APRIL CONFLUENCE

[metamods]

APRIL CONFLUENCE

It comes to the precogs in a flash: On APRIL 26th, a confluence will occur in Little Love. Any available metahumans are requested to take a trip to the tiny town and stand guard.

Just as it has the previous four times, an OMINOUS STORM rolls in. Thunder booms and a bolt of lightning crashes into the field below.... but nobody falls from the sky. In fact, nothing weird at all seems to happen. The storm runs its course and in the end, the night is uneventful. The metas standing guard are left wet, cold, and frustrated.

THE ALLIANCE and THE SOCIETY do a thorough sweep but seem to decide everything is fine. Confluences appear to be winding down once again and all breathe a quiet sigh of relief.

Yet unknown to them, the new arrivals have come through… but this time rather than crashing into the ground, the lightning strike has EMBEDDED THEM deep, deep beneath the ground.

The following morning, the residents of Little Love are stunned to find their FRESHLY PLANTED POTATO SEED has reached full maturity overnight. Curious and wary, one brave farmer wades into the towering stalks to investigate the potential cause. She fails to come back out.

A little later into the week, one disappearance has become dozens. The Alliance receives a call stating that SOMETHING has been calling to the townspeople in the crop field. Anyone who sets foot in it doesn’t seem to be coming back out, and the town is small enough as it is already. 

Once again, you’re asked to go INVESTIGATE.

HARVEST —

Nothing seems off about the fields at first. But a thermal scan reveals just where the missing farmers have gone - they’re IN THE GROUND. Alive, but appearing to be in a deep state of slumber.

And you, new arrival, have been PLANTED right beside them. You may remember a fleeting glimpse of the world rushing by, but that now feels like a bad dream. You’re having a much nicer one down here, surrounded by all your brothers and sisters.  You can HEAR THEIR VOICES in the back of your mind, compelling you to stay here with them forever. The earth around you is like a warm embrace. Why would you ever want to leave it?  Your body will feed it and give your brethren strength. 

Some of you may snap awake at that particular thought. You begin to desperately CLAWING YOUR WAY UP. Your hand breaks the surface and someone screams at the zombie, but someone else is there to quickly grasp your hand and yank you up and out. There are THIN WHITE ROOTS all over you - easily torn off, but unsettling all the same.

PRUNING THE GARDEN

Your captors do not appreciate their garden being invaded. And for every person that’s pulled out of the ground, A MASSIVE POTATO the size of a large dog is disturbed and springs free. They don't appreciate being woken up. 

These YOUNG SPROUTS are full of piss and vinegar, ready to fight anyone who comes too close to their nesting grounds. Others are eager to return to the soil, and keen on adding to the collective by taking you with them.

Meanwhile, the remnants of last fall’s harvest appear to have adopted a persona not unlike that of a SENIOR DOG. They want to be left alone and will lash out at any of these whippersnappers intruding on their space. You may find an unlikely ally in a particularly CRANKY SPUD.  If you're patient, kind, and maybe a little off-kilter (who are we to judge), you can try to ADOPT one of the SENIOR POTATO MONSTERS. Good luck?

ALIEN CAVERN —

For those of you unfortunate enough to be pulled into the earth, you’re in luck - the potatoes seem to be overestimating how much room they have to work with. The next thing you know you’re falling through the CEILING OF A CAVERN, splashing into a shallow glowing river.

There’s NO WAY OUT, and even if you're able to fly, the hole above you appears to have sealed itself up.

Your mouth is full of dirt. Perhaps you feel compelled to DRINK THE WATER to clear it, or perhaps you swallowed a mouthful as you hit the ground. Regardless, swallow any of the glowing water you’ll BEGIN TO GLOW as well.  You’ll also become keenly attuned to the nature in this cavern. You’re probably a little stoned, but your senses tell you all of the organic material appears to possess a RUDIMENTARY SAPIENCE. 

Follow the stream to its source and you’ll find an impressive piece of ALIEN TECHNOLOGY. It’s difficult to discern exactly what it does, but as its surrounding area is surrounded by exotic looking plants you guess it may be some sort of TERRAFORMING MACHINE. It looks like the bolt of lightning caused it to go haywire and its pushing energy out into the fields, trying to terraform the planet into whatever its now warped parameters tell it to. A VISCOUS BLUE LIQUID is leaking from the tank and into the water supply. And you may feel regrets about drinking that.

Bring it offline. Once the machine has shut down, the POTATO-BEASTS abruptly crash through the ceiling and burrow through the ground underneath your feet. Your rescuers look down at you through these massive holes and as the sunlight strikes your skin, FLOWERS begin to bloom all over your body.

Someone makes a reluctant call to HQ and tells them to prep the medical team.

AFTERMATH —

RETURN TO HQ

After the potato beasts are taken care of (or adopted?) and the chaos from the strange underground Confluence abates, the guild places a call back to headquarters to bring everyone back with a teleportation spell. The spell reaches out for whatever metahumans it can find in the area and pulls.

All the metahumans who were involved in the Confluence — new arrivals and old — to a white training space that has already transformed into a luxurious waiting room. Everyone present receives a cellphone.

Atomight isn't there in the flesh this time, but there is a broadcast over the network to those stuck at HQ:

Thank you for your help out there. We would like to issue an apology for the way you arrived here. To those of you grappling with your new abilities, please rest assured that this room will give you a much needed reprieve. We have staff on site who can work with you to gain control of you new abilities, and nullifiers if you find it's still too much.

You are the fourth set of newly powered individuals this confluence has brought. To those of you who have been flung far from home, we'll put you in connection with the others. Many of them are here today and can advise you of what your new reality is.

