Chapter 4 OOC & Plotting

[thenine]

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

<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

leo fitz | company / tech freelancer

[pesto]

Character: fitz | agents of shield ( mcu )
Location: likely leith! but occasionally westerley too.
Primary Faction Goals: i'm pretty down to have him do the stress training!! he can't fly ships but he knows a fair bit about them, which means he'll be able to tackle some of the failures that come up. 8) he won't be doing it for any other reason than to "prove himself", and to get some trust back with the company. that being said —
Secondary Faction Goals: because things are getting intense and fitz, as some R&D engineer in the company, has zero reasons to get involved, he'll absolutely get involved!! i've more or less pretended he has a healthy list of clients he makes/fixes tech (or weapons, he's less picky these days) for, so not... pretending would be great. if this gets him to go behind the company's back and do some Shady Resistance Stuff, i'd love that even more!!
Desired CR: he's new so the obligatory anything and everything!! i've put him down as established and would absolutely love pre-game cr, whether that's friends, reluctant business partners, co-workers, rivals/enemies, etc... what have you. i am interested in having him pursue the resistance route at some point down the line, so some build up in that regard would be fantastic.

+) i'm also super duper down to do any dream sharing stuff, if anyone wants weird mcu shenanigans! i can go from easy team-bonding moments to trauma level ... stuff, depending on how weird you want things. 8) also down to watch other people's memories / play around with his au background, please let me have this.
Offered CR: LET FITZ BE THE TECH NERD IN YOUR LIFE. he's here for any and all technical requests, from communication devices to super rad sci-fi bows. tranquilizer darts?? idk, basically if you want a thing then he'll do it. company dudes get it for free since that's why he's here, others will probably have to owe him ... something... idk i'm flexible

otherwise have a sarcastic, grouchy scot who's not very good at fighting but will Try Very Hard.
Anything else?

tbh who needs weapons when you have the power of sarcasm under your command

[tirejacked]

I haven't even read this post in full yet but

do dream sharing with me so I can drag fitz into his stupid mem regain conspiracy investigation hobby

[pesto]

it's okay the post is largely a disaster of me rambling about things i want



thanks for getting something you want out of it though, fitz is actually super receptive to conspiracies so let's do dream sharing ye

[tirejacked]

look the real hard part is figuring out what angle to take with it

how many aos episodes am I going to have to watch, lets find out

[pesto]

if you want real trauma you're going to want to get to end of s1, maybe a few episodes into s2


if you want weird ward bonding shenanigans you're probably good

[tirejacked]

when have I ever said no to trauma

on the other hand, stupid buddy cop routines

it's a dream we can do both somehow probably maybe, gets back on netflix ig

[stressors]

stress training! shiro would really appreciate leo's tech background on a malfunctioning ship if you're at all interested in that..

... and, uh, if leo could take a look at shiro's arm which has an incendiary tracker embedded in it? shiro's resistance-leaning, but can't do anything for the resistance since his arm's triggered to blow up if the company ever notices Strange Activity.

it could get leo introduced to the resistance perhaps? meanwhile he can snark shiro into submission while they're trying to fly a ship and is that black smoke blowing out of the rotor? oh no...

[pesto]

YES ABSOLUTELY TO ALL OF THIS hello shiro welcome to fitz's disaster of a life (but i guess the disaster... goes both ways... hello trauma friend)

he'll absolutely snark shiro to submission as he tries to figure out why there's black smoke flying out of the rotor, but it'll probably be fine, hopefully. but i'm also down to have them both lean towards the resistance like that!! fitz actually has canon experience building robot arms (or... will...), so getting rid & replacing an incendiary tracker under everyone's noses can be a long term project for both of them 8)

i actually snuck a peek at your app, and i was wondering how you felt about pre-game cr? if shiro's been around at the company for a year then chances are he ran into fitz (he returned to the company around 3 years ago) a few times! alternatively they were both from leith so we could pull off... childhood cr somehow... but that's totally up to you, i'm just throwing ideas at the wall.

[stressors]

I WOULD LOVE PRE-GAME CR, i could swing whatever you'd like! fitz could have worked with shiro on a couple of missions? he could've helped build his robot arm to begin with?? he could have been that robotics nerd to shiro's ironic sports jock in fake high school??? idk i'm excited but oh my god i'm sorry you had to wade through my wreck of an app

BUT YES PLEASE, LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN. i could throw up a pre-game log! or we could just assume their history if you haven't the time for that, i'm pretty easy. either way, i'd be happy to start the stress training log if you're still on board.

... but yes, please tell me what you're up for. i realize i get Excitable and i am sorry.

