Opening Event Plotting Meme!

[thenine]

Today is the day!

The Quad welcomes you, so time to let you all loose to wreak bloody havoc upon the unsuspecting masses.

Chapter 1 Event Log is up for your review, with each of the faction prompts set as a top-level. Please feel free to post threads either under each top-level or create your own logs for the event - whichever works best for you.

To help you get started, here are some potential quick notes for things you could do with these prompts--but feel free to expand or come up with something entirely on your own!

Prompt Notes

The Nine

Now is the time to make or break alliances. Hopefully you'll choose wisely. Do you work with the Killjoys to save the heir, organize mercenaries to kill the welp(s), or use this distraction to start setting your own political traps on the field?

The Company

Company Enforcers are having quite a hectic week. Some may have the ignoble task of staking criminals in the rain, while others get to conduct the genetic ID verification checks - either in between rainfalls or while they're holing up during. Some may be sent to Eulogy with a fabricated criminal history to try to barter back the claimant papers, others sent to Leith to investigate the True Leithian leaders responsible for the attack, and still others to track down the actual thieves.

Leithians

Running a secret Jakk production facility in the woods near your farm? Has someone offered you some extra work 'off the books' if you outstay your visa? Are you a Killjoy out to apprehend one of the first, or a Company Enforcer there to punish them?

True Leithians

The True Leithians had a truly nefarious plot - ingenious in its simplicity to their eyes. Go to Westerley, break into the Family Registry Bureau, and steal the records of those eligible to claim lands on Leith. What they didn't anticipate was the Black Rain lasting for so long, how to get off moon without being caught by the tenacious Company, or in some cases... how to make it back to their ship with angry Westies at their heels. Help them for a tidy sum of joy or hang them?

Westies

Sinew to bone - bodies staked in the rain are dissolved to nothing within a few short hours. Momentary exposure is still enough to provide one with deep chemical burns. Wherever you are on Westerley - Old Town, Eulogy, a fortified safehouse in the Badlands - expect to be stuck there for the duration. Unless, of course, you're one of the few that have access to the underground tunnels in Old Town.

Those caught in space or elsewhere in the Quad cannot access Old Town until the storms subside - any attempts to approach even the outer edges of the stormfront will result in significant damage to the vessel, either through electrical interference or chemical damages to the outer hull.

But for those whose dealings are less than legal, now is a time of profit. Some want to sell (or bet against) claimant papers in Eulogy. Others just want to find a buyer to get the things out of their hands. Either way comes at a great cost - especially if a Killjoy or Enforcer gets to you first.

For the Westie natives, however, there's another problem. Someone tried to steal your meal ticket off this toxic moon. Maybe you should think on getting it back...or do you trust the system to do the work for you?

Resistance

You're all rebels... let's find ways to rebel. The bunker hasn't been used in generations. There's scarcely more than enough food to last a week and medical supplies are all but nonexistent. You have a place to grow your resistance, but you'll need to put in a lot of elbow grease to give it a fighting shot.

The RAC

Busy season for Killjoys! Here are some of the potential warrants that can be taken from the prompts, but feel free to add in your own (level 3 and below).

Level	Prompt
1	Recover stolen claimant papers. Intel may indicate Eulogy.
2	Transporting people through the Black Rains via the undercity.
3	Individuals caught forging their genetic identity to circumvent their visas on Leith will have automatic live arrest warrants.
4	Members of nationalist group suspected of planning the attack on the FRB. Hunt down leaders responsible and return to the Company. This is a live or dead warrant.

Major Plot Points

Black Warrant

This is a competitive warrant open to all killjoy teams or individuals ranked level 4 or higher. Teams do not have to be permanent, they can be formed purely for the pursuit of this warrant and dissolved thereafter. To sign your team up for this assignment, please reply to this top comment with the names of your team members.

Should the result of player plotting be that the black warrant is completed, the team responsible will be decided via RNG.

