JULY MISSION PLOTTING

[etrayamods]

❬ THE HERO EQUATION ❭

Everyone is given the same story when they arrive to Etraya: they are here to prove their world is worth saving.

This isn't a straight prove your worth, but given as a competition of sorts: there are many worlds, and only some of them will be saved once Echo has chosen which worlds truly are worth saving, and which aren't. Many may assume they are competing against some, but alongside others. There are numerous individuals from Runeterra, many from an Earth with a Gotham with a certain individual wearing the moniker Superman - or perhaps their Superman is different. Others may have arrived here without any recognizable companions, but among others from the same planet they have come from. Perhaps there are faces you know, but they aren't quite the same: timelines don't match up, histories don't, something is off about them. Some may have further information from Aurora regarding this: serial numbers of planets, of worlds, all nicely labeled in a system that is no longer accessible. But how does one truly know who among them is an enemy or an ally? How do you know working alongside someone truly benefits your world? Perhaps you are aiding someone whose world is similar enough, but not the same. Perhaps a child who is much older, or younger, isn't the child you know at all, but a close copy. Someone whose world is different just enough to count separately. Perhaps you are all fighting for the same world. A multiverse connected together with intricate threads, ones that cannot be untangled from another, all gathered together under the same file as far as Echo is concerned. Perhaps none of you are fighting for the same thing at all, but all warring against one another. What if only one world from Etraya is saveable? What if they all will be, depending on their performance? For those who refuse to believe anything told by those from this world: perhaps you were correct all along, and the tale told by Aurora is only a distraction meant to take your attention away from something else entirely. How can you truly know, when it appears that Aurora also doesn't have that information? What source will you believe: your own instincts, or others?

❬ HIDDEN AGENDA ❭

On the morning of July 11th, Aurora makes her announcement: Etrayans are to travel to a planet called Earth, with a specific goal to accomplish during their time planet-side. A cosmic anomaly is warping the moral compasses of Earth's residences. Those who were known for their great deeds and heroic feats are turning authoritarian, or possibly downright evil. On the opposite end, the attitudes of criminals is also... shifting. Some have gone from merciless killing machines to self-sacrificial heroes, pushing themselves to the battlefront in order to protect those weaker than them. The thing is? No one truly knows why this is happening. Some whose moral alignments are more pragmatic don't seem to be effected by the change, but have noticed it happening around them. School bullies are becoming teachers pets. Teachers pets are becoming merciless bullies. Something is truly wrong here, and no one knows how to fix it. Many may recognize the planet: Earth, in the year 2025, with all the normal amenities that may be found in the current day. However, there aren't just the expected ordinary human beings traveling the planet. Caped crusaders, vigilantes, and beings from other planets wander the streets freely. Superhuman capabilities aren't necessarily common, but it seems that a good 10-15% of those residing on Earth have some sort of extraordinary ability. Some use it to benefit the world, going by names such as Sublime and flying around the planet at superhuman speeds to save ships from odd creatures that have resurfaced in the ocean determined to take out anything that disturbs it's peace. Some use it to benefit themselves, using their ability to become incorporeal to pickpocket others, steal from banks, and enrich themselves and those around them by robbing others of their hard-earned funds. Upon arriving planet-side on July 18th, each Etrayan is assigned two additional identities: their heroic alter-ego, as well as a common name to blend in with the crowd. Think Superman and Clark Kent. In addition to their names, they will find that their arrival on this Earth may have granted them new capabilities - perhaps someone without abilities is now able to fly, or someone who came to Etraya with their own set of extraordinary abilities now has something new to help with. Their newly given identities align with these newfound abilities, if they have them. For those who arrive just as they were - well. There are plenty of heroes without extra capabilities that manage in the field just fine, they can figure it out. Maybe they are the eyes in the sky, leaders that direct heroes through communicators, or someone who inherited more money than they could ever truly use in a lifetime that they can redirect to building fun new toys. Their goal? To search this world for the cosmic anomaly, and "fix" it. Aurora doesn't have further details, nor can she provide any helpful clues as to what it may look like. This is up to them, the citizens of Etraya, to discern. The world is a big place, and there's countless places such a thing could hide, especially given they're not sure what, exactly, they're looking for. Worse still: they're on a time crunch. This mission will end on August 15th, giving them four weeks to find it and get out. If it's found and resolved earlier, all the better! It gives them time to repair some of the damage done.

