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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?
Locations | Teams | The Guilds | Plotting Post | Mission Board | Mod Contact
NETWORK COMM | LOG COMM | OOC COMM
spider-man (the baby one)
Preferred Communication:
Character Name & Journal: Peter Parker
Guild Affiliation: unaffiliated for now. He'll eventually join the Guardian Alliance but he's a little bit like "idkkkkk" about it, he has some baggage about the Avengers thing, about striking out on his own, and also Spider-Man said trans rights. so that's my ooc plan for him but idk that it will happen THIS month since I want to play around with figuring it out.
Plot/CR Hooks: Peter's new power (thanks confluence!) is technomancy, which allows him to talk to/communicate with machines! He has no idea how to use this, or even what it really is yet! MOSTLY what this means is I want SHENANIGANSSSSS about it. I know on the plot post I mentioned him accidentally waking up an AI type thing that pretends to be good but WHOOPS is actually a bad AI and I'm not sure where that's going (I am a mean person playing such a good person, who lets me do things?). Otherwise I don't really have Plans(tm) so much? Winter is really hard on my brain so I'm just sort of barely existing. I want to write things with all of you, just slam in here and we'll roll the dice.
Character Motivations: Peter has A LOT OF UNRESOLVED TRAUMA, WOW, and I won't go off about NWH spoilers but trust me it's A Lot! MCU doesn't deal with anyone's trauma very well anyway lmao! It's just sort of sitting there! (Peter has a habit of stream of consciousness monologuing at people so some of it sort of oozes out but there's a lot he doesn't say directly, it's just all bottled up, it's a thing). It's not exactly a motivation, but it's just baked into him from the past several years of just too much happening. He really desperately wants to Do The Right Thing but there is a part of him that is sometimes like yeah well fuck that too so he can be pushed in the wrong direction just a little before he swings around to the right thing and I'm awful so I like to push those buttons and see about the morally gray bits! Great responsibility who? Not me.
Also very genuinely Peter needs friends who are not in mortal danger just by knowing that he's Spider-Man. One of the things that massively frustrates me about MCU canon is how fucking bananas it is that EVERY OTHER HERO outside of, like, Daredevil???? has a known identity and Peter doesn't, and it's this big Thing because that's intrinsic to Spider-Man, and he's just sort of left alone and hanging and I have a lot of words to say about this! Putting him in a game like this, he doesn't need the secrecy in the same way. He's keeping it, and oocly I want to keep that at least on some level, but I don't want him to be isolated emo boy forever so getting past some of that is important, I just haven't figured out how to do it yet, so I'm throwing that out there.
Potential Roles: Peter is ultimately not a leader type and doesn't really want to be. He is NOT good at following directions. He will go along with other people's plans (and willingly, and happily to a point), but he will run off and do his own thing in order to keep other people from getting hurt or putting them in danger. This often backfires or messes up! That's a line I'm totally willing to play with or explore. (Later on I think he could be a really good leader but he is not in a mental place to lead a team or anything right now)
Even without technomancy, he's a science whiz, great with math and tech things, so if you need help with that, he will absolutely be ya boy to lend a hand. Building things? He can help with that. Weird science formulas? Hell yeah. You going to space? ...okay maybe less excited on that but you know, mmmmaybe? :D?
He's a Hero Type(tm) but he's trying to figure out what that means and what he wants/needs it to mean. Removed from his home context, from the neighbourhood he's used to, it throws him off, so right now he's kind of searching for a project, a purpose, something to work towards.
Plot Ideas: Listen I am here to do absolutely dumb shit, have Peter fall in love with someone whether it works out or not, absolutely fuck up his day by getting him involved with villain types and letting that ruin his life (this is just how his canon goes, I didn't start this, Marvel did it first), and just kind of muck about. I'm not very good at loooooong term plans in a specific sense, only in a general sense so I have vague ideas but nothing concrete? I'm a mess orz
I want to have Peter rebuild something closer to the high-tech suits we see in the MCU films before NWH, like Tony Stark's Spidey suits, just because A, nostalgia (he hasn't gotten over Tony's mentorship and his death yet, soz) and B, it's just more fun for me to write all the neat things those suits do, especially in a setting like this. BUT he hasn't given himself permission to spend that credit card money, so someone helping him get over his poor kid guilt about that could be useful? Idk spitballing on that.
Roles Needed: Peter does really well with mentor types (good OR bad) and could really use a reason to eventually join the Guardian Alliance other than The Plot Says So, so right now I'm really looking for that sort of reason that isn't just Other Peter Parker Would Do It, you know what I mean? Originally I was like "oh yes of course he'll do that" but because of where he is in his canon and in his head, mmmmm it doesn't make sense to go there. But I don't want to do the unaffiliated thing forever so he needs a catalyst, either an event or a person being good at pep talks idk
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Re: spider-man (the baby one)
I also want to drag Peter on a Villain Thing at some point but I don't have one set up yet.
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He also does have a hovbike so idk hovbike shenanigans. :)