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PLOT ENGAGEMENT
What is Plot Engagement and how does it work within Meadowlark? This is the page where players can come discuss with us how to facilitate plots within the setting. However, there will be occasions where a plot doesn't work within Meadowlark's world, and we'll suggest alternative routes. For small worldbuilding or gameplay details, please direct your question to the FAQ. If you're ever not sure if you're at the right page, don't worry—we'll help you get it sorted out. We know we have a load of info!
In addition, you do not need to have a complete plot in mind when you come to us. We aim for plot engagement to be more of a conversation between us and our players. If we propose a plot angle and it's not to your liking, we're more than happy to work with you to come up with something more to your tastes.
WHEN WILL YOU HEAR BACK?
◉ All Plot Engagement answers go out on Sunday, except during events.
◉ The deadline to submit a question and ensure you'll hear back from us on Sunday is 11:59 PM UTC on Saturday.
PLOT ENGAGEMENT INCLUDES
◉ Player plots! If you'd like your character to become a mafia boss, this is your place to start. Typically, this involves anything that could impact the setting or other player characters.
◉ Character career advancement that gives the character additional power or status within the setting.
◉ Metaplot exploration and information! We plan all events to give characters something to explore after the event ends. This is the place to do it!
SUBMISSION TIPS
◉ Specify what your character is looking for when they're investigating. What questions are they asking and what angle are they trying to explore?
◉ If you have a specific goal in mind but don't know how to reach it, please let us know.
◉ If you link a thread to us, please summarize it! That helps us process the plot in question.
◉ Don't worry about not knowing the setting like the back of your hand before you submit the plot—that's up to us! We're here to help you with any adjustments to get you on the right track.
◉ Plot engagement is meant to help with IC play so that characters can continue to interact. If you're not sure how to loop in others, let us know so that we can work with you on it! While this page is meant to be a conversation between players and mods, we know that the fun part of a plot is how it can change character arcs, spice up CR, and more.
NOTES & THINGS THAT YOU CAN HANDWAVE
◉ Characters always start out in entry level positions. Characters can update their skill sets to the 2512 standard through paid apprenticeships or internships.
◈ If a character is advancing within a major corporation (as noted on the Setting or Locations page) or one of its subsidiaries, we will need to approve this advancement.
◈ If a character becomes a supervisor at a local bar or other small business, we do not need to approve this advancement.
◉ Joining the police force within a city requires three months of IC training (six months OOC). There will be instances where this changes, and we'll keep you looped in on that.
◉ We'll approve whether someone has social media fame, but we will not be providing social media follower counts. Once you have a plot for how to use those followers, that's where we step in!
◉ All Morningstar business goes on our Morningstar page. Please feel free to discuss specific plots here (including joining), and go there for signups and anything else.
◉ Characters getting jobs, finding apartments, participating in the fighting rings, getting married, making workplace friends, the creation of minor NPCs, etc. do not need to be run by us. Please let us know if these expand into player plots or other plot bits!
QUICK LINKS
◉ Archived Plot Engagement: Previous Plot Engagement.
◉ FAQ: For small worldbuilding or gameplay details.
◉ Setting: Our setting page! We'll update as needed.
◉ Jobs: A reference for who's working where!
◉ Locations: Both major and minor locations within New Amsterdam, as well as outlines for other megacities.
◉ Mod Contact: For wider game concerns.
◉ The Story So Far: Gamewide plot events up to current (your CTRL+F best friend!).
◉ NPC page: Includes NPC blurbs and inboxes.
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Godric left Dean a pretty decent chunk of change, which I figure could be used as seed money to lease a decent place in this tanked prices real estate market and make repairs, stock it, etc. I figure he'd go for somewhere sizable but maybe that will require a lot of work, because he's not intimidated by the manual labor necessary to fix it up. Preferably with a basement that may or may not be used as a monster cage.
This may be the place to put his sizable social media following to use to get an initial customer base going & get off the ground, a little local marketing. To figure out his follower count I googled American Idol contestants and picked the most random non-popular non-finalist one I could find: DeAndre Brackensick, who tf is that, I don't know. But I figured between the dumb singing contest and the sexily dying in the aerie, it might be a decent ballpark.
Cas will be coming on as an employee, and once established he'll let go of his auto-body job to work there full time (and absurd overtime bc of who he is as a person).
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This sounds great to us! Like with any business venture, he'll likely need to get El's help with taking out a loan (which is something we can either handwave or you can send Dean to zeir inbox if you want to thread it). It sounds like he'll be able to put down a hefty down payment thanks to Godric's donation, but he'll still need to present a basic business plan to the bank to prove that he'll be able to pay back what he borrows with interest. Since he does have the social media following to leverage, this probably won't be a big deal for him!
Since you're going for a fixer-upper, let's go ahead and say that it takes about a month in-game (two months OOC) for him to get it into decent enough shape for him to open it to the public, if that works for you? Call in some free and/or cheap labor from your fellow Displaced in getting things up to snuff, Dean! (If you want to go that route, anyway.)
Along with the name, once you're ready feel free to drop a location description over at the appropriate page with any other details about the bar, including the general area of New Amsterdam where you see it being located, and whatever else you have in mind.
Happy bartending!
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Gracias fellas.