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

[onethousen]

LAUGHS THIS just makes my suggestion terrible: do we want to have ill thought out escapes through the hot springs from the adult bugs after they emerge from a chrysalis or something of the kind?

[keystaff]

Pffft. If Chihiro is willing to play lifeguard because Sorey will be all but useless even with instinctively doggy paddling or some such attempts.

[onethousen]

She will be so game to make sure he doesn't drown, but hey, him paddling around is good already she'll get him through and they can escape from mad bugs together!

[historiology]

It is pathetic, instinctive paddling okay he really has no damned clue. Or at least from what I figure of what we see of Elysia. That pond thing is pathetic and there's no other bodies of water around as far as I could tell for him to have ever actually learned to swim in.

[onethousen]

Laughs, hey, that makes sense! Access is an important part of being able to learn. With regards to this — I'll be writing things up tomorrow, I think, but would you prefer me to tag in to your top level doing a wildcard for us?

[historiology]

Tomorrow is fine! I'll be out but back in the afternoon from my study requirements. So tagging my top level with a wildcard works for me!