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

steph brown | dcu

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Character: Stephanie Brown
Location: Primarily Leith, thx quarantine
Primary Faction Goals: Don't.... die....
Secondary Faction Goals: seriously @ god: let her rest
Desired CR:
- Steph is Company employed (not as an enforcer, she runs a freighter) so any other Company folks would be awesome, especially if you want to do something with the interrogation thing
-I'm super tempted to have her catch the infection too so, someone pls help her
-Any Resistance folks want a new recruit? She's Ready(tm)
Offered CR: A very confused, very paranoid young lady who has no memories of her life prior to waking up 11 months ago in a Company owned apartment. She's mostly nice and starting to lean towards the Resistance but hasn't quite made that step yet because working for the Company means she has to be careful
Anything else? If anyone would like to set up some pre-established CR pls hit me up! I wasn't on the brainstorming meme and I can't be bothered to do an OOC intro

[bittybat]

BROWN

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why r u like this

[bittybat]

HE CAN'T REMEMBER WHO HE IS THERE'S A PIECE OF HIM MISSING INSIDE HE'S HAVING A CRISIS

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AT LEAST HE HAS SOME FAKE SHIT TO FILL IN THE GAPS SHE'S GOT NOTHING

[bittybat]

BROWN DAMMIT

grips her shoulder HE'LL HELP YOU...................... somehow

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new decision: one of the first memories of damian she gets is gonna be the jumping castle one and nobody can stop me

[bittybat]

HAHAHA GOD!!! he's so fucking embarrassed but rip my heart. people trying to get damian wayne to be a normal kid. wipes a tear.

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steph squinting at this tiny murder child like "you dont happen to have a twin, do you?"

[cauterised]

oh my god i keep meaning to hit you up and then just dying, why do i try

anyway!! come be company with riza, she generally likes kids/teens better than she does adults so she'll at least be nice and bring steph soup or something if she gets sick

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technically steph is an adult now but she's still young at heart and also not shitty like 95% of company peole

do we wanna go with some previous cr? maybe just like running into each other in the cafeteria or smth (is there a cafeteria?? i have no idea im winging this)

[cauterised]

oh my god why am i stupid, gently slaps self. in my (very lame) defense, i just assume people in comics never age because.....they basically don't

but yes, that sounds good!! i'm sure there's a cafeteria that serves terrible food somewhere, they have to keep their employees fed somehow. nothing like bonding over wednesday mystery meat :(b

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no its ok lmao! she's still a teenager in the comics but she's been in OJ for almost a year so she's reached No Longer A Teem status. It only took like 20 irl years for her to age 4 years in canon (i joke but you're right, her timeline is a lot less of a headache than heaps of character)

steph will like riza i think!! maybe one day she can finally admit that she's kind of bullshitting her way through all this

[tirejacked]

AH YOU DID IT. I'm sorry you get me x2 now

I'm 99% sure I'm gonna hassle kara somewhere during all this pandemic mess but also how can I wrangle cr with steph asap, I want stupid memory-regain detective batbullshit down the line

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thats the opposite of a problem

i feel like there's potential for steph to have run into a killjoy for various reasons - maybe someone tried to hijack her ship so she gets interviewed by jason going after the warrant??? she could feel like she recognizes him but assume it was from the quad just... before her memory loss

[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.

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a pre-chapter thing would be fun!! i can toss something up if you'd like

an inbox thing would be awesome and i'll hit up the mods to see what sorta info kara could give jason about good ol' zan nikora

[tirejacked]

yes to both! lets roll

[rhygret]

Rhys is Nine but works for the Company on Leith he could totally bring home sum infection to Steph if you want???? he bothered his parents until they let him work because he has Aspirations

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rhys that's a terrible present u keep it

but no that sounds fun, she could run into him while he's hallucinating and just be like "well, shit"

what position does he have in the company btw? they could potentially have run into each other before

[rhygret]

THE DUMBEST POSITION EVER you are looking at the Senior Vice-President of Westerlyn Resource Acquisition & Management Inquiries.

It's as useless as it sounds. He literally had the job made up for him bc his parents were tired of listening to him

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oh my god that's beautiful

Steph is just a lowly pilot but maybe he needed a ride somewhere and no one in the Company wanted to actually deal with getting a ship for him so they just dumped him on Steph??

[rhygret]

oh my god yes. YES BE HIS PILOT and try to put up with his general incompetency. He tends to drags Giovanni around as bodyguard so maybe we could have 3way cr there??

yes I know what I just said pretend it's normal ok

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steph has no memories of her life and yet she's still certain that rhys is the most ridiculous person she's ever dealt with

and a cr 3way sounds great

[rhygret]

to be fair

he is. like there's no defending him there, Rhys is ridiculous.

and I sent Gio a PP 8>b