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

[teiaiel]

Character: Tieria Erde.

Location: Probably Leith, maybe Westerley.

Primary Faction Goals:
Company. Since he works in Internal Affairs, getting the clearance to clean house is a dream come true for him. He has data on all sorts of illicit and corrupt behavior within the Company (most of it extremely petty) so he's going to be directing some of the investigations. If things get serious enough, he'll leave the office and personally participate.

Secondary Faction Goals:
None, because the Company is his life.

Desired CR: Company personnel, soldiers, possibly RAC and info brokers (he doesn't approve of them but they're useful from time to time).

Offered CR A petty, bureaucratic cyborg with terrible fashion sense and a massive chip on his shoulder. He dislikes almost everyone, but he'll at least have some grudging respect for other diehard Company loyalists.

Anything else?
He's new, so I'd love to build some background CR too!

[cauterised]

i feel obligated to hit up every company person on this meme, slowly...gets started.....

anyway riza's been company for....5ish years now (vague gestures at time) so i'm sure they would have bumped shoulders at some point. she's been fairly loyal to the company thus far (for selfish reasons, gotta work off all the crappy stuff her pops did back in the day....) so in terms of her own actions there's not a whole ton of black marks against her. her fam on her mom's side does have connections to the nine and leith though so if you wanted to have tieria know about that i'm down.

otherwise....i'm suffering from jetlag real bad so my brain's a blender, but if you wanted to hash out either pre-existing cr to work off of or something for this current chapter i'll definitely get my act into gear and brainstorm!

[teiaiel]

Nice! Since the Company is doing a full personnel review even people with respectable work histories will be scrutinized. I'm going to say that they proooobably haven't met, just because Tieria has really only been in his current position for about 2 years.

[cauterised]

Works for me! Did you want an actual thread for interrogation? I'm slowly picking at a top level so I'd be happy to get something up for us. (:

[teiaiel]

That would be great!

[cauterised]

sorry for taking so long! here's a quick starter though let me know if it doesn't work and i'll be happy to rewrite! c:

[rhygret]

Company personnel here! Although technically in a high-up Trophy Position which means he's important in Name Only. He's a rich Nine boy who wanted to prove himself!! through business, so maybe they'd see each other through work?

[teiaiel]

Ooh, Tieria would hate him! He's dedicated to the Company, but not necessarily to the Nine, and he hates trophy positions and nepotism. Maybe Rhys is up for a really bitchy performance review?

[rhygret]

HAH oh man, that would be amazing???? Please give me this

[teiaiel]

Awesome! Want me to put up a top level?

[rhygret]

Yes please! I'll be a little slow this next day or so, but I should be able to tag in after that!

[teiaiel]

No worries! I've been a bit slow myself (work has kicked my butt this week!).

[teiaiel]

Here you go! Let me know if this doesn't work for you!

[rhygret]

Looks great! I'll reply asap I just have a few questions:

1) Does Rhys knows he's a cyborg?
2) Can he scan him?
3) and if so could you fill out the thingy there!

[teiaiel]

Sorry for the late reply, I'm coming off a cold meds & booze bender... Sure, scan away! It's kindo of obvious that he's not quite human, so even if Rhys doesn't know he'll guess pretty quickly!

[ofobedience]

Diehard COmpany loyalists, you say? That p. much describes Giovanni through and through. He's kind of a scary hackmod bioweapon created by the Company and not especially friendly, but he behaves around other Company people at least.

I'm not sure what reasons they'd have to cross each others paths but maybe we could think of something...

[teiaiel]

Ooh, well, as fellow scary hackmod bioweapons, maybe they'd at least be aware of each other? Or maybe Tieria gives him info on who to hunt down?

[ofobedience]

That makes sense! They could well be aware of each other. Plus Tieria's loyalty to the Company would mean Giovanni would be inclined to 'get along' with him, or at least get along as well as he's able to ahaha.

Giving info on who to hunt down also seems like a good place to start.

[teiaiel]

Nice! Any preference for who Giovanni should be hunting?

[ofobedience]

No real preferences! Though he's more inclined to kill than capture, so there's that.

[teiaiel]

Great! I'll put up a top level later tonight, then.

[ofobedience]

\o/

[teiaiel]

Here you go! Let me know if I need to change anything! I still haven't gotten around to reading Dogs...

[ofobedience]

Looks good to me!