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

[nightchild]

Character: Itsuki Kagami
Location: Westerley!! for now
Primary Faction Goals: it's time to get plastered during harvest week and blow all the joy he's made off drugs HAHA

in other words Itsuki's going to be bar-hopping and gambling and also indulging in a little more drug business than usual, so basically he's gonna be a criminal. BUT A FUN CRIMINAL!! he might even throw a party or something!!

I'M NOT SURE IF HE'LL GET SICK YET heeee might not.... OR HE MIGHT

Secondary Faction Goals: and also flex some of his infobroker muscles!! he's had connections with true leithians thugs in that he's spilled deets on them to certain individuals, but he's also probably been seen talking to them and interacting to them so if anyone wants to interrogate him while still on Westerley then they're free too!!

otherwise i'm down for infobroker threads (AND APOLOGIES FOR ALL THE ONES I'M STILL BACKTAGGING ON), if you'd like to handwave that your character contacted Itsuki and got some deets then you're also welcome to!! (january might be a busy month for me, so I'll let u know what works best for me). so basically he'll help relay information about Lady Derrish's request for RAC peeps and is down for getting interrogated by Company peeps

and will sell anything to Resistance or otherwise, COME AT ME
Desired CR:
- honestly i don't have a huge preference for one thing or the other i'd love to continue cr and get new cr!!
- more clients to get to know his infobroker ways
- people who want to get smashed and try out drugs with him (HE'S NOT GIVING U ALCOHOL IF UR A MINOR THO!!)
- shady criminal connections that he can hit up for help selling his drug supply
- ladies he can hit on sweats
- he'll be involved in the infection outbreak whether or not he's infected SO he'll might need help smashing manic NPCs over the head with sticks in order to get them to calm down... STELLAR FIRST-AID!!!!
- anything else i guess come at me
- oh yes company folks who want to investigate sketchy people, i'm down for interrogation
Offered CR: I've mostly outlined it above (IM JUST BAD WITH GOALS I GUESS) but
- here to dispense plot info for the Lady Derrish plot/true leithians
- here to get dragged into softhearted attempts to help sick Westies
- here to get beat up for having shady connections to true leithians god he regrets his life choices... also for being shady in general
- here to GET SMASHED AND TO PARTY
Anything else? party

[tousei]

yes sounds good

where/when icly

[fledges]

Character: Kate Bishop

Location: Westerley

Primary Faction Goals: Basically Kate's going to be focusing on the Resistance, because fuck the police/her dad. I'm coming in with the assumption that she's been working with them for a while, and she'll be all RAH RAH LET'S GO about getting things in motion.

Secondary Faction Goals: I don't know I'm too new for this help me

Desired CR: I'm pretty much up for anything, but Kate's been running her P.I. thing and in the Resistance for a bit, so basically she'll be trying to make as many contacts as possible, both those sympathetic to the movement and just people who can help her solve crime. Any infobrokers, doctors, Killjoys and Enforcers to hassle, or just buddies she can hang out with. Also if anyone wants to help her make some sweet new trick arrows, that might be some fun CR. If anyone wants to hash out pre-existing CR, I'm totally down for that, too.

Offered CR: Kate is one of those obnoxious do-gooders, so she could easily run into people on Westerley that way, by offering to help them or shoving herself into the middle of a fight. Basically, your usual overconfident hero stuff. She's also stubborn af, so I can absolutely see her butting heads with certain people! Generally Kate tends to get along with all types, and she has a dry, sarcastic sense of humor and is your pretty typical extrovert. Also she loves dogs. If you have a dog, she'll absolutely bother the shit out of you about it.