Fate of the Heir

The fate of the heir will have significant effects on the unfolding story. For transparency's sake, please review each result below before beginning your planning:

Scenario: Success

If the heir is successfully delivered to Qresh in time, the Nine will remain whole and relative stability will continue in the Quad. Lady Derrish will make a slow recovery and an investigation into her poisoning will begin. The investigation will turn its eyes first to the other members of the Nine, but soon spread into Leith and Westerley, becoming the focus for this faction in Chapter 2. Land Derrish will reward the individuals responsible for returning its heir with a hefty sum of joy and docking privileges on their private lands in Qresh. The organization those individuals belong to will in turn see a blind eye turned to their more illicit affairs for a while and a few political favors thrown their way, tipping the balance of power ever so slightly.

Scenario: Failure

If the heir is not successfully delivered to Qresh in time, the Nine will be temporarily broken and Chapter 2 will open with a Quad-wide lockdown on all travel. Characters will be grounded in whatever location they ended Chapter 1 in for at least three game days. Following that, the Nine will announce that Lady Derrish has been successfully saved by the top medical doctors on Qresh and name her assailants. The Resistance. Westerlerns will take the fall for her poisoning, the results of which will be a brutal increase in security measures and moon-wide totalitarian rule. Travel to and from Westerley will become extremely limited as the Nine seek out members of the Resistance. Neighbors will turn on neighbors and anyone with known Resistance leanings will be forced to go deep underground.

We encourage everyone to engage in cooperative OOC plotting to come to a consensus on what exactly the outcome will be. While we understand that every character involved in this plot will have their own agenda, we wish to foster an environment in Overjoyed where players can all plot together to reach developments that are satisfying to everyone - whether their characters 'win' or 'lose'.

The mods will keep an eye on the pace of the plotting on the meme, and once it slows significantly, or after 5 days - whichever comes first - a post will be made for all players to respond with their desired outcomes. In this case, majority rules, so it benefits everyone to cooperate and compromise rather than try to approach things independently.

Doing things this way is very much a trial, and we will be open to feedback and change should this method prove too difficult, too frustrating, or ineffective.

Quick Links: Player Organization
Black Warrant Mass Plotting
True Leithian Man Hunt

CR Meme Template

<b>Character</b>: <b>Location</b>: <b>Primary Faction Goals</b>: <b>Secondary Faction Goals</B>: <b>Desired CR</B>: <b>Anything else?</b>

Comments

tracking down the true leithians

[refactor]

So as mentioned in my plotting comment with Jack and after talkng to the mods a bit, he's pretty interested in trying to resolve the issue of the Leithian attack on the registry bureau! Jack is pretty invested in making sure the registry bureau is safe because of his own personal goals, but he's also just as invested in making sure that people that threaten his personal goals face consequences for that, yikes. As such, Jack will be looking for anyone interested to take a road trip to Leith and with any luck bring in one of the members of the leadership (alive).

For now, the general structure of this will be in three parts:

1) Info-hunting, where Jack, infobrokers, and anyone else who might be able to dig into whodunnit will do said digging on Westerley. Before they can head onto the next two parts of this plan, there needs to be a pretty solid idea of who they're going after, since alas, you can't go busting heads without reason.

2) "Road"trip, which is a bit sillier considering you'll just be stuck with the weird, ragtag group en route to Leith, but this is something I wanted to mention! If your character might not be able to travel freely out of Westerley, Jack will be able to escort them to Leith. I'm down for the possibility that your character might take advantage of this "generous" opportunity from Jack, but that's something that will need to be plotted out more, considering he won't exactly be pleased.

Also, you'll all be listening to dad rock. You're welcome.

3) And finally, the main event on Leith! By the time they get to Leith, the group should know who they're looking for, and a vague idea of where, but this is where most of the action will be. Depending on how we plot out part 1, there might already be a warrant through the RAC for fulfilling this part of the request, and if not, then Jack will place one once the target's location/involvement is confirmed enough for him to be able to push the warrant through. The warrant itself will be a level 3 warrant (live apprehension), and Jack will request that it be done quietly, but he absolutely will not complain if people die in the process, so long as they attacked first. Politics, and all that. However, this is likely, since I'll just copy and paste this note from the mods: "This is a group of militant nationalist, so once they think they're being invaded, they'll have to fight. Key is to just take the leaders alive. So he (and anyone else assaulting the base of operations) still have some wiggle room for fun there."

So if you have an asshole that likes killing people, this is potentially the job for you!

