Chapter 2 OOC Information + Plotting

[thenine]

Chapter 2 Launch

Chapter 2 Event Log is up for your review. Please feel free to post there or your own logs for the event - whichever works best for you.

Chapter 2 Calendar / Timeline is available here for the expected timeline of the month.

Note that for the public broadcasts (noted in the above timeline), we'll be putting up the new posts as they get closer to real-time. As such, the first broadcast is available here.

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

Delle Seyah Kendry has requested the RAC conduct an 'impartial' investigation to determine who is behind the attack on Land Derrish - after, of course, planting a difficult to find and subtle trail leading those investigators directly to her enemy's doorstep. Which team, or teams, is going to have the dubious honor of giving the Lady what she wants?

Other members of the Nine have also decided that they need their own verification, so this is an opportunity for characters that are members of the Nine to step in and either help or hinder Land Kendry's ambitions.

The Company

Mid-to-Upper level Company officials will be tasked with the duty to either clean house (someone had to have given information to the True Leithians for them to strike and acquire all those papers so quickly), assess loyalties within, or attempt to maintain order during Harvest week. The question through it all is, for you Company gals and guys, will you be the one interrogated - or the interrogator?

Maybe even both?

After the pandemic starts on Leith, however, priorities will shift a bit. Some will be needed to provide security around the quarantine zones while others will be needed to guard the medical teams as they struggle with a rapidly declining population across not just one moon, but two.

Westies

Party like it's 1999, and wake up with that New Year's psychotic break!

True Leithians

Thought they were exterminators this round, imprisoning and framing Westie scientist Zan Nikora for the pandemic.

Leithians

Will be falling to the pandemic in droves, once the initial incubation period has passed. Once the hospitals on Leith make the call, the moon will go into quarantine for all cities that have either been affected or have had commerce to. The only location on the moon that might be free of the stop-movement will be the Monastery.

Resistance

A lot to do for those already set to plot the Company's downfall! Coordinate with info brokers to find a new cell or contacts within the movement, Find new safe and storage houses, coordinate with Scarbacks to funnel in supplies and weaponry, seek out those Company employees that seem sympathetic to the Resistance's cause...

The RAC

Our first warrant posting is available here, with listings for both general warrants and plot specific ones, so glance them over, plot it out here, and then sign up there!

Major Plot Points

P43X - Bio Attack

The infection will spread in the following stages. Note that time frames provided are for a normal, plain-jane metabolism -- characters who are enhanced or augmented can expect to experience the stages at a different rate. The rate is up to you, whether it's faster or slower, as it will vary between individuals. Not all symptoms will be experienced by an individual and as they progress through the stages, some of their previous symptoms are likely to become exacerbated while others may disappear entirely.

Note that participation is optional; you can sidestep the infection itself as long as your character isn't in the direct line of exposure (Leithian bazaar, W2D6) and have them participate in the form of relief work, trying to escape the paranoid and manic NPCs (or PCs), and etc! This is a great opportunity to start messing with their memory regains in the form of fevered-delirium, although whether or not those regains are fully accurate is up to you -- they're ill, after all!

Additionally, since death is permanent here, we recommend leaving the brain death to NPCs.

Stage	Time (Days)	Symptoms
0 (Incubation)	2-3	Exposure without symptoms.
1 (Prodromal)	1-2	Nonspecific symptoms begin to appear: fatigue, muscle pain, auditory hallucinations, mild fever, dizziness, fainting, difficulty breathing, loss of appetite.
2 (Acute)	3-4	High fevers, multimodal hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, intense fatigue, mania, difficulty concentrating, neuropathic pain, coma, brain death.
3 (Convalescence)	2-3	Symptoms begin to dissipate as the individual recovers, though the pathogen may remain present and put others at risk of infection.

A cure will be developed and disseminated through Company, RAC, and volunteer hands between W4D3-W4D5, halting the progression of whatever stage your character happens to be in during that time and putting them into Stage 3.

Emergency Meeting of the Nine

On the last day of the chapter, an emergency meeting will be called with the Nine to discuss recent events and their response. Note that the failure of the Seventh Generation Accords is a fixed plot point, so this month we'll be taking an OOC vote on the result and using IC actions to support either end in the narrative, while returning to the cooperative style plotting seen in Chapter 1 hereafter.

Please vote, OOC, on which scenario you would prefer to see with a +1 in either the abolish or delay threads here.

Scenario: Delay

The Council will vote to delay Claimant Day until the True Leithian and Resistance threat can be eradicated, auspiciously under the guise of system stability. As such, the system will retain relative stability while focusing its efforts on quashing both the Resistance and True Leithian terrorists during Chapter 3. Land Kendry will continue to manipulate the political arena within the Nine in order to amass support and ultimately strike down the Seventh Generation Accord at the beginning of Chapter 4.