We of the Guardian Alliance are committed to doing everything we can to get you home, and to give you some time to get your feet under you. And as this may be your home for a while longer, I wish to formally extend an invitation to those of you who wish to use your powers to defend the innocent to join us.

Once everyone gathered has been looked over and attended to they're directed to:

THE DIADEM

As always, there is space aplenty for new arrivals in the DIADEM HOTEL. (Though there's a lot of you now, so you'll definitely be matched with a ROOMMATE, possibly at random.)

The Diadem Hotel is a luxury hotel usually reserved for the obscenely wealthy. Its rooms are enormous, the beds quite literally enchanted to offer the perfect night's sleep, and the food would usually cost your life savings just to sample. But don't worry! Everything is COMPLIMENTARY, and everyone gets an Alliance credit card to spend on entertainment, clothing, and whatever other necessities they might need. The cards appear to have an obscenely high limit and there doesn't seem to be an expectation for you to pay it back.

You might get approached by GUILD REPRESENTATIVES and invited to join. Depending on your character's actions during the Confluence crisis, they might get approached by one guild and not the other. Recruiters are charming and personable, talking up the perks of being in the Guilds (see more on our FAQ and GUILDS pages). They won't be harassing anyone, but a "no, thank you" might be returned with a "think it over" and offer of a calling card. Be careful, though. You only have TWO MONTHS to join a guild and secure guild housing. If you don't join one or the other, you'll be on your own. Oh well. Live it up while you can, right?

IN SUMMARY...

• NEW ARRIVALS arrive in LITTLE LOVE during a storm. At first, the Confluence escapes notice, as these arrivals arrive UNDER THE GROUND.


• At first, sleeping arrivals may feel compelled to STAY underground with their newfound root brethren. Eventually, they realise the error of that thinking and CRAWL OUT OF THE GROUND like freaky plant zombies, covered in roots. "Get this stuff off of me!"


• MUTANT POTATO-BEASTS also crawl out of the ground with arrivals! You may be able to make an UNLIKELY ALLIANCE with one of these creatures and even take it home with you!


• Those PULLED INTO THE EARTH can explore an ALIEN CAVERN completely with glowing, questionable water. Arrivals need to shut down an ALIEN TERRAFORMING MACHINE before being rescued by farmers and potato-beasts. Delicious(?).


• As always, new arrivals will later be transported either to GUILD HQ or the DIADEM HOTEL. Enjoy your new guild perks for the next two months! Decide to join a guild (or not)! Pluck that last stray potato root off yourself and meet your fellow potatoes arrivals.


• Ask any mod questions HERE.

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Tim Drake | DC Comics | OTA

[mostdangerousbird]

Harvest

There was something like a flash, and trees and grass and ground approaching at an alarming rate, but that was so long ago, it's almost lost from memory. Before that, dark and breezy and fast, with all the details muted and fuzzy. He likes it here, dark and warm and slow, and they like that he likes it here.

Why shouldn't he like it here? See how nicely the dirt fits around him. It's good to have something mold to him for once. Soon the mold will eat away at him, and he'll be dirt. They'll suck up all his nutrients, and he'll be part of them forever. Won't that be nice?

No, something inside of him screams, because Tim can't without a mouthful of dirt. He's trapped - buried - and the mask might keep the dirt out of his eyes, but the air pocket won't last forever. He digs his way upward through the dirt for what feels like forever until one of his guantlets breaks the surface, green fingers scrabbling to widen the hole.

Pruning the garden

There is an odd standoff developing in the field. There is Robin, who does not belong in a field in what looks like the pre-dawn glow. A wild raccoon, who believes very strongly that it belongs in these wonderful smorgasbord fields whether or not the farmers believe so. And... what appears to be a potato monster, who neither Robin or the raccoon are fully prepared for.

None of them like each other. Two of them can't decide which of the others to take a swipe at, and Robin doesn't want to back away until they're distracted by each other.

Potato monsters aren't sentient, right?

[ OOC: Italics format is also fine. If you would prefer to wildcard, go for it. You can also hit me up at seemarierun to plan, or message this journal. ]

Harvest

[knight_shift]

Thanks to his suits claws and not needing to worry about his air supply Terry managed to pull himself out fairly early. A farm wasn't exactly what he was expecting to find once he'd surfaced.

He sees the other hand peeking out of the dirt, and starts to dig. "Hang on. I've got you."

Once enough of the dirt is cleared away, he grabs hold of the hand and pulls it up to find a Robin looking back at him.

"...well, slag." Time travel. His first time dealing with it personally, and he already hated it.

Pruning the garden

[robintohood]

Jason was still fuming and brushing off the dirt and leftover roots on him when he spots someone in a suit that looks awfully similar to one of his old Robin suits. First he had to dig himself out of what nearly became his second grave and now there was a Robin? Was this a sick joke? When the hell did Bruce allow this?

Jason stomps towards the teenager, barely registering the standoff he's having with the potatoes.

harvest

[tosavethisworld]

And another hand pulls him out—calloused in the way you’d expect an archer’s hand to be calloused. Aloy, fresh from her own grave and still shaking the dirt from her hair, yanks this whole person out of the ground with a quiet curse.

“You all right there?” she asks, looking the kid up and down. That…is not exactly the flashiest outfit she’s ever seen so far, but it’s definitely somewhere up there. She pulls her waterskin off her belt and offers it to him, saying, “I’ve got some water left, if you need it.” Not much left, but Aloy’s had her fill and she figures she can find a source around here quick enough. This is a farm, after all.

