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Hathaway. ([personal profile] futurologists) wrote in [community profile] axiology2016-08-29 07:56 pm

EVENT WRITE-UP: BACK TO THE FUTURE

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!

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[personal profile] strictdiscipline 2016-08-30 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
what a smol cute hanzo
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[personal profile] forcevisions 2016-08-30 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
NECESSITO HANDSOME RHYS
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[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-08-30 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
[personal profile] grunehexin for Sieglinde, please!
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[personal profile] forcevisions 2016-08-30 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
The moral questionableness of all of this makes me for sure want Galra!Keith and Dark!Rey threads but that's the max of my ability to commit to plans rn.
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[personal profile] evantuality 2016-08-30 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Evan is going to be aged up for this event, but you won't be able to tell except for the shit-eating grin he'll have on.

Because of what he is, he lives lives at apparent human pace, but when he dies he comes back. He'll be appearing at the beginning of his third life, looking maaaybe two or three years older than he looks now, but with a whole lot more life experience under his belt. Less nervous, less skittish, less awkward and he keeps a lid on his nerdery better, but also less sincere and honestly a lot more guarded, when it comes down to brass tacks. He'll also have embraced his snarky side, and will be totes down for uncling the shit out of any youngsters her runs into among his cohorts here. He will be having a blast going around seeing people he hasn't seen in almost 200 years, getting his serious nostalgia on, and probably telling people things that young Evan would rather he not admit to.

fire nerd --> fire boss
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Keith tries to act like a dark evil badass

Rey actually is one

this and more in two people who are both a lot alike and not that much alike in terms of abandoned orphans trying to find their purpose in life
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[personal profile] winces 2016-08-30 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
since lance is still new, he will remain unaffected (and not get injured, for once!) so he'll still be your trashy teen trying to make sense of all this. if you need a straight man for your shenanigans, he is here for ya!

olivia, on the other hand, will be glitching to the future. specifically, her canon's "bad end" timeline, where a neighboring kingdom has succeeded in resurrecting the fell dragon, grima, therefore bringing about the risen (i.e. zombies) and generally wreaking havoc on all those who oppose grima's rule. ACTUAL TIMEFRAMES ARE NEBULOUS in canon, so i will be placing olivia ten years in her future, making her around 32. also, she is the queen of ylisse (because i can), with a young son (around 8 years old) named inigo. she'll likely be taken from the moment right before she dies trying to protect him. this olivia will not only be older, she will be far more skilled in fighting (in canon game terms, she'd either be an assassin or swordmaster... i haven't fully decided yet weeps). she will also be less nervous, less insecure, and far more jaded and cynical due to years of warfare, and losing her friends and family. 8)b also, given her 'canon point' she might imprint on a lot of the youngins running around, so there is that too.
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[personal profile] heelies 2016-08-30 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
mama-wife

wait
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[personal profile] winces 2016-08-30 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
oedipus is that u
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[personal profile] smarterthandad 2016-08-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Valeria is already a baby, and since I haven't had a chance to intro yet, I was considering having her meet people as her adult self so that they can be confused and assume she's been de-aged when she goes back to normal after the effects wear off. (Her past is 1000% confusing and she would actually be older than she is if she were de-aged because do not even ask. Or do, but I'm not putting it in the top comment.)

Adult Val is a much better person than Li'l Val and will be completely chill about temporal weirdness. As will Li'l Val, actually, but in a much more condescending way.

Does that sound appealing to anyone?
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
so since lance isn't affected he will probably not realize any of this what do we do
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[personal profile] iomnic 2016-08-30 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
PAPYRUS will be from the King Papyrus ending of Undertale. Summary there: Everyone who held any form of political importance is dead, and so somehow, Papyrus winds up the King of the Underground. Which is slowly dying, and he has no idea what he's doing, and he's very miserable. BECAUSE HE WASN'T MISERABLE ENOUGH ALREADY, RIGHT?? At least now he'll know things are not As Bad As They Could Be.

ZENYATTA - I'm still a little on the fence for what to do here.
Option A: Zenyatta from during his time in the Shambali. So, missing some world experience, very faithful to his teachings, working on finding his own inner peace, but mostly the same personality-wise, just a little younger.
Option B: Zenyatta BEFORE going to the Shambali. So, technically not even "Zenyatta" yet, but some serial number he would go by. This would be more headcanon/up-in-the-air kinda zone, but he'd be less chill/less knowledgeable about the world in general.

NOT SURE WHICH ONE I'LL GO WITH, if anyone has a preference towards one vs. the other, let me know, or maybe i'll do both if there's a call for it!!
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
we can do a thread with him being an asshole to lance and then a later thread where he explains that he didn't want lance to know what he was doing he guesses, trying to explain himself and not fully getting it
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO i mean that's par for the course... though i guess this time lance doesn't actually do anything to deserve it

unless i do a glitch of lance from that alternate future... 8|a
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Sieglinde Sullivan | Plotting

[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-08-30 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Sieglinde will be zapping between early childhood when she had just had her feet bound and assumed the mantle of "Green Witch" in her village, and her early twenties. (Thanks for the PB, Witch Hunter.)

As a child, she'll be both scared and curious and also completely in shock and awe of everything she sees here in "the Outside World". She'll also need carrying!

As a young adult, she'll come from a "stayed with ALASTAIR" timeline, (since God only knows with her canon tbh), so she'll be a pretty fly science-witch, personality mostly the same if not slightly more mature and experienced. She will flirt with you if you seem to have good genetics, beware.

I welcome anything! General plotting or signing up for personalized prompts on the log, bring it to me!!
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
YOU COULD

Keith will be difficult and also bad at acting. I kind of want a moment where he maybe saves Lance from Harm so we can play with it later. like oh he wasn't really evil but he was evil right???
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-30 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
ok but baby sieglinde
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[personal profile] strictdiscipline 2016-08-30 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
In usual me fashion, I will be flying by the seat of my pants and winging it for the majority of this event. I might de-age Riza to her second year in the academy right before everything goes to shit so she's not incredibly mopey and serious all the time. This would also mean that her tattoo is still fully intact, so if you wanna see Riza freak the fuck out about that, we can wrangle something. Nothing says CR building like talking about crazy dads who put their life's work into a tattoo instead of on something respectable like paper....


BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY....there was talk on my plurk way back when about doing a girls' night and I am going to valiantly try and make that happen in that last week before mission start after everything's back to normal. If there's enough interest in that, I can toss up a mingle/free-for-all.
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[personal profile] grunehexe 2016-08-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
Please carry her around mister skeleton I need it
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
i am all for damsel in distress lance

admittedly i'm having a hard time seeing this fall into place but i think i just need to see it executed and i'll just roll with it! we can see where it goes and if any adjustments need to be made, etc etc :)b
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[personal profile] strictdiscipline 2016-08-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
hello give me assassin olivia
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
what's fucked up is the future im going to be doing with papyrus he's actually going to be a little afraid of human children

so absolutely let's do this shit
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
THEY RUN INTO EACH OTHER, KEITH'S VOICE COMES OUT OF A GALRA BODY

and we roll with it from there
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
hugging people will be hard with all those daggers on her arms but ok
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-30 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
NOT EVENT RELATED BUT WE STILL NEED TO HAVE ZENYATTA AND RAMIR DRINK I KEEP FORGETTING

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