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The Nine ([personal profile] thenine) wrote in [community profile] overjoyed_ooc2017-03-11 05:52 pm
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Chapter 4 OOC & Plotting

Chapter 4 Launch



Chapter 4 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 4 Calendar / Timeline is available here for the expected timeline of the month.

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

All with significant Qreshi ties have been summoned to a party thrown by Lady Kendry aboard a pleasure ship in orbit of Qresh itself. It's advertised as a social gathering, but in reality will be used to discuss and push forward an official response to the repeal of the Seventh Generation Accords.

RAC agents and Company employees have been tasked with the event's security, and will be stationed both aboard the ship and required to patrol the flightpath in their own vessels.


The Company

Bonuses are given to those who punished rioters with brutal force, while those deemed too 'soft' by the Company are given acclimation training. Those assigned to this training will be partnered with a stricter officer and sent to a volatile area to complete a mission. Finally, stress training has been offered to all - and made mandatory for some - in light of the worsening situation on the streets of Old Town.


Westies

The riots have waned, people splintering off to their own spheres. Some return to work, some join the Resistance, and some take advantage of the chaos to assert control. Gangs calling themselves 'Resistance' have sprung up all over town, and take their territory very seriously. Attacks on those with assumed Company sympathies grow more frequent, the lack of a side assumed by both the Company and the faux Resistance to be the wrong side.


Leithians

Ripples of the disorder gripping Westerley are beginning to rock the tenuous peace on Leith. The Resistance movement has spread, its righteous hatred with it, gathering groups - some independent and some connected to their sister organizations on Weaterley - focused on change. Strikes come and go, chants nothing but echos of those from weeks before, dispersing as quickly as they form. Neighbors grow distrustful as land reallocation drives funds away from humanitarian efforts to focus on security and familial financial safety. Scattered throughout this are kidnappings, a few members of closed societies disappearing with little trace. Towards the end of the chapter, a major hokk farm becomes the target of an arson attack, clogging the air with ash for days.

Even still, Leithians respond with near uniform disregard, keeping their heads down and hoping to avoid catching the Company's gaze--and authority--in the wrong light.


Resistance

The riots and discontent of the previous chapters have seen this faction's number swell. But with no clear pillar of leadership and only the myth of Hyperion available for most people, rival factions are born with their own political agendas. Many of them feed into the rumors about the mysterious Hyperion figure, painting a dark picture of a secretive and too-polished ruler who's too disconnected from the people to truly care about their plight.

Meanwhile, Hyperion allows the rumors to build without comment, growing its cells and continuing to hand out missions and intel from the shadows. Each team is given a compartmentalized mission with little connection between their last run, but when the parts come together to form a whole towards the end of the chapter... the future promised by Hyperion takes a dark, bloodier turn than some may be able to abide.


The RAC

With the lower level evaluations completed, it's time for the RAC to focus on both bolstering their top-most field ranks and weeding out and agents that have lost their ability to remain impartial. Any Level 4 killjoy that wants to test for level 5 needs to sign up for a Level 5 warrant on the warrant post. Additionally, there will be sign up threads for any killjoys that want to be ousted and lose their position within the RAC.

Please note - anyone who loses their position as a killjoy will be dropped into Westerley as a temporary citizen. It will be up to the character to find employment that allows for long term work visa status.


Major Plot Points


Metaplot: Digital Dreams



Due to the way the meshwork interacts with the memory modification chips implanted into characters' brains, their subconsciouses may be projected to any other character with modified memories. All characters may participate in this event, regardless of their level of activity on the network, though frequent users will find themselves the subject of more broadcasts.

These visions occur only when both parties are unconscious - this includes sleeping, high, or drunken states. You may take scenes from your character's AU history, canon history, or mere fantasies they have and work through them as you chose. The only requirements are as follows:

✗ There must be blue-green auras pervading where they should not, a dissonance with any memory or fantasy that is not your character's own subconscious creation. Some may also see an abandoned laboratory, though its presence will only be in disjointed flashes, and its purpose unclear.

✗ The observing character will be pervaded by the emotions of the character having the dream. Rather than this being a complete personality overwrite, it's more of an emotional resonance between the dreamer and the visiting character so that, if they find themselves in an urgent situation, both will feel the tension, or heartbreak will be felt by both, etc…

✗ The character having the dream will awaken with blurry memories of the event at most, while the character visiting the dream may remember things more vividly.

