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

[inksplashes]

Character: Lavi!
Location: All over. Killjoy + ship.
Primary Faction Goals:

He'll be pursuing the heir as part of the Black Warrant, but outside of that, Lavi is more self-serving than RAC oriented. He's interested in watching events unfold and the hidden sides of history, so he'll be taking every opportunity he can get to get involved in the underbelly of things!

I'd like to start inching him towards the resistance, but nothing too full-blown yet. His oath of neutrality goes behind the RAC and into his core personality, so it's going to be a long burn to get him truly invested. That said, he isn't a big fan of violence or watching needless cruelty, so his cool+calm will be pretty easily broken if he's witness to something excessive and there's nothing to keep him in check.

Secondary Faction Goals: N/a.

Desired CR:

♠ Leithian Boy Scouts: Jakk farm, y / n ?
♠ Helping people in the Undercity. He's culturally savvy and will be hitting up his Westerley contacts for information first, as well as helping people prepare for the rains, so he's going to be wandering around on Week 1, Day 1, but after that he won't be returning to Westerley until the Black Rains end.
♠ Teaming up with the Company members! A killjoy who isn't a jerk!
♠ Fellow Killjoys outside of the Black Warrant!
♠ Sarcasm and and making life difficult for each other during the warrant.
♠ Negative CR because somehow this character is making it impossible to plan for it...?? Good luck with him taking it to heart, gdi Mr. Stepford Smiler.
♠ Pre-game CR still totally open! Be friends with this not-jerk!
♠ Even though he's not a jerk he also doesn't believe in the good of anything so show him the light.. wait.. looks at our cast..


... okay, show him like, a pin light. a book light. a book light will do.

[snuggies]

please help scott prepare for the black rains, or is that exclusively in the undercity

i'm going to make it work anyway!!

Random icon pls be kind

[inksplashes]

We can totally do that! Lavi would ne spending time helping his undercity friends and/or getting supplies for the scarbacks down there so no reason we can't do both! What will Scott be doing on Day 1??

[snuggies]

assuming that he knows the storm is gonna be Bad, scott'll probably be looking out for the patient's in his clinic! trying to make sure they have enough to keep the clinic stocked during the storm... he's not too fussed about the storm either way though since he can heal BUT STILL

[inksplashes]

UMM... let me think.

Lavi might come by to try and barter on behalf of some of said undercity friends to get some extra supplies for them and they could get on the topic of 'yeah no, there's a whole city down there...' ? And maybe trade some of Lavi's navigating skills for some extra supplies?

[snuggies]

that sounds great! lavi is literally showing scott a whole new world. we can stave off the action for some exposition it seems like, but that's fine... scott and lavi can get to know each other ucu

[inksplashes]

we can also have action tho do you want scott to save a killjoy?? because the undercity is dangerous af and lavi is more of a talker than a fighter*

*not that he wouldn't still try

so how about we go for dora the explorer AND blood?? takes your hand...!

[snuggies]

he's got u bro scott doesn't really look for fights but he'll stick up for the little man!! (i am aware that lavi is a tree)

EXPLORING AND BLOOD ari you know the way to my heart

[nightchild]

bUSTS IN HERE i love lavi and dgm so im here for all the cr!!

i saw that he's established in leith but maybe we could have pre-game cr in that Itsuki is one of his many Westerley contacts for info?? also im totally down for negative???ish cr, in that they both snipe at each other regularly because neither of them is a cute girl to flirt with lmfao

he'll definitely be asking lavi for info in exchange about the search for the heir and how other killjoys might be doing (that lavi is free not to give him ofc)!!

[inksplashes]

for sure!!

if he drinks enough and squints he could almost imagine itsuki.. no...I'll take negative-ish though because even just sniping is proving difficult when you bring the "not actually nice but acts it" character to the faction war game, gj self. gj.

yeah itsuki can be one of his info contacts in westerley and also possibly utopia? he doesn't go there MUCH but has been there in the past, though he's not gonna be big on sharing too much info about killjoy business unless he can get something very beneficial out of it in return so hrmmm

they can hit each other up like "so what do you know about this heir" and then "oh, nothing huh" and compare notes about what they *do* know? misinformation is also a good plot device, too.

(p.s. I'm gonna be contacting you from Mod Face to give you some info to work with as an info broker, so that might help too, but I'm working as a player atm!)

how does sometime btween day 3 or day 5 sound? intel is his first step so day 3 would be most logical to me but! I can make any of them work if you have other plans set up just lmk!!

[nightchild]

LMFAO lavi doing his best not to make friends with people but ending up with a bunch of people who like him anyway

Westerley + Utopia sounds good to me!! Itsuki would claim that he doesn't go to Utopia often either (which is a lie bc he goes there to definitely sell drugs), but he could definitely feed lavi info about that area as well. AND we could always have it as Lavi mostly buying info from Itsuki and keeping tight-lipped about killjoy business in exchange!

(AND SURE I need to pm ur mod faces about the info Itsuki would feasibly know as well as soon as I get stuff in order, so take ur time!!)

BASICALLY YES TO ALL OF THIS!! Day 3 works great! Itsuki could tell him a bunch of info, like maybe one or two actually true things while the rest is just MISINFORMATION, time to send lavi and kanda on annoying goose chases

[inksplashes]

ugh humans and all their attachments such a feeble species


sounds perfect I look forward to all of this! where were you thinking their meeting was on day 3? westerley would be out for lavi since he won't be moon-side during the acid rains, where will itsuki be? D:

[nightchild]

omg i just read my comment again and realized I totally forgot to pm... GO ME

OH i can't believe i forgot HMM I... I think he'll be stranded on Westerley actually since he doesn't have a nice ship to take him places where it's not raining acidic rain... SDKLFSD thEY COULD ALWAYS TALK TO EACH ON THEIR COMMS MAYBE?? what do u think?? ALSO I'M SORRY ARI, apparently I always forget the important details when plotting... go me x2

[inksplashes]

shhh it's okay...

They can do comms! Lavi wouldn't have the fancy tech for full 3d stuff but he would have video capability so we can do a network post instead! it actually makes it easier on me with scheduling anyway so! <3

itsuki won't get punched out by kanda at least!!

[selfsatisfy]

I am just going through and spamming folks sorry!! But a suggestion for shenanigans and getting everyone on the same page for the black warrant plot over here. Not necessary to play with it at all if it doesn't interest you, you have your own things going on, etc!

[tirejacked]

1000 years later!!! I'm still p up in the air about what I'm doing re:black warrant BUT

HOW DO YOU FEEL about running into each other in the undercity before that hits. Jason's based on Westerley and 100% keeps himself busy and In the Know by casing the dregs of it so he'll be Around and nosing and probably putting the squeeze on wild assholes in his spare time. (jason please get a better hobby. or a hobby at all.) I can write us up a ruckus somewhere or something during the Prep Period (???) unless you want to do a warrant proper

& I def died on our poor tdm thread but I'm still down with skipping past intros to assume they've seen each other Around on killjoy business if you want!!! even if it's just ah yes that cagey asshole

[inksplashes]

me too, no worries!!

that can be easily done! lavi is a frequent visitor down there since he's all about ~culture~ and/or good with getting himself involved in strange organizations so. not judging jason's hobby. lavi's hobby is literally just to annoy people of all kinds. a ruckus sounds great! lavi would be in the area doing errands for scarbacks/tunnel rats in prep for the rain and everything so as long as it was day 1 or day 2 it could be p easy to swing!

"ah yes this cagey asshole" the cr. yeah I'm down with handwaving and skipping past intros. probably know each other's names (or lavi would since memory is his thing when he's not forgetting canon) but not much else except "idk about that guy". bonus points if we can somehow play to jason's strengths/lavi's weakness (combat) and lavi's strength/jason's weakness (talking it out)??

[tirejacked]

ye! I'm keeping myself p flexible bc I'm a rebel who hates commitment so I can work around your schedule there no sweat. sounds good!! I'm trying to ease him into full on vigilante activity but he'll still probably be casually kicking drug dealers around or smth out of personal dislike for letting them run free

the increased Enforcer activity around westerley extends to the tunnels, right? might be a good way to get a disturbance going (combat) and then having to smooth it over with the law when they come to investigate said disturbance afterward (talking it out)!!! if that works for you I can start us up with the former and we can move toward the latter y/n

see how well their skillsets compliment each other surely this can't go wrong at all.

[inksplashes]

wonderful! lots of drug dealers in the undercity, haha. they have a thriving consumer market down there.

yep! they wouldn't really be in the more obscure routes (where the actual tunnel rats are, for instance) but they'd be littering the tunnels closer to the surface area, so that sounds totally viable!

y!

this will go wrong, i'm all about it a+

[tirejacked]

excellent!!! I'll toss a link at you when I get some starters up, ty.