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

Rhys | Borderlands

[rhygret]

Character: Rhys
Location: Qresh/Leith
Primary Faction Goals:
As a member of The Nine Rhys will be doing his best to save face and act like Land Kendry is really doing a Good Job and not totally suspicious in any way, shape, or form which is to say that fuck his life why is his family conniving assholes he doesn't trust them. He'll be on Leith long enough between work and such to get infected, whereupon he will hallucinate his former Handsome Jack shrine (he has a lot of posters and merch, it's as weird as it sounds).

If your character is involved with the Resistance feel free to hmu!!! Because Rhys is being blackmailed into helping/assisting them when he can and I'd love to do more with that. Similarly If your character dislikes/trusts the Kendrys come hither, Rhys is one of them and he's a great punching bag if you need it.
Secondary Faction Goals:
LEITH PEOPLE. Whether you're Comapny or RAC or anything, Rhys is going to be here!! So let's get some CR going. Rhys is going to start hallucinating while he's there so let's have some fun with that 8')

QRESH PEOPLE let's be rich and miserable together??
Desired CR: People he can hateflirt with, people he can try to impress, people who Hate The Nine, Resistance members, people who know Jack and who don't like him so Rhys can complain about Jack with them
Offered CR: Wanna meet a rich boy who doesn't understand why people don't Like Him? RHSY IS YOUR GUY. He's also great for intimidating, blackmailing, hitting in general, beign socially awkward, and needy as fuq for positive attention. Like seriously if you make this guy think you like him he's yours. It's sad.
Anything else?

[cauterised]

rhys why is your life so sad

anyway!!! i hear rhys is company but like useless company so i'm here to badger you for cr, either pre-existing or starting fresh. riza is also company but like a hair more useful in that she's an enforcer and actually gets to carry the big guns and kill people.

[rhygret]

oh man yes I am so up for this??? Rhys is 100% useless Company since he had his job made up for him when he complained to his parents about wanting to Do Something, so really a sack of potatoes could do his job and not really fail.

For preexisting Rhys is a member of the Nine so if she ever does security detail or escorting or that sort of thing she could have been assigned to him once or twice? other than that he sits and has a cushy as hell job on a Company building on Leith!

[cauterised]

she does whatever the company wants her to, so security detail/escorting would be up her alley! 8) esp since she's also got military background and i'm assuming his parents would have wanted to keep their precious son extra safe.

if he's whiny though she probably would have disliked him, she has like no patience for that sort of thing

[rhygret]

"Precious" is an interesting word but yes 8') more like precious lineage and not precious son they are terrible parents. THEY WOULD WANT HIM ALIVE TO INHERIT THEIR SHIT THOUGH so yes.

Rhys isn't hugely whiny, but he's also not, like...all that competent either? He's a mixed bag.

[cauterised]

eh same diff, waves hands vaguely

but excellent, that sounds great to me. 8) did you actually want to log any of that out or just shove it under our belts and make use of it whenever we get to threading current stuff?

[rhygret]

Let's use it going forward! :> since they'd just be really short threads anyway

[bittybat]

WOULD YOU LIKE to assist damian with the "Investigation efforts for Nine-related persons independent of Land Kendry (Nine relation(s) is available to characters in-game to claim at the risk of becoming a Known Enemy of Land Kendry)" warrant???

HIRE HIM ASSBOY!!! if not, there is also a "Medical Team escorts to Leith for cure distribution (Not available until W4D3)" warrant damian can do to get some medical personnel to rhys' dumb infected ass

[rhygret]

Hires Damian expecting some huge burly dude

gets this kid and immediately thinks he has made a mistake where's your dad

[bittybat]

HAHAHA PLEASE oh my god

[rhygret]

the first would probably work better for that!! since rhys will be fever high by the time he'd be able to get med call HAHA

[bittybat]

okok!! I'll put in a request for that warrant and throw up a prompt for you!!!

[rhygret]

Roger that!

[bittybat]

here you go!!

[eusford]

they can be miserable at crowley's before hyponia tries dragging the simms into the mud, because after that he's going to westerly

if not i demand pre-game stuff

[rhygret]

I vote both like hella. Also Rhys is gonna feel bad for you Crowley but like. not TOO bad bc that would be weird as a Kendry like why would you touch Hyponia bro so hanging out before that would be amazing???

pregame is a must. MY ONLY Q would be if Crowley did the biting thing in this pregame cr or if that's a later thing

[eusford]

can you imagine the surprise texts once the announcement goes up

rhys: what the hell
crowley: lol idk a thing my dude

i mean we can go pregame where he's pretending everything is fine and dandy but he's ignoring his thirst and ends up biting rhys sorry friend

[rhygret]

godddddddd can that actually be a thing let's just thread that out in delle seyah's entry


d e a l. the saddest part is rhys will think it's gonna be like a Thing and when he was just bitten he's not sure if he's disappoint, upset, or insulted and then he's like oh wait yeah i guess I should be alarmed or something???? MOSTLY IT'S JUST HIS EGO WOUNDED

[eusford]

we sure can!! i'm gonna be busy for the next few hours but if you wanna put something up for us i can get to it (hopefully soon)

rhys ego would shatter then when crowley gets his own place and its filled with his servants??? you know those girls are looking like chess and horn. he'd be a little sorry if he knew and by a little i mean not a lot.

BUT ALSO THE BITE IS SUPPOSED TO FEEL GOOD?? in like a humiliating kind of way so hey at least he'll get a kick out of it

[rhygret]

WELL I MEAN if Crowley did that he'd probably stare at his servants....a lot. Like this guy knows what he likes. But ego would definitely be bruised yeah.

oh my god is it HAHAHAHA most unfortunate boner in the universe god

[eusford]

eyes up here rhys

[rhygret]

this isn't his fault you're the one with the dokidoki mouth )8

[eusford]

THAT ISNT HIS FAULT EITHER

Re: Rhys | Borderlands

[r3f4c70r3d]

hey buddy

Re: Rhys | Borderlands

[rhygret]

Hey there miss AI how u doin