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CONCORDIA DAY :008 - :013
CURRENT EVENTS
CONCORDIA, DAY :008 - :013
Concordian life has continued much like it has. The rally was the largest gathering of anti-AI and anti-enhancement sentiment in the past weeks, but there's been a typically steady stream of smaller, less focused aggressions. A city maintenance android was beaten by a group of drunken men until rendered non-functional. A local chapter of Mindlife in the Gamma Block had a makeshift firebomb thrown at its front door, resulting in minimal damage to the exterior. All things considered, it's standard fare. But on :010 something bigger happens.
Around 11:30pm, the largest manufacturing plant for VEN DIAGRAMS, one of Opia's leading developers and manufacturers of personal implants and mental augmentation, is bombed. The bomb goes off far enough into the building to do serious structural damage. Futher, the bomb sends out a pulse of electrical feedback that fries all the cores of the chips being manufactured and stored within the factory. The explosion is the largest the city has seen in fifteen years; it shakes nearby structures, bringing down a large section of a neighboring warehouse in the process. Over fifty androids are destroyed or rendered scrappable and three men passing by on their way from a local club sustain minor injuries.
No one claims responsibility, but it’s hard to imagine that it could be anyone but Humans + Humans 1st. The bomb was planted deep in the factory which ran 24 hours a day, no one had heard a single rumor on the net about an attack, and not a single ‘person’ died. Not that the answer satisfies everyone of course. There's already conspiracies on extraspace saying that synthetics somehow overstepped their programming and planted the bomb to drop suspicion on H+H1; or maybe it was one of Ven's many competitors using the political unease as cover to finally chip into Ven's significant profit margins. Ahtaliah Ven himself is determined to find the culprit, going as far as to offer a reward for any information on a public extraspace channel not ten hours after the attack. Extraspace is buzzing with chatter, the realspace around the factory is being actively patrolled by bio-officers and synthetic security drones alike. Ven has a lot of rivals, a lot of competitors - people with means and motivation. Could it be as simple as a shady anti-synth organization, or are there other powers at play here?
In the days that follow, anti-synth sentiment spikes. Derogatory graffiti litters bullet train platforms, local small business operated primarily by bios force synthetics on errands to wait on the street for their goods, a minor string of AI scrambling occurs which primarily targeting private transit driver androids, and there's some spririted (read: vicious) debate on political affiliate extraspace channels. A speech by the REPRESENTATIVE GORAM SAFFIT OF LARANN goes live on extraspace 24 hours after the attack, which promptly spurs harsh criticism by local chapters of Mindlife and numerous anonymous viral videos and transcripts attributed to the group known as EXTRAAA threatening Larann and swearing to track down and dissolve H+H1. In response to all of this, police security makes raids into Subspace in hopes that cracking down on minor attacks might dredge up some additional information on who may have been behind the factory bombing.IN OTHER NEWS... All three men who sustained minor injuries in the factory explosion spend at least a day in local hospitals. After 24 hours, two of the three go home; one man remains under observation for a three day period thanks to some shrapnel from the blast. Theoretically speaking, it wouldn't be difficult to track any of these men down. Despite the bombing, a sporting event is scheduled for :013 and parts of Concordia are All About It. Why bother talking about political bombings when you could be talking about Zero-Ball? The sport is seemingly an unholy combination of rugby and basketball and hitting the game might be a good place to unwind after a long, keyed up series of days. Speaking of sports and popular figures, Kun Adetokunbo - the fan favorite for the upcoming BOUT IT OUT championships - makes a vague but difficult to misunderstand pro-synthetic statement during a press conference in the days that follow the bombing. While his popularity in the betting pools don't dip, there's some definite gossip flying around on extraspace and in public broadcasts. A series of comments on an online video clip of his statement range from thoughtful to 'ROBOT F**KR'. Some minor crimes have been automatically pinged to certain IDs carried by individuals of the Nest; luckily, no one's pressing charges on either Steve Rogers or James Barnes (you can get away with a lot in Subspace), but it might be a good idea to not punch anyone else in the throat. Or do. Whatever. The important thing to know is that these tags are pretty much automated and aren't a huge deal unless you get caught doing something else... or find yourself in the subspace security sweeps going on. There will be no mod-account posted logs for these events; if you wish to use any of these events, please feel free to post your own logs! If you have any questions or would like to request modded NPC involvement, feel free to do so in the QUESTIONS thread in the comments below.
OOC UPDATES
Hey all! So you may have noticed we've decided to overhaul the calendar idea a little bit; we found that a traditional month-to-month calendar system felt a) kind of useless, given the only solid date we have for OOC things is activity check and that's pretty easy to find, a b) antithetical to what we want to focus on for in character game events, which is a focus on player character action influencing the world. To this end, we've decided instead to give weekly to bi-weekly world updates reflecting player character involvement and the effects on the world/plot/etc as opposed to a long term calendar. While we tentatively plan to make these posts once a week or so, in-game events may make them more or less frequent depending on need. If you have any thoughts, questions or concerns about this format please don't hesitate to give us feedback either here or on the mod contact page! That said, we're hoping this gives us all a little more flexibility/freedom to explore.
Otherwise, while we have a small backlog of questions that need answering on the first mission post that we still need to address, if you have any questions about investigating or exploring information detailed in this current events post go ahead and put it here. If you have questions with broader implications, head on over either to the FAQ or the MOD CONTACT posts!
QUESTIONS?
