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MEADOWLARK MODS ([personal profile] larkers) wrote2018-06-17 09:38 pm

PLOT ENGAGEMENT (ARCHIVED)

> PLOT ENGAGEMENT (ARCHIVED)

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!

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.

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).
◉ 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

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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[personal profile] realists 2019-07-05 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
in a numbered list so i don't forget anything:

1. would the pygmy marmosets that prompto and jyn brought back with them die at the same accelerated rate of the other animals that sneaked in from the forest? just wondering how long they get to hang out with their wild bitey buddies.

2. on the work front, even though she is relatively new to the office, is there any way jyn could slide into the higher up job of someone who is recently deceased or on extended leave due to injuries/bereavement? ain't no shame in her game, the show must go on, etc etc etc

3. sort of on the work front and presuming that pulsar has an email directory, once word of joseph lynch's charity starts circulating, jyn would shoot an email to katelin jovavich suggesting that she plant some trees! maybe, say, one tree for everyone killed in the attack as a gesture of remembrance and also because reforestation is good for the planet in this trying time and it would give grieving families something tangible to look at, rebirth from tragedy. obviously there is no room for 100,000 brand new trees within the city itself, but outside the wall would be just as beneficial :) jyn really wants more trees because ecological restoration is important! but it would be a baller political move and she is just casually offering it to jovavich, gratis, her own "To Begin Anew..." a la eugene mccarthy 1968.

4. if jyn buys people compost in bulk does she get a discount? her plants suffered in the heat and they need love.
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[personal profile] gasping 2019-07-08 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
hey mods!!! jumping in here with some follow up immediately because i have Many Emotions about this plot and i've been screaming into my hands for the last hour already:

1. caroline will be in her first month on the job as an events coordinator with the committee, and will mostly be handling menial tasks & errands for her bosses (delivering goods, running to check on vendors, getting lattes) while marcos is handling courier gigs. as trace mentioned, their schedules do tend to overlap in the evening / late afternoon hours, so they'd be together at least for a while each day.

would the gangs:
- capture them independently and take them to unique locations away from each other?
- capture them independently and take them to a single location?
- capture them together and then separate them?
- capture them together and transport them to a single location?

2. this is kind of a dumb/obvious question but... if the gangs were told "we're not working for morningstar", i'm assuming they would not believe them, right?

caroline especially would be very quick to point out that she was stopping somebody from stealing from people who were already suffering... though she might also be stupid enough to point out that they were lucky to still be alive. (she clearly did not learn her lesson from the network on not making vague threats towards people. sorry, clarke.)

marcos would also reiterate that they weren't working for morningstar, but were just taking care of their own business. neither of them are buying into the "let's all play nice and get along" ideology post-capture, unfortunately, so i don't think peacemaking is going to be on the agenda.

3. as a well (and recently)-fed vampire, caroline is exceptionally strong when compared to a human girl her weight/size, and though the gangs would be aware to some extent of her displaced power, i am assuming they would be unaware of the true nature of her strength and speed.

during the interrogation, what methods would they use to restrain them and what constitutes violence? are they getting slapped, pistol whipped, shot? waterboarded? if caroline was to break free, would they attack? hands-on combat, gunfire? knife fights?

for consideration on possible retailiation: she would be angry about being restrained and would make every effort to free herself if her captors refuse to do it themselves, including attempting to break handcuffs or straps if needed. she would also be willing to attack (and kill if necessary) the interrogators if it came down to it, especially if they threatened or attempted to hurt her/marcos/the other displaced.

4. i don't think either trace or i want to permanently kill off our characters but we're Clearly Not Opposed To Trauma.... so if caroline needs to fake die as a vampire by getting stabbed in the stomach or something and then be carted off by marcos to be "revived" later for some sweet sweet h/c points, we're both signing on the dotted line to make it happen. (thanks, tvd canon, you're the real mvp!!!)

thank you thank you thank you for such a stellar plot opportunity and excuse to flex my murder baby in new directions!!! can't wait to see what we can do with this ♥
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[personal profile] gasping 2019-07-08 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
just dropping a note that i would love for them to be newbies learning the ropes together, if that's something you're into!!! feel free to pm me anytime! ♥
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[personal profile] athousandwords 2019-07-08 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
hi, i was gonna come see you to say that same thing! it'd be awesome for them to work together or adjacent in a similar circle! if you wanna hash out like job details or work together on something to throw in the PC location page so others can find it, i'm down!
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[personal profile] evite 2019-07-09 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
hey mods!

