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soddersays2021-04-20 09:14 am
clocktowers) wrote in soddersays2021-04-20 09:14 am
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Player Plot on the Backburner: Sleeper Council
Just a note about the IC fallout of a recent string of network threads!
Ironwood (RWBY) made this post about a recent Maul incident and rule of law, which has blown up to ~800 comments and counting. Ozpin (RWBY), who is familiar with Ironwood's fascist bullshit and much prefers his own imperialistic bullshit, stepped in to suggest Deerington select a group of leaders as the dream falls apart.
Wu (TLoK) is in eager agreement, and wants to create an interim "Sleeper Council" to oversee resource management, rebuilding efforts, and internal justice. The main thread can be threadjacked here. Responses vary from "why didn't we do that years ago" to "that system is a terrible idea" to "guys please the sky is literally falling rn."
With endgame at the doorstep and everyone wrapping up arcs, we don't want to clutter things with a political player plot now, but! For those of y'all coming to CH2, read on.
In CH2, Oz and Wu are likely to propose a 5-7 person elected council. OOCly, this would be a banner under which community-building player plots could be held (like Mako's resource caches, Wu's safehouse, fallout from PC rampage plots if desired, etc). The goal is to create structure similar to FEAR's leadership and give characters an outlet for political intrigue in the new world. We're sure that some characters won't be into this, and half the fun will be seeing how Sleepers argue over the idea.
Feel free to comment here with thoughts on how your character falls on the issue of Sleeper governance, whether you'd like to get involved with Wu and Ozpin in the remaining months of CH1, and what you might want to take into CH2.
Enjoy your endgame!
- Rona (Ozpin) and Mads (Wu)
UPDATE: Having discussed further with players and mods, we think that whether or not there is IC favor for a new Sleeper organization, we will ultimately have the effort ICly fail. The player plot will just be the proposal of a council and subsequent political arguing, not the successful creation of a council itself. The status quo will remain untouched! This keeps the plot more tidy and self-contained.
Those who want to opt in to discussions about Sleeper leadership can do so by tagging the thread linked above, and keep an eye out for a similar conversation in CH2. Those who aren't interested can safely ignore all mention.
Thanks, everyone!
Ironwood (RWBY) made this post about a recent Maul incident and rule of law, which has blown up to ~800 comments and counting. Ozpin (RWBY), who is familiar with Ironwood's fascist bullshit and much prefers his own imperialistic bullshit, stepped in to suggest Deerington select a group of leaders as the dream falls apart.
Wu (TLoK) is in eager agreement, and wants to create an interim "Sleeper Council" to oversee resource management, rebuilding efforts, and internal justice. The main thread can be threadjacked here. Responses vary from "why didn't we do that years ago" to "that system is a terrible idea" to "guys please the sky is literally falling rn."
With endgame at the doorstep and everyone wrapping up arcs, we don't want to clutter things with a political player plot now, but! For those of y'all coming to CH2, read on.
In CH2, Oz and Wu are likely to propose a 5-7 person elected council. OOCly, this would be a banner under which community-building player plots could be held (like Mako's resource caches, Wu's safehouse, fallout from PC rampage plots if desired, etc). The goal is to create structure similar to FEAR's leadership and give characters an outlet for political intrigue in the new world. We're sure that some characters won't be into this, and half the fun will be seeing how Sleepers argue over the idea.
Feel free to comment here with thoughts on how your character falls on the issue of Sleeper governance, whether you'd like to get involved with Wu and Ozpin in the remaining months of CH1, and what you might want to take into CH2.
Enjoy your endgame!
- Rona (Ozpin) and Mads (Wu)
UPDATE: Having discussed further with players and mods, we think that whether or not there is IC favor for a new Sleeper organization, we will ultimately have the effort ICly fail. The player plot will just be the proposal of a council and subsequent political arguing, not the successful creation of a council itself. The status quo will remain untouched! This keeps the plot more tidy and self-contained.
Those who want to opt in to discussions about Sleeper leadership can do so by tagging the thread linked above, and keep an eye out for a similar conversation in CH2. Those who aren't interested can safely ignore all mention.
Thanks, everyone!
Richie & Joyce
wheezes but okay.
both Richie and Joyce’s immediate, knee-jerk reactions to this idea being brought up now, at this time, are great big Fuck Nos, bc both of them are focused nearly entirely on surviving the next few months. however, they have different underlying reasons for distrusting anyone proposing this idea: Joyce just straight up doesn’t trust anyone Officially in a position of power over people, having seen and been a victim of the kind of abuses they can enact on other people, not if she doesn’t know them as people first (she trusts Hopper and goes to him every time something goes wrong, but she doesn’t go to any other police officer). Richie meanwhile grew up in Derry, where people tended to look the other way, and then spent time in a game where criminal PCs tended to get away with a few months’ probation no matter how bad shit got, so he has very little faith in this council and anyway thinks the timing is completely fucked.
(he hasn’t quite realized it’s power grab after power grab just yet, but he honestly would not be surprised to find that out. adults are the worst!)
I do think that between them Joyce can be convinced to at least participate in the democratic process, but only in like Deer2 - as things stand, she’s currently focusing on staying alive. Richie can’t be convinced either way but he will happily show up just to make a mockery of the proceedings. he might even submit a joke nomination.
please don’t let Richie Tozier submit his Mimikyu as a member of the council.
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as he tries and fails to sway Joyce, who can smell a child-endangering politician from ten miles off
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he might think he’s getting through to Richie only for Richie to turn up with his Mimikyu like “hey, you said anyone can be nominated, right? I nominate my pet Mimikyu Venkman bc he’s cuter than all you bitches” and then go hard on the bit with campaign buttons and everything
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and tragically Ozpin will find that hilarious once he gets over the absolute slap in the face
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