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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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1. Loki can definitely transfer over, though he won't be a senior business manager. There will be talks of a potential promotion to this position, but they'll want to see how he creates and carries out a project to better protect the subsidiary. This subsidiary's name is Tempo, by the way! Any of his familiarity with their security flaws won't be looked at in confusion, simply because it'll make sense that he was resourceful.
2. Katelin Jovavich is a pioneer in a lot of ways - she's been working for Pulsar since she was 18, having come in through the front doors of the company with a project to help improve terraforming efforts based on her own research. Through a family friend, she had managed to bribe and cajole her way into getting the appropriate files so that she could come up with a better plan. While that family friend was quickly demoted and disgraced within the company - if not fired, then forced to go back to entry level - Jovavich was quickly brought onto the team.
One of the big things that Loki will hear is that Jovavich gets what she wants once she sets her eyes on it. The biggest hurdle she's faced is that the UN government is opposed to releasing scientists into space to improve terraforming efforts, instead choosing to use people who are disposable and willing to take the government subsidy to live out their lives in space. Jovavich is opposed to these efforts, believing that their colonies are performing poorly because they don't have high-end engineers and scientists on board to help expand to space.
Her goal to become governor seems to be based on changing this. Jovavich never intended to enter politics - her goal was always to keep moving up within Pulsar to change their direction. However, she profiled well with the establishment thanks to her ambition and her tendencies as a visionary, so they began to prepare her as a politician. Jovavich started to be fast tracked following Gill-Jade's failures.
As for Jovavich's familial background, they're old money - though Jovavich is actually adopted! No one knows the reason behind her adoption, though her family was more involved in the business side of the corporate world than the science side. It seems that Jovavich's ambition and intelligence comes from her biological family, though she's never mentioned them.
Jovavich herself is unmarried - and her former employees joke that she's "married to her job." That's … quite true.
3. This is all good! Go forth and pitch it to us and we'll get back to it ASAP. We're thinking it can go up next weekend, if that's good for you guys!
4. Thanks, Loki. She'll say she's passing them to El, since she … doesn't have much use for them.
5. They have to go through a government-run driver's program. Because of the danger associated with hover cars, there are a number of hours expected for someone to have completed. For anyone new to the game, they can work with El to bypass this process - but someone needs to know how to pilot a bit in addition to just driving.
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During the Carnivalentine's festivities Loki will be seeking out cult members to send a message back to Ball! It'll basically be a call for some bankrolling after the whole Judas thing. While Loki won't be entirely specific, he'll want to extend an invitation as a means of connection between Ball/cult and the Displaced! He'll explain that they have a few new faces, and it might be good to get their mingle on. He'll suggest the underground caves because it's a great way to make sure that no one who shouldn't show up doesn't.
Loki won't mind using some of his own funds and doing the planning along with Klaus and Diana.
And this weekend sounds fine.
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This sounds fine. We see that it's late in the weekend, so let us know if next weekend works better for all of you!
As for the bankrolling, can you clarify this request for us? Would he be asking for bankrolling for the party or for other Displaced activities?
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This sounds fine, and you can retroactively assume that he offered Loki some credits through a third party account that he keeps (as he'll want to keep his identity a secret at least until after the gates are activated). Interestingly enough, Ball will actually be working at Loki's company, so he'll send him a message under his real name to inform him that he'll be at Caroline's event once Loki's back at work, so he'll be make time for Loki there. His real name is Matek Kattan!