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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!
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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1. Akane will want to work closely with Morningstar! She's definitely not someone who is useful for any blue-collar skills so she'd work more analytically if there is a job for that! So what jobs would be available to her? Of course, she'd try to get information if she could from Morningstar itself.
She definitely wants to keep a relationship with them, that hopefully stays positive. But she'll also be that feisty worker that fights orders she doesn't agree with or finds glaring flaws in.
But overall, I'm trying to figure out a good job for her because she's used to being a boss of her own organization and being rich. That said, she is a very hard worker and has an amazing work ethic. Also stupidly intelligent even if she acts like an airhead.
All in all, she's used to remaining hidden so she won't go out much unless she feels the need to or wants to help others.
2. Will the cops take the car she stole, or can she keep it and figure out how to work it fully? She probably tried to keep it hidden if Gaby let her hide it or did Gaby take the car away?
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1. For Akane to work for Morningstar, she will need to express this interest to one of the NPCs (this can be handwaved!). They will let those higher up in the organization know, and Akane will enter something of a provisional period where she will have to successfully complete any tasks or jobs given to her in order to further gain Morningstar's trust.
She will also need a normal, everyday job! Morningstar members need to remain undetected by the authorities, and having regular jobs helps to do this. With what you've said about Akane's skills, it seems likely that she would be best suited for an office job for one of the many corporations who have buildings in the city. Corporate entry level jobs will be equivalent to today. Though there is no physical paper, there is still admin and secretarial work, receptionist and call or other inquiry related roles, entry-level data related jobs, and mail rooms (handling physical packages as well as digital mail).
2. Unfortunately Akane would not have been able to keep the car. Stolen vehicles are very easily tracked, so while Akane would have been able to freely use the car during the chaos of the attack, Gaby would have told her to ditch it as soon as she was back in the safehouse. The NAPD would have found it and reclaimed it relatively quickly once they weren't tied up with the attack or the immediate aftermath.
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Anyway, she'll express interest in working for Morningstar. As for a job, she'll pick up a secretarial/data entry role at one of the corporations and move her way up if she can.
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