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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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Character: keith
Location: westerley!
Primary Faction Goals: the j-star item recovery warrant, probably. . . i.e. the week that keith finally convinces one of the local dealers to rent a ship to him, only to crash it in a chase that isn't technically part of the warrant, so he can't even attempt to expense it.

he'll also badly want in on the zan nikora warrant, but that's up to the rng gods and anybody willing to partner with him.

Secondary Faction Goals: n/a, too complex for dumb boys.

Desired CR: infobrokers -- specifically, someone who can (i) pass him information on a seedy shipdealer's business so that he can finally convince someone to rent something that'll get him off-planet; (ii) tell him about zan nikora, because fuck if keith listens to info on a regular basis. look, he'll pay for info and he'll ask very nicely.*

mechanics -- given his Extremely Real Westerley Backstory (TM), keith ttttends towards occasionally hotwiring vehicles to get around the city. that + the item recovery warrant means that he will probably . . . need someone who'll let him open up a tab. or maybe just hassle him for the increasing amount of money he'll come to owe them over time. i'm really good for either.

level four agents -- as a reminder, keith is a useless shounen wannabe with a passion for the right thing!!11 . . . which means he's perfectly happy to corner agents of the right level and demand to be taken along. if you're into getting yowled at by an angry spacecat, we should chat. ♥

??? -- i am always perfectly happy to make up hijinks if you're remotely interested in tagging. the item recovery warrant could be for a contested shipment of fertiliser on leith that keith accidentally upends on your character while towing it back to the owner! it could be a particularly rich and elderly nine-knockoff who's weirdly convinced that you're a prime suspect in the theft of the century: his cat's missing collar! etc etc. i am really all about making stuff up gratuitously.

val-my-val -- I CAN SEE YOU THINKING ABOUT SKIPPING OVER MY COMMENT AND AM CALLING YOU OUT.

( * he will say "please" once after five minutes' silence while glowering. )

Offered CR: in general — stupid, angry boy who shouts way too much not to be enjoying it at least a little. for this specific round: keith won't be getting sick! so if you wanted someone to hold your delirious character on a leash, i am here for you.

Anything else? i was extremely slow last month and am slowly revving back to speed! let's tag, overjoyed. ♥

Edited 2017-01-11 02:09 (UTC)

oh my god thorn what the fuck

hellooooooo, val-my-val.

how was your trip.

did you miss me as i've missed you. ♥

no

rejected

your text talks shit but your icon begs to differ.

oh my god it's my default???

also keith is like 16 and way underage, she wouldn't proposition him even if she knew who he was

UM, HE'S LIKE NINETEEN. WHICH PRACTICALLY ROUNDS UP TO TWENTY-ONE ACCORDING TO REPUTABLE PORN SOURCES ON AO3.

but that's okay, i'm perfectly happy to enjoy that icon on my own merits. ///

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

I WILL GIVE YOU A HOST OF LEGITIMATE OPTIONS AS SOON AS I'M HOME REGARDLESS JUST BECAUSE YOU REPLIED TO ME, THUS PROVING NOW AND FOREVERMORE THAT ONLINE HARASSMENT SUPER WORKS AS LONG AS YOU'RE SUPER CUTE.

♥♥♥♥♥

ugh

okay, i'm home but i need like ten naps, so you do not get the infinite wellspring of options that i'd dreamt, only what i was able to scrounge up on the bus:

- cruella de vil: the acid rain was shit for meat deliveries to the seedier businesses, which have received several spoiled shipments. some freewheeling dealers have taken it upon themselves to snap up straying dogs for Nefarious Purposes. (the purpose is that the dogs get eaten.) keith takes a warrant for a missing dog, because (i) it pays well and (ii) that's how fucking low he is on the totem pole; but guess who's the next target on the puppynapping agenda.
- semi plot-related bullshit: keith listens to the public broadcast, as opposed to just the local shitposts, and tries to find a company contact who won't be such a shit, so's he can find out what's likely to be coming down the pipeline. this mostly consists of lurking outside some company outpost once he's finished a warrant.
- actual plot-related bullshit: rounding up sick folk together while trying to figure out how not to catch it themselves?? i'm picturing them, like, driving a flock of wild-eyed fevered zombies down a narrow street -- surely the company must have some thoughts for dealing with contagion en masse.
- the grudge (tm): some npc's developed weak, petty spite against the all-powerful company after the events of chapter 1, and basically sets up an item retrieval warrant that very thinly sets riza up as the supposed culprit, for no other reason than because they know where she lives and that she works for the company. unfortunately, keith's not a detective and it's a long fucking week, meaning he breaks into riza's apartment without asking too many questions.

??? I CAN INVENT MORE IF THESE DON'T WORK, but first, naps are in order. ):

now that i've been rudely awoken by the dark menace known as jetlag--

who needs plot-related bullshit when there can be dog-napping, i vote the first one (and technically the first could lead into the second later on if you want stupid inbox threads)

i am actually going to top level this time like a Real Roleplayer™ so i'll write you a thing in an attempt not to mimic the flakiness of the croissants i so dearly love eating :(

also i mentioned this to the lunafreya player and she said we are welcome to also use umbra (her doge) in this string of dognappings

please hit her up or whatever it is you do

i spoke with the luna player! but more importantly, YES, AT LAST, YOU'RE CAVING TO TOP-LEVELING SO'S I NEVER HAVE TO. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

but you should nap more, val-my-val. ):

sometimes i am a kind and benevolent soul :(

now that i have also napped --

here is a v terrible prompt for you, let me know if it does not work and i will rewrite

as always keith is ( oocly ) more than allowed crash koon's apartment... but this time he's getting sick smh

but if there was anything you wanted to do ( i still wanna thread ), i'm game!!

well, icly keith stands 0% odds of getting the warrant unless he finds the level four who accepts it, so there's always the option where he just barges into koon's apartment, assuming that he'd at least be contemplating it!! . . .only to find him in the early stages of delirium.

and promptly just stands there like, fuck. i've never taken care of anyone in my life. can i just tie him down and leave. fuck.

i mean, i can give you a laundry list of options too, but the image struck me as hilarious.

no this image is perfect, let's do it, after koon gets better keith can pull the "I SAVED YOUR LIFE ONCE" card on him to drag him to more warrants c:

just tie him down and tell someone keith, that's basically saving... as long as your laundry list doesn't have something you REALLY WANNA DO i'm game for this

forget all the dirty laundry, i'm much more interested in this scenario + the fact that keith probably has no idea who in the rac actually likes koon and would be willing to take care of him. could he go through koon's contact list in a series of misleading and increasingly more disgruntled calls while koon tries to control the situation in the background by calling out to whomever's on the line.

i mean, this would mostly be an excuse to spam multiple inboxes with nonsense in the middle of Extremely Serious Plagueplot, but.

do you have thoughts!

( 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

bless, i am all about gifting random strangers with messages "uh. hey. this is. . . keith. i think one of your friends is dying. or he might just be going insane. hold on, he's about to get loose from the ropes -- look, just call this number back."

do you have preferences on which numbers get called, or shall i random roulette the game and just link you to anywhere between three to five + itsuki.

ah i'm so sorry for this late message, i'm recovering from A Weekend... but this is A+! we can do uhhh... riza ( bug val some more ), jason, lavi... and then rng 0 - 2 more as you'd like + itsuki!!

also did you want me to write you a starter for keith showing up to a dying koon, or do we wanna handwave that?

i'm happy to thread it if you've got the time! ♥ and the rest sounds good, I'LL INBOX AND LINK YOU . . . later.

i'll thread this even if i don't have the time >:c i'll link you a starter as soon as i get it up!

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