in the aftermath of the emp event, and in general "i've been here for a while, upward mobility should be a thing i consider" lines of thought, daisy is interested in transitioning into some kind of promoted position.

to clarify: she is not looking to take over her direct manager's role. while she's hopeful that the bugs she and cassian planted in his office will provide insight onto his sketchy activities, she is not intending to use them for direct leverage on him in order to get him to bequeath the role to her. daisy has never thought of herself as a director/manager type person, and wouldn't be angling for direct supervisory positions.

instead, she would be hoping to take advantage of the emp's aftermath to potentially slide into a more specialized/niche role, ideally something that has its own office (even a small one!) so she can work a little more privately.

as a note, in case it's relevant, daisy is currently working a ton of voluntary overtime in the aftermath of the emp event — to the extent that illya has come at least once very late in the evening to drag her home — and will continue to do so after her ic meeting with vyonation management and cassian.

please let me know if this is possible! ♥
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[personal profile] reneger 2019-07-10 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, mods!

Pardon any mess, I'm trying to figure out how to get all of this down in one post and still be coherent with it! Per Jason's conversation with El here, he's looking to get a few resources from El to help along his other goal: overtaking the underground bits and pieces at a time, which was slotted to happen at a much later date, but given the direction some of the last event took, Jason's trying to speed it up to take the gangs' attentions off of Morningstar itself. And with Roni's comment here to the plot engagement, it looks like you guys have a plan on where to start with that!

With the last event, Loki got hold of a few of the ID scrambler masks for Jason; he also has an engineer, Abel, who will be offering his assistance to break them down and sort them out so whether or not El does provide a hand won't quite dictate if Jason does go forward with his plans, just the when, how, and how much prep time he needs to accomplish it! I'm including this just in case El intends to say no, because:

He's fully intending on taking down the gang heads he's aware of, killing them off, and establishing himself as head of the Warlocks and Kings, before moving his way around the underground and taking over the rest of it. Jason has experience in canon pulling apart drug rings and organizations, he's had a few months to note down who is who and who he would need to tear down to get to where he wants, he's willing to be ruthless and put them down (the ones with known histories committing acts Jason personally doesn't approve of, he wouldn't kill anyone who doesn't meet his standards of death-worthy) and has supplies (from Loki's personal hidden stash and things he's been building up himself) to help him along. In addition, Jason has a few friends (Kovacs, Laura, (possibly) Caroline) who he would ask for a more direct hand in taking them down--and he's working on picking up a few additional folks, too.

For efficiency, he'd keep most of his large hits down to a single night so that the underground wouldn't suspect he was coming for them until it was a bit too late. The kills would be one hit (he's got his shadows he can use, knives, etc) so they couldn't call for help, and would be (for as much as he can help it) while they were alone. Jason would be using an edited ID scrambler that would not match the ID of the scrambler tech Morningstar uses for this, too.

Given the amount of deaths, he'd used the instability among the gangs' ranks to work his way up and in to overtake their criminal rings, merge the two gangs together and create something new for himself. Of course--this would all take a lot of time, but those are his longterm goals with it. And Jason is looking less for watching over every corner of those two gangs, and more for keeping their noses out of shit he doesn't want them messing with (Morningstar in particular) and into things he is interested in getting more information on (the displaced's circumstance).



Additionally! He also asked Dawn/Cassius to contact him here so he could 'help' find the other AI Cassius was looking for. Jason does not have intentions of actually being helpful, his plan is to more figure out what the hell Cassius is doing and figure out how to take down Cassius himself, because he really doesn't appreciate all the bodies. He wants the information he mentioned early on, and would go as far as to find the AIs to get it.

I've had a few players reach out to me regarding this so I'm curious as to where that'd go, too!
Edited 2019-07-10 22:50 (UTC)
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[personal profile] vns 2019-07-12 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Hi!

We set this up here!
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[personal profile] realists 2019-07-12 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
to quickly follow up:

1. jyn will be keeping a normal marmoset and slowly trying to win its affection via food and hopefully not letting it die. she will do a lot of research! she certainly looks the part of ignorant rich cow now, fitting right in with her neighbors.

2. i've already put her promotion on the jobs page, thank you!

3. for now, jyn has nothing else to offer but will keep that in mind and once she has talked about it with people who know politics better than her i will come back to this. she is very excited about the trees!

