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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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jyn needs an actual job now that she has an actual place to live and after trolling through locations and settings and employment, i think i've settled on a lab tech at pulsar, specifically in whatever area that does their terraforming activities.
jyn is only qualified for entry level jobs but she literally grew up in space, spent a few years on a planet that was in fact terraformed so this is simply a fact of history for her. she also knows a ton about geology and how to sustain life in space because of (living in space) being homeschooled by her mother who happened to be a natural scientist so she would probably ace the interview portion.
IF a job there is a reasonable goal, would jyn be able to learn anything about the goings on on the colonies? she's interested in the seeming unrest up there since rebellion is in her blood, but since it isn't feasible to visit on their budget she would have to seek out her information where she can.
unrelated to all that, i see there is a push for people to keep plants in their own homes/have their own gardens; does that translate to plants/seeds being relatively inexpensive?
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A job as a lab tech is certainly within Jyn's grasp, assuming she had Morningstar set up her background to lead into it, and she does well in the interview, which it sounds like she will!
However, entry level positions are not going to have much access to intensive details about terraforming. Because of the current state of the Earth, terraforming is the most competitive industry there is, so most of Jyn's work at this stage would be as a lab tech doing grunt work. Likewise, there isn't going to much information on the colonies being discussed in the lab - it's a political topic, and most of the lab techs are just there to do their job. Jyn will have to look into other avenues to gain information. Most of these scientists are focused on experiments to ensure that terraforming is successful, rather than any of the political or ethical implications of sending people into space.
And you are correct, plants and seeds are widely available and mostly inexpensive!
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Gonna get so many seeds, gonna take over that rooftop garden. Manifest destiny! (She will, if possible, ask to have more than one plot on the roof. Like.... as many as they can give her.)
xoxo