Batch of Nine

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

Happy New Year guys! Hopefully we can get this up and running within the first few weeks of this year. :)

@ castiel's vessel
@ Properly Improper
Sorry I haven't posted much over the holiday - working three jobs has really been kicking my butt.

Anyway -

What made the vaccination a bad dose? Could it have been done knowingly/on purpose? Like, the scientist who created it could've been getting pressure from his higher-ups about job performance or something similar. Thinking he was going to be fired and growing bitter because of the way they were treating him, he created a bad dose of a vaccine he'd made countless times before just to spite them. If anyone found out, including whoever received it, they'd be able to sue and therefore bring down the company/branch of government he was employed by.

Title, posting order, layout - I'm going to brainstorm some titles today and post them later. As for the posting order, I don't have a preference. I'll go wherever I fit. If anyone has any ideas for the layout, I can try to get something together if no one else wants to make it.

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

Yeah, I thought we'd talked about the scientist doing it on purpose which is how come it managed to initially pass the inspection and the one batch was allowed to be sent out before it was discovered. But I like it being a vaccine that he's created countless times before that he probably knows inside out which made it all that more easier to tamper with it to produce effects that would undoubtedly surface within life and would be able to be tracked back to the specific vaccine. I like it!

I currently don't have any ideas for titles but I'm still thinking, but posting order I'm fine with going first if necessary. And with the layout, I can make one unless you want to. I just wanted to leave it open to your own idea for what the layout should like like.

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

How do you feel about this posting order?
Adam
Cassidy
Carwyn

Also I have Fatal Dose as a title suggestion. Unless either of you wish to make the layout, I'll be making one tomorrow.

The final thing is that I'd like to start outlining what's actually happening within this and when it's happening, so while we timeline it I think making a chapter outline would be a good way to keep that timeline clear for us.

@ castiel's vessel
That posting order works for me, as well as the title. I'm out at the moment, but once I get home I'll try and come up with an outline (or a skeleton of one, at least) and see how it jives with everyone else.

@ chibs telford
Alright, that's great. I'll make a story body tomorrow with the layout on so that you guys can see it, and if you manage to come up with a skeleton outline we can then expand and alter it as we see fit before finally starting this!

@ castiel's vessel

The posting order is good, and I like that for a title! :)

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

Opinions on the layout? I must admit, it was a quick throw together so that I can go to bed. Also feel free to edit the summary, short description, cover picture and such, they were just added so that it was done. I put it as PG-13 because I'm not sure if we'll need it as R? What do you guys think?

@ castiel's vessel

I really like the layout and the summary! :)

Everything looks good to me. I don't think we'll have to bump it up to an R rating unless it gets too violent. I don't think there will be much smut or an overabundance of strong language or anything like that, right?

Does anyone have a general idea of how long we want the story to be? Or will it depend on the outline we come up with? I'm thinking:

[Chapters 1-3] (unless we're doing a prologue, then 2-4) will be the introduction to our characters; seeing how they live with the effects or maybe the first attempts by the WACH to contact them for questioning, etc.

[Chapters 4-6] I'm not really sure here.

[Chapters 7-9] If we don't do it earlier on, this could be where the WACH contacts them, or maybe a possible abduction attempt?

[Chapters 10-12] This could be where the secondary characters are introduced. Would this be similar to our first three chapters in that we show how the secondaries are living with the effects?

That's all I've got for right now without discussing the major events we want to happen. Feel free to add/subtract from it.

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

Yeah, I didn't think we'd ened R unless it got too violent, and I don't know whether we're planning for that so we'll stick with PG-13 as of now. And I think the length of the story will be depend on the outline and how it pans out.

So:
Chapter 1 (Adam): Intro to life and living with the effects - possible first attempt by WACH to contact them.
Chapter 2 (Cassidy): " "
Chapter 3 (Carwyn): " "

And if what was discussed about them all receiving an anonymous message at some point in the story that gets them all to meet up at a specific place so that they're all together and they can help each other avoid WACH, one or two of the next chapters could be the first established contact from the anonymous person. So:

Chapter 4 (Adam): Could focus on a current book he's writing about his condition and a check up at the local GP surgery in regards to the condition. Comes back and finds a letter from the anonymous person telling him to be careful perhaps? That someone's watching him?
Chapter 5 (Cassidy): As she lives in America, maybe this chapter could see her coming back to the UK for something - to visit family, to record a new film, etc. That way they're all in the UK.
Chapter 6 (Carwyn): Late night A&E trip with his girlfriend with three broken fingers. She spots a suspicious car in the carpark that has a person inside who she noticed was there when they first arrived and is there when they leave. A note is left on their windshield.

