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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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Other than that, some ID stuff:
2. Can her new ID be Raeh Solo? Or will El say that's too close?
3. Will there be any requirements as far as what kinds of job openings she needs to stay away from (i.e., avoiding drawing attention)?
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1. In the immediate future, the UNA would go and interrogate the other agents about the powers. The agents who know Rey would be reluctant to give away her identity as a Morningstar agent, but would eventually give in, saying that Morningstar has started helping out a new group that emerged. Other details would help the UNA correlate the arrival of the Displaced with the firefight back during the first arrival in June. The UNA were not involved in this fight, which will be clear, but they're aware of it because they were tasked with cleaning up after it. Some of the agents taken during the January event will still be resentful of the Displaced, and this will help convince the UNA that the Displaced are separate from Morningstar.
As far as long term consequences, it's hard to say! There are a lot of different directions this can go. Players have plots in motion that can really impact which way things go from here, especially with the intel from Ball and what the Displaced are going to find when they go to those locations. Rey using her powers won't bring about anything like immediate bad circumstances but it will certainly have an impact on how broader events develop. We want people to do big things like this so that the world can continue to evolve, and so that everyone feels like they had a hand in changing it.
2. They would recommend that she pick a different first name - something like Rachel, or Rochelle - that could easily be shortened to Rey. (Or Raeh, for that matter!) The surname is fine! There are a lot of R names that can get her there.
3. Given her reach as both as Giles Bell employee and as a car mechanic - what with reaching out to people prior to the event going down to see if they might be favorable to her overtures - she's pretty out of luck with anything that might relate to these two ventures. She can certainly take up a job as a mechanic in a different industry since that's still her skill set, but she'll need to be careful. There are a lot of different mechanics jobs, of course! Fixing fridges, air conditioning, or anything like that.
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2. She'll go with Kira Solo in that case.
3. Thanks! I will probe at non-mechanic stuff in all likelihood. I've got some ideas.
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When you're ready, please reply to our taken list with the necessary updates!
We're looking forward to seeing where you take Rey after all of this. Thanks for running with this great plot!
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When you say Rey Nolo's accounts will be cleared, will El be able to help her get access to what money she has in them and transfer it to her new ID, or no? Rey has a pretty sweet job and basically spends zero money so she's been slowly saving.
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2. what would it look like for Rey to become the pilot of one of the shuttles between Earth and the Mars colony? I assume there might be a ladder to climb there, but is there an accessible position for Kira Solo in something related or a filter job?
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1. There are cots and places for limited washing! The key point would be to not attract attention by using too much water at an unsanctioned location, so it would be strict. She wouldn't come back as a gremlin! It's probably pretty familiar to her from her life on Jakku when it came to cleanliness.
2. It would take a really long time, and it's not something that they can fill in a background for. We covered a bit about this here. While the atmosphere of the game has changed, the time constraints and limitations haven't, so we'd advise you to pick something more Earth-based for Rey!
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Are any of the companies who were leading the charge on AI developments pre-war still around and in the tech/robotics business?
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We need to internally discuss that question, so we'll get back to you on our normal plot engagement day!
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1. Most of the records regarding ties to AIs have been scrubbed. It's reasonable to assume that all three of the companies headquartered in New Amsterdam have ties to AI development in the past, but they did a good job of working with the other corporations of the world to clean up that history. As a result, most past AI development is squarely left on Xelkov's shoulders. The only exception to this is Riverstone, which is based out of New Beijing and has a couple of small satellite subsidiaries in New Amsterdam. However, their stance has always been anti-AI. We wrote up a bit about Riverstone here. Most of their New Amsterdam presence is related to special effects and set production, with some emphasis on helping with the cybernetics production.
2. She can have a temporary ID set up to eventually evolve into her real one. So, she can begin to go by [Bad username or site: kira @ solo] as soon as she's out of New Prague and going into hiding! El will work out the back end particulars like he did with the most recent wave of newcomers.
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Would Rey be able to get a job working on robotics in New Amsterdam satellites with Riverstone, or is that New Beijing exclusive?
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She'll only be able to use the Morningstar network during that time!
As for Riverstone, that wouldn't be done in New Amsterdam! She could look into getting a job with their cybernetics branch in New Amsterdam. This is closely associated with Giles Bell, but it's unlikely that she would cross paths with anyone she did work with or for before.
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It'll probably take her a week or two after getting her ID fully set up to arrange interviews and all that, so she probably wouldn't start until like Dec 21 say?
Also: does their cybernetics research include implant tech? Basically, what kinds of cybernetics would she be working with?
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All of this sounds good!
As for her Riverstone work, she wouldn't be working on the implants themselves, but ensuring that the cybernetics and the implants are compatible. There would, for instance, be points in time where production is slowed because they ran into a conflict with new Giles Bell technology, and they may have a lot of downtime. The reason why their cybernetic production is done in New Amsterdam is partly to speed up this process, but they still hit delays given the highly sensitive nature of it. During these downtimes, engineers are recommended to be creative and think outside the box - but it's generally understood that they may be getting paid to watch the 2511 version of Netflix when this happens.