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PLOT ENGAGEMENT (ARCHIVED)

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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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terraforming jupiter is dumb, jyn supports all these voices!

thanks for the nerd gossip, mods!

Following Rey's communication with Kurt Fischer's family, the UNA looks into her social media to figure out who it is that's trying to get in touch with them. She didn't get flagged before, but she gets pinned for that and black bagged on Nov 24 when they track her down to Kylo Ren's apartment, where she's been kicking around since he vanished on the 19th.

However, Rey had mentioned to Daisy, who she was investigating the research outposts with, that she was stopping by Fischer's family, and Damian can find her videos all over social media. Together they can put together that Rey was grabbed by the UNA for casting aspersions on the government and poking her nose where it didn't belong.

Rey had also mentioned to Daisy a plan to use Cassius' arrival log train to get out to the research outpost they'd learned about. Daisy can put this together when Kylo returns (Nov 27) and demands they find his missing girlfriend, facilitating a group of people going out to retrieve her. Poe, realizing that his roommate and buddy is NOT just normal disappeared but is UNA captive, is like fuck that I can yeet the train past the checkpoint. So they use Prompto's train job to figure out where an out-of-service train cart is that they can take out there.

With Damian and Daisy's help looking into her ID history for who her close friends are, Kylo puts together a group of her long-term friends because they're trustworthy (Damian, Poe, Sora, Riku, Prompto, Illya) and some names that he adds all his own to the list of people who are coming to storm the facility with him (Daenerys, Octavia).

Daisy, being the person she is, can leak the location as also being the outpost the Morningstar agents that have been captive are, and ensure that characters outside the Save Rey op also make it there with their focus being on rescuing the MS agents who weren't able to be grabbed because the UNA found Kurt Fischer too quickly for anyone to act on his information. At this point, Daisy will do whatever interaction is necessary with El to get their hands on scrambler masks as an option for arrival/fighting in the outpost.

They leave on Nov 28, let's say (that way new characters can participate fully). Once at the facility, the plan for the Rey Team looks like this: Daenerys, Sora, and Prompto can try to cause a distraction around the facility to take some of the heat off those trying to free Rey and others. Between the three of them, they should be able to withstand whatever repercussions that come with while Damian, Octavia, Kylo, and Illya on the stealth team see about finding where Rey is kept and violently liberating the prisoners. They prioritize breaking her out, and then also help break out the rest of the agents.

All PCs and rescued agents are smuggled back to a vehicle (some kind of MANY-PASSENGER van for UNA missions) that Poe has wrangled. He drives them to the outskirts of New Prague, where they use El to get in touch with New Prague Morningstar. They're smuggled inside and rest there overnight to let some of the heat die down. The rescued agents remain in New Prague, and Morningstar helps move the PCs out on a train back into New Amsterdam.

The whole mission will take about 48 hours.

Some questions that came up during the planning process to help facilitate logging:

1. How well-staffed in this outpost? Proportionally, how thick with UNA soldiers vs scientists?

2. What kind of interrogation are they doing of Rey while she's there and what kind of shape will she be in when they find her?

3. What kind of shape will the missing agents be in?

4. Where will Morningstar house them in New Prague overnight? How much freedom of movement will they have around the city between when they arrive and when they leave on the train the next day?

5. If I'm gonna put up an open log for threading stuff related to this with locations for the train car, the research outpost, the car ride to New Prague, the New Prague overnight, and the train. Are there any setting details I should make sure to capture in the top level for this log? (Or since this will be open to basically anyone bc of the agents thing, will y'all be putting up a log?)

6. Should I do an OOC post explaining all of it and contextualizing the openness of the log and the fact that Daisy spreading things around is common knowledge so ppl can make plans prior to any possible network to that effect going up?

7. The obvious: what will the state of Rey's ID be when she gets back to New Amsterdam? (Probably same question for anyone who doesn't use a scrambler mask while smashing up the outpost.)

8. AND MORE OBVIOUSLY, LET ME KNOW IF WE NEED TO ADJUST ANYTHING HERE. (Note I reordered some dates from when I shared a draft of this for plotting purposes because I realized only the facility thing makes a difference for new ppl and the Poe bit works better if Rey's been gone a few days instead of just one.)

