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powersthatbe) wrote2014-07-07 04:03 pm
The Ivory Tower: Infiltrator Information.
Spoilers for the event this way! Required reading for plot-important infiltrators; other infiltrators may read or not as they like; people who are only playing investigators, please do not read.
INFILTRATOR INFORMATION
Professors:
SAKAMOTO - An informal & unprofessional Technical Systems professor, he is well-beloved but too scattered to run his department’s project well, and may hold the group back if left in charge. While he will go off on tangents at the least provocation and get lost in projects and brainstorming in the middle of class which he may never follow up on, he does also know the history of more or less any technological device.
FELIX - A hardassed prima donna Cultures & Humanities professor. Felix has exacting standatrds, is harsh to his students, and is disdainful of interdepartmental cooperation. His unparalleled knowledge of academic politics allows him to obstruct other official proceedings or gain favor for his department. On Lyceum Day, he will observe some irregularities in the grant submission paperwork of a rival department, causing them to scramble to re-submit.
NEESHKA - A young, avid teacher of Ecological Sciences, new on the faculty & enthusiastic about coffee. A natural peacemaker, her first inclination is to find a way her department’s project can also benefit the Ground. Due to her irregular sleeping habits and tendency to be in her office grading papers until three in the morning, Neeshka knows more or less anything that happens outdoors at night on campus.
Students:
FUUKA - A young prodigy in the Technical Systems department, doing Ctesiphon-level work despite being underaged. She serves as a page within the department, and gets traded back and forth from project to project, considered the real key to getting anything done. She can disassemble and re-assemble any mechanical or electronic device, and duplicate any device that 20th-century tools can machine properly.
NERIA - An obsessive research fellow in the Cultures & Humanities department, too focused on ancient classics, practically resides in the Stacks. Without her help, anyone looking in the Stacks will take days to find anything. With her help, it will only take minutes, or at most a few hours.
SABETHA - A sociable & ambitious student in the Ecological Sciences department. Sometime during midterms, she will attempt to sabotage one of the other departments’ projects. She also happens to know every good hiding spot or contraband stash on campus.
MAI - The Student Manager at the Ground - overworked, underappreciated, deluged by stress, & spending far more time focused on coffee than on schoolwork. It’s up to her to prevent the college from cutting funding. Because of the long hours she works, she can be safely assumed to overhear absolutely any conversation in the Ground, or to hear about it later from someone who did.
Event Mechanics
The winner of the grant competition will be settled on by player vote. Characters are free to decide on their own department projects, & there will be a project proposals post with general suggestions where players can brainstorm up tomorrow. If no projects are selected by the 13th, default projects will be assigned by the mods - but any department assigned a project will have a 5-vote handicap assigned. Characters who sabotage projects, bribe faculty, or play at departmental politics may assign additional vote penalties to their opponents at the mods’ discretion, depending on how it plays out. Getting caught doing these things will impose a penalty on one’s own department.
The success or failure of the Investigation is dependent on which project wins; the Trumps have a favorite and may indicate it via hints in Liminal Space.
Every chaarcter described has at least one advantage that can be used in their plotting; mostly specialized knowledge of some sort. It’s up to you to work those advantages into plotting; but if you’re having trouble and would like some pointers, you are absolutely welcome to discuss it with mods or other players to figure something out.
SYLLABUS/SCHEDULE
(July 8, 2015) March 8, 2039- the grant competition is announced, and a new group of refugees (the Investigators, mostly) is brought into the school.
(July 13, 2015) March 13, 2039- Open Mic night @ The Ground, grant proposals due midnight.
(July 17, 2015) March 17, 2039- Lyceum Day - all classes are held in the Grove. PAPERWORK SNAFUS HOLD UP TECH OR ECO PROJECT.
(July 21, 2015) March 21, 2039- Midterms begin.
SABOTAGE MESSES WITH TECH OF C & H PROJECT.
(July 24, 2015) March 24, 2039- Midterms end; classes out til the 29th. Research continues.
(July 29, 2015) March 29, 2039- the final projects for the grant competition are due.
(August 1, 2015) April 1, 2039- the winner of the grant competition is declared, & a final decision on The Ground’s funding will be made as well.
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POSSIBLY are you the one who PPed me about this? If so the part is yours, if not there is a 50% chance that it is yours but I need to figure out who sent me that plurk.
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It could be a fluke result rather than a totally random mutant, but they're definitely not quite that advanced yet!
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Thanks much!