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acroodawakeningDisplay Name: Just Guy
Profile Photo: Link
Notes: Set before the parasite plot kicked off. Also, other than his display name that the Alliance helped him fill in, all fields in his profile that have to be filled in are filled in with keyboard smash and emojis.
[Apparently, he can't go home for a visit right away. Something something scientists having to do dimensional something. The people doing the things with their buttons and levers and machines have to work on it. That means he's going to be in desperate need of distractions over the next few weeks. So far, he's been watching a lot of TV and trying to find things on the internet. He's figured out the voice to text and knows what field in a browser will do a search. But he's pretty much wandering around the internet aimlessly clicking things.]
[Guy is sitting on the floor of his hotel room, with his phone propped up on a chair.]
[He's doing much better than he was the day a few people saw him in the park. For one, without the plastic-ey contoured Capitol makeup, his face has a lot more character. It's freckled and his skin is a bit more weathered than the average modern 22 year-olds'. It's skin that looks well traveled.]
[He's also wearing modern clothes, some harem pants in a bright boho print, a neon pink loose tank top, and a Hawaiian shirt that should not work with the clashing pants pattern but somehow does. He's barefoot. He's also gone ham at the craft store and made himself a beaded shell necklace and has a beaded hair tie on his topknot, as well as cloth and faux leather wraps for his hands and forearms held on with beaded leather cords. He also made a beaded hair charm with bone beads that is hanging from behind his ear.]
[God help him, but somehow it all works, if you don't mind way too much color and over-accessorizing.]
[Whatever is translating for them all isn't needed here for anyone that speaks English. Guy apparently knows it already, a hold-over from the last world.]
So I'm Guy. Uh, a little bit about me...
[He starts rattling off details like this is a dating profile.]
I'm a former nomad - as in, a hunter-gatherer - current farmer, on basically the first farm ever back home. I don't know my star sign, but the internet says it's very important on a profile-introduction-thingy so let's pretend I'm the kind that's a bull. [He makes a bull's horns with his fingers at the top of his head and then shrugs haplessly.] I know it has to do with months, but I kinda can't pick one because I don't know what month I was born, because we don't have calendars back home. We just...track things from full moon to full moon and pay general attention to the seasons.
I was in another world before this that, uh... that took me from home. [He looks a little anxious mentioning it and doesn't elaborate.] I learned a little bit about technology and future things there. Some of my friends were from other worlds too, also future places, and said they thought I was probably from what would've been very, very far in the past of their worlds. "Prehistoric," they said.
This future world is different from that one, so some of what I learned doesn't apply. So I have a bunch of questions, actually.
[He starts ticking them off. None of them are related.]
Someone explained the letters on a channel I was watching and... why is it called Music Television if it never has any music?
What are influencers? Like, who - who are they influencing? When I watch them on the tiktok I just feel a little sad inside because they want attention so badly. I don't feel influenced. Unless they're influencing me to feel sad inside.
Why is reality TV called that when it's nothing like reality whatsoever? [He does not like it. At all. His eyes go wider with something between mystification and abject disgust and his voice gets just a touch emotional, but he doesn't get carried away. It's just clearly a sore spot.] And what is with future people being so preoccupied with watching human suffering?! I remain disturbed.
[He moves on.]
Oh yeah, someone helped me find a civ-vics audiobook at a library and it mentioned something. So I looked it up. And when I did voice to text it showed a map and I still have no idea how it all works.
[He points his phone at the laptop someone talked him through buying to show...a map of the US electoral college. He turns it back to his face and the flat look he gives seems aimed at the entire country.]
Explain, please.
That's all for now. I'll probably have lots of questions on a regular basis.
By the way, don't type answers back. [He mimes typing with a phone.] I can't read so I can only do video and sounds. A librarian told me there's something that's like voice-to-text in reverse called a screen reader? But I still have to figure out how to get one.
Profile Photo: Link
Notes: Set before the parasite plot kicked off. Also, other than his display name that the Alliance helped him fill in, all fields in his profile that have to be filled in are filled in with keyboard smash and emojis.
