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Saturday, April 11th, 2015

Plot: Good Samaritan

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( OFFICIAL PLOT POST: GOOD SAMARITAN, APRIL 13 - 20 )
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Friday, April 10th, 2015

plot discussion: rescue

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Hey, folks! The internet at our house today is being a real problem but we're on log enough to post this. Today, for the Sentries, there was a mission:

Sentries Mission: Rescue

The Sentries are directed toward an Order base on Staten Island by SHIELD and tasked with arresting its inhabitants. They find the Order camped out in a building fronted by a laundromat and rescue a psychic from their custody. The rescued psychic is taken in by SHIELD, to be given medical and psychiatric treatment. (To recap: "The Order" is the subset within SHIELD responsible for Steven's brainwashing and other aggressive tactics that SHIELD proper shouldn't condone.)


The Order is a human organization, which means the Sentries are facing down men with guns and other SHIELD-grade tech weapons (smoke bombs, etc). There are twelve of them camped out with the psychic and conducting their business, and two of them have enhanced cybernetic/physiological upgrades that make them significantly harder to beat.

It's pretty straightforward and leads into a larger plot, so I don't think anything will go to wrong, but the comments section here is for listing anything that may have happened or who was there and/or wasn't there, if anyone was hurt, etc.

♥! If you guys are up for a group thread or sub threads in aftermath, super, but I figure we can chat about it in the OOC before we get onto the main event (which starts on Monday, so look for another plot post soon).
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2015

Good Samaritan Brainstorming Post!

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So, this isn't the official post for Good Samaritan, but it's such a big plot that we wanted to give you guys more time than usual to plot with each other. So to recap, here's what we're doing this week and the next:
» Sentries Mission: Rescue (Friday, April 10th)
The Sentries are directed toward an Order base on Staten Island by SHIELD and tasked with arresting its inhabitants. They find the Order camped out in a building fronted by a laundromat and rescue a psychic from their custody. The rescued psychic is taken in by SHIELD, to be given medical and psychiatric treatment. (To recap: "The Order" is the subset within SHIELD responsible for Steven's brainwashing and other aggressive tactics that SHIELD proper shouldn't condone.)

» Gamewide Event: Good Samaritan (Monday, April 13th - Monday, April 20th)
The rescued psychic from the Staten Island bust turns out to have been infected with Project Haze. Diana Devin has a minor, natural reality warping ability, and thanks to Project Haze, she's been given psychic powers and a big boost all around. The inundation of so many thoughts and feelings over the last few months have driven her a bit... batty. Knowing that the Sentries are stationed at New Avalon, she goes there after she's released from the hospital, intent on repaying them for saving her life. When she comes in contact with everyone's minds and hearts, she realizes just how troubled the residents of New Avalon are, she desperately wants to help them out.

Good Samaritan is going to be an opt-in, open-ended plot. Diana will be finding characters' vulnerabilities or personal flaws and attempting to help fix them -- but she's not all there herself, so whether or not she succeeds is going to be up to you.

So the way it works is this: we say "open-ended" because it's up to you how Diana tries to help your characters. Because of her powers, you have a lot of leeway; they can be de-aged or aged up, be compelled to only tell the truth, have their minds swapped with another character, have powers taken away, edited, or given, or whatever else you want to do! It's totally up to you if Diana's "gifts" are actually going to help your character or just make them miserable for a while.

The plot will end when Diana is caught and cured of the Haze. Our hope is that people within New Avalon will team up to track her down and fix themselves, but if the plot takes you guys elsewhere, SHIELD will manage it themselves. All effects of this plot are temporary, so go wild.



So what are we doing in this post? We're brainstorming! This plot really is whatever you make it to be, so it's super personalized and puts a lot of the responsibility for what happens to your character in your hands. You really can do pretty much anything within reason. Think of this post as a place to toss out whatever ideas you've got, so by the time you officially sign up for the plot later this week, you've got your ducks in a row.

We're leaving a lot of this up to you, but the mods are going to be keeping an eye on things to make sure nothing gets too over the top or we don't risk the literal end of the world next week. By the time the official sign up rolls around, ideally everyone will have themselves figured out and you'll know whether or not your stuff is mod-approved already.

