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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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moneyballer: by <lj user="prattitude"> (57)

[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-30 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Asher is not going to be experiencing any changes as he is fairly new!

However, he will be doing his best to gather information on the insects and the time rifts- How exactly, I'm not sure. As he is a mere mortal who is still adapting to an action/adventure type setting, he's going to have a lot of difficulty but he will do his best! He wants to prove himself worthy, and will most likely get into a lot of trouble. :( I would love to get CR with other characters who are also just trying to figure stuff out, that kind of team-building would be so fun.

Asher is also gentle at heart and great with children- So for any people who have characters who are younger, if he runs into them he will do his best to make sure they are happy and safe... I'd also love for him to get a little shaken up this event as well! So if anyone has a character from a darker timeline and needs an easy, insecure target, he is yours for the taking.
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[personal profile] pummelling 2016-08-30 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)

[personal profile] clobbers 2016-08-30 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
So Kara's both going to be aged down and is prone for getting into trouble. How does that sound? c:
moneyballer: by <lj user="prattitude"> (58)

[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-30 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
AHHHH OmG!!!! KARA

IM SO HYPE cause honestly asher and kara would make for such adorable cr, ugly cries...

THEY BOTH SOUND WONDERFUL he will probably try 2 help her out but since she's still super kara will most likely have 2 save him

[personal profile] clobbers 2016-08-30 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
THEY REALLY WOULD so it gonna happen

Kara sure can swoop in to save the day, cape or not!!
moneyballer: by <lj user="prattitude"> (53)

[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-30 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
im laughing at how ic it would be for asher 2 b saved by an amazing 5 yo girl

let's do it!!!

[personal profile] clobbers 2016-08-31 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
she's thirteen but tiny, so it'll still be hilarious :D
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[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-31 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
omg that will be so cute... i'll die

im not familiar with canon but asher is probably like that mediocre white boy who is kara's friend. they will get along swimmingly

[personal profile] clobbers 2016-09-01 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
she really really is c:

they will! if you want a link to her toplevel, it's here!
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[personal profile] gutpunching 2016-08-30 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
omg please give me bug detective shenanigans with asher.... do u want robin flavor or regular red hood flavor, both are equally workable for being nosy assholes, really
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[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-30 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
i can't decide????




ok butt

trutfully... im yaoi for dat red hooded dick so

maybe... redhood bug detective shenanigans, cries!!! YES, BUG DETECTIVE SHENANIGANS im... im so happi
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[personal profile] gutpunching 2016-08-30 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
ah......well, at least you're honest with yourself.

But that works fine for me!!! time to meet properly and solve mysteries, you can be scooby doo, bud.
moneyballer: by yaylikeawon @ plurk (11)

[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-30 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
he's probably more like scrappy

since he's so useless. useless, butt spunky
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[personal profile] sereneflame 2016-08-30 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Serene's also going to be unaffected and she'll be happy for someone who actually wants to work out how to solve the problem.

How much of a problem solver is he?
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[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-30 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
asher actually can be really dedicated when he gets down to it!

he is a law student, after all. he's smarter than he thinks he is too- that and he's sort of desperate to prove not only to others but also himself that he's here for a reason! i think he'll be curious about... u kno the people in uniforms that looked like alastair's, the ones you could see in the time lapses in the events last week? he'd be curious to find out about those
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[personal profile] sereneflame 2016-08-30 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Serene's older brother is a lawyer! She's generally got a good impression of the profession from him.

She knows all about being desperate to prove herself so if he needs some brawn/ another canny mind she'll come and help him. If nothing else she's worried about getting sent back or forth in time herself and ending up in a troublesome situation.
moneyballer: by <lj user="prattitude"> (58)

[personal profile] moneyballer 2016-08-31 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
ahhhh ok ok! were you planning on putting up a toplevel for the event? if so, i will definitely hit u up!
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[personal profile] sereneflame 2016-08-31 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh I definitely will :D IS there anything in particular that she should be doing to catch Asher's attention?