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

[eggplanting]

no its ok lmao! she's still a teenager in the comics but she's been in OJ for almost a year so she's reached No Longer A Teem status. It only took like 20 irl years for her to age 4 years in canon (i joke but you're right, her timeline is a lot less of a headache than heaps of character)

steph will like riza i think!! maybe one day she can finally admit that she's kind of bullshitting her way through all this

[eggplanting]

its saying a lot considering steph knows this guy:

[mayora13]

he's just too easy to take the shit out of

someone with confirmed shady connections would absolutely be a suspect for the company! Thank you so much for being on board with all of this stuff, it sounds really fun ;u; I'll write up an info docket after our first thread gets underway and run it by you before I post it anywhere hehe

I WILL INCLUDE things about the True Leithans and lmao being a general public menace (that's what you get for not coming quietly when he arrests u), and leave the drug stuff off since that's connected to another name!

lmao I think SF is interrogating Hijikata too laughs - though they've been on assignments together in the past so their relationship isn't terrible - if anything, Hijikata would pity Itsuki that he had to deal with her...

:D!!! That's a great direction to move in, depending on what all goes down, so YES A+ I'm ready for all of this, and I'm laughing that Hijikata could somehow actually benefit at all from this mess hurhurhur

[deceptions]

( the answer is no one )

actually itsuki's player just volunteered to take koon to a clinic if keith manages to reach him on his phone, which means this giant mess of a plan is definitely set in motion now as long as you're cool with it!! why wouldn't you want to spam a bunch of inboxes, etc

[mayora13]

Hijikata has had many jobs on Leith, I'm sure, and it's where his only remaining family lives (not that he visits...), so he's got plenty of reason to be there!

I'd be up for working out some past CR, so they can have an idea who the other is moving forward \o/! Would you like for them to have worked on an assignment together, or maybe gotten stuck with clean up duty after the mess at Blessed Branches last month (a fancy hotel got wrecked lol)

[deceptions]

LMFAO look he's just a kid what does... he know.....??!?!? idk, this is already a mess and i love it

[mayora13]

YESSSS!!! HELLO ;u;!

I remember talking about that, yes! Did they know each other when they were children, or were we going to just go with earlier Company interactions?

They both have such questionable ties but aren't actually up to anything lol beautiful (UNLESS IM WRONG AND SHE IS!?)

If you'd like someone to interrogate her, I can offer Hijikata - but since they've got positive past CR he probably won't be too terrible about it. We could also have them working together on some good ol Westie party crashing, with the undertones of the investigation! I'm up for anything ovo

[mayora13]

that is the best thing on the earth HIJIKATA WOULD KILL A MAN FOR IT. MANY MEN ACTUALLY

ooooooh yes babysitting duty I'm good with that. Just on the streets of Westerley, or actually trying to accomplish something?

[mayora13]

OH LOL well I'm glad you've had some exposure, that's awesome ahahah

He sounds like a gift tbh LOL

I haven't decided if I'm going to toplevel for Hijikata yet, or just tag around, so! If you've got something up I'll probably tag into it, but if I put something up I will link you ;u;

Yes estbalished CR is good! Anyone who has met Hijikata for like 5 minutes knows he needs to lighten up, but maybe they've been on assignments together before, or if we want to be more brief about it, Sion could have witnessed Hijikata being faced with some subordinate suspicion given his Leithan background

[ofobedience]

Diehard COmpany loyalists, you say? That p. much describes Giovanni through and through. He's kind of a scary hackmod bioweapon created by the Company and not especially friendly, but he behaves around other Company people at least.

I'm not sure what reasons they'd have to cross each others paths but maybe we could think of something...

[ofobedience]

Stuff and things! We've discussed it a little already in your intro post but yes, don't be nervous, we can be new together.

[rhygret]

to be fair

rhys's parental figure was a computer AI

so

[rhygret]

C R I E S rhys win against that he;s not sure this makes him happy at all??????

[ofobedience]

well that explains a few things...

[brickinthewall]

picks him up

drops him into a bed

[eggplanting]

at least the baffler knows how a gun works

[brickinthewall]

no i just wanted to for them to keep being catty that's it that's my cr request

[brickinthewall]

that's probably after she hits on luna in the least subtle way possible

have fun with the suicidal maniac who can literally set herself on fire and nothing will happen ever luna

[brickinthewall]

so like i guess they got a common mission

fuck up the people who fucked them up

on top of the people who sent out contracts and killed her husband and comrades

hanna doesn't know the meaning of careful she's just here to make people regret their mistakes

[brickinthewall]

hanna's motif is bar fights i'm sure this is exactly how things will happen

[brickinthewall]

ok but

she's just really good at fighting like

accidents are going to happen

[brickinthewall]

sooooo as a former leithian she was really well known and was being groomed to sort of continue the family business so to speak as was her brother she would've been well known to be seen with her mother to fancy things like parties, fashion shows, etc and her parents were involved in medical stuff due to her father being a very damn good surgeon

hanna herself was pretty open about not wanting to do the thing and she wanted to pursue something with music so she took a lot of music classes but as a trade off to keep her mom off her back had to take dance classes and shit so she was definitely around

when he brother died she was... well let's just say she spiraled terribly and a lot of people were like wtf she's making her family look bad so it's pretty open to how he could've run into her she used to be very smart and dedicated to her studies and music (she knows how to play a lot of instruments) but gave up on everything after her only support system died

also like her parents stated she died of a drug overdose so FOR ALL ANYONE KNOWS HANNA TALBOT IS DEAD

[brickinthewall]

consider

someone who refuses to be bossed around esp by company rats

who also happens to be kind of off the hinges

[brickinthewall]

this one runs around everywhere cos she's a killjoy psycho but also

kick her ass out and tell her to stop drinking and to go to bed

[rhygret]

Kendry actually LMAO so he's all about KEPPING THE FAMILY NAME IN GOOD STANDING which is ironic bc he's being blackmailed into helping the resistance but THERE YOU GO.

His personal agenda is to make a name for himself and get some real recognition even if he has to do a lot of morally grey stuff to get there 8') So I'm gonna be working on some goings-on in the future with the mods once I get my footing here!