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Opening Event Plotting Meme!

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

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Character: Damian Wayne
Location: RAC HQ, Westie, PLACES
Primary Faction Goals:

The Heir: GOD!!!! Damian is an RAC agent on the surface, so he's going to be trying to "pretend" to do RAC agent things while also trying... not... to do... them... RIP. He's gonna be interested in pretending to help the RAC/Nine get the heir back, and yet...

Recover stolen claimant papers. Intel may indicate Eulogy. &/or Transporting people through the Black Rains via the undercity.
He's only Level 2, so... enjOY BABYSITTING THIS BRAT!!

Secondary Faction Goals:

Secretly, he's a Resistance mole. I would love to have him come across Hard Decisions while around other people. He has to save face, but he also wants to fight the good fight for the broken and weary. HELP THIS BOY.

It'll be good to let him struggle with saving the heir to keep the peace and perhaps try to convince said heir to also do the good, or get her out of the Nine's hands so their ranks become a little more broken. I'm okay with either, but Damian will likely be gunning for failure.

Desired CR: EVERYTHING
Anything else? worst mole ever

Edited (i didnt put my location wtf) 2016-12-11 03:26 (UTC)

Oooh these two would get along well. :3 Ginshu is an ex-killjoy and (eventual) resistance leader who adores kids and is definitely not cool with baby-murder. He's lived among Scarbacks too so they might even have some shared CR. He'll probably be on Westerly throughout most of this event, but he does still have Level 4 killjoy status so he can move around pretty easily! So if Damian wants a terrorist priest grandma who is secretly a Company mole under deeeeeeeeep cover, I'm game!

Edited 2016-12-11 03:51 (UTC)

Oh, this is awesome! I would be down for shared CR if you'd like! Damian was definitely hanging around the Scarbacks since his "birth," so they would undoubted have at least run into each other!

Damian will probably move between Leith, Westie, and RAC HQ depending. They can run into each other on Westie!

Sounds good to me! With the timing of events, Ginshu's going to be pretty busy between days 3 and 6ish and he'll be on Westerly all week. What's Damian's availability look like? :3

I'm gonna peek around at anyone else doing heir stuff, but Damian is hopping on the black warrant wagon because he's a POS, so depending on when his babysitters begin their black warrant stuff, he will be busy anywhere between day 2 and day 4-5??? ANYTHING COULD GO WRONG IN THIS TIME however, I'm expecting it, so.

Otherwise, D will likely be more on Westie than Leith or the HQ, so they can probably run into each other!

Awesome! Maybe they can run into each other during the True Leithian event? It would be very inconvenient (i.e. fun!) for Ginshu to run into somebody he knows while he's trying to aid and abet criminals!

Gunning for a non-fatal failure ADORABLE!

Would you like any contact with the guy who has no chill and wants the most DEADLY FAILURE POSSIBLE? Either Takasugi could be a source of some 'Resistance goals' that Damian hears about/could be more directly charged with, or another source of strife between doing what the RAC wants, what the Resistance wants, and what Damian actually wants!

LOOK.........

Omg, please yes?? Make this boy question his existence, perfect. I'm down for Resistance CR also, especially if Damian has to "report" to higher ups because he hATES!!! So if you'd like to have a thread of Takasugi doling out responsibilities and Damian is like ugH hoW AM I GOnnA DO THAT AS AN AgENT!?!?!

GOOD I'M GLAD UR DOWN eheeheueueue

I was thinking of having all of Takasugi's 'giving suggestions/orders' threads be network based, would that work for you :D? He's gotta keep some level of cover lolol

oh my god

But thank you, that reminds me, I need to add my info to Damian's main journal page and think up a stupid Batman-ish AU moniker he would go by when he's undercover. BUT YES, network based is absolutely okay! I will put up an inbox soon, alternatively if I'm not fast enough, you can put a placeholder for me somewhere, and I will get to it!

oh no a moniker yes that's adorable!

Takasugi uses an alias or several as well, so their IDs will be mutually shrouded for now \o/ I'll be slamming all of Takasugi's starters together, including his network stuff, so I can include something for Damian in there ;u;7

GENTLY SLIDES OVER so koon's hanging out with midori for the black warrant stuff but if you still needed someone to "team up" with ( baby sit ) damian he's welcome to join them!! only koon's an asshole who put his own need before the resistances so he's gunning forsuccess..... i'm sorry for him.

also! idk if we ever decided on whether or not they'd know each other's resistance alliances? if they are aware it's basically more excuse for koon to bug damian to keep an eye him... less for damian's sake and more for his own. smh.

HAHA we can totally say they know each other's alliances! Even if Damian doesn't wanna, he's gotta fucking talk to SOMEONE kicks his ass

He'd definitely wanna black warrant, though... help me RIP. So if lvl 2s are allowed to participate accompanied he'll suck... it up... and go. And, you know, jump the gun all the time, so everyone else can scream and then everyone gets in trouble, and then it's a huge garbage pile on fire.

