Thank you for the clarification on these points and the NPC safehouse. We’re happy to handwave this for a small abandoned restaurant/bar in the underground with enough space for training or a nearby warehouse or natural cave in which to train agents. Does that suit?
As a note, we've been following Tifa's recent plot engagement thread on recruitment and what specifically you meant by rebuilding the network, and it seems there was a misunderstanding of where the starting line was with New Morningstar and what resources were/weren't available, what was/wasn't happening, what needed reinforcement, etc. We didn't realise reaching out to the contacts provided by El was necessary as a first step as it wasn't stated as such in our initial plot engagement, otherwise we would have highlighted this information in our OOC post. But now that that's been established, we will make this clear in a new post to the OOC comm so players with characters involved in Morningstar are aware and can move forward with personal plot ideas on that front (and create NPCs as you had encouraged).
To clear things up on our end, we wanted to outline what has been going on with the PCs so we're all on the same page wrt Morningstar efforts since it began transitioning from an NPC-led effort to PC-led:
• Outreach/relief efforts with the PCs have been underway since the IC recruitment post on Oct 6th and presumably have carried on with all PC volunteers coupled with the work Rey has been doing since the June monster attack. Further details on these efforts are outlined here on the OOC sign-up post. • Similarly, training would have started as soon as possible since PCs had expressed interest in doing that on the Oct 6th recruitment post. Of course ~2.5 IC weeks + being interrupted by New Tokyo isn't enough time to pull together an expert strike team but as many PC recruits have combat experience and would assist Peggy and Fitz in training efforts, we've assumed things would continue to progress well on this front in prep for future missions (such as Kylo's plot). • PCs who have signed on as contacts and agents both and have specified they would act as informants are also presumably working towards gathering intel and cultivating connections from their respective positions in New Amsterdam society, as per your note on the PCs being well-placed to get the fledgling network going. Again, we will reclarify this in a new OOC post so players are aware and can play around more with this and the list of contacts provided by El. • Additionally, in a reply to Tifa, you’ve said “and even we don't know if those donations will be going to Morningstar or the Displaced (as they are separate entities),” so we wanted to add outright: Peggy and Fitz view NA Morningstar as a venture for Morningstar’s mission only (which they emphasised from the start ICly, but we now realise may not have been 100% clear OOCly), with any byproducts for the Displaced (such as intel re: their unique circumstances) just that — a bonus.
If you have any questions about this or how they intend to move forward, please hit us with them now! We can also give you a more detailed overview based on the new information provided across recent plot engagement replies.
We don’t expect this to result in anything as of yet (because, again, we’re not trying to skip steps and we understand not enough IC time has passed yet), but now feel the communication between us hasn’t been clear enough and want to work towards fixing that!
To that end, we also have questions:
1. What are the immediate priorities of New Morningstar, as we gathered a lot from various engagements, but want it clearly said: Is it training PCs only (not NPCs) and beginning to contact the existing network to see what is still functional? 2. What are the sentiments of the NPC agents towards the PC agents presently and how many NPC agents (not contacts) remain in the city? 3. What resources are available to them and what would require more time to gain access to? IE technology, weapons (such as things found in the raids cache or utilised in that same mission). In a reply to Tifa, you mention “Morningstar has a lot of resources at their disposal, but they are waiting to see how the Displaced handle operations in New Amsterdam before offering them freely.” How does this apply to NA Morningstar? Are they in a probationary period? Are Peggy and Fitz aware of any restrictions, ICly? 3b. If so, are there hard limits on what they are allowed to do as Morningstar agents? In our initial engagement (under the resistance header), you had stated PCs could start with networking “or go big right away” so we want to be sure we know what that means. 4. Related question — is NA Morningstar viewed as a separate, PC-focused endeavour by Morningstar at large rather than integrating with the whole? We thought they would be working with any remaining NPC agents, and we’re very keen for that, so just clarifying here.
We know you've stated you don't have a solid vision in mind, but coming up against hard no’s here and answers for what the PC Morningstar should have been doing from the start when we didn’t know that was what was needed or expected has given us a different impression. We are so, so keen for this plot and all the great prompts you’ve given us to play with, but we do feel we weren’t explicitly told what was necessary to move forward as listed in this engagement and Tifa’s, so we’re asking now to mitigate any similar misunderstandings forward — especially since both our characters are spearheading these efforts and would have presumably known all of this from the beginning as well.
We know this is a lot but given that we were all working with different ideas of what New Morningstar is, we want to make sure everything is hashed out now before any plots acting on previous assumptions get moving. We’re eager for everyone to party on and to make your job as mods as easy as possible with getting this info out in the open so any and all insight and elaboration is great. Thank you!
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Thank you for the clarification on these points and the NPC safehouse. We’re happy to handwave this for a small abandoned restaurant/bar in the underground with enough space for training or a nearby warehouse or natural cave in which to train agents. Does that suit?
As a note, we've been following Tifa's recent plot engagement thread on recruitment and what specifically you meant by rebuilding the network, and it seems there was a misunderstanding of where the starting line was with New Morningstar and what resources were/weren't available, what was/wasn't happening, what needed reinforcement, etc. We didn't realise reaching out to the contacts provided by El was necessary as a first step as it wasn't stated as such in our initial plot engagement, otherwise we would have highlighted this information in our OOC post. But now that that's been established, we will make this clear in a new post to the OOC comm so players with characters involved in Morningstar are aware and can move forward with personal plot ideas on that front (and create NPCs as you had encouraged).
To clear things up on our end, we wanted to outline what has been going on with the PCs so we're all on the same page wrt Morningstar efforts since it began transitioning from an NPC-led effort to PC-led:
If you have any questions about this or how they intend to move forward, please hit us with them now! We can also give you a more detailed overview based on the new information provided across recent plot engagement replies.
We don’t expect this to result in anything as of yet (because, again, we’re not trying to skip steps and we understand not enough IC time has passed yet), but now feel the communication between us hasn’t been clear enough and want to work towards fixing that!
To that end, we also have questions:
We know you've stated you don't have a solid vision in mind, but coming up against hard no’s here and answers for what the PC Morningstar should have been doing from the start when we didn’t know that was what was needed or expected has given us a different impression. We are so, so keen for this plot and all the great prompts you’ve given us to play with, but we do feel we weren’t explicitly told what was necessary to move forward as listed in this engagement and Tifa’s, so we’re asking now to mitigate any similar misunderstandings forward — especially since both our characters are spearheading these efforts and would have presumably known all of this from the beginning as well.
We know this is a lot but given that we were all working with different ideas of what New Morningstar is, we want to make sure everything is hashed out now before any plots acting on previous assumptions get moving. We’re eager for everyone to party on and to make your job as mods as easy as possible with getting this info out in the open so any and all insight and elaboration is great. Thank you!