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[ player plot log ]
We've had a lot of player plots that have come through as well as other smaller events that leave potential impacts on the setting. To make it easier to keep track for everyone, we've created this log!
❖ Plot Proposal
We welcome and encourage all kinds of events and plots, especially if it can drive the game's emotional flow direction in any way. Thus if you have a particular event that you'd like to suggest, fill out the following form and we will discuss it with you either on here or in private depending on the nature of the plot.
❖ Points of Interest
Additionally, if your character has been through an event or has done something that could alter the setting in some way that should be noticeable by the population at large, fill out the following form! It could be something being destroyed, created, and it doesn't have to be something created by emotions. If something is built, like a new attraction or local location to visit, you can mention that, too! We will try to work it in, either by publicly announcing it or have tasks that may react to the change.
PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): The Overwatch cast, but open to the whole game too
Plot idea: The rest of the Overwatch cast and I have been doing a bit of chatting and we thought we might have a cool player plot to throw out there, with your approval!
Essentially, it would revolve around the emergence of a secretive new gang on the streets of various cities. Along with the usual misdemeanours associated with organised crime, they have also started to push a new emotion-based drug created partly from crushed crystals, which produces in its users an intense, rapturous high that also has potentially deadly side effects. They have, for the most part, managed to successfully conceal their activities through the use of weaponised emotions by some of the gang's key members- including the ability to alter a witness' emotional memories of events, either to scare them into silence or override incriminating thoughts.
We were thinking that players could stumble on their activities and set about enacting justice on them however they see fit, only to find themselves quickly framed for various (potentially serious) crimes as the gang tries to cover their tracks. Obviously this is where we'd need more clarification on what would be possible there, along with what the possible consequences could be.
Right now, we're thinking that the plot would revolve around discovering and eventually taking down the gang in question- we're happy to take on NPCing duties as and when they're needed, ftr. It would naturally be open to everyone in the game who'd be interested, and would give people a lot of more action- and drama-oriented things to thread out- characters could even try the drug themselves and potentially face the (temporary, but horrible) consequences. Before we start to plan out any details, I'd love whatever feedback you could give us on how feasible this would be, and, if there are problems, how we might go about tackling them.
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In terms of consequences, while those framed will initially be seen as guilty, they will have trials and representation (the AA cast would probably love this) and so long as their proof of innocence, there would only be minimum jail holding time.
I think I covered most of the important points at least, but if there's anything else, let us know!
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Character(s): White
Temporary or Permanent? Permanent
Description: So White's been wanting to make FeelGood's products of emotion potions more of a medical thing, to help apathy at large since it does help those that take it, not to cure it so much as it medicate the worst of it! I wasn't wholly sure if I should go about this here or on the mod contact itself, but it'd work basically as in taking memory petals, doing the usual distilling process as she does with her products, but in a more professional and research-based setting; whoever works in that department would have anything they need supplied to them for testing and the like. Maybe pill form too. Prescription-based or whatever so there's no intense abuse of it (though obviously that can be circumvented as players want it, it's just easier to go through White for bulk buys), can be used to help those that are dangerous off the deep end (like Junko and her despair, for instance) without the use of taking away emotions completely... etc etc. Stuff like that!
Tasks would probably be the best way to incorporate it, with batches of paid research groups and etc to test the medicine. If there's anything else that needs to be paid attention to, I'd be happy to talk things out!
PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Edna, Mikleo, Zaveid,, possibly Laphicet, not Dezel and Eizen because curses
Plot idea: So with all the whacky weather hijinks lately, I was thinking that this is going to cause some Problems with harvests and winter food and whatnot. We have several beings able to do something with soil and growth and general health-of-the-land type things, and we're all pretty interested in it, so could the non-cursed seraphim/malakhim maybe do something with some of the farms around Verens and their blessings to get a few quick harvests in?
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We see no problem with them helping out! The island's farmers would be glad for any help they could get.
PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Eikichi Mishina and anyone who signs up
Plot idea: So with trying not to outright end up with a blind date fiasco of last time and hopefully just create some good positive emotions and new friendships, Eikichi proposed during the previous meeting to have a "Blind Friendships" Date. Since this time it's near winter it would include more sitting in the snow with hot chocolates and cookies and talking and perhaps some snow activities.
I could do this either October or November. I figured November might be better for you guys since the calendar looks full but if you want me to run this this month I would be super okay to do so!
OOC Wise it means an OOC post for signups like last time.