Good hunting!
- Kait & Jo
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Sunday, March 29th, 2015

Plot: This House Isn't Fun

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( Plot for Sunday, March 29 - Tuesday, March 31: This House Isn't Fun! )
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Friday, March 13th, 2015

Plot Today: Devil Went Down to Jersey

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Hi! Here's a friendly plot reminder for those who don't check the plot calendar much after it goes up:

The Devil Went Down to Jersey
A supervillain calling himself the Jersey Devil makes his terrorist debut by taking over the Outerbridge Crossing, connecting Staten Island to New Jersey. This pyrokinetic is hell-bent on proving something, but no one knows what. When Wonder is injured taking him down, Captain Marvel steps up to beat the Devil and save Kassi's life. Abigail Drake, Tessa Drake, Molly Parker, and Cliff Bishop are trapped on the bridge while all of this is going down.


All of this is being covered on a live news broadcast (I like to think there's a 24-hour cable news network devoted to covering superhero events in the city), and will be reported on by all local news sources in the evening. Kassi will be brought to Stark Memorial-Staten Island (and their private superhero wing) for treatment.

The Jersey Devil's powers include high-level pyrokinesis and the unpleasant cocktail of super strength/durability/endurance. He went in wholeheartedly for the "devil" schtick with a menacing pitchfork/trident that ultimately takes Kassi down.

Comment here for background-plotting and/or log/thread plans, which conveniently coincide with March's challenge: fight or flight.
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Thursday, February 26th, 2015

Plot Begins!

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Hey, guys!

Just a reminder that today is Thursday, February 26th, and that means our Time Freeze plot is happening today!

Here's the official plot post for plotting, planning, and information about what's happening.

Here's the event with Caylie that starts it all.


Have fun! :D :D

♥ Kait+Jo
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2015

Plot: Time Freeze!

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( Plot for Thursday, February 26: Time Freeze! )
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Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Love Plot Ending!

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Hi, everyone! Today is the last day of the Love Plot! As of midnight EST, the spell will be lifted (possibly by Vic Altman? Bear?) and everyone will get to be appropriately embarrassed by their shenanigans.

Even after the plot is technically over, feel free to backtag/backdate anything important you feel you missed. :D


Next week we're going to have Caylie's time bubble event, so we've got some time to relax before the next big thing. Good hunting!
- Kait & Jo
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Thursday, February 12th, 2015

PLOT: Will You Be My Valentine?

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( Love Spell Pairings, etc! )
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

Love Plot Sign Ups!

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Hey hey hey, it's almost Valentine's Day! That means we're starting sign ups for the Love Plot!

Starting Friday, Feb. 13th, Staten Island will be hit by a rain of metaphorical Cupid's arrows thanks to a misfired spell meant to win someone a date. (These things happen, you understand.) The spell will eventually end on its own (Thursday, Feb. 19th to be specific), but until then, people on the Island are going to fall madly in love with each other.

So this is how this works: everyone signs up (or opts out) in a comment below, using a neat little code. Then on Thursday (or whenever everyone's signed in, whichever comes first), we'll post a list of who wants to zoom who. We do, however, have two important rules.
1. This plot is meant to be fun and light-hearted. Even if things get whacky or extreme, we're preferring that no one causes any kind of lasting or permanent physical injury to someone else's characters during this plot. Anything else is fair game.

2. Along that same lines, there will be no sex with anyone affected by the spell. Because the spell is making characters obsessed with/in love with other characters, any sex with a character affected by it is... actually sexual assault. That's not an off-limits thing for the game in general, but this isn't a rape plot. No sexytimes while under the influence. No bueno.

3. Characters can't target or be targeted by someone they're already romantically involved with or have romantic feelings for. This is to keep it fun! We're saying the spell won't really work if people are already in love. (For example, Jack Murdock can't get all Cupid on Mark Reilly, because they're already dating and that's boring.)


Characters who get hit with the spell will fall madly, obsessive, gonna-getcha-getcha-getcha in love with the target of their affections. They can't be "broken up with" properly, they can't "get over it". Even if they're dissuaded from pursuit, they'll still be melancholy about it (think Romeo crying over Rosaline, woe and sadness) or be in denial.

So grab the code below, sign some people up, and get ready for some lovin'!

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Monday, February 2nd, 2015

Mod Notes & SHIELD Plot Summary

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Two things!

First, we've had a few activity-based removals this month, and we just want to remind everyone to keep an eye on your activity before holding or apping new characters in the future. We really like all of you and we love playing with you, but we do want to make sure that everyone has the roster that they can handle. Especially once a character is lost to low activity, the mods do check up on people when they express interest in a new character, and we can only check activity that is tagged. Please remember to tag your activity! Tagging posts you're involved in makes it easy for the mods to see what you're up to, and for you to keep track of yourselves and put together activity at the end of the month. If activity isn't tagged come the end of the month for the checks, the mods have to treat it like it doesn't exist, and we'd really hate for anyone to lose a character because we just couldn't find your activity.

