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Chapter 3 OOC and Plotting
Chapter 3 Launch
Chapter 3 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 3 Calendar / Timeline is available here for the expected timeline of the month.
Information on the new network system and their subsequent devices has been added to the technology page! To save you some clicking, here's the rundown:
Communications
As part of Qresh’s outreach initiatives, handheld Personal Digital Devices (PDDs) have been distributed and made available to all citizens of the Quad. These function in a very similar way to modern smartphones and tablets, coming in different sizes and with different levels of luxury and processing power depending on the amount of joy you’ve spent.
The standard-issue, freely provided PDD has enough power to browse the network, stream video calls, buffer kitten and puppy videos, and function as a basic communication tool. It does not have the storage space or processing power to house advanced AIs in entirety or be used for high-level hacking.
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Standard Issue PDD | Tablet style PDD |
The Meshwork
The Meshwork’s primary hardware is housed on Qreshi soils while satellite nodes around the different moons connect further away locations. Since its introduction in the Quad, there have been rumors of public posts being edited or changed from the author’s original content, and some even suggest that the Nine might be using the system to gather data on citizen’s personal lives. Most people, however, disregard those theories as the wild fantasies of conspiracy-lovers and benefit greatly from the increased connectivity that the Meshwork provides.
(OOC: This functions like the standard network community, but with added subterfuge and potential side-effects of continued use that can range from migraines and nosebleeds to temporary blindness and
Prompt Notes
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!
The Nine
Within the nobility itself, power continues to shift, as Land Kendry continues to make the most of their advantageous position by proposing more oppressive legislation. While the Nine have united to blame the Resistance for the repeal of the Seventh Generation Accords, little else binds them together as the upheaval from below trickles upwards.
The Company
Westies
True Leithians
Leithians
Resistance
The RAC
Major Plot Points
Plot Management Going Forward
From here, however, it's going to be your IC actions (such as the success or failure of the Hyperion missions, the brutality or kindness of Company characters, et cetera) which will shape the flow of the plot. As such, we will seldom provide an "A or B" scenario and it's your character narratives that will determine the climate of the game. AC next month and in subsequent months will include an optional form submission to provide a short plot-relevant description of what your character has been up to because while we would love to stalk every thread in the game, we're liable to miss important details without a report mechanism. (But we promise, it won't be an essay, and it isn't mandatory!)
To be clear, however, we still fully intend to participate in the plot and will continue with chapter releases as before, but now rather than mods steering it, we're just here to guide it and interact with it ourselves on a player-based level.
As such, the direction of the "Peace Summit" will be determined based on the reports of Hyperion's missions and other involved players. More details to come as we get closer to it, but it will be the jumping off point for Chapter 4.
Resistance - Hyperion Missions
Depending on how many characters are signed up to participate, each cell will begin with between 2-4 characters and have a max of 6 per team to allow for inclusion through IC CR as character plot lines develop.
Those that wish to have their character coerced, blackmailed, or given some other form of incentive to get their character to participate are encouraged to sign up - we just ask that you detail out what leverage Hyperion would have that would ensure cooperation.
Teams will be established via RNG, though if you have any special requests for certain team members, please feel free to make a note of it in your sign up and we will try to accommodate it! Once teams are confirmed, team leaders will receive IC instructions via encrypted communication through the Meshwork, to provide them a set of dossiers on the people selected for their cell, as well as an initial set of instructions in order to both bring the cells together. Their respective safehouses will be stocked with the supplies needed for their first missions.
OOC, a write up on each of the different cell bases will be provided in this community for reference, though ICly, only those within the team should know the details without prior player plotting.
Please see the top-levels for sign ups and opt-outs!
RAC - Promotions (or Demotions)
Sign-ups for evaluations will be open for OOC days (until Feb 16th), after which we'll RNG the evaluation match-ups if players indicate no preference - the only exception being personnel on a recognized team (ex: Since Joe and Schmoe are a team, Joe cannot conduct Schmoe's assessment, as that does not suggest an impartial evaluation).
Players are green-lighted to make up their own warrant(s) for this, though you are free to request a warrant the monthly warrant page. Please remember that characters that have two mod-issued warrants cannot request another warrant until they either submit a completed thread for the additional HP, submit a request to withdraw (if the warrant was never started or the other player dropped from the game), or a failed notice in the case that it was started and never completed.
Each character should have 2 evaluations. Both will include a 'mental fortitude' element, however one will focus on the tactical combat proficiency and the other strategic planning. The only requirement is that character being evaluated has to 'take lead' and the warrant must be for the level they are being evaluated for, rather than their current one.
Please see these top levels for sign-ups. Opt-outs are not necessary as this is not mandatory in an IC framework.
sion astal | company
Location: Westerley (Primary), Leith (Secondary)
Primary Faction Goals: Though he's an Admin Director, Sion will be taking to the streets of Westerley in the noble attempt of diffusing tensions between civilians and the Company...! Thiiiis may or may not be entirely successful. It's likely that he will be caught monologuing/displaying resistance sympathies and...!
Secondary Faction Goals: Be punished for it. For a time, Sion will be quieted, though is likely to aid the resistance in more "subtle" ways by passing along information to others.
Desired CR:
+Company bros! Sion is always in need of a security detail/escorts when he formally takes his leave of the Company command post! He is also easily a 'senpai' and will make your character expensive tea.
+Resistance connections
+People he can sway toward the resistance???
+Someone to witness him sustaining injury/bleeding all over the place because holy shit he bleeds gold sparkles.
Offered CR:
+ Rescues during the riots! Need a princess carry? A shield? Sion's your man!
+ Someone to shounen at your character during the riots? Don't worry, Sion is good at telling people to simmer the fuck down. But phrased more nicely than that.
+Are you an information broker? Someone with resistance leanings? If Sion is able, he will pass on information about the Company to help those majorly in need...!
+Random acts of kindness!!
+Friendship!!
Anything else? If you have any ideas I haven't listed here, lemme know!! I'm ready to plot! B(
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...No?
Fine then he's just going to disobey you. Again, deal with it.
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He's seriously going to kill you, Sion. Out of love. But still murder your dumb shounen ass.
Re: sion astal | company
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Helping to bolster the Company's rep before... it all goes to shit on day 5, aww yeah. o9
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even though...on day five...he will be having a field day of death but never mind that part.
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only because alice's meltdown would be fun
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alternatively, if you were going to have julius involved in riot suppression, there's a chance for these two to meet...! something which could end up super emotional if sion witnessed julius using deadly force in any instance.
OTHERWISE.... sion might throw lapis a birthday party on leith. /o/
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sion seeing julius having an internal crisis, yes
BIRTHDAY PARTY SOUNDS NICE or we could have a thread where sion sees julius coughing blood bc that comes wiht his regains whoops
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STILL
he would mother the heck out of julius.
and maybe finally get that lap-pillow action going on!!
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bless you bless this cr tbh
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this could also be the perfect occasion for sion to "scan" julius and take a peek at his biology/diagnose... how much time... the guy has left...... if you were cool with that!
in any case, sion would be hella curious and wonder how much they "overlap" and if they were maybe different branches of the same experiment.
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... man maybe he'll be pressured enough to tell Sion his Tragic Backstory (tm) lets do it
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there is still totally time for friendship monologuing though, as well as a retreat to sion's cozy office at company HQ.
and sion offering to take care of shiro instead of the other way around because sion operates like that.
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but yes, please! they can fight for dad rights
i'm slowly but surely acclimating myself into the game by writing as many starters as i can, so i can throw a log up somewhere! unless you already have an old post up that i can hurl myself violently towards, i'm not picky