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: ramir + knock out

[evantuality]

okay but forcing me to choose between old Evan x young Ramir, young Evan x old Ramir, and old Evan x old Ramir is cruel

Old Evan would see old Ramir and be very 83 well don't you just grow up nice

[heavyhitter]

listen all i know is i need old evan in my life. i don't care about the logistics, we'll make it fuckin work if we have to do three threads >:|

[evantuality]

I LIKE THIS

aight though for real, priorities. I'd love to throw old Evan at young Ramir, that's like, priority one. If you're down for either of the other two I am not going to complain about a second thread, although I'll leave whichever sounds more interesting to your prerogative!

[heavyhitter]

yes, old evan and young ramir for sure! that's on the list. and maybe after that a quick one of old her young him, because she'd probably do her best to avoid most of the people she used to know. young ramir, on the other hand, i suspect will want to spend a lot of time hanging out with cool uncle evan

[evantuality]

Ohhh, she's avoiding old friends? Great, all the more opportunity to embarrass.

I am on board 100% for both of these. chalk it up on the to-do list; shall I do you a closed starter when the log goes up?

[heavyhitter]

mostly so no spoilers get back to lil ramir, she will be very opposed to that

and yeah, sounds good! :D thank you!