[pesto]

OH NO THE ROBOT ARM WOULD BE SO CUTE but also really sad, as would... high school shenanigans... dear god i don't think they even knew fitz was a genius until at some point in high school, so it'd literally be "there was this guy who blew up a part of the school's gym during science fair and then we never saw him again" o o p s ( your app was fine!!! but dw my app is also a disaster... )

WE CAN DEFINITELY DO A PREGAME LOG THOUGH what's an upper limit on threads, regardless of what we choose i'd be down to have fitz help with shiro's robot arm!! and yes, absolutely, for stress training, i'm super excited for stress training

i realize belatedly my comment is not very much help but HERE IT IS ANYWAY i'm also excitable hahaha.. ha...

[stressors]

their fake histories melding together would be so cute...... man, i am totally up for it if you are. having shiro remember the Science Fair Incident, and bringing it up every now and then when fitz is throwing sarcastic shade. or fitz being part of the small team who put together shiro's robo arm and learning about the incendiary tracker later... i have no idea, we don't even need to make it that complicated. fitz's app was cute, let's have them friends. fitz would be shiro's senpai but shiro would still be the Dad, and it would be great even though i was just forced to type out this sentence and regret it instantly.

LET'S JUST DO ALL THE THREADS AND SEE WHAT WORKS OUT?? i can throw up the stress training starter tonight if that's all right! and if fitz is going to have a pre-game log anywhere, i'd be happy to start something there, too. otherwise we could also just start one specifically for fitz + shiro.

stop me at any time... just let me know what works for you, and i will adapt accordingly!

[rhygret]

R&D GUY YOU SAY....

Rhys could use someone like that to help him work on some filtration tech 8)

[pesto]

yes hello this is him!!!

8) excellent, tell him more about this filtration tech.

[rhygret]

Rhys is working ona way to refine toxic waste from the Badlands on Westerley so he's been "procuring" getting ppl to steal filtration tech used by bandits that live int he wastelands to see if there's a way he can improve/capitalize on it 8)

So he could bring some it over to Fitz to work with?

[pesto]

OH HUH that's pretty cool, yes please send him stuff to tinker with!! he may or may not whine about how he has no time!! to do all this!!! but do it anyway

[rhygret]

bene B) Rhys will make sure you get compensation bro just keep doin the good work

[homonka]

touches your face gently


I cannot remember what we actually discussed except that it involved weapons and or dreams so

!! sf is gonna on the qreshi thing (ugh, she could be doing such better things??) but here to fill the Melinda May hole in his side

which is curiously thorn-shaped.....

[pesto]

uwu


LMAO yeah basically, we can definitely do both weapons and dreams, do you want the Big Moment at the end of s1 or do you want continuous feelings of frustration in s2

you are more than welcome to both btw, because these are!! dreams!!

[homonka]

I kind of want the Big Moment just because she's fun to throw in those situations and also she'll be very "?? what's wrong with you we're dying there's no reason to be obnoxious about it, ty"

I WANT BOTH

do we wanna do dream first and then weapons with O.o ..... you look familiar....?? vibes or reverse order

[pesto]

oh god she gets his nerdy confession excellent

NO LET'S DO THE FIRST the first is way more dramatic therefore this is something i'm gonna choose... though at the same time i guess vaguely recognizing who's dreams they're in could also be fun?? so unless you have strong feelings about either of them let's go with dreams then weapons -- oh my god are you and laure tag teaming me or smth why am i getting notifs from you two at the exact same time

[homonka]

lmao well we are both on our laptops in bed I guess it's just timing?!

I am also all in favor of the more dramatic so DREAM FIRST

GIVE ME THE PAIN and also confession and MORE PAIN

[nekoshunshin]

I LOVE FITZ SO IDEGAF which one - can I just throw Kanda or Yoruichi at him (or both). Would you rather a killjoy that comes to him for tech, or to help him figure out why his nanites aren't working as well as they used to?

OR

A resistance scarback that can lead him down the path that cuts rocks?

[pesto]

IN THAT CASE LAURE GIVE ME BOTH >:c we can start with one and move on to the other if that's easier, in which case i think kanda might be easier to figure out stuff right away for —

we can make this pre game or have their first meeting now!! what do u feel like

[nekoshunshin]

DONE AND DONE!

HM. We could go pregame with minor interactions - maybe he takes their firearms, etc, to him for upgrades? Since the nanite thing has been getting worse more recently, he could use their minor history to go to him about something a little more major, like fixing his nanites.

Since Yoru splits her time between Old Town and Leith, she could also go to him for upgrades to her AI, or to connect the one she has to her ship, once she gets it?

[pesto]

partycats, my hero

yes excellent, i'm totally okay with this 8) i said fitz started his weird side business in the last 3 years or so, so anything in that time frame works!!

AI!! i... think he has some experience with AI actually, so while it's not perfect it can be a long term project thing ( if not this is rp yolo— ) so yes we can absolutely work on this down the line, weh i'm excited