EDITING IN A QUESTION!

based on the email snippets that hope mikaelson and peter b. parker received from cassius (and shared on the network), jyn would want to search through the pulsar directory to find anyone whose initials are JPG. if she does find someone or some people with matching initials she would attempt (with the supervision and help of daisy johnson) to do some hacking into their emails to see if she can identify the mysterious JPG.

(which i keep saying as jpeg)

she would also generally google jupiter and her moons for information on what javovich might be seeking on the moons -- if it is just what i personally would find on the internet i am super into researching it myself!

from peter's email about gill-jade's campaign funds being directed to jovavich she is also curious about the way politics work here so she would research the last few governors of n.a. to suss out how these elections actually work. (again if it is based on something real, direct me there and i can google on my own!)

and last, sorry i'm so curious! is lydia gill-jade's wife's conservation efforts attached to a larger group? (and does she have a name?)
Edited 2019-07-13 23:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] selfimage 2019-07-12 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!!
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[personal profile] forcevisions 2019-07-13 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
1. rey will be taking incidental advantage of her modest social media following (resulting from being spotted on the monster attack videos post-dreams) as she goes on rants about the various news reports on kurt fischers' death and the decrying of morningstar. most of her posts will be about how it's a bunch of bullshit and no one should believe it, though she isn't providing details of how she knows this. she'll lean hard into morningstar didn't kill anybody and the un is lying to everyone. she'll also point out that she knows for a fact morningstar was helping during the emp and during the monster attacks.

this is more emotional/desperate than it is incisive pursuit of her goal of improving morningstar's public perception, but she's very apparently Not Afraid of becoming the posterchild for that. i don't know if this will produce anything, but i wanted to alert y'all since the una is scary. good luck rey hope you don't die or get arrested.

2. to that end, rey wants to prove that the un is lying to everyone! she'd like to follow-up by watching fischer's parents closely in the next two weeks. she will be keeping her distance for the most part, and since she already has considerable commitments, she'll mostly be doing it in the evening/night and early morning intermittently, trying to see if they're being contacted by anyone.

she will also head to the crematoriums around the city where bodies are processed and ask around about whether or not a man of fischer's description ever came through.

her main goal here is to try and confirm that he's not dead and then (hopefully) move forward to trying to figure out where they've rezzed him and reassigned him to. her ultimate goal on this is to get a picture/video of kurt fischer alive and well and working for the una still so she can broadcast it on social media as proof of the un's lies, but that's a multi-step process lol. i think if she can affirm he's alive, then she'll maybe try to roll this in with jon's drone surveillance idea? that's where i'm at presently.

3. something else rey is working on is how to get to the research outposts. since being promoted at giles bell to apprentice mechanical engineer (she has all the practical skill but none of the math, so she's shadowing someone currently following her work on the pyramid), she's going to look into some of the projects her department is working on and see if any of them are from the research outposts outside of town, especially the one that is faking similar reports to the arrival log (which she'll be digging up with daisy). she'll also use her current good favor to solicit her new coworkers on if they've done work out there before, or if it's mostly pulsar and vyonation that gets out-of-city projects.

she wants to know the nature of those projects with the implicit (she wouldn't share this with her coworkers, obviously) goal of using her giles-bell repair credentials to get travel papers out to the research outposts ostensibly to repair or check on their equipment so she can skulk around and spy and get information on where people may have been moved or what different nearby outposts function as prisons and which do not.

OR given the arrival log she can try to reach out to cassius at the ID they used to talk to the displaced about the train from the july arrival and how to get to the other outposts. hopefully one of these gets info on how to scope out the others for where to find the agents before they're moved (or info on where they've been moved to). rey's thinking is they can't have been moved far because they still need a prison. she's spaghetti at the wall right now trying to follow any possible option for how to get to them.

once she knows where they're going and how to get there she's gonna bring other people in on this obviously, this time via open network post because she thinks that ... making it MS-only was a mistake because it wound up negatively impacting everyone.
Edited 2019-07-13 19:52 (UTC)
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[personal profile] apathet 2019-07-13 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey mods!

Just following up from the event, Laura is indeed going to sell those hoverbikes! Jason's given her the regular haunt, name and description of a guy who buys for the Kings so she'll track him down and invite him to view the wares: three bikes that she's hidden in an abandoned warehouse building in one of the run down areas of the city, carefully distant from the new safehouse.