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

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Comments

BLACK WARRANT MASS PLOTTING || PLEASE READ IF INTERESTED!!

[selfsatisfy]

Okay so! We have a bunch of folks down for the black warrant! Both Killjoys and non-Killjoys. Everyone is most definitely free/welcome/go for it to do their own thing independently, etc, etc, don't feel you need to be in on this shitshow I am about to propose. That said since there's only one mom/baby-to-be and a few of us are interested in PvP shenanigans I am proposing a plot/timeline!

CURRENT GROUPS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY ARE GOING AFTER THE HEIR: Koon+Midori+Damian [RAC], Riza+Fenris [Company], Lavi+Kanda [RAC], Hanna [RAC], Lancer [RAC], Takasugi (+maybe some other folks working as doubles) [Resistance], Kamui (maybe???) [Pirate], Jason [RAC]


>Folks have to first locate this heir! Leo and Itsuki might have some info-pointers on that (but I'm not 100% sure so don't quote me).
>Everyone begins converging on the Blessed Branches hotel on Leith. With Company and RAC guards already in place it's going to be hard to do anything without a Daring Plan. Also the heir isn't even born yet so. Time for a Waiting Game.
>Mercs hired by the other families of the Nine and some other unaffiliated group of space pirates/organized crime/something look they're bad guys both attack.
>A 3 sided battle begins between the mercs, the combined RAC+Company and the crime group
>During all the chaos Koon and Midori say fuck it and abduct the surrogate mom. Midori's a doctor they've got this
>What ensues is an absolute shitshow of hot potato with said mom. LOTS OF THINGS OPEN FOR THIS but the idea is just to keep passing her around while each group successively makes it a little bit closer to Qresh before losing custody.
>Some group gets stuck with the stress induced labor, hopefully you know how to birth a baby or have wiki how marked in your internet favs otherwise you're going to be making a pitstop to find a doctor. Up to you what you do with the mom after the baby's born.
>All this crazy fighting should definitely alert the whole J-cluster to where this baby is
>Takasugi, other folks here to murder the baby, etc say where you want to be in all this crazy
>Mods make the success or fail call and rng who gets the baby at the very end, the end. Sort of. Hopefully nobody's broken any friendships or made some vindictive enemies, right...


If you're interested what I need from people is:
<b>Success/Fail:</b> Which do you want for the outcome of the black warrant plot OOCly just so the mods can get an idea where folks are falling here <b>Where do you want to be in is crazy mess?</b> In the effort to save everyone from having a billion and one threads everyone's probably only going to get the mom/baby once. That said thoughts, plans, anyone you specifically want to steal the target from/have steal the target from you, etc. Not all of this will be happening on Leith since the baby is supposed to go to Qresh so spaceship battles, stopping on space stations, etc also options here. <b>Do you want to get stuck midwifing?</b> I'm defaulting this Koon+Midori+Damian since I know this can be a no area for some folks, but if you're interested in having it happen on your character's watch instead lemme know

UP-TO-DATE TIMELINE

[selfsatisfy]

I'm going to keep editing this comment with the most current timeline for these shenanigans so don't reply to this comment please!

PARTICIPANTS: Koon+Midori [RAC], Lavi+Kanda [RAC], Hanna [RAC], Takasugi+Kamui [Resistance], Kamui (after he double crosses) [Pirate]


>Folks have to first locate this heir! Leo and Itsuki might have some info-pointers on that (but I'm not 100% sure so don't quote me).
>Everyone begins converging on the Blessed Branches hotel on Leith. With Company and RAC guards already in place it's going to be hard to do anything without a Daring Plan. But (if you're one of the competitive RAC teams or someone looking for favor with the Nine) you need to get in there before the heir is born; if it doesn't go down on Qreshi soil it's as if it didn't go down at all in the eyes of the courts.
>Mercs hired by the other families of the Nine and some other unaffiliated group of space pirates/organized crime/something look they're bad guys both attack.
>A 3 sided battle begins between the mercs, the combined RAC+Company guards and the crime group
>During all the chaos Koon and Midori say fuck it and abduct the surrogate mom. Midori's a doctor they've got this
>What ensues is an absolute shitshow of hot potato with said mom. LOTS OF THINGS OPEN FOR THIS but the idea is just to keep passing her around while each group successively makes it a little bit closer to Qresh before losing custody.
>Some group gets stuck with the stress induced labor, hopefully you know how to birth a baby or have wiki how marked in your internet favs otherwise you're going to be making a pitstop to find a doctor. Up to you what you do with the mom after the baby's born.
>All this crazy fighting should definitely alert the whole J-cluster to where this baby is
>Takasugi, other folks here to murder the baby, etc say where you want to be in all this crazy
>Mods make the success or fail call and rng who gets the baby at the very end (if applicable??), the end. Sort of. Hopefully nobody's broken any friendships or made some vindictive enemies, right...

