BETE NOIRE: Team Science Plotting Post!

[madmaninabox]

This is the official Team Science plotting post. There will be weekly comment threads posted in order to discuss who's hanging around the lab, who's conspicuously absent, who's working on what and who might be about to blow up the city.

This is a place to bounce ideas off each other, handwave the boring/unimportant stuff, and sort out the interesting stuff so we can log it!

A new thread will be posted after each week's game-wide event is announced in the [STATE OF THE GAME].

PLEASE TRACK THIS POST
so you can see when new threads are posted.

Comments

FIRST THREAD! Roll call.

[madmaninabox]

Comment here once you've tracked the post so we know a) who all is watching and b) whose characters are getting involved.

Some people got brought into the group via the intro log, BUT that's not necessary. If didn't do that and you want your character to be involved already, say so and we'll work out a handwave-y thing.

[reversedpolarity]

o/

[diditchangeyou.livejournal.com]

SUP

[geniusmanchild]

He's newly arrived so we'll have to find some other way for him to get dragged in. Maybe Bennett? When she's done usurping his position? /glares

FIRST THREAD! Roll call.

[capj_harkness]

Present.

Even though my internetz are being punky today. Stupid guys working on the stupid wirez.

Re: FIRST THREAD! Roll call.

[megamind]

I am here!

[diditchangeyou.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to start off the plotty plottings by asking if anyone's trying to use ~science~ to solve the food problem. I feel like it'd be pretty easy to connect EMP to the closing of (voluntary) travel in and out, but that knowledge doesn't help if it just won't open gdi and thus starving people. I figure everyone else is probably busy trying not to starve, but I wanted to throw that out there.

[madmaninabox]

Not trying to solve the food issue per se, but I figured once the Doctor has a moment he's going to run some more scans on the borders. Now that they're not letting anybody out at all, there might be something there that could help them understand how to get out.

PLOTTING THREAD - June 6 - June 12

[madmaninabox]

SO. Off we go. Geronimo, as they say.

-What is your character up to this week that would take place in the Science Cave and/or be relevant to Team Science's goals?

-Since this is our first plotting thread: what's your character been up to since the team first formed?

-This week's event is Attraction. Probably not overly relevant for Team Science, but if there's anything you can think of that would effect goings-on, go for it.

[glassesonachain]

Bennett has probably mostly been occasionally lurking around occasionally. She's been busy with a whole lot of doll drama up at the CGM.

But this week she might stop by the Science Cave to avoid said drama. Maybe drag Topher along so he has something to do?

Topher

[geniusmanchild]

Topher is rudderless right now and just a little bit stir crazy. He's going to construct some device to help him track down where the Dollhouse chair is located in the mansion. Expect some drama to come from that.

He doesn't know about the Science team or cave but maybe he'll stumble upon it somehow. Had a talk with Rush which at least gave him some details of how the food shortage was caused. He possibly would get involved in trying to help solve the mystery of disrupted travel IF some people were openly talking about it.

Topher needs a job or at least some way to get some cash. Otherwise he's gonna be a bum at the mansion until further notice.

The Doctor / The Huon Project

[madmaninabox]

Since the team formed, the Doctor would have been finding time to teach Scott (and Jack? anybody who wanted to know, actually) about Huon energy, and how they might go about building something that would detect the particles quickly across the city. Huon is the best chance (that they know of so far) for an energy source powerful enough to punch a hole in reality, but it's also not easily moved from one place to another - so they have to hope that they find a huge cache of it in one particular area.

He's also been working to update the computers. By hand. Literally taking them apart and putting them back together in a way that makes them incredibly advanced. It's intensive work, and he was distracted for a while during the hunger event, so I'm gonna say he's only managed to update one of them so far.

ALSO. In the last week, he's been getting moodier and spending more time in the lab, tinkering with things. Starting today, he'll even have acquired a cot so he can sleep in the lab - so he doesn't have to go home and see his window.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAD IN MIND FOR HIM *phew*

PLOTTING THREAD: June 13 - June 19

[madmaninabox]

'Sup?

This week's event is Compulsion. So, anyone got crazy theories they won't be able to resist testing?