✗ Characters do not know, or care, that they are dreaming. Cognitive dissonance may enable them to have some idea that they're not conscious, but 'waking up' will not occur to them, nor will questioning how they've arrived to the dreamscape. As the location will seem natural to the character having the dream, the visitor will also feel 'right' being there in that moment.

✗ There is no limit to the amount of dreams you may have. As such, we encourage you to create your own logs for this part of the plot.


Resistance - Hyperion Missions & Recruitment

Due to some drops, we'll be opening up the Hyperion teams again for recruitment. Depending on the number of characters who sign up, we may create an additional team and safehouse set up. Please sign up using this top-level! Sign ups will remain open until 3/20.

New missions will be disseminated through the team NPCs (mod-controlled) on their respective calendar dates but will be much more subdued than the first and second waves in order to allow everyone time to continue working on their original missions.


RAC - Promotions (or Demotions)

We will be contacting players who signed up for last chapter's evaluations (Level 1-4) to find out the outcome! As long as you've started the thread, you're welcome to handwave/continue working on it in the meantime and we'll mark it as a success (or failure, if you like) when it's announced ICly on W7D3.

Level 5 evaluations will be open to all Level 4 characters--whether they were recently promoted or not--and announced ICly on W7D6. Level 5 evals will be done with the evaluating agent leading a Level 5 kill warrant (obtained from the monthly warrant posting) and at least one other killjoy. Since these evaluations will be handled by NPCs, you'll need to form temporary teams (if you're not already part of them). Similar to how we've handled the lower-level evals, we'll check in with you next chapter to see the success or failure of the evaluation!

(Note, however, that killjoys who have a marked history of psychological instability will encounter evaluations which specifically test their mental fortitude and ability to abide the RAC's oath of neutrality.)

Sign ups will be handled via the monthly warrant posting where you'll receive your customized warrant prompt. You are welcome to include non-killjoy characters in your team, but at least one of your teammates should be on the RAC roster.


Company Acclimation and Training

Based on your reports during last AC, characters who did not follow Company mandate or did so in a way that cost their employers punitive damages, characters have been assigned to stress and/or acclimation training. The specific details of what that training entails can be found in the chapter log, but outside of those parameters, you are free to create your own teams and particulars as best suits your interests. The only provision is that a character slotted for acclimation training should be paired with a character who is not -- i.e., someone who received accolades for their conduct by being granted higher weapon clearance.

If you're having trouble coming up with prompts to fit the missions, feel free to PM the mod account and one will be provided for you!


CR Meme Template



oneirism: (You are only getting stranger)

[personal profile] oneirism 2017-03-15 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
IT'S OKAY SHE'LL JUST BLOW SOME SHIT UP TO DISTRACT THEM AND MAKE HER ESCAPE
ofobedience: please do not take (1987374 (3))

[personal profile] ofobedience 2017-03-15 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
whatever you say, princess...
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[personal profile] sunderings 2017-03-16 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
i have a small starter here! let me know if anything needs tweaking.
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[personal profile] brokeassgoing 2017-03-16 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
jesus christ wept........
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[personal profile] servitor 2017-03-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
oh shiro...

if he does behave for her she'll be like "we're not friends" but be hyper protective of him and be like "if you need someone to get beat up hmu" so you know they could might as well be sort of friends or friends or whatever

and I'd definitely love to do both I'm pretty sure shiro and nyx are hardcore bros

how old is shiro anyway like 25? cos nyx is like 35 LMAO they're both big bro figures :'| considering nyx hovers over kate and tells her to Stop all the time
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[personal profile] servitor 2017-03-16 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
yes let's do it

and she'll be like wtf what do you know of them

STARES DOWN
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[personal profile] lacuscular 2017-03-16 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
I KNOWW IT'S SO GOOD.... and yes I DO-- oh god please let hawke do this for both juvia and juvia's money. it'll work out for everyone because juvia needs a big sister figure to tell her what to do and also how to not be embarrassing!!!
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[personal profile] lacuscular 2017-03-16 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'm down for that!! I should have a log up for dream/closed threads like later tonight if not tomorrow so I'll let you know when I do!