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Gai Ikari
Plot idea: Holiday Gift Exchange! Gai really likes the holidays and even if this world isn't exactly like home (not that Japan is huge on Christmas regardless) and I figured an IC gift exchange would be pretty fun.
The twist - no one knows who they are giving a gift to, and the randomized results means there could be some really hilarious presents sent to certain characters. The boxes would arrive to Gai already wrapped by some NPC helpers before he drops them off.
Players would submit an IC gift via a screened post and would be encouraged it to have their character's personal touch. Presents would be sent out to each character and they would be free to react to them as seen fit. Basically innocent fun that might have a few surprising results (and reasons for characters to complain)
This would be done during the game's December equivalent month.
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Junko Enoshima, anyone who wants to get involved, and the poor citizens of Shaarnath!
Plot idea: It's been a while since Junko's been terrible, and she hasn't tried to mess up Shaarnath before, so...why not?
So I figured she could kind of mess with the people sending stuff to the speaker/listener system to screw with things emotionally. Not just to spread despair, but to stir things up and wreck balances and just kind of set people off.
On the mechanic side of thing, I wanted to kind of do the plot through the task board to give people things to do and react to! So the first set of tasks would be normal everyday things since the plot wouldn't really have kicked in yet, and the second half would be things that actually could affect the player plot! Like the first set could be something like referring a dodgeball game, and the second task could be stopping Shaarnath from turning into all out dodgeball war.
I figure as far as a win/loss scenario, if enough characters to the tasks, things go back to normal. But if not there could be some sort of riot in Shaarnath!
From what Slip said and due to timing, I think the soonest I could put this together would be November/December, but if it's approved, it could be whenever you guys want!
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Thanks for contacting us about this. We'd love to work with you and get this player plot going! However, given the current situation of the October event and how it might be extended to early November, we will let you know on October 26 when we can make this live.
In the meantime, you're free to write some plot-related tasks for the task board. You can write those in the Google Doc we were linked before, and we will check it as soon as we can! If you have any other questions, please PM us instead of responding to this comment to prevent anyone from potentially being spoiled for this plot.
PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Nanako Dojima, Yu Narukami, and everyone else!
Plot idea: Big 'Ol Holiday Dinner with Friends!
Since her arrival, Nanako's been meeting her Big Bro's friends and some of the other otherworldly visitors, such as themselves. She's gotten to know a quite a few people, but she's yet to hang out with everyone altogether at once, and that sounds like much to much fun to pass up. So, with the holidays around the corner, she's sure that there are some who are going to be missing home terribly, and so what better time is there to gather everyone up like a big, happy family and have a huge, delicious meal together!
Nanako would send out a mass invitation on the network, admittedly a little on accident -- her Big Bro thought that by "everyone" she meant within their circle of friends, little did he know. Then, around the 21st or 22nd of December, she can throw up a mingle log for everyone to attend the dinner/holiday gathering. It would be open to everyone regardless of if they've even interacted with Nanako or Yu before. All would be welcome to attend.
This would take place during Emp's December equivalent month.
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Ezra Bridger (and whoever he drags into this)
Plot idea: So, sometimes people who are Force-sensitive have visions of the future granted to them. Sometimes they're fragmentary, sometimes they seem to be very clear, only for context to reveal that it was something very different from what the recipient thought it was. I'd like to do something with this ability, but since "seeing the future" is something that seems like it could impact the game (or requires knowledge of things that are going to happen that I, as a player, don't have), I was hoping I could work something out with you.
To be clear, I'm not looking to run a large plot here. Something relatively minor for Ezra to hare after with a couple other people would be just fine.
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After a bit of discussion, we think it would be best for you to come up with an event/vision rather than us deciding on something specific and giving it to you. In that case, we would feel more obligated to offer said vision to all characters with future-seeing abilities, which would probably make it bigger than what we think you're going for.
We can confirm that there's nothing major aside from Selenium happening this month, though, and wanted to give you a few suggestions if you were having trouble coming up with something! Perhaps Ezra could foresee some kind of building/structure collapse, a monster stampede of some kind, or a task from the taskboard going horribly wrong. As long as it just affects a small part of the setting, it should be fine, but feel free to come to us with any ideas if you wanted confirmation!
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Anyone who signs up.
Plot idea: It's blind dates just in time like last year! Probably a little more melancholic than last year, but with Eikichi's usual brand of uh...Eikichiness. A signup and the dates will go up on the 14th at night and involve a lot of little cut-out hearts.
