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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.

CR Meme Template

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Character: ravus nox fleuret
Location: westerly at first! then probably going to move to leith for Crisis Control
Primary Faction Goals: on westerly he's probably going to be hanging out in the slums for a bit with lunafreya making sure that she's alright, and glaring at people who get too close to her ;; and when he ends up picking up and going to leith he's going to... be bossing people around, occasionally helping the afflicted, and dealing with everyone's favorite part of a pandemic... body disposal.
Secondary Faction Goals: since he's a mid-high range company officer he's going to be involved with cleaning house!!
Desired CR:

✔ negative cr!! ravus is a company rat ;; i fully support people being mean to him
✔ other company people, to take coffee breaks with, and burn bodies with on leith!
✔ people afflicted with the plague so he can awkwardly help them and pat them with his metal hand
✔ i'm going to be wild here... a friend... just one maybe

Offered CR:

✔ unsociable, line-face at the ready!

Anything else? i'm new here and kind of nervous, but i aggressively want to plot!!

Take a coffee break with this loser Ravus he's a spoiled rich Kendry boy who wanted to work to prove himself

he supports rhys's strong work ethic at least?? i am down for this, they can bond over their arms. tho rhys's is objectively cooler.

It is he would agree B)

It's also A LITTLE BIT SECRET but he would love to talk tech, like that is the one thing he is good at. Datamining and robot parts are his jam, watch him be eerily knowledgeable about upkeep and tinkering of robot limbs he totally doesn't have because that would make him illegal what are you talking about?

body....disposal....
never change ravus. never change.

i was going to have noctis going from leith to westerley, and displaying most of his symptoms there- so i'm not sure when their paths might cross. but i will find a way!!

listen we will find a way, i believe it!! lmao i'm excited to have them meet without their memories, since ravus will.... at least not be overtly hostile??

though when he gets his memories back he's going to bully noctis all the time.

I don't know what I'm excited for more tbh wipes single tear from eye

do you think you'll be posting a top level? :"3

yes! i plan on posting a top level, i'm sure i can think of something and write a starter for nocto. a meet cute.

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DON'T BE NERVOUS and hello! I'm new, too!

so Kate's a resistance brat, but she'll likely be hanging around luna's clinic a lot, so maybe they could run into each other that way? and then judge the shit out of each other. i'm down for positive cr too if they end up working together! i know very little about ffxv rip

why are you judging him little girl......... if she glares at him he's going to glare back?? SHE STARTED IT. though he might try to be 'nice' to her at first since she's presumably his little sister's friend. though him being nice just means moodily staring instead of glaring... he's maladjusted okay.

nad it's okay i know very little about kate's canon, or kate really, other than she's Sassy and looks great in purple?

we can be nervous together

omg a comrade in nerves

i just zoomed to your cr comment, and saw that alice is going to be in leith? maybe they can bump into each other??

Stuff and things! We've discussed it a little already in your intro post but yes, don't be nervous, we can be new together.

(๑و•̀ω•́)و fights my own nerves

i'm definitely excited for stuff and things!! ravus is going to be on westerly for some time during this chapter so maybe they can meet up somehow!

Gio will be on Westerly for the first week of this event, so they could definitely run into each other or be somehow paired off or something during this time. I have an open prompt on the event log, but can also write up a closed prompt for them if that doesn't suit you.

He'll also be on Leith for week three onwards if Ravus is going to be over there at any point!

consider

someone who refuses to be bossed around esp by company rats

who also happens to be kind of off the hinges

CONSIDERS!!!

and um please?? i want this. he really has never had to deal with someone off the hinges before, i think it would be interesting cr for sure!

tonight is russian roulette account night

yeah hanna is... very damaged and revenge-driven and so full of rage and sadness that it's hard for her to really kind of not with literally everything she's very extreme and she's frighteningly aware that she's not okay so

if he ever expresses any kind of distaste or fear

she'll be even worse sry

omg a nyx account bless

hanna ;; i imagine ravus is not good with... emotionally volatile people... since he's suppressed all his emotions and just stuffed them away. he might show a bit of distaste, or confusion which might seem like distaste head in hands

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lovingly giving ravus the stink eye...

....are you not

going to cook him up a new recipe

:c

he's just wary cause u company rav... gotta look out for the fam

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omg how did i miss that ravus was also company, i'm failing in my duties smh

but!! riza is also company, though of the punchy shooty enforcer kind so idk how much overlap they would have, though if you want to assume any sort of pre-game cr where he bossed her around, i'm game. i was also gonna send her to leith to body disposal as well so we could do something there!!

if nothing else, she swings by leo's cafe while she's on leith so she could grab him coffee....the breakfast of champions....

I'M SO LATE FORGIVE ME

i am now eyeing your open prompts on the chapter two log, and will hit you up soon. i'm also down with them knowing each other, or him having bossed her around once!!

NO WORRIES i actually died for the better part of a week so you are right....on time.....

we can say he bossed her around once or twice, i'm 100 pct down for some assumed cr. and take your time on prompts, if none of them work out for you i'm always happy to do something next month!

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