The Doctor

[madmaninabox]

Yup, he's still sleeping in the lab, now more out of habit than trying to avoid his window. Might want to get on kicking him out, Nicki.

The Huon Project - it was decided that they should at least have the design for the scanner, yes? Which means we need to decide how it actually scans... and whether it starts being built this week, or if everyone is too busy with the border crisis. Speaking of...

There are a couple of posts now where team members can start discussing how to open up the border again. The Jack post showed up first, but how hilarious would it be if we all just stormed and took over Lance's post with technobabble?

PLOTTING THREAD: June 20 - June 26

[madmaninabox]

Compulsion week continues!

Scott

[reversedpolarity]

Scott remains conspicuously absent from Team Science this week. If anyone wants to notice/ask him about it, I'd be up for that~

PLOTTING THREAD: June 27 - July 3

[madmaninabox]

This week's theme is Impatience.

Team Science is now down a member (sadfais for Scott), but potentially up three more! (Topher Brink, Toshiko Sato and Daniel Jackson.) Welcome to the new folks ^^ If the muns would like, we can handwave them being briefed on the Huon Project and the attempts to solve the barrier crisis.

[reversedpolarity]

Scott may end up coming back eventually. He quit mostly because he felt ~compelled~ to do it for some reason.

I'll laugh if Tosh tells him he should join.

PLOTTING THREAD: July 11 - July 17

[madmaninabox]

There was no plotting thread last week, since all the barrier planning was done either in-game or in the OOC comm. But now we're back to business as usual!

NEW MEMBERS!
Romana, Lance Blackthorn, Pasha Chekov, and Alice Morgan have by now all been invited to stay on and keep working on projects, either those already in progress or ones they want to initiate themselves.

The Huon Project: Methinks it's about time the scanner gets to work. By the end of the week, perhaps on Sunday, a scan will finally be run. This will likely be handwaved.

Brainswap Event? There is a potential for a brainswap event in the future, stemming from Team Science's activities. Topher is likely to be the main player in this, and pending mod approval, it may go down in mid-late August.

Oh, and this week's event is Contentment.

Post any ideas/input/evil laughs below!

Eleven

[madmaninabox]

The Doctor is going to want to talk to Lance specifically about pocketing technology and how it works, since he's going to remember that they actually talked about it a bit while Lance was in Sefton's body XD I may want to play that out, perhaps as a Network post?

PLOTTING THREAD July 18 - July 24

[madmaninabox]

This week's event is Relief. Relief that the city is (mostly) open again, perhaps relief that the Huon Project, the first stage of the team's main purpose, has been completed.

The brainswap plot idea has been submitted to the mods and is pending approval.

ALSO A POST IS UP. Speaking of said Huon Project. And it's OPEN to all current team members! Come stir up some in-game plotting =3

PLOTTING THREAD August 1 - August 7

[madmaninabox]

This week's event is Acceptance.

The brainswap plot was approved, as y'all likely know =3 A date that got thrown around for the start of it was August 20th. I was initially saying 4-6 weeks for the duration, but at least one person seemed to think that was a little long... what about 3-4 weeks? I think folks should still have enough time to play around thoroughly with the swap.

Also, Huon stuff! Folks is working to figure out a way to extract the Huon particles following people around without hurting the person in question. Any volunteers to be a lab rat? *glances at Jack Harkness*

Re: PLOTTING THREAD August 1 - August 7

[capj_harkness]

Jack loves being a labrat. Of COURSE he will :P

NEW POST

[madmaninabox]

Today, there's an OPEN POST for Team Science members and hopefuls, including a thread for the latest Huon experiment.

Re-Thinking Team Science (and this post)

[madmaninabox]

So. The plotting threads really started petering off mid-July, which is why I haven't made one in a while. I'd like to work out a way for things to get started again, though.

Mini-plots? And the timing of plotting threads.
When Shawna and I first conceived of Team Science, it was suggested that the group could be responsible for all kinds of shenanigans within the city (the brainswap being an obvious example). However, with all the player plots that are coming in from other sources, future opportunities may be few and far between.

