PLOT ENGAGEMENT (ARCHIVED)

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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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Clarke and Stephen intend to go public about being Displaced. They’ll do this with a video message posted to both of their personal cooltalks and the Red Wings cooltalk. The video will include:

- Introduction, w/ names and as the owners of Red Wings.

- Clarkeian post-disaster pep talk for the people. Saying they got through this one, and they came out stronger for it. There will be more struggles in the future. Being afraid of them isn't the way to go.

- A little about what they and Red Wings were doing during/have been doing following the recent crisis and that going forward they intend to build on that work to provide a community base and point of contact for introducing individuals to community initiatives, as well as providing food and shelter for those struggling.

- Confirmation that they will be providing organised shelter and medical aid in the event of any future crisis in partnership with PRESERVE.

- Announcement about the fact that they want to help the people of New Amsterdam to protect themselves. They're working on helping get a project off the ground to get people trained and ready, and that there will be announcements in the future about it.

- Coming forward as members of the group with the glow, and they found one another through the glow because they realized that when they touch (showing an example) they react to one another.

- No proven knowledge of where the glow comes from, but the only explanation that they've heard is that the powers are a gift from a god. It's not something they know if they want to buy into, but it's literally the only explanation they've received.

Before this announcement, Clarke will reach out to PRESERVE and:

- Offer a donation to set up a PRESERVE outpost at a location close by to Red Wings.

- Say that there are numerous people from their group hoping to help out with training and giving first aid during crises.

- Be ready to have that outpost and Red Wings work in tandem during crises.

- Create a working partnership with PRESERVE that doesn't force PRESERVE outside of its comfort zone.

Finally, the self-defense project:

- Stephen acquired a warehouse from Jason Todd during the previous monster event, which was quickly converted into a safehouse for PRESERVE.

- Moving forward, Stephen and Clarke will be reaching out to contact New Amsterdam businesses to see if they will be interested in sponsoring a self-defense center, a place where people can learn to protect themselves in a fight, as well as draw up evacuation plans. Is this something that will work out? Will anyone be interested in sponsoring this effort? Let us know if this is an unreasonable plan, and we'll have our characters go back to the drawing board.

- The center will need a gym, mats for training purposes, a place for people to shower, etc.

- They specifically won't be training people in weapons. This may change in the future!

- We believe that Lexa, Castiel, and Glimmer will be spearheading this project. Stephen and Clarke will be training Glimmer in the business aspects, but Clarke and Stephen will be working on getting sponsorship and money going.

When this goes live:

- We'd like for this to go live on October 5, 2020 (OOC), but we understand if this needs to be factored into the monthly calendar since it's a big deal.

- We're happy to have this big post part pushed back while they work on the business and negotiations behind the scenes, so let us know if that works better for you/the game.

Thanks!!

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Hi Gee!

We'll get back to you about the stuff in progress, but the Cooltalk post about coming out will need to be postponed until November OOC. We hope this doesn't cause any problems, but we hope the Displaced going off for their field trip to New Beijing (in the month's mini-event) will do the trick of delaying!

[rehandle]

No problem at all, thanks for letting us know so quickly mod pals!

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Hey Gee!

As noted before, the best time for the announcement will be in November, so we'll touch on the reaction/outcome of that later! As for the rest:

- Because PRESERVE worked so closely with the Displaced (and Clarke specifically) during the monster event, this seems like a natural extension of that and they'll be all for it. With the city in its current state, they need all the help they can get. Red Wings and the Displaced are some pretty useful allies to have!

- As for the training center, Clarke and Stephen will definitely find businesses willing to back them up. Since the city was essentially left to defend itself during the last event, many business owners will view this as a way to safeguard against further structural and financial damage if anything else happens. After all, if the population can protect itself, maybe things won't go so badly, and it'll make the businesses look good to back this sort of community project. Some of the owners and employees may even ask to be included in the training center project.

In return, the businesses will ask for Clarke, Stephen, Glimmer, Lexa and Castiel to promote their training center project on community network pages, forums and CoolTalks and other social media. This can be through little videos (think TikTok), images with blurbs on their progress, or calls for membership. This will fully start when the training center is up and running, but a few may be excited to play their part as it's being built up! They'll want to know how their money is being used, and how it promotes their own businesses! As a bonus (or not, perhaps?) this'll also raise the follower count of those involved.

Some businesses will be willing to pitch in purely for philanthropic reasons, so Clarke and Stephen will be able to raise not just money, but also donations for some of the things they might need. They will have to prove to the businesses that they're making progress, however! Those that aren't interested in the marketing aspect want to know their communities are well taken care of. Other businesses will disagree with the project, and think that teaching anybody off the street to fight is a little questionable, so some community townhalls may have the beginnings of a few grumbles here and there. However, largely the effort will be met with a lot of public support.