Hi Lindsey!

Looking at the previous conversation, we believe that some wires were crossed. In the plot engagement thread that you linked, we didn't realize you specifically wanted Jon to spy on gangs. Had we known, we would have been happy to provide further clarity on the feasibility of this plot sooner. As it is, Morningstar does not have an adversarial relationship with the gangs, and wouldn't value spying on them or trying to find out what they're involved with. To provide some more background on that: Before the current trouble started, Morningstar and the gangs did not have much to do with each other, and generally followed a policy of mutual disinterest. There are occasional cases where there were gang contacts to help Morningstar with less legal activity, but these contacts were not aware that they were working with Morningstar. These contacts would've been a part of the file that El had provided the new Morningstar after the assault by the UNA.

Some of the gangs are involved with corporations—Morningstar's focus—but this is viewed by Morningstar as a symptom of the corporate stranglehold over everything rather a problem in its own right. For the most part, however, the gangs—and larger criminal underground—are their own, independent entity, existing separate from all of the corporate corruption in the world. Gang members are also unlikely to frequent bars in neutral territories, especially to talk about Morningstar. Even ignoring the current plot with Caroline, speaking aloud about Morningstar can get anyone in trouble.

As for Jon bartending corporate events, that would definitely be up Morningstar's alley. We're happy to help you develop that into a plot for Jon. We can throw Gaby around to help him get somewhere up the bartender ladder—she's well aware that he's an eager, well-meaning puppy, so she would be happy to help him get a leg up here! If you'd like Jon to be involved with gangs, we recommend you touch base with some of the other characters doing work in that area such as Jason Todd, Kovacs, Caroline, Laura Moon, and Octavia Blake. However, this would not be a Morningstar-adjacent plot!

Thanks!

sorry for not following up in the previous conversation, the dream event happened and I got........pretty distracted......I just wanted an easy assignment for jon so he could learn on the job without drawing attention to himself. he will probably mention his corporate bartending aspirations to gaby, but he won't want to seem ungrateful for the job she did get him! he's trying to cultivate his good-puppy image.

Thanks mods! (No worries, I am in job transition and electrician hell, so I am only just getting back to this)

I will MOST LIKELY pursue both of those options (mostly bc Rey and Dany already have a pretty solid rapport, and I will never say no to more CR via Riku :') ) but I think the social media angle is definitely one she will have looked into -- probably slowly, given her shaky handle on the technology involved. She would focus on searching for what she could on the report and search for links to the facility -- maybe also link up with anyone who has done other research to see if there is any relevance between them, or if they are specialized in any way (for example: containment vs splicing/research vs adaptation observation).

Given the most recent arrival log (and her powerset), she would be keyed in on trying to learn more, and would recognize the need for legitimacy. I'm ok with the long path on that -- maybe starting with finding someone who works there, upping her rep with them via flattery/a game of nerd checking with simple factoids she could have found googling to start with the goal of just getting visitation, and working through that person afterwards to search for a role in a research division that would eventually lead her to the actual facilities much further down the line.

(If this plan sounds solid to y'all, I would also be happy to build a basic character sheet for that NPC if that would help, but I am just as happy having them be a nobody until/if it becomes relevant later)

EDIT: Oh also, I mentioned this on the arrival log, but I will put it here for ease of reference since it is relevant: Dany is also going to be taking samples and searching for research at the outpost in said arrival log.

