axiology | EVENT WRITE-UP: BACK TO THE FUTURE

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!

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since lance is still new, he will remain unaffected (and not get injured, for once!) so he'll still be your trashy teen trying to make sense of all this. if you need a straight man for your shenanigans, he is here for ya!

olivia, on the other hand, will be glitching to the future. specifically, her canon's "bad end" timeline, where a neighboring kingdom has succeeded in resurrecting the fell dragon, grima, therefore bringing about the risen (i.e. zombies) and generally wreaking havoc on all those who oppose grima's rule. ACTUAL TIMEFRAMES ARE NEBULOUS in canon, so i will be placing olivia ten years in her future, making her around 32. also, she is the queen of ylisse (because i can), with a young son (around 8 years old) named inigo. she'll likely be taken from the moment right before she dies trying to protect him.

this olivia will not only be older, she will be far more skilled in fighting (in canon game terms, she'd either be an assassin or swordmaster... i haven't fully decided yet weeps). she will also be less nervous, less insecure, and far more jaded and cynical due to years of warfare, and losing her friends and family. 8)b also, given her 'canon point' she might imprint on a lot of the youngins running around, so there is that too.

mama-wife

wait

oedipus is that u

hello give me assassin olivia

hugging people will be hard with all those daggers on her arms but ok

eh it's fine, she's had her throat slit already, surely a few dagger cuts are ok

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evil rey in black and leather shows up

not sure if should hit on or ...

um this is lance the answer is ALWAYS HIT ON

pls dont force-choke him tho

hello very cool lady, please tell him all about dragons and zombies and things

NEITHER OF THOSE ARE COOL, SON >:'c

but yes

I'm doing the thing pidge is older here is a shovel to dig your own grave

sobs grossly.... forgive me for my sins..

:C If she wants to imprint on a dragon kid who's freshly learned how to change into the shape of a boy he's never had a mom who really cared about him before; all of the female figures in his life have been cold-hard badasses but they'd never die to protect the likes of him.

omg dray... NOW IT HAS TO HAPPEN ;n;

He can even dance and sing! Not as a human, though, unless at this point he's practicing turning into a human boy, but I imagine there's a lot of trying to use a tail that isn't there and falling flat on his ass and face.

I'll give you a sad teenager for your sad mom.

come into her bosom, kaneki... let her remember you

He's always hurting for a mother-figure, so this should work out well.

By which I mean to say, I suspect it'll hurt at some point.

Olivia has to meet bb!Gio for sure!!

um yes and she needs to mother (lowercase 'm'!!) the shit outta him

Haha yes, the last thing he needs is another Mother with a capital M!

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unsure

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Hahasob, you have so many hits already, but does Mama!Olivia want an amnesiac fairy to share confessions with? Or to fight bugs with? Or, y'know, both?

NO IDC GIMME