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

[riastraid]

Character: Lancer
Location: Around!
Primary Faction Goals: Definitely the black warrant 8)!! He's level 4 so I'm totally game for a team-up here -- he'd also wholeheartedly mess with other teams on the job, if that's more your speed.

OTHERWISE, I'd kinda like something with Eulogy, but will probably dabble in any of the warrants! Particularly taking down the True Leithians because of the level (also because that was kind of a dick move, guys), but all of them look fun.

Secondary Faction Goals: Warrants will definitely take priority here, but otherwise he'll try and help out people fucked over by the storm/claimant papers fiasco. Anyone who gets stuck in the rain, people who need food/supplies, help antagonizing basically anyone, etc, he'll probably be willing to wave his killjoy rank around to get what they need. this is his Home Base okay

He'll also turn a willfully blind eye to rebels, etc, and probably offer a certain amount of protection as long as it doesn't get in the way of his warrants! In general, if anything conflicts with his job, he's gonna staunchly side with the warrant, so I'm open to conflict there too c:

Desired CR: All of it, c'mere -- my plans are mostly to fill in wherever for whatever. Re:Company, he's been in Westerley long enough that he's probably a shithead, but he'll still work with/for them without major issue so I'd love some team-ups there! Rebels and native Westerley folks are great too, he'd be sympathetic since he lives there in the day-to-day.

BASICALLY I'm really jazzing to build some roots and connections for down the line, let's do this!! (Also I'm totally cool with first meetings and assumed cr both.) I have no idea re:babykilling yet, ICly he's gonna be dead-set on success, but I think the failure condition looks great too 8')
Anything else? joyously throws a baby off a cliff i guess, happy opening day, oj

[shikomizue]

throws some confetti off the cliff too LET'S CELEBRATE!

If you're doing Eulogy threads, I'd love to see if we can work something out - even if its just tagging into an open prompt (I'll try to make some happen) Takasugi is focused on the Heir issue, but may pass along whatever information he has on the True Leithan attacks in exchange for any tips when it comes to the surrogate

BUT if you want to wait and see how our childhood thread goes before jumping into more threads, that's cool too ;u;7

[riastraid]

welcome to murder

but no that'd be excellent!!!! i'd love to have an excuse to send him off towards eulogy and talking to takasugi again, what a place for a reunion..... ('8 lancer'll be looking to secure the surrogate so they might be a little at odds there, but i think that could be interesting too? what are you up to, buddy????

[shikomizue]

blows noisemaker!!

OKAY COOL EULOGY IT IS THEN ovob!!! what are YOU up to buddy??? a killjoy at eulogy hhmmmm (not that Takasugi would know he's a killjoy initially)

They'll be at odds re: the surrogate, but maybe they can share info in the first place anyway - not really knowing they're at odds? :Ua Takasugi probably wouldn't let on to just anyone that his plan includes infanticide. He's just interested in the info u kno

For reasons

If you'd like, when I get my starters up, we can just see how it goes! I'm also cool keeping up the plotting ovo whichever!

[riastraid]

YEAH for sure, slowly discovering each other's motives like whoops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is always an option!! honestly i'm still working out my plans re:getting into eulogy in the first place, so the fact that he'd see a good ('good') familiar face would be enough reason to play nice anyway c: let's catch up, watch a fight, chat around babykilling etc

i'm usually better(ish) at winging the smaller details so that's absolutely fine with me! gimme a ping/comment and i'll hit you up 8)b

[snuggies]

i'm here nu!! so scott will probably try to get his warrant back on his own and fail because he's a nurse and doesn't know anything about anything

lancer can laugh at him... and then maybe scott will ask him to take his warrant i don't know.. how to issue a warrant but i'm willing to find out

[riastraid]

spoon are you picking these icons out or randomizing because i swear every time i see scott he's bleeding

meanwhile omg........ scott please... lancer will laugh at him first yes, but he would take that warrant fo sho. let's get your papers back, my dude... does this mean they're taking a field trip to eulogy??

