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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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Is there any way that she'd go about finding a contact from Antarctica? A majority of those who went on the expedition died in the earthquake, and others might not be so forthcoming due to a lot of the leaks that came out following the expedition that tanked their careers. For now, she's going to have to take the Riverstone information she gets with a grain of salt. However, since she's interested in joining the Department of Wildlife Protection and Services, she'll have more resources to run these for herself soon! You can say that she'll have that job within the next week, if that's something she'd be interested in.
Remy will run these tests for her, but when he gives her the results, he'll mention something offhand about how senior management had to clear the tests since they were so date-specific and resource intensive. He'll ask her how she knows what samples should be compared by what date, since it seems to have piqued the interest of senior management. Riverstone will be pivoting some of their research around Jyn's questions, and it will accelerate their research department. He has his own suspicions in this regard, but he'll be curious about her answer.
For the first round of questions:
1. The creatures currently are not degrading, but evolving quickly.
2. There is not a unique indicator, no.
3. No, there is not.
4. There also is not! However, Remy will say that the plants have an extraordinary ability to turn specific gene markers on and off according to the hazards that they come in contact with in their direct environment (lack of water, sunlight, etc).
5. This one is interesting, since Remy will note that they didn't even think of those different avenues during their own research. There's no immune reaction, but there is the post-effect of certain neurotransmitter responses.
To make it clear, there are now only two kinds of samples that Jyn will be able to get ahold of. Those would be 1) the current animals populating New Amsterdam and outside the wall, which would include any animals in Antarctica, or at any of the other gates, and 2) Johann Grey's abominations. That said, she wouldn't be able to collect samples from prior events unless she has a source of collecting them. She'd be able to nab them, but she'd have to be very careful getting them into the city according to New Amsterdam's current laws. If she did this under the guise of her new job, that would be easier, but it would take a little bit before she'd be able to do it! We're giving it two IC weeks (a month OOC) for her to collect those samples. Keep in mind that some of her colleagues would be suspicious if she was able to utilize the gates to get these samples more quickly.
Let us know how you'd like to follow up! Thanks!
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re: the antarctica scientists, she wouldn't try very hard honestly and if a lot of the names she remembered came up dead and the rest had lost their jobs, she wouldn't try to push them very much at the moment. they went through a lot of shit and most of the displaced fucked off through the gates so like, she understands the distrust and she's willing to wait it out.
for remy's bosses, jyn will say she was really interested in the geological impact of rapidly introducing new species because of her work in terraforming but in realizing that the overgrown plantlife could not actually help in the process, she has shifted toward the geological impact of an entirely new ecology on earth itself and the anthropological impact of animals that seem to have adapted to humans being the top of the food chain by being semi-poisonous to humans and the aposematism of the ones that don't induce the rage sickness.
re: the animal questions!
1. SPEED-RUN EVOLUTION IS WILD
4. this is interesting and she doesn't know anything about genes so she's going to take this info and harass some doctor friends to teach her about gene theory lmao
5. same for this info, i will come back with additional questions when jyn gets the knowledge to form the questions beyond "what the fuck is a neurotransmitter?" lmao jyn like HMMMMMM
i'm fine with her not being able to get the other samples in a speedy manner! she has no intention of going home to keeping things slow and above-board is fine and she will go through all the proper channels and take trains like a chump.
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Congrats on your new job, Jyn! Enjoy wrangling unruly wildlife.
As far as Remy goes, the suggestion will alert Riverstone enough that they will start pivoting their research along to Jyn's line of questioning, looking at specific dates. So, while Remy may buy that, the Riverstone upper management will not.
Let us know if there's any additional information that you'd like here as it comes up. With Jyn's new occupation, she's going to have a few more resources. That said, that doesn't mean that she might not be watched more closely!
(Also sorry about not realizing that Remy was a woman! That's my bad [Veronica], I should've gone back to check other previous threads about this.)
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lol @ riverstone shifting their research because of this nosy birch. i will come back with questions because there are more lmao i just have not compiled them yet