Anything else? I'm also super new, HELLO

[sunderings]

Character: Sion Astal
Location: Westerley → Leith
Primary Faction Goals: Early on, Sion will be tasked with holding interrogations for the Company !! If anyone wants to do a tag-team approach on this with a NPC, I'd be down. Then, he'll be monitoring the situation on Leith from afar while working on logistical-coordination for other Company members to travel to the quarantine zone before...!
Secondary Faction Goals: Ultimately heading to Leith himself where he will likely partake in b-b-burning the bodies, light motivational speaking (IN THIS DARK HOUR...), and shielding medics from harm.
Desired CR: People to foster and grow resistance ties with, warrant work (if any RAC agents would like a Company tag-a-long...!), information brokers to help him locate his MIA mom on Westerley, and honestly positive/negative CR are both good by me. Aaaalso if there are any Company enforcers who'd like an admin to belong to/receive directive from, lemme know. o9
Offered CR: Sion is a huge troll and will approach anyone who he deems to be in need of light harassment 'cheering up'. He's also good for playing the hero and rescuing, princess carrying, or otherwise assisting your sick/injured character in Leith...!!
Anything else? The more terrible the plotting, the better. (◡‿◡✿)

[fledges]

Please chill the fuck out Damian

anyway sup let's bring down the man, kid

[impulsors]

so.

assuming that itsuki survives our current thread, is he ready to assume the privileges of being the Only Infobroker Keith Actually Knows By Face.

[nightchild]

"He'll go there if someone tells him to." will leo come over to get smashed at a party if itsuki invites him

where's spoon THEY ALL GOTTA PARTY

[ofobedience]

Character: Giovanni Rammsteiner/Cerberus Unit 68

Location:primarily Westerly but can also potentially be elsewhere...wherever the Company decides to deploy him to so I'm open to stuff

Primary Faction Goals: He'd prooobably be used for some 'house cleaning' Company stuff, due to the Cerberus Unit's unwavering loyalty plus they're pretty terrifying. Could also be fairly useful guarding quarrantine zones seeing as he's immune to poisons and pathogens etc. I'm super new though so open to ideas.

Secondary Faction Goals: Stuff and things!

Desired CR: ALL SORTS!

Wanna play temporary Dog Handler? You just need a character with enough Company clearance to be able to accompany a Dog on whatever assignment...so like, 'interrogation' of the violent variety, hunting down suspects and disposing of them, that kind of thing. Open to more ideas here.

Need a bodyguard? He's good at that.

Run ins with RAC agents! Maybe they're both working for the same thing when Company/RAC goals cross over and you end up unwillingly stuck with him. This CR could be negative to neutral.

I'M OPEN TO IDEAS and very new so come at me.

Offered CR: Good for negative CR, potential for building positive relationships over time, super open really. If you're Company he's likely to be at least distantly polite but kind of sassy, becoming more obedient/subservient the higher ranked the character is. Anyone else gets sass and snark. Violence is always possible if you want it but there needs to be a good enough reason because he'll follow orders very closely and won't step outside of them unless he's certain it's okay/he can get away with it ahah.

Anything else? Hello I'm new!

[tousei]

hey

WILL HE BE GOING TO LEITH AT ANY POINT

[ofobedience]

HE CERTAINLY CAN as long as he is accompanied by a 'Handler' of some sort because he's not allowed to travel alone. But he can basically be anywhere across the Quad where he'd be needed.

[nightchild]

as long as keith acknowledges that it's the hottest(??????) face around okay okay

jk he WILL FOR SURE TELL KEITH INFO THINGS and then go ?? ARE U LISTENING KID when keith glowers for 4 minutes and 54 seconds... I GOTTA HIT UP THE MODS ABOUT WHAT ITSUKI WOULD KNOW but he can for sure tell keith all about shady shipdealer businesses!! and I FIGURE HE'D KNOW SOME STUFF ABOUT ZAN NIKORA but ill ask and get back to u i swear it

[cauterised]

oh my god thorn what the fuck

[eleutheron]

