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

Re: haise

[evantuality]

I am so on board for old Evan mistaking Kaneki for Haise because it's been almost two hundred years since he hung out with y'all... and then one way or another, hanging out in the library. Old Evan knows Japanese, can read Kaneki some of the books that are written in english or something ;w;

[ex_adept136]

Evan remains a sensei even centuries later... This sounds great. Excuse him while he tries to feel out what the heck is going on and why he's here through questioning Evan.

[evantuality]

He even gets, like, official sensei-status. :] In his second life, he spends some time in a tenured position at a university. Teaches classes and everything.

Man, poor Kaneki. :u Evan might be able to piece together a hypothesis, but it'll be incomplete.

[ex_adept136]

So he was always destined to be sensei. It all makes sense now. What's he teach though?

Oh, it'll be along the lines of what's this place they're in and why were they brought here, that sort of stuff. Since alas he doesn't remember the introductory spiel that Haise got like any other new recruit.

[evantuality]

XD that I haven't defined yet. Possibly computing/high level network architecture/obscure neural network or heuristic systems learning classes. He gets really specialized in the future!

oh! Oh, gotcha. Yeah, that's easier to soothe. :]

[ex_adept136]

I'm going to take this as "subject(s) that'd make a layman's head spin" in this case. Gosh Evan.

Help him for he is confused, guy who seems to know a thing or a million.

[evantuality]

=u= he has to admit, he kind of likes being the guy who knows the topic only like five other people in the world know.

He'll happily take Kaneki under his wing for the duration of the kiddo's stay, in any case.

[ex_adept136]

A very exclusive club indeed...

And so he truly becomes Uncle Evan...at least for this event.