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

ramir + knock out

[heavyhitter]

Ramir is going forwards in time! But probably not for long, I'll mostly be throwing lil Ramir at people and saying big Ramir wore off real fast. BUT WHILE SHE'S AROUND, she's this lady, who is ~35, runs a crime group as well as large chunks of her city, got even stronger, and is way more calm and reasonable. On the surface, anyway. And Ramir became an actual first name, she took back her family name of Faraldo! Way to make things make sense, big Ramir. Lemme know if you want that flavor, otherwise I'll probably be hitting people up with the standard issue Ramir outside her top level. :]

Knock Out is a few millennia old and fuck that. He's not changing (hard to bite a robot) and will be bewildered to discover that so little time makes such a big difference in humans, what the fuck is wrong with that species.

[boneafide]

NOT EVENT RELATED BUT WE STILL NEED TO HAVE ZENYATTA AND RAMIR DRINK I KEEP FORGETTING

[heavyhitter]

UGH GOD SAME
ok well he's not changing right, for the most part neither is ramir so clearly she should track him down after she gets sick of hanging out with kid versions of her friends and offer booze

[boneafide]

WELL HE IS CHANGING but we can just have it happen during a time when he's normal. although ramir would probably get a kick out of pre-monk zen if i do that

[heavyhitter]

oh he is!!! god then i definitely want in on that pre-monk zen. BUT YEAH AFTER THAT definitely drinking, this is a good event for it i feel

[boneafide]

he's definitely going to want to drink if anyone ever tells him Widowmaker killed his brother because as of right now he has no idea she's the one who did it so that'll be fun

PRE-MONK ZEN i still need to figure some things out for but he's going to be Slightly Less Chill for sure

[heavyhitter]

boy i want in on that :) i hope she tells him immediately :))) suffer for my amusement, zenyatta

ok either way i'm there for that, maybe ramir tracks him down with booze and then realizes NOT QUITE THE ROBOT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR

Re: ramir + knock out

[evantuality]

okay but forcing me to choose between old Evan x young Ramir, young Evan x old Ramir, and old Evan x old Ramir is cruel

Old Evan would see old Ramir and be very 83 well don't you just grow up nice

[heavyhitter]

listen all i know is i need old evan in my life. i don't care about the logistics, we'll make it fuckin work if we have to do three threads >:|

[evantuality]

I LIKE THIS

aight though for real, priorities. I'd love to throw old Evan at young Ramir, that's like, priority one. If you're down for either of the other two I am not going to complain about a second thread, although I'll leave whichever sounds more interesting to your prerogative!

[heavyhitter]

yes, old evan and young ramir for sure! that's on the list. and maybe after that a quick one of old her young him, because she'd probably do her best to avoid most of the people she used to know. young ramir, on the other hand, i suspect will want to spend a lot of time hanging out with cool uncle evan

[evantuality]

Ohhh, she's avoiding old friends? Great, all the more opportunity to embarrass.

I am on board 100% for both of these. chalk it up on the to-do list; shall I do you a closed starter when the log goes up?

[heavyhitter]

mostly so no spoilers get back to lil ramir, she will be very opposed to that

and yeah, sounds good! :D thank you!

[gutpunching]

please gimme hot mafia boss ramir... do we want to make like...plans for this or are we just going to wing it as per usual

[heavyhitter]

omg i was trying to sleep but kept thinking up things, clearly i want to try a new thing that involves actual plans for once

ok what about this: jason saves old ramir from some buggos, because she doesn't show off anymore and would prefer someone saving her to busting her powers out, before they realize identities

ALSO CONSIDER: i mentioned to nemo that since these are alternative futures it could involve a future with alastair, right? and ramir would definitely eventually ask close friends to come back with her to her world and just. give up their whole lives to help her with hers. you know. no big. so 1: what would jason say to that, and 2: what answer could we go with for a possible future. also 3 how can we work in maximum grimdark future au, i demand tears.

ok now bed for real, i wanted to barf those up before i forgot them

[gutpunching]

oh my god zee, this was so much more Response than I was expecting, is this what thinking ahead is really like

anyway pt 1 that sounds fine 2 me for thread excuses - since he's going backward I wasn't planning on hanging onto futuro memories but we'll see what makes the thread work best ig...definitely after the fact he'll hassle her about it as long as you're fine with future spoilers later on

which leads us to paragraph 2.....ah... this is so good, shit. tbh if she asked him like, right this minute, he'd say "no" but I'm sure there's some futuro future where he could change his mind eventually...because lbr max grimdark future au is probably that he goes with her and shit goes sour somewhere and they end up...at odds....... taking on organized crime over vendettas is a thing he does

[heavyhitter]

SEE i was like shit i can't just sleep on this. ask me about plots as i'm tying to sleep more often, i guess

and yeah that works to get em started! once ramir realizes what's happening she'd clam up so spoilers don't get back to lil ramir, so that's not much of an issue. maybe she meets him while he's young, realizes who he is, and... he's still a robin right, he could probably suss out that she knows more than she's letting on, if he doesn't have futuro memories. she'd think he was adorable and humor him slightly. whatever direction sounds most fun works for me too!

OH BOY SHIT GOING WRONG :'))))) i am so into this. so in this potential future where she somehow was convincing enough to make him agree to it, ending up as bitter ex-friend rivals sounds lovely. she'd be so pissed that she ever thought it was a good idea to bring him home, she used to be so naive and idealistic >:| and as for the how, while her organization is USUALLY pretty robin hoody and good-of-the-community, they definitely do some self-serving and shady crap. it could be morals that didn't quite align and an argument that went too far, or even someone set them up to divide and weaken, or something like that. if you were up to x2 threads, i'd love to do part 1 she runs into cute lil robin and part 2 she runs into a guy a little closer to the guy she hates (B

[gutpunching]

he's not adorable he's a tough superhero and stuff

BUT MAN I WANT BOTH SO I AM SO UP FOR TWO THREADS....JUST FOR THIS MESS............. lbr jason is not exactly the most fair or balanced dude all the time so things could definitely have fallen apart over some clashing principles/someone setting them up (this would be so good tbh... thinks on it) or w/e, we can be vague on the specifics probably until we need to not be.

SO YES....LETS.....please yolo into this I'm so 1000% down.

[heavyhitter]

my heart wants the setup, and justifies it by saying otherwise their principles really do align pretty closely, it could be hard to find something that would divide them so much otherwise. BUT all that's probably moot because there's no way she'd get into the details anyway.

OH WAIT ALSO ONE MORE THING. this is a world without sigma, he said no to coming with her what a dick, and current ramir is nursing a bit of a crush she'd have gone for without sigma in the picture -- do you want to involve romance (attempted or otherwise, her getting turned down happens a lot in 'canon') in this as well, yae or nay

[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??

[perma_banned]

well obviously i need cr with lvl 99 ramir

Definitely tossing in the more charismatic and less annoying Ban for that...

[heavyhitter]

oh shit excellent :D tell me about this mysterious other ban!

[perma_banned]

Basically, 2000 years of ALASTAIR missions for him, some lasting decades to centuries. He'll have been the guy sent to do one minor task over the course of generations and would have lived a lot of lives like Keanu Reeves...

But, those years would have eroded at his self-loathing, leaving him with a modicum of pride and restraint that'll actually give him mature qualities. He'll still be a goof but not a sloppy drunk of a man.

[heavyhitter]

awww he sounds cute ;u; yeah, that sounds good! i look forward to it!