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

[oneirism]

since Lapis will be workin in Westerly till week 3, clearly they have to bump into each other like she sees him while doing her bar singer work and is all 'wtf dude you were srs'

plus you already know her stance for giving blood and she might.... check on him via text/video or somethin when the disease hits Westerly.... maybe

[oneirism]

HEY JOHN LAPIS WANTS TO JOIN THE RESISTANCE. HOOK A GIRL UP

[oneirism]

aggressively texts 50 variations of 'are you okay' when the infection starts spreading

[tirejacked]

groans, don't talk to me about soup and waffles I'm so hungry

is riza gonna be around on westerley? maybe I'll just write a toplevel and you can pick a prompt and we'll wing it

THOUGH FOOD FOR THOUGHT if riza's having memory weirdness without showing any other symptoms maybe it would be a good place to start scoobying from... if they'd even share this bs with each other, I hate my cagey character life. I don't want to twig him to something being Wrong too fast but also I'm excited to start messing with his life, we can see how it hashes out icly

this is unhelpful as ususal, I'm sorry

ETA: actually if he knows she's ex-military he might hit her up to see if she knows anything about Zan Nikora and why he might (presumably) try to kill a bunch of people all of a sudden out of the blue

not that she probably knew him anyway but there's that angle too

[eusford]

yes!!!!!!!! yes sion please hold his hand as he adjusts to westie life. even if he's not gonna be here forever it's definitely.... new.

and it might be different but hey crowley is always willing to try things out like the worse that can happen is that he dies painfully.

[tirejacked]

look, if he's gonna be bad-example batman for carrie he needs an alfred sometimes, doesn't he (no.)

ANYWAY HI lets party. SOUNDS GOOD, arms dealers get +1 suspicious bastard surveilling from him but that's no reason not to go making friends anyway. hook him up, bud, he's probably not going to make you regret it.

[eusford]

crowley clapping loudly for lapis like a really embarrassing bf 'yeah lol you weren't kidding when you said this place has it rough'

please give him your blood lapis his servants say it feels good after the bite?? there's no losing

[bittybat]

oh my gOD CUTE THANK YOU I WILL SLAP IT MOMENTARILY

[uncrownings]

look, everyone needs an alfred sometimes

but i'll accept that dubious he's probably not going to make you regret it

[munia]

no stress!! looking forward to this pure cuteness tbh

[tirejacked]

that's true, I admit it. thanks for taking on the burden for the game, iggy, godspeed

and wow "probably" is very promising, I don't know what you're talking about.

unless you'd like something specific (like getting wrapped up in things while jason's chasing after a warrant or smth, I can put in for deets on that front) I'm v slowly working on getting a more general toplevel sorted out, I can ping you once I'm slightly more on top of things and it's taggable!!!

[crisised]

haha kara is the perf person to yank someone out of their shell. this will be great.

[crisised]

team-ups are the best way to make friends. this is a superhero fact.

[crisised]

luckily for jason, kara doesn't have her superstrength anymore, heh. just flight (which is kind of useless in westerley) and a couple kinds of vision.

... so he'll just have to worry about the amazon and bat-training which should be fiiiiine, right?

[tirejacked]

ah, even better: this vaguely familiar method of kicking his ass. that's not weird at all.

u sure you're a mechanic, girl

[crisised]

yes, of course. there's nothing shifty about linda lang, nope, not at all.

+1

[fledges]

[oneirism]

omg... Crowley plz, Lapis finally feels embarrassment for the first time in her life. and then she'll try to show him around a bit/try to stop westies from beating him up

and she's not sure if she trusts his servants, but sure why not!!!

[tirejacked]

he's just got one of those (gold robin standard) faces.

AH that's pretty cute tbh. I was wondering if maybe he'd bump into her sometime playing scooby on her past, that might be a good way to angle in on it.

d'you want to thread it out? I'm down to do the pregame cr thing, unless you'd rather skip over to Current Events, but it looks like they'll be on different planets for most of this mess anyway

ALSO KARAWISE now that I've sorted myself out a little he's probably gonna hit her inbox re: the pandemic and also the Zan Nikora warrant, (how long has this guy been missing, where might he have fled to, why would he decide to lauch a bioattack out of nowhere, what do we know about this suspicious turn of events, etc.) also making sure you're still sane, I guess, please stay that way, bud.

[rhygret]

oh man yes I am so up for this??? Rhys is 100% useless Company since he had his job made up for him when he complained to his parents about wanting to Do Something, so really a sack of potatoes could do his job and not really fail.

For preexisting Rhys is a member of the Nine so if she ever does security detail or escorting or that sort of thing she could have been assigned to him once or twice? other than that he sits and has a cushy as hell job on a Company building on Leith!

[rhygret]

I vote both like hella. Also Rhys is gonna feel bad for you Crowley but like. not TOO bad bc that would be weird as a Kendry like why would you touch Hyponia bro so hanging out before that would be amazing???

pregame is a must. MY ONLY Q would be if Crowley did the biting thing in this pregame cr or if that's a later thing

[cauterised]

she does whatever the company wants her to, so security detail/escorting would be up her alley! 8) esp since she's also got military background and i'm assuming his parents would have wanted to keep their precious son extra safe.

if he's whiny though she probably would have disliked him, she has like no patience for that sort of thing

[rhygret]

Hires Damian expecting some huge burly dude

gets this kid and immediately thinks he has made a mistake where's your dad

[rhygret]

"Precious" is an interesting word but yes 8') more like precious lineage and not precious son they are terrible parents. THEY WOULD WANT HIM ALIVE TO INHERIT THEIR SHIT THOUGH so yes.

Rhys isn't hugely whiny, but he's also not, like...all that competent either? He's a mixed bag.

[bittybat]

HAHAHA PLEASE oh my god