Fur-Covered Cogs [OOC]

[Sabes]

Yes, yes!
I'll invest much more time now these ides and the organization of them when I have time, tomorrow perhaps!
@SUKONE-P; would you like to set up the ic chat this week?

[SUKONE-P]

Yes, sure! I'm sorry I wasn't active this week.. was a tad busy !

[Sabes]

Great, much appreciated! No worries about being late, i'm going to be very busy this week so i won't be as active as usual. Allow me fix up the first post on this ooc thread today so i can help you with the ic chat whenever you'd like to get to it

[Sabes]

Ugh, i really don't want to remake the entire first post, but i know it would be better if I did...

[Sabes]

4. Mega-rich couch potatoes? Since there are robots, I was thinking that the floating city contained Sparks - People who design the machines and robots, which is why they maintain labs. I would think the couch potatoes would (more or less) remain grounded. Unless they like bringing up eligible males and females for the Season (where the unattached upper class tries to find suitable husbands and wives.)

5. See 4 as per higher education. I would hold the libraries of the Floating City hold books of science and the arts, necessary for furthering education. Since they don't exist on the ground (unless hidden), if you want an education, this is where you want to go - and why it's guarded. They contain forbidden knowledge (but not forbidden to the sparks who live there).

a. It's possible that the final year of schooling, upper class and higher middle-class students may be tested - and those who meet the standards may be selected to go to the Floating City (perhaps labeled as a dangerous spark and needing to be contained as a potential threat to society)? So basically as far as the grounded clans know, the Floating City is a prison - and why would anyone want to break into a prison? Unless the wonders of the Floating City was to get back to them?

6. I'd rethink this. It's not so much as cracking down on belief in the Floating City, it's to stop education - so rebel schools that teach the forbidden sciences. Or hidden spark lords - who may be torn up by the mob for their dangerous science use if the police don't arrest them and lock them away. Another reason why performing too well in school can get you ostracized.

7. One way to restrict knowledge is to use Guilds that have specific "hidden knowledge" they're entrusted with. Guilds undergo screen processes to limit who has the knowledge and at each level, you learn only how to repair a part of the machine (but none of the underlying science). The higher you are in the guild, the more parts you know how to repair.

There might also be special clanks called Guv'ner (governors) who provide access to some parts of the machine and will observe particularly sensitive repairs.

On exceedingly rare occasions, a Spark Lord (in a special suit) or a Waldo (telepresence robot) might be escorted down to do the work.

8. Considering the conditions, diseases would certainly be part of it. But perhaps some of those diseases were manufactured, say in a war? A spark war with terrible weapons and clank soldiers? Another reason why sciences are forbidden knowledge.

9. It could also be Forbidden Knowledge - where some people were changed by the Sparks, in order to unlock "magic" or make them into antros (because it looks cute! Or scary! Luna's people were essentially made into living dolls, a toy for some spark lord.)

5. Yes! Yes.
a. That's it. We're calling this RP "When Sparks Fly." It could center around characters that come from all backgrounds just trying to get to the flying city and either rebel or spark a change in the world.
6. Now noted...
7. Interesting...This terminology will prove to be very useful!
8. THAT'S THE STUFF!
9. *Anthros. Absolutely. We can really get our hands into a plot with details like that. I love these origin story ideas, explaining where everyone might have come from and why. Amazing.

[Enigma]

@Sabes;

So, there are schools on the ground, but only up to the eighth year. Interestingly enough, the age of steam was the last time one could get a complete education on all subjects.

Upper class would still have those fancy schools - boarding schools, most like. Military academies - someone's got to lead those armies, direct those fighting clanks, or pilot those skyships.

Then there are the service academies and guild halls - police, firemen, merchants, bankers, butchers, bakers, plumbers, steamfitters.

Probably most important though, would be the Secret Orders (Freemasons, Odd Fellows, etc), Social and Gentlemen Clubs. For some, the gentlemen clubs were a second home, a place in the city. It might be where Sukone's character stays when they're in the city. Maids to tend to the rooms, fine dining, gambling, smoking/reading rooms and the like. (Newspapers, approved works of fiction and treatises that re-enforce the social orders - and in a way, a guilty pleasure they could lord over the lower classes.)

If you've seen Downton Abbey, may be familiar with staff rooms and steep servant stairs to allow the staff to travel around the homes unseen as they do their errands.

Perhaps Luna works at this gentlemen's club as a maid?

Something to think about. She would get Sunday mornings for church (assuming church exists) and one day a week off.


Something else to think about - since the Higher Order runs things, what if - and I do mean if - what if they have all this advanced tech? Computers, transceivers, etc. Sukone may have a small device he carries that like a pager. It's tuned to a specific frequency and rattles out morse code (maybe he can send back?). He can consult a code book to see what his instructions are - which might include checking in using a secret transceiver. A video ansible, inside a secret room that can only be accessed from his room or a hidden passage that lets out into an alley?

The Higher Order controls publishing - only those works they approve of can be printed.

Perhaps one of the jobs they do is to find samizdat - underground books and pamplets that get passed around? All of it unauthorized literature. Of course, it doesn't mean the police and the Higher Order agents aren't reading it themselves? Even passing it on?

[SUKONE-P]

Alright, thank you so much! I apperciate the help . . .

Also, once again, sorry for not being active a lot! I'll try to today though, since I'm basically free!

[Enigma]

Happy if you find this helpful.

[Sabes]

@SUKONE-P;
im really struggling to be active and to have motivation to get this rp started, but i'll try to be available to help you out on starting the ic thread. It's my mom's birthday so I only have a couple hours. I hope to get the first post on this thread completed today so you can use it as a reference for the ic thread.

[Enigma]

@Sabes; Many happy returns of the day for your mother!