The Map Table

As a means of facilitating active participation in the plot, we’ll be adding a weekly to twice weekly discord vote that follows along with the story as it stands. These votes will have varying costs and rewards based up a resource system that represents the Company’s overall supply and readiness. This resource pool will be called Company Supply.

The Map Table event votes are meant to be for all active, non-civilian members of the Knights-Chasseur. This includes player character squires and cadets, chasseurs, and officers. Voting will be limited to one vote per player, so even if you have more than one character who fits the guidelines, you will be unable to vote multiple times.

Some choices will require Supply to complete, and Supplies are limited, so you want to be careful when you vote. That said, certain choices may provide the company with a boon! Try to think tactically when you consider the choices laid out before you - the cost of a certain choice may well be worth the potential payoff.

Company Supply and Missions
The Company Supply Pool is a pool of up to 1,000 points that can be used for various decisions on Map Table missions. These Company Supply may also be used by DM’s during group missions to either raise the difficulty (due to a low pool of Company Supply), or provide players with additional boons (due to an excess of Company Supply).

At least once a week in the discord channel “map-table”, you’ll be able to find a plot-based post with a number of votable choices. These are Map Table Missions. A simplified mission may read as follows: Players will have 2 days to vote, after which another post will follow with the outcomes of the selected choice. Some of those outcomes may be far reaching, and take time to really surface thus affecting future events and missions. Some outcomes may have an instant benefit, either through the awarding of Company Supply or through the awarding of Materiel.

Materiel
After completing a Map Table Mission, the Company may find themselves rewarded with Materiel. These rewards may have a wide variety of uses, and may be particularly useful to different Cadre’s in the course of their day to day operations. In other cases, Materiel may be highly specific, single use items that can be fielded during events for a variety of boons at a noted Company Action cost. These two types of rewards are referred to as Intel, and Acquisitions respectively.

Intel
This type of Materiel can be used for a variety of purposes, and provides a more passive benefit. This passive benefit may be information that will aid in, or even trigger larger investigative events. They may also provide information that leads to specific information about things like persons-of-interest, possible combat events, or even troop placement in an upcoming major plot event. Intel is generally more nebulous, and meant to spawn RP opportunities.

Acquisitions
A more instant and flashy type of Materiel reward, the Acquisition is an object or item meant to provide some sort of boon on an upcoming mission. These acquisitions may require research and repair by the Operations Cadre, or even specific knowledge or skill possessed by the Shock Cadre. Two examples of Acquisitions are as follows:


 * Damaged Reaper Warmachina (Acquisition): A Garlean Reaper acquired after a run in with Acastus and his Reclaimers, damaged in the ensuing combat. Can be repaired, fueled, and fielded by the Operations Cadre and used in combat events. Cost of fielding is 250 Company Supply per mission.
 * Cache of Ancient Holy See Gae Bolg Lances (Acquisition): During a recent mission plumbing the ancient depths of Ishgard’s Foundation, the Chasseurs came upon an old Knights Dragoon armory. The ancient lances may be equipped by dragoons in the Shock Cadre before a combat event for access to [insert combat feature of Gae Bolg here]. Cost of fielding is 30 Company Supply per Dragoon.

Replenishment of Supplies
Company Supplies are capped at 1,000, and do not automatically replenish. That said, there are both active and passive ways in which the Chasseurs may replenish their stock of supplies. Completing a major plot event may lead to an active replenishment of Company Supplies, as will the outcomes of some Map Table Missions.

There are also more passive ways in which the Chasseurs may replenish their overall Company Supplies. These may be gained either as the result of roleplay rewards determined by the FC Officers, or by Intel awarded through the completion of Map Table Missions. Considering supply and logistics are heavily influenced by the Operations Cadre, roleplay between members of the Cadre and people outside the Chasseurs can lead to Supply replenishment (e.g: Ramona meets with an Alliance supply officer player character, and manages to convince them to provide us with extra goods they have lying around). Send screenshots or logs of any such RP to an OOC officer for review.

See below for a few examples of how Company Supplies may be replenished:


 * Roleplay: During an event, the Lowland lordlings are able to secure a major cache of weapons and dry goods from a few Lowland Baronies for succor rendered during a recent battle. This leads to a one-time replenishment of Company Supply points back to the pool.
 * House Argent Funding (Intel - Materiel): On the heels of a recent Map Table Mission, the Chasseurs have agreed to accept five more Chasseur Cadets from Silvergrace Academy for a small increase in funding from House Argent. Passive Effect - replenishment of 50 Company Supply per week.

Supply Run: During a recent Map Table Mission, the Chasseurs elected to help defend a supply caravan from harassment while crossing Gryphon Pass. In thanks, the Caravan Leader sent the Chasseurs back with a cart of their wares - weaponry intended for sale in Ishgard. Receive 150 Company Supply.