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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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in the aftermath of the emp event, and in general "i've been here for a while, upward mobility should be a thing i consider" lines of thought, daisy is interested in transitioning into some kind of promoted position.
to clarify: she is not looking to take over her direct manager's role. while she's hopeful that the bugs she and cassian planted in his office will provide insight onto his sketchy activities, she is not intending to use them for direct leverage on him in order to get him to bequeath the role to her. daisy has never thought of herself as a director/manager type person, and wouldn't be angling for direct supervisory positions.
instead, she would be hoping to take advantage of the emp's aftermath to potentially slide into a more specialized/niche role, ideally something that has its own office (even a small one!) so she can work a little more privately.
as a note, in case it's relevant, daisy is currently working a ton of voluntary overtime in the aftermath of the emp event — to the extent that illya has come at least once very late in the evening to drag her home — and will continue to do so after her ic meeting with vyonation management and cassian.
please let me know if this is possible! ♥
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Considering the circumstances, it's going to be a matter of building trust rather than hard work. Since the bugs were placed, there may be some unsureness around Daisy's intentions. Considering the corporate atmosphere, while upper management may be wary, they also find her attitude valuable. She'll have to navigate her NDA carefully!
If she's careful, Vyonation will start reaching out for her to take independent projects. They won't be linked to her direct manager, and may have more to do with different departments within the company. To kick this off, she'll get an independent project overseen by Vyonation's CSO himself, and will be put under pressure to deliver a more creative product. This request will be made on top of her normal workload. If it seems like a test, it definitely is! He won't hide it.
Let us know if that works for you to start!
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as far as daisy's NDA is concerned, she would be more than willing to sign (and would be gracious in doing so). she would, however, be very curious to see if vyonation indicated their discovery of the bug in her manager's office — oocly, i know that the major bugs were swept, though the one in gill-jade's home was not, so i wasn't sure whether the manager's was or not. if the bug in her manager's office was not found, she would volunteer that information as a way to show good faith, and as explanation, daisy would share that her background in digital securities had taught her to find loopholes others might exploit for more nefarious/selfish reasons, and that her instincts had told her something questionable was possibly going on behind closed doors that vyonation might not approve of. (sort of in the lines of "i was just looking out for the team", full i-drank-the-koolaid style.)
she would also, if asked, be more than willing to rat out her direct manager, including spying on him at home. :)
as far as her project is concerned, daisy would be thrilled at the opportunity to branch out from her regular day-job, and would be excited to work the overtime necessary to get it done. her intention is to utilize existing vyonation tech in a new way, repurposing it with some "vintage" coding from her rising tide days to stand out from the 2511 schools of thought. i'd been playing with this idea as daisy hearing from her tech-savvy npc coworkers and friends about a new concept being investigated by one of vyonation's rivals, one that's in testing now but wouldn't be ready to hit market for some time due to developing all new technologies. her intention of using the existing vyonation tech would cut down on manufacturing and other timelines, allowing the company to possibly undercut the competition without incurring major expenses.
of course, i'm neither a tech genius nor a manufacturing whiz, so this may not be possible at all -- but if it is, i thought it would be a nice way to combine daisy's displaced power (of
superrecyclingresource management) and her technical knowhow in coding/hacking/securities together.i expect this would take her approximately 2 ic weeks to put together, so submitting it to the cso around december 8, give or take a day or two depending on the boss man's schedule?
please let me know if you have any questions or if we can tweak this in any way to get her to the next step! i am very flexible!!
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Yes, the bug in her manager's office would have been swept! Any bugs that were found on Vyonation property would've been pinpointed and purged. Vyonation's CSO – Xander Tagore – would be unconcerned with the exploits of Geoff Bozos, and seem to only tolerate Daisy's explanations at a cost for time. He doesn't seem to take Geoff as much of a threat, and would follow up with Daisy to ask why she has these suspicions. She'd better think this one through before she answers! Tagore is a notoriously tough nut to crack, and has a no tolerance for lost time. He'd be more interested in the completion of her independent project than the potential dirt on Geoff.
The project itself will receive some harsh criticism. Xander will be quick to point out the security flaws of using a vintage system, and the potential incompatibility issues that they may run into upon delivery. He'll push that Vyonation is about driving forward, not taking steps back. While not disapproving, Xander will be firm, and he'll show no mercy in exposing potential security holes. He'll be watching how she takes the criticism. At the end he'll say that the idea is there, but the application will need to be different. He'll want to see the "vintage" code used for patterns, rather than application, to potentially boost the current security algorithms. He'll want it on his desk in a week – meaning the 15th – giving her a crunch time to accomplish the task.
Please let us know how she intends to move forward!
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transitioning from practical applications to pattern recognition would be a natural and much easier coding challenge for her. canonly, coulson put her in charge of the clairvoyant mission as a brand-new agent specifically because she "sees things in unique ways". as a fun little aside, it's theorized, while not confirmed, that daisy's
kree heritage (and subsequent boost from gh.325) gives her an inherent advantage at pattern recognition as well!
she would take the full week to tweak the code and patch any security holes noted in their conversation, but she wouldn't necessarily need it. this time, the project feels much more like an extension of herself — her own inherent skills brought to light — and she'd feel much more confident in what she had to deliver.
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Xander will receive it without much comment! Daisy will be dismissed and he'll say that her work will be up for review. She does, however, now have clearance to meet with him when she has a pitch or an independent project she'd like to work on. (His personal assistant will definitely let her by!) What she does with it from there is up to her.