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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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It's been a few months since Dany started schmoozing her tracker friend, so she is going to start pressing a little harder for a facility tour with the goal of networking with some staff, seeing just how big of a focus the research projects are, what sort of focused research is being done.
She'll also be asking Aramis specifically (and anyone else in the facility who appears warm to her presence) what they think of the animals roaming around.
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At this point, given that Dany's had some time to warm up to Aramis, she would be able to charm her way into a tour of the facility where they work. This would be the kind of tour that is offered to a member of the public rather than a fellow scientist, however, so she wouldn't be allowed to see any of the ongoing research up-close. It would be more along the lines of being shown lab spaces from a distance (with a glass wall between her and the work area, for instance) while her tour guide (probably just Aramis) gives generalized overviews of the work being done. As Aramis' tracker work suggests, the scientists here are taking samples of mutated animals that have been found, both in Antarctica and elsewhere, and trying to determine how they evolved or mutated into their current forms.
When asked about the animals roaming around the city, none of the other researchers would say anything about it, but Aramis might show her some footage they took themselves -- off the record. They'll be brief videos of some of the gold creatures that Aramis found while searching around New Amsterdam, mainly from a distance as they wanted to observe their behavior first before trying to capture them.
They will say that they've managed to get their hands on some of them, and have noticed that many of the animals' features don't necessarily make sense in an evolutionary way. For example, he'll show a video of a reptilian creature that has the eating habits of a mammal - which is absolutely unusual. Reptiles, especially in the cooler temperatures around New Amsterdam that are currently present, tend to have slower metabolisms that require them to eat far less food. Aramis' biologist friends are doing some further experiments on the creatures, while also trying to sustain them on a diet that includes some of the greenery from around the city (which they've observed does, in fact, prolong the golden-eyed creatures' lives, even if they are typically carnivorous-seeming creatures).