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]

He always likes contributing for Koon. Probably laughs.

Did you have anything specific you want to do? Since they're RAC I assume they get told where the surrogate mother is. Kind of thinking our options involve:
>starting off as part of the protection detail? OR actively doing defense work (idk setting bombs, booby traps, calling on informants and listening in on frequencies to get an idea of who's coming to kill/abduct the littlest silver spoon baby here) OR they say fuck chivalry and abduct the mother themselves before the birth happens nobody said this baby has to be delivered born... horrible
>could be an attack by mercs or something; rn I don't think any PCs are planning on killing the baby glancing over the post here
>And then I guess it becomes, if they didn't abduct the mama, who can secure the baby first after it's born aka hot potato ?? OR if they did abduct the mama...I guess they get to experience what it's like to be hunted down by their fellow agents :,)

What's your thoughts/pleasure?

[deceptions]

actually that's a good question, do the RAC get told where the surrogate is, or is that something they need to figure out.... i was assuming the latter but we should definitely ask!!

> NOBODY SAID THIS BABY HAD TO BE DELIVERED BORN JESUS CHRIST god i want this so badly ( bc why would i say no to murder ) but koon wants to do this job right just to piss of his once-family, so i definitely like 1 or 2!! UNLESS THEY REALLY DO SAY FUCK CHIVALRY and protect the mother and go offline for a bit, what a wild ride
> i do know that we can have some fun threads where pcs are competing with each other for the ~glory so we can work smth out with that too!! but yes attacks absolutely
> i think kanda's interested in hunting koon down anyway because he's technically derrish blood 8) i'm really liking the abduction angle if they can pull it off, we should... definitely ask if any of this is possible god

turns the entire game into their enemies ig

[selfsatisfy]

Haha I'm waiting to see how many teams there are going to be after this baby. Rn it looks like Koon+Midori, Kanda+Lavi, Hanna, Lancer and Takasugi as the only non-RAC peep. If mods say all is cool I say how about:

>RAC peeps know where the mom is so we can assume all Killjoys are there or around or whatevs
>Some mercs + unaffiliated pirates...mafia..bad organized crime factor attack
>During all the chaos of side vs side vs side Koon and Midori grab the mom but a) they're now in a battle zone b) they need to get off the planet wihout being blown up so I think we'd need some kind of plan...
>We hit up everyone else and work out a series of attacks on eachother. Probably some passing the mom around. Idk some lucky team will probs get stuck with the STRESS INDUCED BIRTH on their hands. Which they can handle themselves or idk call Midori and Koon if they feel super desperate about deliveries laughs.
>ASK TAKASUGI'S PLAYER WHERE THEY WOULD LIKE (if at all) TO GET IN ON THIS SHITSHOW??? I feel like the baby whereabouts would become hot news pretty quick with all the in-fighting...
>And then idk whatever the end consensus about alive vs dead is and whoever the mods RNG to get the baby happens. Independent of that who knows if surrogate mom survives this poor woman

Anyway if that sounds good to you I'll CC mods for if this is okayish as a starting base.

[shikomizue]

JUMPING IN TO SPECIFY that even RAC agents don't know where the surrogate mother and baby are located! The information isn't available to any PCs from the onset, so all characters (aside from possibly an info broker) will have to do a bit of sleuthing work to find the kid before they can get started on protecting/abducting etc...

BUT in general, you're doing an awesome job with preliminary plotting, and I'm looking forward to seeing everything come together!

[selfsatisfy]

Okay thanks for clarifying! Going off that one more question: would any of the True Leithians from the FBR attack possibly know/have hints lr clues about the baby's whereabouts on Leith? Cause I could def use that to tie in maybe one or two more non-RAC people if they find it interesting Gendou hands here laughs

[shikomizue]

Unfortunately not, as the True Leithans are a radical group and thus cut off from high society. The ones most likely to know anything are either info brokers or higher-ranking members of the families of The Nine.

One way to tie in the FBR attacks may be to handwave that some info brokers are only interested in giving heir-related tips if they're provided with some records (stolen from low-level True Leithan attackers) to sell

[selfsatisfy]

That's okay!! I was more thinking ways other characters like Leo and Ginshu could have access to this information so they could infobroker to folks going after the heir. But I'll think it over some more for possible options for folks to be involved on the fringes without having to actually be after the heir themselves (not that necessarily anyone wants to, I just like to keep options open for anyone who might be looking for alternative ways to be involved).

When I'm sure me and Koon's player are on the same page I'll make a top with the outline and we can see if we can all work this out. Thanks for all the info! ...Lmao I might have more questions later, we'll see.

[shikomizue]

I've already told Leo this, but I feel like he may have some information simply from working in a customer-based environment! He could have heard rumors of the hotel in some way, from chit-chat around him!

As for Ginshu, he'd probably need to learn about it via an info broker or the rumor mill, just like everyone else. But that's just my initial impression, and we're totally open to any level of creativity to help characters be involved wherever their players want them to be \o/

Sounds like a good plan, thank you for doing so much plotting work! ;u;!

[deceptions]

SORRY BELATEDLY RETURNS i see much plotting was done, i had to be responsible but now i'm back to plot my night away...

this is!! a good idea, i'm still hella down for kidnapping and hot potato ( poor.... mother....... ) and stress induced birth!!! koon would probably make midori handle the birth though bc what does he know about delivering children????? who knows.... uhh the takasugi player commented on my top level so we can probably figure something out!! but otherwise this is all A+, i'm so excted 8)

also ! i think anna ( our damian player!! ) needed a reason to drag damian along the black warrant life and koon vaguely knows of damian so if you're ok with a third in this ridiculous team lemme know!!

[selfsatisfy]

Omg yes bring it it'll be great laughs. I'm going to make a top level reply to the main post and see if we can't get everyone who wants to do black warrant stuff on one page, but this sounds good!

[deceptions]

i'm belatedly realizing how much of a disaster that last comment was, i'm sorry i promise i'm normally much more coherent than that

but excellent!! i'll help signal boost it & stuff once it's up, so lemme know! gently brings everyone together, thanks for offering to put it together nicely (8

[selfsatisfy]

Haha all good, np! And here is the thing