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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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Regarding organized crime, to check if this is an avenue even worth pursuing: it says there's a thriving black market for weapons, so I was trying to enter in at that angle and see if they'd heard about any weapons since they'd be trying to traffic them (and I was wondering if the PCs might be those weapons). Your current reply says the organized crime operations avoid anything to do w/weapons or UNA — do you mean avoid discussing it or do you mean not involved in it at all? Or is the black market somehow not connected to the organized crime? If it would be worth following up on weapons shipments there, I'd be interested to know what the route to socializing in the same spaces would look like to getting Rey a job w them eventually.
And one other follow-up question: what are the ic steps to joining Morningstar in an official capacity (assuming there are visible signs to support a need for anticapitalist/anticorruption attitudes in New Amsterdam — my main curiosity about the UNA/Morningstar questions were looking to examine if Rey would consider Morningstar's political stance to suit her ideals)?
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We'd still like to stress that this is still not a route which is going to get Rey any more answers than Morningstar already have. Though they believed the van they were attacking was a weapons shipment, it's clear now that it wasn't, and that finding answers on where the van was coming from or going to is firmly in an area they have no existing knowledge of.
To work for Morningstar, Rey will need to express this as an interest to one of the NPCs (this can be handwaved!). This will then be passed on to those higher up in the organization, and Rey will enter an informal provisional period where she will be tapped for tasks and jobs. These will progress as she earns more trust.
The need for an anti-capitalist and anti-corruption organization in New Amsterdam is not immediately apparent. It's much clearer in the colonies, though Rey will not be able to experience that environment (yet!). The government maintains a basic standard of living for the lower classes, with open access to full education and health care, so the class disparity is more clearly evident in general wealth and real estate. The rich also benefit in areas where their wealth allows them to grease some government wheels, being given preferential treatment in processes which are meant to be without bias, as well as having authorities turn a blind eye to illegal activity. In this way the damage done in New Amsterdam by the global political structure is insidious rather than overt, and Rey may need to spend some time living in the city to be able to start seeing it. That said, she may be able to find a clear and immediate example in the emergency housing for those displaced by the June 27 incident – which citizens are being given rooms in hotels and hostels, and which are having to live in the temporary group shelters (and the condition of those shelters).
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rey's gonna throw her lot in with morningstar, then, so i'd like to handwave her reaching out to el about that.
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