Let's go with an abandoned bar/VR arcade in the underground part of the city. It's not necessarily one that gives access to the system of caves, but they wouldn't have to go quite as far to get to them. This location shut down in September 2510 after the earthquake and subsequent power outage damaged its systems beyond repair.
As for your other questions, we can hopefully provide some clarification:
Our goal for Morningstar is for it to be an organization for churning out CR opportunities. We want players to be able to facilitate plots for their characters by using Morningstar as a stepping stone. No matter what, we want people to be able to use Morningstar as an outlet to dig into things that they find interesting. Our primary concern at this time is giving characters the opportunity to rebuild things from the ground up, knowing that they have a difficult task ahead – especially when the world itself is in shambles and (as our premise promises) will continue to be that way.
Part of why we launched the UNA attacks is because we realized that Morningstar was an aspect of the game that needed retooling. It wasn't providing the CR opportunities that we hoped for, and we wanted to remove the barrier between characters joining and going on larger missions. Ergo, our primary focus is on getting the PCs doing things with other PCs. Before thinking of expanding, we want to allow plenty of time for PCs to focus on hitting the ground to do things among themselves. That's where we're afraid that some of the Morningstar expectations and our expectations got conflated – we're primarily concerned with PCs doing things with Morningstar and people bringing plots to us that we can facilitate, and very few Morningstar-related plots have come our way since the new iteration has gotten off the ground. We want to re-emphasize that no one has to do things that aren't fun to RP, because what's the point? Not a lot of IC time has passed for characters to do anything, and that's also reflected in the fact that many plots are just taking shape on this front. As for the contacts, we want them to be a means of facilitating plots and information between the PCs – not unlike how Bobbi and Marcos manipulated people to get information about the nurse's corpse. The network of NPCs is meant to be a medium of opportunity. Again, we know you and Ellie are excited to get things underway, but several other characters have expressed interest in Morningstar (not to mention we are getting a large batch of PCs this round) and we want to allow time for everyone to get a feel for using Morningstar as a tool for CR opportunities.
We don't have a hard length of time in mind, but we do think there is a happy medium between less than one IC month and half an IC year. This is because we also need to be flexible. Sometimes we notice things aren't working out, so we try to find and tailor a way to change that. We're definitely not going to force anyone into a rebuilding period of a year OOC, but we do want the rebuilding process to be a challenge for the characters that will be fun to RP out.
We want that challenge to remain for a while, purely because we think that's interesting and it will allow more opportunities for characters to engage with the setting and establish themselves in the world. Think of it like taking out the wise old man at the beginning of a show's arc because he has too much information – only the PC Morningstar effort is fortunate in that they're both well-trained and have an expert hacker in El. The neat thing is that the characters could go above and beyond in their efforts! They could overcome the challenge in an efficient way, or even decide that rebuilding the same framework isn't as important as the actions they need to take.
Overall, we're not monitoring everything you're doing, merely keeping in mind certain factors of time when we approach certain plots. We want people to feel free to bring plots to us – that's what Morningstar is for! The two plots brought into these discussions didn't work with the "early stages" framework, especially given Gaby's personal involvement. That is in no way a declaration about all plots with Morningstar at the helm! They were very specific examples. Please feel free to have anyone come to us with missions, and we'll be happy to work with them! Nothing needs to slow down in the least – on the contrary, we want to help these get moving, because we want people to RP these fun things, and we believe there are plenty of things available for play right now for everyone.
As an additional note, we will be stepping away from this thread for a week while we process apps and finalize the new arrival log and we ask that you do the same. If you still have questions after that time, feel free to reply again. And definitely feel free to submit plots in the meantime!
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Let's go with an abandoned bar/VR arcade in the underground part of the city. It's not necessarily one that gives access to the system of caves, but they wouldn't have to go quite as far to get to them. This location shut down in September 2510 after the earthquake and subsequent power outage damaged its systems beyond repair.
As for your other questions, we can hopefully provide some clarification:
Our goal for Morningstar is for it to be an organization for churning out CR opportunities. We want players to be able to facilitate plots for their characters by using Morningstar as a stepping stone. No matter what, we want people to be able to use Morningstar as an outlet to dig into things that they find interesting. Our primary concern at this time is giving characters the opportunity to rebuild things from the ground up, knowing that they have a difficult task ahead – especially when the world itself is in shambles and (as our premise promises) will continue to be that way.
Part of why we launched the UNA attacks is because we realized that Morningstar was an aspect of the game that needed retooling. It wasn't providing the CR opportunities that we hoped for, and we wanted to remove the barrier between characters joining and going on larger missions. Ergo, our primary focus is on getting the PCs doing things with other PCs. Before thinking of expanding, we want to allow plenty of time for PCs to focus on hitting the ground to do things among themselves. That's where we're afraid that some of the Morningstar expectations and our expectations got conflated – we're primarily concerned with PCs doing things with Morningstar and people bringing plots to us that we can facilitate, and very few Morningstar-related plots have come our way since the new iteration has gotten off the ground. We want to re-emphasize that no one has to do things that aren't fun to RP, because what's the point? Not a lot of IC time has passed for characters to do anything, and that's also reflected in the fact that many plots are just taking shape on this front. As for the contacts, we want them to be a means of facilitating plots and information between the PCs – not unlike how Bobbi and Marcos manipulated people to get information about the nurse's corpse. The network of NPCs is meant to be a medium of opportunity. Again, we know you and Ellie are excited to get things underway, but several other characters have expressed interest in Morningstar (not to mention we are getting a large batch of PCs this round) and we want to allow time for everyone to get a feel for using Morningstar as a tool for CR opportunities.
We don't have a hard length of time in mind, but we do think there is a happy medium between less than one IC month and half an IC year. This is because we also need to be flexible. Sometimes we notice things aren't working out, so we try to find and tailor a way to change that. We're definitely not going to force anyone into a rebuilding period of a year OOC, but we do want the rebuilding process to be a challenge for the characters that will be fun to RP out.
We want that challenge to remain for a while, purely because we think that's interesting and it will allow more opportunities for characters to engage with the setting and establish themselves in the world. Think of it like taking out the wise old man at the beginning of a show's arc because he has too much information – only the PC Morningstar effort is fortunate in that they're both well-trained and have an expert hacker in El. The neat thing is that the characters could go above and beyond in their efforts! They could overcome the challenge in an efficient way, or even decide that rebuilding the same framework isn't as important as the actions they need to take.
Overall, we're not monitoring everything you're doing, merely keeping in mind certain factors of time when we approach certain plots. We want people to feel free to bring plots to us – that's what Morningstar is for! The two plots brought into these discussions didn't work with the "early stages" framework, especially given Gaby's personal involvement. That is in no way a declaration about all plots with Morningstar at the helm! They were very specific examples. Please feel free to have anyone come to us with missions, and we'll be happy to work with them! Nothing needs to slow down in the least – on the contrary, we want to help these get moving, because we want people to RP these fun things, and we believe there are plenty of things available for play right now for everyone.
As an additional note, we will be stepping away from this thread for a week while we process apps and finalize the new arrival log and we ask that you do the same. If you still have questions after that time, feel free to reply again. And definitely feel free to submit plots in the meantime!