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Chapter 2 OOC Information + Plotting

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.

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added!! we can coord both oj and futuro stuff yasss

holidays, truly the worst time for rp....

but ahh, you're so sweet, thanks for giving me the second chance!! i did a little bit of plan mapping and it looks like she'll actually be on leith for part of the infection doing relief work so i might just have her hit up leo in person.

it looks like you have a top level up already so i'll hit up one of your prompts! c:

he's such an edgelord it's so embarrassing, please send help

but perfect tbh. I'll hit up your toplevel as soon as I stop dying (ง •̀_•́)ง

look, we don't talk abOUT CLONES IN THESE PARTS!!!

absolutely will. young resistance AU alfred.

slaps jason!!!! did you want to do a warrant run!! the zan nik warrant or just any other warrant in general that may be plot related?? if you don't have anyone down already!

WOULD YOU LIKE to assist damian with the "Investigation efforts for Nine-related persons independent of Land Kendry (Nine relation(s) is available to characters in-game to claim at the risk of becoming a Known Enemy of Land Kendry)" warrant???

HIRE HIM ASSBOY!!! if not, there is also a "Medical Team escorts to Leith for cure distribution (Not available until W4D3)" warrant damian can do to get some medical personnel to rhys' dumb infected ass

they can be miserable at crowley's before hyponia tries dragging the simms into the mud, because after that he's going to westerly

if not i demand pre-game stuff

no prob I am here to please and provide variety

he'll be out and doing plague damage control so they can 100% cross paths. please be careful with the superstrength while you're hallucinating, bud, he's delicate.

I'm gonna try and get my act together and get a toplevel up in the next day or so but if you beat me to it I'll hit you up!

Character: Crowley Eusford
Location: Qresh and then eventually Westerly, he'll be there before the lockdown and end up having to stay there.
Primary Faction Goals: This is fine. Land Simms is getting jumped by Land Hyponia and he's kinda just laughing quietly in the background, but this news is good for Crowley because from what he's aware of he himself is a pretty big secret they wanna keep so he makes the suggestion of leaving until shit blows over. It works? Thank God. He'll be leaving to Westerly the night of W2D7. Won't be coming back after the announcement because he's having a pretty good time.
Secondary Faction Goals: He's chooses Westerly because he heard it's terrible. That's literally it. He'll be infected and start having hallucinations of his dead comrades so YIKES.
Desired CR:

- Want to hate another Nine who will ask you if you're tired while you're mid-"THOSE FUCKERS"? He's your guy.
- But also a baby. Will have a mild fever so if anyone wants to be all domestic and take care of a vampire hmu.
- Also he's a vampire. He'll need blood. Sign up today and keep your local vamp alive.
- I wanna make him some friends because he's got like...... one. He's not a bad guy I'm crying he's dad material.

Offered CR: If you want a sheltered member of the Nine who can't solve simple riddles or braid his own hair then Crowley is the vampire you're looking for. While in Westerly he's not going to tell anyone he's a member of the Nine unless they're aware and won't bite them... unless he's like really thirsty.
Anything else? "aren't you tired?"

AH YEAH I hesitate to ask people directly since it requires like...presumably trusting this objectively difficult and dodgy dude with your secret treasonous organization. BUT I'm 100% happy if someone is willing to help wrangle him back toward being a team player again one day, u can do it jay. (he was like 5 seconds away from having Damian's job in the Resistance RAC mole dept before ditching out of spite, sorry AU-Talia.)

aka yes please kick his ass into being a less shitty person, kate. with the resistance looking like it'll be advertising a little more aggressively in the future plot developments it's looking like it'll tip to making that easier at least (????) but long game is always fine with me anyway, #crgoals

ANYWAY I see you've got a toplevel up in the log already, I'll hassle you as soon as I get my act together!

HI HARU....

"if he fed someone his blood" oh my god I'm dying, that sounds so unsanitary, gio. what the fuck is jojos even.

by which I mean I'm down but he'll be AGGRESSIVELY SKEPTICAL and probably uncooperative, das gross buddy. uncooperativeness probably increases exponentially with bat-paranoia and hallucinations. no one will blame you if he dies

THIS VIOLENCE. see if he sends flowers to your sick au batdad now.

no I have nothing down yet, my life is a mess, all plotting requiring actual coherence has waited until this very moment.

THINKING ON IT, lets just go all in and throw in for the zan nikora warrant, I don't think anyone's officially angling for it just yet and SOMEONE SHOULD. Will Damian be able to escape the Leith lockdown by then, I don't have the days straight yet. give him to me anyway

y/n? I can hit up the ooc post and see if we get more deets to work with than the current post gives us, otherwise we can hash something out with what we've got

you're a bat, what do you know about sanitary

I'm down but he'll be AGGRESSIVELY SKEPTICAL it's ok giogio is used to people saying no to him, he'll do it anyway

there are like 1000 vampire bat jokes to be made rn and I don't know which one to pick, what a travesty

disappointing as always, ambee

so ... since giorno doesn't have his stand here he is not stronk and will probably be thrown off if bats here decides to resist him physically .... otoh he is tenacious and will probably not stop until he gets him to drink his blood????? one day i'll play some nice blonds

i'm glad we're on the same page running the same GAME!!!

i was gonna make damian get sick but i think it might interfere with other things, so i'll just make au batdad get sick to help him be on leith for warrants/cr. SO, yes, he should be able to escape lockdown.

i'm totally down for zan warrant. LET'S DO IT!!

kaboom, lmk if that doesn't work!!

Friends!! Sion will be Crowley's friends. Characters from Takaya Kagami series have got to stay together or something???

Sion will be in Westerley until mid-week 3, so they could definitely cross paths during that time. Sion is wont to notice that Crowley is having a difficult time ... existing ... and intervene/take matters into his own hands.

Also would probably volunteer to give the guy blood !! If Crowley likes gold blood, he guesses.