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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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While the footage itself was understood to be released already (and thus, your approach needs to be revised a bit from this angle), Durcell will be able to tell that Loki and Jason are resourceful enough to serve their purposes. The fact that Jason took over two gangs is a big part of it, perhaps even more so than what Loki was able to accomplish (since by now, we can assume that Durcell knows the Displaced get into some interesting places as a group—after all, there was the infiltration and bomb stuff in New Beijing during the simulation that Durcell would've learned about after the fact).
Durcell would ask that Loki stay with Tempo to begin to rework their contracts to ensure that they don't end up back in the UN's hands. Given the UN's announcement that they would begin to recruit again for their army, there is a high likelihood that the UN would expect these weapons contractors to make good on what they've offered. Durcell will suggest that this is part of the UN's way of shoring up and maintaining power. They know the mercenaries became well known for fighting monsters recently. They also know that most mercenary groups are employed by corporations, as they're the ones with the funds to support them. Durcell's goal is to help these groups be more independent as a roving, dangerous force that acts in conflict with the UN's goals, almost to create and produce anarchy. (Not that they'd put it that way.)
Once Loki's proved that he's able to sell and move Tempo's contracts elsewhere—a feat that might take time, if only because this world is one that's determined to remain stuck in its ways—Durcell will ask that he start to do the same elsewhere within Pulsar, and will use their own connections to get Loki to move. Keep in mind that Loki can turn down these connections as Durcell is a good businessperson but also politically suspect. It's up to Loki if he wants to be associated or try to go on his own.
As for Jason, Durcell would want to try to take control of his gangs themselves, and this may raise some natural red flags. They want to ensure that the gangs are on a united front with the mob interests, at least in creating an independent New Amsterdam that doesn't see any oversight from the UN. This would involve sabotaging any UN recruitment, as well as doing recon and keeping tabs on the types of people being recruited by the UN (often out of the local NAPD precincts). The goal that Durcell has here is to create a power that can confront the UN, at least on a local level. They won't be revealing their hand and outright stating that this is for the mob. If anything, Jason and Loki are likely to get the implication that Durcell views the mob as pawns. And if so, what will they be to Durcell?
We understand if Jason and Loki have counter offers, but Durcell acts as if they have all the cards. So! Let us know how they'd respond to this first stage of negotiations. Some of them are simpler (like Loki staying at Tempo), while others obviously involve a lot of obfuscation from Durcell to promote themselves only.