel forever, she may drag it out. She's now four houses down since this whole mad spiral of apocalypses, and multiple earth's started. She's feeling worn out on their
SETTLING IN: Allison is not. Someone help this child. She's not bitter about being in this world. Rather settling into the shoes of her comic counterpart, haunted by the life she can't have, but almost half a decade away from it now. She needs to figure out things. People. Whether she wants to get a job or not, whether that should be acting or not.
She's in a "this is the third time & is it even worth it to retrace those steps at all at this point" place for everything right now, and it's not going well. By which, I mean, she's mostly ignoring it.
LOVE POTION #9: Maybe? I'm not hugely inclined for her quite yet.
Come at me and change my mind if you have a truly awesome idea that should involve Allison and this? (So far I'm not inclined toward her being under the love spell at all, but I'm open to other related ideas and she could totally use some friends espousing that they love her?)