“Any idea where we are?” she asks, with the tone of someone who doesn’t really expect him to know.

Harvest

[pinkxeno]

Confluences are always so messy and confusing, but Mina comes to all of them. She must, she is a hero after all, and she wants to help all these newcomers. Plus she knows something always goes haywire!

This time was no different, and when Heroes realize everyone is coming from the ground rather from the sky as it usually happens, Mina immediately starts digging out whoever she can. Sadly, she can't use her acid otherwise she might hurt someone, but she is still strong enough to dig through the holes.

And when she spots someone desperately trying to claw their way out, she is there to claw with them from the surface. Eventually she manages to grab Tim's hand, screaming back at him in hopes to reassure him: "It's alright, I got you!" and she will widden the hole, hoping to eventually pull the other out.

Harvest

[slidesrightoff]

Well, he'd been sent to look for something suspicious, and while he isn't exactly the detective type, he knows enough about farms to know that hands shouldn't just be sticking out of the ground like a stalk of corn. Unless it's a farm belonging to, like, a serial killer or something, but given everything else going on, he doubted it was the case. Plus, those fingers look like they're moving.

Maybe the farmer was a real sicko.

Maybe he should do something about the hand.

Planting (ha!) his legs on either side, he bites his lip for a moment, trying to figure out how much force would be too much, before settling for a moderately strong tug to get the body (he really hoped there was a body attached to that hand, unless it was a Thing situation and the hand was it's own sentient being or something) out from beneath the ground.

One, two, three... Eddie grabs the hand and gives it a tug. He just hopes that he doesn't hurt the person as he frees them.

"You okay?"

He just hoped that his cyborg strength didn't do more harm than good.

Re: Tim Drake | DC Comics | OTA

[lowercase_el]

[ Despite Tim's typical paranoia and hair trigger reflexes Kon doesn't make noise to declare his approach. Even the times he actually tries to sneak up on him, Tim always just seems to know he's coming. ]

[ It's because of the noises and smells. If Kon's walking, the footfalls are heavy, because of his size and the fact he's not the most agile on his feet. (Flying was his default mode of transportation for years before he started faking normalcy for school.) If he's flying the breeze jostles all the belt buckles and gives him away. Then there's the body spray, which is always loud, and probably has a name like Clean Blast. ]

[ Tim gets the usual environmental cues and Kon joins him in standing there watching the two creachurs. ]

My money's on the raccoon. [ A pause. ] Including if it attacks you. You usually have to just fight bad guys. Not varmints.

[ Kon has to chase raccoons away from the garden sometimes. He has seen the stubbornness and lack of fear. ]

This is critter country, and you're a city boy. You're on their turf now.

Jason Todd | DC Animated Movies | OTA

[robintohood]

1) Harvest

[Jason vaguely remembers a flash before finding himself surrounded by comfort. Wherever he is, it's warm. Though he doesn't see anyone, he gets the sense that he's got company too. At first, he's okay with that. He's spent too many years being alone. It's a nice change of pace. Wherever he is, he's snugged in tight. It's dark too. He's snugged in tight in the dark as if he was in... a coffin.

At that thought, Jason's mind snaps out of the fog and he instinctively wants to scream in panic. Except he can't. Right after that, he kicks into high gear and scrambles to try and get out by digging upward with his hands. His helmet helps with protecting his face from the dirt but he knows he has a limited air supply. He doesn't know how this happened but like hell someone tries to put him six feet under again.]

2) Pruning the garden

[Jason had gone through a lot of training for all sorts of situations throughout the years. But that didn't mean he couldn't be caught off-guard.

Still covered in dirt and roots, Jason now stood out on a field before a pack of young sprouts. They look like they're ready to pounce on him and drag him back into the earth. Meanwhile, Jason's standing his ground with a hand hovering over one of his handguns holstered on his hip and his other hand holding his combat knife]

Back off or I make fries out of all of you.

3) Wildcard

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[blondshell]

(Not even a second later and Katsuki is making good on Jason's threat - coincidentally of course. He saw the freak spuds and didn't even think about the attempted conversation. Nope. Just sees the weird little fuckers, the guy standing there, and slips into "must save."

...Also slips into "fun excuse to destroy something non-sentient" mode, but that's besides the point.

He raises his hand, forms a small explosion at the point of his finger, and sends it off at the spud nearest Jason.)

Too bad there's no rosemary. (Please, Katsuki. He spares the guy a second glance, the knife, the gun. Hm.)

Are you any good with those or am I gonna have to keep your ass safe?

2

[slidesrightoff]

[Any place that trains for "sentient potato dog monsters" is either someplace Eddie never wants to visit, or wants to visit immediately. He will figure it out once the potato crisis is done and dusted.]

I don't think gunpowder makes a good fire source. Unless you plan on blowing something up.

In which case, please do.

[Don't mind Eddie, he just sort of stumbled upon Jason and stood back to watch as the guy seemed like he had things under control. He's a bit of an odd sight with his metallic body beneath his casual clothing, a comically large sword strapped to his back and one of the potato monsters, looking none too happy, on his shoulder.]

[helpdesk_hero]

[Easy to demand that the strange potato creatures stay back. Harder to force the matter. But hey, Jason's capable, right? Doesn't stop a particularly aggressive young spud for jumping at the back of Jason's helmeted head. What does stop that is a sword formed entirely of golden light. It cuts into the side of the creature and the momentum of the blow throws it aside.]

Issue with helmets? Even more limit on your peripheral vision.