Edited 2019-07-19 00:35 (UTC)

omg i'm losing my mind about all this. this is all so cool!!! thanks so much!

once cassian discovers how deeply intertwined the neural implants and the cyberkinetics are, he would think reach out to el, so i would like to throw him at el's inbox to chat about the implants sometime soon if that might lead to any kind of interesting conversations? since he knows el does a lot with the implants.

what kind of company is riverstone? cassian would also look into the basics of what they do and what other companies they might be connected with, if that information is on the neural network or through any of his contacts, even if it's just rumors to begin with.

can i ask if this was the hint?
Anyone in a hospital receiving care from a doctor or a medi-unit may find their life slipping away from them – and if someone's in a medi-unit when the EMP hits, they're almost sure to be dead or permanently injured, requiring different medical intervention.

if so i'd like him to make the connection there! or at least run with that as a theory. he would begin to look into some of the more recent history of new amsterdam, to see if there have been any significant power outages, even if it was for certain grids or areas of the city. he'd ask some of the people he knows if there had been any similar events as well as doing the new amsterdam google equivalent.

if not i will look over it again for more hints haha.

'sup modlies, a couple small questions to get me back in the swing of things:

1. bobbi was missing for a bit while i was on hiatus; if fitz called in sick for her, would she still have her job and the lab access and all that or would her situation at work have changed?

2. would samples of the smaller monsters from the facility match samples of the monsters from earlier? i'm assuming yes, but bobbi would want to confirm

Hello!

Jon needs to lay hands on a tape-recorder or some other kind of non-digital recording device. Would he be able to find an item like this, and if so, how expensive would it be? If it has to be built, would that be particularly difficult?

Hi Jessi!

All this sounds good!

We will want you to touch base and provide more details for: "And he'll start it off with some nice new ideas on how to get money going back into gangs (some nice companies to hit)... and promising them use of tech that'll help them get even more resources." But feel free to follow up with that at your leisure, since the bulk of this plot has yet to go down yet.

Hey Jenna! We're sorry we're a little late about this one.

It's definitely fine for Jason to recognize the area or for it to be recognizable to a contact of his!

Hi Eliana! Thanks for the follow up.

1. There are definitely a lot of people who feel powerless or are disenfranchised in the current social environment. Gangs tend to recruit these individuals, but given the population of New Amsterdam, there are always plenty. It would be less people screwed over by the UNA itself—most people do not have interactions with the UNA—and more people jaded and made impoverished by corporate capitalism. It will take quite a lot of footwork to get a solid base going, as people in the position of needing to join a gang would be more attracted to an already established one. However, some might be especially attracted if Octavia couches her gang in idealistic terms.

For recruiting current gang members on the promise of Morningstar protection, this would be a tough sell, mostly because Octavia is just one person and doesn't have an established reputation for her gang. More likely, advertising the glow to current gang members would make Octavia a target for people who are afraid. Down the line, however, as Octavia's gang grows, she will begin to look more attractive to current members and even whole smaller gangs that are floundering.

2. The exact consequences of playing up the blue glow long-term are iffy right now! Damian is making motions to make the blue glow more public now, as well. However, the UNA are definitely starting to take notice of this blue glow and will be more aggressive in finding glowing individuals in the future, so it is safe to say being a known glowing person makes a brush with the UNA very likely.

3. For this option, it depends on what you mean by "going after." Would Octavia be aiming to kill these individuals, threaten them, or get them into legal trouble, etc? This would be a tough path to tread, as Octavia would at minimum need access to surveillance-dodging/implant-scrambling equipment for her gang. Let us know a little more about how Octavia would play this angle, and we can provide more detail.

In general, we recommend you connect with Jason Todd's player, Jessi, as Jason is doing some dramatic gang re-organization himself! This could be a source of conflict or a potential ally for Octavia.

Hey Tifa! Sorry again for the delay.

In order of the questions asked! Feel free to ask any follow up questions, and we promise that we'll be much quicker with it since we know you're looking to launch this plot soon.

1. There are not any scientists present! While most of these research outposts are actually used for research, the UNA is fairly cavalier when they want to take over a location.

2. Most of the interrogation would involve a mixture of drugs - most notably not the compliance drug - as well as various points of interrupting her sleep, messing with her cognizance of the passage of time, as well as trying to get her to exhibit the blue glow and injecting needles into her chest to see what it might do. She will be aware of a series of tests and MRI scans to see what might be within her. Unsurprisingly, all of these would come up negative. Let us know if they successfully got her to show off her power!

