Chapter 2 OOC Information + Plotting

[thenine]

Chapter 2 Launch

Chapter 2 Event Log is up for your review. Please feel free to post there or your own logs for the event - whichever works best for you.

Chapter 2 Calendar / Timeline is available here for the expected timeline of the month.

Note that for the public broadcasts (noted in the above timeline), we'll be putting up the new posts as they get closer to real-time. As such, the first broadcast is available here.

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

Delle Seyah Kendry has requested the RAC conduct an 'impartial' investigation to determine who is behind the attack on Land Derrish - after, of course, planting a difficult to find and subtle trail leading those investigators directly to her enemy's doorstep. Which team, or teams, is going to have the dubious honor of giving the Lady what she wants?

Other members of the Nine have also decided that they need their own verification, so this is an opportunity for characters that are members of the Nine to step in and either help or hinder Land Kendry's ambitions.

The Company

Mid-to-Upper level Company officials will be tasked with the duty to either clean house (someone had to have given information to the True Leithians for them to strike and acquire all those papers so quickly), assess loyalties within, or attempt to maintain order during Harvest week. The question through it all is, for you Company gals and guys, will you be the one interrogated - or the interrogator?

Maybe even both?

After the pandemic starts on Leith, however, priorities will shift a bit. Some will be needed to provide security around the quarantine zones while others will be needed to guard the medical teams as they struggle with a rapidly declining population across not just one moon, but two.

Westies

Party like it's 1999, and wake up with that New Year's psychotic break!

True Leithians

Thought they were exterminators this round, imprisoning and framing Westie scientist Zan Nikora for the pandemic.

Leithians

Will be falling to the pandemic in droves, once the initial incubation period has passed. Once the hospitals on Leith make the call, the moon will go into quarantine for all cities that have either been affected or have had commerce to. The only location on the moon that might be free of the stop-movement will be the Monastery.

Resistance

A lot to do for those already set to plot the Company's downfall! Coordinate with info brokers to find a new cell or contacts within the movement, Find new safe and storage houses, coordinate with Scarbacks to funnel in supplies and weaponry, seek out those Company employees that seem sympathetic to the Resistance's cause...

The RAC

Our first warrant posting is available here, with listings for both general warrants and plot specific ones, so glance them over, plot it out here, and then sign up there!

Major Plot Points

P43X - Bio Attack

The infection will spread in the following stages. Note that time frames provided are for a normal, plain-jane metabolism -- characters who are enhanced or augmented can expect to experience the stages at a different rate. The rate is up to you, whether it's faster or slower, as it will vary between individuals. Not all symptoms will be experienced by an individual and as they progress through the stages, some of their previous symptoms are likely to become exacerbated while others may disappear entirely.

Note that participation is optional; you can sidestep the infection itself as long as your character isn't in the direct line of exposure (Leithian bazaar, W2D6) and have them participate in the form of relief work, trying to escape the paranoid and manic NPCs (or PCs), and etc! This is a great opportunity to start messing with their memory regains in the form of fevered-delirium, although whether or not those regains are fully accurate is up to you -- they're ill, after all!

Additionally, since death is permanent here, we recommend leaving the brain death to NPCs.

Stage	Time (Days)	Symptoms
0 (Incubation)	2-3	Exposure without symptoms.
1 (Prodromal)	1-2	Nonspecific symptoms begin to appear: fatigue, muscle pain, auditory hallucinations, mild fever, dizziness, fainting, difficulty breathing, loss of appetite.
2 (Acute)	3-4	High fevers, multimodal hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, intense fatigue, mania, difficulty concentrating, neuropathic pain, coma, brain death.
3 (Convalescence)	2-3	Symptoms begin to dissipate as the individual recovers, though the pathogen may remain present and put others at risk of infection.

A cure will be developed and disseminated through Company, RAC, and volunteer hands between W4D3-W4D5, halting the progression of whatever stage your character happens to be in during that time and putting them into Stage 3.

Emergency Meeting of the Nine

On the last day of the chapter, an emergency meeting will be called with the Nine to discuss recent events and their response. Note that the failure of the Seventh Generation Accords is a fixed plot point, so this month we'll be taking an OOC vote on the result and using IC actions to support either end in the narrative, while returning to the cooperative style plotting seen in Chapter 1 hereafter.

Please vote, OOC, on which scenario you would prefer to see with a +1 in either the abolish or delay threads here.