Scenario: Abolish

The Council will vote to abolish the Accords immediately, citing the actions of Zan Nikora and the True Leithians as evidence of civil rebellion. Martial law will be imposed on Westerley and any disobedience will be met with immediate punishment at the hands of Company agents. The Resistance, still a fledgling organization, will rally support amongst the Westie population and launch its first true counterattack at Company forces, starting our faction war in Chapter 3.

CR Meme Template

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

Comments

[bittybat]

Character: Damian Wayne
Location: ALL OVER #ractrash
Primary Faction Goals: RAC - he gonna take the warrants and slam them in the garbage so he can become the One True Level Six King
Secondary Faction Goals: RESISTANCE PEEPS!! Help hIM REIGN. Ok but, Damian is going to be trying to see who he can recruit into the Resistance as well as help Resistance organization. He's mostly running Resistance through Scarbacks and RAC, but he really wants to see who he can get from the Company on their side.
Desired CR: Resistance folks, Company moles, RACmates + warrant work, people with animals, Scarbacks, babysitters
Offered CR: An overly serious ten year old that thinks he can take on the world.
Anything else? I plan to have him get sick so he can have some fever memory dreams; also I plan to have his fake Bruce Wayne dad on Leith get sick, too, so he'll have an excuse to be on Leith.

[fledges]

Please chill the fuck out Damian

anyway sup let's bring down the man, kid

[bittybat]

yes let's bring down handsome jack

[fledges]

punch jack in his dumb face??? where's christy when we need her

[rhygret]

OH HI i hear you hate handsome hack let's talk about that 8)

[bittybat]

WoooOOOOOWWW GET OUT OF HERE RHYS YOU PIECE OF TRASH!!!!

[sin_of_wrath]

Hello, fellow teenager!

[bittybat]

oh my god LMAO

HELLO

[sin_of_wrath]

You wanna be a great RAC agent? This guy's got all kinds of messed up advice and horror stories!

ones he caused

[bittybat]

STOP THIS ok but damian understands this looks at his canon

[graftage]

RESISTANCE BUDDY HERE...Steinbeck would be more than happy to help out Damian through the Scarbacks and his connections! TIME TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH AKA THE COMPANY

[bittybat]

YEAH STEINBECK LET'S GO TIME TO GIVE THE COMPANY WHAT THEY DESERVE

dunks handsome jack in the trashcan

[graftage]

heck yeahhhhhhhhh though maybe they'll wait until jack succeeds and THEN push him in a trash can because the bigger they are, the harder they'll fall, right???

anyways yes, time for all the rebellion my friend

[brickinthewall]

go to bed damian

[bittybat]

[brickinthewall]

picks him up

drops him into a bed

[cauterised]

hello i can offer up one person with animal -- a large doge animal to be specific

i have also been toying with riza sliding towards the resistance at some point so if you wanted to try and have him persuade her over to their side, i'd be game for heading in that direction too!

but mostly i'm here to offer up animals :(b

EDIT: ofc i would forget to say that she's COMPANY with those sweet dolla dolla billz company safehouse passcodes

[bittybat]

SLAMS MY HANDS oh my god please i would like this greatly!!! he needs some cr of company peeps who are more resistance aligned because all he knows is... handsome jack... rip

i can put up a closed prompt for hawkeye (THE BETTER ONE) when i do my top level if you'd like?

[cauterised]

shoves kate out of the way to claim the position of NO. 1 HAWKEYE!!!! poses triumphantly ヽ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

but anyway that would be gr9 if you're willing!! though handsome jack as his only company connection....no, we need 2 fix this

[equerry]

sticks leggy in the air

ignis is also part of the resistance and can gently ping Damian with Alfred feels he's an english-accented no-shit-taking chamberlain and someone has to make sure this 10yr old eats

[bittybat]

IGNIS come to him young alfred!!! help him not look so stupid in front of lunafreya by assisting him in delivering goods to her and her cute dog

oh my god but please i will so be like "IGNIS SEEMS STRANGELY FAMILIAR FOR SOME REASON" thanks buddy he misses alfred

[equerry]

gently collects all the robins

feel free 2 use him for your memory recalls okok

[r3f4c70r3d]

What about some (eventual) double crossing? A claim to be a mole (since Angel is inside the Company by proxy) while gathering resistance trust and info from Damian? And hey, she can relate to all those Daddy Issues, even if she can't speak about them.

[bittybat]

oh my god

YES i am down for this!!!! ANGEL WHY

[r3f4c70r3d]

I MEEEAN maybe he'll help get the ball rolling for her wrt turning on Jack. Eventually.