Probably some from canon and maybe some for her au background, I only have one set one but everything else I'm smoothing out the details. I got some that are more light-hearted and some that are more serious, if that's what you mean!

as you said...we could do both. B^)
servitor: (Default)

[personal profile] servitor 2017-03-16 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
ok so I did a dream thing for hanna here: http://overjoyed-logs.dreamwidth.org/23048.html

buuuuut i also don't know if crowley would at all be the type to go watch people beat the crap out of each other so u kno
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[personal profile] pesto 2017-03-16 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
AND HERE IT IS hopefully that works!! if it doesn't for whatever reason, totally let me know — i definitely assumed a lot.. of things... whoops
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[personal profile] pesto 2017-03-16 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
ah yes apparently my hands type faster than i can think whoops... but no he wont' be there, he has no reason to be 8( sometime afer works!! if you're down to do something like an inbox thread

you know there's this great thing called talking that requires no blood to be spilled but more importantly NO VIOLENCE have u heard about this
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[personal profile] eusford 2017-03-16 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
unless they're interesting/made a good enough impact/is being used by him everyone is easily forgettable he's got that goldfish memory
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[personal profile] stressors 2017-03-16 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'LL TRADE YOU.

and yessss that totally works! i have a bad habit... of assuming myself, so please just knock me up the head to edit if anything doesn't jive!

in the meantime oh no they're going to be cute...........
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[personal profile] stressors 2017-03-16 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
ohhhh my god, as long as rhys doesn't expect shiro to call him by title or anything

BUT I GOT IT, SECRET, shiro won't notice a thing. meanwhile shiro's metal arm's kind of just There, so

rhys will have that to just... look at...

in any case, i'd be happy to put together Something! i realize rhys probably has his party entourage all planned out, but is there anything else he needed guard detailing for? if nothing comes to mind, i'd be happy to put together something vague.
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[personal profile] rhygret 2017-03-16 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Rhys doesn't actually have anyone to be his security escort!! So Shiro could totally do that 8>>
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Re: QUESTIONS

[personal profile] r3f4c70r3d 2017-03-16 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Angel will be attending the Nine party as Rhys's wingman! (aka: giving him instruction on how to Behave from an earpiece) If possible, I'd like her to have some kind of eye on things as well, which brings my question:

-Are there security cameras on this cruise

-If yes, could Rhys use a designated USB to uplink her and give her some access to the feed (no control, but the ability to look around the ship)

ofobedience: please do no take (Default)

[personal profile] ofobedience 2017-03-16 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
IKR what's funnier is that Giovanni is technically a dangerous weapon owned by the Company anyway so why they thought it'd be a good idea to make him even more dangerous is a mystery to us all. He, however, is not complaining.

Spooky~~ Gio will make it worse for you ahaha.

and LOL yes, fun times. How did you want to do this?
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[personal profile] counterspied 2017-03-16 04:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I stated this the other day but yeah--

Give me betrayal because that's at least some thing that Ango's familiar and can empathise with orz. If we can combo all of them throughout the thread, that's the bonus?!
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Re: shiro | company

[personal profile] r3f4c70r3d 2017-03-16 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I would still really love CR with Shiro and Angel if we can work something out (I was so busy last month I didn't do much in general) since my goal with her is eventual anti-company as well!
If it's easiest, I can do the same kind of intro with Shiro that I've done with other company members to connect with them (a company issued AI to help optimize work output while really being a spy/manipulator NO BY HER OWN CHOICE MIND YOU) and if not that then I plan to do a kind of anon friend seeking friend post with her on the meshwork so that she can have that while not having to put on a total ruse. whichever!
Edited 2017-03-16 21:46 (UTC)
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[personal profile] sixsaints 2017-03-17 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
haha YES that's perfect! I'm sure Inej will be just as paranoid and on edge, so those will be relaxing threads, I'm sure
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[personal profile] sixsaints 2017-03-17 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
I WILL ABSOLUTELY. I think she's going to be just sort of bouncing around Old Town this month, since she doesn't have any real faction ties, so if Hawke is doing anything important/cool I can just fit her into it, if you want!
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[personal profile] fledges 2017-03-17 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
UM ABSOLUTELY????

let her judge your life choices, nyx
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[personal profile] sixsaints 2017-03-17 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
omg yesss i am all for a dream log! and inej will... TRY HER BEST LMFAO she can judge him a little at the very least!
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[personal profile] servitor 2017-03-17 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
judge them super hard

right here

http://overjoyed-logs.dreamwidth.org/22616.html

please have kate haul his ass out and change the scenario for once
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[personal profile] eusford 2017-03-17 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
crowley would gladly watch people beat the shit out of each other

i'll tag into it soon, though!!

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