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Hathaway. ([personal profile] futurologists) wrote in [community profile] axiology2016-08-29 07:56 pm

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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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
we can do a thread with him being an asshole to lance and then a later thread where he explains that he didn't want lance to know what he was doing he guesses, trying to explain himself and not fully getting it
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
LMAO i mean that's par for the course... though i guess this time lance doesn't actually do anything to deserve it

unless i do a glitch of lance from that alternate future... 8|a
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
YOU COULD

Keith will be difficult and also bad at acting. I kind of want a moment where he maybe saves Lance from Harm so we can play with it later. like oh he wasn't really evil but he was evil right???
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
i am all for damsel in distress lance

admittedly i'm having a hard time seeing this fall into place but i think i just need to see it executed and i'll just roll with it! we can see where it goes and if any adjustments need to be made, etc etc :)b
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
THEY RUN INTO EACH OTHER, KEITH'S VOICE COMES OUT OF A GALRA BODY

and we roll with it from there
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
OH WAIT HE'LL BE FULL GALRA ??? ok no that works ldmskd i thought he was still gonna look like keith smh

but yeah i kinda mentioned it before the ~betrayal~ won't hit lance as hard as it could bc it's only been like a month for him but... yes i'm sure it will still be delicious
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
OH YEAH NO I HAVE GALRA ICONS MADE i just haven't transferred the icon slots over from another journal yet

yeah I don't think it'll be as bad as it would've been in Keith's timeline, which would make him feel guilty because I imagine in later cartoon seasons he'd be more upset.
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
NO IM DUMB i didnt realize... oops

but yeah i imagine in that keith's timeline, they'd have gotten much closer and such... but lance here will still be Upset and Confused... and once the event ends he's just gonna stare at keith a lot like are you purple
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-30 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
maybe

maybe he is purple
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-30 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
IT'S JUST GOING TO CREATE A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY bc unless someone flat out tells them it was an alternate future (or that it was only a possibility) then it would be natural to assume it was THE future
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[personal profile] secondnature 2016-08-31 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
keith lives out the rest of his life waiting for the moment he turns into a furry
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[personal profile] competing 2016-08-31 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
chokes