[brickinthewall]

Success/Fail: success would be gr8 cos it would piss off hanna tbh
Where do you want to be in is crazy mess?
aight well i'm part of the take out the mom and the child who feeds into this crooked system so...

not sure where hanna will fall because it would be nice to know who else is on the side of not a fuck was given this day for the nine and their political scheming it'd be good to know who all is against this because it could be cool to have this brawl that ends up bein SOCS VS GREASERS RIGHT RIGHT??

more than likely hanna will have to be on the ground given that she's gonna have her full gear on and setting shit on fire in space is a bad idea but then again she's not actually awesome at good ideas u kno i'm imagining a lot for her will be chasing down people but never actually getting a hold of the woman because if not she wouldn't hesitate for a second to take her out

Do you want to get stuck midwifing? please god no hanna would've just killed her already

[selfsatisfy]

Oookay hi! So I think our final participants are Koon, Midori, Kanda, Hanna, Takasugi and Kamui. FAR AS HANNA GOES IN THIS PILE UP

I am kind of thinking while Koon and Midori are trying to get the mom to a getaway ship Hanna finds them and does what...Hanna does...which my understanding is fire and murder tbh. Anyway Midori can faito her while Koon takes mom off to safety and this can def be a "Hanna pursues mom through the whole hotel while fighting and whoops between her and Midori this place gets fucking trashed" thing. ...One mom saved, one hotel owner crying somewhere in ruins....

Sound good?

[rocknrollrefugee]

fire and murder is correct yes

and sounds good! GET REKT MIDORI AND HOTEL

[selfsatisfy]

Hanna in her element laughs. But okay! When the warrant log goes up I will link you a thing : )

[thenine]

Hello and thank you so much for putting something like this together!

We can see that you're doing your best to include everyone, and encourage you to continue gathering interest in this particular plot as the week goes on. It looks like you're prepared to be flexible, so we look forward to the end-product proposition.

It was our intention to not gather official player requested outcomes until the CR meme had more time to develop. Since it's been up for less than 24 hours, we do want to clarify that other approaches to the event may occur!

Moving on to the details, you have a wide swath of characters potentially involved in this angle, and that's exciting! While your projected ideas for 1) having a multi-party conflict and 2) how that conflict will go down are interesting, involved, and detailed, it might be for the best to focus on the general participation in (1) before determining (2).

With all of that in mind, we cannot give an official blessing to this plot line as of right now, since we want to allow other players time to drum up any alternatives if they wish, but we encourage you to continue to develop your ideas! Please keep us in the loop as you go, so we can answer any questions or iron out any kinks that may develop.

As of right now, we have one point of clarification: If the heir is born off of Qreshi soil, he will be considered illegitimate. While this would not technically render the warrant a failure (since the conditions are to find and secure the heir/surrogate), it would be a disappointing result for the nobility, and unlikely to result in any benefit to the RAC agents completing it, beyond payment. So, maybe if/when the mother goes into labor, the race is on! so to speak, to get her to Qresh before the baby is born. If they don't make it in time, the game would take the 'failure' track, despite the heir's survival. Of course, if that's the consensus that players reach, then that would also be okay, but we want to make sure everyone is on the same page!

[selfsatisfy]

Ah I didn't realize we were supposed to be taking the mother. I can delete this if that's better! I don't want anyone to feel like they need to play with this or that this is the only action that can be going on, rp needing by necessity to be in many cases "but that happened in another instance".

[thenine]

It's okay! We love that you guys have been able to work together so fast, so please keep this up! All in all, the detail of 'transport the mother' vs 'transport the baby' doesn't throw a wrench in a lot of the good things you have going here, so we don't want you to feel as if you need to delete what you've started.

While RP does include a lot of instances of sort of fudging timelines/what really happened to make multiple threads possible (for example: a prompt where a character drops an apple and three different people reply catching it, even though this was only likely to happen once), it would be awesome if, in this case, something worked out where characters can get in on the action in a way that flows without the need for that!

[selfsatisfy]

Okay! I'll keep an eye on the (general) post and if this is causing conflicts for folks/making things hard for general plotting we can def change things. Maybe make it turn out to be a body double for the surrogate they took unknowingly god how many people would be pissed...

[thenine]

Thank you very much for your consideration!