[Says the guy in a black and yellow helmet that completely covered and obscured his face. Yeah, pot, kettle. But David's a bit more lucky, given his helmet was specially modded to work with his technopathy and give him a better radius of vision. For now, though, the man moves to stand at Jason's back, seemingly not caring that he might get attacked. Maybe he's counting on shared aesthetic of costumes to keep him safe for now.]

You Alliance or Society? Don't know your style. Guess it doesn't matter right now, given we've both got a mess of spuds to face. Any sign of the missing farmers?

Izuku Midoriya | My Hero Academia | OTA

[defendure]

I. HARVEST

[ Either you can grab Izuku's gloved hand (careful of his exposed wrist - skin to skin contact can trigger some empathy of his feeling your emotions if you're not careful, though he doesn't know that either right now) or he will grab your hand to pull you free. Either way you'll soon have an ally in the shape of a short, friendly-looking boy who nevertheless looks more concerned about whomever he's with than the situation. Go figure. ]

II. PRUNING THE GARDEN

[ One of Izuku's core defining traits is being too kind and willing to understand others for his own good. While he's definitely going to stop any potato monsters from dragging people underground, if they're not doing anything other than sort of grumpily stomping around and snapping at other potato things (well...as much as a potato can snap...?) he's not sure that's really a criminal offense. And so he's sort of not looking to adopt a senior sprout or anything, but he does throw up his hands and intervene if he sees someone bothering one in front of him. ]

W-wait! This one isn't doing anything wrong. Uh, I think. [ He feels sympathy for a potato monster thing. Yes. ]

III. ALIEN MACHINE

Well, that isn't good. [ A succinct summary of events as Izuku gives the haywire machine a worried frown. ]

Um, do you think it's likely to blow up if we break it? That could cause in a cave-in. Although what it's doing right now kind of looks more dangerous... [ No property damage or solving the issue at hand...hm. His heart says...property damage is worth solving the issue at hand? ]

IV. MEDICAL TEAM

[ Sitting in a hospital bed is not a new experience for Izuku. In fact, he'd be hard pressed to think of a week recently where he hasn't spend some time getting medical attention...but luckily he doesn't dwell on that or stress himself out trying to think of the last time he went a full week without being injured or otherwise affected by some sort of weird Quirk. Er, meta-ability. Right. Got to use the right lingo...He's at least not picking at his new floral additions, although he's currently sort of closely examining a flower on his left wrist. ]

Is this a hydrangea? I think? Or uh...not...? I don't know as much about flowers as I should. [ Does it actually matter what it is? Probably not, but Izuku glances at the next bed over, just sort of restless and wanting to talk to someone. He's sort of trying to be good and not planning to break out until he's cleared, here. ]

Do you think it would hurt to pluck? [ Okay, maybe he's not being entirely good. He cannot help but wonder about this sort of thing. It's not like it would kill him? But he's curious how this works. ]

V. SHOPPING

[ Some time later, in a random bookshop somewhere (probably Washington, but maybe near the hotel? A nebulous location that makes it availble to anyone who cares to meet Izuku in a random bookshop, by the laws of easy RP logic) Izuku is browsing. Movies, books, comics - whatever. There's plenty to go through, and he's sort of overwhelmed by all the choices. And, in some ways, the lack of choices of familiar things. There are kind of things he sort of recognizes, but the big-name heroes he follows back home aren't a thing here, so he's sort of just... ]

Hm...I'm going to have to get into something new. [ But he's spoiled for options, in a huge world with tons of modern media. Where to start? This one has a kind of cool cover, but pulling it out and examining it closer reveals this is a sequel series. Back in the shelf it goes, then. ]

WILD.

[ Alternately, please feel free to throw something random at me or hit me up for plotting via pm or at roseburst. I'm happy to match prose if you prefer that to brackets, though I obviously default to brackets otherwise! Izuku is very friendly in general, and will do his best to get along with anyone. One of his "new" powers is touch-based empathy if anyone would like to play with that, though it's opt-in and only as discussed! ]

II

[tosavethisworld]

[Aloy, her bowstring drawn taut all the way up to her chin, blinks at Izuku as if he’s just asked her to stand up and yell hey, I’m a huge target, come fight me at the spud monster. To her credit, though, she lowers the bow and discards the flaming arrow, but she doesn’t stow the bow just yet. Instead she just nocks a normal arrow.]

You think you can talk it down?

[She sounds incredulous, but intrigued. Yeah, sure, okay, she wants to see this. With, of course, her supervising nearby, ready to draw and loose the arrow should things go south.]

I

[blondshell]

(It took Katsuki all of five seconds of those creepy-ass thoughts to wake him up and even less time for him to rage the absolute fuck out. Between the crushing weight of being buried and the vines, he figures his best bet is to defer to instinct.

A massive explosion later and he's freed. Filthy, furious, and feral - at least until he sees an incredibly familiar gloved hand sticking out of the ground. He doesn't even think. Just moves on natural instinct, something like raw anger, desperation, relief, and something less easily defined but equally intense humming through him. To dishevel some of the earth around Izuku, he pops off some smaller explosions until he can get a good grip on his hand. He doesn't even think twice about his fingers sliding around Izuku's exposed wrist.

Instead, he's focused on equal parts pulling at Izuku and clawing at the dirt. Like hell he was going to let the fucking nerd die by live burial. That would be so lame.)

1.

[pinkxeno]

Wait a sec - I got you!!

[ Mina always comes to the Confluences because she knows how much of a mess they are. And being a Hero, of course that means she is ready to help whoever is in need - in this particular case, whoever is stuck underground.

