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

[selfsatisfy]

Makes an attempt here let's see...

Character: Midori Nagamasa
Location: Not sure, depends on what he's doing, but it can be anywhere, but Qresh
Primary Faction Goals: Ohgod he's so bored, probably warrant shit being stuck inside for days with no poor saps to make cry would be a form of torture...
Secondary Faction Goals: There is no goal 2 entertain him plz. That said I am pretty up for whatevs
Desired CR: Kind of thinking maybe going after 1-2 warrants depending on what they are/feasibility:
→BLACK WARRANT: He doesn't care too much about. That said, a) it's live or dead heeeeellll yeah, b) so many folks trying to murder eachother over this!!! double hell yeah his favorite activity, c) honestly he'd just think it would be funny watching everyone flip their shit getting all worked up. The best priorities right here. That said he's L3 so he'd need an L4 to participate. On the plus side he's a doctor he's helped a woman or two through a pregnancy before. Maybe not like, under gunfire from every single faction, but there's always time to improve one's skills....

→STOLEN CLAIMANT PAPERS: Had your papers stolen? Know someone who did? Get tasked by the Company to get them back? Midori's willing to team up!! I can't promise there won't be a fight, but maybe you're looking for a fight...?

→VISA CIRCUMVENTION: If you want to see a sociopath being nice and talking someone down from going illegal and ruining their life. Or. Trying. Or something. Beating up poor people is kind of depressing, but a warrant's a warrant.

→NATIONALIST ROUND-UP: Refer to everything for the black warrant above except the doctor stuff. Probably. Also Midori would care slightly more about this. 10% less chance of him playing around (you don't want to hear a grown man hum the opening of a children's program while he roughs folks up), 10% more chance of him getting a little philosophical about what constitutes "alive".

☉ OTHER STUFF: Open to things before/after the rains! Quick rundown of general Midori stuff:
-Training/sparring/info sharing/idk water cooler talk with fellow Killjoys
-Doctor stuff he's not picky unless you're rich and have any other option available to you or want something unethical like a poisoning
-Will pick on resistance/company people at times (ie remind them of times he completed a warrant that pissed off their faction/if they've fought in the past ask if the other party has improved their skills/ask if they've completed x goal yet if he knows something they're aiming for; BASICALLY be an asshole yep)
-He'll make people who seem like they don't have the will to live anymore hang out with him idk shenanigans here

Anything else? Midori is just here to have a good time. There is going to probably be some serious disconnect between all these atrocities and Midori GOTTA SAY


OH YEAH and far as Success/Failure I feel pretty ambivalent about either. I can think of fun stuff to do with both, sorry not being an help here smh.

[inksplashes]

Lavi is going to be scouring for medical supplies for his Undercity friends before the rains kick off, so I would love to send him Midori's way to try and barter for some extras because he likes to maintain good ties with the tunnel rats and scarbacks down there!

ALSO I realized belatedly that because I don't have you on plurk, I never would've been able to let you know that I went into app and mod mode and totally dropped the ball on all of the tdm stuff. If it's okay with you, I'd like to switch to current game stuff and do something current in its place! But if you wanna continue the tdm stuff too, I'd be happy to truck along. Just let me know, and sorry for the belated notice ;;

[selfsatisfy]

...Haha god I'm like what would Midori even accept as barter. Make Lavi do a warrant with him to recoup the costs? Or make Lavi take him along because it might be interesting. Or Lavi has to play truth or dare poker with him and Jennifer he's an asshole and Jennifer needs friends mmhm. Really though as long as it's making Lavi do something and Midori doesn't actually have to take any physical items from Lavi (...he's really lazy, he doesn't want to have to find a place to put something laughs) whatever would work really. Or you could ask Jennifer's player if there's something she might want since as far as Midori's concerned what's his is hers atm. Which...includes messing with Lavi. SORRY THIS STARTED SMALL and then snowballed oops.

And totally fine! I got super busy the past week, starting something new works great : )

[inksplashes]

Haha, that's okay! I think maybe making Lavi take him along might be interesting -- not a lot of killjoys endear themselves to subcultures or tunnel rats? Would Midori have been down into the undercity much in the past? I was thinking he'd mostly be working with the Uncles since he has as strong relationship with them, but he'd have IC reason to know the ins and outs of pretty much anything down there, so really whatever Midori/you would want to explore would be up for grabs!

Lavi the tour guide.. this is his life now..

[selfsatisfy]

He probably goes down to help with free medical care, but I think it'd be more he sets up around one of the entrances and people come to him rather than he makes house calls through the tunnels kind of thing. Only for serious cases and then somebody has to show him the way. So yeah he'd have fun tagging along.

That said he will probably pick on Lavi a bit... Either telling him this is a surprisingly caring side of him!! Or something more pointed about how the life of a Killjoy is hard you have to maintain all these connections so you cam use others at any moment, Lavi must have an hard time of it going to all these lengths, etc.

Be's an asshole basically gomen.

[inksplashes]

he's not wrong tho sobs like... he's.. mostly just being helpful to use them later lbr.

maybe a little bit is also having a heart.

Sounds great then! How doesss morning of Day 2 sound? Nebulously before everyone gets the black warrant notice?

[selfsatisfy]

Works for me! Did you want to put something up in the log? Or I can do it either way works : ) sorta figure we can either start off with Lavi asking Midori either at the hospital or his apartment oooor mid-scene with them going into the tunnels, whichever works best for you

[inksplashes]

in the interest of keeping things moving I'd probably sayyyy... mid-scene with them going into the tunnels and then Thoughtful Talks and possibly run-ins with crazy drugged out people and/or the grand tour, because that's just a thing Lavi does I guess!

If you could start it that'd be great, my brain is a little burned atm, but I can also try to wrangle up something tomorrow evening if you prefer!

[selfsatisfy]

Lemme know if this is no good! Can def change if it's not workable, etc

[inksplashes]

looks good! ty for setting that up. I will crawl my way to it tomorrow post-haste!

"this metaphor got weird" lmao