[Apparently, he can't go home for a visit right away. Something something scientists having to do dimensional something. The people doing the things with their buttons and levers and machines have to work on it. That means he's going to be in desperate need of distractions over the next few weeks. So far, he's been watching a lot of TV and trying to find things on the internet. He's figured out the voice to text and knows what field in a browser will do a search. But he's pretty much wandering around the internet aimlessly clicking things.]
[Guy is sitting on the floor of his hotel room, with his phone propped up on a chair.]
[He's doing much better than he was the day a few people saw him in the park. For one, without the plastic-ey contoured Capitol makeup, his face has a lot more character. It's freckled and his skin is a bit more weathered than the average modern 22 year-olds'. It's skin that looks well traveled.]
[He's also wearing modern clothes, some harem pants in a bright boho print, a neon pink loose tank top, and a Hawaiian shirt that should not work with the clashing pants pattern but somehow does. He's barefoot. He's also gone ham at the craft store and made himself a beaded shell necklace and has a beaded hair tie on his topknot, as well as cloth and faux leather wraps for his hands and forearms held on with beaded leather cords. He also made a beaded hair charm with bone beads that is hanging from behind his ear.]
[God help him, but somehow it all works, if you don't mind way too much color and over-accessorizing.]
[Whatever is translating for them all isn't needed here for anyone that speaks English. Guy apparently knows it already, a hold-over from the last world.]
So I'm Guy. Uh, a little bit about me...
[He starts rattling off details like this is a dating profile.]
I'm a former nomad - as in, a hunter-gatherer - current farmer, on basically the first farm ever back home. I don't know my star sign, but the internet says it's very important on a profile-introduction-thingy so let's pretend I'm the kind that's a bull. [He makes a bull's horns with his fingers at the top of his head and then shrugs haplessly.] I know it has to do with months, but I kinda can't pick one because I don't know what month I was born, because we don't have calendars back home. We just...track things from full moon to full moon and pay general attention to the seasons.
I was in another world before this that, uh... that took me from home. [He looks a little anxious mentioning it and doesn't elaborate.] I learned a little bit about technology and future things there. Some of my friends were from other worlds too, also future places, and said they thought I was probably from what would've been very, very far in the past of their worlds. "Prehistoric," they said.
This future world is different from that one, so some of what I learned doesn't apply. So I have a bunch of questions, actually.
[He starts ticking them off. None of them are related.]
Someone explained the letters on a channel I was watching and... why is it called Music Television if it never has any music?
What are influencers? Like, who - who are they influencing? When I watch them on the tiktok I just feel a little sad inside because they want attention so badly. I don't feel influenced. Unless they're influencing me to feel sad inside.
Why is reality TV called that when it's nothing like reality whatsoever? [He does not like it. At all. His eyes go wider with something between mystification and abject disgust and his voice gets just a touch emotional, but he doesn't get carried away. It's just clearly a sore spot.] And what is with future people being so preoccupied with watching human suffering?! I remain disturbed.
[He moves on.]
Oh yeah, someone helped me find a civ-vics audiobook at a library and it mentioned something. So I looked it up. And when I did voice to text it showed a map and I still have no idea how it all works.
[He points his phone at the laptop someone talked him through buying to show...a map of the US electoral college. He turns it back to his face and the flat look he gives seems aimed at the entire country.]
Explain, please.
That's all for now. I'll probably have lots of questions on a regular basis.
By the way, don't type answers back. [He mimes typing with a phone.] I can't read so I can only do video and sounds. A librarian told me there's something that's like voice-to-text in reverse called a screen reader? But I still have to figure out how to get one.
