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meta moderators ([personal profile] metamods) wrote2022-06-26 11:00 pm

SETTING ENGAGEMENT



SETTING ENGAGEMENT

BLANKET PERMISSIONS

Players do not have to ask permission to thwart or cause villainy. Our assumption is that as this is a superhero game in a world where superpowered people have existed for decades, daily life is going to involve supervillains and general mayhem.

Examples of things that do not require permission or engagement requests.

You develop an NPC villain for a log! This villain doesn't cause any major damage or many casualties. Maybe they have a de-aging ray, they give people temporary amnesia, turn people temporarily into animals, etc. You are welcome to use these for temporary effects.

Your character steals anything up to 5000 dollars. You can assume that they got away with this, or if they were caught, the guild paid law enforcement to look the other way.

Your character uses their powers to heal or change another character or player created NPC. This is a superhero game after all. We expect you to be using your powers and testing them.

Your character invents a tiny teleporter that jumps between their house and their friends house. This technology exists and is normalized in this world. We encourage players to create their own systems like this.


You are welcome to have your characters interact with the game's NPCS at any time.




SETTING ENGAGEMENT

The Metaheroes setting is designed to be interacted with. Our approach to this is best compared to a tabletop roleplay system. Your character will take an action and the mod team will provide you with the outcome of that action.

You do not need to pre-plan these actions. You're free to approach us as they evolve in threads to ask the consequences of your characters actions. Some of these consequences will be immediate, and others will appear down the line. Some may be expanded into full blown player plots.

Your character kills someone. If they're a hero, are they reporting themselves to the authorities? The mod team needs to know how your character is handling the body.

Your character tries to use their powers to heal, harm, manipulate a Mod NPC.

You want your character to dismantle a major crime syndicate.

You want your character to develop a following / a cult / etc.

You want your character to steal everyone's left shoe.

You want your character to enter a pact with a God and become their champion.

You want your character to gain power and influence.

You want your character to learn the magic native to the setting.

A character or group of characters stage(s) participate in a conflict that destroys a city block. There may be fallout, fines, and a loss of public favor for this.

You want your character to open up a business.

A character or group of characters engage with a mod-run NPC character, guild, or business. The NPCs will react accordingly and their opinion of your character will change.

A character uses a baby ray on important political figures to take over the tri-state area. You need to inform the mods to find out whether or not you're successful or if you're thwarted by Perry the Platypus.




Please note that these engagements are developed as ongoing storylines. We gently discourage players to rush to a conclusion as they're designed to be evolving based on character actions. We'd like to know how your characters are reacting, what actions they're taking, etc. We encourage reporting back to us with any developments or changes your characters are making to their approach, we will adjust the plot and add new elements accordingly.

To better keep track of these engagements, please reply to the corresponding monthly top level. You can continue to reply to that comment thread if your plot extends out from the month it begins in. Or you can begin a new one and link to the previous one if it helps you better track your character's specific movements through the months.



EVENT FOLLOW UP & SETTING INVESTIGATION

There are a number of mysteries for players to solve. Most events have an investigative element that requires player collaboration to uncover.

An example of some mysteries currently unsolved are:

What really happened to Starstruck?
Who was the person who hacked the Expo exhibits?
What caused the first confluence?
Who and what brought you all here?
What exactly are the flowers in Sunset Falls? Are they here to stay?




To ensure that this is visible to all players and isn't lost in the shuffle, there is a dedicated toplevel to investigations HERE. Please reply to this comment.



MOD PERMISSION REQUESTS

Actions that will significantly affect or impact the game must be run by the mod team before being introduced into play.

These would be things that alter the shared setting of the game environment in a way that cannot be easily ignored.

For this, we ask players to visit the PLAYER PLOT & Mod Permission page. Below is an example of actions that go beyond consequence reporting or investigation. You can use this page to develop a plot in this direction, but these actions cannot be taken until approval has been given.

A character is killed and not revived two hours after their death. Characters will still revive after this happens. However, this must be brought to the mod team.

Your character installs surveillance equipment around town that would allow them to spy on NPCs or player characters. This would require a permissions post and a post on the OOC comm to notify players that it has occurred.

Your character destroys established areas of the setting. Guild HQs, established landmarks, or large parts of the cities.

Your character causes mass casualties.

Your character enters an agreement with a God / Demon for power (outside of an event).

Your character kills an Mod Created NPC.

Your character kills and becomes a God.

Your character breaks Guild Law.

Your character tries to go to the Underworld.

Your character attempts to destabilize the guilds or government.


These actions are still doable! However, as they may greatly impact the setting and may count as mini events, we ask players submit them on the Player Plot page.




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[personal profile] determinationtofist 2022-10-31 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god I continue to underestimate how established Hibiki is, incredible. Putting aside the idea of a content house (since that'd be more than just hibiki's decision to make), follow-up question.

What are her talent agent Dolores' thoughts on Hibiki being in a relationship? Is this something that's fine or do we have a "Idols arent allowed to date" situation? Follow-up question... could I possibly ask for help on who Dolores Dahl is as an NPC? If this isn't asking too much, that is.
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[personal profile] determinationtofist 2023-01-31 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
Hello! This is a late response since, at the time, I'd accepted this response and everything... but I'd like to come back to the topic of the state of Hibiki's idol work and her being pushed as much as she is. It's been brought to my attention by castmates that the Alliance pushing Hibiki like this might be difficult to keep going OOCly, as they can't reasonably imagine any scenario with Hibiki's treatment that doesn't result in—put frankly—cussing out her manager 24/7.

This complicates things a fair bit, since as of right now, there are a good number of us and the current situation is almost pressuring towards further involvement with little room for any handwaving.

I ended up spending a month trying to think of a solution before realizing that I should've probably just brought this up here right away. Oops.

I know this is probably unorthodox and maybe even flakey, but is it possible for a change of course in this particular setting engagement towards an easier situation overall? Whether via some mild retconning or actually finding a solution in-universe. I understand if that's a no-go, but basically, I'd like to find a way to make things easier on Hibiki—and by extension, us oocly.

I hope I've explained in a way that's coherent, and thank you for your time, mods!
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[personal profile] trustheart 2023-02-06 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hi, I'm Ty, Chris's mun. We talked and we decided that Chris would definitely say something after her own attempts to "train" alongside Hibiki were met with people trying to sanitize her image as well as overwork Hibiki at the same time. She would have effectively gone up to Hibiki's manager and performed a verbal dressing down (loaded with swears) and trying to remove Hibiki from the situation immediately.
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[personal profile] determinationtofist 2023-03-01 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Hello! Hibiki at this point has had her exhaustion pointed out to her on numerous occasions, so she'll actually go along with this without putting up too much of an "I'm fine" front.

In terms of where I'd like to take Hibiki from here, ideally the main idea is for Hibiki to negotiate a better work life balance, and if that requires going to someone else for that, then that's fine as well. She needs to be able to actually be able to consistently keep up being both a hero and famous singer. She enjoys both! But it needs to not leave her too tired to feasibly get involved in anything else.

I imagine that with Chris with her, she'll actually think to negotiate for better terms rather than just accepting the first options she's given.
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[personal profile] trustheart 2023-03-01 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Chris would be amenable to Hibiki accepting these terms, with the insistence that the provisos actually bear fruit and not just be treated as empty promises.
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[personal profile] determinationtofist 2023-03-01 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hibiki seconds this, because otherwise things are just gonna repeat and they'll be having this conversation again.