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

Saitama Plotting

[heroforhobby]

He's going to go back 3 years to before he achieved OPness and lost all his hair at the age of 22. Look at that hair, isn't it any wonder he gets angry about it. He'll be keeping current memories though.

At this age he's strong, like maybe an average american comic book super hero who's main power ISN'T super strength, but he's probably like 5% the power level he is now and can be hurt. This doesn't really mean much to most characters here, since his strength isn't really known yet, but he will be both excited about having his hair back and maybe asking for some sparring so he can feel that thrill of being beatable again. Feel free to think he's weird for wanting to get potentially beaten up.

He'll be pretty much the same otherwise. He's always been a simple man.

[hardnosed]

It's a true American tragedy that the TDM thread can't be game canon because it would make any fight between them now ten times funnier but you know what, I'll take it anyway!! Like she might put up the pretense of not wanting to lower herself to fighting a human or whatever for the first thirty seconds, but as long as he hits or annoys her somehow she'll get right into it... come on gross little human thing u wanna fuckin go

[heroforhobby]

Oh man the problem is if she doesn't want to fight he won't push for it, he ain't no creep.

But if she's doing something he disagrees with like rampant property destruction as she's fighting bugs (making him a hypocritical tbh) a fight can happen then? Or if you have another idea, since I'm not too familiar with how she operates!

And I'm sad the tdm isn't game canon either but nothing stopping you from making a log sometime winkface

[hardnosed]

Oh there's zero if about it everything is getting wrecked and she may or may not try to ride a bug down the halls like a bucking bronco, we will make it work

[heroforhobby]

We will. We will make this work. I believe in us and our ability to RP terrible thing.

[perma_banned]

fight naito!ban

who also loves to get beaten up

[heroforhobby]

stop wanting saitama to beat you up...................

but this can be done! how strong is he?

[perma_banned]

look buddy you wanna be in a risky fight and ban just likes pain... it'll work out...

Admittedly, Future!Ban will be a millennium older than his current self, so he'll be pretty high up the ladder--more a speedster than a bruiser, though!

[heroforhobby]

lol never let saitama know you like it he'll make it a point NOT to hit him.....

Okay that sounds like a good enough fight then B) Was just making sure young saitama wouldn't get his jaw punched off haha

[selfimage]

SLAMS IN HERE

we half plotted, but i'm reiterating how i want this.

[heroforhobby]

YES!!

Haha I was about to say he can carry him on his shoulders but just saw he's gonna be around 14. TOO OLD FOR THAT. But he can help if he gets in trouble and I'm totes open to pranking and stuff like that B)

[selfimage]

ROFL HE'S STILL INSANELY SHORT. LIKE 5'.

tiny little bitty loki.

i mean we also get shit like this:

[heroforhobby]

Saitama would be happy to carry him like that if you'd like

[selfimage]

please grab him and carry him upside down.

[heroforhobby]

then we shall make it so if there is any dangers UvU

hell, he can do it to him when they're back to normal even

[selfimage]

when he's grown up he's like 500 lbs so this amuses the crap out of me.

[heroforhobby]

that is basically the weight of a newborn to Saitama so it's more than doable

[arcane]

aaaa i always wanted cr with saitama, and what's a better opportunity when he has hair! ... if just for the aftermath of seeing him bald within the proceeding week. either way, i will def. hit you up if you don't mind!! u///u

[heroforhobby]

His hair will attract all the people! Feel free to have them not have met if you wanted to do the shock of WHERE IS ALL YOUR HAIR later on haha. (It wouldn't be a stretch to think they didn't cross paths, considering how anti-social he can be lol.)

I absolutely don't mind! I don't know your character, but he looks very interesting and pretty.