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

[deceptions]

Character: koon
Location: all over the place!
Primary Faction Goals: YOU BET HE'S GUNNING FOR THE BLACK WARRANT he used to actually be from Land Derrish ( before he was exiled smh ), so this is... interesting for him. he'll still be gunning for success, mostly because he wants the nine's official ( begrudging ) thanks to feed his ego. he knows this can't be done alone though, so he'll be taking people along!!
Secondary Faction Goals: goal 1 will likely keep him busy, though i'm toying around with a potential resistance thing — feeding them information to get started? or something? he won't be making a trip to the bunker specifically, though. he can't actively help the genetic forgers, or the attackers, since they're also warrants, but i'm happy to hash something out.
Desired CR:

• anyone who wants to team up for the black warrant!! expect a lot of snide remarks and general bossy behavior, but whether we've agreed on pre-established cr or not let's do a thing together. 8) he's in it 2 win it, other ambitious types welcome, etc. ( 100% open to having this all fail )
• something for goal 2? THIS IS ME HONESTLY MAKING VAGUE GESTURING MOTIONS but i don't actually have a whole lot of resistance cr with him, which is something i'd like to fix! so if there's anything you want to do that's not specific to this event, let's do it.
• and ofc literally anything else — koon's going to be exercising his network to the best of his abilities to get information ( i love pre-established cr, but i'm also happy to yolo!! ).

Anything else? obligatory apology for this asshole, i can't believe our opening event is babykilling ( this is great )

[snuggies]

ok i am here 2 sniff koon

[deceptions]

squints




NO BUT WHAT'S SCOTT DOING i'm 100% ok with koon getting injured and suffering in westerley if it means that i get to thread with you >:c

[snuggies]

scott!! is going to be stuck on westerley probably starving. there are serious acid rain storms on westerley and no one can get in or out, so i'm assuming koon might show up after those??

[deceptions]

trades food for bandages





he'll probably snipe some stuff/food somewhere that's not westerley to barter for stuff in westerley if you wanna play that angle after the storm ye

[lotusmesenpai]

How likely is it others will know Koon is from Land Derrish? LOL Hard to chase a target if you're a target yourself!

Is that a plot line you'd be willing to play with?

[deceptions]

LMFAO GOD THIS IS SO TEMPTING uhhhhh this might be a questionf or you since i'm not 100% sure how much information killjoys would have on each other — like where they're from, etc. but the idea would be that if they did know about koon's background they'd also know he got kicked out before anything relevant happened i guess?? feel free to hassle him for info but you're not getting any, basically.

in short YES ABSOLUTELY

[lotusmesenpai]

How much they know is totally up to you! Maybe an info broker sold just enough data to someone to paint a target on him a few days in?

Not sure if Kanda would ask - he's already on friendly...ish? terms with Jennifer (also a Derrish not!it!heir,so he's probably going to want to make sure she's safe.

But I can totally see him calling Koon out on it and asking why he isn't running home yet. Because let's face it, Kanda's an asshole.

[deceptions]

that's totally fine!! he doesn't mind it being out in general, though ig now he ... would... because everything's now 10x more troublesome than it absolutely had to be. let's say it's on the killjoys form so anyone at his level & higher would've already known, and then some info broker got ahold of it too, or something.


ah excellent 8) it's fine koon's also an asshole, just shrugs aggressively, bye loser, etc.

[selfsatisfy]

hi senpai would you like to fuck some people up laughs

[deceptions]

ah perfect


gently collects midori, welcome 2 the team

[selfsatisfy]

He always likes contributing for Koon. Probably laughs.

Did you have anything specific you want to do? Since they're RAC I assume they get told where the surrogate mother is. Kind of thinking our options involve:
>starting off as part of the protection detail? OR actively doing defense work (idk setting bombs, booby traps, calling on informants and listening in on frequencies to get an idea of who's coming to kill/abduct the littlest silver spoon baby here) OR they say fuck chivalry and abduct the mother themselves before the birth happens nobody said this baby has to be delivered born... horrible
>could be an attack by mercs or something; rn I don't think any PCs are planning on killing the baby glancing over the post here
>And then I guess it becomes, if they didn't abduct the mama, who can secure the baby first after it's born aka hot potato ?? OR if they did abduct the mama...I guess they get to experience what it's like to be hunted down by their fellow agents :,)

What's your thoughts/pleasure?

[deceptions]

actually that's a good question, do the RAC get told where the surrogate is, or is that something they need to figure out.... i was assuming the latter but we should definitely ask!!