Scenario: Delay

The Council will vote to delay Claimant Day until the True Leithian and Resistance threat can be eradicated, auspiciously under the guise of system stability. As such, the system will retain relative stability while focusing its efforts on quashing both the Resistance and True Leithian terrorists during Chapter 3. Land Kendry will continue to manipulate the political arena within the Nine in order to amass support and ultimately strike down the Seventh Generation Accord at the beginning of Chapter 4.

Scenario: Abolish

The Council will vote to abolish the Accords immediately, citing the actions of Zan Nikora and the True Leithians as evidence of civil rebellion. Martial law will be imposed on Westerley and any disobedience will be met with immediate punishment at the hands of Company agents. The Resistance, still a fledgling organization, will rally support amongst the Westie population and launch its first true counterattack at Company forces, starting our faction war in Chapter 3.

CR Meme Template

<b>Character</b>: <b>Location</b>: <b>Primary Faction Goals</b>: <b>Secondary Faction Goals</b>: <b>Desired CR</b>: <b>Offered CR</b>: <b>Anything else?</b>

Comments

[graftage]

YEAH that could be interesting, since back then he would've dismissed her as just "one of them" but then later saw who she became and would've stopped and been like WAIT A SECOND

i think that curiousity of WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED would definitely spur him into trying to find out more about her

[brickinthewall]

she might recognize him if he was pretty out and about! she was very social before shit hit the fan she also had an older brother too but he went off and joined the military so he may or may not have been around a lot

feel free to have him recognize the talbot name i set it up so that her family had a lot of power and money and were basically desperate enough to be a part of the nine to sell out their fuck up of a daughter so they could start clean as possible members of the nine, somehow, or closely tied into the nine she goes by king aka her husband's last name, rarely hanna

[brickinthewall]

this one's RAC but someone should also tell her to stop drinking herself into a stupor/death sentence

surprise it won't work

[graftage]

he is a pretty social type and even as a scarback he can be found almost anywhere, though he's not the partying type he definitely has a lot of connections around the town

YEAH he might recognize that since he likes to collect gossip about the Company and the Nines to help with strategies and movements in the Resistance, so he might have caught a bit of an inkling about that and approached her to see if it's true or not

[uncrownings]

Character: Noctis
Location: Leith & Westerley
Primary Faction Goals: He just wants to make that paper. Selling gear, heading to Westerley for harvest week and adding to the chaos by giving drunk people guns (why not)
Secondary Faction Goals: Bringing the plague to Westerley because he sucks (◕ᴗ◕✿)
Desired CR:

→Business contacts! Noct's primary shebang is arms dealing, but he's been known to transport shit he should not be transporting and smuggling things between Westerly & Leith on the downlow. Maybe he's gotten you swag or supplies before! He's got a reputation for being discrete and reliable, even if he's not much for conversation.
→Tech savvy gear heads with a history of looking at weird and illegal objects from places he won't disclose and also his ship is making this weird noise what's up with that?
→Useless baby needs friends- anything from nagging him to eat, making fun of his life choices, that guy he sits next to at the bar who ends up with all of his vegetables.
→For this event someone to get his sick ass back to Leith so he doesn't wind up hallucinating in some unfortunate Westerley alleyway and staying there to die

Offered CR:

→That guy who will get you weird things and take you places if you wanna go!
→He has an interest in biohacking and human enhancement
→He can get talked into deeply menial tasks with relative ease
→Someone responsible for giving you the plague sharing is caring ig???
→Looks like an edgelord, likes to fish and one time he caught frogs for a stranger who even knows
→Slightly standoffish friendships that slowburn into trust and deep loyalty while never telling you how he feels about you!!!

Anything else?
Noctis is a new addition to the game and I'm looking to get him settled, really, so if you'd like to handwave cr history I'm open to that too :3

[brickinthewall]

i imagine this will go something like

"hey is it true you're a total fuckup and your parents disowned you"
"yes you've discovered by deepest darkest secret" drinks heavily

[bittybat]

[graftage]

GOD, PRETTY MUCH

steinbeck would honestly just...join her drinking, just becomes her drinking buddy, just let's be friends because we're both messed up in our own ways

[bittybat]

YEAH STEINBECK LET'S GO TIME TO GIVE THE COMPANY WHAT THEY DESERVE

dunks handsome jack in the trashcan

[bittybat]

oh my god LMAO

HELLO

[servitor]

2 lazy 2 swap accounts she's... yeah she has a really bad suicidal streak she just doesn't care what happens to herself because she's in a world of depression and hurt so she just

drinks and fights a lot

[bittybat]

don't get sick and die alice

not that you know HE CARES OR ANYTHING

[shikomizue]

Takasugi can be a partner in dealing that drug if you'd like - does Meliodas go after it? Or would hearing about it make him want to find it's source to stop them - anything like that?

