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

[cauterised]

Character: Riza Hawkeye
Location: Mostly Westerely, maybe a bit of Leith
Primary Faction Goals: APPARENTLY KILLING PEOPLE????? BUT UH she's kind of squishy inside, if a rando Westie gets caught outside, she'll probably try and keep them safe in her apt or something, do you want to meet her dog yes you do.
Secondary Faction Goals: Keeping the Derrish surrogate/heir alive, even shitty political peace is better than the Nine trying to eat themselves, smh.
Desired CR: Less overall CR goals and more starting points I'm throwing out for sheer kicks and giggles --

• NINE — She'll be guarding the surrogate at some point at the Blessed Branches, but feel free to mistake her for one of the hostesses. Please mistake her as one of the hostesses.
  
• COMPANY — SOMEONE PLEASE DO UNDERCOVER WITH ME I love undercover-style missions with a burning passion.....otherwise you know, she'll be rounding up people and generally feeling shitty about it, if you're a Westie and give her a really convincing puppy dog look, she'll probably go easy on you.
  
• WESTERELY — I finally learned how to spell this word....I'm so proud....but anyway I'm all about people getting stuck together in awkwardly cramped spaces in the rain, time for some forced honesty hour bonding 8)
  
• MISC — Obviously standard Enforcer stuff applies....do u want her to frown deeply at your RAC agent, do you want her to be really mean to your Westie, do you wanna hit her up pre-rains for Company info in exchange for a coffee? I'm all ears.

Anything else? I have no idea what I'm doing. ♪~ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ God, this comment is a mess, I tried.

[inksplashes]

I am here for undercover. So here for it. Post-rains trip to Eulogy y / n

[cauterised]

points to eyes, points to you, I'm so here for undercover stuff. Is Lavi good at acting because Riza could probably use some tips, her face is stiff from all that frowning you know

but yyyyy to post-rains trip to Eulogy, bonus points if Riza gets outed and they have to make a wild run for it towards the end.

[inksplashes]

Lavi is so good at acting he's not even really Lavi ahaha so yes he can provide an eerily matter of fact how to socially manipulate tutorial and then change personas in front of her with way too much ease


Um yes let's?? But no one can lose an eye okay, he only has one left

[cauterised]

ah, bless you lavi 8) or would it be b) since he only has the one eye WHO KNOWS

also i still plan on hitting up our tdm-carryover-to-game thread, i just need to drag myself away from this plotting meme first. but i guess to hash out technical details -- were you planning on writing prompts or would you like me to toss something together?

[inksplashes]

w o w you went there, damn girl

You started our last, so I can do ours this time! We would just need to figure out how they got together and agreed to go through it together and also kinda settle on their general dynamics. sweats. we could talk it out over plurk or discord?? whichever you prefer!

[cauterised]

we can do discord! i admit i tend to lose things remarkably easy on plurk (and also plurk decides not to work for me half the time, sighs)

what's your discord again? mine's valbo#0987. i'm pretty much logged in all the time so it's not too hard to catch me.

[tirejacked]

pls can he run into her while she's undercover and give her shit about it

I know we're trying not to go full negative cr again, I'm making this so hard, I'm sorry

[cauterised]

please give her shit about it, I don't even care about negative cr anymore

though we can just assume they have a good enough basis that him giving her constant shit doesn't sent her tipping off the deep end, hurrah for assumed cr!!!!

[tirejacked]

gives her tips on coming off like a big bad criminal, don't keep your spine so stiff, officer, you'll give yourself away

[cauterised]

gently trips him in a pile of spilled soup 8'))

but a'ight, let's do this!! how are you feeling about top levels, i think i had a couple people interested in eulogy stuff so i might wright an open thing for that but if all else fails, i'll grab you on discord or something and we can hash stuff out

[tirejacked]

wowow

ye that'll work fine for me!!! hassle me if you end up needing me to type you something tho u know where to find me

[nightchild]

