| Plot: Release the Kraken |
[06 Oct 2014|07:13pm] |
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.
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| New Character & PLOT THINGS! |
[06 Oct 2014|07:21pm] |
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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