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]

Lavi if you keep being a cold bastard Midori is going to see if he can freeze popsicles on you. I MEAN.... final participant tally looks like Koon, Midori, Kanda, Hanna, Takasugi and Kamui. Since you mentioned wanting to work the false heirs angle kind of thinking Midori can go to Itsuki to get info on the heir, get bad info that leads him to Jennifer instead and Lavi can find out somehow. Idk maybe the universe calls him.... Either way this could end up in a chat or a faito or something to protect Jennifer?? Thoughts?

[inksplashes]

his heart may be cold but at least his body is hot amirite


no??

okay.

But, on a serious note:

Ah! Kanda and Lavi are a dynamic duo so they'll be working together (so neither will be in the final participant tally). They actually both know Jennifer as the false heir prior to all of this because they were directly involved with moving her out of the Derrish lands (Kanda in particular, they wildcarded it as their tdm thread and canonized it). Kanda has his own reasons for not caring about the Nine or the system stability SO they'll both be on team protect Jennifer.

But Jennifer's mun has been super on board with being spread as a potential false heir so !?! if Midori would come after her or something (is that what you were saying) then yeah faito time could happen before Jennifer gets to Fenris ?? I wasn't sure what the Midori + Jennifer situation was yet

picks your brain

also I may have some of the details off on this since wife (kanda-mun) and fenris+co plotted most of this and I just nodded agreeably in the background..

[selfsatisfy]

Yeah that is what I'm saying you've got it : ) Far as Midori and Jennifer I think we are doing he is going to nurse adopt her towards the end of the IC week. So for the heir stuff I am thinking Lavi can find out and stop him before he actually gets anywhere near Jennifer (unless that is...something the player would want I WILL ASK LATER ngl Midori finds it perfectly acceptable to be like "oh yeah I was here to kidnap you Monday, but now it's Friday and I need a nurse why is everyone always so stuck in the past sigh").

If Kanda and Fenris want in on fighting Midori too they're def free tho ngl Lavi's probs the only one Midori wouldn't be like "lol idc what you say this is fun so whatevs" to. HORRIBLY.

[inksplashes]

ah okay! yeah just let me know I can also work with that / whatever angle you guys wanna take if jennifer-mun/kalyn and you guys wanna do that! I am game for whatever. pro of having such an ambivalent character :D

(edit: SO talked to wife briefly (this is easier when she's not traveling, sob) and it'd either be lavi + kanda together because they transfer her over to fenris and then go do their own sociopathic things. I however must admit that I really suck at writing pvp at all haha and this would be the start of the black warrant timeline so it might make more sense if it went midori vs. fenris if you guys end up wanting to do that! he'll have possession of the princess the longest.)

and midori that's almost nice? look at these two, almost being humans at each other and other people. progress, i tell you

(you are a braver soldier than me I won't even plurk on my tablet half the time)

[selfsatisfy]

HMMMM kinda depends on what you guys want to do! Mainly this is to fit Lavi in since it sounds more like he'll be focusing on false heirs over pursuing the true heir. Could be Midori sees Lavi with Jennifer and asks him about it thus no fighting if that works better?

ALSO ahhhh don't like feel obligated to have Lavi thrown in, really we have a bunch of people it's cool!!! Just whatever is fun for you!

[inksplashes]

Yeah, Lavi would only pursue the true heir in the most cursory sense. He has more motivation to see the system fall into war so he can get the most out of his records... war is terrible and pointless but inevitable so far as he's concerned so there's no point in trying to delay it, just more paperwork for him to do later on down the line. SIGH...

that could be an interesting conversation though (plus me not having to cry over "but idk how to fight.."). I kinda like this weird broship we seem to have going on between them so I'd be down with that. even being trained to hide in a crowd I'm sure lavi + kanda + jennifer would stick out so there's a very good chance someone spots them in the process.

BUT on that note if you already have a lot on your plate then dw about it at all! that'd be more just CR stuff since lavi is an elusive bastard and would probably only provide enough info for "she's not your target but I don't have time to explain that to half the RAC so :D pls and thank you step off bro."

[selfsatisfy]

Haha ngl I would think it would be fun. Midori especially would be like fine, but you have to come over for tea later and we're going to have a chat. ...And then it turns into a gossip party about how cute it is Kanda befriended someone. MAYBE...

But all good!! Lemme run it by Jennifer's player first, but if they are up for it we can def do the thing.

[selfsatisfy]

Okay Kalyn said they are okay for it, so when black warrant stuff goes up I'll set up a thing. Or. put it on my top level waves hands I'll link ya.