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

[impulsors]

Character: keith
Location: westerley, mainly!
Primary Faction Goals:

→ STOLEN CLAIMANT PAPERS. do you like trekking through an abandoned saltmine crowded with the filthy unwashed in the middle of a heatwave? have you always dreamt of accidentally getting shanghai'd into a fighting arena while trying to pry out whomever's selling illegal papers undercover? have you ever said, "to hell with subtlety!" and contemplated taking on an entire criminal den with one other person, probably resulting in trying to figure out how to cave the mine, failing, and fleeing on a motorcycle at night? would you like to know how many knives keith can actually fit into one pair of pants? if you said "what" to any of the above, this option is for you.

→ BLACK RAINS TRANSPORT. i actually have nothing clever to say about this, i just think it'd be great if keith + someone with actual authority tried to transport a level two and another team / company enforcer (??) stops them because the person may not actually be who they say they are! it is unclear! featuring: the client trying to take off on their own if the fight gets too hot. cat + mouse game ensues, now with 200% more acid rain.

→ IT'S THE GREAT FRB HUNT, CHARLIE BROWN. if you play a level 4 and are willing to presume cr, keith will probably come hunt them down as soon as these warrants go out, to strategise and demand that your character do the right thing, blah blah these leaders put people in danger. yes, he is happy to break into their apartment in the middle of the night to make this point. yes, he will claim that breaking in was an accident.

Secondary Faction Goals: nnnnone yet.
Desired CR: killjoys with whom he's worked before who'll never let him work with them again! citizens he ran into on the street and offended somehow! anyone who can patch him up, or has before! people who own nice machinery and are not opposed to keith periodically breaking in and coopting it / bringing it fancy upgrades without really knowing how to install them! please don't make someone this angry ride public transport!

look, we've about a year's worth of leeway to work with, and i am indescribably into ridiculous backstories about that time one of the nine's rich knock-offs put out a warrant for their ex during a nasty split, who walked off with their beloved dog, which turned out to have three heads and a terrible unwillingness to go back home. yes, i forgot to comment to the brainstorming meme in time. yes, i'm happy to invent options for your amusement if you tell me about your character and give me a random word prompt.
Anything else? . . . i'm literally not going to be around for more than an hour a day for the next week, ssstarting tomorrow. things will move faster after that! just. yes. sad turtle backdaters, i'm here for you.

[deceptions]

OUR TDM THREAD WAS SHORT BUT IT WAS A LOT OF FUN so even if they don't run into each other this time for the event ( i think they're going to be looking at different warrants this time, rejects keith's hassling ), if you wanna establish some pre-game cr!!!

[impulsors]

yessss. ♥ i would love pregame cr, if only because koon is the type of person. . . keith needs. . . his idea of strategy is forever "let's all rush in at once". i guess the real question is how koon would treat someone so angry and clearly married to the job. would he have taken on more than one warrant with him? is keith someone he just recommends to other agents when he wants them to trip up?




and would keith actually know where he lived, because he'd show up to yell about THE RIGHT THING!!1 whether he liked koon or not.

[deceptions]

oh my god keith you child there's so much more to strategy??? than just rushing in????? i say but i'm playing a character way smarter than i am so what do i know ig

UH HE WOULD ACTUALLY even if it was to make keith's life miserable, on top of reccing him to other agents. i'm sorry he's an individual motivated by spite more than anything else, especially since keith wouldn't be a bad agent?? just a.... hot headed one


LMAO KOON LIVES IN SOME SHITTY APARTMENT IN WESTERLEY ACTUALLY so if you wanted to make this a thing / if keith had koon's number (??? is that a thing) so i absolutely welcome harrassment 8)

[impulsors]

see, the sad thing is that keith would absolutely keep taking warrants with koon despite disliking him for being a cold-fearing ponce who keeps smiling like he's thinking more about keith than he's saying, because. . . level one and desperate. . . so he's probably taken ~level 4 warrants out to koon in hopes of landing the job before. do you want to keep the hunting-rhone thread as their initial meeting?




and yeah, okay. keith just barges in like CHECK THE WARRANT LIST and koon's like, well, some of us sleep. hope koon wasn't trying to establish good relationships with his neighbors. : (b

[deceptions]

oh no... look he's not cold fearing there's just better temperatures to be at that's not freezing cold, ok. also his smiles are?? perfectly lovely!! but yes! we can handwave and say that it eventually worked out but they bickered at each other often.


his neighbors are actually jason todd and lancer rn so i mean this is a disaster in the making, our little corner of killjoy sitcom cr while everything burns around them. ( but yeah some of us do sleep pls leave ty )

[selfsatisfy]

Claimant papers.... points at!! Midori's an L3 Killjoy. Would be terrible I think. ...Between Keith being hotheaded and Midori wanting things to turn into fights for the lulz always.

