Opening Event Plotting Meme!

[thenine]

Today is the day!

The Quad welcomes you, so time to let you all loose to wreak bloody havoc upon the unsuspecting masses.

Chapter 1 Event Log is up for your review, with each of the faction prompts set as a top-level. Please feel free to post threads either under each top-level or create your own logs for the event - whichever works best for you.

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

Now is the time to make or break alliances. Hopefully you'll choose wisely. Do you work with the Killjoys to save the heir, organize mercenaries to kill the welp(s), or use this distraction to start setting your own political traps on the field?

The Company

Company Enforcers are having quite a hectic week. Some may have the ignoble task of staking criminals in the rain, while others get to conduct the genetic ID verification checks - either in between rainfalls or while they're holing up during. Some may be sent to Eulogy with a fabricated criminal history to try to barter back the claimant papers, others sent to Leith to investigate the True Leithian leaders responsible for the attack, and still others to track down the actual thieves.

Leithians

Running a secret Jakk production facility in the woods near your farm? Has someone offered you some extra work 'off the books' if you outstay your visa? Are you a Killjoy out to apprehend one of the first, or a Company Enforcer there to punish them?

True Leithians

The True Leithians had a truly nefarious plot - ingenious in its simplicity to their eyes. Go to Westerley, break into the Family Registry Bureau, and steal the records of those eligible to claim lands on Leith. What they didn't anticipate was the Black Rain lasting for so long, how to get off moon without being caught by the tenacious Company, or in some cases... how to make it back to their ship with angry Westies at their heels. Help them for a tidy sum of joy or hang them?

Westies

Sinew to bone - bodies staked in the rain are dissolved to nothing within a few short hours. Momentary exposure is still enough to provide one with deep chemical burns. Wherever you are on Westerley - Old Town, Eulogy, a fortified safehouse in the Badlands - expect to be stuck there for the duration. Unless, of course, you're one of the few that have access to the underground tunnels in Old Town.

Those caught in space or elsewhere in the Quad cannot access Old Town until the storms subside - any attempts to approach even the outer edges of the stormfront will result in significant damage to the vessel, either through electrical interference or chemical damages to the outer hull.

But for those whose dealings are less than legal, now is a time of profit. Some want to sell (or bet against) claimant papers in Eulogy. Others just want to find a buyer to get the things out of their hands. Either way comes at a great cost - especially if a Killjoy or Enforcer gets to you first.

For the Westie natives, however, there's another problem. Someone tried to steal your meal ticket off this toxic moon. Maybe you should think on getting it back...or do you trust the system to do the work for you?

Resistance

You're all rebels... let's find ways to rebel. The bunker hasn't been used in generations. There's scarcely more than enough food to last a week and medical supplies are all but nonexistent. You have a place to grow your resistance, but you'll need to put in a lot of elbow grease to give it a fighting shot.

The RAC

Busy season for Killjoys! Here are some of the potential warrants that can be taken from the prompts, but feel free to add in your own (level 3 and below).

Level	Prompt
1	Recover stolen claimant papers. Intel may indicate Eulogy.
2	Transporting people through the Black Rains via the undercity.
3	Individuals caught forging their genetic identity to circumvent their visas on Leith will have automatic live arrest warrants.
4	Members of nationalist group suspected of planning the attack on the FRB. Hunt down leaders responsible and return to the Company. This is a live or dead warrant.

Major Plot Points

Black Warrant

This is a competitive warrant open to all killjoy teams or individuals ranked level 4 or higher. Teams do not have to be permanent, they can be formed purely for the pursuit of this warrant and dissolved thereafter. To sign your team up for this assignment, please reply to this top comment with the names of your team members.

Should the result of player plotting be that the black warrant is completed, the team responsible will be decided via RNG.

Fate of the Heir

The fate of the heir will have significant effects on the unfolding story. For transparency's sake, please review each result below before beginning your planning:

Scenario: Success

If the heir is successfully delivered to Qresh in time, the Nine will remain whole and relative stability will continue in the Quad. Lady Derrish will make a slow recovery and an investigation into her poisoning will begin. The investigation will turn its eyes first to the other members of the Nine, but soon spread into Leith and Westerley, becoming the focus for this faction in Chapter 2. Land Derrish will reward the individuals responsible for returning its heir with a hefty sum of joy and docking privileges on their private lands in Qresh. The organization those individuals belong to will in turn see a blind eye turned to their more illicit affairs for a while and a few political favors thrown their way, tipping the balance of power ever so slightly.

Scenario: Failure

If the heir is not successfully delivered to Qresh in time, the Nine will be temporarily broken and Chapter 2 will open with a Quad-wide lockdown on all travel. Characters will be grounded in whatever location they ended Chapter 1 in for at least three game days. Following that, the Nine will announce that Lady Derrish has been successfully saved by the top medical doctors on Qresh and name her assailants. The Resistance. Westerlerns will take the fall for her poisoning, the results of which will be a brutal increase in security measures and moon-wide totalitarian rule. Travel to and from Westerley will become extremely limited as the Nine seek out members of the Resistance. Neighbors will turn on neighbors and anyone with known Resistance leanings will be forced to go deep underground.

We encourage everyone to engage in cooperative OOC plotting to come to a consensus on what exactly the outcome will be. While we understand that every character involved in this plot will have their own agenda, we wish to foster an environment in Overjoyed where players can all plot together to reach developments that are satisfying to everyone - whether their characters 'win' or 'lose'.

The mods will keep an eye on the pace of the plotting on the meme, and once it slows significantly, or after 5 days - whichever comes first - a post will be made for all players to respond with their desired outcomes. In this case, majority rules, so it benefits everyone to cooperate and compromise rather than try to approach things independently.