Since no one knows what the surrogate looks like, that could most definitely be an option - there are many opportunities for plot developments of all kinds. There are also illegitimate heirs that can be pursued in the course of this black warrant. Maybe some of the information that individuals gained was misleading. Namely, that the illegitimate heirs (Koon and Jennifer) are actually legitimate, which may result in other unsuccessful fulfillment attempts of the warrant. No matter what ensues, great work, and we look forward to seeing both what you develop and what develops on the general meme as time goes on!

[shikomizue]

Success/Fail: Neutral | Takasugi will be doing his best for fail, so I'll be gunning for that if only because it helps to have a preference LOL but I can work with anything!

Where do you want to be in is crazy mess? Takasugi may be at the hotel himself, but he probably won't plan on being directly involved with any of the murder plots. However, if there's a big battle taking place there, he won't have any choice but to be dragged in - which I'd enjoy!

He'll be sending someone after the mother/heir (looks at Kamui), so I'm not looking to have a thread with her personally!

Do you want to get stuck midwifing? If he ended up with her SOMEHOW, he'd kill her, so best to avoid this unless that's the outcome we want...

[selfsatisfy]

!! Hi! It's looking like our final participants are Koon, Midori, Kanda, Hanna, Takasugi and Kamui. AS FAR AS TAKASUGI GOES I am thinking he can be there and sic Kamui after the mom?? But also if you are interested Midori completely sucks at the whole be paranoid about strangers thing so... Pretty feasible he and Koon run into Takasugi while kidnapping mom and Midori asks Takasugi to help clear mooks/watch this unknown pregnant woman for him a while/please tell him you have the key to the elevator sjr he needs to get to the ground floor shenanigans of horrible.

Your thoughts!! Ig ftr if Takasugi isn't completely horrible/actually helps a little Midori would be forever after like hey that guy helped me out one time he's not so bad~. And. Be willing to return the favor. When you play a sadist, but he's actually really a simple idiot...

Anyway lemme know your pleasure!

[shikomizue]

L O L asking Takasugi to help clear the mooks that's adorable sadkfjasfd maybe he would though

Takasugi is generally there to just witness the mess - though he didn't exactly anticipate all of the 3rd party involvement. He's sent Kamui after the mom, so I'd anticipate Kamui having a thread with her, but Takasugi won't be going that angle himself (if he did, he'd just stab her then and there, so I gotta keep him away!)

THAT SAID, maybe exactly what you described can go down when Koon+Midori are on their way to find the mother? I'd love to play the angle of Midori just getting the wrongest impression of Takasugi.

[selfsatisfy]

One good turn repays another okay!!! No laughs but this sounds fun. Lemme get where all the pieces of this plot are gonna be re: everyone else, but then I'll set up a thread starter and link you!

[egaode]

Success/Fail: Neutral - Kamui will be gunning for it to fail first, and then succeed later, if he finds out just what the heck is going on, so I'll personally be gunning for... well, wherever he falls in the whole mess at the moment of threads. Woo.

Where do you want to be in is crazy mess? Kamui is all kinds of down for big dumb battles. Fighting is his jam, so he'd get himself involved anyway if he could. That said, he's probably showing up with Takasugi to try and make the plot fail, only to be a dirty double crosser, so he could very well end up with her and protecting her for a while.

He also doesn't have a ship himself at this point in the game, but he does know people who do, so if he ends up guarding her in spaaaace, or whisking her offplanet to head towards Qresh, then I'm totally down with taking up that role.

Do you want to get stuck midwifing? I'm down if it happens, and I'm fine with him not being around, tbh. Kamui doesn't really have the medical knowhow to make a childbirth go smoothly, but odds are he was around when his little sister was born, so it's probably not his first rodeo on this front either. (Even if he was tiny at the time.) At the very least, he wouldn't be squeamish, and would be up for protecting during the process, if he had to.

[selfsatisfy]

Hey! Final participants are looking like Koon, Midori, Kanda, Hanna, Takasugi and Kamui. Far as Kamui goes I am thinking he gets the orders from Takasugi, then while Koon and Midori are trying to get he mom out Kamui shows up!! Realizes the real truth, betrays, steals mom to take her to Qresh himself (...very likely she grabs his sleeve and goes "these people are crazy please help me" fyi). Which confrontation/momstealing can be a thread with Koon or Midori, etc stuff and then we'll probs handwave the killjoy team of Not So Slick interstellar chases after Kamui and wait for mod verdict.

