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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[failedpromise]

Well, Cortana was going to try to see what she could manage to break into, but while she's still interested, the lack of proper cybersecurity among her fellow interdimensional coworkers seems a much more pressing concern. Cybersecurity lessons are one thing she'd propose, but she's also going to want to see about convincing ADI to add multi factor identification to user accounts (ie, setting it up so if they try to log in on a device other than their phone they get sent a code they have to enter in addition to their password, or requiring voice or face identification, something like that) since people don't understand they need to keep their passwords a secret.

She may outline a hypothetical scenario involving people aligned with the entities hijacking accounts and sending links to malicious websites or downloads of malicious software to people while pretending to be a friend as an argument for why this is necessary.

Who would she need to contact about this stuff? Would she be able to set up mandatory security classes? What about the multi factor identification?

[apocalypsehowmods]

Apologies for the delay! For your proposal:

1. This is all eminently possible. Her best route to get this done will be going through the network administrator, Pam Ruan, in HR. Pam is, notably, missing a hand, but seems to have a very fancy prosthetic that she's still clearly getting used to. The outlined scenario will cause her to look absolutely stricken and very close to tears before she pulls herself together and agrees that all of that sounds necessary. VITALLY necessary. The only reason they hadn't had it before was the challenge in training people from other times and other worlds how this sort of thing works. They'd disconnected the network from the rest of ADI's systems specifically because they knew there were weaknesses in it. But more is better. MORE IS BETTER.

2. They will implement mandatory cybersecurity classes (we'll note this in the State of the Game, update our arrivals info, and include a prompt related to them in our next TDM to give you a good start), and they would ask that Cortana take on the role of instructor along with any other volunteers she can recruit for it.

[failedpromise]

Sounds great! Cortana is absolutely willing to teach cybersecurity class.

...So if her warnings to students about the dangers of poor cybersecurity are dire enough, would she end up getting fear from that? (It's not her intention, just wondering if it'd happen unintentionally.)

[apocalypsehowmods]

If it's not intentionally, she'd soak up some fear, for sure, but it would be less than what she might get from more intentionally instilling fear. You're welcome to handwave that for random non-ADI NPCs who attend her classes along with any interactions you arrange with PCs!