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

[shikomizue]

Character: Takasugi Shinsuke
Location: Spaa~*~*ce
Primary Faction Goals: Resistance -
Long term: destabilize the oligarchy and cause destructive chaos throughout the Quad
Short term: gather funds, resources, and alliances as he avoids the mess of Harvest Week
Desired CR: Nobility with agendas, Less than loyal Company members, Angry people who want to lash out
Offered CR: A manipulative, scheming Resistance leader with a good amount of weapons and drugs to sell. He's the first to inspire people to make destructive bad decisions, so if anyone needs an extra push...
Anything else? December got way busier than I expected it to, so I sort of dropped the ball on my threads! I'd love to get back to all of them, and keep them going/wrap them up, BUT, if anyone who I was threading with would rather handwave and move on, that's fine too - just let me know ovo7

[fledges]

YO i'm super new, but i just joined with kate and she's all about the resistance, so i'd love for these two to meet up or just talk! they might butt heads if he's willing to do more questionable things, which could be fun!

[shikomizue]

!! Hello and welcome!

I would absolutely love more Resistance CR with Takasugi, so yes bring her on! He's absolutely not only willing, but pretty damn determined to take the most violent routes possible, so I'm sure there's some ideological disagreement potential, but that doesn't mean they can't help each other out when it's convenient.

And her running what's basically an 'odd jobs' business will strike a chord with him. Good? Bad? He doesn't know, but he's feelin something lmao

Would she have any reason to be traveling around space? I can figure something out for them to meet up in that way, or, if she's just on Westerley, maybe we can do some pre-established CR since he does travel through it regularly!

[fledges]

Kate is super broke, so I'm leaning towards saying she's stuck on Westerley at the moment! I'm also all for them arguing once in a while, because Kate is stubborn but would absolutely be willing to help him out regardless.

[shikomizue]

He will take advantage of someone like that without a second thought sljattea

Westerley is great! If you don't mind, we can just backdate the thread by a few weeks (or longer, it doesn't matter to me!) since he's currently in space regrouping from last month's mess. Maybe he's a suspect in one of her cases and she's tailing him! He's done a lot of people wrong, so even if he didn't actually commit the crime she's investigating, someone coming in with information implicating him wouldn't be out of place ;u;

[fledges]

Yeah, that sounds great! We could do it on the pre-game log I have or on the big chapter two log, whichever works best!

[nightchild]

"avoids the mess of Harvest Week"

IS TAKASUGI NOT GONNA PARTY???

i'm totally down with either backtagging or just setting up an entirely new thread re: drug selling shenanigans though!!

[shikomizue]

LMAO FUCK NO he likes festivals a lot, but this isn't a fair its more like a god damned festering pit so he'll abstain...

unless he gets a chance to blow something up THEN HE WILL COME

I want to keep backtagging our thread, but I'd also be up for setting up some drug trade stuff! Do you want to go back and do their initial pre-established CR, or would you like to say that maybe Itsuki wants to show Takasugi a new strain, or discuss an expanding market?

[nightchild]

lbr things will definitely explode SOONER OR LATER

and sure im down for both!! HMMM a thread about a new strain works! we can just pre-establish that they both know that the other is into shady/drug stuff, which would give Itsuki a reason to contact Takasugi about possibly helping him sell more Norn?? i'll hit up his inbox if you're not planning on a toplevel!!

[shikomizue]

LOL Takasugi can certainly hope for things to explode heueu

New strain, got you! Sounds great aaa!! I'm not planning on topleveling, so yes please hit my inbox (that I...don't have LOL goes to make one)

[shikomizue]

IT ISNT PRETTY yet but I figured I'd throw it at you so we could get started whenever you'd like \o/

[sin_of_wrath]

>Angry people who want to lash out

look here buddy

[shikomizue]

PERFECT

Meliodas is on Westerley, so any CR would have had to take place before this Harvest Week thing, since Takasugi is avoiding it, BUT that's good with me if it's good with you!

What sort of methods of lashing out does Meliodas fantasize about? Takasugi's here to enable it all, tbh, but a little OOC guidance would be A+ so I can make sure he does maximum damage LOL

[sin_of_wrath]

Meliodas is actually actively trying to NOT lash out

But, I'll constantly be looking for ways for Meliodas to relapse into his evil af mentality...

|D Is Takasugi into drug trading for revenue at all?

[shikomizue]

no no embrace ur inner beast

IM HERE TO HELP YOU WITH THAT RELAPSE ANY TIME ;)

He is absolutely into it for the revenue for the most part. He rarely partakes in anything aside from opiates, its all for the fat stacks

[sin_of_wrath]

this works niftily, then~

Meliodas used to be administered a drug called 'Demon' that essentially kept him under a serious amount of brainwashing

How can we work with this

[rhygret]

Nobility with an agenda here B) What's up

[shikomizue]

OH HO YES HELLO

What is your agenda sir what family are you from :D? I'd love to get Takasugi CR with some of the nine so //SLIDES UP CHAIR

[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!

[shikomizue]

L O L Kendry hmm - Takasugi's pretty much in support of all of the crap Land Kendry is trying to pull, since it's tearing the nobility apart rather than unifying them, and the Accords being repealed would cause an eruption of revolt.

Do you...have anyone in game who is blackmailing him, or would you like that CR //WIGGLES EYEBROWS

Takasugi is especially ready to use people who are looking for recognition and can absolutely feed an ego like that to get what he wants, so if you'd like any resistance muscle in Rhys's endeavors that direction, I can offer Takasugi for that as well, just as long as their arrangements are mutually beneficial u kno ;)

[rhygret]

Oh my god I would l o v e that CR???? I don't have anyone legit blackmailing him atm (although Stein does come to bug him and keep Rhys on track), it was just like vague NPC gesturing so I would love this tbh??

Especially if we work all that other stuff in too. Like RHYS'S STORY is that the resistance had a mole and Rhys was gonna expose them, so he inserted himself into where the deal was supposed to go down, only for he and the mole to get ambushed by smugglers. Mole died and some of the resistance found out about his hack modding/it looked circumstantually like Rhys was the one helping the resistance all along, so they blackmailed him into helping.

[gyouten]

I think these two would probably start out as resistance comrades but quickly become veeeeeery suspicious of the other's motives! So maybe some negative CR?

[shikomizue]

YESSSS There's a lot of interesting potential between them I think!

Maybe at first they can maintain network contact about the goings on in each other's sectors, and then just sort of realize..that maybe they're not fighting the same fight after all???

[gyouten]

That sounds good! They've probably met in person at some point or another but they wouldn't know each other super well.

[shikomizue]

Yes, I think it's likely that they've met - Takasugi does spend time on Westerley, even if he isn't there RIGHT NOW!

As for a thread, would you like me to have Takasugi reach out re: the condition of things where Ginshu is? I can hit an IC inbox if you have one ;u;