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May. 12th, 2023 11:23 pmkazimierasDisplay Name: kazitude
Profile Photo: it's just this dude
Notes: BACKDATED to a bit before the announcement of the Society takeover of Central City, just to make his upcoming placement slightly easier
what up it's ya boi dr kazemieras kent [who just misspelled his own name, what of it] & apparently working as a physician since i was 14 does NOT qualify me to live on my own according to the alliance & like laws & stuff without a lot of legal paperwork so they want to put me with a foster at least for now
so does anyone have like experience with that
they're giving me a couple placement options so i guess i have some choices but like am i probably still screwed orrr
Profile Photo: it's just this dude
Notes: BACKDATED to a bit before the announcement of the Society takeover of Central City, just to make his upcoming placement slightly easier
what up it's ya boi dr kazemieras kent [who just misspelled his own name, what of it] & apparently working as a physician since i was 14 does NOT qualify me to live on my own according to the alliance & like laws & stuff without a lot of legal paperwork so they want to put me with a foster at least for now
so does anyone have like experience with that
they're giving me a couple placement options so i guess i have some choices but like am i probably still screwed orrr
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May. 11th, 2023 08:07 ammetanpcsDisplay Name: MECHANIMA
Notes: Mechanima will be watching responses, but will not be responding to every message. He may chime in on occasion. This is meant to be more of a collaboration post for player characters to figure out what they would like to do in order to resolve this! While posted to Ourpowers, links and screenshots to this post will be spread across social media through various sources. It's not often Mechanima makes an announcement these days, especially one like this.
Greetings.
As I'm sure most residents of Central City have realized, we're currently handling an illness that is passing from individual to individual. This isn't something the Society would dip their fingers into during normal circumstances, but we're working under the assumption this may or may not have been unintentionally caused by one of ours.
[ The... parasites, for lack of better word, do not fall under the Society's umbrella. But given that they are certainly not quite human are spreading through the city like wildfire, Mechanima has opted to listen to Dylan Brock's suggestion and is aiming to quell the spread before it gets out of control. No need for this to put them all under an uncomfortable light. ]
We've set up quarantine zones through Central City: Centennial High School's old facility towards the North, an old lair to the West, Broadmoor Hospital to the East, and the second floor of the Society of Villainous Reformation's building for all others. We have our own research teams working to discover a cure, and are asking for assistance from any metahumans capable of discerning biological differences between beings, as well as biologists who can lend a hand. You will be compensated for your assistance.
Do not enter Central City. If you are within Central City, do not fight quarantine efforts. Do not leave the city if you are already within it. We have associates posted at every road, airport, and train station to prevent movement. Teleporters being tracked. We are watching for metahumans with quicktravel abilities.
Consider this a hostile takeover of Central City by yours truly.
Mechanima
Notes: Mechanima will be watching responses, but will not be responding to every message. He may chime in on occasion. This is meant to be more of a collaboration post for player characters to figure out what they would like to do in order to resolve this! While posted to Ourpowers, links and screenshots to this post will be spread across social media through various sources. It's not often Mechanima makes an announcement these days, especially one like this.
Greetings.
As I'm sure most residents of Central City have realized, we're currently handling an illness that is passing from individual to individual. This isn't something the Society would dip their fingers into during normal circumstances, but we're working under the assumption this may or may not have been unintentionally caused by one of ours.
[ The... parasites, for lack of better word, do not fall under the Society's umbrella. But given that they are certainly not quite human are spreading through the city like wildfire, Mechanima has opted to listen to Dylan Brock's suggestion and is aiming to quell the spread before it gets out of control. No need for this to put them all under an uncomfortable light. ]
We've set up quarantine zones through Central City: Centennial High School's old facility towards the North, an old lair to the West, Broadmoor Hospital to the East, and the second floor of the Society of Villainous Reformation's building for all others. We have our own research teams working to discover a cure, and are asking for assistance from any metahumans capable of discerning biological differences between beings, as well as biologists who can lend a hand. You will be compensated for your assistance.
Do not enter Central City. If you are within Central City, do not fight quarantine efforts. Do not leave the city if you are already within it. We have associates posted at every road, airport, and train station to prevent movement. Teleporters being tracked. We are watching for metahumans with quicktravel abilities.
Consider this a hostile takeover of Central City by yours truly.
Mechanima
demigothDisplay Name: Nico
Profile Photo: This
Notes: If your character is in or tangentially related to Nico's friends group and wants to take credit or partial credit for teaching the ghosts of the Hurl how to dance, go for it.
[ The video's showing a low angle of a room, like the phone is propped up on the seat of a chair. In the foreground, it's mostly Nico di Angelo and a pile of turned wood that might be the balusters of a staircase on the dusty, thin-board floor.
