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[initiates]

MINI-PLOT: there's something in the water

Hello everyone! I'm bringing to you our non-mission but important-to-central-development-mini-plot! This plot will be taking place from Thursday, May 10th until Thursday, May 24th!

As you'll have seen by Anora's IC announcement here and OOC post here, it's becoming more and more clear that the Initiative is… well, not as organized, up front, and thoughtful of their transports as they should be.

This is totally okay for your characters to pick up on! In fact, it's encouraged! In the future, we've got some big plans -- and part of those plans will need characters to pick up on the shadyness and ineffectual direction of the Initiative organization! Anora's actions, as it were, are incredibly helpful for kickstarting this. Which brings me to the main point of this post… our mini-plot!

There is going to be something in the water and the food. The water in the Housing apartments, and the food supplied by and sold in the Initiative Hold, is going to be tainted with a hallucinatory substance that will cause your characters to have very vivid, anti-United Earth and pro-Initiative dreams! These hallucinations will affect your characters only in their dreams -- UNLESS -- your character is chipped.

THAT'S RIGHT, THOSE CHIPS. If your character is chipped, this substance is going to be much stronger on them. They may even see hallucinations during the day, when they're not asleep. The hallucinations and the intense subjects of the dream will be embellished upon by your character's mind. The general message will be the same for everyone affected: UNITED EARTH = BAD, INITIATIVE = GOOD, but the nature of the dreams (what exactly they see, what exactly they hear) will be tailored specifically for their own minds.

It's perfectly alright for your characters to pick up on this! It's expected. It's going to be a subliminal messaging job, but it's not going to be the best of the best. Your characters will be able to notice that something weird is up -- and that they're not the only ones with this happening to them.

If you don't wish for your character to be affected, that is perfectly fine too! They don't have to have had the food from the Hold, or they don't have to have drank the water and they won't feel the effects of the substance.

As always, questions, comments, concerns, and ideas are all welcome here on this post!

Comments

[noble_nate]

AHAHA, I love this idea!!! I knew there'd be a good reason to make Nathaniel keep that chip... this is going to screw with his mind soooo much.

As far as hallucinations go, what types of things might they see? Just people standing there saying "You love the Initiative...?"

[initiates]

Yes, exactly that! Like.. there could be Masked people in the far off distance doing crazy extreme things like chipping people or harming random citizens; then there can be people who will slide in as many pro-Initiative things as they can, like, whispering in ears and behind shoulders. Turn around and they're gone! Seeing them out of the corner of your eyes. Saying things like, "Isn't it wonderful that the Initiative is sure we have food all the time?"

or "I feel so safe with the Initiative!"

[noble_nate]

Oh man, things are gonna go so bad if Nathaniel starts hallucinating the Masked *cackles evilly*

[stonefaith]

These hallucinations will affect your characters only in their dreams
WHAT IF YOUR CHARACTER DOESN'T SLEEP B)



omg no really though wow brariyn is not gonna be pleased by this IF HE FIGURES IT OUT ANYWAY HEH I'M EXCITED

[616]

IF HE EATS ENOUGH CRAZY POISON FOOD he could hallucinate too yEAH

I'm sure he wants that. Of course.

[stonefaith]

aw fuq he doesn't eat or drink neither
GOD BARIYAN
WHAT A DOUCHE


but that's ok meanwhile nik 'n cherkesov 'n maletski will just be over here, all of them screaming and crying and running into walls B)

[616]

LMAO WHAT HOW DO YOU DO THIS and oh my god charles will feel so awful and bad about it but he'll be seeing things and like

terrified out of his mind 8( BUT TRYING TO SAVE ALL THE MINDS..... especially nik sob

[stonefaith]

this is how i'm imagining things going down now tbh

[616]

HAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GOD YES JUST LIKE THAT

[insufferablysmug]

THIS IS GORGEOUS

IGNORE THE WRONG JOURNAL I'M LAZY THIS IS BETSY

I JUST NEEDED TO REGISTER MY LOVE OF THIS DRAWING

[district7]

Kate here with a question!

I couldn't find any mention of the chips on the glossary or FAQs page. I was just wondering, how do we know if our character is chipped?

[616]

Oh, yes! I'm sorry about that, I should throw that in the Glossary now. There was an event early-on in game where the Masked came in droves and would capture characters (at the player's will) and insert a tracking chip into their body.

Characters brought into game after that will not be chipped! (That's not to say the opportunity will not arise again...) However, if you're interested in having the heavier effect of the hallucinogen on your character, you could totally have them do so from eating more of the food/drinking more of the water than others.

[district7]

No problem! Thank you for the clarification!

[checksum]

Once Osprey finds out about this, he is officially going to start a counter-Initiative movement. Just for the record. :D

[616]

Totally awesome. B)

[stonefaith]

OH SHIT bariyan totally wants in on this too, just sayin B)

[uncalled_for]

Mages pop yo' colla'. We got this. Because Initiative totally = manipulative demons. This sounds like great fun. I can't waaaiiit~

But two questions. Is there a specific time that events start? Cause my 10th is most peoples' 9th. For consistency, I guess and so I don't post early and confuse others... Errr...

Secondly. So Wardens eat a lot for whatever reason. Does that sorta make it a double whammy?

[birdhousesoul]

Oh man that is so true, Wardens will eat everything in large quantities ...

[birdhousesoul]

okay I put up the MAGE MEETING specifically so the mages could have some kind of cohesion before this plot starts \o/ yay for getting off my lazy butt!

We could handwave a Fiona-and-Anders convo having happened before that if you like, or we could just say she got the network spam from Anders?

[uncalled_for]

DA people and meetings, oh my. But okay! Posts all spotted and accounted for. We can just say she spotted the spam and do some silly logs some other time for CR CR CR. Cause these two really do need to have a chat me thinks.

[initiates]

They'll start at 12:01am EST on the 10th for open and 11:59pm EST for ending on the 24th!

As for your second question, depending on whether or not you'd like it to, the consumption of more of the food and water can just lead to stronger effects! So that even if your character is not chipped, you can have them experience the hallucinations if you'd like.