Generally speaking, this is a toplevel to get more people involved if they're interested! If any of parts 1 or 3 (2 is kind of optional...) interest you, just comment here to let me know and let me know how you're envisioning getting your character involved. We have some fun wiggle room here, so as I get a tally from everyone interested, I'll do my best to give everyone time to shine as we plot out how this will go down! For the sake of getting the ball rolling and getting things squared away in a timely manner so that we know what we're all collectively doing, let me know if you'd like to participate by Tuesday (12/13) morning.

[valr]

oh man so Kara is getting some info on a couple lower level Leithians stuck on Westerley & will be tracking them down, do you wanna say her and Jack run into each other at some point on Westerley?

she's not a killjoy she's just playing vigilante so IDK how Jack will feel about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[refactor]

Absolutely! Jack will be pretty dedicated to trying to figure out who ordered the attack because of his personal stake lmao so if anyone has deets, there's a good chance he'll get in contact with them. So heck yes, bring me that info

That entirely depends on who she's killing tbh... He will turn a blind eye if it's people he thinks deserve it (criminals or generally bad people), but he will be less than happy if they're more "innocent" by Jack's standards. He doesn't exactly define either conventionally since he's crazy, but generally speaking, that's how it lays out...

[valr]

omg nice, I was worried this might be a deal breaker so I am pleased at the turn of events

Kara definitely isn't gonna go around killing anyone who's innocent! Honestly she'd (mostly) happily hand over the terrorists to the Company so long as she was sure they'd be punished

She'd also be happy to tag along for the road trip since unlike Killjoys she doesn't have to play at being neutral, which Jack might see as an advantage?

[bittybat]

kicks jack's ass

Ok, so since this is now a thing, to keep 92849028 RAC members from scrambling for black warrants, Damian's stupid ass included, are there any other remaining RAC agents wanting to take on Jack's dumb warrant? If so, feel free to take Damian along with for more tiny manpower.

Anyone wanting Resistant CR can likely follow Damian around Leith, too, since... yeah, not-Batdad is a rich merchant on Leith.

ALSO, CHRISTY, let me know if you've seen any other agent interest in case I miss it. This will give RAC peeps more opportunities to not be crammed into one warrant.

[refactor]

ur like 5 damian go take a nap

I know Kanda is definitely interested (see below) but so far everyone else I know of isn't RAC-afiliated!

+1 Lvl 4 Killjoy

[lotusmesenpai]

Kanda's team will, technically, be one of those invited to participate in the black warrant - but once they secure a bodyguard for Jennifer, they're largely going to ignore the competition, so he'll 'double-book' for this one.

Which means Handsome Jack will get to call on his favorite princess once he kicks this little party off. But if they end up taking his ship, Noah, he's vetoing dad's rock.

I've already plotted to have him talk to Itsuki to get info on this one, so if they're all going to split info gathering, we'll just need others to talk to Kara or anyone else that's got info to sell.



(On a mod-level, once we see how players plot out/plan the event, I'll contact all info brokers with additional information for them to barter with.)

[refactor]

wtf his music taste is GREAT princess stop being a hater????

Though more seriously, I'm glad you mentioned that! I was going to handwave Jack having access to some kind of ship, but it'd probably funnier for them to borrow Noah... Jack will definitely argue about the music though

[lotusmesenpai]

Sounds good to me. And no - even Noah will veto weird music, unless Lavi chose to play it.

[bittybat]

So........ would Kanda like to go on a Jack warrant adventure with Damian???? In the effort to free up more space for those doing the black warrant, I decided to maybe send Damian on Jack's warrant instead, but... he is a level 2 bab and needs someone to hold his hand...

At least... Kanda and Damian should... probably maybe get along??? Better than most??? They're like the same person practically.

[thenine]

LOL, kid soldiers unite ftw? SURE

As stoic as they both seem, they'll probably be the ones hiding in the cockpit from the idiots on his ship. Damien can navigate... right?

[lotusmesenpai]

AHAHAHA And then I could post that ^ with the wrong journal >.

Re: tracking down the true leithians

[gyouten]

Ginshu is going to be secretly sheltering a few stray Leithian terrorists in the Westerly underground until they can attempt to escape (because anything that hurts the Company is good for the Resistance, as far as he's concerned). Laure and I discussed having a confrontation over it so it might be work if those True Leithians get captured and interrogated!