She pulls the gloved hand and eventually manages to get one (1) Izuku out of the ground. She doesn't realize it's him at first, simply patting his shoulder to get all that dirt out] You guys usually fall from the sky! This is new--

Ah. Midoriya?

[ she finally recognizes who this is, and Mina's eyes go wide. She doesn't give him any chance to reply and instead she does what Mina does which is to place her hands on Midoriya's shoulders and shake the poor boy while she screams, excited]

You are here!!! You are really here!! I was waiting for everyone else to come but you never did!! I was starting to think I'd be the only one!!

Aloy | Horizon Zero Dawn | OTA

[tosavethisworld]

THE HARVEST

[Aloy bursts through the ground with a gasp of air, fingernails torn and face muddied from all the digging she’s done to get herself out. She pulls herself up and out and free, rolls onto her back, and sucks in lungfuls of fresh air as she stares up at the sky, trying to process just what happened. One moment she’s hurtling through the sky, the next she’s underground dreaming of letting go at last, and now—

Well. She never could let go of something once she’d gotten it in her teeth. Rost used to bemoan that little tendency of hers, but neither of them could deny it came in useful. Just as it’s come in useful now, pointing out all the holes in the logic that had been presented to her while she’d been underground, and driving her upward and out.

Right. Okay.

First, she has to find her gear. She still has her spear and her Focus on her, with the override securely attached, but no other weapons, no rope for rappelling, no pouches full of potions and resources. She staggers to her feet with a sigh, then taps her Focus and scans the area around her.]

What fun this is going to be, [she grouses to herself once she’s tracked down her gear and has started digging them back out of the dirt,] getting all this mud and dirt out of my weapons. [She sighs.] And why go to all this trouble of burying someone alive? This talk of “feeding my brethren”…

[A troubled pause.]

Better get these out quick. I don’t think “my brethren” [and she says it with a hint of irony,] would be too pleased I refused their generous offer.

[It’s only then that she spots someone else nearby, and waves them over.]

You lose something in here too?

THE CAVERN

Well, this is new.

[She really hadn’t meant to drink that water. Mostly she’d been too busy angrily stabbing a potato-monster to death while in free-fall, and when the water rushed up to meet her she’d had just enough time to maneuver the body so it cushioned the fall for her. Didn’t stop her from accidentally inhaling a mouthful of it, but hey, can’t win them all.

She shakes her head, trying to clear it. She’s felt this sensation before, this dizzy, lightheaded feeling, and she doesn’t like it. Keeps messing with her senses and her head. Damn these potato-monsters, she has had enough of these games.]

—the stream. [She looks up at it, the strange glow emanating from it. Maybe—Maybe whatever’s making these potatoes come to life, it’s up ahead.] There’s—There’s something leaking into the stream. Must’ve leaked into the plants too. [She gives the tiniest chuckle.] At least it’s just the potatoes. Could you imagine: sentient corn? Or wheat?

[Oh, yeah, she’s definitely not entirely sober. But she staggers forward, following the stream, bow stowed on her back.]

WILDCARD

[Aloy can be found running around pulling other new arrivals from the ground and using her Focus to help track down lost items! Later on, in the aftermath, she’ll be staying in the Diadem Hotel grilling both Society and Alliance representatives for any and all information, or pacing around her new hotel room (that she’s apparently supposed to share with someone?) like someone who has never, in her life, been given a luxury hotel room, ever. She’ll be spending a couple days just trying to get her bearings, but if someone needs help she is very willing to provide that help.

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Harvest

[slidesrightoff]

[Eddie had been there a while. This world, that is, not this particular field. The field he'd only been in a short while when he'd heard secondhand that something weird was going down in Little Love again, and he decided to investigate. Or help investigate. Sure, someone from the Alliance would probably call it interference, but the Alliance could suck it, as you don't have to be in a guild to help anyone.

He could understand her confusion though. He does look a little out of place, his clothes slightly dirty from pulling people out of the ground, his body metallic from the neck down. The comically large sword strapped to his back probably didn't help either. After the last confluence, he swore he wasn't going to go to generalized weirdness without a weapon again.]

Me? Oh, uh, no? Just pulling people out from the ground. Like you do. It's.... totally normal to do.

[It's not.]

Katsuki Bakugou | MHA | OTA

[blondshell]

1. Harvest

(The peace, like usual with Katsuki, doesn't last long. It feels like that one day forever ago, out in the woods, a hand stretched out to him, offering to help him up, and then he's snapping awake. To complete darkness, to the smell of earth and plant.

It takes about five seconds before Katsuki does his best landmine impersonation. Hopefully, you're not walking over the exact location he suddenly detonates, or else you might be thrown back a few feet. If you're lucky enough to not be walking directly over him, you still have a high chance of getting covered in dirt via the explosion. He comes out screaming, but like, can anyone blame the dude this time?

His hands are bursting with microexplosions as he reorients himself. Smoke is pouring out of his mouth and he looks about ready to murder the first person on sight. Which is, unfortunately, you.)

Oi! Explain where the hell I am right now!

2. Pruning the Garden

(This was, without a doubt, one of the stupidest things he has ever had to fight against. But at the same time, he was kind of having a blast. Literally and emotionally. It's not too often he gets to murder the absolute shit out of a sort-of-creature-but-not-actual-creature. He's living his best life. Kicking the little pissant spuds out of the way, blowing others up. He has fond memories of potato cannon guns in his youth and picks up two spud brats to replicate the process.

You definitely hear him before you see him. Or you get hit with one of those flying potatoes.)

I'm gonna eat the fuck out of you. (He's threatening one of the potatoes in his hands, setting off small explosions to burst it into smaller pieces.) As soon as I get some olive oil and sea salt...and rosemary.