The further in the background, however, the more height the camera is picking up. And there's definitely... something happening back there. It's hard to see what it is, at first, because Nico's holding out a tri wing screw like a YouTuber holds up a skin cream, tucked into his palm to try to make the camera focus on this.
Not hard to hear what it is, though, because music is playing with a forced, tinny element that identifies the giant 1930s radio cabinet in the background is the source. It's not that loud in the video, but there's a sense from the tinniness and how loudly Nico's talking that the dial's cranked to 11. ]
Can anyone help me with this screw?
[ He puts his hand down and starts picking up various basic tools: a flathead screwdriver, a Philips screwdriver, two different hex keys, a hex screwdriver. ]
Tried this, this, both of these, whatever this is...
[ The song hits When I do my walk, walk and the movement in the background resolves. There's a floating broom, a dogeared grimoire, a porkpie hat, and a chiffon and maribou robe. There's a sense that the items are being held four astride. It's clear that the robe has an invisible body in it, and they're dancing. And... the other items move like the invisible hands that hold them are participating in the same choreography. It's like Tiktok Presents: the big fight scene from Bedknobs & Broomsticks. And they really go for it on the chorus. ]
I am trying to fix the stairs so that nobody breaks their neck climbing a rope that's tied to a poster bed. Please don't make me go to the hardware store. I'm already banned from 2 Home Depots.
[ The porkpie hat bobbles over and one of the balusters floats upward from the pile. As it bounces back over to the other haunted items, there's a thump and the radio starts playing the song from the top. ]
I really need to get this done.
Profile Photo: This
Notes: If your character is in or tangentially related to Nico's friends group and wants to take credit or partial credit for teaching the ghosts of the Hurl how to dance, go for it.
[ The video's showing a low angle of a room, like the phone is propped up on the seat of a chair. In the foreground, it's mostly Nico di Angelo and a pile of turned wood that might be the balusters of a staircase on the dusty, thin-board floor.
The further in the background, however, the more height the camera is picking up. And there's definitely... something happening back there. It's hard to see what it is, at first, because Nico's holding out a tri wing screw like a YouTuber holds up a skin cream, tucked into his palm to try to make the camera focus on this.
Not hard to hear what it is, though, because music is playing with a forced, tinny element that identifies the giant 1930s radio cabinet in the background is the source. It's not that loud in the video, but there's a sense from the tinniness and how loudly Nico's talking that the dial's cranked to 11. ]
Can anyone help me with this screw?
[ He puts his hand down and starts picking up various basic tools: a flathead screwdriver, a Philips screwdriver, two different hex keys, a hex screwdriver. ]
Tried this, this, both of these, whatever this is...
[ The song hits When I do my walk, walk and the movement in the background resolves. There's a floating broom, a dogeared grimoire, a porkpie hat, and a chiffon and maribou robe. There's a sense that the items are being held four astride. It's clear that the robe has an invisible body in it, and they're dancing. And... the other items move like the invisible hands that hold them are participating in the same choreography. It's like Tiktok Presents: the big fight scene from Bedknobs & Broomsticks. And they really go for it on the chorus. ]
I am trying to fix the stairs so that nobody breaks their neck climbing a rope that's tied to a poster bed. Please don't make me go to the hardware store. I'm already banned from 2 Home Depots.
[ The porkpie hat bobbles over and one of the balusters floats upward from the pile. As it bounces back over to the other haunted items, there's a thump and the radio starts playing the song from the top. ]
I really need to get this done.
demigothDisplay Name: Nico di Angelo
Profile Photo: Viria art is blessed by the author
Notes: CW: the briefest mention of malnutrition
[ A teenaged boy is standing in front of the Diadem Hotel. He's wearing black skinny jeans that only have one hole in them, and a black t-shirt with a graphic of skeletal pegasus. The bomber jacket that he's insisting on wearing despite the heat covers up some of the words, and so the shirt reads P HALFBL above the image and BIN 1 below.
