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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daenerys

[conqueress]

Dany will be aging down four years to A Game of Thrones Dany, the night she met her first husband. This means she'll be almost an entirely different person: timid, soft-spoken, and looking Very Unsure about how to be a princess. There will be some anxiety about what Viserys (her brother) will do when she doesn't come back, because she's mad afraid of him, but also, at least nobody's trying to sell her off here like a decorated piece of meat? That's nice ... she thinks ...

Sadly, she will probably need to be rescued from bugs. Once she's realized she won't be going back to the party she came out of, she'll latch cautiously onto anyone who seems trustworthy, privately eager to talk (I'm pretty sure she's listened most of her life, while Viserys did most of the talking); sample the amazing food from the dining hall (she and her brother lived on charity and begged for all that they had until six months ago); and eventually run into Drogon, whom she's never seen before. That may or may not be kind of disastrous; I'm not sure yet. She will not remember her time with ALASTAIR in this state, and this will pretty much be the only time she's open about her past unless CR gets deep.

[sololoquy]

ANXIETY FRIENDS

If you are down for bug rescue, I can offer a terrible jedi...or a darksider if that's more your speed. :')

[conqueress]

Shakes about family ...

YES I am so down. Let's do the terrible Jedi; I'm curious to see baby Kylo Ren. Or, you know, Ben.

[sololoquy]

And then they can collectively never talk about their pasts again, hooray.

[conqueress]

Definitely. All strength, all the time.

Gently shoves vulnerability into a locker.

[conqueress]

Bugs bugs bugs.

[apoptotic]

I have one baby Anakin to offer for similar reasons. Once he goes back to 22 he's never breathing a word about his past shakes head

[conqueress]

Their pasts are dark and full of terrors.

But shit, so are their futures!!

Let's have them escape and hide from rampaging bugs in the same place? Nothing like charged conversations while you wait out bug mating rituals. OR he can catch her in the kitchens/dining hall.

[construing]

If she's curious too, he will be trying to make a sensor out of scrap to locate the chip implanted somewhere on his body that's, you know, programmed to explode if a slave tries to escape. Because that's a pleasant topic to discuss with a pretty girl.

[conqueress]

Yessss she gets to know he was a slave. That'll be horrifying to her, and even more so when she reverts back to normal.

Still a better conversation partner than Viserys ...

[apoptotic]

I have to seize the opportunity!! because he would literally never speak about being a slave ever otherwise

to make up for depressive topic, he will tell her every single story he's picked up from spacers. I…am so sorry because he will just not shut up.

[conqueress]

HAHAHA sadly she's used to listening, but she does like stories. And she doesn't have to report for a wedding! Yet ... So she's got time.

Omg thank you for the baby Vader voice vid you linked in your comment, though. I'm too lazy to find it on my phone to reply there but I literally cackled.

[conqueress]

Here's some fresh garbage. LMK if one of them doesn't work for you!

[respired]

Perhaps she might like an elf rescue! I've been wanting to thread again, regardless c:

[conqueress]

And here she thought she was going to get robbed for all the jewelry she's wearing unescorted. No, just trampled by giant bugs; NBD.

I would LOVE this, and so would she. She'll probably try not to blush when she gets past the fact that he saved her and notices the fact that he's also hot.

[conqueress]

Boom, if that works for you! :>

[perma_banned]

I'd like to toss an improved and less tedious future version of Ban at Dany |D

[conqueress]

Haha, sure thing. Here, if anything inspires you! I'm keeping it closed to people I've spoken to about threads, here or elsewhere.

[selfimage]

TIME TO BE SHORTER THAN DANY BUT THE SAME AGE

[conqueress]

SHORT LOKI

You'll probably find it, but here, if anything looks good to you, or I'll hit up one of yours.

[selfimage]

VROOM I'LL PROBABLY BE THERE TOMORROW

[clobbers]

come at her dany

[conqueress]

Will do!!