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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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Thanks!
We'll assume that she got started on some of this before Zerzura, especially since we assume she'd dive in and start making connections right away. Upon returning to Meadowlark's proper Earth and picking up where she left off, Octavia would likely be able to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time, so long as she's able to show proof (easily done in a world where she can take photography/videos with her eyeballs) that she's making good on her word. The fact that she isn't just recruiting but is also immediately following up to make good on her promises will be huge to them—and is frankly a lot more than people do once making a gang of their own. Usually they make promises of protection and do nothing to follow it up.
There will be some who will wonder if they can use this to their advantage, and will begin to plot to take down other enemies while using their fearless leader as a weapon. This won't be true of everyone, though, and she'll likely be able to easily develop an inner circle that's loyal to her quite quickly who will root them out. Her inner circle won't know about this intention just yet, however. The people that Octavia would be sent after would be dressed up as bad people, but either through observation, research, or simply ruthlessly approaching them, it's possible for her to learn differently. By which we mean, her new recruits are sending her after good people to try to keep them out of their way for their own personal goals.If she does, it may give off the signal that she's desperate, violent, and easily manipulated. If she doesn't—well, it depends on how she doesn't get tricked!
She won't have accrued much of a reputation among the bigger gangs yet, and this could be a determining factor. Given her interests in recruiting those who need someone to look out for them and are easily swayed, she might catch Jason's eye in the process of this, if that will help the two of you facilitate CR!
Let us know how she'd go about the challenge of someone trying to manipulate her into doing their bidding, and how she would follow up on that either way. We're leaving that aspect open ended for you to decide upon.
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with that said! octavia is likely to get half-tricked, given her current state of impulsive violence — and by partially tricked, i mean she'll likely find out these good people aren't trash by ruthlessly approaching them, and then backpedaling to do proper observation/research to affirm her suspicions (though said proper observation/research will likely be delegated to her inner circle, as much a show of trust as it will be a test on octavia's end to see if they come through; i imagine she would give them each the task separately without letting the others know she has, just to see if they come back with the same information so she can weed out those that are deceptive.)
once that's done, octavia will. uh. depose of any traitors herself, bloodily, if possible. this will include killing most of them and leaving others as an example of what happens as a consequence of mutiny and betrayal.
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One final question: how is she killing the traitors and what does she do with the bodies afterward? Otherwise, we'll provide an update on this for the November calendar!