[align=center][div style="width: 470px; text-align: justify; font-family: new times roman; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 2.5px; word-spacing: 1px; line-height: 14px;"]Hey everyone! This is a plotting thread for the new electricity plot where we see Flintlock Lodge, Northstar District, Bluestem Prairie and Vice World team up as one big conglomerate group. Here I've quoted what I had written on this thread just as a point of reference following the vote last month, and I'll just share my thoughts at the moment. Feel free to share any ideas that you might have!
So I still feel like having a member-led group would be a step in the right direction, with a few high positions confirming the people's vote as spokespeople from each former group, allowing for a level of autonomy for all members (and writers!) in the group. Of course, I feel like the group would still have to decide upon a set of rules that everyone is obligated to abide to, but this group would not at all match the current layout of The Badlands' tyrannical rule.
As for location, I really like the idea of these groups finding a new territory all together that can cater for their specialities whilst also having an environment that shares the fundamentals of what each group used to be? Idk if that made much sense FHKJL but what I mean is it would be nice to have a territory perhaps like the coastline of Alaska where Northstar can make use of their maritime skills in fishing and seafaring trades, boreal forests and snow for Flintlock's logging and a prime place for hunting and foraging.
I could also imagine in this environment vast areas of plains between forests for Bluestem's agricultural specialties - they could raise livestock and grow crops in ideal locations (although I feel like an Alaskan-type environment may prove to be a little difficult to grow crops, but the lack of food security with failing crops could be a fun plot as the big group navigate settling down in a new environment) - and whilst I doubt they will be able to find an amusement park nearby, I could totally see the people of Vice World making the main settlement a place ideal for travellers to want to visit the group with entertainment that they once profited off of in their amusement park (therefore helping the group's growing economy now that Bones are being more normalised as TNW's currency), whilst also doubling as the three gangs working together as the group's main form of security and combat leaders.
Maybe the specialities of the groups can lead to particular roles in this new group. So people from Flintlock are the hunters, Northstar the traders, Bluestem the farmers and raiders, Vice World as the fighters. And, as new people join the group, they can chose where they stand within the community.
As for relations between The Badlands, I can see a rivalry form as BL become intimidated by the newfound power that this new group has now that all the groups have merged. Plus because of the following...
This could be the plot to kick everything off, first the natural disaster which gets everyone's guards down as they try figure out what to do and, before they know it, the Northstar researchers are taken by BL because of their success in discovering electricity again.
Tbh that's all that I have so far! I just feel like that could be a pretty fun concept to spice TNW up again without closing too many doors of individuality in the process. But let me know what you think and whether you have any other ideas! I'd be keen to figure out a way for everyone's ideas to be included in this new plot!
EDIT; also I forgot to add, we need a name for this new group! Any ideas would be appreciated and we can all vote on it.
Quote: Instead of a sole leader in the conglomerate group, it will be led by representatives from each group, usually the most upstanding citizens as spokespeople. It will become a group led by democracy, left in the hands of the people's vote rather than a sole leader.
And, we have an idea for how this all comes to be: a natural disaster that destroys group resources & infrastructure so the four groups come together to build from the bottom up a new place where all groups can offer their niche skillsets for the betterment of the conglomerate group as a whole. After the natural disaster, members in the groups would have three choices they could make: they could go solo and leave all groups behind, they can join the conglomerate group and build a settlement from nothing, or cave in to BL's promises of a more civilised but autocratic life with them.
It will cause tensions between the new group and BL because its premise seems to entirely juxtapose BL's current ideals so they will most certainly see rising tensions (and many opportunities for plots!).
So I still feel like having a member-led group would be a step in the right direction, with a few high positions confirming the people's vote as spokespeople from each former group, allowing for a level of autonomy for all members (and writers!) in the group. Of course, I feel like the group would still have to decide upon a set of rules that everyone is obligated to abide to, but this group would not at all match the current layout of The Badlands' tyrannical rule.
As for location, I really like the idea of these groups finding a new territory all together that can cater for their specialities whilst also having an environment that shares the fundamentals of what each group used to be? Idk if that made much sense FHKJL but what I mean is it would be nice to have a territory perhaps like the coastline of Alaska where Northstar can make use of their maritime skills in fishing and seafaring trades, boreal forests and snow for Flintlock's logging and a prime place for hunting and foraging.
I could also imagine in this environment vast areas of plains between forests for Bluestem's agricultural specialties - they could raise livestock and grow crops in ideal locations (although I feel like an Alaskan-type environment may prove to be a little difficult to grow crops, but the lack of food security with failing crops could be a fun plot as the big group navigate settling down in a new environment) - and whilst I doubt they will be able to find an amusement park nearby, I could totally see the people of Vice World making the main settlement a place ideal for travellers to want to visit the group with entertainment that they once profited off of in their amusement park (therefore helping the group's growing economy now that Bones are being more normalised as TNW's currency), whilst also doubling as the three gangs working together as the group's main form of security and combat leaders.
Maybe the specialities of the groups can lead to particular roles in this new group. So people from Flintlock are the hunters, Northstar the traders, Bluestem the farmers and raiders, Vice World as the fighters. And, as new people join the group, they can chose where they stand within the community.
As for relations between The Badlands, I can see a rivalry form as BL become intimidated by the newfound power that this new group has now that all the groups have merged. Plus because of the following...
Quote:There is currently a group of researchers in ND that have been trying to rediscover electricity to build the world up from nothing again - some have been working on this for months, others for years - and so there is the idea that this group is who discovered it again, before being captured by BL so that BL can be the group to benefit from the electricity first for their own selfish needs. This could inspire the conglomerate group more than ever to work together to develop their "for the greater good" kind of civilisation before BL manages to develop their "self-serving" kind of civilisation.
This could be the plot to kick everything off, first the natural disaster which gets everyone's guards down as they try figure out what to do and, before they know it, the Northstar researchers are taken by BL because of their success in discovering electricity again.
Tbh that's all that I have so far! I just feel like that could be a pretty fun concept to spice TNW up again without closing too many doors of individuality in the process. But let me know what you think and whether you have any other ideas! I'd be keen to figure out a way for everyone's ideas to be included in this new plot!
EDIT; also I forgot to add, we need a name for this new group! Any ideas would be appreciated and we can all vote on it.
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