❬ MORALITY SHIFT ❭

While Etrayans are being sent to this Earth to find and fix the issue that is causing difficulties with this Earth's population, they'll find that some of them are also affected. Players are welcome to decide that their characters have suddenly had a morality shift of their own - perhaps those who are more inclined to criminal activity suddenly find themselves wanting to do good, or vice versa. This is fully optional, and any effects would clear up upon their return to Etraya. This would also hit them significantly less hard than it does those who are native to this world! Please keep this in mind when playing with it. The changes would get more significant over time, meaning it would start very subtly. Some characters will find themselves arriving in San Francisco. This city has become a kind of hub for heroes working outside of the United States. There is a massive building off the coastline known as the League of Heroes. This is run by a superhero known as Sublime. His backstory as an alien from a far away planet who arrived here as a young child and was raised by caring parents is well-known. Sorry, Superman, we're borrowing from you a little. On the flip side, others will be arriving in Palo Alto where there is a large hub of villains. They have their own headquarters, a building that looks like an average office space called Veil and Venture, but once one gets off the lobby floor, it becomes clear it's anything but. This place is run by a woman named Lynn Reed, better known as Manifesto. Mods can assign identities here if you'd like, or players can choose their own. This includes their starting locations, and whether they're hero-coded or villain-coded. Characters who are under sixteen will need to reside with a guardian. Those between sixteen and eighteen may be given one if Aurora feels as if they require someone to look out for them. We'll be leaving this up to players! For those with a guardian: Aurora will be giving legal custody of them to another player character - this can be chosen by the players. Additionally characters can be housed together in roommate situations, or assigned as "siblings", they may be given civilian identities that are married to one another, etc. Please feel free to make up little family units that feel most fun to you! If you ask the mods to assign identities, please let us know if you'd like your character to get their own little family unit or not. We will be providing a world-ending event for characters to confront on the mission log, but characters are welcome to use their newfound abilities and status as heroes to stop bank robberies, save kidnapped victims, stop the Puzzler by solving his puzzles, or confront villains or heroes-turned-villains in whatever capacity you'd like! Please consider this more of a free for all where there is plenty of space to play in and countless things for characters to get up to. Damage done to this Earth does not need to be checked by the mods, as long as they're outside of San Francisco and Palo Alto, given those are the main locations we'll be focusing on for this mission.

❬ MISSION NOTES ❭

📌 — This Earth heavily resembles current-day Earth. All cities will be what we would find on the map of our Earth - meaning, there is no Gotham, or any fictional cities in play. Players are free to create their own locations within locations! We won't be monitoring this closely, and want to give players free reign to play with the environment around them as they would like. 📌 — You may notice that this plotting post includes a lot of overview of the mission, but not the gritty details. We want to note that this is wholly intentional! We're looking to see what you, our players, are most interested in interacting with. This will help us build the log to suit your interests. If you have any questions or want to offer some suggestions, please feel free to do so under mission suggestions. We also have our mission queries header for any questions you may have! 📌 — Powers gained on this new Earth will be available to be regained through activity points after characters are back on Etraya. They will cost 30 points.

❬ PLOTTING FORM ❭

<b>Player:</b> <b>Contact Info:</b> How should other players reach out to you? (discord, plurk, etc.) <b>Limits:</b>Things you'd rather avoid—e.g. death, certain triggers, etc. <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Status / Alter Ego:</b> Will they be a hero? A villain? What alter ego do you intend on giving them, and how are you planning on having them interact with the world around them? <b>Wanted CR:</b> Is there anything in particular you're wanting to get out of this? Do you want them to make some friends, or enemies? Want someone capable of taking them down in case they go bad - or someone to stop them from doing good? <b>Mission Plans:</b> What do you want them to get up to on this Earth? <b>Anything Else:</b> Links to permissions posts, opt-outs, misc additional notes.

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Comments

identity sign ups.

[etrayamods]

Please fill out the below form if you'd like for us to assign your character an identity. Add any specifications you'd like! We can't guarantee we will be able to give you everything you're asking for (especially with family assignments, as that depends on who signs up) but we'll do our best!

<b>Character Name:</b> <b>Character Age:</b> <b>Ability:</b> If you have a preference! If not, fill this in as N/A <b>Family Preference:</b> If you have one! If not, fill this in as N/A <b>Starting Location:</b> If you have a preference! If not, fill this in as N/A <b>Hero or Villain:</b> If you have a preference either way. If not, fill this in as N/A

[miniroth]

Character Name: Sephiroth
Character Age: Sixteen
Ability Preference: Picked one!
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: Villain would be best for theatrical purposes but for balance reasons hero is ok too!

[etrayamods]

Sephiroth Gadlinson will be under the guardianship of Loki and Hob (abit_ofboth and 100more) he'll be a villain, but he will be in San Francisco with his heroic parents!

(Players are free and welcome to tweak things as they wish, these are suggestions to get them started.)

[bigpoofymammoth]

Character Name: Manny
Character Age: Adult in his 20s or 30s
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: Hero

[etrayamods]

Manny "Mammoth" Holocene will have the ability to change his size at will but he will retain his mammoth strength regardless of how big or small he is. He will be a hero partnered with Mal Durrish (once_reborn) and will arrive in San Francisco.

(Players are free and welcome to tweak things as they wish, these are suggestions to get them started.)

