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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!

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[personal profile] voicelog 2020-10-03 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
just an addendum to the above, but tony is strongly against the idea of the tests overall. what is the likelihood they can negotiate with riverstone to have the exchange of information for something else? ex. rather than participate in tests, an offer of services etc instead.
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[personal profile] evasives 2020-10-03 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
slams back into this post. i definitely fell off the wagon with this plot but i am BACk

cassian has done a lot of research into his spine and other branches that have come up! i'm starting a new, fresh thread, but trying to keep the old stuff connected in an easier trail for me. i would really like to start making more headway on this mystery 👀

1) in this, the subject of serial numbers came up. i would like to say cassian discovered these numbers existed a while ago and has been working on greasing wheels with several related people in his network as well as speaking to El, and knows now his spine does not have any. myyy next question is: what can cassian do to look into the origins of his particular cyberkinetic spine? (this ties into parts of my part two somewhat, as i'm unclear how on how the serial numbers might relate to his dream.) through his various connections and resources, what would he find about who has the ability to erase a serial number, and would he able to find the original number for his? his ultimate question on that front is: whomst made this fake spine!

2) in relation to the dream he had here! cassian's new assumption is that his own powers may have necessitated his spinal surgery WHOOPS! he spoke to jyn and clarke and both of them suggested ball and his followers - my question is would cassian be able to make contact with any of them? (jyn is on a lot of shrines, he could go through her? he's accidentally also gotten some notoriety himself helping out new amsterdam, or a third option if need be, clarke may be able to facilitate it?) and would they be able to help him suss out some dream deets? or at least give him another perspective on what he saw in it? if he can reach out to them and explain his dreams, what would they offer?

also in relation to the dream, it was supposed to fill in a gap but i... don't know what the gap was?? unless it was the part about the powers + the facility, and making cassian's new theory that he/the displaced caused the incident?

3) if cassian started digging into the funding for the facility at new omsk where the 2510 earthquake was noted, what would he find? who was connected to it? who cut off the funding and got it shut down? even though he has a new theory about why for his spine, he's still interested in the earthquakes + spinetail and that part of this web.
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[personal profile] voicelog 2020-10-03 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
yes, that's fine! i figured it was gonna tie into the upcoming event. tony is gonna try his darnedest anyway, but if riverstone doesn't budge, then he will at least insist on a detailed contractual agreement re: all of the points tifa made above. he also wants to know if representatives for the displaced who've volunteered can be present during the tests for accountability purposes.
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[personal profile] lifetothefullest 2020-10-05 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry the delay on this augh.

1. Sounds good! It'll be a fun little nerd vacation, at least. And I will definitely keep an eye out for bird stuff~

2. Ooooh this is all super interesting! I'll definitely message Ana about that potential lead re: Henries, especially since Lance and Drake are friends so I've got plenty of ic excuse to get into that conversation.

Similarly, Lance knows Jack so I think I can probably figure out a good way for this icly to come up! Jyn also just mentioned to Lance that Johann has clones so I'm presuming that's another interesting bit to this plot?

As far as the lack of info on Henries goes, that's definitely something Lance will notice and so I'm going to think about some more potential avenues for looking into that further and get back to you on it when I have some more time for it. c:

Re: unaging dude, also very interesting! Same as above; I definitely want to think about more potential things to try to explore with this, I just haven't had any time lately, alas. So I will for sure be back with more questions about all of this, especially once some of the ic threads play out a bit more.

Thank you! <3
Edited (I don't have a problem with names what are you talking about) 2020-10-05 01:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] forcevisions 2020-10-05 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THIS, MODS. I may have more questions but for now I just have one: is Meredith Ling related to Ricky Ling?
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[personal profile] stagethreeclinger 2020-10-06 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks a bunch for the answers, guys!!

Re: internships and cyber security, i think i want to go with option 2 there, and have roy pull a high-level hack at some point to try getting on their radar. Would it be safe to say he could hear rumors or vague street whispers about the Hi-Jacks through hanging around the black market places and sketchier bars? Beating security systems is more of Roy's interest in general, anyway.
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[personal profile] stagethreeclinger 2020-10-06 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, okay neato, that works!! ok, so for the actual hack attempt to try getting their attention, roy needs to start trying to info-dig anyway.

i'm going to throw some ideas out, and i guess if you guys could let me know if these are doable or not, that'd be awesome? Since he knows Durcell (sort of), maybe he could try to bork with some of his less intense security? roy likes to steal data and replace it with dumb videos of dancing penguins or crap like that, so his hack would probably be something along those lines. If there's any official files on Red Hood, Jason's or Loki's gang connections on police databases (if they're low enough level y'all think Roy should be able to access them), he'd definitely go for those. If the Maeda nonsense is still going on, that's another person he'd go after, because he's still pissed about Damian's arm. Umm, alternatively, he could do something that's basically shitposting and maybe hijack a news feed and replace it with mocking anti-propaganda? what would really be cool is if he could hack Riverstone to try to get some more info on this testing stuff, but i'm assuming they have a really serious cyber security system going on that would be above his current level.

idk if any of that helps or is feasible, sorry guys, i'm a little lost and don't want to overstep anything on what roy should be capable of.
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[personal profile] wittingly 2020-10-07 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
hey mods,

Ian's going to start the process of contacting and interviewing law firms to represent the displaced that are adamant about participating in the study

here are the things he's going to ask them to help draft a contract on / the issues he wants them to represent for them:

-clear terms that all harvested organic material is the property of the participant of the study, but granting permission to Riverstone to complete a pre-approved list of tests they communicate in advance
-any genetic material has to either be returned or destroyed upon completion of the testing, and what exactly completion means
-PII needs to be considered confidential and shouldn't be stored by Riverstone beyond a specifically allotted time period after testing, with the exception probably being people still employed with the company
-we'd need some kind of statement on their security policies or data maintenance in the event that they're conveniently hacked
-we'd need an airtight nondisclosure agreement that includes our interests, not just theirs
-maybe some kind of declaration of intent with the stipulation that anything outside of the specified use cases be approved by all parties involved
-an agreement to release all findings to the participants of the study, or a specified list of contacts in the event that participant can't be located

He's made a post hoping to take up donations, but he's also willing to pay what he needs to initially to put someone on retainer. he's also going to shop around until he finds someone he feels like he can trust & who is competent.

+ an amendment from stephen

The negotiation of a requirement of written confirmation that they have evidenced information prior to any agreement to participate
Edited 2020-10-10 00:43 (UTC)
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[personal profile] unwings 2020-10-08 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi hi! Thank you guys for the write up, it's super helpful!!

1 & 3. Oh oh oh, okay, thanks for clarifying that about the monster tunnels, I don't think I was on the same page for that (I am easily confused, pls forgive). One of the group can get in touch with Cassian/Tomato to talk about tunnel fortification and expanding.

2. Awesome, thank you! About how safe are the tunnels from cave-in right now? Does Dextiela need to be worried about construction on tunnels causing issues for the inhabited parts of the city?

4. Cool cool, they can bring that up with Cassian as well. Is it okay to handwave, once the fortifying starts, that they're down there enough to map out that area and get this GPS/mapping project taken care of?

RE: BIRBS - Thanks for the bird info! Castiel will absolutely accept this generous donation of Urban Birds Eating French Fries, thank you, what quaint and lovely art. he'll go ahead and join this birdwatchers club since 1, they're really nice and 2, he wants to keep an ear to the ground on this bird related stuff, and these seem like the most informed people around at the moment. please can cas be a bird nerd.
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[personal profile] unwings 2020-10-08 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay cool, I'll put that on the list to talk to Tomato about. Thank you!
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[personal profile] realists 2020-10-10 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
so jyn and (comics) tony have the audacious idea to, you know, text johann.

based on this email snippet supplied by, presumably, cassius, they know jpg has a network id and they figured that they could just send him a message! but first we have a couple questions before we get into the nitty gritty

1. is this possible lmao
2. if it is, would it be possible to create a fake identity for the purpose of messaging jpg, similar to the way gaby has a separate morningstar id she uses for the morningstar network, either by tony's machinations or cassius/el's help
Edited 2020-10-10 18:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] evasives 2020-10-10 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
1) ok so re: spine things, he's greased some wheels over his time here between a cyberkinetics specialist at the new amsterdam riverstone office (Kell Bärna) as well as a specialist doctor (Adeline Tiras), both of whom are listed in his network, and he's done tons of digging all around in general already. he would ask Dr Tiras about the pre surgery process and the prosthetic supply lines. he will also look into the process of start to finish: who designs a spine, who orders it when necessary, who/what positions have access and oversight, how airtight is the security. riverstone and giles bell are the leading developers for cyberkinetics, but what kind of people are involved in the between period for development and insertion? where does the serial number come from? he knows his is scrubbed, so who and/or what corps have the technology for this?

basically he will investigate the supply lines and any medical connections to outside labs (ie: non hospital orgs) that have ties to riverstone or giles bell. will johann turn up here too??? a mystery.

2) thanks for the clarification on this! i think i had definitely gotten the gist, but i was afraid to run with it in case i interpreted it completely wrong. (also, reached out to the cultists on the linked post, so shuffles away from that on this post)

3) ok so time for cassian to start poking a little more about mr. johann! are there any characters in game who have more info about him? where would be a good place to start drawing some johann strings together? cassian already has feelers in the big four corporations, are there any patterns cassian would notice about resources that would follow prior known areas johann's involved in? he's sort of... everywhere as a figure, so cassian will start looking for more concrete stuff. is there any information on how long the lab/facility in antarctica has been around?

4) can i make up a contact who currently works at riverstone, but came from/previously worked at new omsk? (i have a cool name for her and everything: safia chernogorova). i feel like she could be a good resource for a couple different prongs, and presumably those workers ended up somewhere. (unless... they didn't????) what would happen if cassian tracked them down? if she can exist, i would like cassian to find this woman.
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[personal profile] stabsbooks 2020-10-10 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello, would Riverstone allow (and/or pay for) people who are not taking the tests to tag along with their babysitting charges friends who are?
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[personal profile] stabsbooks 2020-10-11 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[personal profile] voicelog 2020-10-11 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
one more question! would tony be able to gain access to information on the layout of the facility that riverstone is going to be performing their tests?