Second is a quick summary of what's going down at SHIELD right now.
( SHIELD plot! )
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Friday, January 23rd, 2015

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Typing this from Evangeline's journal because I'm at work and I... forgot the password to the mod journal. OOPS.

Okay, so! I told Sands that we were moving this back a week - I haven't forgotten about it, and now that people are back from 1925 we're ready to go!

Monday is going to kick off Career Week at New Avalon Academy. Each student is going to be paired up with an adult to "shadow" for the week, going to work with them, shadowing their superheroing perhaps (which I'm sure is controversial), and otherwise just follow them around.

This is an opt-in event, and while Evangeline will post something IC about signing up, this is the place to do it OOC!

Please fill out the following form if you'd like your character(s) involved! We'd like to have an even ratio of students to adults, and we'd prefer to have students paired up with people who are not teachers at NAA (but other faculty is OK!). If we get more adults than students, we may not be able to use all of the adults (but will make sure all of the players are involved). If you have an idea of who you'd like to be paired up with and have plot plans already, let me know below. :)



Signups are effective until Sunday, January 25 at 9PM, and I'll post the list of adult/student pairs after that. :)

♥ kait
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Friday, January 16th, 2015

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Hey, everybody!

Just wanting to give you a plot update: things are chugging along with the time travel plot, and it's going a little bit later than expected, which is fine! Here's what's happening:

While waiting for Gale Richards to recover, Billy Sinclair and Vic Altman manage to crush a potential attack from time-traveling Skrulls (perhaps after a five-year-old Steve Rogers? y'know, time travel). Though this attack leaves both Billy and Vic injured, they manage to set Luka Romanov and Eric Jeffries on the trail.


Eric and Luka are going to find/rewire some of the Skrulls' time traveling devices, which will help to get everyone home because it's not quite in Gale's skill set.

Officially, we're going to say that this is going to happen slightly off schedule from the calendar -- they'll be arriving home January 18. Anything set in the past prior to that can be backdated!

After that, we'll be rolling into a SHIELD plot that directly affects fewer characters but will have wide-reaching repercussions for the game's world state, and then we're into February, where these time-travel shenanigans are going to shake things up for Caylie -- and all of New York City. :D

♥ keep trucking, you guys are awesome!
Kait+Jo
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Thursday, January 8th, 2015

Plot: Time Travel!

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This was supposed to go up yesterday, but your mods were not here! So, it's time to plan things out for the time travel plot.

The story so far, so everyone is caught up!

( Context! )

And, where we go from here:

( Let's do the time warp again! )

Now, I'm going to attempt to answer your questions!

( Hopefully I anticipate your questions here, because time travel is hard, guys )

I will put up side quests if you want me to, and once I think of a few. :) This one's a complicated one, but I think we're going to have an AWESOME TIME. :D
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Friday, October 31st, 2014

halloween plot ~edits~!

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Don't forget, tonight is the Halloween Enchantment Plot! The Black Witch will be playing a trick on Staten Island tonight by casting a spell that makes people believe they are their costumes. There's no shapeshifting, no extra powers, nothing beyond the belief that whatever someone is dressed up as, that's what they are now. Think harmless, think funny.

We originally had this set up to last 24 hours, but realized late in the game that that's kind of long. So the enchantment will set in at about 9pm (late enough that some partygoers will already be drunk, more shenanigans for all!) and last until sunrise on November 1st, resulting in an uncomfortable magical hangover on top of some peoples' regular hangovers.


Post below with Halloween stuff -- especially character costumes, if your characters are dressing up and will be affected by the enchantment. This is also a good place to put a general summary of what your people will be up to tonight, especially if you're going to be busy. Net posts and such can be backdated, of course, but this is a fun holiday plot and we'd like not to stretch it out into next week or anything.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

mod stuff with a character journal, aw yeah

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So! Plot Calendar is coming up soon, but it's going to be pretty sparse because we have a big Time Travel Plot planned for December! It'll be 2 to 3 weeks long and have modified activity rules to compensate for big plot stuff + holiday season.

Rather than choose for you where you'd like to go for a significant chunk of time, we have a few options. We specifically did not include an "Other" option in the poll; there are so few of us that having too many options will just result in nothing being chosen, or something winning with 2 votes instead of 1, you know?