Nico is pale, and while there's a sheen to his skin, it's not summer sweat. He looks... clammy. His eyes are deep set and dark lashed, but the darkness around them is more than that. If it's eyeshadow, you need to know his brand because it's holding up great for July. But it looks genuine - lack of sleep, not enough iron, teenaged growth spurts. Whatever it is, he looks like a Hallmark movie about fans of the Cure.
Except for the annoyed expression. That's not very Hallmark.
The Diadem Hotel sign can be scene in the background over his shoulder. Nico is standing in the middle of the drop-off zone. ]
I don't care what the guilds say - I'm not staying in another magic hotel. I' I tried to go home, it's not there. I tried to go back to camp - it's not there.
[ He's gesticulating as he talks and doesn't always remember to limit it to the hand that isn't holding the camera. Enjoy the free motion sickness. It makes harder to see how Nico himself is swaying a little. ]
And I can't leave or - what? The hordes of heroes are gonna find me and put me in foster care if I don't find somebody to be a foster parent? Foster care with one of their heroes that I don't even know? Then I have to go to some school in the sky in a couple of weeks?
How do you find a foster home? Like one that don't care where you are because you're fine.
Profile Photo: Viria art is blessed by the author
Notes: CW: the briefest mention of malnutrition
[ A teenaged boy is standing in front of the Diadem Hotel. He's wearing black skinny jeans that only have one hole in them, and a black t-shirt with a graphic of skeletal pegasus. The bomber jacket that he's insisting on wearing despite the heat covers up some of the words, and so the shirt reads P HALFBL above the image and BIN 1 below.
Nico is pale, and while there's a sheen to his skin, it's not summer sweat. He looks... clammy. His eyes are deep set and dark lashed, but the darkness around them is more than that. If it's eyeshadow, you need to know his brand because it's holding up great for July. But it looks genuine - lack of sleep, not enough iron, teenaged growth spurts. Whatever it is, he looks like a Hallmark movie about fans of the Cure.
Except for the annoyed expression. That's not very Hallmark.
The Diadem Hotel sign can be scene in the background over his shoulder. Nico is standing in the middle of the drop-off zone. ]
I don't care what the guilds say - I'm not staying in another magic hotel. I' I tried to go home, it's not there. I tried to go back to camp - it's not there.
[ He's gesticulating as he talks and doesn't always remember to limit it to the hand that isn't holding the camera. Enjoy the free motion sickness. It makes harder to see how Nico himself is swaying a little. ]
And I can't leave or - what? The hordes of heroes are gonna find me and put me in foster care if I don't find somebody to be a foster parent? Foster care with one of their heroes that I don't even know? Then I have to go to some school in the sky in a couple of weeks?
How do you find a foster home? Like one that don't care where you are because you're fine.
POST FORMATTING GUIDELINES
Oct. 19th, 2021 04:50 pmmetamodsONLINE COMMUNICATION
This community is meant to simulate online interactions between characters. The game lacks a closed network but characters have a number of choices when it comes to expressing themselves to their fellow metas.
OurPowers, the primary social media site for metahumans, operates just like Facebook. Posts and comments will have a picture of your character and their name. Players can have multiple OurPowers profiles. Posts on Ourpowers are done under their civilian name or metahuman alias.
OurPowers does have an anonymous feature. In world, this feature is there to allow metahumans the freedom to ask questions without outing themselves. It can be used for most anything, though. Replies can either be anonymous or names can be attached.
This community can be used for private guild communication. All Society members are given access to the Society's network. And all Alliance members have access to the Alliance's. Unaffiliated characters will need to set up their own.
These networks are unhackable. Any attempts to do so must be posted on the Plotting Page.
This community is meant to simulate online interactions between characters. The game lacks a closed network but characters have a number of choices when it comes to expressing themselves to their fellow metas.
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OurPowers, the primary social media site for metahumans, operates just like Facebook. Posts and comments will have a picture of your character and their name. Players can have multiple OurPowers profiles. Posts on Ourpowers are done under their civilian name or metahuman alias.
OurPowers does have an anonymous feature. In world, this feature is there to allow metahumans the freedom to ask questions without outing themselves. It can be used for most anything, though. Replies can either be anonymous or names can be attached.
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These networks are unhackable. Any attempts to do so must be posted on the Plotting Page.
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