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Chapter 2 OOC Information + Plotting

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.

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Character: Jason Todd
Location: Westerley, mostly. but he's got transportation so I can play fast and loose with this up until the lockdown tho, #yolo.
Primary Faction Goals: He's a killjoy and he keeps busy, so I'd love to pursue a few warrants with people in the midst of the mess!! but also Warrants or no Warrants he'll be aggressively taking down people who are taking advantage of the chaos on Westerley during the pandemic and making shit worse bc fuck those guys.

Secondary Faction Goals: NONE TECHNICALLY, but he's Aware of the resistance even if he keeps himself out of it after cutting ties a year or so ago. I'd love to get him swung back around toward getting Involved eventually but he's shady as fuck who would trust this asshole anymore

Desired CR: literally everything, I'm probably gonna try and tag out to some more open stuff this time around just to see what happens.
- RAC/infobrokers/company folk/bystanders who want to mess around with a warrant from the list, I'm flexible
- Resistance people to hassle while they're being shady and Resistancy, I'm sorry
- Westerley locals, he hangs around there a lot, lets find a reason to cross paths.
- RE: THE PLAGUE, ngl he'll v interested in figuring out what the fuck is going on. As far as damage control he'll mostly focus on taking out people who are causing more chaos and taking advantage of the sick/dying with Extreme Predjudice, (who wants in.) BUT ALSO he's got some basic medical knowhow and he'd help with clearing out the dead into pyres/making sure things don't spread more in the hard-hit parts of town bc really.

Offered CR:
- lv 4 Killjoy, part time nosy vigilante, full time evasive shady shitlord.
- MIGHT throw in on the rng for the zan nikora warrant, depending, does anyone want to try teaming up on that. he's LV 4 so he can cover the babysitting.
- former street kid, secretly weak to underdogs, etc. likes to pretend he's not a do-gooder anymore but pretty prone to it anyway.
- however nowadays this pretty often involves putting a bullet in someone who has it coming, so the NO KILLING camp is always fun to clash with, we got some Good People this app round
- also he's prob getting sick at some point and having terrible auditory hallucinations of Mark Hamill Joker Laughing in the bg for a while or smth, what is his life. does anyone even want to deal with that. he'll be fine, probably.
- I DO WANT...to start working in mem regains/au deterioration and get him working toward investigating what's up with that. It's a little soon to start that this week but anyone who's interested in pursuing that angle hmu anyway, we can start figuring out how to work it in in the future

Anything else? Late December/early January absolutely murdered me so I vanished p abruptly, I'm sorry for that!!!! I'm mostly gonna start fresh I think but lmk if you'd rather try and get an old thread off the ground or def want to start a new one instead, I'm down for either.

gently sinks my claws into you .... lovingly ....

- also he's prob getting sick at some point and having terrible auditory hallucinations of Mark Hamill Joker Laughing in the bg for a while or smth, what is his life. does anyone even want to deal with that. he'll be fine, probably.

i'm interested in this, gio's ability means that he can do this to people until the cure comes, if you wanna play with that!! >8Ia

HI HARU....

"if he fed someone his blood" oh my god I'm dying, that sounds so unsanitary, gio. what the fuck is jojos even.

by which I mean I'm down but he'll be AGGRESSIVELY SKEPTICAL and probably uncooperative, das gross buddy. uncooperativeness probably increases exponentially with bat-paranoia and hallucinations. no one will blame you if he dies

you're a bat, what do you know about sanitary

I'm down but he'll be AGGRESSIVELY SKEPTICAL it's ok giogio is used to people saying no to him, he'll do it anyway

there are like 1000 vampire bat jokes to be made rn and I don't know which one to pick, what a travesty

disappointing as always, ambee

so ... since giorno doesn't have his stand here he is not stronk and will probably be thrown off if bats here decides to resist him physically .... otoh he is tenacious and will probably not stop until he gets him to drink his blood????? one day i'll play some nice blonds

this is such a stupid mess I'm laughing

I'm sorry gio he will prob resist physically if needed bc he's a shit but if he's sick enough to be hearing voices, I'm sure we can bs a reason to knock him on his ass long enough for gio to convince him that maybe dying (~~again~~) would not be a good thing or smth and he'll roll with it bc whatever he's already infected how much worse could it be.

YOLO BASICALLY, tbh he's contrary and hard to plan for I hate him. are you topleveling or do you want me to write something up in the log, I'm gonna try to at least get a few things posted up soonish

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be my friend >(
especially since you're going to steal my butler!!!

idk maybe they could have seen each other around westerley a few times? he'll get you a sick ass gun

that's it that's all i have to offer

look, if he's gonna be bad-example batman for carrie he needs an alfred sometimes, doesn't he (no.)

