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Zee ([personal profile] thebutt) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumooc2013-01-12 12:25 am
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Emergency mission alert! Someone threw rocks at the United Earth capitol and alerted them to the fact that some of those people they supposedly bombed to smithereens a bit ago are still kicking. The Initiative anticipates either another strike or an outright invasion by the UE, and they aim to sweep everything under the rug that they can, as fast as they can.

This means, in short, a trip to the Wild West!

Once the transports have gathered for their mission (Jan 12th), it will be hastily explained that the Initiative needs Gerald "Moony" Jackson, a strange man who has always been obsessed with "life among the stars", to be elected as Mayor of Black Rock, New Mexico, in 1884. It will NOT be added that this is a mission they'd been holding off on until they had enough transport numbers to assuredly sway the vote, but the attack on the UE has had to move their schedule forward a lot faster. Thus, they encourage any transport with the ability to change the minds of others (with science, magic, or plain old convincing) to encourage natives to the town to elect Jackson as well.

Transports will spend 7 days (until Jan 19th) in Black Rock, and will be mostly left to their own devices in terms of food, shelter, and entertainment (although a fixed amount of money is provided to each transport), while they do what they can to convince the town to vote in crazy old Moony. The votes will be cast on the 7th day, Jackson will be elected, and half an hour afterward, all those new arrivals to Black Rock will vanish as suddenly as they'd appeared.

Upon returning home to Exsilium (Jan 19th), it will be found that weird old Jackson had enjoyed a pretty good run over in New Mexico. He was well-loved as a Mayor, and his eccentricities came to be embraced with enthusiasm, which slowly spread to the rest of the nation. As a result, the United States of America were very enthusiastic about space and space travel, and even managed to establish a moon base in 2556. Unfortunately, the moon base was abandoned in 2626 for lack of funding, and has been sitting empty and unused since then.

There's something else transports will discover upon returning home, though. The United Earth did invade while everyone was out, but as their Masked army found no sign of the transports, they retreated and tried a different approach. They've managed to corrupt the signals sent by the Transporter machine, and the return trip will be a little bit turbulent for our transports. The effect isn't immediate, but all transports will be left feeling a little… unsettled.

At various points throughout the next week (Jan 19th - Jan 26th), transports will find their personal timelines going haywire. It will happen at a different time for each individual, if it happens at all — one moment they're sitting down for dinner, same as usual, and in the next second they're suddenly 5 years old again. Or maybe they're 20. Or 89. Maybe they have faint memories of being here before, or maybe it's a completely new place and situation. (Note: this event is optional. If you'd rather your character stand by and watch everyone else age and regress, that's fine too!)

This personal timeline disturbance will last for two weeks (until Feb 1st), and the Initiative will have their hands tied until their machines are ready to activate again. It will take a second mission to begin to stabilize the machine, which will be posted about as the time draws closer to it.

A note on the timeline swap specifications: these ARE both mental and physical changes! They are literally going back or forward in their personal time. However, you can only pick a point in their timeline that has been shown in canon! A glimpse at a grimdark alternative future works just as well as a flashback to that time they were 8 and stubbed their toe, as long as it was shown at some point in canon. (Other official sources will be accepted as well, such as a supplemental handbook or comics accompanying a game.) For OCs, any point in their story will do, as long as you're willing to write up a brief (3-5 sentences) explanation of what we can expect to see from this version.) And to reiterate, it is not necessary to participate, it's perfectly fine to have your character be a bystander to the shenanigans. After characters have returned to normal, whether or not they remember all this is entirely up to you.

Feel free, as always, to use this post to plot with others, both for Wild West and timeline swap shenanigans! There will be a thread set up for questions about the event, and we'll be happy to answer anything you've got.

TIMELINE OF EVENTS
[Jan 11th] Rubble flies across the sky toward the UE capitol.
[Jan 12th] Transports are sent to Black Rock, New Mexico, 1884.
[Jan 19th] After a week of hanging out, the vote is cast, and Gerald "Moony" Jackson is Black Rock's new Mayor. Transports immediately return to Exsilium.
[Jan 19th-Jan 26th] Thanks to UE interference, transports will experience personal timeline disruption, to last through February 1st.
[Feb 1st] A second mission is run, to hopefully put an end to the UE interference of the Transporter. (More information will be given on this as the date approaches.)

