axiology | 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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In usual me fashion, I will be flying by the seat of my pants and winging it for the majority of this event. I might de-age Riza to her second year in the academy right before everything goes to shit so she's not incredibly mopey and serious all the time. This would also mean that her tattoo is still fully intact, so if you wanna see Riza freak the fuck out about that, we can wrangle something. Nothing says CR building like talking about crazy dads who put their life's work into a tattoo instead of on something respectable like paper....

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY....there was talk on my plurk way back when about doing a girls' night and I am going to valiantly try and make that happen in that last week before mission start after everything's back to normal. If there's enough interest in that, I can toss up a mingle/free-for-all.

Natasha would attend girls' night!

YES PLEASE COME also I would like to belatedly apologize for dropping the ball on our squidge thread, this last mission did not click super well with me. Please let me make it up to you by giving you an actual thread this time around.

it's all good!!! i saw you mentioning that it wasn't your thing so i'm not worried about it :)

paper degrades tho

girls night girls night ignore the journal this is on

um?????? what are you trying to say here

also w/e lance can just peek at the keyhole or something or through the door crack, i haven't exactly thought this out as you can tell

no lance is not invited >:'C

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strictdiscipline - 2016-08-30 22:07 (UTC) - Expand

idk if Sakura is too bitty and forever too bitty depending on what is planned for said girl's night but I am so in if she would be able to join.

Also, damn. De-aged Riza. No, I would feel horrible offering Sakura and her Firey in lieu of Roy and his flame alchemy. :l

omg how did i miss this comment

Sakura is never too bitty for girls night!! they will keep things pure and wholesome for the smalls (and or just wait until Sakura falls asleep, either or)

also never feel bad!! I am all for terrible things. 8) I'm not going to be able to do anything for this event until mid-next week, but I can give you a holler when I'm back if you want to see how your plate is then?

Heh. I just figure, depending on timing, TRC Sakura for the event is like. Fourteen/idek how much time canonly passes. Where CCS Sakura even with Clear Card arc I started playing her from is still thirteen or so.

But definitely let me know when you are up for something!

Love me Val

why do you hurt me like this

but actually okay, what do you want

girls night, clearly

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girls night please

only if you give be bb!hb

i have needs

cachemoney - 2016-08-30 18:16 (UTC) - Expand

hello yes I'm here for girls night

yes hello good, please help the rest of these ladies learn how to relax, i'm pretty sure half of them suck at it

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GIRLS' NIGHT

nami is already there sorry not sorry

yes good, she's probably the girliest of the entire lot, please help....the rest of them...

whoa girl's night, how cute....

shizuo is not convincing enough in drag for this alas, otherwise REACHES FOR RIZA THOUGH...naive and hopeful riza in her academy years oh no

hey now, don't be so dismissive of shizuo's talents!! i'm sure there's a hidden drag queen in there....somewhere.....

but yes, she will smile Real Smiles(TM) and probably be a lot more optimistic about things

i will finally touch riza as promised....

ready for tattoo cr building

BIJ!!!!! reaches 4 u.....

does arjuna also have a tattoo, omg