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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] 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] hiddenlights 2016-08-30 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to do something with Papyrus (either with kid!Giovanni or Darc here) if you're up for it, I think he's great.
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-30 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
YES OF COURSE although papyrus is going to be more More Wary towards humans than he's ever been, so depending on what kind of CR you want there!
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[personal profile] ofobedience 2016-08-30 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't mind! Giovanni looks more human but is probably less so than Darc, really. I'm always up for difficult CR (and Giovanni lends himself to that very well when he's not a child) so whatever you think you'd have more fun playing out! Talking skeletons would probably seem pretty freaky to kid!Giovanni so there's also that. Darc's a little more ready to just accept any weird thing he sees haha.
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[personal profile] iomnic 2016-08-31 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Whichever is fine with me honestly! OR BOTH!!! GO WILD, I am just giving a heads up to people that Papyrus won't be as happy as he usually is lol
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[personal profile] ofobedience 2016-09-02 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
MAYBE BOTH I'll give it some thought. Are you top-leveling during the event? I still need to get my act together and write something up but I will!! At some point!
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-09-02 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! I have a top level here, but let me know if you'd rather I tagged you!
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[personal profile] construing 2016-08-30 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Skelebuddy no :'< please go back to yelling it's a better look on you
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-30 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
HE'LL BE BACK TO YELLING after i put him through a traumatic experience SORRY GWEN...
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[personal profile] construing 2016-08-30 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
This will be the challenge of her stand up career. can she get a double "ha" out of a depressed skeleton stay tuned
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-30 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, he will still laugh, but will the laugh be genuine or a forced front in the face of being completely unsettled is the real question
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[personal profile] construing 2016-08-30 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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[personal profile] pummelling 2016-08-31 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
both yung jins are shaolin wannabes but 10 yo jin is still hopeful and 18 yo is BITTER AND JADED ABOUT IT, can one of them meet monkbot...
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[personal profile] iomnic 2016-08-31 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
ABSOLUTELY
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[personal profile] pummelling 2016-08-31 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
YES GOOD be ready for all the genji nostalgia zenyatta
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[personal profile] iomnic 2016-08-31 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It'll have to be current zenny or there will be no nostalgia to be has but yes he will look at this angry baby and be like "oh"
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[personal profile] pummelling 2016-08-31 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
he will be the angriest of babies
you cant tell him what to do youre not his REAL dad
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[personal profile] boneafide 2016-08-31 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
you can still call him daddy either way
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[personal profile] pummelling 2016-08-31 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
i










i have to go back to earthrealm right now immediately
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[personal profile] iomnic 2016-08-31 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
bye