Below is the proposed timeline for the MAIN story arc of this RP. This is not necessarily the FULL OOC outline for the RP when all is said and done, but this is what GreekIdiot and I think is broadly the story we want to tell here, and which we want others to work themselves into as they find interesting and as is interesting for the story as a whole. You
Read first: Please do not post ICly until this RP is planned start to finish.
We are going to hash out the outline here, and then we are going to all pass little RP consent bills in our nations to prove we're all on the same page.
Call me old fashioned.
We will do our best to incorporate ideas into the arc, but if you disregard this and post ICly planning we cannot guarantee we will recognize the RP as valid for the arc.
There are a lot of interested nations I have not mentioned specifically below. That is not because I do not think they should be involved, it is because I am leaving others' roles up to their own interests. If you have a story you want to tell and you think it fits into the larger arc, we will work to make it fit - just please make sure you post ON THIS THREAD (not Discord) how you think it fits, and we can incorporate it into the overall outline.
Proposed outline:
Early 5411:
- Dorvik passes through Migrant's Pass w/ N&D (and any others who want to join, seems like no one). It's tense, maybe we RP a showdown or something, or maybe we don't because you never intended for shots to actually be fired, it was a bluff
- Rutania hosts the summit. Dorvik could either refuse to attend if Beit is invited, or it could attend and like, maybe our diplomats get into a fucking fistfight? IDK feels like it'd fit
- A Faust-Essen is announced to take the throne of N&D. Beit can object, Luthori can object, Lourenne can object, idfc, we do it anyway. Maybe at the marriage ceremony somebody kills somebody and we all suspect the TRA but can never prove it
- Tensions continue to rise, maybe we all give each other more shit ICly, specifically I want to call out beit for ignoring selucia and luthori for advocating unity while invading ikradon in plain sight
- A Lourennais pretender (?) revolt happens in N&D, heavily suspected to be TRA funded? Dorvik announces that it fully supports our buddy Theodor and fuck you everyone else, we float some boats down and fly some planes down and they do shooty-shooty at the rebels and lots of N&Ders die and Dorvik looks like a real fucking saint, ya dig? NOBODY ELSE IS ALLOWED TO BE INVOLVED IN THIS AT THIS POINT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO COOL THEIR FUCKING JETS
- Beiteynu SPECIFICALLY ONLY BEITEYNU announces that to defend innocent N&D souls from Dorvish hegemony it will be deploying "peacekeepers" to N&D. It will also be establishing a no-fly zone. To avoid direct war, maybe Dorvik hands over planes to N&D leadership directly and says "hey it's not us flying them but feel free to declare war on N&D if you want Beiteynu!" and either you truly just DO that or (better imo) we just let airpower go uncontested by both of us and instead have salty fucking sea standoffs where nobody shoots anybody yet between beit + dorvik but on N&D things are awful
- Maybe on the ground in N&D it actually turns out that BOTH Dorvik + Beit troops are just war criming left and right. IDK. The issue is that we also want Beit to come out as a bad guy here so maybe there's a more beiteynu-esque way to accomplish that
- The war continues escalating and maybe this draws Lourenne in? IDK if they want to get directly involved, but by this point the situation on the ground is chaos. Both sides committing war crimes. Maybe Lourenne is sent in on a WC fact finding / peace keeping mission? Dorvik would object but like who cares at this point we're already engaged for a full year here.
- Maybe Lourenne actually narcs on the Beiteynuese? That might be out of character for the relationship but maybe it's SO bad that this is the shoe dropping for Beit, even Lourenne can't cover up for them anymore?
- Either way Lourenne or whoever represents the world at large find sufficient evidence for the implication of Dorvik in major crimes, and then at THIS point maybe we either have a coalition of nations come in and basically say "beit and dorvik BOTH out of N&D or we are declaring war on both of you" and we either DO that (probably too complex to manage) OR we don't, and we have them both back down, and maybe THAT is the void into which the MSCO and AU or ASCO or whatever step, to fill the void left by two exhausted and reputation-ruined nations, and to rebuild a devastated N&D
) Dorvik turning down the invitation or causing a fight would be an interesting move and would send a message, it would disappoint Rutania. 