You're not required to check in with us about everything your characters investigate, plot or explore so feel free to run off on your own, play in-setting random NPCs if you need them for thread purposes, etc. That said, we're here for you if you need us and are happy to help with the heavy lifting should you desire it! o7
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Are there libraries in Concordia? Mostly, Lexa will be looking into history and the evolution of ideals in these books. She will (likely???) have learned about how to handle ebooks by now, as I assume that's how things are checked out in this world. Political things and so forth are what she'll be looking into. I can be more specific if needed!
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While they don't have libraries in a traditional sense, they do have are quiet public areas- think a combination between a study area and an indoor park. They usually have a small cafe, a number of chairs, benches, and couches, and a children's area for story times and small shows. They are libraries in every sense except there are no books in them.
Otherwise, physical books can be found in old shops, as they're basically antiques. You can also purchase digital books that are stored in your own system from any number of stores, both in the real and digital realms.
Hopefully that helps!
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Security sweeps occur, on average, every eight hours or so in different sections of subspace. Subspace is, really, a sprawling series of boroughs, neighborhoods and undergrounds and most of these security sweeps hit up only a few blocks at a time. With a little cleverness, it would be pretty easy to move from place to place and stay relatively ahead of the patrols. For what it's worth, there's a lot of petty crime in Subspace. Despite the fact that Bucky and Steve are both tagged as potentially violent, they're only two out of many people with similar tags on their IDs.
Alternatively... it would also be fairly easy to walk straight into a security sweep on purpose. If for some reason someone wanted to do that.
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(p.s. i may ping you guys in the future for a security sweep, would that be cool?)
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If he was playing for 2-3 hours and doing well, he'd probably start showing up in small local amateur rankings fairly quickly. Bout It Out is divided into two subsets - amateur and professional; while the latter is managed under one large extraspace affiliate, the amateur matches exist in a series of smaller circles (think, webrings). Depending on the webring he was involved with - most amateur webrings have a roster of somewhere between 150 and 320 fighters, most of which as casual enthusiasts more than they are particularly good at the game - he might be able to rise pretty quickly through the ranks. Once in the top twenty of a single ring, he qualifies to challenge outside of his IP network for registered (aka profitable) matches on the amateur scale (though you can always fight someone in a different IP, the matches don't start attributing to a fighter's profile until they've worked through their local IP; think of it as the different between a friendly amateur game and competitive ones).
Cross platform (webring) matches are where most amateurs hope to make a name for themselves - those are usually the matches likely to attract the attention of a professional affiliate sponsor. As such, the pool for cross-platform fighting is pretty large. It consists on the top 20 players of literally thousands of webrings chapters (in Concordia alone - there are hundreds of thousands nationally), so it'd probably take considerably longer for Aoba to chew his way through the ranks there.
There aren't any specific time scales here for you because that's kind of boring and restrictive - so honestly, use your best judgement! If that's too open and nebulous let us know and we'll try and get you some more concrete time frames but in general you probably have as good an idea as we do.
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Sly Blue doesn't care if games are legal or illegal, so long as he's playing and beating people. He's an egoistical jerk, so he'd play in either both or whichever allows him to make a name for himself faster, (probably legal). He accepts every challenge except for those who want rematches, but if they keep insisting he treats them with extra viciousness. Would it be safe to say that by day 010 or 011, he'd be making a name and able to fight outside of his IP ring? I hate to be OP, but he's the best of the best of this game in his canon. He's never lost a Rhyme game, and Bout It Out seems ??? nearly identical with more organization to it and a much larger player base. Also he's totally a cheater in that he uses Scrap to psychically scan the consciousnesses he's connected to for weaknesses, and then hits where it hurts. In Rhyme he's caused real brain damage to opponents, and he's not afraid to do the same here if it's possible. Is there anything in Bout It Out that can detect psychic ability being used?
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His scanning will also reveal a few plainclothes police officers who are there doing the same thing as him, identifiable by their unusual level of awareness and their focus on the crowd, rather than the speakers.
Re: QUESTIONS?
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Before we figure out what Parker n Steve may or may not have gotten out of aforementioned dude, can we ask how they intended to investigate him? No need to get too detailed; just a general idea of what they planned to do would be awesome. Thanks!
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At the end of his two day rest period, he returns to work and will be essentially inaccessible for nine hours a day. He leaves for work at the same time every day (early enough), takes one of the public transport routes, does his time, and then goes home. He either orders food in or goes out to one of three obviously well-frequented restaurants, where he eats pretty much the same thing (Faram seems to prefer noodle dishes). One of the restaurants has an outdoor seating area and sometimes it seems like he might be waiting for someone -casting furtive glances around - but no one ever shows. While he's not actively aggressive, after a couple of days of observation it'll start to become clear that he isn't fond of artificial life. He will refuse to give way to them, drop garbage near a bin but not in it, and shoot dirty looks at the ones who get in his way. Truly dedicated pursuit will turn up one other interesting tidbit: Parker and Steve aren't the only ones with their eyes on him. A police drone can be spotted multiple times near his location.
If/When Steve approaches him, Faram won't be terribly happy to talk to him. For one, he doesn't know Steve; for two, he doesn't know how Steve knows him; and for three, that's like, kind of a sensitive subject?? He will eventually seem angry and will demand to know if he's one of those guys trying to get that reward money, and will threaten to call Public Security if Steve doesn't leave him alone. If pushed, Faram might even allude to the fact that he knows someone has been following him.
What Parker will find is:
That'll be about all they get out of him before the road gets a lot more rocky. If they chose to chase more leads related to Faram, let us know!