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

[thenine]

Hello and thank you so much for putting something like this together!

We can see that you're doing your best to include everyone, and encourage you to continue gathering interest in this particular plot as the week goes on. It looks like you're prepared to be flexible, so we look forward to the end-product proposition.

It was our intention to not gather official player requested outcomes until the CR meme had more time to develop. Since it's been up for less than 24 hours, we do want to clarify that other approaches to the event may occur!

Moving on to the details, you have a wide swath of characters potentially involved in this angle, and that's exciting! While your projected ideas for 1) having a multi-party conflict and 2) how that conflict will go down are interesting, involved, and detailed, it might be for the best to focus on the general participation in (1) before determining (2).

With all of that in mind, we cannot give an official blessing to this plot line as of right now, since we want to allow other players time to drum up any alternatives if they wish, but we encourage you to continue to develop your ideas! Please keep us in the loop as you go, so we can answer any questions or iron out any kinks that may develop.

As of right now, we have one point of clarification: If the heir is born off of Qreshi soil, he will be considered illegitimate. While this would not technically render the warrant a failure (since the conditions are to find and secure the heir/surrogate), it would be a disappointing result for the nobility, and unlikely to result in any benefit to the RAC agents completing it, beyond payment. So, maybe if/when the mother goes into labor, the race is on! so to speak, to get her to Qresh before the baby is born. If they don't make it in time, the game would take the 'failure' track, despite the heir's survival. Of course, if that's the consensus that players reach, then that would also be okay, but we want to make sure everyone is on the same page!

[selfsatisfy]

Ah I didn't realize we were supposed to be taking the mother. I can delete this if that's better! I don't want anyone to feel like they need to play with this or that this is the only action that can be going on, rp needing by necessity to be in many cases "but that happened in another instance".

[thenine]

It's okay! We love that you guys have been able to work together so fast, so please keep this up! All in all, the detail of 'transport the mother' vs 'transport the baby' doesn't throw a wrench in a lot of the good things you have going here, so we don't want you to feel as if you need to delete what you've started.

While RP does include a lot of instances of sort of fudging timelines/what really happened to make multiple threads possible (for example: a prompt where a character drops an apple and three different people reply catching it, even though this was only likely to happen once), it would be awesome if, in this case, something worked out where characters can get in on the action in a way that flows without the need for that!

[selfsatisfy]

Okay! I'll keep an eye on the (general) post and if this is causing conflicts for folks/making things hard for general plotting we can def change things. Maybe make it turn out to be a body double for the surrogate they took unknowingly god how many people would be pissed...

[thenine]

Thank you very much for your consideration!

Since no one knows what the surrogate looks like, that could most definitely be an option - there are many opportunities for plot developments of all kinds. There are also illegitimate heirs that can be pursued in the course of this black warrant. Maybe some of the information that individuals gained was misleading. Namely, that the illegitimate heirs (Koon and Jennifer) are actually legitimate, which may result in other unsuccessful fulfillment attempts of the warrant. No matter what ensues, great work, and we look forward to seeing both what you develop and what develops on the general meme as time goes on!