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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. Damian's going to go back to prizefighting in the next few IC days, once he's had a moment to regroup and shake off the annoyance of being attacked. Can be expect any changes after Maeda and her thugs jumped him? Such as people gunning harder for him or people not wanting him to fight in their rings?
2. Damian wants to try recreating a scene Kara described of her homeworld in VR. He's been here a little while now and is already tech savvy thanks to his upbringing and familiarity with alien technologies, how difficult would it be to create the firefalls she's describing here as a small contained VR simulation?
3. Damian wants to start investigating Maeda independently of his brothers. If he looks into her - press releases, any active social media accounts, anything like that - what can he find regarding her identity and work?
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1. The biggest thing that Damian will notice is that people will be betting on him winning. Maeda now knows how skilled he is, and plans to take advantage of this knowledge to pad her pockets. No one will be throwing the fights - that would be too obvious - but Damian would find that there's a vested interest in him succeeding.
That said, Damian will recognize some of the men in the ring from his shake down. They want another go at him to prove themselves, even if they're well aware that their employer is betting against them.
2. This would not be that difficult! There are numerous virtual reality programs like what we have today to make "homebrewed" video games, so to speak, that allow people to design their own virtual settings. Think of it like today's RPG maker or like when someone uses Square Space to make a website - but far more advanced! How good it looks will depend largely on how much time Damian puts into it, as well as the modifications he downloads to help advance his work. Either way, it would be more of a matter of the technology making it easier, rather than Damian's own savvy.
3. Maeda's biography on the Giles Bell website will talk about the Maedas' involvement with Giles Bell for the past few centuries. There will be some sugarcoating about how she proved herself to be as efficient and capable as her family members to work her way up to where she is, though this seems to be the tune for most of the board members. Assuming that they got here through nepotism - and the company's overhead essentially being more or less an oligarchy - wouldn't be a reach. She was raised for this life from birth. Additionally, her husband is on the board of directors for Pulsar.
Further research will lead to Damian finding public records that show that both Maeda and Giles Bell financially backed Governor Gill-Jade's rise to office.
Otherwise, Maeda doesn't get a whole lot of social media hits. Her son Hideki does - he's an active user of what doubles as Meadowlark's Twitter and Instagram. There are a lot of images of him partying, of him with the dog, and other things that indicate that he lives a rather decadent life without much responsibility. There's a point where his Instagram had to be restarted because he posted pictures that weren't meant to be online, so it only dates back to within the last two months.