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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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hi mods! so jon's official business is spying on the gangs in neutral territory (as a bartender) for morningstar, is there anything he should or would know? pertaining to the anti-caroline plot specifically would be especially helpful!! Thanks!!

'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?

on jyn, clarke, & prompto's camping trip during the emp aftermath, jyn took the time to collect a number of samples including soil, water, a number of plants (the bleeding tooth mushrooms and ghost flowers specifically), and some of the insects she murdered at night, plus a stray spider, which as clarke pointed out is not a bug. :) she would also grab some of the dead animals just off the street to look into their golden eyes.

when things start to calm down a little (after daisy and cassian are called in for secrets), jyn would bring the samples to work and ask around for someone to look into them for her since while her interests lean toward natural sciences she doesn't have the technical know-how to look at shit under a microscope and notice anything that might be awry, especially things from this world. she will not admit that she went outside of the city but say she collected the samples from the animals that had come in during and after the emp chaos. (she will not waver from this even though it seems absurd that an animal could lug in intact plants or enough water to supply a sample.)

my question is two-fold: 1. will she be able to find a scientist willing to help her, with the consideration that she is a hard-working employee who does her job well and may have a good reputation for being a smart cookie even if she grumbles about the absurdity of the idea of terraforming gas giants while she works and 2. if that is possible what, if anything, would she find out about the samples and the creepy golden eyed animals. she is under the impression that it's some kind of effect of the climate change??? but she has no idea which is why she wants to look into it.

curiosity killed the jyn.

hi mods! a couple quick questions for you off of this thread with clarke!

› if daisy was to future!google the longitude & latitude clarke provides, would the building or specific location provided come up with anything specific? if it's a specific building, would she be able to find out any interesting details about it (the ownership, what kind of business is done there if any, urban legends, etc)?
› if i'm remembering correctly, facial recognition technology is already deployed in new amsterdam, and would likely fall under vyonation's purview. if daisy tried to pull a search using vyonation resources to match the face clarke draws to a name, would she be successful? would this set off any flags at work or cause any repercussions for her?
› also, not totally related to this thread but something i've wondered about for a while: how feasible is leisure travel for the displaced? is it "plane tickets might be 100 bucks or 300 bucks depending on when you buy" expensive, or is it "save up your whole life for a week in fiji" expensive? do you need a visa to go from megacity to megacity? what kind of processes are there -- for example, do you have to have an interview with customs & border control to "declare intent", or can you simply buy a ticket and show your passport at the border? (if i'm missing info that's already posted somewhere, my apologies!)

Hi mods, I have a few questions re: Kylo’s eventual return to New Amsterdam, Rey in tow.

›new job; he vanished shortly after the Fischer incident and would, I assume, have likely lost his job as a courier as a result. I would like to eventually get him involved in private security (as a bodyguard, for instance; I figured it might be a way to get him involved in the political sphere eventually without actually having to go the traditional politics route) but was thinking I would start him out in something a little simpler, like working at a gym. Possibly teaching some self-defense classes somewhere slightly more upmarket – though I am also willing to have him start in a smaller and work a bit before he can get his swankier gym job, as well. But what I wanted to know here is:

1. Is getting a job at a gym (any gym) feasible for him; if so, what kind of options does he have in terms of places looking and if he’d need to tick any particular boxes.
2. If yes, would he be able to eventually use this as a springboard for security work. The scenario I think of, off-hand, is he spends some time teaching kids how to defend themselves, and one of the parents decides that he knows what he’s doing and has a good rapport with the kids, maybe he’d like to do some weekend work or something? Idk idk. This is just what came to mind, off-hand.
3. If he can’t use the gym job, are there other avenues he could explore to eventually get into that kind of work (security) and which would be the most feasible for him, as he is.

›illegal racing; so, I was running with the idea that when he was working as a courier, Kylo had been a fairly solid employee: fast, reliable. He was also taking the occasional illegal job on the side.

1. Would it be feasible to assume that he might have gotten enough notice to have been informed about/offered an opportunity to race in the street races? This is less about wanting him to become a racer than assuming that he would have an idea of where the races are typically had, who is involved etc.
2. Which gangs are involved in racing, specifically. Do the races have fixed locations or do they change? How does one typically find out where the next race would be held?
3. How much money could a racer conceivably make? How much could you make betting off a race?
4. Is it a full time commitment or could you feasibly have a day job and just race occasionally? Would you need some kind of backer or sponsor?

› legal racing; I saw in a previous comment that you mentioned that one of the ways you can be recruited for legal racing is through VR racing?

1. What are some of the popular VR racing games available? Are these games you could encounter in any standard arcade/VR parlour?
2. What is the typical process for being recruited into the VR racing circuit? Would this be different for bikes versus cars or the same?
3. How long would it take to really distinguish yourself?

› gaming; just some miscellaneous questions since I want to try dig more into Kylo’s hobby and this really interests me, so:

1. Who are the big game companies? Are there just these or do you get smaller, indie companies as well?
2. What are the big games? Are there specific genres in favor right now?
3. What kind of equipment would a serious VR gamer be expected to have at their home? Like, idk. A home version of the vr set ups you’d find in an arcade. How much would something like that generally cost you?
4. What sort of cons are there? I know we had the Anime Con earlier this year but what are the other big events for gaming/general nerdery.

› tattooes; I want Kylo to eventually get a tattoo and was thinking if there were any really well-regarded artists that he could look into?

With all the out-of-town athletes coming in, I was wondering it if it would be possible for Sniper to establish out-of-town clients. Is this do-able, or would the cost of travel be too prohibitive for an athlete to afford to pay for the occasional trip?

If it is possible, Sniper will look for connections in New Cairo and New Beijing.

hi modlies!

are there bounty hunters or mercenaries in new amsterdam and if so, how would one go about joining their ranks?

Hello Mods!

Just a couple questions for you:

1. Is it possible for the displaced to put up the equivalent of a 'do not disturb' message or otherwise make it very apparent to other parties that they are ignoring their communications?

2. As part of the background that was arranged by Cassius upon Carol's arrival (mother was NAPD and then subsequently UNA), would it be feasible for her to pursue a career in law enforcement? If so would she have any sort of leg up above say any other people who would've presumably enrolled into the future equivalent of the police academy?

My intention isn't for her to have any sort of significantly higher importance role or become a detective, but rather a uniformed officer who handles mostly routine calls. clocks in and clocks out and mostly just patrols NA on a hoverbike or squad car with or without the overbearing precinct assigned partner

if rey tries to get her robotics team helping out with the city's plumbing disaster by proposing unmanned drone style robots to move through the city's plumbing and clear the pipes of roots/etc. and reseal the holes bored in them by roots digging in, how long would a project like that take to get going and how receptive would riverstone be to an idea like that? she recognizes it's maybe outside of their purview because it's at its core philanthropic, but it could also mean government contract if they sold them to the city, so ...

thoughts?

Edited 2019-09-19 03:55 (UTC)

OKAY, SO. Going into this with the understanding it might not lead anywhere at all other than Roxas maybe getting some weird looks.

Ever since his arrival, Roxas has been very concerned that there might be other monster hospitals out there—not actual hospitals filled with creepy beasts, per se, but other Displaced that came into the world a long time ago and are being held unknown to others, like his arrival group was, and that his friends might be among them. Accordingly, along with general getting-to-know-this-world exploration, he's living up to his Organization training and doing as much recon as possible as well as possible without dark corridors to sneak him around.

Obviously he will not locate a hidden cache of unconscious Displaced, but in his explorations, are there any happenings in New Amsterdam he might find odd/worrisome/generally notable? Let's assume for his dignity that he's decent at going unnoticed since he's had practice, but he's no Assassin's Creed-level stealth master. I'm also cool with him catching consequences for being a nosy parker, though I'd like to have an idea of what they'd be before committing.

Thanks mods!

hello hello hello!

i'd like caroline to get started (or have already gotten started) on pursuing more gang-related / crime-related employment. i know in previous plot engagement threads it was mentioned that members of different families might reach out to her for enforcer gigs or other opportunities, and i'd like to move forward with that if i can!

she would, if at all possible, prefer to work alone rather than with members of whatever criminal family wanted to hire her — and while enforcer gigs would be a good foot in the door, caroline would indicate that her strengths and preferences would both lean more towards the bounty hunting or independent muscle type of thing (tell me who to get, or tell me who to scare, and i'll do it vs i'll accompany you and make sure you don't get hurt kind of jobs would be her preference). she'd also broach the subject of inviting someone "on her level" (ie hope) to either take her own jobs or work with her — two supernaturally strong cute girls is better than one, right?

i'm sure i'm forgetting something or not thinking of some plot line but i hope that helps to start!

Hey guys!

1. I want to get Clarke working in a medical capacity around the city. A few ideas I've cooked up are:

- Working as an intern/on the job trainee for medical assistant work
- Working with PRESERVE to continue to help people who need medical assistance
- Generally something else that's more hands on?

This would, in theory, help benefit her medical training that she's been working toward since she started in the game a year ago. My thought is that she definitely has the background to go through some online courses rather quickly, and would want to add more hands on work to her resume.

I'm just not sure if any of this is viable. This is my last comment on this for reference.

My other thought is that maybe she can get a job with PRESERVE helping them with efforts in New Amsterdam? I'm spitballing here to see if you (... other mods ...) can help.

2. To work on Akechi's in-game plot, he's going to be looking into the following:

- Jovavich's campaign's overall sentiments toward their key opponents
- How they think of Gill-Jade
- Their views on the Mars rebellion
- Their views on Morningstar's recent actions
- Why Jovavich is pursuing a political career despite her deep interest in human exploration and science - I assume this part is answered in an interview, but Akechi wouldn't take whatever answer there was at face value.

Edited 2019-09-24 01:26 (UTC)

hello it's me as promised!

upon returning from zerzura, octavia is even more determined to get her gang progressing (as discussed here) and has thrown herself more fully into the underground, including hiding in that shady area (because discussing your feelings is hard). i'm wondering how much progress she could have made, and what things she could have feasibly gotten up to in the last month and into this month, etc.

Hello modlies!

It's been a few months since Dany started schmoozing her tracker friend, so she is going to start pressing a little harder for a facility tour with the goal of networking with some staff, seeing just how big of a focus the research projects are, what sort of focused research is being done.

She'll also be asking Aramis specifically (and anyone else in the facility who appears warm to her presence) what they think of the animals roaming around.

hi mods! sorry to have two plotty questions/comments in such a short frame.

i should have followed up with this sooner, oops my bad what is time, but i'm just wondering about whatever happened with any of the bugs cassian tried to plant in various offices during the EMP disaster etc. i think the ic time has passed now for most of them to have gotten swept, except the one in gill-jade's home. what would he have gotten from them?

i double checked where he managed to place them:
pulsar conference room
giles bell conference room
vyonation conference room
katelin jovavich's office
gill-jade's office/governor office
gill-jade's apartment

thanks!! c:

OKAY IT IS TIME. TIME FOR:

a lot of questions revolving around dreams before we can start this ball really rolling. so:

1. Can they cultivate in their dreams? In MDZS, cores permit the individual the ability to modify and manipulate their qi. Their qi can be used for purposes from the mundane (such as regulating their body temperature) to the mystifying (such controlling their own weaponry remotely). The latter would require the formation of a golden core, which in turn permits them to build a “base” toward their terminal goal of immortality. If you want to think of it another way, think of it as an internal philosopher’s stone; a golden core permits the use of magic (spiritual energy) and arcane methods, but also extends life (if done properly) indefinitely. This is not to say, of course, they are invulnerable! Conditional immortality until ascension is a good way to put it.

a. As this will only be within the dream (and not outside the dream), what exterior impact could it potentially have with enough training? Could they achieve better control of their own given powers, focus their empathy, or “charge” other individuals? These are just possible examples or suggestions!

b. What will this training allow them to do within dreams? Is there a potential energy (literal or figurative) that they could harness? Is there a deeper unconsciousness that they can reach? Is there recurrent imagery that occurs that is separated from the Displaced’s individual dreaming that they can dig up with enough time and effort? Can we do a sort of Inception with permission and focus?

2. Is there something within dreams that they can “commune” with? For example, besides just the individuals they dream walk to, is there something else they can get a glimpse of?

3. Given these dreams, can they manipulate the flow of time within them? For example, is it possible to live an entire life in a dream? Or would this have an impact on the physical body?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE, we'll follow up with more questions if we come up with them!

hey mods! i have a question for future reference about a long-term career goal.

if tomoe wanted to bring a slice of japan to new amsterdam's red light district -- i.e. a modern geisha house -- how difficult would it be to get the new business on its feet? i'd be delighted to work up to it slowly; for instance, tomoe as a bartender or something elsewhere => getting someone interested in actually starting the business => working as an employee in the business itself => building enough support among fellow workers and customers to get control of the business himself. the timescale is less of a concern than the feasibility of 1) getting started and 2) the advancement.

his end goal would be basically to establish it as a high class, ritzy entertainment business that functions as a little spy network for him -- the geisha coax secrets out of their wealthy patron and report back to him -- but really that's secondary, he mostly just wants something that feels familiar.

hi mods,

i have a slightly wild question to ask but bear with me: given that kylo has been involved in the gaming community at least as far back as anime naexpo, and has built up a sizeable following, including some recent invitations to smaller gaming tournaments, would it be possible for him to use his platform to speak about the mars situation, and if so what kind of blowback would he be looking at potentially?

quick & dirty plot engagement:

before offering an engagement (see what i did there) ring to daisy, illya had it outfitted with a gps-style "bug". his experience as a soviet spy has taught him how to manufacture such devices (he placed an audio-bug in his former fake fiancee's engagement ring, for example, which was undetectable to anyone looking at it) and his exposure to modern technology via daisy and the world at large has taught him new methodology to take advantage of.

as far as rationale, he put the tracker in the ring because he remembers her disappearing once and coming back and having no idea where she was, and how impossibly useless he felt as a result. so, he thinks the tracker might be able to pinpoint where she went if she didn't go home for a visit like the others. he's also an overprotective dickhead who wants to know where she is if she gets kidnapped or something since she likes to put herself in the line of fire. (thanks, trace.)

we'd like to compare/contrast her disappearing via physical means (a gang plot i need to still do the writeup for) and ~supernatural~ means (daisy's canon updating, again, i still need to do the writeup for it) — but wanted to give you the heads up on this development now.

if there's anything we need to know about this technology (registration requirements, whether it's tech you can buy at the futuristic radioshack or stuff illya would have to learn how to find via his petrov contacts or "on the job", etc) please let us know!

thanks as always, y'all are the best. ♥

hi mods!

as requested, dropping this information/questionnaire into plot engagement from the canon updates page. ❤

daisy will be undergoing a canon update shortly, in which she'll be experiencing her "destroyer of worlds" arc. as part of that arc, she'll have recently injected herself with centipede serum, which combines most of (if not all) the known superpower-generating substances within the mcu — including both the super soldier serum currently found in steve rogers and the extremis virus developed by tony stark in im3.

i plan on having her seek standard medical attention via the NA equivalent of a walk-in clinic for the injuries she'll sustain just prior to her return to the meadowlark universe: likely broken bones, significant bruising — the sort of impact-related injuries from being slammed into the ground from a few dozen stories up. i'd like to know if the centipede serum would be detected by doctors, and if so, what sort of repercussion or reaction should i be aware of?

in addition, as mentioned in her canon update write-up: one of the things that daisy experiences in s5 is the implementation of a power inhibitor, which is described as follows:

"Once implanted in the auricular nerve located in the neck of an Inhuman, the control device could be activated via remote control to remove the Inhuman's powers, rendering them human until the device was turned off. To remove the device it would take a trained neurosurgeon with sophisticated tools and one error could render the Inhumans paralyzed from the neck down."

this device was successfully removed from daisy by fitz in an extremely unethical backalley surgery, and would not be present in her body at the time of her return. however, if the evidence of such a surgery would be of any interest or be noticeable, please let me know! (it may not be, but as it's daisy & carol's working theory on how their canon powers are suppressed, i'd love to know if they're on the right track here!)

is it possible to deliberately provoke the dream/memory shares?

this is an early idea but i want to explore the mechanic more. some avenues to discover:

- rey might (inadvertently) test through going to sleep while the empathy bond is active
- the use of sedative drugs could be a way faith might accidentally test it since her injuries were pretty bad

neither of my characters are like ... actively pursuing this yet, but i realized it's something i might be interested in following up on dream-related stuff ooc bc i found that whole event super cool, so i'm poking around at the possibility of it.

i realize this is a very ambiguous comment but i just wanted to poke at it with my early thoughts lol before trying to actively go too hard in a specific direction.

hi sorry for having two open plot engagement comments at once this one is more specific:

if faith hoofs it over to the warehouse referred to here and scopes the place out and subsequently stakes it out, trying to keep an eye on if anyone has been around it, would she able to find any people still making use of it (even a realtor or something)? additionally she'd look at if there are any cameras nearby that might have a view on it and ask if the businesses they belong to have any records going back further than june 21.

(i realize this is probably redundant w cassius' resources to investigate it bUT JUST TO BE SURE)

Edited 2019-11-30 21:04 (UTC)

hello mods!

i'm reporting here in regards to the favor that kovacs got from cassius. i'm not exactly sure what's needed (forgive me) but i wanted to get it rolling so i don't keep forgetting.

hey mods!

if a small group was looking to hit up new honolulu as a family vacation spot, what would they need to do? i imagine there is some travel agent that works with the rich assholes in jyn's building she could hit up but imma be real. idk how they would even get there? an underwater train? it is a long ass chunnel? since jyn has traveled to new tokyo and new beijing already, her natural wanderlust looks pretty real on the outside, despite the circumstances of her past travel. would this travel agent i just made up be able to help jyn navigate the papers and arrangements they would need to make to get to new honolulu?

Edited 2019-12-12 07:00 (UTC)

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