Also Midori owns like. More guns than most gun dealers. You could probably hold off a small army with what's in his apartment... Idk if that's tech Keith gets involved with though, not really circuits and wires type stuff.

[impulsors]

haha, god. midori would make him so angry, and it'd be about midori only in part! i'd still need someone to take the level 2 warrant with keith, but yeah, LET'S FAITO.

WELL, keith's basically only into the tech that lets him go fast, but let's be fair, they're not called killjoys because they're pacifists. how open is midori about his cache? because keith is not rich, he'd probably just. show up to stock up if he got desperate enough later.

[selfsatisfy]

Oh no fights against the people they meet like the criminals in Eulogy sorry unclear!! He can fight against fellow Killjoys but if you cripple your coworker you get work drama and ughhhh work drama. But yes so it'd probably be like they go in, Keith gets hotheaded and Midori...just. Doesn't help defuse the situation because he wants it to turn into a fullout brawl laughs. Helpfully points out to the criminals all the nuances of what Keith's accusing them of/straight out makes shit up like saying Keith is insulting their mothers idek. "Helps."

And HMMM Midori doesn't really talk about himself, but he's doubtless had coworkers over before and word has gotten around. He wouldn't mind Keith bumming at all. That said if Keith follows the "spray and pray" tactic of gunfire and wastes all Midori's ammo Midori will make Keith take remedial lessons with him........

[cauterised]

i'm just here to : ( at you



anyway, please try not to traumatise poor keith too much

[impulsors]

why aren't you ever nice to me, val-my-val.

[cauterised]

well then!!! what would you like, thorn-my-thorn, prickly thorn of my heart :(

[impulsors]

iiiiiii'll get back to you, my hour of free time today's up, but TECHNICALLY KEITH HAD A RUN-IN WITH BORDER OFFICIALS AT SOME POINT. . . i'll think about it! the eternal possibility: riza gets too involved in staking people and can't find adequate shelter from the acid rain, they both run for it together. like a shoujo, but with violence and negative sexual tension.

in conclusion: i miss playing a character who'd flirt with riza, why do you insist on playing only in games where i can't flirt shamefully with your characters.

[snuggies]

i am interested in being accidentally stabbed by the 39th knife that accidentally falls out of keith's pants

[impulsors]

how dare you. do you see enough room in these pants for anything to cram in, let alone fall out.

[snuggies]

oh no i forgot about keith's fanny pack what a cutie




wait but um, yes to loitering around eulogy!!

[impulsors]

I AM STILL TRYING TO SORT OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AT EULOGY, but (i) why is scott there and (ii) how sketchily will he be dressed and (iii) depending on how bad the incident gets, would he step in to defend a dealer from getting shaken down if it looked more like bullying than usual.

unless you've got big plans for point (i), in which case i'm all for shoehorning keith into your plot. :>

[riastraid]

i'm canonblind but i love this whole comment ('8 lancer's a level 4 who probably isn't emotionally attached to the state of his apartment door, but he'd also happily enable jumping into an entire den of identity thieves and i think that'd be an amazing, escalating trainwreck from a level 1 warrant

would you like to partner up for the World's Worst Decisions group, rookie

[impulsors]

yessssss. WOULD LANCER STICK HIS HEAD INTO THE HALL IF HE OVERHEARD KEITH'S YELLING about the RAC having to do what they can!! or would he have to be asked specifically? mostly i'm amused at the idea of an escalating chain where, in a single night, keith (i) breaks into the wrong apartment, nearly gets shot; (ii) hits koon's apartment, who charmingly says fuck off and boots him out in like five minutes; and (iii) finally wrings a yes out of a total stranger who heard him through koon's wall being a shit about ~ keeping westerley safe ~ --




but that stranger's lancer, and you don't get much worse than e-rank luck. ):

because the main reason he'd want a level 4 with him on a level 1 mission's because he's hoping to collect a swathe at once, and he needs someone to authorise him to use force.