As for the questions, they would demand information about what she knows about Morningstar, as well as how they managed to put together a special unit utilizing this blue technology. Most of their questions would be linking the UNA assault and eventual failure in the September mission against Morningstar (our January event!) with what happened during the EMP. They would also ask questions about why Morningstar is so concerned with the neural implants, with what technology the UNA uses, and why they're seemingly unaware of typical practices in the world.

More than anything, it seems that they have a thesis: that Morningstar has been developing and raising special soldiers, but those soldiers are poorly trained compared to the UNA. They will believe that Morningstar developed these soldiers in response to the UNA, and that someone like Rey has been waiting in the wings.

There will be some questions about the art depicting people as glowing blue, as well as inquiries about whether or not these are Morningstar supporters (as they're concerned that Morningstar has far more support than they expected, and that they've tricked people into buying their art and displaying it in their homes). There will be no knowledge of the Displaced as an independent entity, as well as any explanation that might support Gaby's exception from the September assault. As a note, the answer for that lies elsewhere!

If Rey is able to think clearly, she will at least get some confirmation that they know nothing about the Displaced and that their information was incomplete. None of the new Morningstar recruits from the Displaced were compromised. They will be trying to get information out of Rey about this continued Morningstar in New Amsterdam, as they believe that their efforts at least subdued Morningstar in the city, even if they - the UNA - had little else to show for it.

3. The agents are in terrible shape! They already went through thorough interrogation to get answers, though none of that proved useful because of how El chose to separate the Morningstar chapters. At most, they learned that these chapters are separate, so no one knows about anyone in any other cities (a fact that's made secure with the use of aliases like Gaby's).

However, they recently went through a new round of interrogation about the blue technology. This interrogation was even more extreme. Most of the agents are catatonic, seemingly unaware of who they are or where they are, and some will react negatively and violently toward anyone who displays the blue glow in front of them. They've been conditioned to respond that way.

4. All of the Morningstar agents will be held under an abandoned convenience store. It will be apparent that this safehouse is not one of the ones that's typically used in New Prague, but instead one of the miscellaneous ones that they've had around. Unlike New Amsterdam, most of the safehouses in New Prague weren't compromised. The convenience store is located near the edge of the city, and it's meant to be a temporary stop. Of course, there is a high likelihood that this safehouse will be decommissioned after all of this.

The inside of the safehouse is like most safehouses, but since it's meant to be temporary, there aren't any clothes or food in place to help someone out. There will be Morningstar agents who come in to supply these things throughout the stay, showing up about an hour in to help out.

Anyone who wore an ID scrambler mask during the rescue of Rey or the other agents will be able to explore New Prague. Anyone else … can do that if they want, but it's not a good idea! The safehouse won't be fun, but jail will be worse.

As a final note: none of the agents in New Prague will know about El's real identity as Elysian/Lucifer. In offering zeir assistance, they'll remind everyone to keep this under wraps because it might compromise Morningstar as a whole. El is more concerned with helping the world, and knows that many people may not get the AI thing. This is not to say that people can't go against El's wishes. They can!

5. For time constraints reasons - and because we want to encourage players to do big plot things - we're not going to be putting up a log. However, we will happily put up a plurk for your OOC post and log when they're both ready! Just drop us a line. We'll make a ping in the Discord channel, too.

As for the locations:

The Outpost: A less grimy version of what was in the most recent arrival log. Many of the Displaced will find the interior is almost identical to what was present there, with some wings repurposed as jailing sites. There are bright, fluorescent lights with white walls and a sterile smell throughout. There will be soldiers handling every door. These are the UNA, so they're well armed boss battles. Even cleaned up, this won't be similar to any labs found in any dreams (prequel or dreamscape).

The Car: This would be a large, armored truck that's meant to transfer large numbers of the UNA. It will be spacious. Remember that it flies! But they will likely want to ensure that it remains lower so that it's more difficult to track on any visual devices. No one will get to keep this vehicle for obvious reasons.

The Safehouse: Located under an abandoned version of Meadowlark's worldwide 7-11. It's not called 7-11 - we haven't thought up a name - but if you want to come up with that name, feel free! We like giving the opportunity to name things to our players when possible. But if you can't think something up, we'll definitely give it to you. The upper part of the store is, as we said, abandoned. It's just an empty space, though there is a wall where it's clear that there were once icee machines.

