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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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— Bucky had a conversation with Other Bucky and discovered Other Bucky still has old Winter Soldier mental killswitches implanted into his brain.
— He decided to try to help Other Bucky fix this!! In his own canon this was accomplished with the help of Tony Stark and a bullshit comic book mind machine. In Meadowlark he has Tony Stark & Daisy Johnson to help possibly build and/or modify such a contraption.
— Would such a thing even be possible? Because comic books are very silly I'm flexible in all of the actual tech aspects but I'd like to operate within the setting lore on specifics. Is there anything like this that already exists that could be stolen and/or reprogrammed or would this need to be a strictly DIY project?
— If someone with a lot of experience sneaking around were to look into mental conditioning/psychotechnics on the black market, where would that thread lead? How easy/difficult is this stuff to find out?
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It would be possible, but they might have to adjust to this world's technology (and maybe even work out a way to interface with MCU!Bucky's neural implant). None of this is impossible, but would take time and effort. Otherwise, we're cool with them utilizing Marvel Comics technology, and trying to adapt it to this world. In many ways, Marvel's tech is beyond Meadowlark's, while in others it may be a bit behind. We're playing fast and loose with this since it's all fake science.
That said, there isn't anything like that on the Black Market. This is proprietary technology that is absolutely under the UNA's control. The closest that Bucky would be able to find would be the manipulation of the neural implant for VR simulations and how that's pulled off, and that may grant some insight into how to help his Bucky counterpart. The event can also be used to help inspire this, since everyone involved will have more of an idea of how far the neural implant can be pushed to manipulate and alter someone's mind.