With this in mind, maybe once a week is too often for plotting threads. Science moves slowly, after all, and the kinds of fuck-ups that would cause large scale plot to happen shouldn't be happening too often. What would y'all think of changing the timing to once every two weeks? Or even once a month?

Wiki
I've had a few people come to me over Plurk asking questions about the lab. An easy way to deal with this in the future would be to make a wiki page for the location - which would also help make Team Science more "official" and more accessible to new players & characters. Shawna, we can bang out the details either here or over AIM.

The ultimate goal
For my own personal plotting reasons (and again, for purposes of large-scale shenanigans) I'd still like the team to eventually come up with something that theoretically could get trapped people out of the city... and have it work for about five minutes before going kaflooey. Much of the work that goes into this can get handwaved, but should we set a date for the project being completed? I'm thinking it's still a few months out, at least, but it would give us something to work toward.

[glassesonachain]

Every two weeks sounds better to me. Once a month seems a bit too long to go without touching base with everyone. I feel like someone might miss something the could potentially get involved with if posts are only once a month

And setting a date to complete that project sounds good! I think it might be nice to know that so we could maybe have a few more attempts backfire in various ways beforehand.

My gosh, it's a Wiki!

[madmaninabox]

The Team | The Lab

Take a look at the pages, ask any questions here. Feel free to edit the "PROJECTS" part of the Team Page! & lemme know if I got anything else wrong or omitted something. I just kinda banged these out.

/wipes brow

Re: My gosh, it's a Wiki!

[capj_harkness]

Looks good to me!

Also? xkcd ftw.

Plot is a go!

[madmaninabox]

Just heard back from the mods, and my plan for the getting-out-of-the-city plot is on! So here's what's going to happen...

Shortly after Thanksgiving, the Doctor is going to unveil the beginnings of a design he's been working on: a transporter that will use technologies from several different planets/realities to get people out of the city, powered by Huon energy. He'll still need some input from the team, and the machine will take at least a couple of months to build.

That's all I'm gonna say for now =3 But this'll give us something specific to work toward and bounce potential mini-plot ideas off of.

[megamind]

WOOOOOOOOOO!

First Dreamwidth Thread, orgy?, and THE GATE

[madmaninabox]

Hello Team Science, and welcome to Dreamwidth!

Now that the dust is settling from the move, it's time to reveal more about our upcoming Big Ass Plot, centered on the gate being built to get people out of the city.

The climax should be coming on March 29th - the Doctor's one-year anniversary in Bete Noire, in fact. Nice and poetic because of reasons. Until then, there's still opportunity for some mini-plots centered around the building of the Gate, if anyone has suggestions for those. These can be just about anything, since the science involved is especially pseudosciencey. They don't have to be big and city-wide, either.

Meanwhile, there was talk of an accidental orgy floating around sometime before the holidays, to be set in the area of Valentine's Day. Are people still on for that?

[writingmythesis]

I know Romana's been working on Gate stuffs, and they've probably been tinkering together in the mansion lab, too. So we should work out specifics on that.

Also: Romana was discussing with Tosh the possibility of offering lectures on super-advanced physics and other science things to Team Science members. Would anybody else be up for that?

Endgame

[madmaninabox]

Although the plot itself doesn't happen until the 29th, I'm thinking I'll put the post up tomorrow, a day early, just to get a head start on tagging.

As a heads-up, everyone will be welcome to tag into this post in some capacity. That means everybody who's left on the Team - and if your character close CR that they'd want to invite to watch, they're welcome to be there as spectators.

I've been calling this Endgame because I don't really know where the Team is going to go after this. A lot of people are going to get hurt, and there may be in-game repercussions that keep them from continuing to work - at least in the same capacity. I just want to thank you all for helping to bring this plot around. It couldn't have happened without you.

Any questions?

STARKTECH

[madmaninabox]

It seems that a number of Team Science characters may already be involved. In addition to that, the Doctor may consider handing over the Team's resources to the company. Better if they're all working together for the good of the city, right?

He wouldn't just up and do this without consulting the others, though - this is just a heads-up that he's going to propose it once Tony makes his Starktech announcement.