A few alternatives, off the top off my head:
The building takeover is at EMA's request, in order to prevent or stop some perceived attack on them.
The building is being taken over by government military forces as the beginning phase of a rather...intense investigation of some of EMA's shadier activities. This might lead nicely into things related to an actual war or other open conflict of sorts, but that's...probably something we're going to want to do eventually.
Anyway, yeah, it's probably a good time to get together and actually plan some things OOC, so a bit of a break is good.
We know so far that someone's causing some problems at Crest, and they may be some eternal group who has infiltrated the company, though it would have to be pretty local or low down for the megacorp not to notice and squash them. There may be some ties with EMA in this same group, as well.
Some things for my own two cents or original plans which might be useful:
- EMA is up to no good, in its own way. They're conducting clandestine human experiments on adepts. Not to say this is unique to them, as far as corrupt and horrible corp things, but it's going to come up eventually and play a part in things.
- Crest is presumably building their own army, though they're going more for cyborgs who are likely prisoners of their own bodies and sort of mind-controlled or similar.
- Chances are, if there's a major war-like event, it'll involve these two companies clashing with each other, or just the rest of the world.
I'm not sure what we'll be doing in the middle of all this. But I recall the original plan was to eventually end up on the run, and probably going to space.
Problem 1: we've got to get all the characters together as a single team or unit, at least if we want to be running around largely as a single "party" like in typical RPGs. There is no requirement for this, however. It IS more fun when there's character interaction, though.
Problem 2: We've got to learn some of them interesting bullets above and make us some enemies. I do figure running a few jobs for the right people could be part of it. Say some independent and sometimes terrorist-like organization that really has a beef with the corps and their treatment of adepts. Or perhaps we all get contacted by some mysterious hacker or similar third party with a request...
Anyway, some things to get brainstorming started here. Once we've got a better idea of where we're going and how we fit in, we can proceed.
