Chapter 2 OOC Information + Plotting

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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

[gyouten]

Character: Ginshu (and his charmingly insane split personality Akemi, who is probably going to be active this round).

Location: Westerly to start. Possibly moving to Leith.

Primary Faction Goals:
For Ginshu: Building the Resistance. He leans a bit pacifist, so he'll clash with more extremist factions within the Resistance. He also believes that the Seventh Generation Accords are an empty promise and that there's no use in continuing to comply. So at the start of this chapter he'll be preaching revolutionary ideology on Westerly, but as things go to hell on Leith he'll use his Scarback credentials to head back.

Secondary Faction Goals:
For Akemi: I'm thinking that Akemi will emerge once Ginshu is back on Leith. He's very interested in the pandemic (he's probably immune) - since he's one of the Company scientists who created people's false memories, he wants to see how far they can be pushed before they break. So he'll probably be doing a bit of unsanctioned medical research, because informed consent is for losers. Akemi technically works for the Company (and for Jack) but he is 100% on Team Akemi.

Desired CR:
For Ginshu: Resistance peeps, Scarbacks, philosophical types.
For Akemi: Science/medical types, Company moles, people with degrading false memories.

Offered CR:
For Ginshu: A kind, self-sacrificing revolutionary priest who isn't quite as sane as he pretends to be.
For Akemi: An amoral Company neuroscienctist who isn't quite as insane as he pretends to be.

Anything else?
Nope!

[rhygret]

Hey there here's technically a Company Mole. An unwilling one but he's being blackmailed so that helps. I'm not sure how far Akemi goes back game-time wise as modding memories, but with the whole neuroscience thing we could work out some pregame CR if you'd like?? Since Rhys got shoved in with the Kendrys and has over the legal limit of hack modding

[gyouten]

I'm going to say that Akemi was one of the first people brought over, and he was modding memories until about a year ago... He'd probably take an interest in people that Jack has taken an interest in, too!

[rhygret]

Jack has an interest in giving Rhys a drinking problem is more what it is 8'| every encounter requires three glasses of hokk minimum with that man good lord. So yes that is to say I'm down as all heck for this! Jack's been looking in Rhys's general direction ever since he dropped into Westerly and almost got himself mugged. Jack stepped in :')

[gyouten]

Excellent! And Akemi has been working for Jack (unofficially) for about 5 years, but he's the type who does whatever he wants... so maybe he runs into Rhys on Leith? During or after the pandemic works for me!

[rhygret]

During would work great! Rhys is spending a fair amount of time there for this event since he's going to get infected there! After he gets the infection he'll be holed up in recovery so he'll be mia