Don't worry, Eikichi totally won't mess this up like last year!
(Narrator: He will.)
Nothing will go wrong!
(Narrator: It will.)
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Sounds good to us, Pixle! Let us know if you need anything else.
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Kylo Ren and literally whoever wants to play around with it!
Plot idea: Hey guys remember that PM I sent
I got deets now
To put it simply, Kylo would use mind tricks and other such manipulation to get Briarlan engineers to make him a thing. That thing would eliminate emotional effects by stabilizing emotion energy/cutting people off from emotion energy. He doesn't care about the specifics he just wants it to work. (I would submit a couple of tasks for March to sort of ~foreshadow.)
Except when he tries to use it on Verens in late March/early April, it goes wrong! WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED. This would result in a mixture of fun shenanigans including optional eliminated and overloaded emotional effects, network telepathy disruptions, power outages and surges for things powered by amulets, and ability/dunamis malfunctions. A fun time for all.
(Kylo would then be cut off from emotional energy for about a month, meaning he can't use his powers since they depend on world magic energy. Good job, nerd.)
More details are in the doc! Let me know if the timing is cool and the rest looks alright.
Plot Proposal
Character(s): Velvet Crowe, Rokurou Rangetsu & open to the rest of the game
Plot idea: They are going to be opening up an arena outside of town and as their grand opening, they want to hold a tournament. People will sign up to participate (solo or groups of four) - they will battle monsters in the preliminary rounds and the individuals who win move up to fight their next opponents. Eventually, their battles will end with Otherworlder against Otherworlder until only one stands at the top. Winners will receive a prize and be considered Champions until the next tournament.
It would take place over a few days to allow contestants to rest before the final few rounds and allow for spectators to sit in the stands and cheer or boo. There will, of course, be rules to follow (ex. no killing, all attacks must remain in the ring, no show = forfeit) and even a few exhibition events - which we could open up to other people in the entertainment business. Ideally, this is a way to generate both negative and positive emotions in a relatively safe manner.
I'd like this to be something that could happen sometime in June but July would work too.
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We definitely have no objections regarding this, however, we already have a plot-related event lined up for June. For July, we have Helisium, but we're definitely more than open to have a player plot event happen for that month, too.
Let us know what you think!
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Lemony Snicket, any and all interested parties
Temporary or Permanent? Temporary - 1-2 days, preferably not until July or August, whatever fits best with your calendar!
Description: A Job Fair! Lemony would coordinate with the Welcome Center and reach out to various businesses or specialists in Verens to set up tables, manned by characters who can extoll the virtues of their specific profession! IC business owners can use it as a way to remind players their businesses exist and get new CR, and other characters can use it for ideas to give themselves more things to do around the island. Want to be a Junior Detective? Talk to Neptune! Maybe you want to bake pies with Snow White, or sign up for the Restoration Committee?
It'd be set up like your standard job fair, either in the Welcome Center itself or a nearby area of the marketplace... perhaps it could be tied in to Aiada for curiosity, or Thras for ambition, too? Jobs do certainly stir a lot of emotions in people ...
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Sora, Vanitas, Kor Meteor, Merisia Thenel, Zero
Plot idea: Vanitas accidentally triggers Sora's antiform drive form but it seems to make everyone who has a drive form with Sora to go antiform as well! Therefore four different antiform characters will be running around the city for 24 hours. We have a full plotting doc here for all the details. We would like this to go up at the start of July and only last a day IC-ly.
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Plot Proposal
Character(s): Machina Kunagiri, Velvet Crowe, Possibly some of Velvet's Cronies, 1 Arehtei (mod's choice?), and the island full of do gooding heroes
Plot idea:
Machina and Velvet both have some pretty strong reasons for wanting to lash out at the local gods and/or try to force them to keep people here. Yeah, we the muns know drops happen but the characters are both taking it pretty badly. Over in this log, they sort of broached the idea of trying to kill an Arehtei to force the situation so that people who are dead at home can stay forever.
What we'd like to do is have the pair of troublemakers actually make an attempt on one of the Arehtei. (Assuming it'll fail. And they will be in deep doo afterwards.) Banking on the bevy of heroes present on the island stopping them before they pull off a god's murder.
As for timing, no sooner than August since we know Helisium is coming up in July. And they'll need time to plot their evil plans. But if there's a time that works better for upcoming events, that's cool too.
