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

QUESTIONS

[thenine]

HYPERION -- NEW RECRUITS

[thenine]

Sign ups will be open until 3/20!

<b>Character:</b> <b>Do you want them to potentially be a cell leader?</b> <b>Is your character voluntarily working with the resistance, or will they need to be persuaded?</b> <b>What motivates your willing or unwilling character?</b> If they're already part of the cause or will not require coercion, what's their motivation? If they're not willing, what can be used as IC leverage to sway their participation? <b>What special skills does your character bring to the table?</b>: Are they expert assassins, hackers, tech builders, explosives experts, work in a confidential area, etc? <b>Any special requests?</b> Such as other characters you would specifically like to be paired with! For now, cells will have a max of 4 characters, but in future months these may be expanded to accommodate IC plotting. If you have no preference, we will RNG your team.

[willalways]

"anyone who loses their position as a killjoy will be dropped into Weaterly"

Where is this Weaterly of which you speak

[thenine]

it's like westerley but with more wheat fields


zooms to fix! ty for catching that lovely!

[willalways]

Lmf beautiful

Np♥

lina and a top level

[brickinthewall]

with Nyx and Hanna

hanna king // oc

[brickinthewall]

Location: Leith mainly, but RAC cruiser for eval things as well
Primary Faction Goals: as a Killjoy, she'll want to get that level 5 status but given her inability to be neutral and is basically a suicidal maniac, she'll more than likely fail the evaluations multiple times if they're allowed to try it. she's a tank and a brutal force to be reckoned with but she's very unstable. someone tell her to chill the fuck out please
Secondary Faction Goals: none, she's very self-serving in terms of wanting to still find more intel on who killed her crew and taking revenge on the Nine for indirectly screwing up her life tbh
Desired CR: more actual friends, someone to trust (she trusts no one), people to legit protect even though she's like 100% about protecting noct and giorno at this point, sparring partners, people she can butt heads with
Offered CR: actual tank hanna king, cage fights, bonding over being screwed over by other people, spending money like it's going out of style, aggravation station, and other things of the nature
Anything else?

nyx ulric // ffxv: kingsglaive

[servitor]

Location: Westerley mainly
Primary Faction Goals: trying to be the best he can be with the shitshow that is The Company except he failed miserably at doing his job so guess what! acclimation training + stress tests for Nyx Ulric! it'll be great I'm sure... more than likely he'll pass though he'll be pretty openly questioning things and be like wtf is your damage literally everyone and anyone he gets partnered with he's too much of a good guy I'm sorry
Secondary Faction Goals: slowly leaning towards the Rebellion, but mainly I want him to supply intel in a real low key fashion. things are heating up and he's really starting to show how he disagrees with how things are being run so you know. he also has his bar which IC can be open for business. if you'd like your character to work at Bahamut's Fury, hmu! I'll likely have an open log for the actual reopening
Desired CR: good guys being good guys, someone to call him pretty, sparring partners, people who have no chill, HEROICS, I'd really love some more things involving the fact that he's not really a Westie since canon makes a big deal about being refugees and makes very pointed remarks about racism and xenophobia haaaa gotta love kingsglaive, more rebels, more company people
Offered CR: actual big brother nyx ulric, sparring partner, P A R K O U R, someone to help you especially when you don't need help :'), bar things, outsider things, mostly anything tbh
Anything else?

sion astal | company

[sunderings]

Character: Sion Astal
Location: Primarily Westerley; Secondarily (to a much lesser extent) Leith
Primary Faction Goals: Continue to work from within the Company to see it changed into an organization free of the Nine and with the purpose of protecting Westerley.... L-lofty dreams, Sion has.
Secondary Faction Goals: Make a safehouse in the Bandlands, dabbling in research to bolster Westerley's resistance and fighting forces (...through human experimentation...) in the event that war well and truly should break out, making resistance ties, and miscellaneous do-gooding.
Desired CR:
☆ Sion got slapped in the face with Company acclimation training no one at all was surprised, a partnership for this would be great!! Expect Sion to still use non-violent means to contain civilians though........ Spoilers: he didn't learn anything.
☆ People (Company, Westies, Resistance, RAC!!) to do some gang-fighting with. GOTTA KEEP INNOCENT PEOPLE SAFE !!
☆ Animosity....... from resistance members or civilians who don't know he's a huge softie who boasts resistance leanings anyway.
☆ RAC agents he can possibly warrant (or resistance members???) to help with building a safehouse in the Badlands!!
Offered CR:
☆ CRAZY DREAMS. Sion is v. emotional (too emotional, too intense) and if anyone needs to feel his super crazy empathy for what's happening on/to Westerley, he's your guy!!
☆ RESCUES.... With the violence escalating on Westerley, Sion will definitely protect anyone and everyone, regardless of their affiliations. Alternatively, his dream/memories range from supersparklesunshine dreams of a peaceful world to darker subjects... like crazy bodyhorror/Goddesses/the sacrifices of Kingship.
Anything else? Uh...?! Stays on trend, or something.....

