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

[sin_of_wrath]

I'll have to ask the mods for clarity on how we can handle a drug implemented into the game itself--so, I'll get back to you on this!

That said negl having Takasugi assume some control over Mel...

[shikomizue]

Sounds good! If you write something up about it's origin, effects, and spread, that should be a good starting point ;u;

He'll take control of anyone he can tbh I'm down :D

[sin_of_wrath]

Demon:
A drug that acts as a steroid and pain suppressor, taken via injection. It enhances one's senses at the expense of impairing their judgment. Users of the drug believe they 'cannot be hurt' as pain is translated by one's nerves into a pleasant feeling. Without physical enhancements, the drug itself is very lethal, especially upon first use. As a result, it's predominantly given to users of enhancements to ensure their survival and maximize effectiveness. The drug also deteriorates feelings of empathy in those using it.

Usage of the drug shows one visible symptom--darkened irises and ink-black 'bruises' centralized on one part of the body, resembling tattoos. The closer and closer the bruises show up in regards to the user's face shows how effectively the drug itself is being accepted. Corpses of users who failed to survive the drug's effects would have commonly been found with heavy bruising on the soles of their feet.

It was a drug created by a former Company scientist, reverse-engineered outside of the Company and distributed by underground criminals. The perfected original recipe for the drug itself is hidden away in a vault beneath the ruins of this scientist's old mansion, still unfound. The imperfect version of the drug itself is dangerous to use but the original product itself had eliminated a number of those issues.

SORRY TO BE SO LATE EUGH BUT

I submitted this to the mods and it was approved ;D

[shikomizue]

Oh yes Takasugi would love to be involved in something like this! He's probably curious about the refined, perfected version, but is spreading the imperfect concoction around for profit and possibly to help those looking to refine the serum to research it in some way.

Does that work for you? :D?

[sin_of_wrath]

It certainly does! It's gonna be Meliodas' agenda to try and remove the drug from circulation, so we could work out well here >>

[shikomizue]

Oh they're opposing each other good! :D!

If you'd like him to do some digging and find one of the loading/unloading areas for the drug's distribution, and maybe have him inspect/bring whoever etc... we can maybe work that into a way for him and Takasugi to meet!

[sin_of_wrath]

That sounds good! He's already taken quite a few shipments out of the picture and sneakily helped Killjoys remove some distributors! We could assume he's made Takasugi's life a little more pleasant by removing some rivals from the picture?

Takasugi would obviously be much more cunning and talented than the mooks Meliodas has dealt with so far, so it could be a pretty interesting meeting of theirs! I'd like for Meliodas be thwarted/injured in his attempt to disrupt sales, negl.

[shikomizue]

yes thank you for the power vacuum Meliodas Takasugi appreciates that LOL

I'd say this is a great idea for something we can do during Chapter three, since it's right around the corner! Takasugi can totally thwart and injure him to your heart's content, just let me know where your boundaries are and I can take it from there ;)