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Haggar (Honerva)
Plot idea:
Hello! This is less of a "plot log" and more of "my character is poking about doing this or that in search of info" sort of variety that potentially could affect others, but I wasn't certain where it would be best to submit that, so here you go.
For some time now, Honerva has been gathering information about the planet/state of the planet, whether from her own studies, inquiries from various local researchers and arehtei, and her husband's connections among otherworlders. Since she's a gal who thrives on a need for obtaining further knowledge, and knows how to play the long term game on this, she has a couple of goals she's pursuing.
I would say beginning in ... August and over time, though she's probably done some prelimilary tests already, she intends to make use of her abilities (psychic/quintessence/emotion energy) to obtain knowledge by sensing/reading the world itself. For example, if there's anything she can pick up that relates to whatever outside source that brings people there from other worlds (specifically in/around the temple site), as well as a few other locations. Basically assessing if there's anything she would be able to learn further through her rituals.
Along with that, since her attention has been pointed toward the existence of "Simpathis", particularly in learning the relevance the currently "dead" arethei has on the world itself, she's also pursuing methods to sense for her / scry for her memories or potentially align to her or even revive her, in seeing if that could bring more knowledge or a deeper connection to the world or energy.
Ultimately the questions I have would be if there would be anything new she'd be able to pick up on, along with what ramifications there could be from the attempts. I assume of course, that for the most part, it won't work (unless something useful gamewise can come up, otherwise this is more for my background flavor), but there would be various attempts involved as time goes on, potentially with her trying to augment those attempts with whatever boosts that magitech or crystals may provide since it's likely to be a longer-term project depending on how initial experiments go.
Or if there are any neat warnings, whiplash or whatnot that can come from this, or learning something completely unrelated over time, that would be fun too.
(Because. This is helping, right?)
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Plot Proposal
Character(s): Trey
Plot idea:
I'm not sure if this is the right place, but it may have an impact. Trey has a few theories about this world:
1: That the "original" inhabitants had actually been brought here by someone.
2: That the world is suffering from an "open wound" that no matter how much emotion is poured into it, will never heal.
3: That the answer actually lies in the history of the appearances of those brought here because he obviously doesn't think this is a new thing.
4: That all of it is connected to the war between humans and Arehtei.
And 5: The death of Thras is a prelude to a repetition to that war.
THAT being said, he would be going around asking the locals if anything that's been happening feels familiar--a sense of deja vu. (This is something he felt in canon because his world kept repeating itself.) He's also been doing research in the Library to find things out.
So, I was wondering what kind of answers he would get and if he'd find anything in the Library that would enlighten him or help with the current situation/future events.
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He will also find that there have been marked improvements to various lands since the Otherworlders have lent their help, with the once-unsurvivable wastelands clearing up in spots such as Diateris of Elios' lands.
Verens natives and libraries will be able to tell him of the month and year that Otherworlders began appearing (Penta/August of 814/2014), and will have no knowledge of any previous arrivals.
References to the war will be difficult to find in Verens aside from asking the Arehtei themselves, but Shaarnath will have records and stories describing it as between different human factions, only for the Arehtei to wake and forcefully bring it to an end. However, the exact circumstances are still unclear as to what caused the current state of the world.
February Mini- Plot proposal
Character(s): Character(s) Eikichi Mishina
Plot idea: Hey do you guys remember his previous blind dates? Well how about doing it around the time that is Valentine's day (of course not what it's called it here but that own't stop Eikichi. This time he's going in with a full disclaimer that it is blind dates and course nothing bad can happen!
(it probably will, his record isn't the greatest, let's be honest)
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POINT OF INTEREST
Character(s): Bulat, open to everyone.
Temporary or Permanent? Temporary, for like a week in April.
Description: Bulat's been low-key helping out at his beloved Zephyras flower festival for several years and has had a lot of positive feelings about it - and since he's planning to propose on this upcoming one, he wants it to be extra special. Which is to say, he wants to set up a love-and-flower themed obstacle course as one of the attractions.
It seems weird to do something like that and not have it be part of the whole festival, so if I write up a description and send it to you all, would you put it in the main post with the hedge maze and other activities? I don't want to step on anything too similar that's already planned, so I'm asking early!
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This sounds like fun, and we would be happy to incorporate the obstacle course in one of the prompts in the Flower Festival! At the moment, we don't have anything similar planned, and we are more than happy to tweak any prompts that may end up overlapping with yours.