[refactor]

ginshu you're not nearly as cool as your other half... jack is disappointed, gosh...

Or more seriously there, I know you were planning to have Akemi come up later, which I'm totally cool with! Though just for my reference, how much do you think Jack would know about the Ginshu/Akemi thing? Because if he knows about it, he'll definitely play it cool, but if not he about has the tact of a bull in a china shop LAUGHS...

[gyouten]

Ahaha Ginshu isn't cool at all, I'm sorry... he's like the antithesis of cool.

I was wondering how to handle that myself! Options include:

• Akemi fucks off for a year and doesn't tell Jack anything, and Ginshu is extremely confused when some random violent asshole is like WTF AKEMI DO YOU EVEN CHECK YOUR VOICE MAIL?? Which leads to Ginshu wanting to find out what Jack knows about Akemi (because he thinks Akemi is dead).
  
• Akemi is unstable and unreliable as fuck, so Jack knows about the split personality business (but did not approve this plan) and they've had a falling out over it. Obviously this is the least conducive to Akemi not getting strangled, but luckily, he's harder to kill than he looks.
  
• Akemi tells Jack that it's all a plot to bring the Resistance under Jack's influence, even though Akemi is really just a crazy bitch who's playing 4D chess according to his own made-up rules. Jack can probably override Ginshu's personality and tell Akemi to hand over the Leithians.

[cauterised]

yes hello i am here for dad rock and dad rock only

riza can offer big guns and reasonable muscles, please bring her along :( he can use her as a meatshield even though she's smaller than him, it's fine. but from a more technical perspective, i think this'd be parts 2 and 3 (she has no ship of her own, she'd have to hitch a ride).

[refactor]

thank you at least someone appreciates his music tastes!!

That sounds perfect though! Luckily Jack would probably seek out Riza as one of his first choices as someone working for the Company to come with because they're vaguely acquainted with each other and

honestly because she's his type, which I'm sorry for

at least he sucks at flirting so riza is safe from that level of obnoxiousness

[nightchild]

parks my butt in here to say that itsuki's gonna be involved in part one!! (passing info about grunts to kanda and kara and jack GOOD LUCK GUYS!!) I don't think he'll go on the road trip because he iS LITERALLY THE MOST USELESS IN A FIGHT and probably doesn't know how to drive a ship so he can't even be the getaway driver. which means he'll be cheering everyone on from the sidelines while dying from acid rain on westerley. bring him back a souvenir!!!

[refactor]

ok but what if jack literally does bring him a souvenir

because he would

[nightchild]

yes pls now i need this

on a scale of 1-10 how often do people regret getting souvenirs from jack

[tirejacked]

actually, just hassles you here too, I should have just read through this first.

jason and keith are going to be gunning for tracking down the Leithans on Westerley at least—so pt 1, tentatively while I wait for keith's approval—possibly (probably?) joining for the showdown on leith too bc at least one of them is an asshole who likes killing people and the other one is an overexcited shounen so lbr.

on my end Jason will be hassling ID scalpers with kara for info on where the theives went and playing additional babysitter for damian at some point too, so might as well throw in here officially

[refactor]

Awesome!! I included Keith in stuff when I was plotting out how this would go, so they're absolutely welcome to participate! Luckily this isn't anything that needed any hard and fast plotting, I just wanted a rough headcount...

anyways be a good big brother (?) to damian jason that child needs supervision

too bad this is a group of terrible people ig

[tirejacked]

riza's a responsible adult, ig, I can't defend anyone else on this list. why is anyone letting damian near them

but perfect, ty for all your hard work!!! I'll ping keith over in our plotting thread too since they're not on plurk

[riastraid]

slides in tuesday morning with coffee, if you're not already done forming groups (totally cool if so!), i think lancer would take a warrant at 3 for muscle, and 2 if you don't mind a tagalong because he's a useless hitchhiker!! he'd leave the whuddunit to jack and co though, probably not much to contribute there this time, sorry friends

[refactor]

Not at all!! And my apologies not letting you know earlier today, since i was swamped at work yikes... But Lancer is absolutely welcome to come along! let's go bust some heads

i mean find a political extremist