(Okay, Chef Ramsay. Taking the cooking thing a bit too seriously now.)

3. Choose your own/wildcard.

(What it says on the tin. Katsuki isn't the nicest guy, but he actually will help anyone out who seems in need...He'll probably just...insult you at the same time...Fair warning that Katsuki is aggressive, swears a lot, and will probably insult your character and threaten to kill them at least 5 times. )

2

[mostdangerousbird]

[ When he heard the commotion, Tim went running towards it. Explosions, thuds, oofs, whatever nightmare sounds come out of a potato's mouth. He only wants to make sure that everyone's okay. Prior to arriving to the scene, "everyone" did not include the potatoes.

However.

He, in fact, does hear nearly everything before he gets to the young man. The potato monsters are troublesome and dangerous, yes; they could probably kill a human if they managed to bite the right squish bits, yes. But there is something unsettling about telling the thing you're fighting that you're going to eat them and then detail how you must first find the correct condiments. It brings a lot more credence to the eating them thing.

Tim isn't a vegan, but he also doesn't hug pigs and explain to them how he's making bacon. All of this means that he arrives with a lot less urgency than he started with. ]

Hey. You got this under control?

[ There are ... chunks of potato. Raw but singed at the ragged edges. Tim wouldn't have thought potato destruction could be disturbing, but here we are. It's been an interesting night. ]

Cassandra Cain-Wayne | DC Comics |ota

[corpuslingua]

❚ALIEN CAVERN

[Cassandra had never thought about changing the cowl design she took from Huntress. It had never been necessary one way or the other. Until now. Falling (what?) into the earth, she did what little she could to try and scrape her way out until she finally crashed into the caves landing in the water.

Glowing water had only ever meant one thing. Lazarus pit. It didn't matter that the water was such a pretty shade of blue. She had to stop anyone from making a mistake they might not be able to live with.]

Don't drink that.

❚RETURN TO HQ

[As soon as it's explained to her, Cass sends out a message via OURPOWERS]

🦇 👧 👀 🦇 👨‍🌾 🐦 🌟 🚫 ✔️



((ooc: hoover to translate!))

❚THE DIADEM

[Hopefully anyone who walks in the room wasn't expecting a private suite. It might be hoped they aren't a complete prude considering their roommate is currently walking around the place fresh from the shower and entirly nude.]

❚ Wild Card

((ooc: You know how this one goes.))

Alien Cavern

[robintohood]

[Jason stared at the costumed woman before putting down his hands. He was about to take off his helmet when she spoke. Where did she come from? And what was with the modified Batgirl suit? She couldn't be Barbara, not after Joker paralyzed her]

I won't. At least, I don't think I had some after I got dropped here.

[Somehow, while frantically trying to dig himself out of the ground, he wound up further in instead. He then landed right on the water. His helmet's filters are good but he's not sure if they blocked enough of the water for him]

clint barton | mcu

[arrowsguy]

01. PRUNING THE GARDEN

Well, that's something you don't see everyday. Or like...ever.

( at this point in his life, clint's barely blinking at the fact there's a giant goddamn potato in the distance. he's a fan of potatoes just like anyone else but he's really never gonna look at them the same after seeing a big potato spring up and decide it wanted to fight.

the easiest thing would be to just back off and let it happen. he doesn't really know what to do when the enemy is a potato but there's a lot of people just arriving and he doesn't just want to leave them to this. so, he sticks around, grabs his bow off his back and tries to take pot shots at the potato from a distance. he doesn't want to hurt it (because it is a potato of all things) but it looks pretty angry and not at all like it wants to be baked and covered in cheese.

and, after a moment of squinting, clint realizes that it has kids? what do you call the offspring of a potato? he doesn't know. )

Yeah, if I didn't know any better, I'd say I was on something. Jesus.

( he's shooting arrows at potatoes. that's his life now. )

02. AFTERWARD

( he survives the potato invasion just fine and finds himself sitting outside of some cafe, sipping something cold. it's getting late and he should probably get going but he's a little restless, thoughts weighing on his mind and shoulders, and he thought that being out might help.

but, they're not. being here hasn't really taken away the guilt and the shame that he's carrying, only giving him an escape of some sort. it gives him something else to put his mind on and then he's right back to where he was, slowly falling into a dark pit.

he sighs and puts up the drink before sipping it. it's sweet and he grimaces. )

What the hell did I order?

03. WILDCARD

( for anything else you might wanna toss my way. )

01

[tosavethisworld]

[And then another arrow, this one on fire, sails out of nowhere and slams into a potato-dog-thing. The bushes rustle, and Aloy rolls out of them, dodging a potato-monster's charge and rolling to the side. She comes to a stop with one hand on the ground and one leg sticking out to the side, then fires off another arrow from what looks like a somewhat primitive bow, the kind you'd cobble together with your own hands.

There goes one potato. Still more to go, and she whips around to see another archer, then waves hello.]

You're not on something. Hey, they're weak to fire, so if you've got something that can set them on fire, that'd be great, thanks.

[Since some of her weapons are still buried in the dirt, fuckin' thanks, potato-monsters, for nothing.]

Mina Ashido / My Hero Academia

[pinkxeno]

1. HARVEST

[ Mina is there yet again, ready to help with the Confluence, and per usual she stares at the sky, ready to see people fall from it, and yet... it just doesn't happen. She places a hand over her eyes, trying to focus on the sky harder, but still nothing ]

Uh. They are taking a while, aren't they?

