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

reeze

[dbag]

I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, so I'm choosing to cheat and have him get bitten twice IT'S FINE.

for the first part I'll be going with pre-corporate-chumpery Rizzle, before he bought all the hair gel and became a corporate ladder climbing asshole, so less douche and more nerd... he will basically look like this except with both of his arms, EMBARRASSING. anyway he will be less of a jerk and more open about being a nerdo with Big Dreams, so if you want to get CR with the part of him that doesn't suck this'll probably be the quickest way.

the second part will be [trumpets] Handsome Rhys, the future where the sociopathic AI in his brain is piloting this ship. will mercilessly hit on and/or threaten you, possibly at the same time. I'll never have the balls to do a Jack plot ever again so NOW IS THE TIME IF YOU WANT IT...

anyway I am very much open to anything, I may also have normal Rhys time (the worst Rhys out of all these Rhyses am I right) depending on how things work out so! we got all kinds of options here.

[strictdiscipline]

hello i would like to meet handsome rhys

where do i sign up for this

[dbag]

RIGHT HERE

what is happening with riza, i need to know how awful i can be

[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

[forcevisions]

NECESSITO HANDSOME RHYS

[dbag]

OH NO....... this will be terrible probably but i'm into it

[moneyman]

haha, nerd

(I'm looking forward to both of them)

[dbag]

100 percent nerd 100 percent of the time, yes :)b

rice

[cachemoney]

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

*ritz cracker

[dbag]

i know you HATE doing this but have you considered making a pro/con list, possibly on a spreadsheet

[cachemoney]

frat boy rhys:
+ hilarious
+ burn fodder
- not hot

handsome rhys:
+ probably this will be hot
- but also not funny
+ but drama



as you can see it's a dilemma

[dbag]

wow what isn't hot about that terrible skin!!! pre-daily moisturizing regimen rhys

i'll make it awful either way so it's up to you my friend

[cachemoney]

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

rye bread

[pummelling]

i CANT DECIDE ON A RHYS but i would love a thread regardless... what sort of bug-related shenanigans did you have in mind for him, because i can totally plot around that if you have any plans :|a

LET HIM LIVE

[dbag]

I......... don't really have any bug plans aside from probably getting attacked, i'm a spontaneous free spirit :|a if you have any i'll just shove my way into those shenanigans though