:')

LMFAO excellent, i have an excuse to hassle you every so often now

ah...... damian please??? be reasonable???? NO BUT i saw damian might team up with jason instead which i wanna see so if you'd rather do that please!! do!! we can make our thread the "god of course you're here please get out of my way" "no!!!!!!!" right in the middle of the black warrant instead, if this even makes sense

basically i'm gunning for huge garbage pile on fire let's go

HAHAHA!

NO, I ONLY ASKED WHAT JASON WAS UP TO FOR snipe sass purposes!! I figured most people doing black warrant are going to be in a stupid big group pile for at least a few minutes at some point??? Right now, Damian is probably being handheld by Midori and Koon for most of the time!! ugh damian doesnt know what's worse, being stuck with jason todd or being stuck with midori and koon OR BEING STUCK WITH SOME OTHER STUPID LEVEL 4 WHEN HE SHOULD BE A LEVEL 4!!!

Just pp me or hit me up or smth when you guys make your black warrant thread, and I will tag into it with Damian!

YE WE'LL HAVE A GIANT HOTEL LOBBY SHOWDOWN from the looks of it... so damian's def getting dragged along / kept an eye on during all the other parts?? MAYBE HE CAN BE A LEVEL 4 IF HE GITS GUD what a loser!!

but yes excellent, sounds good 8)

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bittybat - 2016-12-13 17:29 (UTC) - Expand

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deceptions - 2016-12-13 21:18 (UTC) - Expand

worst mole ever tbh. hello I heard u needed a babysitter

OKAY HI so pick your poison—do you want a tag on your open log to work some past cr OR do you want to do something with this nonsense instead, might be a good way to ping him toward damian's resistance leanings if he's Struggling with it. do u know more than you're letting on, kiddo, etc, but I don't have any solid plans yet

JASON ლ(ಠ益ಠ╬ლ)

If you want, we can assume a small level of CR unless you wanted to thread on the log! I know you were getting everything ready and/or were busy, so instead of fuddling with it, we can assume CR and jump right into game events!

They can argue in metaphors about Resistance, and Jason can tease his stuck-up ass, and then they can get into trouble doing something AS USUAL. Are you gonna send Jay on the black warrant? Idk if Damian can tag along with 949284 level 4s, but if he can, he so is??

damian gets bounced around from lv 4 to lv 4 as they get fed up with holding him back by the ~~cape~~ collar

I was considering sending him on the black warrant like 80% just because I wanted excuses to hassle every other killjoy he knows but I'm ending up with more solid plans elsewhere (hunting down the tru leithians and whatnot) so I might not throw in officially at this rate. unofficially he'll probably still be sticking his nose in so I can work around you wherever damian ends up! they can still meet up chasing down the same lead or smth and get in trouble before jason dumps him bc he sucks

He'll probably be grabbing some intel from kara about a bunch of criminals involved in the stolen papers/maybe involved in hunting down the surrogate or smth, they can have themselves an old fashioned stakeout

IN A HILARIOUS TURN OF EVENTS, right after sending you that, I decided to take Damian out of the black warrant races just to free up room for others of a higher level! Initially, I wanted Damian to get Killjoy CR first also, but it's no big and there's no rush.

Jason now gets to babysit Damian anyway because I stuck him on Christy's Jack warrant, hopefully with Kanda since he wouldn't be able to go otherwise. They'll get to run into each other with that!

ARE YOU GLAD JASON

glad is such a strong word...lets not get too excited, here

omg I just saw Jack's thing after hitting you back, catches up slowly. that works out tho, since I think I settled on largely sitting out the black warrant anyway—is Damian helping with the pt 1 infogathering on Westerley too or just the pt 3 arrests warrant deal...

either way, I'll grab you when I get around to writing prompts/hit you up if you happen to toplevel first. I'm about hitting critical logistics mass and about ready to yolo at the log and make some shit up and let people yell at me to edit if it doesn't work for them

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bittybat - 2016-12-13 17:25 (UTC) - Expand

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

Also lemme know if Damian's not with Midori and Koon sorry I misunderstood and thought it was worked out already aaah smh.

NO THIS IS FINE!! I just need to double-check with the mods to see if it's even okay for a level 2 to tag along, but I will let you know when they respond! I think he should be able to with a group of higher ranked, but--just making sur!

OKAY, so the mods said it was a-okay if he tagged along, but then I saw Christy's plot with Jack, and considered the possibility of freeing up a few agents so people can have a go at the black warrant.

Idk if there's any agents left that are interested, but I may throw Damian that way so you guys don't have a huge jumble of people tag-teaming the black warrant!! But, I mean... Damian still needs a babysitter for Jack's, too (fucking level 3) so if no other agents are interested, he will end up with Midori and Koon anyway. If this is okay??

Totally fine! If you haven't said anything contrary by Wednesday I'll take it as Damian's going along on the True Leithian mission

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