[ but suddenly there is a sound coming from under her feet. Mina gasps, surprised, until she realizes someone is coming from under the ground rather than falling from up high - and that sounds a lot more dangerous! What if they suffocate?!

Ether she is helping a character currently trapped underneath the dirt, either someone else is besides her who will give her a hand, Mina quickly kneels down to try digging a hole to save that person ] it's okay! we are here to help!! Just-- don't eat any dirt! [ a sound advice ]

2. PRUNING THE GARDEN

[ Somehow, she managed to adopt a dog-tato (get it? Dog potato... right, very witty!) which she decided it would be called "Chip" because of course it will. With the help of this new friend, She goes around fighting the sentient (? are they really sentient, though) potatoes that seem to be causing havoc.

With her acid, she turns them into mush very easily, while the dogtato actually goes around to push the younger potatoes towards Mina. This duo seems to be working well together, however at some point, there are probably too many potatoes surrounding the pink girl, who instead grins wide ] I guess I will have to pull out my big guns, then!

[ Acid forms on hands, and she quickly turns to the closest person ] Take cover, I'm gonna make acid rain!! [ she means this literally! ]

3. ALIEN CAVERN

[ She didn't want to drink the water at all, but when Mina fell through the hold, she ended with her face right in said water. And of course, now Mina is glowing neon purple which is... a bit cool, but also a huge inconvenience and maybe a bit dangerous as well (is she radioactive now???). But a hero can't back down and she is ready to keep going to find out what is truly happening here - and then she comes face to face with the alien machine.

Acid is very handy for this, allowing Mina to melt huge portions of the terraforming machine with ease, as well destroy the blue liquid along with it. Thus bringing it offline is surprisingly easy for her, who is still glowing and still ignoring that fact.

But when all is done with and the sunlight comes through, purple phlox flowers sprout from her skin, to match the purple glowing from before. She is mostly fine, but she is absolutely freaked out and quickly engulfs her own arm in acid, hoping that the flowers will go away. They do not, they are acid resistant, just like Mina! ]

Get it off, get it of!!

4. WILDCARD

[ Supercool with any log prompts, so if you want Mina doing something else, go for it! You can also contact me over vilani ]

Kate Bishop | Marvel Comics

[fledges]

harvest

[Being buried alive is new.

She doesn't initially realize that that's what's happened of course—just that suddenly, that sleepy calm is gone, replaced by panic and pitch black. She can't breathe, her mouth and nose full of dirt, and it's sheer instinct that drives her to start digging. Up? She hopes it's up. How can she even tell? She has distant memories of how to dig yourself out of the snow after an avalanche from a million childhood ski trips, but this is a million times more nightmarish, and it's only when her hand breaks free and she catches her first glimpse of sunlight that her heart rate starts to normalize.

It's still miserable, pulling herself up and out, and for a second all she can do is hack up dirt, mud stinging her eyes. She's not even halfway out, one arm and her head peeking through the soil.]

caverns

[The first time was so fun, Kate decided to do it again.

Yeah, okay, it was entirely unintentional. One of those stupid potato monsters drags her down, and the crappy truth of it is, a bow doesn't really work in close quarters. So she tries the next best thing—pulls out one of her broadhead arrows and drives it as deep into her new little friend as she can manage. It's a blind stab, but it works—she's released, just in time to slam into the ground, water rushing up over her head.

She scrambles up, gasping, to see a handful more of the little creeps wading into the water.]

Can't anyone back off around here?

for damian

[The caverns are pretty, actually, minus the murderous potatoes and the discomfort of this whole miserable situation. But the only light comes from the stream, limning everything in a ghostly, otherworldly glow. It all feels almost dreamlike.

Of course, they'd be prettier if she knew the way out. The tunnels twist in on themselves, and the only choice she has is to follow the stream. It's her only light source and her only real landmark.

A turn or two farther, and she finally sees something different. There's someone else here, tall and broad shouldered, but it's too dim to make them out. Maybe her luck will take a turn for the better, and they'll be friendly. Hell, maybe they'll even know the way out.]

Uh... Hey. Please tell me you're not some weird potato creature.

the diadem

[The hotel is one of those disgustingly swanky places that kind of makes Kate's skin crawl these days. The sheets probably cost more than most people make in a week or whatever, and all of it just reminds her of exhausting family vacations spent trying to impress her father's snobby friends.

The credit card is nice, though. So's the shower, after her multiple dirt baths. She won't turn those down.

Once she's clean, she tries to get the lay of the land. It reminds her a bit of the safehouse in New Amsterdam—that same low buzz of anxiety from the new arrivals, the same scrambling to figure out what the hell is going on. At least this time she isn't trapped. And there's coffee.

Kate parks herself at the bar, wearing way too much purple as always, aviators perched on her head. She gets some little fruity drink and props her chin on her hand, letting out a long-suffering sigh.]

I kind of feel bribed. Do you totally feel bribed?

diadem

[thecoolerloki]

[Loki enjoys mixing in with the new arrivals in order to scope everyone out, despite very much living in Sunset Falls with Stephen. It's for that reason that a young girl around the age of 15 is sitting near Kate at the bar, drinking a virgin strawberry daiquiri.]

Oh completely. But one can take advantage of a bribe even so.

Terry McGinnis | DCAU | OTA

[knight_shift]

1. Harvest

Terry forces himself awake. Scarier things than this have tried to make him worm food and failed. His rebreather snaps into place. It won't hold out forever but hopefully it'll give him enough air to get out of here.

The suits claws extend, and he begins digging upward. "Old man, can you read me?" Terry asks, but there's only static coming out of the comm. It's possible he's just too far down for the signal to reach. It's not an idea he likes. It's also not an idea that seems likely once his hand breaches the ground.