[impulsors]

i am gonna be spotty about my activity this month but sion looks so pretty in that icon that i had to stop by. HELLO HELLO, NICE TO MEET YOU, PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT:

- his safehouse plans! how's he gonna recruit, is he calling for actual physical labor, etc etc;
- his worst nightmare;
- his hair regime if not previously patented.

[sunderings]

Keith!! Also I am hella back-tag friendly, so don't worry, let's plot away!!

For safehouse shenanigans, Sion will likely issue the most vague warrant possible with a high price tag to draw in Killjoys before briefing them about the project himself. The warrant can include supply delivery/construction, but for Keith and his mad crazy piloting, maybe supply delivery would be the easiest thing to do o/

FOR DREAMS... If you wanted to go the canon route it's this scenario where Sion is subsumed by the God he's the incarnation of, loses all ability to reason, and devours the people he loves (literally) and then the world. His canon is special I'm so sorry.

.......his hair regime is also on total lockdown but if Keith and Sion ever get to galpal level Sion would happily do Keith's hair for him. Sion isn't into skincare and high maintenance beauty like Lance but he knows a trick or two!!

Kanda Yu | Killjoy

[lotusmesenpai]

Character: Kanda Yu
Location: Primarily Leith, but all over because killjoy
Primary Faction Goals: He's one of the ones that will test for level 5, still prefers to maintain a semblance of neutrality - at least for now.
Secondary Faction Goals: Let his CR continue to influence him closer to losing that neutral facade.
Desired CR:
❃ Someone to guard at the Nine's fancy space party?
❃ Warrants or things to do on Leith

Offered CR:
❃ ALL THE DREAMS! I adore writing dreams, so I'll prolly do a log with several top-level dreams to poke at.
❃ Continue building old and start some new CR! COME AT ME BRO.

Anything else? Realistically, I'm still going to be slow this month, since I'm still on convalescence leave from surgery, but! I'm going to keep pushing at old and new things.

Yoruichi | Scarback/Resistance

[nekoshunshin]

Character: Yoruichi
Location: Primarily Westerley, but also Leith because scarback
Primary Faction Goals: She's been out of the Quad for the recent events and only just now returning. I'm going to throw her name in for the Hyperion sign ups, so I'd like to get her involved in one of the resistance cells.
Secondary Faction Goals: Investigating the Nine (Kendry especially) to try to figure out just what game her cousin Delle is playing at.
Desired CR:
❃ All of it! Back history shared, current CR as a scarback, anyone that might have recognized her as 'Yoruichi Seyah Kendry' all of it!

Offered CR:
❃ ALL THE DREAMS! I adore writing dreams, so I'll prolly do a log with several top-level dreams to poke at.
❃ Continue building old and start some new CR! COME AT ME BRO.

Anything else? Realistically, I'm still going to be slow this month, since I'm still on convalescence leave from surgery, but! I'm going to keep pushing at old and new things.

qrow branwen | killjoy

[unpromising]

Character: Qrow Branwen
Location: Around!
Primary Faction Goals: Get a promotion, finally?! Though it'd be hilarious if he actually applied and got rejected for the promotion?? (Again???) I dunno if that's even possible, but yeah—ANYWAY. Also, getting drunk. That's always a priority.
Secondary Faction Goals:
Desired CR:
- Someone he can do warrants with
- I plan on actually posting a log this month with him opening up classes again at the RAC. Since before he was sent on a longass warrant, he was a combat instructor. So students?! Or people who want somebody who doesn't die easily to spar with.
- Somebody to invite him to a bar
- A team in the RAC