A final note: here is an Initiative network post about the mission, which will not be replied to, here is the log for the Wild West mission, and there will not be a group log for experiencing timeline swap effects, as the effects are gradual and staggered!
salvagedsoul: (lil kawo // sound only)

[personal profile] salvagedsoul 2013-01-16 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
gosh I love Utena I would so love some interaction between her and Kaworu T/////T

Kaworu's probably gonna be aged down to a similarly unhappy little kid, maybe they can have sad kidtimes together??
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[personal profile] salvagedsoul 2013-01-16 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
this isn't so much a plotting suggestion as it is me being horribly embarrassed that i cannot find your tag in the mission logs (if you've done one) and asking for a link TuT;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

nngh but for real though i bet these two would get along
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Re: Khisanth!

[personal profile] onblackwings 2013-01-16 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
haha oh god that would be fun, trying not to react to seeing a metallic dragon just out right there, since all the townspeople will just be seeing a normal dude ;u; i am definitely down for that.

and for the timeline swap, too! are you going to change him up for it? (i swear i read about this but it's gone completely out of my mind)
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[personal profile] onblackwings 2013-01-16 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
ooohhh i gotcha
YEAH MAN SOUNDS GOOD, she'd be thoroughly annoyed by something like that :'|
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[personal profile] entombing 2013-01-16 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, that would be great! She's going to be holding Anthy's hand throughout this whole thing but she might stop that long enough to make new friends ;u;
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[personal profile] salvagedsoul 2013-01-16 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
that sounds great!!!!!! i was meaning to make a similar post over at anthy's plotting thread xD;;;;

also kinda meaning to tag you both over on the mission log but... just havent got to it yet _-_
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[personal profile] repetition 2013-01-16 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
i haven't done one yet because i am lazy and horrible but as soon as i do (hopefully today!!!) i will link you to it!
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[personal profile] tipsygnostalgia 2013-01-16 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I am totally late to this wild west party (hiatusssss D:) but since i have basically no plans, I am totally up for anything in regards to the mission and with the timeline stuff afterwards.

Roxy won't be changing at all as far as the post-mission time stuff is concerned!
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[personal profile] dragonlordbight 2013-01-17 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
It would be indeed! Although most of the time around town he'd be in human form so not too sure if he'd actually have one of those disguises, unless they automatically are placed and activated? He'd keep far enough out of town not to be seen though.

As for the timeline swap, given how soon it is since his arrival I probably won't change him up just yet. Although the furthest back I'd be able to change him is war of the lance if I was to.


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[personal profile] boughtabookstore 2013-01-17 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
ros happens to really love saloon's! yeah i haven't stuck up open comments because backtagging is sucking my inbox's space into a black hole alsdkfd but i have some free time tomorrow and will hopefully be hitting up open comments so i will work that in
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[personal profile] livinuptothename 2013-01-18 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
bit late BUT YES PLZ although he.. might be an asshole
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[personal profile] speakveryclearly 2013-01-18 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
I know right?? I've hardly tagged any new people this event hahaha omg. Whenever you have time!
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[personal profile] controlledvariable 2013-01-18 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
steph can deal with assholes she is an expert at them

.... that sentence sounded less weird in my head
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[personal profile] perfectionisms 2013-01-19 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
hahaha I'm sorry for the late and life's been busy. I'll put up a thread tomorrow.
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Re: plotting: Franziska von Karma and Gau

[personal profile] perfectionisms 2013-01-19 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
hahaha I'm sorry for the late and life's been busy. I'll put up a thread tomorrow.
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Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

[personal profile] mushroomthief 2013-01-19 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Back with questions about stuff during the Timeline distortion. This is highly important for a growing hobbit;

1) can a sneaky hobbit gain acess to any of the restaurant's kitchens while it's open?

2) and/or can someone lift pastries etc from some of the merchants that were at the Meet and Greet earlier?

Thanks!
Edited 2013-01-19 05:01 (UTC)
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Re: QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

[personal profile] outright 2013-01-19 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
yes and yes!
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[personal profile] diplomatique 2013-01-19 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
oh man that would be awesome jfkslfjs i'm sorry i got to you so late 8(
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[personal profile] miiracles 2013-01-20 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
LET LITTLE SISTER SAVE YOU fdsjlk AND DON'T WORRY. It's fine \o we'll see how this thread goes!
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[personal profile] perfectionisms 2013-01-21 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
thread's up sorry for the super late and it's totes fine if you choose to ignore it now.
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Re: plotting: Franziska von Karma and Gau

[personal profile] perfectionisms 2013-01-21 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
thread's up sorry for the super late and it's totes fine if you choose to ignore it now.
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[personal profile] struckout 2013-01-23 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Wow okay I totally disappeared for a while, I'm really sorry! 8( But. I'd still do something if you were up for backdating? I've tossed up a comment to that log now here if you'd like...

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