[rudelanguage]

Character Name: Knife
Character Age: ~23
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: Sanfran
Hero or Villain: Hero

[etrayamods]

John "Bullseye" Smith has perfect aim regardless of the weapon or projectile used. He will be Hope Summers' (futuremessiah) guardian and will land in San Francisco as a hero.

(Players are free and welcome to tweak things as they wish, these are suggestions to get them started.)

[bonding]

Character Name: Noelle Holiday
Character Age: 16
Ability: Ice powers!
Family Preference: N/a
Starting Location: N/a
Hero or Villain: N/A

[etrayamods]

Noelle "Ice Pop" Rodriguez has the ability to turn water into ice and control it. She will be Clea Dessendre's (repaintress) ward, and will land in Palo Alto as a villain.

(Players are free and welcome to tweak things as they wish, these are suggestions to get them started.)

[unaliveyourself]

Character Name: Osamu Dazai
Character Age: 23
Ability: I’d like to keep his canon power, No Longer Human!
Family Preference: Please give him a child, that would be endlessly hilarious to me
Starting Location: Palo Alto
Hero or Villain: N/A

[cache_coeur]

Just adding on a note that Sciel's gonna be Dazai's fake wife, so her identity can roll in with his!

[etrayamods]

Dazai Osamu will be assigned Frisk (spr_mainchara) as his ward. He will be a hero but arrive to Palo Alto.

(Players are free and welcome to tweak things as they wish, these are suggestions to get them started.)

[repaintress]

Character Name:
Character Age: 29
Ability: Sorry, realized there is something I want here. Basically powers that have to do with monsters or dangerous animals please. :D
Family Preference: I'd love something - only request is nothing with castmates.
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: She's a villain but will be having an existential crisis and feeling remorse/guilt for the first time in her life. Does not care for it.

Re: identity sign ups.

[hammerbearer]

Character Name: Gaia (Has also requested to keep Gaia in her name somewhere~)
Character Age: 17
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: Cloud as one of her guardians.
Starting Location: Wherever Cloud ends up because guardianship.
Hero or Villain: Nominally hero but if you need to balance things I don't care if she ends up being a villain (and ward of a hero haha)

[nobraincell]

Character Name: Chu Wenshan
Character Age: ~25
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: N/A

[futuremessiah]

Character Name: Hope Summers
Character Age: 17
Ability: her own powers are fine
Family Preference: roll her something
Starting Location: no preference
Hero or Villain: I'll be the villain tonight

[agoddessonce]

Character Name: Ororo Munroe
Character Age: late 30s/maybe 40?
Ability: Something new to add to her weather powers please :)
Family Preference: N/A, looking for new CR!
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: N/A, please surprise me 👀

[once_reborn]

Character Name: Mal Durrish
Character Age: Mid 20s
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: N/A

[welcome_summer]

Character Name: Shiraki Mayuko. I'm okay with either an Eastern or Western name order; I would like her identity's given name to be "June" (like the month), and her hero/villain alias to be "Elegy".
Character Age: 27-28.
Ability: Personal Energy Field Manipulation (generating tentacles/whips and shielding) and a Dimensional Storage Pocket (carrying capacity will not exceed three backpacks' worth of space.)
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: N/A

[demainvient]

Character Name: Gustave
Character Age: 32
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: Would love for him to be fake married! he will be coming in with a 16 year old child already (Maelle), but if another kid needs a spot I'm happy for him to get a kid too.
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: Hero, I think? He just arrived so I don't want to twist his character too much just yet.

[spr_mainchara]

Character Name: Frisk
Character Age: 11
Ability: for Frisk, something that affects their physical state (of health or otherwise); for Chara, something related to weaponry or creating barriers
Family Preference: N/A
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: N/A

[abit_ofboth]

Character Name: Loki
Character Age: 1000+
Ability: N/A or nothing extra. He already has so much.
Family Preference: He would like to be married to Hob
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: Hero (but maybe more like an anti-hero?)

[supbitches]

Character Name: Charlie Bradbury
Character Age: 28
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: N/A - hoping to throw her into the deep end and snag some new CR!
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: N/A

[plangona]

Character Name: Octavia Blake
Character Age: 19
Ability: N/A
Family Preference: N/A (She will be the guardian for Cassandra De Rolo but other than that I am down for whatever else with other family relations)
Starting Location: N/A
Hero or Villain: Hero-ish

[bubblegumheart]

If it's not too late to sign up for this. If it is, feel free to disregard lol

Character Name: Chrissy Cunningham
Character Age: 19
Ability: No preference as long as it's not OP.
Family Preference: -- She's going to be looking after Laura and Vivi!
Starting Location: Probably with the heroes and hero-adjacent types.
Hero or Villain: Neither! I feel like she'd be better suited to being in a support type role- particularly because I think Vivi is going hero, and I'm assuming Laura is as well.