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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oh he is!!! god then i definitely want in on that pre-monk zen. BUT YEAH AFTER THAT definitely drinking, this is a good event for it i feel

he's definitely going to want to drink if anyone ever tells him Widowmaker killed his brother because as of right now he has no idea she's the one who did it so that'll be fun

PRE-MONK ZEN i still need to figure some things out for but he's going to be Slightly Less Chill for sure

boy i want in on that :) i hope she tells him immediately :))) suffer for my amusement, zenyatta

ok either way i'm there for that, maybe ramir tracks him down with booze and then realizes NOT QUITE THE ROBOT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR

SHE HASNT, NO ONE HAS, and im dying

good job ramir giving alcohol to a 5 year old

listen it's fine. he's a robot it's not like she can permanently damage his developing brain or anything, right!

true but since hes a babby he has no deep secrets to spill so is it really worth it

don't ask stupid questions getting a robot drunk will always be worth it

she should invite teenager genji while at it. get all the babies alcohol.

holy shit yes please, it hasn't even occurred to her that he's like... not just another robot

give me that 3way thread

Are you ready to get hit on by a super lame teenager? 'Cause .... he was a playboy back in the day...................... please don't think poorly of him............

i would say she'd hit on right back but that was pre-boyfriend, she is ATTEMPTING to rein that in now
sort of
unless said boyfriend is old at the time then all bets are off

Is she ready for the smolder?

born ready

please dont let genji be too stupid, zenyatta wont know to protect the dumb ninja boy

please don't ask unreasonable things of ramir then, jeez
"don't let genji be too stupid" who do you think she is

nvm he is going to be normal aged for this meeting, someone needs to be the responsible adult

omfg that elle art
i'm so happy

also no too late, robot child and shitty teenagers. the pact is sealed.

i need to thank this elle for giving me the best icon ill ever have

IDK MAYBE!! ~~zenyatta cant get jealous of genji flirting with ramir if he doesnt know who genji is yknow~~