Does this sound okay/work for you?

now in the right spot

[inksplashes]

Success/Fail: Success, OOCly. Failure, ICly. Lavi wouldn't like the loss of life that instability would bring but his job is to record the hidden sides of wars so... bring on the iron fist. he's a cold mf, I'm sorry

Where do you want to be in is crazy mess? I'm pretty amenable to whatever! I'll be happy to work with the false heirs angle and not be involved with the surrogate/heir at all, personally. Lavi knows one of them so he'd more interested in keeping her safe and less interested in helping the nine (given his function as a history keeper and war thing).

Do you want to get stuck midwifing? Yeahhhhh no.

[selfsatisfy]

Lavi if you keep being a cold bastard Midori is going to see if he can freeze popsicles on you. I MEAN.... final participant tally looks like Koon, Midori, Kanda, Hanna, Takasugi and Kamui. Since you mentioned wanting to work the false heirs angle kind of thinking Midori can go to Itsuki to get info on the heir, get bad info that leads him to Jennifer instead and Lavi can find out somehow. Idk maybe the universe calls him.... Either way this could end up in a chat or a faito or something to protect Jennifer?? Thoughts?

[inksplashes]

his heart may be cold but at least his body is hot amirite


no??

okay.

But, on a serious note:

Ah! Kanda and Lavi are a dynamic duo so they'll be working together (so neither will be in the final participant tally). They actually both know Jennifer as the false heir prior to all of this because they were directly involved with moving her out of the Derrish lands (Kanda in particular, they wildcarded it as their tdm thread and canonized it). Kanda has his own reasons for not caring about the Nine or the system stability SO they'll both be on team protect Jennifer.

But Jennifer's mun has been super on board with being spread as a potential false heir so !?! if Midori would come after her or something (is that what you were saying) then yeah faito time could happen before Jennifer gets to Fenris ?? I wasn't sure what the Midori + Jennifer situation was yet

picks your brain

also I may have some of the details off on this since wife (kanda-mun) and fenris+co plotted most of this and I just nodded agreeably in the background..

[selfsatisfy]

Yeah that is what I'm saying you've got it : ) Far as Midori and Jennifer I think we are doing he is going to nurse adopt her towards the end of the IC week. So for the heir stuff I am thinking Lavi can find out and stop him before he actually gets anywhere near Jennifer (unless that is...something the player would want I WILL ASK LATER ngl Midori finds it perfectly acceptable to be like "oh yeah I was here to kidnap you Monday, but now it's Friday and I need a nurse why is everyone always so stuck in the past sigh").

If Kanda and Fenris want in on fighting Midori too they're def free tho ngl Lavi's probs the only one Midori wouldn't be like "lol idc what you say this is fun so whatevs" to. HORRIBLY.

[nightchild]

Success/Fail: SUCCESS I GUESS let the baby live?? though i'm over-all pretty neutral
Where do you want to be in is crazy mess? Itsuki will be passing out misinformation about the baby's whereabouts (WHOOPS, LOOK it's hard keeping the rumor mill straight) + areas where the surrogate is DEFINITELY not in otherwise he's keeping himself out of the actual hot potato part BYE GUYS GOOD LUCK
Do you want to get stuck midwifing? LMFAO im cracking up at the idea of itsuki going whew well i'm not involved in this and suddenly THE SURROGATE IS IN LABOR AND AT HIS DOORSTEP

which means i don't have a real preference for the midwifing part either!! if it ends up that they need like a neutral-ish area then i can volunteer itsuki otherwise midwifing is free to go to anyone else who wants it!! (maybe like on a SPACESHIP)

[selfsatisfy]

SO KIND ITSUKI. I ammm thinking Itsuki can give Midori bad info that leads him to Jennifer instead of the real heir if that is okay with you? This would probably be something we handwaved (unless you want to play it out!!) but it would be a basis for Midori giving Itsuki information in the future. Like. Rudely just gives him free info because "your information sucks". Ahbdhd I'M SORRY HE CAN BE SO MEAN.

B-but yeah. Lemme know if this interests you smh.

[nightchild]

HAHA i can for sure handwave misinformation with midori that sounds great. once itsuki gets to know jennifer he'll be like OH NO... I SENT THAT GUY AFTER HER ONCE....

THANKS MIDORI, A TRUE PAL FOR ITSUKI i'm all for them becoming bros i mean becoming info acquaintances. midori can tell itsuki info bc he thinks he's a terrible info broker and itsuki can give him advice on how not to scare girls away

[selfsatisfy]

WHOOPS suddenly a noodle incident is born.

And wow Itsuki. He's 30 whippersnapper!!! Do it anyway and then Midori brings Hanna into Itsuki's place