Novum Discussion Thread

I would like for everyone to take what I've written so far and develop your own ideas! I would like for this to be a very open thread of communication and once we have a fair amount of ideas written out, I invite everyone to like the post of the idea they enjoy the most and that will be the next step in our plot. This post will be a reference page for things that will come.

 THE STORY SO FAR Novum has made their name known to the world as they have gathered a significant number of members to join their group. They have persuaded otherwise passive gifteds to join their cause, and although they preach of being higher beings, one thing to be considered is their group consists more of science based gifteds than anything else. Foresta is a hot bed of gifted and supernatural beings alike, so the group has turned their eyes to the island to bring more persons to their cause.

This will be a covert mission to start off and so the members do not under any circumstances want their identities to be revealed.

 FOR THE NEXT MOVE What students and teachers should they focus first? We need to make a list! Should their be kidnappings and hostages? Or gentle persuasions and pretend friendships? How many group members are already at the school? How many are just arriving?

I looked at all the members who have been online in the past month, and I think some prime novum recruitment targets would be:

dappled's Felicity Crusoe
ebonynightmare's Braedyn Evremonde
ebonynightmare's Casper Andreadis
Jinxed's Alexander O'Neill
Jinxed's Jessica Mercier
Kaeru's Kaeru Ko
Olwen's Olwen Lithisia
Redgrim's Lotte Schmidt
Rohan's Terrance Brighid
Seren's Graham Lowell
Seren's Maeve Cassidy
Seren's Serenity Hikaru


(i tried to select people who have vaguely sci-fi esque powers, or who are just generally powerful- feel free to contest or add to this list)

love the idea overall (and love the name btw ;) )! i'm personally a fan of the persuasion method and it could probably make for some really interesting threads and relationships between characters. 

second the persuasion route, they shouldn't be jumping right to kidnapping unless they want the whole island out for their blood.

And the most important members involved in the infiltration probably should of established themselves a decent while before the plot begins, considering new arrivals will be the most under suspicion once Novum's notoriety grows.




Basically they should not leave giant holes in their plan if they're trying to be sneaky 

I as well prefer the persuasion tactic considering that the whole kidnapping plot has already been done. So for the sake of exploring new ideas, not detaining characters for an extended period of time, and making the school’s security look incredibly incompetent by not learning from their past mistakes, it is probably best to go that route.

If there is to be kidnapping involved, maybe that could be followed up with a shapeshifter taking the place of the character, so that the character isn’t held down (in some sense anyway) until the plot progresses. That way it sort of introduces that air of ‘you don’t know who you can trust’ for both the characters and members. (Although now that I’ve suggested that, it probably already ruins the illusion considering that people might be looking out for that)

Sky’s list is fairly solid in terms of characters that might be in their best interest to convert.

So, it looks like we've almost got a majority of things planned out. Which members of Novum should already be in the school? Who could be new to the school?

Well, if we’re looking for characters that have already established their presence, Cade could possibly be a member. This would be familiar territory for him, though I don’t know if I would consider his powers to be ‘science-based’ necessarily.

Other than that though, I suppose it would be more so up to the people who are taking the roles to decide how long their characters have been established on the island for, though it should probably be encouraged for people to avoid taking the ‘new person in town’ approach if possible. It is the summer though, so new teachers for the upcoming curriculum wouldn’t be entirely out of place so long as it isn’t a huge wave of new people at once to raise suspicions.

I was also under the hopes that there could be new characters to fill these roles instead of pre-existing characters.

Cade still presents a good target for Novum propaganda, even if he can't be an initial member during the infiltration. Since the leader and co-leaders are going to be teachers that in-universe have probably been masquerading at Foresta for a while, it wouldn't be so far-fetched as to have had one of them form a friendship with Cade somewhere in the past and overtime made him sympathetic the Novum's beliefs, and thus making for a quick present day conversion to full-on fanatic.

This avoids having him as part of the initial group, while also making sure Novum at least has one well-established character to help flesh the faction out earlier on.