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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[futurologists]

ALT ACCOUNTS

[futurologists]

As some appearances will likely be changed enough to need different icons, we'll be allowing alternate accounts listed here into the community for two months. After that, they will be removed; please request an extension when the time is up if you still need it! Please list the account you will be using below and we will add it to the communities.

Re: ALT ACCOUNTS

[hiddenlights]

badspine for me, please!

[sheriffing]

I think Emma's alternative account will be missedherchance, for young!Emma.

[backthatup]

lowtier for me!

Re: ALT ACCOUNTS

[heavyhitter]

heavilyhit for ramir!

[longtempered]

smalltempered for shizuo! thanks mods :^)

plotting!

[hiddenlights]

Giovanni will mostly be returning to a much younger, cuter, and more openly terrified version of himself for most of this event, so if anyone wants to get an insight into what he's like under all the malicious snark and why he is the way he is, now is your chance! Alternatively, just wanting to play with a cute kid character is a perfectly valid reason for interacting with him.

If anyone wants it, I may do a very brief future version of him too, just two hours, but he'll be incredibly unstable with very few memories left and just...dangerous to be around. Let me know if anyone would like to play off this version and I can set something up!

For Darc, I'll be doing a recent past version of him, from the beginning of his canon, where he still has his wings and and is still a slave. He'll be less arrogant and abrasive, and more openly emotional and compassionate.

Totally open to shenanigans with both characters so let me know here!

[respired]

brightdawn for Koltira & beforenoon for Jesse!

reeze

[dbag]

I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, so I'm choosing to cheat and have him get bitten twice IT'S FINE.

for the first part I'll be going with pre-corporate-chumpery Rizzle, before he bought all the hair gel and became a corporate ladder climbing asshole, so less douche and more nerd... he will basically look like this except with both of his arms, EMBARRASSING. anyway he will be less of a jerk and more open about being a nerdo with Big Dreams, so if you want to get CR with the part of him that doesn't suck this'll probably be the quickest way.

the second part will be [trumpets] Handsome Rhys, the future where the sociopathic AI in his brain is piloting this ship. will mercilessly hit on and/or threaten you, possibly at the same time. I'll never have the balls to do a Jack plot ever again so NOW IS THE TIME IF YOU WANT IT...

anyway I am very much open to anything, I may also have normal Rhys time (the worst Rhys out of all these Rhyses am I right) depending on how things work out so! we got all kinds of options here.

[headlining]

Keats' alternate account will be skipabeat!

[respired]

Koltira will be about 25 years younger, which means almost nothing for the long life span of an elf--except that he'll be alive. Living Koltira is a significantly different beast than the sour murder machine you're presently saddled with: he's jovial, friendly, kind, and compassionate. He's essentially a big, good-natured elf jock. In the death knight manga, we catch a glimpse of Koltira pre-death. He puts his little brother in a headlock, teases him gently, tries to help him get a date. He gives speeches about valor and goodness in an attempt to sway Thassarian from Arthas's control. He's a Good Guy ... and because he's an elf, his ethereal hotness will no longer have the weird sheen of undeath to unsettle people looking at him. He'll just be blond & gorgeous (and very excited to talk with you).

McCree will also be shedding years, down to 17 from 37. As a teenager, Jesse McCree was part of a notorious biker gang and wanted for a presumably extensive rap sheet, given that he was an infamous sharpshooter (read: murderer) and bound for max security prison at the time of his capture by Overwatch. This version of McCree is a fresh recruit. Still cynical, still insecure, and unfortunately 100x more likely to come on to your character in the cheesiest way.

He'll be easily recognizable: he's had that Stetson and his BAMF belt buckle for twenty years, and he'll be wearin'em both, along with his revolver. No serape, though, and his body armor is Blackwatch--(para)military issue.

IN TERMS OF SPECIFICS: in between valiantly fighting these nasty insects, young McCree will investigate the barn so that he can (for the first time in his alleged cowboy life) interact with a horse. He will be bad at this. He'll also likely be trying to fill up on booze in the kitchens (illegal, and therefore desired).

Koltira, meanwhile, will be just smiling at everybody and diving in gallantly to help with bugs and kiss the palm of your hand etc. He was a warrior in life, so he's still a good tank.

OPENS ARMS LET'S DO STUFF

get the plotting started

[heelies]

For your enjoyment, I offer a pubescent Achilles. At this point in his life he is living half wild with his future boyfriend on a mountainside, under the care and tutelage of a centaur. He'll likely be a little more standoffish and abrasive than his older counterpart, and more noticeably self-centered because all his life he's heard that he's been destined for greatness and etc.

