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

[asscan]

:C If she wants to imprint on a dragon kid who's freshly learned how to change into the shape of a boy he's never had a mom who really cared about him before; all of the female figures in his life have been cold-hard badasses but they'd never die to protect the likes of him.

[moneyballer]

Asher is not going to be experiencing any changes as he is fairly new!

However, he will be doing his best to gather information on the insects and the time rifts- How exactly, I'm not sure. As he is a mere mortal who is still adapting to an action/adventure type setting, he's going to have a lot of difficulty but he will do his best! He wants to prove himself worthy, and will most likely get into a lot of trouble. :( I would love to get CR with other characters who are also just trying to figure stuff out, that kind of team-building would be so fun.

Asher is also gentle at heart and great with children- So for any people who have characters who are younger, if he runs into them he will do his best to make sure they are happy and safe... I'd also love for him to get a little shaken up this event as well! So if anyone has a character from a darker timeline and needs an easy, insecure target, he is yours for the taking.

Re: haise

[asscan]

Right, Kaneki and drawings and things! I'd missed a few beats while we were chatting but this freshens the memory up. >:D I guess we're back to the library this week, but this time for cute instead of sad and frustrating half-conversations.

[gutpunching]

Love me Val

Re: haise

[evantuality]

I am so on board for old Evan mistaking Kaneki for Haise because it's been almost two hundred years since he hung out with y'all... and then one way or another, hanging out in the library. Old Evan knows Japanese, can read Kaneki some of the books that are written in english or something ;w;

[cachemoney]

it's the hair tbh ☹️☹️☹️ anyway i am leaning toward Bad End Rhys but we'll see how the wind blows that day

[ex_adept136]

oblige for the before times Kaneki, please.

[cachemoney]

girls night please

[ex_adept136]

Meeting a strangely familiar teenager in the library, Uncle Evan?

[ex_adept136]

I'll give you a sad teenager for your sad mom.

[ex_adept136]

Failed attempts at flirting is something I expect now...

[pummelling]

nah

[ex_adept136]

Haise'll be aging down to a different identity altogether, but teenage is at least marginally closer to Chihiro...

[ex_adept136]

Give me a singing dragonet. Kaneki will sketch him, because he's never seen a little flying dragon before, much less a singing one.

[moneyballer]

rude????

[onethousen]

oh no the ART IS TAKING ME BACK

also can i just draw something of him at this age because i 100% won't guarantee anything approaching iconable but i really just... missed drawing guys from kat's world

so many many moons ago

... that and if this might be easier to toss these two at, but let me know on that one!

[onethousen]

Kaneki is such an awkward duck of adorable can we please... is he going to be pre-attack or post? THEN I GOT SMART AND CHECKED chinhands ah Ken your life is never not suffering... and yes, teenager is closer!!

[clobbers]

adamantis will be my alt!

[ex_adept136]

I figured it'd be fun to play from around the same point as the first Kaneki the game had, though I usually play his early-canon iteration.

Interacting with Chihiro ought to be fun, he can eschew that edge business. He can be an awkward duck still, I believe in him.

[ex_adept136]

Evan remains a sensei even centuries later... This sounds great. Excuse him while he tries to feel out what the heck is going on and why he's here through questioning Evan.

[onethousen]

also since i was staring at those bull sized bugs

do they want to take one down in some creative and ridiculous manner

aka do you want to action things up because i am indeed playing a ten year old but I AM SO READY TO ACTION THINGS UP

[ex_adept136]

Cute thread with dragonet Laedo! I'm looking forward to this. So is Laedo going to go around treating all these humanoids like new puppies?

[ex_adept136]

Definitely want to hit up Alice! Haise'll be Kaneki and remember nothing whatsoever but as a literature nerd no matter what his identity he might recognize Alice's rather iconic appearance. In contrast he'll be more subdued than Haise.

kara

[clobbers]

Kara will be 13 year old little bean. She hasn't been here long, so she won't have much memory of her time with ALASTAIR to go on anyway. She'll be very sensitive to sound, and her x-ray vision will be going haywire until she puts on those glasses Jeremiah gave her.

If anyone wants to kick bugs around with her, just lmk! She'll be wanting to.

[clobbers]

So Kara's both going to be aged down and is prone for getting into trouble. How does that sound? c: