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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!

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◉ 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!

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◉ Specify what your character is looking for when they're investigating. What questions are they asking and what angle are they trying to explore?
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◉ 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.
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◉ 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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So wwx and co did legwork while in New Beijing on how to get to Everest. I'm here to suss out a way that Rey can figure out an itinerary back to New Beijing for them to start that trip (rather than trying to squeeze it into the Cassius one). A few more specific questions below.

01. I feel like I thought travel was difficult for a while but I think y'all corrected that to say it just has to be a clear itinerary, yes? I was not sure if Rey would need to rope in Riverstone work favors or anything to set up a trip there or if they could just call it a sightseeing group for NB.

02. Would El have anyone in Morningstar New Beijing who knows some stealth routes out of the city for them to take?

03. In terms of supplying the expedition, how many days would the trip be outside of the megacity be (back and forth) and would the weather likely be consistent or extreme in either direction?

04. Idk is there anything else I need to clear up to get this show on the road before Rey picks some days and invites people along basically.

Hey other mods! I've got a few questions for you as I try to hammer some things out!!

During the EMP plot, Loki lifted a bunch of weapons from a Pulsar subsidiary. I'd like to get him moved, position-wise, from Pulsar's main headquarters over to that subsidiary as a Senior Business Manager! He's shown that he's capable inter-personally at his current position, and is absolutely not afraid to be downright devious to get what would be considered good for the business. He'd even use his own break-in (without alluding that it was him) as an argument on why they need stronger upper management over there. They wouldn't want the same thing happening again, would they? Let me know if this is doable, and if you need more framework I can provide!
A question spawning off of his work from Pulsar, he'd drop in casual conversation with some of his colleagues and ask just where Jovavich started. What's her story, exactly? He's versed well enough (and been paying attention enough) in politics to not come off totally clueless, but curious as to her ambitions.
Diana, Klaus and Loki would like to hold a Displaced mingle/masquerade! Loki's got some cash but he's going to be reaching out to Ball to see if they can get something a little more fancy (bankrolled) as well as possibly set up a mingle with his people? I've got an idea of how Loki will get in touch with Ball. Would it most be possible to hold it down in the underground caves and get some resources from Ball?
Much like he did before, Loki took some specs from inside the New Beijing UNA base. He'll be passing those along to Gaby.
Lastly, for people who don't have drivers licenses (i.e. Ren) because they don't know how to drive anything but a cat bus, is there a process involved in this? Is it just some classes and then hurrah! Hover car license?

Edited 2019-12-14 15:45 (UTC)

hey so... how's marriage work? asking for a friend.

Hey, mods!

Some follow up on previous plottings (so that I have it written down somewhere) and some questions for future plottings!

Gangthings: Jason's been working on slowly integrating both the Kings and the Warlocks together without causing an extreme amount of tension! I'm assuming that, since it's been a while, he's been at least a little successful with it. This includes putting together resources, combining bases, choosing leaders to take over operations below him. It also includes vastly deterring getting kids involved, because that's just how Jason rolls. He's not kicking out anyone underage! Just keeping them away from drugs / weapons / fights as much as possible.

Anyone caught within these two gangs dealing illegal or dangerous substances/items to children would have been immediately dealt with; not killed per se, but made an example of and definitely left mutilated to the point of preventing further malpractice (severing tendons, snapping bones, etc etc).

(Obviously he's not going to kick sad kids out because where else would they direct all their energy? Stealing stuff out of stores and getting caught irresponsibly? nah. Jason will just divert their attention to less terrible things to get caught doing and teach them how to not get caught. )

Jason is also taking Kovacs as his public right hand man, pending how far the favor Cassius promised him takes him! So this isn't coming up yet but once Kovacs figures out how big and important he is.

With this, Jason will also be refocusing gang efforts onto big corporations and corrupt government activities. Which! He'll be asking El for a bit of assistance with.

As mentioned before, Jason would be going to El to ask if there's anything that needs to be "taken care of". While he's just fine uh. targeting his own enemies and focusing on taking them down, he promised to try and keep some heat off of Morningstar and he's going to be keeping his end of the deal. If there's anything El can think of that needs to be handled, Jason will use his own built up resources to target them down as long as there is some benefit he can talk up to the street ruffians to make it worth it to them. SO if there's anything El would mention when Jason asks--I'm totally down for trying to build a plot around it!

sliding in here for a question re: cassian's bugs & relevant to his upcoming info dump

once he listened and heard jovavich's repetition of marianna, larkin, johann, and soto at pulsar, jyn would delve into looking them up for him (since you know, she works there) and searching through the directory and probably enlisting pearl (the receptionist unknowingly in cassian's network) for all the gossip, if there is any.

to note, jyn has been learning earth specific hacking with daisy since returning from new tokyo and settling into their sweet mtv cribs pad (so roughly oct 20 which puts her at approx four months), so if any info or gossip stalls out she would seek to unearth it that way, as well.

Edited 2019-12-20 03:23 (UTC)

Hi mods! One question + a query/idea

Kol is no longer in the city, so Klaus would like to have his hands on his Cassius earnings and apartment. Obviously, Klaus and Cassius did not see eye to robot eye and things did not go... well. Klaus has what Kol provided temporarily but not the full amount of wealth. Aimee said we can hand wave Kol could have given Klaus an in to the account.

Now, if Cassius dicks over Klaus, how would that look, and is there something funny that could happen. Something black-list-y or just a general nuisance.

OR, in order to get his money, would Cassius maybe have something Klaus might need to do to get his hands on the money. An errand, or something? Ultimately, I want Klaus to have that access and the apartment -- but maybe at a cost.

ANYWAY, those are my thoughts, queries, and ideas.

Edited 2019-12-16 21:50 (UTC)

hello modlies, i hope you guys are having an excellent christmas eve and getting a ton done before the big day!

quick question: if kylo were to look into the four birds from the first dreamscape, would he be able to determine their species? if so, what are they and what additional info could he uncover?

if jyn looked into it would she find that the second child kidnapping and selling to rich people who want children a world wide thing that is happening in other cities or was it mostly new beijing due to the set up of their vast lower levels?

hello mods. i apologize for any missing details or anything in this plot engagement as i am hella tired right now. i have two things i'd like to ask about.

1) first thing, marcos (and i) have started to dig into the whole 'help those who can't help themselves' thing that he's been trying to get going. he hasn't joined morningstar (yet but i know he has to) but i was wondering how he should approach the next few things. he's done a lot of scouting in both new amsterdam and new beijing into places that could be used as safehouses. he's reached out to people in new amsterdam and did some 'networking' in new beijing as well.

would he have been able to make any noteworthy connections in either city? he's not a well known entity (unless you count his dalliance with the gangs awhile back lol) but he's also been out there, doing the legwork. would anyone have taken notice of his asking questions and such?

once he joins morningstar, would it be difficult to get himself into one of the abandoned buildings to start outfitting? he's not rich but he's not above taking what he needs either. ideally, once he does that, he'll take some time to fix it up (with help) and then make a network post just to let people know and then slowly start making his move as far as finding people that need his help and getting his name out there.

anyway, this is all rough and just me trying to get things rolling.

2. in cassian's post, he mentioned drug trials that giles bell is conducting and that they might be using human subjects. marcos suggested maybe getting himself in the trial. would it be difficult to do so, if giles bell is conducting trials on humans? he has a previous connection with giles bell as katelin, his former roommate, worked there so he knows of the company.

would it be overly dangerous to do so or would it be something he can recover from? and maybe jumping ahead but would anything useful come of volunteering if he did? obviously that last one's moot if he can't get himself in the trial but i'm covering all bases.

hi y'all!

i'd like to put together a game-wide event that all the displaced can take part in, utilizing caroline's position at the new amsterdam events committee. she's been talking to jyn a lot about the trees initiative and how positively jovavich responded to it, as well as to marcos about the push to do better in this world if they have the ability to.

i'd like her to suggest to her superiors at the events committee a charity event with proceeds benefiting the current environmental movement, and to follow jyn's suggestion of reaching out to jovavich in the hopes of perhaps getting her to add support/awareness and/or bankrolling the initiative. to make the event more special, she'd be aiming to host it on the leap year (feb 29) as it only comes around once every four years. possibly also looping in some members of the displaced with followings or celebrity status (lottie & her cooltalk followers; kovacs being lowkey banksy; strange and his magic?? there are others i'm forgetting i'm sure)

if it would still be information accessible to her, caroline would also point out the historical relevance — as the united nations decreed in 1954, "The Conference, recognising the need of arousing mass consciousness of the aesthetic, physical and economic value of trees, recommends a World Festival of Trees..." (i'm not sure if this is... the same UN? if this kind of information would be available online still?)

as far as game-wide participation beyond the noted above, my thought for the actual charity event would be two-parted — one being a more traditional silent auction, upscale event, something that could be done as a political event should jovavich opt to take part in it. think black tie, fancy dress, political and economic power players all trying to out do each other for the good pr of donating tons of money to a currently Hot Button issue. the other would be more aimed at the general populace, a date auction for bachelors and bachelorettes of the city (perhaps playing on the "did you miss out on having a date for valentine's? now's your chance) where high bidders get to enjoy nature-themed experiences and all the money raised goes to the same charity output.

i'd like to aim to have the event go up around mid-february, if possible, with ooc signups and whatever plotting post necessary in later january after brain surgery stuff has mostly concluded?

let me know! i'm down to workshop this, i just wanted to get the ball rolling

Edited 2019-12-27 06:00 (UTC)

hi guys! i hope this isn't preempting anything since he's kind of going off this on his own, while not explicitly engaging with any particular faction just yet.

1. he's been tailing the UNA soldiers, seeing what he can learn about their tactics, training and weaponry. basically, he knows they're brainwashed, but how good is their training? are they quick to jump to use of force if challenged, or are they basically chill?

2. he'd also be researching the structure online. looking up information on how the UNA is set up based on public records. so would he be able to find anything about a chain of command? a compositional makeup of the forces? (% by country, gender makeup, any notes on air and sea forces, as well as reserve forces... the type of thing that's typically publicly available back in 2019)

and would he be able to find any documentation on funding at the very least, if not spending? and if he found that would he be able to notice any irregularities?

3. finally, are the UNA/Police stations public knowledge? and would he notice them having other, not public hangouts?

Sorry for the delay in this, (other) mods! Is there anything that Clarke would've picked up from her research about travel to New Oslo? What about weather at this time of year? How big is the city, how close to the original Oslo is it, and more!

Basically: What would the handy dandy internet handbook in 2512 tell someone giving New Oslo a cursory overview?

Edited 2020-01-04 23:04 (UTC)

since jyn knows that jovavich is seemingly desperate to terraform jupiter, despite her fairly low status and disdain for the idea of terraforming jupiter, jyn would submit a proposal to develop a cloud city above the planet a la actual cloud city above bespin. thanks, space.

despite jupiter being the absolute worst, it is also made of hydrogen, which can be mined and used as a fuel alongside wind to power the city itself which will be necessary to keep the city afloat, keep the gravity habitable to humans, and keep radiation barriers in place as jupiter's magnetosphere produces thousands of tonnes of radiation a day. (this is why terraforming callisto would be better!! because it has less radiation than even earth and already has water.)

will this proposal go anywhere? probs not, but she is submitting it anyway because maybe she'll get a raise lmao. space gives her a hell of a leg up ok.

Hello mods!

Post the brain surgery experimentation, Klaus will have quite the one track mind of revenge, especially on Hope's behalf. A couple of questions.

1. If he returns to the scene of the crime after the fact, will Klaus find anything indicating a make shift experimental lab/anything that could stand out as even remotely a clue to who did this.

2. Were he to want to follow up, do more research and try to pinpoint Cassius' motivation-slash-information on the real Johanne. Would he find anything useful or worth it.

3. Is there anybody PC-wise, or even NPC-wise who could really hack it (pun intended) and help him get real answers/make real moves. He's going to want to move, move, move and be active in response. Preferable before Everest, but after as well if he returns and there's still more to learn...

Hey guys!

So Shikki and I are looking for Kate and Damian to get into trouble in New Amsterdam while everyone else is off exploring this month. We were thinking Kate could go investigate that guy who stabbed Damian with a poisoned knife a while back, because they suspect he’s doing something shady in the underground. Then she’d get caught, and knife guy could try to use her as leverage against Damian. I’m fine with Kate getting hurt during the course of this (because Hawkeyes are punching bags lbr), or not, whichever is easier for you guys to integrate!

Shikki would also like Damian to lose an arm during this, because she’s mean. Likely that could happen during the course of the rescue, and could hopefully lead into something later where he tries to track down a prosthetic, possibly through Gaby? I think we’re also both hoping this could turn into an ongoing thing for Damian and Kate. Other than that, we’re open to whatever you guys would like to cook up, but if you want us to come up with more details we’re down for that, too!

Thanks!
Jenny and Shikki

hi mods! i'm finally getting myself in her to discuss the matter of "work placement" in the sense that i have some ideas of where i'd like to take cheris and want to know how viable the work would be in the world + my questions revolving around the work :9 i'm ready, hope you're ready. knowing that she'd have to start off at entry-level, i'd like to either set her up as a cryptographer. i do have back up work in mind if this isn't something she can attain immediately and must, essentially, "prove" herself.

i intend for her to sign up with vyonation as a data analyst or some other position, with the intention of working her into a role as a cryptographer. would el or someone be able to falsify college credentials that verify her skill as an aspiring cryptographer, or is this something she'd have to take night classes for just to acquire the legal credentials? honestly, endgame goal with her work is to slot her into shady codebreaking/game-making double-agent business because i live for shady shit. i have some ideas for where to take it, but know it'd be something to work up to.

she has several skills that'd make her good at this type of work, including her math skills and her (formerly you-know-whos) big nasty long-lived espionage background :9

~~alternatively can she just work for el and hang out with her True Favorites aka the ai~~ JK

Edited 2020-01-19 04:36 (UTC)

Hi mods! Following the latest Maeda run in, Strange is finally sticking his oar in irl. Jason's told him about having the layout to the apartment but he'd rather not show his face if he can help it so he's going after Hideki first with the intention of learning what he can via his power and making a plan from there. Jason's already told him Hideki doesn't know anything so he's expecting the evening to be heavy on the "and making a plan from there".

