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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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1/2. Ciri can join Morningstar while maintaining the courier position as her "day job", though to be clear, the courier position would be separate from her work with Morningstar. They'd be willing to help her get the position, but she needs to maintain a day job so she looks like she's a contributing member of society. Since she'll have a bicycle or hoverbike thanks to her courier job, Morningstar may ask her to deliver information as a matter of convenience, especially since she already holds that job.
Where Ciri takes a courier position is up to you! It can be a legitimate company, or she can pick up illegal jobs. How risky those jobs are depends on what goods she's carrying at the time, which she's unfortunately unlikely to be told, so it would be best to treat all of them with the same measure of caution. Threats when carrying out illegal jobs include not only the cops, but potentially criminals or other parties who have an interest in what she's couriering. Couriering data via her neural implant can also be risky if the data packet is so large as to be harmful if she holds it for too long.
If caught by the cops, the only way it might come back to reflect upon Morningstar is if Ciri starts telling them she's a part of the rebel organization. Otherwise, they aren't going to keep track of her illegal activities, as she would hardly be the first.
To work for Morningstar, Ciri 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 Ciri will enter an informal provisional period where she will be tapped for tasks and jobs. These will progress as she earns more trust.
3. Morningstar is a mishmash of people from all walks of life, so Ciri would have to do something particularly outlandish to be considered a pariah in the organization. We do call it a "militant" organization, but they aren't as strict about how the members behave themselves as long as they don't compromise the group as a whole. "Enlisting" is more a matter of joining and proving that you're reliable, not joining for self-interested reasons, and more.
As for not "fully enlisting", though joining doesn't involve having to fall into rank and file, Morningstar do expect their members to be fully on board with them. If she would still not be comfortable in the group, she could attempt to help them as a contact instead. However, this would involve her coming to them first with useful information - Morningstar would not be proactive about approaching her with anything.
4. Any of this technology would all but alert the NAPD that there is something suspicious about this housing, so unfortunately Morningstar would refuse. Characters would be encouraged to be discrete in their regular lives, so any security would need to be the standard available for any resident.
5. Depending on the state of the bike – whether it's used or new – it would take someone roughly two years to save up to buy one. They can get one and make payments on it, but they would have to have an established credit history.
6. Gaby isn't going to tell anyone anything about her personal life (but no, she isn't!)
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