Offered CR:
- Drunkard uncle-type
- DREAMS!!
- I just want new CR pls rp with me (blush)

Anything else? Anybody who deals with Qrow will have to deal with his incredibly good luck, such that those around him will... well, have bad luck! Like if they're walking together, one of them trips, or if they're fighting, their weapon could lose a screw or something. :|b

Julius Visconti | Company

[tousei]

Character: a banana
Location: Aesterley and a little bit of Leith

Primary Faction Goals:
Julius is going to have to pass that acclimation test, whoops - he's made his mistakes and he has to pay for them. He can probably pass it but have another criss in private so he needs to sort that out soonish! I'm all up for getting him to talk to more people to broaden his perspective and people telling him that he needs to rest and chill, bc he's slowly dying + coughing up blood :') Sion will be giving him surgery in the latter half of the month to hopefully make things easier for him, so he'll probably be out of commission starting for W8D3 so if any CR wants to check up on him, we can also do something about this!

Secondary Faction Goals:
Not much! Mostly I'd like to get him some support + people who also feel the same about the situation as him, which is that too many selfish people are here. He's secretly Resistance sympathetic, but he can't show that at all.

Desired CR:
- MORE FRIENDS
- Negative is also welcome! He needs to show more violence this month anyways (laughs hollowly)

Offered CR:
- lineface central
- awkward nerd
- a shoulder to lean on
- someone who will die for you
- I'm planning to regain hacking abilities for him down the line, so if all you company people need your bugs defused...

Anything else?

[sunderings]

pops in to forbid julius from dying

SLIIIDES out

[tousei]

death comes to us all

[sunderings]

don't make him turn you into a zombie

julius

[tousei]

well he is already living up to his reputation as julius 'body horror tree' visconti

fenris | company enforcer

[eleutheron]

Character: Fenris
Location: Westerley & possibly the Qresh ship
Primary Faction Goals: Doing what he's told with rising unease; trying not to be driven mad by continued memory issues; STAYIN' ALIVE since he's Company and was prominently involved in brutal riot action
Secondary Faction Goals: Intrigued by the Resistance ...
Desired CR: FRIENDS ... idk, people to actually care about him & notice that he's not necessarily working for the Company because he wants to; negative CR is also good and very easy to acquire, though. Still needs a little more pushing to make those Resistance ties, but the guilt he feels over the riots will help that in a big way. (thinking about just going the pressed-into-service Hyperion route also)
Offered CR: A partner for party security, perhaps? He also earned accolades (that he does not appreciate or want) for his ruthless behavior at the riots, so if you're a nicer Company person and need someone for the acclimation training, he's your guy.

Dreams-wise, I'm thinking about stuff from possibly both his mangled AU and canon memories--mixes of experimentation, both magic and technological. PROBABLY SOMETHIN' GROSS with his time as a slave ... and something gross, but in a different way, with Hawke, perhaps?!
Anything else? also i kind of want him to get beat up by angry citizens LMFAO, please pull him free of their rage

[counterspied]

This is a very detailed chapter, thank you for your hard work, mods!

Ango's recently been transferred back to the Company intel division, so would it be possible to get a rundown of things that the Company already knows about recent events? Recent events being the plague, the riots, the Resistance, all that. A short summary is fine!

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

[impulsors]

THANKS, SION, say i unironically, keith would be impossible to get into anything fun if it weren't for meddling. ): delivery sounds fun! are we talking about the resistance's super-secret safehouses or is sion doing something for westies. . . though. . . i ask because i'm sleepy and he seems like a do-gooder.

and o god, that's so pretty. (you say "special" and i'm like "but aesthetics!") hmmmmmmm, would you be willing to have sion to dream that so soon? i feel like keith would just be Forever Horrified by what he'd witnessed, yell at sion, and immediately try to crash a ship into the safehouse's construction zone if he weren't talked down from his ledge of LOOK, THAT WASN'T REAL AND BELIEVING IN YOUR DREAMS IS A FILM CLICHE, STOP WITH THE PROPERTY DESTRUCTION.