Terry clears a little more of the hole, and then activates the suit's rockets, blasting the rest of the way out.

"Alright, that was not fun. Whoever thought it was a good idea to bury me alive needs a serious talking to. The kind that involves some serious bruising at minimum."

2. Pruning the Garden

Terry is now knee deep in spuds, and handling them fairly well. Even if he's just as weirded out by the fact that he's fighting potatoes as everyone else is.

"Mashed potatoes," he says as he stomps on one.

"Scalloped potatoes," he says as he slices into another with his claws.

An explosive batarang is tossed into a particularly packed group of potatoes and chunks of tubers go flying as it detonates.

"And one large fry, extra crispy."

3. Alien Cavern

Meanwhile, down below, someone else didn't quite wake up in time to dig themselves out. Instead, the dog in question falls down into the water below.

He shakes it off, possibly splattering it on someone else, and sets about trying to sniff a way out of here. He's not amenable to being touched and will growl at most people who even think to try. That said, he's willing to let anyone else down here follow him as he tries to find his way to the surface.

4. Return to HQ

Terry had just enough time to sneak off and hide after the the machine was destroyed. That, and find out his costume wasn't removable anymore. Not in the traditional sense, at least, as it peeled away and disappeared into his body.

There wasn't enough time to figure out what the slag that meant, however, as he was teleported to some kind of waiting room.

Ace, covered in plants, finds him fairly quickly and Terry kneels down to pet him.

"Ace? Not exactly a schway look for you there. There's probably someone here who can fix that."

The dog whines a bit. "You haven't seen the old man either, huh? I think we might just be on our own."

Not a good thing. 99 percent of the time, Bruce could take care of himself, but he was still an old man with a heart condition. And without Ace he'd be alone up there at the manor. Hopefully Max, Commissioner Gordon, and Mr. Drake would keep the old man company while Terry tried to figure his way out of this mess. Especially since the latter two were now talking to Bruce again.

2

[robintohood]

Not too far from Terry, Jason had also dug himself out and is in a pretty bad mood. Being buried alive wasn't pleasant to say the least. Luckily, he can take his aggression out on the sentient potatoes.

Jason had just flung one across a few yards when he notices... Batman? The suit's different but there's no mistaking the pointy ears and the symbol on his chest. Did Bruce get a major upgrade?

He pauses in his mashing of potatoes and looks at Terry.

Kon-El/Superboy | DC Comics

[lowercase_el]

Harvest

[ The voices in his head tell him he's warm and safe. The voices in his head tell him not to worry, that he doesn't have to fight them. ]

[ The voices are in his head and the second he recognizes them as something separate and distinct, the rest is reflex. After all the training he'd done, with all the mystics and the telepaths... ]

[ He pictures his mind as a construct, as a house with a door. (It's a familiar farmhouse, of course.) The door slams shut. The voices quiet. The earth is pressing in. ]

[ Whoever is nearest Kon on the surface will probably be showered in dirt as it suddenly churns upwards in a fountain of earth and blue light. A teenage boy rises out of the center of that explosion, flying out from it, dirt and roots flying off until he's completely clean, shrouded in blue energy. ]

[ Kon comes into this world the way he came into his own, breaking out of something with a gasp. ]

[ Maybe more than a gasp because the breathing he's doing is a little panicked. ]

What? Where -?

[ It's not the most articulate, so sue him, he's not a wordsmith when he's all agitated. ]

What the hell! How did I get here? What was that?!

[ He's not exactly the type to have a panic attack and there's a lot of time and distance between the present and his brainwashing by Lex Luthor. It feels like it happened a lifetime ago, and in some very real timey-wimey reality reboot ways, it has. But anything sticking its nasty little fingers into his brain has the ability to kickstart the ol' adrenaline. ]

Alien Cavern

[ A few of the stupid monsters had grabbed him by the legs and it's their weight that screws him over. After breaking through the roof of the cavern, Kon tries to heatvision them off during the fall but the use of that power weakens both his teke and his flight, like using another power somehow diverted juice from the other two. ]

[ Great. If he can only use one power at a time for some reason, Ultra Boy style, it better not last or he's going to be cheesed. ]

[ The heatvision frees his legs but by the time he hits the goo, it takes him a second to get the teke field back up. He accidentally swallows some goo before then. Shielding up and hurling himself out of it with his flight, he lands on the bank and coughs some goo up. ]

Ugh, that's worse than Nyquil and also what is it? Toxic waste?

[ Rhetorical question. He hasn't seen anyone else yet. ]

I hope I'm still invulnerable enough to not get turbo cancer.

Return to HQ

[ Kon looks very annoyed, or at least as far as anyone can tell when he's basically hiding behind the sunglasses due to mortification. That'd be because of the flowers. Being covered in flowers isn't really that embarrassing in and of itself, but with the spiky leather jacket and the way the petals have unfolded around his head, he looks like the too-tall kid in the school play cast in the most embarrassingly age-inappropriate role possible.]

[ It's a bit like: ]



[ He leans against a wall with his arms crossed and the second anyone even comes close to looking his way he just grouses:]

What're you lookin' at?

HQ

[pinkxeno]

[ Mina is covered in flowers herself, specifically purple phlox flowers, and she really wasn't happy about it. In fact, it was kind of gross and she wants those flowers off of her.

And while she is waiting for the medical team to figure out how to revert that, she is just walking around until she spots someone who seems to be in her shoes ]

Ah! You got flowers too! [ at least she isn't the only one ]