[snuggies]

it's random icon... tho tbf my paid expired so only my bleeding ones are left i swear he's not always covered in blood

yeah!! lancer can even see him try to get in and fail and get kind of close to wolfing out maybe even but u bet scott will want to tag along for the warrant because he's nosy and also doesn't trust lancer as far as he can throw him which admittedly is pretty far but you get what i'm saying

[riastraid]

he's not bleeding there but he still seems very unhappy with his situation, i'm not convinced

omg why doesn't anyone in this game have any chill, gently clubs him over the head.... let me have an almost!roid!rage moment, lancer gets crazy eyes sometimes too, they can be buddies! either way this sounds like a great plan, please don't get them into trouble in the horrible crime den, scott (or do, i mean that's fine too)

[inksplashes]

This is not related to the plot but! I know we talked about doing some pregame stuff with them to establish their insuuferable dynamic, I was wandering if you still might be up for that? /grabby hands

[riastraid]

yes i want this for sure!!! i was actually just responding to laure about established cr, can you imagine how miserable kanda's gonna be if these two are friends

but yeah i'm game for them doing one of these warrants together, or having some kind of run-in during the black warrant! blowing up a jakk farm, getting caught up in something ugly in westerley, bugging each other during the competition.... world's our oyster

[inksplashes]

oh my god ari never tag anything on your phone again, jc.

let's make kanda absolutely miserable.

jakk farm take over, yes! really wanna do this, I'm not even sure why, it's just going to make lavi so much more jaded about humans but...?? I guess I'm Down For That.. and also bugging each other during the black warrant over the network

goes to make network post just to insult lancer

WE ARE quickly putting these events on the google game calendar to make timeline planning easier, but 100% here for all of this

[riastraid]

wow this is!!!! a personal attack!!! but no please i live for inbox/network shitposting, i'm so ready for every killjoy to be a dick to every other killjoy. but yeah def let's go for the jakk farm idea then, lancer's decently familiar with leith so they'd make a good team to deadeye at all this... do you wanna go the series route and assume they go undercover for the day? can you tell i just like silly fake identities??

also ah that'd help a lot for timeline challenged people like me, thanks guys!!

[cauterised]

ugh okay i'll stop being a rude little shit long enough to properly comment to this

but uhhhhh heads or tails, eulogy or tracking down the leithians, i think i can swing either since it looks like riza and lavi are going undercover in eulogy for a bit. wait, it looks like you have a million things for eulogy already, do you want something with the surrogate instead, they can argue outside her chambers or something

idk, i'm so tired.

[riastraid]

did you fulfill your daily harassment quota

also i had your plotting comment up when i got this notif, it's fate... i would be game for either, i think seeing her undercover would be gd hilarious but if they both end up at the surrogate's place towards the end of that it could be a tense plotty convo too. either way it doesn't sound like it'd get too action heavy, so i'll bug you tomorrow after plotting calms down and we can see which one fits better??? that's not even an answer i'm sorry

[cauterised]

please, my daily harassment quota can never be filled but i am unfortunately an old feeble woman with limited pools of energy

but ok that sounds good! we can both sleep on it and see how we feel in the morning. i'm running on like....new game high rn and that's probably a bad thing to base my future energy on

[riastraid]

look we're threading either way i demand it

falls asleep too tho, why can't tomorrow also be saturday

[lotusmesenpai]

/slams in here

What say you to them running into each other in the tunnels, maybe while Lancer is helping/protecting/bringing supplies during the rain?

It'll be like old times - Kanda will call him a bleeding heart and maybe help carry supplies.

[riastraid]

yes please!! that's peaceable enough to give them plenty of time to catch up/establish some cr tone, i'd love that (8 as long as kanda's ready to carry half (or possibly and probably more than half) of everything, shit's heavy, man. or i mean like they could help twice as many people if they work together but it's not like that has to be said aloud

[lotusmesenpai]

Same! Want it as a log or a thread on the Opening post? Action or prose? Either way works for me.

I was thinking... maybe the bar owner where he plays bouncer sometimes called him to help play security while people moved supplies underground and Look! a familiar face!

LOL That way, he can't just leave. >.>

[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!

[deceptions]

i still want them trying to fight each other until koon gets a bunch of dudes after his neck and lancer laughs at him

he could stay behind and help ig for threading purposes but if lancer decides to be an asshole and nope out that's also fine

[riastraid]

LMAO yes please let's do it, i honestly can't decide rn whether or not he'd just laugh and leave, but we can see how it goes in the thread -- maybe his heart will grow three sizes this log

[deceptions]

locks lancer out of the apartment fuck you the next time you need sugar you're not getting any smh


nah but as always let's yolo, maybe this time the kraken will show up too

[snuggies]

ok i'm back let's start from square one