> NOBODY SAID THIS BABY HAD TO BE DELIVERED BORN JESUS CHRIST god i want this so badly ( bc why would i say no to murder ) but koon wants to do this job right just to piss of his once-family, so i definitely like 1 or 2!! UNLESS THEY REALLY DO SAY FUCK CHIVALRY and protect the mother and go offline for a bit, what a wild ride
> i do know that we can have some fun threads where pcs are competing with each other for the ~glory so we can work smth out with that too!! but yes attacks absolutely
> i think kanda's interested in hunting koon down anyway because he's technically derrish blood 8) i'm really liking the abduction angle if they can pull it off, we should... definitely ask if any of this is possible god

turns the entire game into their enemies ig

[shikomizue]

Feeding information...~ If you think there's any way Koon would know about the location of the surrogate mother, Takasugi would do quite a lot for that heads up!

Basically, if you want him to network with someone in the resistance, Takasugi is available! Since they sort of know each other, maybe they can be more amiable than two guys with wildly different goals would normally be SWEATS

ALSO I totally said that Takasugi would kill any Derrish family member regardless of legitimacy, and that includes Koon (and he'd know about it, since they've known each other), BUT if he can trust Koon to make things harder for the Nine rather than make things easier, he won't go after him

that's what bros are for???

[deceptions]

!!! koon wouldn't know until the very moment he acted on it ( he's working with midori this time around + maybe damian?? ), BUT SADLY koon needs this entire heir thing to work out in the nine's favor totally for personal reasons of getting favors from his own family that rejected him so he can laugh at their faces..................... he's a selfish jerk i'm sorry

which means this cr just took a wild turn with this event (8 I WILL HIT YOU UP FOR RESISTANCE STUFF EVENTUALLY THOUGH if we can have them survive and be bros after this, what if .... if you want to approach this head on i'd be down, but if you wanna keep this wild cr from not bursting into flames we can find a work around somehow!!

[shikomizue]

DO NOT APOLOGIZE Takasugi doesn't budge either they're too similar lmao

I think maybe it'd be best to keep CR on the more superficial side for this event, in order to keep them somewhat amiable for future breakdowns! That's not to say that they can't have a thread - maybe in Eulogy or maybe in the Hotel Lobby - full of tense realization that they're not on the same side. In fact, I'd love to do that!

What would really sour Takasugi to Koon would be if they were plotting against one another directly every step of the way, rather than meeting and diverging or just coming face to face in the potential hotel clusterfuck SO AS LONG AS WE AVOID THAT (shouldn't be hard), we're good to go ;u;b

[deceptions]

GROANS they'll just have to be cute in our past thread for now

but yeah that makes sense!! if you want something a little friendlier for now we can do a thing in the eulogy with the claimant papers, but otherwise a hotel lobby is good too!! ultimately koon's alliance will fall with the resistance, but this time there was personal greed involved...

but yeah!! ditto on that front too, koon's v personally driven so as long as takasugi's not actively trying to stop koon we should be good.

[inksplashes]

gently reaches out here too


I see that Kanda is making Koon's life difficult

offer to run interference between the two assholes on occasion and keep them from devolving into children



this is your life, lavi

[deceptions]

kanda suxxxxxxxx lavi why do you hang out with him


no i'm joking they're both going to need interventions koon's at least 7 years older than kanda yet here he is arguing like children....... but yes this would be lovely please make sure they. don't rip each other's throat off.

[inksplashes]

look it's complicated he's not sure why he just seems to be really attached to the guy over other humans?? it's weird he can't explain it !!

will do o.o7 just call in the lavicopter when the guns come out. lavi can casually remove their firing pins ahead of time or throw a "get along mesh net" at them. which is like a get along shirt but you know, killjoy.

[deceptions]

squints at lavi

you could do so much better ( no i'm sorry )



LMFAO excellent, i like the get along mesh net. that's probably when kanda and koon stare at lavi and begin plotting murder together or smth ( unless they kill each other first, who knows )

[tirejacked]

this is a placeholder for shenanigans I'll be back

[tirejacked]

koon sux txt it

[deceptions]

????????????????????????

ok for a real comment ish if you're finding that you have a lot of black warrant specific stuff i'm down to do literally any of the other warrants too!! otherwise we can always default to pvp because jason suxxxx

[tirejacked]

I'm sorry I ended up stupid busy yesterday cries

tbh my black warrant specific stuff is a big ???? still, I ended up plotting out stuff for everything but that, so I'm thinking I'll just sit it out in the end. BUT even if I don't throw in officially he'll be nosy about what's going on/be fine with making koon's life harder anyway so lets do something.

what if they wind up in the same shady place chasing two different leads but neither of them does the transparency thing so they do the petty sniping at each other anyway & then bring both sides down on their heads in the process, y/n