[riastraid]

i'm gonna assume the walls in westerley are BASICALLY PAPER so yes, yes that would be enough for him to check out wtf is going on out in the hall.... if he simultaneously accepts these 20 lvl 1 warrants will you stop aggressively shounen-ing at everyone, keith

and he would absolutely advocate busting some heads!!! 8) i'm about 20 years behind the times and canonblind to voltron but unless keith's one lucky sob this is bound to go really, really poorly and i'm excited about it

[impulsors]

no, and you know better. saying yes to a shounen only encourages them.

but god, i'm excited, keith's luck is so terrible and he will be of exactly 0% help to ameliorate lancer's awful life decisions. someone needs to app baby sakura from trc to balance lancer out with all these other shits.

in the meantime! what's your style on these things -- do you like to hash out the general chain of events and then play the actiony bits, or do you just start at some designated point and roll from there to see what comes up, time-skipping as needed?

[tirejacked]

I also love this comment and have a lv4 who likes Bad Life Decisions for you, where are you free for shenanigans, want to go hunt down some nationalist jerks. (as much as the black rains prompt pleases me he's 100% more likely to take the dead-or-alive kinds of warrants, why do I play such an edgelord)

koon's player informs me we're going to have killjoy sitcom living situations, break into his place thinking it's koon's and get a gun pointed in your face instead or smth, what can possibly go wrong

[impulsors]

lbr, keith was made for terrible decisions. i love that idea a lot, actually, mostly because keith has priorities. so while jason stares down the steady line of his gun, keith's just going to be like, "HOLD ON, JUST LISTEN TO ME AND DON'T SHOOT, I'M A--wait. that. . . looks like reclamation issue. are you an agent? what's your level."

i'm pretty flexible on the hunt's details still! did you have any incidents in particular that you wanted to throw into the mix? i keep having a motley assortment of Thoughts, so in no particular order:

- try to buy a lead off the local infobrokers. unfortunately, keith's permanently broke and i don't see jason "my face is half-bandage at this point" todd having an ingratiating face. ): ~sketchy payment methods ensue~ (read: they both manfully resist the urge to dangle someone off a building).
- stealth undercover stakeout at a bar the leaders have allegedly taken to frequenting, trying not to act suspicious while figuring out how to avoid small talk while minimisinge their tab for alcohol that they can't expense.
- find out that their best chance for a lead is, in fact, due to get staked out for the black rain that day. go quarrel with the responsible enforcer about it.
- rooftop chases while they're still trying to figure out who leads and who has to go through the alleyway reeking of rotting fish to cut off a target.
- crash the plans of whomever else is hunting the leaders??

i'm not married to any of the above, though! and i just realised i've typed. . . a lot of words. . . let me know if you've plans yourself, or if you'd rather play it fast and loose.

[tirejacked]

wow don't be rude his face is!!! charming!!! it's got character, people dig that (no, not that kind of character)

I'm 100% in support of this and the above trainwreck. you have my sword, lets make it happen. I was incapable of Actual Thought this weekend, so I have very little nailed down just yet BUT all of these sound like a riot, bless u.

as a whole I usually play fast and loose in threads anyway SO unless you've got a preference I'll pick one of the above at random and bs us a starter* from it if you'd like (ง •̀_•́)ง ngl I'm leaning toward stakeouts (with bonus rooftop chases why not both) or sketchy payment options. (lbr he wouldn't actually resist very long, dangling people off of buildings is a perfectly acceptable way to do business. watch and learn keith.)

*breaking and entering assumed if not threaded, whichever works better 4 u

[impulsors]

HERE FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES, LET ME TRY TO MARSHAL MY THOUGHTS:
- we can assume the breaking-and-entering or thread it, depending on how fast you wanna get to the rest!
- but mostly: awkward stakeout featuring two pseudovigilantes who both hate smalltalk, devolving devolves into a rooftop chase, a++. let's do it.
- i will play anything, but (as you can. . . probably tell. . .) i probably won't get to tags before friday. it's a weird-ass week, but i'm v. happy to start if you don't mind waiting a little!
- if we're going with the sketchy payment option, i've just spotted that we have an infobroker now, do you wanna ask her about dangling or shall i.
- how many true leithan leaders are there? i was assuming they were on westerley because of the attack, but i can't tell if that overlaps with this.

in conclusion: ♥! i apologise in advance, both in the event that this turns out to be a trainwreck and also in the event that it doesn't.