July plot digest and August setting interactions

[ourearth]

PLOT DIGEST AND SETTING INTERACTIONS POST

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Plotting posts are here to

• serve as monthly digests, to get everyone back up to speed with what is going on in the game by providing up-to-date information on plot and setting
  
• provide a space to ask questions about interactions with the setting and plot
  
• offer a venue where players can plot with the mods so that together we can make Save Our Earth as interactive as possible. Plot that has not yet happened is malleable; if player characters interact with it, it may just steer in a different direction from what the mods expected.

Please direct all questions, suggestions and anything else addressed to the mods to toplevel titled "Talk to a Mod" and not to the post in general.

The post is also open for players to plot and coordinate between one another.

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General/OOC notes:

• Please remember to add your character tag to posts that you are tagging into!
  
• For the sake of simplicity, this game uses UTC for everything where an exact cut-off (or start) time is relevant. Right now, this is mostly relevant for AC.
  
• A note on NPCs and plot: Currently we're in a phase of settling into the setting. That means that NPCs don't offer plot hooks yet, but relationship hooks - it's meant to allow characters to establish relationships with them or players to get a feeling for them before they need access to them. For example Stewart will in the future more easily talk to people who helped him find his son, things like that. Likewise there will be no plot directly barrelling at anyone yet, though it is there in the background, so when it shows up more clearly, it will hopefully not feel like a foreign object in the setting and characters will already have some way of relating to it.
  

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Events that occurred recently or are occurring currently:

• On June 30th, the network went live(x), and was accidentally first put to use by Jacob Petty (brofistsforall) (x), while Sam Stone (scarsolderthanyou) was the first to access it on purpose (x).
  
• The night of the Northern Lights, Walter Weekes (iamnotgod) and James Pike (tobodlygo) helped Stewart Fairhurts track down his wayward son (x).
  
• Not long after, Sam Stone (scarsolderthanyou) and Walter Weekes (iamnotgod) tried to figure out the echo boundaries (x).
  
• On July 25th, Chad (channingchanningchanning) alerted everyone on the network (x) to an outbreak at the Moss Manor Menagerie's petting zoo, which caused almost every Numbered person to be in the same location for the first time as they tried to help out, each according to their own capabilities (x). In the process, James Pike (tobodlygo) failed to steal a rabbit and was later sentenced to community service at the zoo (x).
  

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Events (potentially) occurring in the immediate future:

• Pride pride PRIDE!
  
  Due to it being the southern LGBTQ+ community's "retirement village" and there thus being a strong LGBTQ+ infrastructure in the town, this is a huge event that almost all stores, institutions and other parts of the community take part in one way or the other. Players are encouraged to make up a way in which their characters' school/workplace/social organisation offers events or otherwise gets involved in Pride Week, and respond here with whatever it is so you can get some plotting going, with the mods and with each other!
  
  Also, yes, Pride is a bit late this year, taking place at the end of August - due to the extreme heat, it has been delayed in hopes of weather that will make less event attendees collapse.
  
  
• The weekend before Pride Week, so in the first half of August, there also will be a Summer Fête, organised by the local religious communities, including a Victoria Sponge Cake baking competition, a raffle, activities like tug-o-war, and stalls with vendors selling local crafts and goods.
  
  
• There will be a guided tour through the tunnels under the cliffs between the Fête and Pride Week.
  

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Potential Plot Echo Opportunities

• Eating from The Cake. You'll know what cake, promise. ...Eating the cake is at your own peril, though. Don't eat the cake. You were warned.
  

Comments

Talk to a mod

[ourearth]

Questions, suggestions, and everything else goes here! Don't hesitate to come back to this toplevel throughout all of August if a new question/anything else "plot" related crops up.

Pride Week

[ourearth]

Is your character's school/workplace/social organisation having an event or otherwise getting involved with Pride Week/the parade, or are they otherwise involved?

Please tell us here what they're doing! A rough idea or a detailed description are both good - getting started on plotting Pride Week shenanigans here is just as good as delivering finished products.

General for Walter...

[iamnotgod]

Since, while he's not part of a particular organization, he WILL be at Pride. If your character needs him to help with something, he'll do whatever he can to help out with it!

Also okay with him getting both dragged into and "dragged into" all sorts of shenanigans. X) This applies to the Summer Fête, as well, though he'll be more polite/less enthusiastic (if in his own introverted way) about it.

... And while I'm tempted to have him eat the cake, I might just go with a memory Echo from getting into a very nasty argument with a non-tolerant person at the parade. 8')

ETA: New plan is that he'll get the Echo in question from being dared to eat the cake. This will probably make him not want to eat the cake, so. 8'D

Russell

[spaghettimonster]

In approximate order:

Russell's birthday was July 30th! I'll be putting up a backdated network post of him drawing a birthday cake in a bit. Not exactly sure when, but once I've gotten some petting zoo threads closer to him learning that some people he knows are also perceiving the network.

Summer Fête is another of those things where you just have to go, the community-minded people in your extended family / network will frown at you all disapprovingly if you don't, so Russell's going. This one's fun, anyway, between the games and food.
....He really likes cake, though, so the warning against The Cake better have more detail than "you have been warned" going for it, or... he's gonna make mistakes.

Sometime this month there's going to be a collective of nerds going around to play on arcade machines and leave terrible names for the high scores, and he's going to be part of it.

If, by the next guided tour of the tunnels, anybody on the network has been talking about strange things they've started imagining or remembering, he may ask people to go down there with him and see if they get the same weird feelings from it.

He'll be a participant at Pride, for sure.
And the souvenir shop he (currently) works at on the pier is stocking up on rainbow stuff. I'm not sure yet if they're getting involved in Pride Week, but if they are I'll add it to the Pride Week thread.

Chihiro

[darkmagiciangirl]

Chi will be at pride (of course) - she will work with Sadie at the RSPCA booth for a while and will not attempt to steal any of the animals (lookin' at you Jim). When not at the booth she will be going in directions and doing stuff and things - I've clearly put a lot of thought into it, haha.

I personally don't actually know what Fete is, but it sounds really fun. She will likely not participate that much in any events but will definitely check out the vendors and more or less just have it as an excuse to be out and about.

You can bet yourself that Chi is gonna go down into those tunnels for a guided tour - she loves to go on them and goes every time. If anyone plans on attempting to ditch the tour to explore Chi will be vehemently against this. She would even consider telling the tour guide, though she could be talked into being hush hush.

It should be noted Chi is going to eat so much cake. If Jim tries to steal the cake, then she will probably help him because he is a Bad Influence (and he promised to share the cake with her).

[warped_replica]

Benjiro will be at Pride to be supportive of family and friends. Not sure how he’ll help yet. Maybe something from 6th form college.

His aunt Rosemary is going to enter the baking competition at the Summer Fete, and he’ll be there for fun.

At some point in the month, he’s a part of the band wrecking high scores of all the arcade cabinets around town.

Definitely going to tour the tunnels with Sadie and Russell. Memory Echo maybe?