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MEADOWLARK MODS ([personal profile] larkers) wrote2018-06-17 09:38 pm

PLOT ENGAGEMENT (ARCHIVED)

> 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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[personal profile] retravel 2019-02-09 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey mods! Sorry I’ve left some older threads dangling, but I have a few newer qs:
1. Following the event, if Fitz went to check in with Ishani afterwards to talk samples, asking if she has any personal thoughts on what she’s been looking at from the PCs (their bloodwork, the monster samples, the residue from the fire), would she have anything to add? Specifically, he’d ask if she’s ever seen anything like their samples at her day job or while working with Morningstar. He’d also inquire about how she stored their data and sent reports back, with the aim of scoping out whether there’s a data trail the PCs need to wipe.

2. PULSAR CHAT:
— Can employees involved in their respective corporations get further details on the UN/corporate partnerships in play? Specifically, Fitz would look into which departments at Pulsar work closely with the UN and if there are any key individuals in the company that liaise with them, so he knows who to schmooze.
— Similarly, is Pulsar involved in defence/weapons technology at all? Again, Fitz would seek this information out online and in person. If not, are any of the corporations? Does a particular corporation overtly work with the UN/UNA on their tech?
— A while back I asked about spacetime/interuniversal travel projects! Now that Fitz works at Pulsar, can he get more detail on the projects/research in progress there? He’d trawl their databases, chat up coworkers, listen for gossip, and straight up ask his supervisor if they’ve considered it, as it’s something he finds compelling for the next great capitalist frontier, amiright. If he can find any researchers on the subject within Pulsar, he’d reach out to them to begin cultivating a relationship, if that’s a possibility!
— Can Fitz find information online or at work about where Pulsar’s other offices are located? Specifically, he’d like to check if they’re operating in New Beijing, New Oslo, and New Venice? And if so, if they’re small offices or large endeavours?

3. UNRELATED TO THE PULSAR CHAT: Would it be possible for Fitz to get a secondhand hoverbike? Either on the legal or illegal market; he’s easy. Older model, kind of scrappy and in need of repairs is fine. He’s just looking for a basis that the PC geek squad can build on and get zooming.

Thank you!
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[personal profile] retravel 2019-02-24 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
THANK YOU MODS for the deets and advice!

Just dropping a line to say I’m gonna liaise with Roni/Loki and get back to you on looking into the mysteries of Pulsar, etc. In the meantime, I wanted to talk through the potential of Fitz working his way up the space biz ladder following the Morningstar/UNA raids:

In line with Fitz’s goal to eventually get into multiversal travel (and his MS assisted backstory of being an aerospace engineer), his current job at Pulsar focuses on the physical science of space travel and sits within Exploration Science (ES) Division. His current research interest is focused on the development of concept designs and feasibility studies of science instruments and engineering experiments to be flown on robotic and human spacecraft missions (basically instrument and spacecraft development), working on optimising efficiency for space travel across the triple-bottom line (as was touched on in the mod reply to Sniper). As a recent transfer, Fitz has been quick to learn the ropes and adapt, working in a support capacity to shadow and better understand each member of his team while helping build and test others’ designs.

Between designing aircraft/spacecraft and analysing alien craft designs (laughs @ marvel) for SHIELD, he’s well-equipped to have a unique perspective on the practical work and brainstorm inventive fixes for a team of people otherwise trained in a similar manner (presumably by the mix of online engineering courses and practical apprenticeships at Pulsar). His jack-of-all-trades expertise in instrument design/fabrication, computational/experimental modeling, system engineering tests, and actual instrument construction have also served him well in this lower level and varied role, capable of filling any gaps or assisting anywhere across his team.

Following the Morningstar evacuation, there have been a few openings at Pulsar, including one at the head of a team like Fitz’s own. IF IT’S ALRIGHT WITH YOU MODS, this Pulsar team leader/MS agent didn’t die during the raid but was rescued by one of the displaced — and is available for a brief chat about their broad work and aims in the role while Fitz patched them up in medical. In speaking to them and subsequently striving to move up at Pulsar, Fitz can both serve his own ends and help fill the new holes in MS’s web of operatives. It fits with how he and Peggy want to work with Morningstar (and encourage others to join them). And even if the agent can’t or won’t share much, Fitz will be open about his intentions all the same!

Everyone in that team has moved up to compensate for their leader going missing, leaving open a more mid-level, clearly defined engineering role with input on designs. With Pulsar reluctant to advertise openings immediately in the purposefully quiet fallout of the event, Fitz has offered to step-in and help trouble-shoot (quietly) in the interim, working toward taking the role full-time over a period of a few IC months (with the aim of building up the credentials and designs to nab a leadership role in the more distant future).

BASICALLY HIT ME WITH ANYTHING for how this could be feasible/workshopped to get more into some sweet space science!!
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[personal profile] retravel 2019-03-03 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS IS CRACKING MODS THANK YOU I'm so delighted.

Jose has been christened Jose Mercado, so Fitz can take his full name in vain for the drama, but otherwise I'll be back here with more concrete plans in future!