New Prague: New Prague is a large, beautiful city housing around 30 million people. Unlike many of its brethren, it pays homage to the "Old" Prague in a number of ways: there are impractical cobblestone streets, and the architecture adheres to an older, gothic style throughout the city. In fact, there are ordinances that demand the city continues to look as if it harkens to an older past and time. Above all else, New Prague is very green: there are trees everywhere.

The weather here is just as extreme as it is in New Amsterdam, so anyone who's not been checking the news will find that the world really was screwed over by Cassius. Thanks, Cassius!

Throughout the city, there is a large, man-made river that cuts through to the underground, causing there to be beautiful falls underneath the main city itself. This river is called the New Vitava River, once again paying homage to the Prague of Old. The New Vitava River is maintained to the degree that there is no littering in it, and there are strict local rules about doing anything lewd in it. That includes using it as a toilet. Don't do that! There are bridges all over the city to easily across from one side to another, and all public transit has been constructed to adhere to the river and also offer its citizens views of it on the regular.

Food throughout the city is just as eclectic as it is anywhere else. Visually, it looks like they want to remember Prague, but culturally, it's just as varied. This isn't an Eastern European city in anything but aesthetic.

The Train: This will be similar to the train to and from New Tokyo, but a considerably shorter trip! They'll need to get off when they're in the vicinity of New Amsterdam, which will be extremely dangerous because there won't be a stop. They will need to devise a way to get off the train without dying in the process - this will be difficult, but not impossible. Have fun, kids! El will have agents go with them on the train to work on getting them back into the city, as they've done this rodeo before. The opening made by Cassius for the arrival log will work fine.

6. We think an OOC post would be great! Make sure to emphasize the difficulty of dealing with the UNA soldiers. They are not an easy fight. People might die and need to be revived in New Prague (and, of course, Morningstar's agents in New Prague will be happy to assist with that).

7. Rey will need to stay outside of New Amsterdam and will be guided there by the New Prague agents on the way back. There is an underground cave not far from the city that was taken over by Morningstar two decades ago, and it's where the very small handful of agents who stuck around after the UNA attacks have been staying. In general, it's a pretty nice hideout, but most of the food available is rations. Not that Rey isn't used to that kind of food!

By time she returns - this will take about a week - Rey will no longer exist. Rey Nolo will have died during her rescue, and Rey will need to take on an entirely new identity. Her neural implant will be scrubbed entirely, with a new identity in place. Any of her identifying features - her apartment, her accounts, her job - will be gone, and she wouldn't be able to live with Poe again (as that would be far too suspicious). Any identifying traces of her would be gone.

On the Morningstar network, she would be a completely new person. Rey Nolo would be one person, and her new identity would be another. There would be no links between these individuals.

El would not let her take the name Rey when she took on a new identity, and would advise that she cut and dye her hair for the time being while this blows over!

8. There will be consequences for this that we'll cover in the upcoming calendar! However, we do not want a lot of people to have to have their identities rewritten - so we would prefer that everyone involved avoid that outcome by using the ID scrambling masks. They will be available!

Hi, Kay! Thanks for being patient with us.

A character sheet of sorts for the NPC sounds like a great idea! We would love to see what you come up with, and we'd suggest for the sake of ease and melding the ideas together, that maybe Dany's internet/social media searches lead her to someone who works at one of the research facilities so that she can start working on getting in good with them. So yes, a more generalized visit would be the first step, and after that she could start working on that NPC as far as discussing what she would need to do to get hired at the research facility.

As far as the samples she's taking, let us know (once you've decided) what, if anything, she would do with them. Thanks!

Hi Tomato!

Feel free to reach out to El's inbox whenever you'd like! Much of the connection is based around the idea that a cybernetic should work seamlessly with someone's body. That Cassian's does despite his otherwise blank neural implant would stand out! After all, his spine is now fairly incredible. (Insert spine of steel jokes right here.)