Jason advised him that Hideki can be traced on nights out by following his social media. First of all, is Hideki still frequently out in public and is there a club or casino Stephen can fancy up for and follow him to to try and surreptitiously do his thing from afar?

Hey mods! Would it be possible to wiggle [mini] Jason [Titans] in as a temporary intern over at Tempo? It's going to be a very basic gig, so things like getting coffee, being an errand boy and probably being kinda bored. Thank you darlings!

Hello again, mods!

Klaus learned through Caroline about Kovacs being fake Banksy and Cassius' involvement in that. Klaus then encountered Kovacs again at an art party. Klaus had been up until then working as an assistant in an art gallery to .. middling results. In speaking to Trace, she said Kovacs could've been helped then (because he is an art dilettante) in return for better clout in the art world for Klaus - like a professional referral even to overseeing a gallery - in return for Klaus being his art guru in this party and every other. Helping him along with the lie.

Before Kovacs disappeared, Kovacs did work in facilitating this move using his city influences. Simply put, would traveling to Everest have put this move in jeopardy or could Klaus take the his lead and step up in a more substantial capacity with Kovacs' stamp of approval?

and these didn't quite fit with the other thread, so! just consider this thread my justice league plotting thread so i can stick it all in one place.

damian has gotten money from loki to purchase a building. would it be possible for him to purchase one under a pseudonym or through a third party so his name isn't on the deed? could he reach out to el and arrange something.

secondly, if he wants to enhance it + build security + build a proper training space for people to practise their powers, what would be the timeframe on that?

Hey guys!

So, that whole run in with Maeda has made Kate curious about how widespread this issue is, as in, how many players of Maeda's social class are manipulating the fighting rings and underground, and how common it is for them to retaliate in such violent ways. Basically, she wants to dig in more to how much corruption there is among the rich jerks of New Amsterdam, and how much it affects "normal" people or the less powerful.

Considering the Maeda thing went so south, she'll want to be much more careful about investigating this, so what's the best route for her to take? Would talking to Gaby help, or could she find out more or build connections among those people through the customers that come to her coffee shop? Any young heirs she can charm or befriend? I'm open to pretty much anything!

I don't want this to be focused on Maeda specifically, though, since I don't want to step on Jessi's toes!

Thanks! <3

hi there!

re: artifacts taken during this event

1. would the displaced have been drawn to these particular items somehow in the ruins? some kind of mental pull, a voice in their head, chest glowing, etc.?
1a. if not, would displaced begin to have any "i'm not just keeping it because it's shiny, it feels weird" connection to these items the longer they have them?

i know they're going to be linked to the fast travel system/more abilities/etc. in the future, and i just want to know if they would sense this somehow as opposed to just hanging on to these items because they lifted them in the ruins. thank you!

OKAY SO I just really want Godric to work with Old Things with a slight bent towards doing translations of dead languages. I was kind of thinking that El might've been able to fudge his physical age a bit so he's not perpetually a sixteen year old (the actor was 19) so he isn't just an egregiously uncanny baby who's Good at Knowing Historical Stuff. Even something like working as an assistant on an excavation/dig site for something Ancient would be a neat thing to explore. I don't need it to have any plot relevance or anything fancy.

I'm flexible on a lot of things (including the amount of groundwork involved in leading up to whatever or he could work in a different city since #fasttravel or w/e) so idk, go nuts.

So, re: books

I know that paper media is a rarity/collector's curiousity, but exactly how rare are they.

Would it be possible to purchase/steal one or several books? Are there any NPCs with private book collections and how difficult would it be to learn about them?

hello! once again related to this event:

since diana has/will put a lot of legwork into putting people into contact with private buyers, both before and during the upcoming charity auction, i would like to use this as a way for her to move a step or so up in the new amsterdam art world. my preference would be for some wealthy patron to take her on as a private consultant based on her time put in at the lilly & moki gallery and the sheer amount of knowledge she has about the specific artifacts up for auction/the fact that she acted as a go-between for a large amount of antiques deals within the past few weeks, but i understand if i'm aiming a little high, and i'm definitely open to suggestions. with the future formation of a justice league, she'll want to put herself in a financially stable position so she can funnel money into the team, and also have a better in with the new amsterdam bougie crowd.

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