Player Plots

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Player Plots

Player plots are plots that have a large enough reach to require some sort of sign up, or would be difficult for those not directly involved to ignore, or need some sort of NPC/mod involvement.

Examples of player plots include:

Actions that would negatively affect 4-or-more PCs.

Death of a PC.

Death of a named NPC.

Death of more than 1 unnamed NPC at the same time.

Significant property damage.

A PC gaining powers as a result of aligning with a patron Entity.

Anything that could potentially expose the supernatural to the wider world.

Please submit player plots at least a week or two in advance of when you'd like to run it. In the event something happens suddenly that would escalate to a player plot, please let us know as soon as possible.

<b>Player Name(s)</b>: <b>Character(s) Involved</b>: <b>Dates</b>: When you would like to run the plot. <b>Plot Type</b>: PERSONAL, PAIR, GROUP <b>Plot Summary</b>: Please let us know what you're doing! <b>Questions</b>: Do you have any specific questions for us?

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[sorser]

Moved over from this set of questions!

1. It’s hard for Stephen to turn down the ask for medical assistance, and the fact that ADI will want to vet him first would be enough incentive to work in their facilities. However, he’d still want to live outside of ADI housing, even if that puts him in more of a volunteer role than “paid job” role with the organization. Would he still be able to reside in the flophouse if he goes this route?

2. I think the goal of having Stephen doing volunteer work in the hospital would be fun, especially since it would be a few months departed from now, giving him time to work up to it. Having a source of intel regarding any odd injuries coming in could also work as a starting point for clue-gathering or the beginnings of an event/plot, especially if it’s related to any of the history in the area, which he would doggedly research and report back to ADI, if necessary.

Specific character goals for this setting would relate to finding a balance between wanting to help people and how being near them (or giving in to… scaring them a little, maybe) puts them in more danger. Other than that, I really just thought it would be fun to utilize a hospital as another location in the setting to add some spookiness and mystery. I’d be open to brainstorming for the sake of being a vehicle for the plot if needed! I don’t have very specific questions, other than if what outlined here is reasonable?

[apocalypsehowmods]

Hey, there! We're closing in on the event where Stephen's involvement to set things in motion would be much appreciated. For the TDM, we had a prompt this month called "New Year, New You" advertising a product that will be showing up in time for January's event. We'd like Stephen to have a little bit of a sneak preview of the impact of that product on someone.

You're free to assume that Stephen has either been volunteering for the last while at the local hospital or that ADI has just gotten him set up for it, but there is going to be an emergency room visit from a familiar face. Sable will be in with severe lacerations on her hand and up her right arm the day before the event starts (the 15th). She'll be able to tell Stephen that she didn't get a look at specifically what it was, but that she was injured reaching into a box she found on the docks bound for Things of Beauty. She heard strange noises coming from within the box and decided to take a look... foolishly. She knows she ought to know better about these sorts of things.

They were being transported by someone else, so she had to be discreet, getting into the box, and was just going to reach in to pull whatever it was out when something latched onto her. A lot of somethings, it had felt like. She's lucky she'd been wearing a glove and her thick coat. Whatever the things were, they tore through that, but she can't imagine what would have happened if she'd not had any protection.

From Stephen's observation, it will look like something has been biting Sable, ripping off chunks of flesh. The size of the bitemarks doesn't make sense, though. They're tiny. Like mouse-sized piranhas. Sable will urge Stephen to tell ADI to look into Things of Beauty and stop this.

Please let us know any questions you might have!

[sorser]

Hey mods! This sounds like fun. I’m more than happy to have Stephen participate in any way that can help move the plot along. He will absolutely inform ADI after receiving the run-down from Sable (and tending to her wounds first and foremost, ofc).

From an OOC standpoint, do you need anything from me? Does Stephen need to disseminate this info to the playerbase via network post before the event, or does he need to thread with an NPC? Or is this just for the sake of setting up future events and can mostly be handwaved?

Just let me know! Thank you again.

[sorser]

Sounds good! I will aim for the 13th to get the network post up, and I think it’ll work to handwave that ADI told him to make the announcement beforehand.

Stephen would ask if ADI is aware of the advertisements popping up re: Things of Beauty and if this incident is a taste of what’s to come, if there’s a way that they can impede shipments to and from Things of Beauty? Maybe keeping an eye on the docks, etc? It might be worth mentioning on the network post if players want to investigate, but no worries if that’s not viable.

Other than that, everything seems relatively straightforward, and Stephen will basically relay everything he was told. Let me know if you need anything else from me in the meanwhile.

[apocalypsehowmods]

Reyes and Neil would let him know they are aware, but the earlier investigations into Things of Beauty hadn't yielded any results, which is why they had not been pursuing it vigorously.

Neil would be very much in favor of impeding shipments. If some of those boxes were to find their way into the harbor at night or if delivery trucks could be hindered in their departure, that might buy them more time to look into things. We'll add a prompt on the Event for these activities, and it will have an effect on some of the dangers the team faces.