HEY IT'S THAT PROMISED POLICE PLOTTINS

[ex_bandai157]

Hi guys! As discussed here and here, Exsilium is getting an IC police force of both NPC citizens and transports. This is going to be a masterpost of information and sign ups.

→ A police force?

While Exsilium didn't have one to begin with, as of September the citizens have been quietly finishing the process of putting one together, complete with their own station. They put up flyers recruiting people interested in helping, which is how Barnaby came to discover them and make an IC announcement about this.

In any case, while the force is largely made up of locals, they agreed to allow for a transport-only unit, which is under the supervision of an NPC played by the lovely oceanwrath by the name of Thomas Sorenstam. The basic idea is that while this group will need to follow orders from him and do things like patrols and investigating NPC crimes and such, they'll have a fair bit of autonomy to keep an eye on transport-specific problems and to work out their internal ranking system.

→ What happens if my character wants to sign up?

There'll be paperwork to do at the station, and there'll also be testing to ensure that the people put on the force are decent people and not about to go undermining the rules or system. Everyone will get put through a training as well so they can all be on the same page. And they will be paid! 200 marques a month.

→ Is the Initiative involved in this?

SURE ARE. They're helping fund this whole thing! Thom is also, unlike most random civilians, pretty aware of them and has a contact with them and generally likes them.

→ Are there jails? Laws? Just what are they enforcing?

There are jails! Some are adjoining to the station, which will be monitored by both NPCs and PCs, and there are some in the Initiative Hold (which have been around). At the moment, they're primarily focused on dealing with existing crime (things like theft or murder which are fairly universally Not Okay) in the city - which isn't very common but does happen.

→ So what is the internal organization?

OKAY so the breakdown we're currently thinking about is like this:

Police Commissioner

Thomas Sorenstam

↓

Inspector

Barnaby Brooks, Jr.

↓

Sergeants

Tamora Jean Calhoun & Nathaniel Howe

↓

Constables/Assistance

Roslyn Small
Minato Arisato
Samus Aran
Priad
Conner Kent
Kratos Aurion
Hilda
Arthur Pendragon
Asami Sato
Keith Goodman
Wing

→ Security: Adam Jensen
→ Private Investigator: Naoto Shirogane
→ Law: Miles Edgeworth, Franziska von Karma, Yuri Petrov, and Maya Fey (assisting!).

That said, nothing is like completely set in stone and this is especially subject to change depending on the amount of interest, so if you have thoughts, please comment with them!

→ What's the station like?

It's walking distance from the Hold, and looks like this, if more run-down and with the y missing :( It's around three stories tall and houses all of the police, including the NPC officers and related people (who, it's worth remembering, vastly outnumber the transports)! The first floor houses administrative offices, and Thom's is on the second floor, and as there are only ~20 offices in total, there's plenty of sharing.

→ What does this mean for everyone else?

Well, it can be handwaved that the force is around doing things, generally having a presence and making things safer and whatnot. If anyone wants to plot out police involvement in a given thread or plot, you can ping this post or this thread or any one of us to get stuff rolling.

Also Thom is going to be posting in the near future, so there'll be opportunity for IC interactions/expressing interest/hassling/or whatever pretty soon as well!


sign ups!
<b>(name)</b> | (canon) | <user name=" "> <b>Canon background in law enforcement (if any!):</b> (Or whatever related area) <b>How would they get involved?</b> (What roles would they want to play? Would they sign up for/would you sign them up for the position of sergeant?)

signing up;
questions;
contacting the police;

Comments

QUESTIONS!

[ex_bandai157]

[mentore]

what if Ezio doesn't want to be directly involved can he still be somehow in contact or just have a way to keep tabs on the people in the force and the going-ons? because he's a creep like that

[gevurah]

Yes, this! Kate's also creepy, but it's a Bat thing.

[ex_bandai157]

he could! creeping around is something he'd have to do his own digging on, since if he doesn't officially get involved he won't be provided info by npcs and such - alternatively he could join in some non-active capacity if he'd be so inclined? - but yeah and if he wanted to handle incidents he happened across....like, as long as that wasn't taken far like you know oh you stole something i'M GOING TO STAB YOU NOW but assisting in kind of an unofficial capacity to help ~justice be done would be alright and okay with the force as a whole icly!

[slingshots]

not signing up officially because HAW WHAT IS WORKING WITH THE LAW DIRECTLY, WHO KNOWS, but the hero types we have might be interested in this! the two robins and the bat, and ARE THERE VIGILANTE TYPE MARVELS RUNNING AROUND I CAN'T QUITE REMEMBER... and then there's the wall of young justice reserves, too.

