Madagascar has closed its borders, and pretty soon, Exsilium will be wishing it'd done the same. As of June 1st, an unknown number of sleeper agents from the United Earth have been instructed to begin dispersing a viral agent into the public gathering places throughout the city of Exsilium.

That's right: a whole new form of biological warfare has come to town. Welcome to the United Earth's very own man-made Viral Epidemic. It's one heck of a doozy!

( Let's see exactly what's going to happen... )

So, remember that experimental technology the Initiative is working on, with the goal of sending people home? Well, it worked just as hoped... at first.

Tomorrow, on the 21st, the Initiative will reopen the window to check on Elmer to see if there are any longer-term effects of their technological meddling. They’ll discover ( a fiesta! no jk, but click for more. )

The results are in, and our official volunteer for the highly experimental trip back to a home world (IC announcement here) is Elmer C Albatross! That means there’s just one more round of sign ups, that being the volunteer team to go with him and a few Initiative NPCs to his world.

( Details here! )

Two announcements! One, the Housing Page has been updated with all of the reassignments. As of now, it’s officially safe to move into the renovated building and meet your new (or old!) roommates!

Note: the ghosts, previously haunting the mostly-closed-off 13th floor, have moved down to the 7th floor. 7th floor denizens can expect odd bumps in the night, lights sometimes flickering, and the occasional blood curdling scream at 3AM. Sorry about that, 7th floor.

If you see anyone placed incorrectly, misspelled, or listed as having a room when they’ve moved out, just let us know on that page. Thank you!

Secondly, ( a plot! )

Greetings, Transports! We come bearing an optional mission.

( follow me into the wilds of wollongong! )

Apps are now closed, and as promised in the Mission Info Post, here is where you can sign your character up to be given a randomized swap buddy! Newly accepted characters are welcome, as is anyone that didn't get in on the plotting post and is still interested, or just anyone that wants to be randomized. Also, since the results of this poll are in favor of allowing two swaps, that will be permitted for the event.

As discussed in the poll, there are two options for the timeframe of your swap (the mission itself, and then the 5 days spent in Exsilium afterward), and you're welcome to pick both or just one. It will also be optional whether you'd like to keep the same partner for the duration of the event, or have two. And finally, the three-way swap option that was given on the last post (X → Y, Y → Z, Z → X) will not apply to the sign-ups, for the sake of organization and my head not exploding.

As a note, there will be a field to indicate the preferred gender of your character's swap! If you have no preference, just leave it blank.

<b>Character:</b> Name | <user name="username"> <b>Preferred gender of the swap:</b> Leave this blank if you don't care. <b>Swap timeline:</b> A, B, or C (A is swap only during the mission, B is swap only after their return to Exsilium, and C is both.) <b>Keep the same partner?</B> Y or N (If you picked C, do you want a new partner for the second half? Leave this blank if you picked A or B.)

I'll do my best to accomodate all preferences, but priority will be given to character gender preference, then swap timing, and finally whether or not you keep the same partner for the duration.

You have until 12:01 AM (EST) on March 6th to sign up in a comment to this post! I'll put the results up (hopefully) within the following hour, and you'll have 23 hours before the event starts if you'd like to contact your swap buddy and plan things out. For new characters: if your character is late being accepted and you miss this window, PM this account and we'll see what can be done.

Hello, all! Here are two quick announcements and a game-wide mission!

First of all, the results of our poll are in, and we've decided to make no change to the application process for now. If it still warrants rethinking in a few months, we will consider our options again and have another poll at that point. Thanks to everyone for voting!

And secondly, we've chosen Yana, Caitlin (II), Jess, and Sev to add to the app team, and Jansen has joined the ranks of Helper Mods. Thanks again, guys. <3

And now the mandatory mission! ( follow me to glory! )

Here is Plot Post Part II, as promised!

We still have a week left of timeline distortion, and by now everyone who is going to de-age/age up should have done it. On February 1st, the Transporter will have enough juice to be fired up again for a Fix-It Mission. Initiative scientists have tweaked it just enough that a second exposure to the Transporter will, they're (pretty) sure, revert the damage done the first time and ensure against future timeline-wobbling. So, they're sending everyone back, regardless of whether you're currently 8, 80, or exactly the age you should be. (There is some player choice in when the reverting actually happens, though. Characters can return to their proper age as soon as they're teleported in, or if you prefer they run the mission at their swapped age, they can revert on the return trip, instead.)

( up up and away to uruguay )

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!

( follow me to the mission detaiilllsss )

Dear Exsilium: you may have noticed some wall-sized chunks of broken building streaking away overhead today (Jan 11th), around 1:25 PM, headed due Capitol-of-the-UE. Any characters that have looked at a map and have a decent sense of direction may pick up on that particular tidbit, but otherwise, they may just have been treated to the strange sight of rubble-meteors gettin' the hell out of Dodge (Exsilium), and glowing with the strangest red/blue energy signature.