ANYWAY HI lets party. SOUNDS GOOD, arms dealers get +1 suspicious bastard surveilling from him but that's no reason not to go making friends anyway. hook him up, bud, he's probably not going to make you regret it.

look, everyone needs an alfred sometimes

but i'll accept that dubious he's probably not going to make you regret it

that's true, I admit it. thanks for taking on the burden for the game, iggy, godspeed

and wow "probably" is very promising, I don't know what you're talking about.

unless you'd like something specific (like getting wrapped up in things while jason's chasing after a warrant or smth, I can put in for deets on that front) I'm v slowly working on getting a more general toplevel sorted out, I can ping you once I'm slightly more on top of things and it's taggable!!!

okay, god, I'm a thousand years late bc I suck but!!!! I finally got some open stuff up, if I'm not too late/if any of that works at all for you I'd love a thread. if not there's always next time, dw. wildcards are also super fine with me if you want to throw me a curveball or request something specific

this is perfect actually! thank you for dropping me a line :>

i failed in dec too, let's do something to make up for our shittiness this past month

what though i have no idea, does riza need to bring him chicken noodle or something, she is miraculously not getting sick (if only because i am far too lazy to deal with that). i guess we could work with mem regain stuff too, i was gonna toy with that as well

whatever you want, waffles

groans, don't talk to me about soup and waffles I'm so hungry

is riza gonna be around on westerley? maybe I'll just write a toplevel and you can pick a prompt and we'll wing it

THOUGH FOOD FOR THOUGHT if riza's having memory weirdness without showing any other symptoms maybe it would be a good place to start scoobying from... if they'd even share this bs with each other, I hate my cagey character life. I don't want to twig him to something being Wrong too fast but also I'm excited to start messing with his life, we can see how it hashes out icly

this is unhelpful as ususal, I'm sorry

ETA: actually if he knows she's ex-military he might hit her up to see if she knows anything about Zan Nikora and why he might (presumably) try to kill a bunch of people all of a sudden out of the blue

not that she probably knew him anyway but there's that angle too

Edited (now that I'm actually paying attention to the plot) 2017-01-12 21:28 (UTC)

maybe you should eat then???? you don't have a robo body yet, chop chop

UGHHHHHHH don't talk to me about timelines and figuring stuff out, do i ever look like i have a clue as to what's going on (the answer should be no) bbbbbbut i have her tentatively slated to be on leith for the worst of the infection stuff and then westerley before and after so i could theoretically hit up your top level. or i could just #yolo as per usual and make something up, vague gestures.

idk anything about zan nikora but i can check with the mods to see how much of his info would be public knowledge to everyone vs. public knowledge to military folks vs public knowledge to people with more ties to shady military business

also i did have half an open prompt regarding mem regain stuff after all the p43x nonsense is all over, so presumably it'd be more apparent that Something Is Up if jason did notice

i have no idea what i'm blabbering about, i'm still dead from this nap

yeah re: public knowledge bs I've got a question in that direction drafted for the mods I just need to figure out how to word my last one, coherence is hard

BUT we can skip it entirely, post pandemic would be fine if you want, he's great at noticing things probably

godspeed ambiwaffle

but okok let's see if i can muster up enough energy to finish these starters and then we can go from there

waffles my way slowly through all my plotting tabs

good luck 2 u, I'll keep an eye out

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slaps jason!!!! did you want to do a warrant run!! the zan nik warrant or just any other warrant in general that may be plot related?? if you don't have anyone down already!

THIS VIOLENCE. see if he sends flowers to your sick au batdad now.

no I have nothing down yet, my life is a mess, all plotting requiring actual coherence has waited until this very moment.

THINKING ON IT, lets just go all in and throw in for the zan nikora warrant, I don't think anyone's officially angling for it just yet and SOMEONE SHOULD. Will Damian be able to escape the Leith lockdown by then, I don't have the days straight yet. give him to me anyway

y/n? I can hit up the ooc post and see if we get more deets to work with than the current post gives us, otherwise we can hash something out with what we've got

i'm glad we're on the same page running the same GAME!!!

i was gonna make damian get sick but i think it might interfere with other things, so i'll just make au batdad get sick to help him be on leith for warrants/cr. SO, yes, he should be able to escape lockdown.

i'm totally down for zan warrant. LET'S DO IT!!

in a tremendous upset, we've won our uncontested bid for dragging zan nikora's ass back in. so we can start moving what we've got to capture, yeah!!! looks like we'll get a little more from the mods shortly - if you've got anything you want them to work in lmk/feel free to hit them up, I'm good with winging it

YES LET'S DO THISSSSSSSSSSSSS

I don't have anything in mind I don't think, so I'm ready for whatever! I can't believe... we won by default... RIP US

TRULY THE RAC'S FINEST. meeting the bare minimum criteria of "showing up"

but okok we'll truck on and see what they send us, I'll ping you when it comes in but it shouldn't affect the next few tags too much probably

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