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

Re: plotting!

[evantuality]

I still would be down for throwing old Evan at young Gio, although it would be interesting to throw old Evan at the really unstable version of Gio too. Old Evan can hold his own a lot better, and is like, self-destructively curious.

Do you have a preference?

[heroforhobby]

Thank you!

[onethousen]

Chihiro's new enough that I half want to see how many friends she can make with people who are temporally displaced just to have most all of them AGE UP ON HER once things turn normal again. Making friends is more complicated than she believed...!

I've considered trying to AU her up to college years pursuing an environmental engineering degree, but she really is new enough that it seems like it'd possibly be more fun for her to go making friends with everyone and finding out she's bonded with all the wrong age groups to her own consternation. Everyone, we're still friends!

... even if you're all even older now... (so I'll likely hit up people in comments around here to see if anyone's interested, but I wanted to toss this out here in case anyone does want to get CR going/continued during this event!)

[moneyman]

haha, nerd

(I'm looking forward to both of them)

Saitama Plotting

[heroforhobby]

He's going to go back 3 years to before he achieved OPness and lost all his hair at the age of 22. Look at that hair, isn't it any wonder he gets angry about it. He'll be keeping current memories though.

At this age he's strong, like maybe an average american comic book super hero who's main power ISN'T super strength, but he's probably like 5% the power level he is now and can be hurt. This doesn't really mean much to most characters here, since his strength isn't really known yet, but he will be both excited about having his hair back and maybe asking for some sparring so he can feel that thrill of being beatable again. Feel free to think he's weird for wanting to get potentially beaten up.

He'll be pretty much the same otherwise. He's always been a simple man.

[grunehexe]

Are we talking how ancient now like dusty sperm ancient cause if so no :(

[evantuality]

Listen, he may be ancient but this body is a young and spry twenty-three

Although come to think of it, third-lifetime-Evan has probably gone and gotten his tubes tied, srry Seig

[grunehexe]

Alright I have the move true PLAY IT BY EAR

[grunehexe]

Wow why would u tho

[apoptotic]

ANAKIN will be…yep. Just subtract the scary outfit and something like three feet from his height. Who wants to talk pod racing? He will also be kicking around as a young padawan in which he's wrestling with the decision to leave the Jedi Order. If only he'd wrestled with it a little less.

GWEN will remain as she is and she will be available for babysitting as well as taking photos and videos for potential pranking/blackmail use later. The truly recless will likely be chased around by Spider-Woman in an attempt to keep them from breaking their necks. Too many versions of her have done just that, 0/10 do not recommend.

[gutpunching]

please let me throw a bird at chihiro kc.............it'll be cute probably

[evantuality]

because who even wants to deal with toddlers that can set things on fire with their minds?? honestly

[onethousen]

ambi can they climb the castle

[gutpunching]

omg.......................

that can certainly be arranged

[gutpunching]

holy timeskips batman!

By which I mean I'm very much taking the opportunity to bring back Robin the Boy Wonder, aka Jason when he was fifteen or so—some time before he got himself crowbarred and came back from the dead. If you're somehow unfamiliar with Batman, he's a teenaged sidekick to a Bat-themed vigilante—(He is vengeance, he is the night, etc etc.)—the second kid to wear the cape, and the first to die in the line of duty. (He got better. Sort of.) He's still got some squirrely street kid in him, but he's less shitty this way, I promise.

I have very few concrete plans yet besides winging it hard, but I'll bounce around and see what you guys have planned. He'll be just as prone to inherent nosiness about ALASTAIR's deal but a little more prone to being friendly and helpful so he'll be all over the place—please if you're interested in poking around with an intrepid teenaged bird boy, hit me up! Or if you'd prefer normal lazarus'd flavor instead, I'm good playing the timeline straight man, too. I'm gonna try to take advantage of the chance to branch out a lot during this one, hopefully. >:c!

[onethousen]

is he going to have a grappling hook

CAN WE MAKE THIS RIDICULOUS hi i have a relatively fearless ten year old when she has a Purpose to achieve

[gutpunching]

tirejacking, ty, ty!

[grunehexe]

Put them in a fire retardant box

[evantuality]

askhakfsdh

alright Seig now you are definitely not getting any of this sweet elemental genetic material

kids come out of boxes, they aren't meant to be put back in them

[gutpunching]

Wow, Dont be silly

Of course he's going to have a grappling hook

Dw chihiro he's a professional kind of

[onethousen]

activating stupid amount of faith in people's capabilities
teens and tweens alike it's all good YOU'RE PROBABLY CAPABLE


let's get into trouble it'll be grand

Laedo plot-tracking

[asscan]

Laedo will be shifting back to a six year-old (equivalent; in actual years he's about twenty, lol) dragonet for a few days, which puts him at about large dog sized, unable to shift to a human form, and unable to use much in the way of magic except create light orbs, scatter rainbows, and warble a fabulous contralto.

I've got a few threads planned, but if I missed yours or you want to do a thread, let's figure something out!

with Evan: Laedo learns shifting again for the first time with older Evan
with Serene: First encounter between when Laedo is bitten and shifts to a youngster, shenanigans ensue when younger Laedo basks in Serene's company ;u;
with Danaerys: Young Laedo encountering young Dany, probably making big boasts of protecting her from mean humans ha ha
with Giovanni: Embarrassingly earnest chatter between two younguns where Laedo admits he's never met a human before; get prepped for the most disgusting Milo & Otis business I can muster Kam (I'm fudging timeline for this but I figure we'll only get the opportunity once)
with Olivia: Earnest Laedo encounters Darkest Timeline Olivia and gets rekt in some way or another
with Achilles: PUBESCENT YOUNG MAN HAVE A PRE-PUBESCENT GABBING FRIEND; I feel like we should create a roving pack of children for a few days between all of the younguns that are going to occur here!
with Haise: I know we had some general chatter and honestly I'd be up for anything; I've forgotten the plurk specifics though so come at me too

Other younguns: COME AT LET'S MAKE THIS CHILDREN OF THE CORN(Y) EVENT A REALITY

Anyone else who wants a glimpse of bit!laedo in order to point and laugh later: yes this means everybody ʕ ಡ ﹏ ಡ ʔ

I'm also considering asking for a couple of commissions for young Laedo icons, so if y'all have time, let me know? here's his adult form, rough colours, and here's a template created by JKat that I've modified a bit for how he'll look as a beb. :D

an entire ban

[perma_banned]

For the first two days of the event, Ban will be about 8-9 years of age, back when he was a gutter!child in His hometown of Raven. He won't have any Futuro memories and will be incredibly violent, foul-mouthed and prone to stealing. Things I wanna do with him? Have him overeat until he pukes due to suddenly having free food available at his leisure. Have him punch someone nice in the groin/face. Have him run away from someone several times in a thread. Cuss someone out who's trying to be nice to him. Steal something from someone. Get put in time-out that he has to break out of and finally--get bitten by a giant monster insect out of nowhere and nearly die before he turns into:

Future Holy Knight!Ban. Basically, from a future where he adjusts to his losses and becomes an amicable person. Mostly what I want to do here is show what kind of guy he could be if he weren't trying his best to be the worst. This future AU Ban will definitely have all of his Futuro memories. |D

Lemme know!

[historiology]

featherings for Sakura. I'm not entirely sure yet if I'll go with bitty icons for Sorey or make him an alt for this too.

rice

[cachemoney]

god i don't even know which one i want, how dare you