With Wild West and Noir, we'll just take that and run. If "10 - 20 Years Ago" wins, then we'll have a follow-up poll to pick the exact year we go back to. For the recent past, we want to make sure it stays within our current generation's lifetime, because so many of us require a wonky comic book time handwaving for our people's parents to work out and it's not worth the confusion.

PLEASE ONLY VOTE ONCE! If you vote with more than one character journal, the mods will get to decide which of your votes actually "counts". In fact, there's an extra option that you can click with all the non-voting journals to keep an accident from happening.


Poll #7502 Time Travel Options!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

We're going on a temporal vacay in December! Where would you like to go?

View Answers

Wild West (Cowboy Stuff!)
1 (9.1%)

10 - 20 Years Ago (Past Self Stuff!)
3 (27.3%)

1920s (Noir Stuff!)
4 (36.4%)

This is the button for all the journals you're not voting with
3 (27.3%)

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Friday, October 17th, 2014

Gamewide Event: Ch-ch-ch-changes! (October 2014)

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It's almost time for our next gamewide event!

( Saturday, October 18 - Monday, October 27: Ch-ch-ch-changes! )
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Monday, October 6th, 2014

New Character & PLOT THINGS!

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H'okay. This would have been posted earlier if I had gotten my shit together, but... I didn't. Oh well. But this ties directly into our kraken stuff, so let's do a thing.

Seriously, even if you usually skim over new character intros, please read this! This character ties into some huge gamewide plot. It's ironic that Bear and Sands went "omg AU stuff" in the plot post when this was a bullet I had in the barrel.


So this is Fen McKenzie, daughter of Sue Storm and Namor -- with a twist! She's actually from an alternate reality, based on the What If? Civil War comic. In this reality (2108), Tony Stark died before Civil War and it all went bottoms up, resulting in an anti-metahuman president who brought back serious prejudice against powered people and outlawed all superheroes with SHIELD's backup.

Fen is a nurse by day, an illegal superhero by night, and went into a fight with ye olde kraken armed with a Reed Richards teleportation device that was supposed to take the thing out to sea but, uh... obviously didn't. Her device is broken, so now she's stuck here.


Fen, however, is kind of a gateway character. Details of the AU universe is over here, and I need y'all to help me flesh it out so I know where Fen's coming from -- and so we have a complete universe when the game actually starts interacting with that reality.

Kait and I have been discussing the possibility of a little AU community so we can write these versions of the characters and have somewhere to post them. It would be log-only, and probably wouldn't count for activity (at least not right now). We want to know if that's something you guys would be interested in and get your thoughts before we go ahead and set that up.
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Plot: Release the Kraken

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Hi, everyone!

Tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 7th) is both the last day of activity check (I think everyone eligible has checked in?) and the day of our next gamewide plot! As it says on our Plot Calendar, the description is thus:
On the morning of the 7th, a literal monster rises out of the water underneath the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, severing the quickest route between Staten Island and Brooklyn. The water boils and thrashes, causing tidal waves to flood the Staten Island coast as the kraken wrenches itself out of the sea and terrorizes the shore -- along with scary crab-like creatures (think large dog size) that drop from its underside and invade the city, attacking civilians and finding new surfaces to cling to.

The kraken is too large to sedate or capture. Think Godzilla or Clover. Superheroes will work with the Coast Guard (whose medical center is, unfortunately, right smack in the flood area) to fight the beast and put it down before it can destroy too many lives.

The fight itself will last a day, but the aftereffects of the damage will take a while. Floods are a bitch.



So the Sentries will be on the job --- and so will any other costumed heroes in the vicinity. It's gonna be a long day.

( Questions/Details! )
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

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Hey, guys! Big mod post comin' atcha!

For those of you who weren't around or didn't follow the main plot, here's a roundup of what happened. I'm doing this from memory, so if I missed anything with any of your characters, or if someone did something that you want to mention, please feel free to comment with what your characters did (even if there wasn't a log; some plot things might spring from just summarizing).

( Plot Summary: I guess it's been dubbed 'Goblingate', guys )

And - some stuff related to activity!

1. Please remember to tag your posts. We've been catching missing tags as we see them, but it's your responsibility to tag your stuff. It makes activity checks easier and makes it easy to find your old posts.

2. We have a week before the end of the month, so it's a good time to check up on activity. If you're feeling like you're not going to make activity for anyone, comment here and let us know -- do you have ideas for plot/logs you want to start? Let us all know and let's see if we can help you out with threads and net posts and stuff! (Obviously this doesn't matter if you're on hiatus -- activity's waived, no worries :) )


♥ Kait
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