Chapter 4 OOC & Plotting

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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

Prompto Agentum | Killjoy

[chromogenic]

Character: Prompto Argentum
Location: Goes between Leith and Westerley a lot
Primary Faction Goals: Freshly promoted, he'll try to be more responsible in his work but he's still really young and naive at heart, so he'll probably be Bad.
Desired CR:
~ people to do warrants with
~ friendship!! brotherhood!
~ killjoy senpais
~ cute girls for him to hopelessly crush on (it's canon i'm sorry....)

Offered CR:
~ fun joker who's secretly very insecure
~ .....selfies.

Anything else?
Got nothing! I'm so fresh and still unsure where to begin, but I'll figure it out! In the meantime, make it easier on me let me know if you'd like to do a thing!

[brickinthewall]

idk what i can offer here outside of this one is level 4 and Really Damn Good at her job but is a bit (a lot) not okay in the head

but i suspect prompto being selfie king would bring out some more of her actual personality as opposed to constant aggro and punch people in the face so idk things!

plus i think she'd be like wanting him to please not kill himself she pretends she's all hardcore and doesn't care but she Cares Too Much

[chromogenic]

Yes, yesss! Please be this pure boy's mom even though that's not what you're offering but he'll probably think of her that way because she's badass cool and secretly protective.

[brickinthewall]

prompto do you really want hanna as a mom figure tho

precious child no

actually idk how you worked with your AU but hanna has giant wing tattoos not unlike gladio's... the span all across the backs of her shoulders and arms tho these big ass hawk wings that extend to her elbows along with many other tattoos all over the place

[chromogenic]

See?! And Gladio is the team dad, so Hanna is totally mom. Prompto's tattoo thing is left ambiguous for now but it's pretty close to canon (test subject, adopted, feels like an outcast, etc).

[brickinthewall]

aw babe

she feels that

she was experimented on when she was a teenager in her canon because of her powers, in this au to give her mods so she's known as prometheus as that was her test subject name

damn it now she's really gonna give a shit about prompto if somehow this comes to light

she tries so hard to not care and yet

[impulsors]

welcome, welcome to the gaaaaaaaame -- say i, right before admitting that i was sorry not to have been able to hit prompto's tdm, let me make it up to you by maybe having him run a warrant with keith that results in their staking out some even sketchier place.

mostly because i just realised that the plot-specific farm security warrant for this chapter happens right before the leithian farm burns down, so standing as security over crops is probably like 10% shooing off farmworkers and 90% cursing at barn rats.






i mean, if you don't want prompto's life to be all rodents all the time, i'm down for just general killjoy messing around, too.

[chromogenic]

You had me at Keith.

Ahh, but thank you! Don't worry about the tdm, I realize I put it up really late so I wasn't expecting anyone to tag it apart from the ones I was screaming at on plurk. But honestly both of those things sound exactly like something I apped for, so let's do something!!

[impulsors]

let's just start with the rats. ): i feel bad for prompto's sunshine + jokes already. but okay! week 8, day 3 -- are you gonna top-level on the log, or would you like a starter? i'm gonna be a tad slow this week but i'm always happy to start.

also, while i'm here, can i make a request that any photos prompto takes in keith's vicinity wind up with keith blinking / sneezing / making some other weird face by sheer, unphotogenic accident.

[chromogenic]

I consider myself generally pretty slow because of my awkward timezone, so don't worry about it! I'd definitely appreciate it if you're willing to start it, though. :)

Also: REQUEST APPROVED. Here's a preview of things to come--

[kirkwalled]

did someone say killjoy senpai!!! we could have something preestablished or consider, prompto wanting to do a warrant with hawke but hawke consistently forgetting his existence -- if you want to go for the dumb right off the bat

[chromogenic]

HAHAH, what about something like, Prompto's first ever warrant was with Hawke two years ago and she doesn't even remember it or him?!

[kirkwalled]

oh my god yes. SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO GET MONEY FOR DOG FOOD, ALRIGHT.

hawke beat up a bunch of dudes, only armed with a knife and it was impressive and dumb and she even bought him a beer afterwards. yet, still forgot all about it.

[inksplashes]

oh hey it's another killjoy with social skills?!?!

senpais at him hard

[chromogenic]

texting buddies, L-O-L!

[unpromising]

i don't know i'm just here to touch your inbox again

[chromogenic]

We're gonna do the sparring/combat training thing, Qrow-sensei!!