[mayora13]

lol Hijikata is an enemy to food everywhere LMAO

Would you like for them to have gone on an assignment together (maybe a stake out?), or do you just wanna do some barracks shenanigans?

Re: QUESTIONS

[tropism]

hello! given gio's ability, if he fed someone his blood to anyone in bet. stages 1-2 will that make a difference or not at all? 8Ia

Re: QUESTIONS

[thenine]

Hi!

His ability is to temporarily boost other's immune systems/metabolism, right? (Just wanna make sure before I answer.)

[equerry]

Character: Ignis Scientia
Location: Westerley until he's dragged elsewhere
Primary Faction Goals: Connecting sympathizers with members of the Resistance and elsewise recruiting/spreading information. He uses the fact that he's a] technically blind and b] therefore unassuming to fly under the radar and keep an ear out for information coming back and forth. He's well acquainted with the Scarbacks.

Secondary Faction Goals: Crowd control! Or bar control?? Ignis will be working probably at the Royale/some other Popular Bars in Old Town to take advantage of extra hours and more tips with the influx of people. Generally speaking Ignis is That Guy who has probably served you at the bar, or you've had his Excellent Cooking at the restaurant down the street which seems like it should be too good for a slummy place like Old Town. When the sickness starts hitting he'll be trying to direct people to places to get help.

Desired CR:
- friends! connections! iggy needs to know some other resistance peeps and probably some rac agents and also scarbacks!
- people who love his cooking...
- pre-established cr for sure he's been around for like 5 yrs
- people to take care of, his whole shtick was being a chamberlain so he's naturally inclined
- people to get his ass in trouble because he tries to keep it on the DL but i'd like him to get dragged into shenanigans by other characters

Offered CR:
- someone to tell you to go the fuck to sleep if you're stressed out
- he can make you a home cooked meal
- an Ear to Listen aka that Bartender You Talk To
- a Connections Guy (ie, you want him to pass on a message so you aren't seen with So-and-So)
- he can help with aiding the sick because he was raised to know how to do it or alternatively tell you where the doctor is
- a guy who will give you Advice or talk you off the ledge

Anything else?
Iggy is brand new let me play with u all...

[slotted]

koon....... what a gossip but ye maybe they can start off with leo finding him and then koon could recognise him as someone who knows a lot of dirt about certain people/etc?

and fdaksd i am also fine with that....... sweats

[homonka]

it's okay she's in love with being bruce lee so

just poisons him constantly and does one handed push ups on mountains (no that's really a canon thing)


let's say day 2 then so she can actually be the potential carrier since it wouldn't make her sick at all

if he ever guilt trips her she'll get this really defeated look

"..I was so close," softly but with great meaning.

Are we gonna go with assumed CR or fresh start fever?

[slotted]

SHE'S THE JERK?!

[homonka]

i like how he's actually much older than her despite her being one of the canonical oldest here ?? idk that just amuses me

hush she can fly in canon to make up the difference ok

call her that and she'll poison the water supply to his bar

no but she'll probably put in a requisitions form to see if she can

[homonka]

okay so as we covered on plurk


new pet doge

day 3, week 3??

and yk, that fun intro..

Re: QUESTIONS

[tropism]

yes!

[fledges]

YO I'm new too. kate would absolutely nag him to eat/make fun of his life choices. he could totally give kate the plague, too. kate's been doing P.I. stuff on westerley for a bit, but she also loves bows and arrows? maybe he got some sweet gear and he knows she'll drool all over it or something? or we could always say they run into each other during harvest week! if you want pre-existing cr i'm always down for that, too.

[fledges]

resistance!!! kate's been in the resistance for about two years, so we can absolutely say they know each other. she's also the type to charge into dangerous situations without thinking, so she can drag him into trouble if you want, too! plus she's always down to eat, so if they know each other she might just... show up at his place around dinner time... a lot...