Doing things this way is very much a trial, and we will be open to feedback and change should this method prove too difficult, too frustrating, or ineffective.

Quick Links: Player Organization
Black Warrant Mass Plotting
True Leithian Man Hunt

CR Meme Template

<b>Character</b>: <b>Location</b>: <b>Primary Faction Goals</b>: <b>Secondary Faction Goals</B>: <b>Desired CR</B>: <b>Anything else?</b>

Comments

[eusford]

Character: Crowley Eusford
Location: Qresh mainly, Leith towards the end of the week. Maybe other places??
Primary Faction Goals: The Simms are allied to Kendry and so the Derrish are kinda important, if you had to ask Crowley, so he'd want to hear good news on the woman who is apparently carrying the next heir. His family doesn't want him leaving Qresh but hey!! They can't really stop him if they don't find out.
Secondary Faction Goals: His primary goal is going to keep him busy for the most part, and he's not really a man to stray from what he wants unless something major catches his interest. So him being outside of Qresh will definitely require someone babysitting a grown ass man basically LMAO.
Desired CR: yikes. idk. I'm good with first meetings and planning on assumed CR, whichever makes more sense or helps plotting go more smoothly!

Someone get him off of Qresh, honestly he's likely to hire someone/have them contracted to take him to Leith. Of course he's gonna be keeping his mouth shut on why he's going there and probably end up as a huge annoyance overall. So if you want someone your character will think about throwing off their ship for a split second he's your guy.

Company members when he comes to Leith that can fill him in or... something. He won't visit the Blessed Branches directly since a member of the Nine visiting there might make things obvious.

Also idk if you want to stay in Qresh and live it up he has his own mansion on Simms land, be a friend, talk about politics over "wine".
Anything else? laughs awkwardly

[inksplashes]

parks here

when were you thinking of having him transported off leith? depending on scheduling I may be able to offer up another tall redhead..!! of course their ship is a killjoy ship so it's not gonna be


decked to the nines*




*sorry I had to

[eusford]

this is a no parking zone for guys with eyepatches

BUT UHHHH crowley's pretty open for the time being so if you wanted lavi and crew to suffer that's fine. and the ship might not be five stars or anything but he's not expecting it to be, so that means he'll be poking his head around everywhere yikes.

[inksplashes]

um wow rude?? this is also a no loitering zone for guys with no braiding skills, thanks

I could do day 3, probably?? he'll be on his way to leith anyway and can't go back to westerley until they stop that whole acid rain business because it's bad on the ship. he'll be working intel angles so I don't think he'd take the warrant without some kind of assumed CR ..

looks at their TDM thread...


.. let's say he's worked with Crowley's family but not Crowley personally yet, though. so it's him doing a political favor without realizing how much of a prick their not prodigal son is.

sorry crowley, ilu.

[eusford]

that's immediately ruled out because guess who's got $$$

that could definitely work, yeah! so it'll leave two days open for him to mess around on qresh and do whatever before he's over here sliding into lavi's dms with that "hey you helped my family so let me ride with you money isn't a problem".

don't apologize lavi's getting the shittiest end of the stick?? braid his hair loser

[inksplashes]

haha okay! just dropping him off on leith and smacking his hands when he starts playing with the sharps in cargo bay? iirc, lavi is going to be heading to utopia that day (busy schedule that day, being a killjoy is a hard life) if you also wanted an excuse to have him in that direction and/or possibly get some CR with itsuki*


*I have to check with that mun though and see if that's where their meeting would be going down and/or if kanda is going to be along for this ride. the running joke is that kanda is banned from utopia though because he's too judgey. if not utopia it would have to be leith or over the network, so crowley could interrupt them or something in that case if you wanted?


either way I'm cool with it! he'll just kind of. drop crowley off at someone's doorstep like "can you take this thing please? thanks" and go about his usual, but he can also bring precious prince back to Qresh whenever everything blows over if you'd like and/or help escort Crowley to a specific destination in the midst of this because who needs sleep?

(lavi needs sleep.)

[eusford]

(lavi..... please sleep.)

i live for excuses for any kind of cr with anyone, so if lavi and kanda (if he goes) head off to utopia crowley will follow around like a pup. surprisingly enough the atmosphere won't get any questions from him and he'll probably be in the background for so long that lavi forgets that he's even there, the advantages of having zero sex drive and no interest in all these human activities?? i guess.

but if not yeah crowley will just be like "when are you guys heading out again?" so he can get his ass back to qresh and get grounded for not telling anyone. also PRAY he don't drink from anyone I FEEL SO SORRY FOR LAVI HE DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS.

[inksplashes]

(never....)

OKAY so it looks like utpoia is not on their agenda after all, which is probably good, because trying to keep two dogs of a different variety on a leash in there (no pun intended) would give even the saintly killjoy a migraine. one won't stop biting people proverbially, one won't stop biting literally..

that sounds good then! kanda will in fact be there but, and I quote, "lavi can babysit" so they'll be killjoy uber but lavi will largely be entertaining the qreshi so his partner doesn't start a political incident by trying to behead crowley

if you wanna set the stage for us I'll have a killjoy pick him up?? he can bring a corsage

[eusford]

i just imagined kanda yelling at someone and crowley disappearing and coming back with blood all over him and lavi's just whispering "what the fuck" before accepting defeat and sleeping.

anyway! i'll get started on something for us. make sure it's made of roses so it can match his hair.

[inksplashes]

if that isn't canon within a month i'm gonna be disappointed

okay, awesome! i'll make sure of it. /nodding emote

[eusford]

fight me it's gonna become canon within two sentences

if you need anything changed just hmu!