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

[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

[sin_of_wrath]

...negl, I'd love Past-CR with Hijikata and Meliodas from BACK IN THE DAY as RAC agents.

[mayora13]

BACK IN THE DAY IS GOOD - did Meliodas also work for the Company? Hijikata has never been a RAC agent, but I'm sure he's done some jobs alongside some if you'd like to go that way!

Otherwise, Company all the way ;u;b

[sin_of_wrath]

yeah i know how to read poorly what about it

The Company might be better!

Meliodas is about 25, so would Hijikata remember a very angry adorable teenager who was a son of one of the leading Company tech division heads that would constantly berate and mock Company staff when he was around???

[mayora13]

ITS ALL GOOD ;u;b

Hijikata is 27, and has been working for the Company for 9 years, so YES PROBABLY he would, so long as the timelines match up ahahah Please needle him directly he's in dire need of not being taken seriously

[sin_of_wrath]

IT COULD EASILY MATCH UP

"Did you put just put Mayo on rice? What's wrong with you?"

but would mel actually be the bad guy here

[mayora13]

lol Hijikata is an enemy to food everywhere LMAO

Would you like for them to have gone on an assignment together (maybe a stake out?), or do you just wanna do some barracks shenanigans?

[sin_of_wrath]

this reminds me i got an alchemist jug in my d&d campaign and it lets you summon gallons of mayonnaise daily it's literally my favorite magic item

but actually meliodas didn't work directly for the company--officially. he was his dad's enforcer in secret--but meliodas would be around like 'i can obviously afford babysitters but my son would punch them all in the dick'

so maybe he could have had hijikata look after meliodas at work a few times... despite only being 2 years younger

[mayora13]

that is the best thing on the earth HIJIKATA WOULD KILL A MAN FOR IT. MANY MEN ACTUALLY

ooooooh yes babysitting duty I'm good with that. Just on the streets of Westerley, or actually trying to accomplish something?

[cauterised]

ayyyyy let's do something

i think we agreed way back when on the brainstorming meme that we'd have friendly past cr with these two (??) and i'm happy to still roll with that if you are! as for this specific game plot, i don't have any intra-company investigation planned so if you wanted to do something with that, i'd also be game. riza's also got ties to leith and her dad's history is kind of shady so she's not looking good there either 8')

[mayora13]

YESSSS!!! HELLO ;u;!

I remember talking about that, yes! Did they know each other when they were children, or were we going to just go with earlier Company interactions?

They both have such questionable ties but aren't actually up to anything lol beautiful (UNLESS IM WRONG AND SHE IS!?)

If you'd like someone to interrogate her, I can offer Hijikata - but since they've got positive past CR he probably won't be too terrible about it. We could also have them working together on some good ol Westie party crashing, with the undertones of the investigation! I'm up for anything ovo

[cauterised]

Uhhhhh let's go with just Company interactions, my brain is fried and I'm having difficulty coming up with childhood scenarios. ALSO YOU ARE CORRECT SHE IS UP TO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING but they can just be scrutinized together. :(b

Westie party crashing sounds good though! Were you planning on top leveling at all? I'm picking away at mine so I can get something up for us if you'd like.

[mayora13]

A+ I'm down with that!

I'm not sure if I'm going to top level or not, so if you have one I can tag in - even if there's not a prompt for it I can start us off! Otherwise, if I get around to starting things and don't see a top level from you, I'll link you :D!

[rhygret]

Spoiled rich Nine kid who joined the Company to make a name for himself here \o/ he works mainly out of Leith since it's closer to his rich mansion home on Qresh, but they might have run into one another? or can!

[mayora13]

Hijikata has had many jobs on Leith, I'm sure, and it's where his only remaining family lives (not that he visits...), so he's got plenty of reason to be there!

I'd be up for working out some past CR, so they can have an idea who the other is moving forward \o/! Would you like for them to have worked on an assignment together, or maybe gotten stuck with clean up duty after the mess at Blessed Branches last month (a fancy hotel got wrecked lol)

[rhygret]

I would love to have some past CR 8>>> Rhys is actually super-high up in the Company bc he whined a lot, so his official title is Senior Vice-President of Westerlyn Resource Acquisition & Management Inquiries. IT MEANS A LOT OF NOTHING and basically he just looks at paper all day--but he could have come to Hijikata about any discrepancies he finds and the like? I'm not sure what Hiji's position is haha ;v;

otherwise it's probably safe to say he's run into him in the office or something!

[mayora13]

he whined a lot omg adhsakjt; accurate tho WHAT A LONG TITLE that Hijikata hates to say in full, I'm sure lol

Hijikata is in charge of a unit that's formally for gathering intel/busting criminal or resistance gatherings, but often gets loaded up with a lot of other bullshit tasks because they don't have the pedigree to be allowed to sit and look at paper all day (LOOKS AT RHYS)

He fills out a lot of paper work - but he does it all correctly lmao he's pretty good at it - THOUGH if Rhys ever wanted him to doctor anything maybe they could chat?

[rhygret]

HE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HIM DOCTOR REPORTS holy cow please yes?????? Like anything involving stuff the rebels have him erase or misdirect or stuff like that. Also sometimes the logs of what Rhys asks for or where he travels.........

Like usually it's all superficial stuff bc what is appropriately using company funds (he takes his bodyguard and pilot out for a night on the town bc that's how he thinks people Friend)

[mayora13]

AHAHAHAHAH YES LET'S DO IT Hijikata isn't one to pat upper's ass but he understands his position, so after some bureaucratic back and forth he'll begrudgingly do it, but HES GOT HIS EYE ON YOU...

and he doesn't take bribes, so good luck with those secrets - though most of it, like wasting Company money, Hijikata won't find worth reporting because tbh Rhys is probably hardly the only one lololol

[rhygret]

IT'S TRUE TBH.....like 9 time out of 10 it's just gonna look like rhys is being Rich and Entitled and not like he's helping the wrong people....he hardly screams "corporate espionage" I mean look at the guy

[mayora13]

That's good that'll keep Hijikata just suspicious and not actually acting on anything! Rich and spoiled isn't exactly a good fight to pick unless you're SURE you'll win.

So he'll just keep an eye on you...

BUT YES if you'd like to do a pre-existing CR thread where they discuss doctoring papers, I'm all in! Or if you'd like to just handwave that it's happened, we can do something with the current stuff ;u;b

[hijackass]

I'm okay with handwaving unless you really wanna!! I do have a pregame CR log up for Rhys c:

[hijackass]

also pretend this is the right journal ok

[shikomizue]

LMAO

I think I'll tag it, actually, since Rhys seems like he'll be on Leith most of the time and Hijikata will be on Westerley, that way we can get a thread ;u;

(ALSO PRETEND THIS IS THE RIGHT JOURNAL AYYY)

[rhygret]

Aaa okay! 8> I will look forward to this♥