With love,
Liz

ATTN TRANSPORTS: An open log for the sake of rolling around in bombplot happenings is now available!

Use this for your CR-snatching, havoc-wreaking/diffusing pleasure! You are, of course, not bound to this log alone and are free to log/network it up at your leisure!

BUT A NOTE ABOUT NETWORK POSTING DURING THIS EVENT: Due to the barrage, the network will be flickering and often go DOWN for periods during/after the attacks. It's not really the first thing on the Initiative's mind, after all! So please feel free to play with that how you will – static voice posts, off-timed video feeds, cutoffs, etc. Just don't expect the cleanest communication at this time!

Or after, even; the Initiative is going to have a lot of work to do to get things back up to snuff...and better its security. More to follow on that in days coming. B]

In the meantime, please enjoy! Any remaining questions/concerns can be fielded here.

OKAY HI GUYS EYES HERE BECAUSE I HAVE PLOTTAGE FOR IC POLICE FORCE STUFF

By which I mean the time has come for us to make it happen. :D I've talked to the mods and such and it's going to be integrated with one just starting up, started by the non-Initiative locals - and they'll be allowing for a group specifically for/serving the transports to be created.

( cut for details! )

For the first of our bimonthly mission open logs, Transports will be sent to a small Mediterranean island in 1802, during the First Barbary War. They will be sent to the island three days in advance, and wait for a Barbary pirate ship to dock. When it does, the Transports will have the task of commandeering this ship and sailing it to another island within the Mediterranean, where they will leave the vessel and its cargo at the disposal of the residents of the island.

This post can be used for plotting with other players, and I'll answer any questions that anyone has about the event and open log.

THIS THING, I mean. THE THING THE TIMELINE WAS ABOUT. All the events can be dropped in there for the sake of not flooding the prose comm all full of this nonsense. ALSO, if you feel like starting early, you can! BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO THERE IS NO PRESSURE. I will be lurking throughout the thing forever and always regardless.

PARTICIPANTS ARE NOT 100% LOCKED FOR MANY, SO IF OTHERS WANTED TO JOIN PEEPS IN SOME THREADS, THEY CAN. I am ok with it if the others involved are! The only exception is the very last thread. Events are not isolated to this log, either, so if you wanted to divert to related things in another log or in a network post, do so!

Feel welcome to PM me if you want to work out any kinks in our interactions, as well! I left each thread blank for the sake of allowing each player to set up the scene how he/she feels suits his/her character best! I am very flexible and I want you to have as much fun as you can!

Again (for the umpteenth time), thank you for your participation, energy, and flexibility! This means quite a lot to me, and I appreciate all the (awful, mean, monstery) CR I'm going to get. You guys are complete aces in my book.

SO YEAH the official times these things happen are in the subject titles and all that jazz and shut up Elle have another drink OK COOL

HI I PROMISED A TIMELINE/BREAKDOWN OF EVENTS AND I'M HERE TO DELIVER. Thank you guys for being so flexible and eager to rock/roll this nonsense – you have no idea how much it means to me to have such energy up for this! I am going to do my very best to deliver!

Without any further ado:

( THE LAYOUT OF EVENTS (MAINLY SOLID, SLIGHTLY TENTATIVE) )

HEY REMEMBER WHEN I COLLECTED OPINIONS ON GETTING NEGATIVE CR? Want to get your fight/injury on, folks? I have an opportunity for you!

( background )

So, that said...are you interested in a dangerous encounter? Hit-and-run lashouts, surprise encounters, hunting party? Or would you like to be one of the ones who helps take this puppy down?

I have no set timetable for the end of this madness, because I want to play with as many people as are interested if I can! When I get a good sense of how many people want to do something, I can hash out a kind of timeline and work it from there. These can be logs of any format or network posts referencing an encounter...whatever you'd like! I'll be happy to work with you to come up with something exciting for both of us!


LIST SO FAR
• Anora
• Koltira
• Ros
• Castiel
• Tony Stark
• Eridan
• Raven
• Ico
• Danny
• Coulson
• Witness
• Ashraf
• Barnaby
• Adam
• Bariyan
• Ionae
• Thrall
• Kaelyn
• Katniss
• Lea


UPDATE 8/29 NO MORE ENDGAME PARTICIPANTS PLS AND THANK YOU BUT IF YOU STILL WANNA HIT-N-RUN OR FIND SOME NPCS TO INVESTIGATE GIMME A HOLLER BEFORE 8/30 8PM EST SO I CAN FINALIZE TIMELINE