Feel free to send us your ideas and such come April so we can have it up when the event log goes up!
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PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Anyone who wants to participate, this is meant to be a game-wide event
Plot idea: This would be a two-part event involving the balance of emotions and something big and bad! I will PM the mod account the full details.
POINT OF INTEREST
Character(s): na
Temporary or Permanent? Temp
Description: Just wanted to throw down the idea of flowers that fill the air with pollen that alters emotions for the Flower Festival.
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Thanks for this idea! We'll be sure to bring this up with the Think Tank. This can only end in chaos. :)
Plot Proposal: HEIST!
Character(s): Roman (with interest expressed from Ban, Emerald and Billy, as well as the potential for more as things play out)
Plot idea: Short version: Roman wants to steal an Airship.
Long version: Basically Roman is getting bored and wants to do some crime and what better way than to break into the Airship docks and steal an airship. I've outlined three phases for how things will run:
1. Setup/Gathering people/Shopping montage - As mentioned above, some interest has been expressed on plurk/cr memes by other players and so I was considering an OOC call for anyone else who would like to join in the heisting.
On an IC basis it would also mean setting up a plan, gathering materials and disguises for that plan, and exploring the airship docks for weaknesses/what they're working with.
2. HEIST - The actual heist in all its inevitably chaotic glory.
3. Fallout - Success or Failure and whatever comes after that.
I guess what I am looking for from you mods is a) approval, b) what sort of obstacles would be present at the airship docks?
and c) what would be the best way to measure success or failure? (a dice roll? succeeding in a certain number of tasks?) Further to that, what would failure look like?
Thanks!
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We're sorry to make you wait, but we have seen this and plan to discuss it soon and get back to you with details. It may not be until after the event is posted, but we will be keeping it in mind!
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Plot Proposal
Character(s): Blue Oak, Archie, posssibly Plumeria if she gets in!
Plot idea: So Blue and Archie are really buttmad about the Beast Master Guild and the encouragement of what they see as wanton monster-slaughter, so during July they're planning to graffiti and vandalize the guild's building! Nothing harmful to anyone inside- just defacing of the building with paint and maybe minor Pokémon-caused damage to the structure.
We wanted to ask about the consequences/suggest the idea for the taskboard in August to have a task to find out who did it!
If you'd like I can link the thread in Blue's catchall where it happens so you guys can see the exacts.
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For the most part, the consequences for them being caught would be minor, with a month of community service and not being able to take future tasks from the guild. Given that the guild is held in pretty high regard by Verens citizens thanks to keeping the city safe from the more dangerous monsters, they might find themselves scorned by a few of the natives and their businesses, but not for very long.
We'd love to put up a task for it! Just drop the details over here and we'll make sure it's on next month's board.
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Plot Proposal
Character(s): Billy the Kid and anyone else who wants to join in
Plot idea: A town in the middle of nowhere is beset by a corrupt mayor and law enforcement. After witnessing someone being harassed Billy is either asked, or steps in, to help. Ending up injuring or killing (depending on the consequences there of), of several deputies.
From then on he becomes wanted and is painted as a criminal. Eventually he ends up trying to form a gang and teach the townsfolk to stand up against their oppressors.
Tl;dr - basically i'm proposing magnificent seven meets young guns meets a fistful of dollars.
Given the content though I'm hoping to get approval for it, find out the potential consequences during and after the plot. Especially since I know that killing tends to carry some very harsh weight with it in game.
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However, if you do have any ideas that could be work more easily with the setting, please let us know!
PLOT PROPOSAL
Character(s): Serah Farron
Plot idea: Last year after the attack on
TitanSosyne, Serah put on a Fireworks Festival. She'd been planning it since she arrived, but that was the best time for it, after a bunch of not so great things. Seeing as how she'd want to try to keep it around the same time and hopefully it doesn't bump into any plotty plot things the mods have going in the beginning of September, I'd want to shoot for having a log up on September 7th but wouldn't mind the extra advertising in a mod announcement ;) If that's not feasible, I'll figure things out and shoot for a different date!Re: PLOT PROPOSAL
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Point of Interest
Character(s): Raiden
Temporary or Permanent? Permanent
Description: Deep in the woodlands south of Verens is a haunted forest with gnarled trees and foliage. Everything is shrouded in mist and the air is heavy as if a storm is coming. These woods were created through Raiden's persistent despair. More on that here