Character: Fenris
Location: Primarily Westerley, possibly also Leith
Primary Faction Goals: His loyalty to the Company is as yet absolute, so he is interested in anything that furthers their goals (which generally translates to safeguarding whatever the Nine wants safeguarded)
Secondary Faction Goals: Interrogations; herding; protecting the sick people + the medical people
Desired CR:
--Other Company people--enforcers to work with, higher ups to tell him what to do. He will generally do whatever a Company or Nine-affiliated person asks of him.
--EVERYONE ELSE to help challenge his loyalties and present beliefs, which can still be done through negative CR (gotta love that Rivalry system)
--Someone to help him WHEN HE INEVITABLY GETS SICK
--Someone to perhaps get him sick in the first place
Offered CR:
--Will glow sullenly by your side as you traverse a dark alley
--Will drink + play cards with you and you will probably win at all of the cards
--Brooding and acerbic, but not entirely humorless
--Extremely loyal friend even if he disagrees with everything you say and are
--For this chapter, eventually a sickly pile of fuss who will feel deeply indebted to anyone helping him

Anything else? reaches towards everyone gently

[cauterised]

I WAS GOING TO LEAVE YOU A LEGITIMATE COMMENT ABOUT HOW WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING SINCE I FAILED LAST MONTH BUT NOW I'M JUST OFFENDED

[sunderings]

if itsuki takes ill sion will surely princess carry him around....! #gallant

or maybe he'll just need to do that anyway because it sounds like itsuki is going to be plastered for a good portion of the month.

+1

[lotusmesenpai]

What? Like this bastard GAF about any of these people.

[nightchild]

what if itsuki sends julius a postcard from westerly tho

IM HERE FOR PRE-ESTABLISHED CR THOUGH would julius be friends with an independent infobroker who hits on girls and looks like a hooligan... bc itsuki would totally befriend a stiff loyal Company Dog even tho he's not as hot as riza smh

[ofobedience]

Does she wanna play Dog Handler. Interrogations are a good place to start. Interrogations that end in violence.

Or you know anything else he could possibly be useful for.

[impulsors]

hellooooooo, val-my-val.

how was your trip.

did you miss me as i've missed you. ♥

[tousei]

i'D BE UP FOR MAKING JULIUS PLAY THAT ROLE except he might be stuck on Leith for now so maybe a handover once Gio reaches Leith? (I'll have to ask Ari and what she plans to do with SF) but othewrise they can work together still o/

[nightchild]

LMFAO I MEAN HE'S DEFINITELY GONNA BE PLASTERED im glad that sion's gonna be there looking out for him either way... ill get back to u on sick things though i'm tempted but also itsuki's useless enough when he's healthy

will sion get plastered... itsuki's gonna drag him to a bar so they can ParTay

[mayora13]

Character: Hijikata Toushirou
Location: Westerley (potentially Leith)
Primary Faction Goals: Company -
Uphold order on Westerley during Harvest Week, carry out investigations on other Company officials, have an investigation made into his own background [his ancestry is local Leithan, and he doesn't exactly have a good pedigree]

Desired CR: Positive and negative CR are both welcome! I'd love for Hijikata to form relationships with those within the Company [past CR too!], and for him to get to know some of the people who live on Westerley as well, whether they're criminals or just trying to get by.
Offered CR: A temperamental, violent man who is very VERY easy to tease and provoke. He's ready to make arrests, with as much violence as necessary (and maybe a little extra). As of right now he's unsympathetic to the resistance, and won't be friendly with anyone known to have ties with them. For his fellow Company employees, however, he'll go quite far, so if anyone needs help with anything, he'll probably lend a hand.

As for potential pre-existing CR; Hijikata is 27 and grew up first on Leith, then moved to Westerley alone when he was 11, so either place could be an opportunity for CR!
Anything else? I'll probably have him only catch initial symptoms of the disease, if any, so he's ready to deal with sick people who might need looked after ovo7

[cauterised]

no

rejected

[cauterised]

yaywon??????????????

[sunderings]

WELL

the thing is, sion doesn't really drink. so if, by chance, itsuki does manage to get him to have one (1) adult beverage, he'll be down and out in about ten seconds.

it might get sloppy.