EVENT WRITE-UP: BACK TO THE FUTURE

[futurologists]

BACK TO THE FUTURE PLOTTING POST The good news of the week is that recruits are making great progress bug-stomping! The bad news is that they haven't quite gotten all of the bugs. Those left, which is a thankfully very small part of the original population, very suddenly stop eating, stop attacking, and vanish from sight. All is quiet in Oska. That is, of course, until September 1st. The temporal bugs haven't left, they've just secreted themselves away and into cocoons. And what comes out of those cocoons? Something a whole lot meaner. When these guys hatch they're going to be loud, angry, and very aggressive. They're much larger now, about the size of a bull, and they're no longer interested in munching on temporal energy. They will instead attack anything they run into on sight, and can only be dissuaded by death or by the sight of another of the evolved bugs. In the event that two of them meet up, they'll immediately fixate on each other. What follows is presumably some sort of mating dance, which cumulates in the two of them gnawing their way out of this dimension. This produces a rift scar that leaves everything in the area a little temporally weird (more of those ghosts from part 1, but with a lot less flickering), until the area heals over in a day or two. There's one more effect the bugs have: their bites also cause temporal oddities, but localized to the person bitten. It sets in anywhere from 2 to 24 hours after the initial bite, and can last anywhere from two hours to seven days. Characters bitten will find themselves shifting through their own timeline, back into the past already lived, or up into any number of potential futures. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it: characters may remember their time thus far with ALASTAIR clearly, foggily, or not at all, and might not even be anchored to just one alternative point, but drift between a few of them. If anyone has ever wanted to revisit puberty, now would be a great time for it. Things will have returned fully to normal one week later, just in time for the next mission dossier to drop. The next mission will kick off on September 15th. The accompanying event log will go up on September 1st. Please feel free to use this post for planning the next week! Remember to request membership for futurology and epidemiology if you're using an alt journal. Only the ones signed up below will be granted access!

Comments

[hardnosed]

this is how we get them to talk zee, mutual confusion and disdain
does he at least understand the concept of children because if so he's got a leg up on jasper

[paintjobs]

excellent, it's finally our time to shine
and he does, like... theoretically. he's seen children in movies. he just didn't realize it was such a short time ago for them??

Re: jasper

[heroforhobby]

I can punch bugs with you

[heroforhobby]

Oh man the problem is if she doesn't want to fight he won't push for it, he ain't no creep.

But if she's doing something he disagrees with like rampant property destruction as she's fighting bugs (making him a hypocritical tbh) a fight can happen then? Or if you have another idea, since I'm not too familiar with how she operates!

And I'm sad the tdm isn't game canon either but nothing stopping you from making a log sometime winkface

[winces]

jfc

[asscan]

It depends; some like puppies, some like beautiful jewels, others like big old guard dogs he probably shouldn't be petting :C

[asscan]

Beware this monkey's paw; when he grows up and feigns world-rocking to mock a stupid idea it's going to be horrible. :)

[asscan]

Older siblings in general, really. Laedo's never did a fraction of the things that Viserys did, but she was a plotting jerk who eventually threw him under the bus in her own way. At this point he's much too young to have experienced that yet, but he'll understand a lot better when he muses back on this event. :(

[asscan]

He can even dance and sing! Not as a human, though, unless at this point he's practicing turning into a human boy, but I imagine there's a lot of trying to use a tail that isn't there and falling flat on his ass and face.

Serene Charlord

[sereneflame]

Do you want someone who'll remember all the details of your character's embarrassing hijinks who'll happily recount them back to their normal self? Then Serene is your woman because she's going to be unchanged (lol I just aged her up by two years last week)

Plans so far:
Laedo Ledo: A reunion interrupted by his sudden deaging
Evan Friave Goodlace: Becoming a messenger to pass words of wisdom from 200 year old Evan to 20 year old Evan
Meallan Lavellan: An encounter with a far more evil elf than expected!

ETA: If your character is young enough the need to be fed and changed she'll lovingly pick them up and drop them off with the nearest responsible adult. She knows how skilled she is with kids.

[hiddenlights]

just as well ;;

[sereneflame]

I definitely want to have Serene run into bad end Meallan! Are you intending to have him remember what happens or will he have to ask around to find out what his older self has done?

[sereneflame]

Serene's also going to be unaffected and she'll be happy for someone who actually wants to work out how to solve the problem.

How much of a problem solver is he?

Re: plotting!

[sereneflame]

Serene totally needs to find little kid Gio and try lure him into opening up with bribes of food and soft words. She is painfully curious about him.

Will he remember what happens to his kid self?

[sereneflame]

Serene needs to meet young McCree to raise her brows at him. She hasn't attempted to ride a horse but she sure can ride a camel nowadays, so she'll be more than happy to run rings about him.

Alternatively she'll want to know exactly what cupboard he found that booze in/ how much he's willing to share, because there are far too many children around and she's getting a headache from answering questions.

Re: pidge

[sereneflame]

How'd you like her to encounter a warrior lady who'll be unimpressed with the hair triggering if it's targeted at her but impressed with her sharp reflexes in general? If Pidge isn't going to remember her time clearly Serene would be happy to carry words of advice back to this younger version from her elder.

[sololoquy]

ANXIETY FRIENDS

If you are down for bug rescue, I can offer a terrible jedi...or a darksider if that's more your speed. :')

[asscan]

I may be slow starting this week, but I’ve got next week off and some of it I expect to be spent tagging, so I’d love to hit you up! Do you want regular-aged Laedo to confront bad-end Meallan, or younger Laedo and regular Meallan… or bab-Laedo and bad-end Meallan terrorizing him? XD

[moneyballer]

he's probably more like scrappy

since he's so useless. useless, butt spunky

[moneyballer]

im laughing at how ic it would be for asher 2 b saved by an amazing 5 yo girl

let's do it!!!

[moneyballer]

asher actually can be really dedicated when he gets down to it!

he is a law student, after all. he's smarter than he thinks he is too- that and he's sort of desperate to prove not only to others but also himself that he's here for a reason! i think he'll be curious about... u kno the people in uniforms that looked like alastair's, the ones you could see in the time lapses in the events last week? he'd be curious to find out about those

[sereneflame]

Serene's older brother is a lawyer! She's generally got a good impression of the profession from him.

She knows all about being desperate to prove herself so if he needs some brawn/ another canny mind she'll come and help him. If nothing else she's worried about getting sent back or forth in time herself and ending up in a troublesome situation.

[strictdiscipline]

well she might be like 20 if i age her down but that requires a) finding icons and b) bullshitting some sort of personality that's never mentioned in canon soooooo probably not going that route


so just have rhys hit on full grown riza instead, i'm sure she'll appreciate it more

[strictdiscipline]

hello, please give me heartful huntsman. i might de-age riza slightly to pre-war days so that she's minus one dog and plus several wrong and naive ideals.

mostly i just want them to argue because things have been so smooth sailing lately. let's shake things up. 8)

[sengetsu]

Kojuro is getting de-aged for this! To fifteen or sixteen or so, back before he had the name 'Kojuro' (look, traditional Japanese name conventions are complicated okay). He will still be Very Serious much of the time, but he has waaaay less control over his temper and along with that, his lightning powers. Please pick a fight with him so he can swear and spark angrily at you.