As for Riverstone: Riverstone started out as an entertainment company that eventually bankrolled a lot of early experiments with robotics and artificial intelligence. Rather than having a goal in AIs, they merely wanted to find a way to counteract them. They saw robotics - as well as technology around droids and drones - as a means of furthering humanity, instead of something that would live alongside it. This mission statement remains a part of their core belief system, especially in a world that widely denigrates AI.

Early on, Riverstone was behind some of the world's most beloved movies. These movies were family affairs, but they eventually started picking up steam, coming to own a lot of other entertainment companies. While they don't have a monopoly on the world's entertainment, they have a lot of control behind it. As they did, they started investing in a lot of various sciences - both environmental and biological - so that they could help improve the quality of life for the people of the world. Despite all their money, they were willing to do philanthropic work.

These days, Riverstone dabbles in a lot of things: they act as a rival car company for Pulsar, they develop applications for the neural implant and even ensured that the implants could handle any and all media sharing, and they're closely linked with the United Nations in New Beijing. As for what they did with cybernetics, they helped with the processing with the neural implants, as well as helped provide their cosmetic technology that they patented throughout the years of working in the entertainment industry to ensure that they looked real.

Most of the chatter online is about what their next blockbuster is going to be, as well as how they manage to remain environmentally sound while producing these otherwise bombastic films. Some people like to hate them for how many credits they can roll in, but they seem to be unstoppable. There are some minority groups that chatter about how they have a very sanitized message in all their movies, and they're unwilling to truly explore the uglier parts of humanity and the Earth's history (namely: despite bankrolling AI research, they don't touch any of the reasoning behind that in their films, and have notoriously turned down stories that breach that area).

The current CEO of Riverstone is Meredith Ling. The Ling family has been in charge of Riverstone for over half a millennia.

Finally, yes, that is the hint we mentioned! There was a significant power outage in September of 2510! An earthquake rocked the world at the same time. We covered a little bit about this here, so there will definitely be individuals who needed medical care from that time that he could possibly reach out to! Of course, HIPAA - or the 2511 equivalence of it - is in place, so he may have to do some digging to find someone who was in a medi-unit when this happened. We also have a plot in motion to send people to New Oslo, so he can jump on that if he'd like to widen his reach!

Hey Tona!

1. Yes, that's fine! Fitz would have had to manufacture a long-term illness as an excuse for her. You're free to play it by ear. Her coworkers will even have a virtual card ready for her return, as well as vanilla and chocolate layered cake.

2. They would not be! If Bobbi were to look further, she'd find that the genes in the smaller monsters have been forced to express certain traits through genetic engineering.

Hi again, and thanks!

It'd be a lot of empty promises, tbh. He'd show off what he's capable of, show off his id scramblers, and give lines about earning it. Since El was willing to hand over blueprints--Jason will be using those to get a mask for Kovacs and Loki, too. Kovacs will be (eventually) taking a place as Jason's right hand man, and Jason will be pretty adamant about how Kovacs earned his place and his toys!

Jason will also be taking advantage of Loki's weapon cache, since he offered to share! But again--it'll be a show of force and of tools he has, but he won't be sharing with any of the gang members for a while.

He just wants to keep them on their toes and waiting for it!

Re: the tech anyway! Any really detailed plans would wait until he established his place among them better. And he'll likely go to El or Gaby for a good hitlist.

Edited 2019-07-24 04:40 (UTC)

Hi Leigh!

Unfortunately tape recorders have been long extinct by this point, so any recording he did would have to be through the implant. There are apps for this! Logistically speaking, the implant interfaces with bones of the inner ear and converts what someone hears into digital form, so he would then be able to access and play back the files he recorded through his implant.

It might be possible for him to hunt down someone who could build a tape recorder, but given that they've not existed for so long, even finding someone who could specialize in it and get their hands on the materials would be difficult -- not to mention that they would have to make him cassettes too. It's likely too expensive of an endeavor to be feasible for him at this point, though he could maybe come back to it somewhere down the line!

Hey there!

