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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.
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but oh my god, okay you're 6000x more familiar with the setting than me so keyboard-brain-throwing would prob help but here's some spitballing for undercover bullshit for your consideration, lets get some options going.
- infiltrating a large-scale smuggling operation to hunt down traces of a deep cover agent who seems to have gone off-grid (possibly extract or eliminate, depending on how much npc pain u want)
- or just lead back where they stash their goods??? orchestrating a weapons deal that doesn't actually exist in order to draw both involved sides out so they can look for Something In Particular?? who knows. this is more straightforward
- the son of a wealthy weapons dealer has been kidnapped and held for ransom bc his father owes debts on utopia—which means sneaking in during business hours and fishing for info
- digging for hard evidence of human trafficking disguised as a normal slaver ship traveling to planets off the quad by hitching a ride
???? anything else!! all this tips heavily to organized crime and the like/might be a little strenuous ig bc that's more jason's scene but if lavi gets to pick/have input and you want to do something a little more upscale/black tie bond to make him regret agreeing to evals I'm definitely not against it, yolo
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okay so since he needs to do a level 4 warrant (apprehension dead or alive) to get his rank up i definitely want him to kill someone, possibly the target
i mean he won't really be bothered by it just "huh that's what it feels like to consciously kill, ah, ok, weird this seems familiar..."
so right now i'm favoring:
i am very amused by the prospect of this because lavi has to "lead" the warrant which means guess who gets to play his right hand man and endure the most annoying antics as they pretend to be arms dealers
that's right, Reddie. It's you
plus side lavi has two major regains so he can pull off "guy with serious weapon connections" even if he has no idea why his weapon is so ??
so infiltrate arms smuggling ring pretending to be buyers in pursuit of target X who is actually another agent and went deep cover and decided they'd rather make the bucks there than doing bounty hunting. they find them and he resists so lavi gets to kill someone!!!
your thoughts. steeples fingers.
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sounds perfect tho!!!! ty for doing the critical thinking for me, I knew I could count on you. do we want a separate log for this
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and by that I mean do you wanna start us? I can totally do it if you'd be more comfy with it but ac bonus haaaay
we can start them with arriving at Seedy Cruiser which is actually Den of Dirtbags and going over their cover identities ?
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i mean do a warrant.
thanks for the starter! i'll hit it up asap (probably tomorrow, I am fading fast) <3
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