Get this child some friends, he has one.

ramir + knock out

[heavyhitter]

Ramir is going forwards in time! But probably not for long, I'll mostly be throwing lil Ramir at people and saying big Ramir wore off real fast. BUT WHILE SHE'S AROUND, she's this lady, who is ~35, runs a crime group as well as large chunks of her city, got even stronger, and is way more calm and reasonable. On the surface, anyway. And Ramir became an actual first name, she took back her family name of Faraldo! Way to make things make sense, big Ramir. Lemme know if you want that flavor, otherwise I'll probably be hitting people up with the standard issue Ramir outside her top level. :]

Knock Out is a few millennia old and fuck that. He's not changing (hard to bite a robot) and will be bewildered to discover that so little time makes such a big difference in humans, what the fuck is wrong with that species.

[fateality]

Twisted Fate will be reverted to his past self from a little over 10 years ago. Which means he's still a pirate, does not even go by Twisted Fate yet, and is a little less of a jerk and more playful. For a keen eye, he is still recognizable, as his eyes still glow and he definitely still is using magic to bend playing cards to his will.

Hanzo Shimada will be reverted by about twenty years, down to 18 years old. He'll be a recent graduate of high school and just starting to truly face what his (supposed) destiny is in the family business (eyyy, organized crime). Also less of a jerk, but wary about how to present himself to others, so he'll come off as a flipflop of being exceedingly confident and exceedingly shy/wary.

Re: QUESTIONS

[heroforhobby]

Does the bite have to break skin to have an effect, or can it be something like, idk, effects of bug slobber/mouth juice/whatever you'd want to call it. Wondering since if it has to break skin Saitama will have to unfortunately sit out on that bit!

[whatshimadayou]

so what nerd wants to learn how to horseback ride

[heelies]

We should thread while Koltira and Achilles can't hate each other

!!

[flashbanging]

the one that probably dropped out of high school after a year

[headlining]

Keats, magical jerk journalist extraordinaire, won't QUITE be going back in time. You see, Keats is a magical creation of a young boy by the name of Herve! Herve unconsciously created Keats to be an older version of himself who could do what he could not by protecting the people he loved, and Keats has some of Herve's memories as a result. So guess what - Herve is going to show his face around Oska for the first time!

Herve is the complete opposite of Keats, however - where Keats is cynical and sarcastic, Herve is sweet, kind, selfless, and wants nothing more than to help the people around him. He wants to be a writer like his dad, but unfortunately, he has a fatal heart condition, and is therefore just trying to enjoy life as best as he can in the one year of life he has left. Herve is pretty much "TRAGEDY: CHILD FLAVOR" and I intend to break as many hearts as I can. (Herve's hopefully...not included...)

He loves adventure and people and is very open for all sorts of friends and things! HAVE AT HIM

[respired]

yes he will be very sweet & gallant to the young-chilles

[strictdiscipline]

hello i would like to meet handsome rhys

where do i sign up for this

[backthatup]

Genji (Shimada) will revert back to his high school years, too. Oh, he is much more of a jerk -- free-spirited and just wants to do whatever that seems the most fun. Sure he has some skills and always has been pretty proficient at the whole ninja thing, but eh... learning how to be assassin isn't as fun as being the family's black sheep and social butterfly. Am I right, everyone?

... Genji-proper is gonna die of embarrassment.

[heelies]

good, that's what he deserves

but also he knows how to behave for adults and he will be respectful

[secondnature]

Keith is going to be a few years cartoon seasons older and currently involved in what I think of as a "temporary betrayal arc." Essentially, he is going to be a Galra (the purple antagonist furry aliens) that was placed on Earth undercover to bring together all the Voltron lions without realizing it so that Zarkon (the Galra's evil emperor leader) could get the lions under his control. He's a sleeper agent of sorts, albeit one that was raised on Earth and really does care about his team.

In a fit of stupidity and Keithness, he's going to go to the Galra and claim he's loyal to them, giving them his lion in the process (though he'll be allowed to keep it, as Zarkon in this possible AU future would recognize his fighting prowess and would allow him to remain as the red paladin). In truth, Keith is going to try to take out the empire from within, only he's going to act like he's super betraying his pals and being a jerk about it all.

The end of the arc wouldn't have played out entirely, so Keith would still be putting on that show. Badly. Because Keith + acting + ... acting ...

I'm intending to have him remember this afterward! I don't know if the show is going to do Galra!Keith, but it seems ripe for playing out conflict anyway, since Keith is pretty adamant about stopping them as quickly as possible.