Sounds great! Reach out to us when it's time for that!

are you sure she can't pull a phantom thieves and just steal their hearts??

jokes aside, thanks for the information! that'll come in handy to keep in mind. in terms of 'going after', it's likely to be a combination of all three (more in the sense that she'll be catering to gang member's personal grudges at first, to try to earn their respect/trust, so she isn't going to exactly stop someone if they're going to go ham on someone who really, really wronged them) but with less emphasis on murder and more emphasis on intimidation tactics and, where possible, legal trouble that's not exactly ... always in line with the law (blackmail, ruining their public image, threatening them into confessions, exposing them on social media, stealing evidence, etc - whatever it takes to get certain individuals to stop and/or turn themselves in, basically).

i'm not sure if all of that makes sense, but lmk if more clarification is needed. i know it'll be the long game, of course, and take significant development; i'm fine with it backfiring on her, especially in the beginning stages when she'll need to somehow get her hands on the proper equipment.

also — ty, i'll be sure to reach out when i get all of my thoughts and ideas sorted and know which directions i can take! as you can see, i'm partially brainstorming as i go along.

Thank you, mods!

For the initial plot I just want to note down a date of November 27th! For posterity.

hi guys, so sorry to interject - tifa said it was ok that i just hop on here, but

re: 7 - rey having to stay out of new amsterdam for a bit, presumably this is so that she's able to recover and also gives them time to establish her new id, yes? would kylo be allowed to stay with her while she's in new prague or would he have to return to new amsterdam with the other group. i ask this purely because after finding her, and learning what she's endured, he'll be reluctant to leave her there on her own.

Kylo can definitely stay with her! As a point of clarification, it would be in a cave system just outside of New Amsterdam, and the New Prague agents would be helping them find it! We realize our wording was a little hazy surrounding that!

fantastic! and thank you for the clarification, it'll definitely help with figuring out what happens post-rescue, while the dust settles.

1. Can you give me more information about possible consequences around Rey revealing her power before I decide I'M AFRAID OF PEEING IN THE SANDBOX BY ... REVEALING POWERS ... WITH THE BLUE LIGHT ... but also Rey has shown precedent of being real resilient to interrogation (she won't give them the answers they want) and also lashing out at them, and this event will be spurring a huge power growth for her so it would make sense for that to manifest. I'M NERVOUS FAM.

Other than that, some ID stuff:

2. Can her new ID be Raeh Solo? Or will El say that's too close?

3. Will there be any requirements as far as what kinds of job openings she needs to stay away from (i.e., avoiding drawing attention)?

Hi Tifa!

1. In the immediate future, the UNA would go and interrogate the other agents about the powers. The agents who know Rey would be reluctant to give away her identity as a Morningstar agent, but would eventually give in, saying that Morningstar has started helping out a new group that emerged. Other details would help the UNA correlate the arrival of the Displaced with the firefight back during the first arrival in June. The UNA were not involved in this fight, which will be clear, but they're aware of it because they were tasked with cleaning up after it. Some of the agents taken during the January event will still be resentful of the Displaced, and this will help convince the UNA that the Displaced are separate from Morningstar.

As far as long term consequences, it's hard to say! There are a lot of different directions this can go. Players have plots in motion that can really impact which way things go from here, especially with the intel from Ball and what the Displaced are going to find when they go to those locations. Rey using her powers won't bring about anything like immediate bad circumstances but it will certainly have an impact on how broader events develop. We want people to do big things like this so that the world can continue to evolve, and so that everyone feels like they had a hand in changing it.

2. They would recommend that she pick a different first name - something like Rachel, or Rochelle - that could easily be shortened to Rey. (Or Raeh, for that matter!) The surname is fine! There are a lot of R names that can get her there.

3. Given her reach as both as Giles Bell employee and as a car mechanic - what with reaching out to people prior to the event going down to see if they might be favorable to her overtures - she's pretty out of luck with anything that might relate to these two ventures. She can certainly take up a job as a mechanic in a different industry since that's still her skill set, but she'll need to be careful. There are a lot of different mechanics jobs, of course! Fixing fridges, air conditioning, or anything like that.

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