HEY BARNABY HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT OVER EXCITED TEENAGERS LEAVING DUDES TIED UP ON STREET CORNERS THAT'S HELPFUL RIGHT

[ex_bandai157]

carrie please LKASMDFLK

HE'S PROBABLY PRETTY USED TO IT TBH OH COOL WE'RE GETTING OUR OWN BRAND OF EXSILIUM HEROES NEAT

bc kids fighting for justice isn't questionable at all!! ah, sternbild values

[onemoredeath]

So... whenever you people want to deal with things happening that involve a certain creeper just holler 83 okay?

[ex_bandai157]

WILL DO owo and also let us know whenever some cool plotting opportunity comes up on your end!

Re: QUESTIONS!

[bratworth]

While the whole 'court' aspect of things is still in the air, Edgeworth's still going to keep in touch with the going-ons of the police force, so he will pester anyone who's on it for information, especially Barnaby. I HOPE THIS IS OKAY WITH YOU GUYS B). Actually, now that I think about it, would he be able to become involved in some capacity as like...an investigative liaison (to lovingly borrow Ish's terms)? HE WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED SOMEHOW, even if there is no courtroom yet!

[ex_bandai157]

HE TOTALLY CAN that would be great!

[whatsupcroc]

They are good terms I think maybe a little.

Should be plus one-ing here that Mia'll also keep an eye on and talk to everyone in the Transport force (and... belatedly I shooooould toss her at the NPC when he's more of a thing) though all these vigilantes will

eventually draw her attention um

this is not how this is supposed to work is it

Self Defense Classes

[whatsupcroc]

Seems like a good idea tying in to the police -- would it be possible to even have particularly keen NPCs perhaps work with a program like this as a community volunteer thing, with donations to help keep the coffee club running at the station?

Self defense courses could be a kind of nice thing (no idea if any PCs are around who could or would be interested in running such a thing, thus considering NPCs?)

[ladyspitfire]

Oh, I like this idea. I know Elissa's been trying to teach people how to fight minimally or to defend themselves because there are plenty of people who are support and non-fighters, and she's afraid of what might happen to them in battle.

Re: Self Defense Classes

[kingdom_of_song]

Swann would sign up for this because his current (and only) self-defense measure is 'run'.

Re: QUESTIONS!

[neveraskedforthis]

JUST DROPPING A GENERAL COMMENT that when it comes to organization, we definitely should have teams. this post should also be linked somewhere so its more accessible for people, or i've seen other games have their own comm etc for police force organization. since it CAN turn out to be a lot, especially if the game is getting bigger and you'll want to have trials and a set of laws thats gotta be defined first and stuff. AND I REALLY LOVE DETAIL

[ex_bandai157]

i'll make a note of that! i think it's too early to merit any of that right now honestly, but maybe as need arises.

[ladyspitfire]

Not so much a question as saying that Elissa will, at first, be on the outskirts like some of the others on here! But she'll eventually probably join up at some point.

[ex_bandai157]

good to know, thanks!

Re: QUESTIONS!

[stonewall]

neither... of mine would join officially but they will probably be involved some indirect way - snow was chummy with some of the less assholish officers back home so he'd kind of be around and probably annoy the shit out of everyone on the force with his complete disregard for calling in law enforcement when things hit the fan. sayaka will do her best to tone down her cray/help out but if what happened to those guys on the train is any indication then they might have some problems with this one too at some point.

SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS how much is taking justice/problems into their own hands frowned upon?? it isn't so much an opposition to the police force as just a general disregard for it; neither of them would be against the police showing up but they'd definitely try and deal with things themselves first.

[ex_bandai157]

dooooes this or this help, or is what you're specifically asking for something different and i'm not following? :o

skdlfjslk sayaka.....

[charming_jerk]

So before you posted this, I had decided Johnny's next post was going to be a drunken bar fight. Probably some time after the masquerade. I would love it if the police showed up and hauled him off. X3

[kingdom_of_song]

oh yes, we needed to do some bar shenanigans, didn't we? now that I'm back from hiatus...

[ex_bandai157]

LMFAO JOHNNY......

organized crime/smuggling?

[urnotafraid]

The modness said I should run it by the police group in case you already have something along this lines going on. ANYWAYS, Sho here was once the head of a small group of thieves/smugglers/information brokers in his hodgepodge home city and since he is both stuck here and need a way to get at food without hurting the CAUSE he has decided to help with cleaning up the small-time groups/getting them strengthen and going after the real source of extra stuff. My questions are:

1- are the police group working with this?
2- if they are not how will they view this sort of activity?
3- would they even want to know?

I figured this would be a better place to ask since plurk can be a bit chaotic :3

Re: QUESTIONS!

[raisedbybirds]

DO WE HAVE A BADGE

OR EMBLEM

OR SOME KIND OF SYMBOL OF SOME KIND...?