Then going by what you suggested:

Chapter 7 (Adam): Depends on what you want to happen, either WACH approach him to try and explain what's going on, they try to talk and it fails so they attempt to take him against his will, or they attempt to abduct him but fail.
Chapter 8 (Cassidy): If she came to the UK to record a film, maybe she's approached on set and starts listening to them until she feels uncomfortable and tries to get them to leave. When they refuse, she gets security to throw them off the set. Again, just a suggestion.
Chapter 9 (Carwyn): As he lives with his parents, the WACH attempt to contact him at home but his mother refuses to let them in because it's mother intuition that they're bad news. The day goes on until his father comes home and they realise the house is being watched.

With the other three, they could be a mixture of the events that happened in the last three sections of chapters, like:

Chapter 10 (Holly): Maybe she's picking up her daughter from school but is ten minutes early or so and lingers in the carpark alone instead of in the playground like all other parents are, and two men from the WACH approach her and attempt to coerce her into their car but she's saved by the bell (literally) and she runs into the school playground (whether she'd report it to the school/her husband would be up to you)
Chapter 11 (Noah): A normal day in the life of Noah apart from a (second?) letter from the anonymous person telling him not to go shopping today (as he lives with his sister and helps around the house I'd assume he'd help with the shopping too?) because his life is in danger, and maybe he decides not to and stays at home instead, using one of his sister's children as an excuse (they could be sick?)
Chapter 12 (Charlotte): She's working the late shift and gets a phone call from her boyfriend saying that someone's attempting to break into their house and not to be worried if he suddenly turns up in A&E as he's got his bat at the ready. She's about to leave work early to come home when he reports that they've stopped and appear to have gone, so she stays and instead called to reception where one of the WACH agents are, but she doesn't believe the badge and instead tells reception to call security if they don't leave and goes back to work.

After that, maybe one of the agent's chapter could be up.

Chapter 13 (Agent ?): Regrouping back at WACH headquarters and that's when the four are reprimanded about being unable to do their jobs properly and their boss gives them one more chance - get the Six in "custody" soon or lose their job.

Then we can start going in to the major events.

@ castiel's vessel
That sounds good!
It's really helpful to me when other people write out plans, because I just end up confusing myself when I try to do it :)

@ Properly Improper
Once we discuss more of the events that are happening, I can draw up a (suggestive) plan of the later chapters as well to make it easier. :) But you agree with what I've put for your chapters?

@ castiel's vessel

Yeah I do! :)

@ Properly Improper
@ chibs telford

Oh, before I go to sleep and forget, I was watching this series about a murder in the Eurotunnel and was thinking of this at the same time, and I got this idea of the person who is the anonymous tip-off being an ex agent or something. Like, it could be that they were working previously with either one or two of the agents before the injections, and when they found out about the sideeffects they didn't agree with the organisation's way of dealing with it. So maybe they left and set up their own observation of them and kept tabs on the organisation which is how come they know about when they're going to be around each person.

@ chibs telford
@ Properly Improper

What if one of the major events that happens is one of the minor three get killed? Like through the rough handling of the agents/the way they try to capture them, or their effects suddenly change and they start becoming like the other one who died and they then kill themselves? Or dies from the effects?

@ castiel's vessel
That would be a wild twist. I like it. Anyone up for killing off their character?

@ chibs telford
I'm fine with killing Charlotte off.

@ castiel's vessel
I'm cool with killing off Holly too. I was (finally, I know I suck) going to start writing my chapter this weekend. Is there anything we need to figure out before I do that or post it?

@ chibs telford
I don't think so. You can post the chapter whenever you're finished it because the first twelve chapters are worked out where nothing else needs to be figured out, it's just the ones following them that need outlining.