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

[eleutheron]

Character: Fenris
Location: Westerley, then Leith
Primary Faction Goals: Ensuring order on Westerley--at first, he'll be the guy tying prisoners to stakes and checking IDs. As a Company man, his initial interests necessarily align with theirs; he's told to execute the prisoners, he's told to suss out forgers, and he does so. However, he also hears of the larger situation with regard to the sequestered heir.
Secondary Faction Goals: He'll want that baby protected, alive and well. After some time spent keeping peace on Westerley, he'll likely act as a guard to Lady Derrish. He is a menacing presence, given his usual demeanor and the glowing circuits carved into his body, and he'll be determined to see the Lady and the child safe.
Desired CR: If your goals align with his, he'll work with you--regardless of faction. But if you're disruptive or a baby-killer, then we'll have a problem.

IN OTHER WORDS: be friends, be enemies; there's potential for both!! He's also been around a while and established CR can be a thing, too, especially if you're Company/have a lot of dealings with said Company.
Anything else? Fenris is an enforcer who takes his job seriously, if not happily. He does what he's told whether he likes it or not (and most of the time, he doesn't like it), but he's willing to operate outside of the rules if they don't conflict with his overall orders.

[snuggies]

i'm not sure what happens to westies that pick fights with the enforcers but i am here to FIND OUT

[eleutheron]

good, let us battle

[refactor]

Oh, man, I'd definitely be interested in doing something wrt keeping order! Since Jack has lucrative connections in terms of knowing who criminals are considering he works at the Intake facility, he could probably point Fenris in the direction of some likely forgers or something like that? He'd probably be interested in coming along as Fenris pursues people too, even though that's technically outside of the scope of Jack's job. He's uh. Thorough...

Also on the established CR front, Fenris and Jack have probably had dealings before just generally speaking, but I'd even say Jack probably likes Fenris, which I'm sorry for lmao... Because I can only imagine that Fenris would not be a fan of Jack lord.

[eleutheron]

YES PLEASE; let's go handle some forgers. I love the idea of this management guy coming along on what is more or less police business (which Fenris will begrudgingly permit, since he's just an irritable-yet-trained dog that way), lmfao.

lmfao yes!! He's probably a bit internally unsettled by Jack's enthusiasm/ambition/zeal for beating people up, though really it's the arrogance that gets him more than anything. He'll still look out for Jack, though ... gotta protect the workers.

[refactor]

look he's not saying that he thinks that if you're going to run a company you should know every part of it (especially the part that busts peoples' heads), but! it's just personal interest fenris, gosh! Which is to say if Fenris actually cares enough to ask, he'll probably get quite the answer lmao

Yeah both of those are uh... fair reactions... But, hey, as long as he's still looking out for Jack, that's totally fine with him! It's probably why he likes Fenris tbh... Begrudging loyalty is still loyalty so he'll take it

[eleutheron]

He will be undoubtedly curious!! But yes he is very loyal to the Company at this point, as they essentially own him & he literally can't remember much of his life before becoming their experimental project ...

[refactor]

ah, yikes... this could surely never go badly down the road for the company nope

but yes, I look forward to this!! It sounds like it'll be fun convos if nothing else! I'm probably going to put up a toplevel, so I'll just let you know when that's up! Or hit you up, whichever comes first lmao

[lotusmesenpai]

I'd definitely be game to having a run in while Kanda's team looks for the heir if he's going to do the same independently. To that end, since the Nine don't carry their own offspring. They have Leithian 'vessels' carry the baby to term, then bring them to Qresh to give birth. So in this case... everyone is actually looking for the surrogate so what if he decides to protect the baby-momma until he can help get her to Land Derrish?

[eleutheron]

covers face I swear to God I read and processed that and then just ... somehow mentally misplaced it when writing the comment, omfg

BUT YES let's do that!! He would absolutely be looking to keep the surrogate safe.

[lotusmesenpai]

/smothers with hugs! No worries - we've been working on this for two days and I had to stop and ask Ari about if we mentioned the surrogate or not because I couldn't remember.

THE GAME TOOK OUR MEMORIES.

We can go with that!

LOL Another option, too, would possibly protecting one of the illegitimate heirs... if you're game to that as well, I'll ping Kalyn here, too, because her chara Jennifer is one of those for Land Darrish.

[eleutheron]

LMFAO no you definitely did!! I am just a Fool, talking and typing at once

Ooh, yeah!! He would do that--he'd be against any needless loss of life in this whole thing, honestly.

[lotusmesenpai]

SWEEET! I'll poke her once she's back and drag her in for plotty funtimes then!

Aside from that - I'm game for anything else to get them to work together (however begrudgingly on Kanda's part, because he's a jerk)

[deceptions]

what if koon recognizes fenris while sniffing around and asks him for information but fenris doesn't recognize him





what if

[eleutheron]

what if yes ... maybe while searching for the surrogate/protecting another heir/something of that nature

[deceptions]

ye koon's working on the black warrant basically, so fenris would be v useful to his quest

only the joke here is fenris has no idea who koon is oops

HE IS 100% FOR THE SUCCESS though so if does lead to a weird team up i'd be hella down, just with a lot of pain first 8)

[eleutheron]

would koon also perhaps need some protection himself LMFAO

[cauterised]

cr me lyn

what do you wanna do, something more action-y or something more chill

[eleutheron]

small talk over kicking a criminal in the ribs

uuHHh riza could help him with protecting / finding the surrogate and/or heirs?? or if you want more chill they could deal with something @ the executions (sobbing family members) / deal with some desperate soul w/ falsified ID and be mutually bitter about their jobs

[cauterised]

ah....let's not.....

but i like the first idea! i don't think i have anything planned regarding the heir situation yet (just a whole lotta acid rain....) so let's gun for that. she would deffo not be down for killing the heir or letting anything happen to him/her. who needs chill anyway.

do you think you'll be top leveling/writing prompts this time around or should i try and cobble something together?

[eleutheron]

i will be top levelin ... i can write you a thing

[riastraid]

okay crashes in here X( i think their goals are more or less the same besides leaving people to horrible acid death, fenris, so if you'd be interested in teaming up with a shitty partner on something...! reaches for

[eleutheron]

I AM INTERESTED and look it's just his job ok it's just what he was told to do ...

maybe something w/ the surrogate or the other heirs perhaps??

[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!

[eleutheron]

oh this is great!! thank you for organizing everything so neatly c: