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!

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Laedo plot-tracking

[asscan]

Laedo will be shifting back to a six year-old (equivalent; in actual years he's about twenty, lol) dragonet for a few days, which puts him at about large dog sized, unable to shift to a human form, and unable to use much in the way of magic except create light orbs, scatter rainbows, and warble a fabulous contralto.

I've got a few threads planned, but if I missed yours or you want to do a thread, let's figure something out!

with Evan: Laedo learns shifting again for the first time with older Evan
with Serene: First encounter between when Laedo is bitten and shifts to a youngster, shenanigans ensue when younger Laedo basks in Serene's company ;u;
with Danaerys: Young Laedo encountering young Dany, probably making big boasts of protecting her from mean humans ha ha
with Giovanni: Embarrassingly earnest chatter between two younguns where Laedo admits he's never met a human before; get prepped for the most disgusting Milo & Otis business I can muster Kam (I'm fudging timeline for this but I figure we'll only get the opportunity once)
with Olivia: Earnest Laedo encounters Darkest Timeline Olivia and gets rekt in some way or another
with Achilles: PUBESCENT YOUNG MAN HAVE A PRE-PUBESCENT GABBING FRIEND; I feel like we should create a roving pack of children for a few days between all of the younguns that are going to occur here!
with Haise: I know we had some general chatter and honestly I'd be up for anything; I've forgotten the plurk specifics though so come at me too

Other younguns: COME AT LET'S MAKE THIS CHILDREN OF THE CORN(Y) EVENT A REALITY

Anyone else who wants a glimpse of bit!laedo in order to point and laugh later: yes this means everybody ʕ ಡ ﹏ ಡ ʔ

I'm also considering asking for a couple of commissions for young Laedo icons, so if y'all have time, let me know? here's his adult form, rough colours, and here's a template created by JKat that I've modified a bit for how he'll look as a beb. :D

[ex_adept136]

Give me a singing dragonet. Kaneki will sketch him, because he's never seen a little flying dragon before, much less a singing one.

[onethousen]

oh no the ART IS TAKING ME BACK

also can i just draw something of him at this age because i 100% won't guarantee anything approaching iconable but i really just... missed drawing guys from kat's world

so many many moons ago

... that and if this might be easier to toss these two at, but let me know on that one!

[conqueress]

Yes good, people are scary. Especially brothers.

[asscan]

Older siblings in general, really. Laedo's never did a fraction of the things that Viserys did, but she was a plotting jerk who eventually threw him under the bus in her own way. At this point he's much too young to have experienced that yet, but he'll understand a lot better when he muses back on this event. :(

[conqueress]

Quietly puts plotting older siblings on a deserted island and leaves them there.

http://epidemiology.dreamwidth.org/38726.html?thread=14119494#cmt14119494, or I can hit up one of yours!

[asscan]

I believe I don't have you on plurk--I wanted to apologize for not responding; my internet service provider crapped out three days ago and they're in legal actions with Shaw now to return service to their customers. :( I'm hopeful that it will return once a Shaw Tech physically visits to flick a dongle back to working for us, but that will not likely be until Monday at earliest.

I really wanted to thread this out but depending on when I have regular access to net (sneaknig on from work rn!) I'm not sure if I'll have time to take on all the time shenans and the new event. >.< Many apologies; this was one of the threads I've been most looking forward to!

[conqueress]

That sounds like a mess--I hope you get your net back safe and sound.

If you'd like to raincheck for another event, that's fine with me. But if things work out and you're still interested, even days later, let me know and I'll still thread. I backtag into oblivion.

[asscan]

I just discovered we've got another week added to this first one, and everything was restored last night--the backtagging is good to know, because I'm 110% ready to either put up a starter or tag into one of yours. In fact, I'm going through the temporal event right now and seeing who's got things I can tag Laedo into!

[hiddenlights]

I AM SO READY FOR THIS

[strikingtwice]

omg look at how tiny he is ;a;

I would love to do a thing with him but I'm not sure if you're booked out already?

[asscan]

I may be slow starting this week, but I’ve got next week off and some of it I expect to be spent tagging, so I’d love to hit you up! Do you want regular-aged Laedo to confront bad-end Meallan, or younger Laedo and regular Meallan… or bab-Laedo and bad-end Meallan terrorizing him? XD

[strikingtwice]

I am down for whatever combination you like and for whenever works for you! Was there anything you'd like for development things or plot reasons or just seems fun?

[asscan]

I found your starter and decided to jump in just for fun to see where things go! I hope that's cool!

[apoptotic]

I'd love something with either Anakin or Gwen. both will think him great, neither will find him at all weird ( Anakin because aliens, Gwen because........her life.................. ) Gwen will be staying as she is, but Anakin will be aging down.

[perma_banned]

funny that bitty!ban will totally trust laedo

he haet human