VAL I WANT ALL OF THESE THINGS DAMMIT

itsuki asking riza out for coffee pre-rains so he can score a little info!!! I WANT FORCED HONESTY BONDING HOUR but im also afraid bc itsuki's a gross flirt maybe our thread will turn out pure in the end tho I'M HOLDING OUT FOR THE HOPE

maybe riza finally kicks him out of her apt after he tells her that knows a great way to stay safe from the rain so he doesn't actually need to be in her apt?? he's just there pretending that he can't go home?? THIS IS GROSS IM LAUGHING

maybe he can be snotty with her since the other enforcers are APPARENTLY KILLING PEOPLE and she can tell him to shut it

im just here for cr

[cauterised]

gently crs you!!!

but HM HMMM if you want, we can handwave a bit of assumed cr - they've chatted before, they've swapped a few coffees - so we have some groundwork to build up from. then they can catch each other right before the rain starts (or maybe during like a 5 min break - get caught up in squabbling, end up getting rained on so they gotta get the hell outta dodge but get stuck somewhere crappy, and then have to sit through FORCED HONESTY HOUR which can include gross flirting, it's fine. I love making Riza's life miserable, you know me. 8)

and maybe he says he doesn't have a place to stay so she's like FINE when the rain ends we can go back to my place and if things pan out beautifully we can do a quick inbox thread where he's like 'lololol i'm actually fine' and then she kicks him out.

that last half depends entirely on my tagging speed (currently: slow as balls) but we can at least work on the first part!!!

[nightchild]

YES I love all of this esp the first part!!! AND DON'T WORRY VAL DON'T PUSH URSELF FOR THE SECOND PART don't overload your plate with rp tags okay i know that pain too well.... i haven't decided on whether or not to toplevel but i could definitely do it if u don't have one planned!! (tho now that i think about it I really should toplevel I'LL PUT ONE UP FOR US OKAY)

[cauterised]

sdlfjksflk yaywon TAKE YOUR TIME!! i've got....one whole prompt planned, i think, but if you can't think of anything, i can write something for us!

[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

[cauterised]

oh my god how are people this organized already


but ty for the link!! i'll definitely take a look at it c:

[eusford]

THIS IS LATE but if you're still looking for a nine member to mistake her as a hostess... hello.

[cauterised]

ohhhhh my god, and then i fell off the face of the rp planet I'M SO SORRY

after some plan wrangling it looks like doing things with the heir on leith are less and less likely so hostessing might have to be out this time around. but!!! let's still do something, surely i can wrangle some other ridiculous situation out of the woodwork

where is crowley gonna be throughout the week? i was gonna hassle you maybe on leith but i see he's getting transporting off there around day 3....which is kind of when riza's getting to leith.




though if things don't work out this particular week, i'm also happy to backdate pregame stuff and build up some assumed cr. obviously the exact hostessing situation won't apply but if you wanna have him mistake her for something bc she's in the wrong place at the wrong time, i'm totally open for that. 8)b let me know what works best with your schedule!

[eusford]

LMAO it's no problem work has been killer so i feel you

but that's fine! i'm also down for pregame stuff since at this point crowley's pretty acquaintance/friendless. which isn't surprising but still lol. however pregame also means he's stuck in qresh so if it's not possible for them to somehow cross paths there he's actually arriving at leith by day 3 and then leaving whenever he feels likes or when lavi's dragging him back.

[cauterised]

work is the actual worst and why i'm four days late to this YET AGAIN

no worries about being on qresh, i'm sure i can swing some reason for riza to be there. :>b other than being rich, lmfao, is there anything in particular that crowley does on a day to day basis? wander around town, be a lazy rich person, gamble in some sketchy part of town (not that any part of qresh is that sketchy but you get what i mean)

[eusford]

retail killed me you're good LMAO

crowley is the type of guy who wants to live on the wild side cause his family sheltered him, so he's pretty much yolo if i can do it without any consequences i will. so him gambling or being in odd areas in qresh wouldn't be too surprising!! at least for him or anyone familiar but someone who's just running into him will be like "aye what the hell are you doing". he's also prone to follow around people who might be doing anything interesting so if there's anything riza would do that's a little out of the norm (which... honestly could be anything..... crowley is a friendless loser) to where he'd literally follow her well... here's your creep.