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anemoi_ooc2012-07-13 10:21 pm
longstreakofnothing) wrote in anemoi_ooc2012-07-13 10:21 pm
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OKAY.
I've never done an event HERE (I have other places, just not here), so forgive me if I went about it wrongly a couple posts ago.
So, let's talk event parameters before I start baffling you all with temporal physics bullshit.
WHAT--Age scramble event! Make your character older or younger! Characters made older will have memories of future events in an alternate reality, which will go away once the age effects do.
WHEN--Fri, 20th July. Uhhh... no specific time. EDIT: It'll last about a week.
WHERE--Right HERE. Well actually over there in the IC comm.
WHY--For the ever-important lulz.
HOW?!?!--Here's the story.
The labs confiscated that Police Box that Theta Sigma had arrived in Sirocco with. They don't know what to make of it. They can't get into it through standard methods, scans reveal nothing, and all the time it just sits there and hums serenely at them. Nothing infuriates a scientist more than a truculent box, so they get desperate. And when they do manage to crack the thing open, the result is an instant explosion, a concentric detonation of gold-coloured light and energy that erases the scientists' memory of what they saw and twists time across all of Sirocco.
How does that happen? Well, you see, TARDISes are sapient to a greater or lesser degree, and the Doctor's is quite sapient. It has decided to seal itself up and wait until he's recovered sufficient memory to be able to go near the thing without turning reality inside-out. TARDISes have no conventional weaponry but they have defences. However, if it simply used the Hostile Action Defence System (in which it simply dematerialises when attacked) there wouldn't be a story. SO instead it discharges extra energy in a burst of special effects and plot.
And how does it do that? TARDISes are powered by, among other things, artron energy, an insufficiently-explained kind of energy, possibly particles that nobody's discovered yet. I'll have to consult with my scientific adviser on that one. Artron energy is very closely tied to the weft and weave of time--the wibbly-wobbly, if you will, so any waves of artron energy will mix up the lay of the temporal land.
So what does that mean for you? It means time goes even more wibbly and wobbly than usual, and your character ends up in a body from the past or the future until time essentially snaps itself back into place. It's up to you whether your character remembers being a kid/old.
Thoughts? Questions? Theories?
ETA: There are now environmental effects, as well if you don't want to scramble the age of your character but still want something for him/her/it to do. Bits of past and future are all tangled up in the city. Primordial jungles next to hovercar freeways sort of thing. Stick the past or future of your character's canon in there and see what happens!
I've never done an event HERE (I have other places, just not here), so forgive me if I went about it wrongly a couple posts ago.
So, let's talk event parameters before I start baffling you all with temporal physics bullshit.
WHAT--Age scramble event! Make your character older or younger! Characters made older will have memories of future events in an alternate reality, which will go away once the age effects do.
WHEN--Fri, 20th July. Uhhh... no specific time. EDIT: It'll last about a week.
WHERE--Right HERE. Well actually over there in the IC comm.
WHY--For the ever-important lulz.
HOW?!?!--Here's the story.
The labs confiscated that Police Box that Theta Sigma had arrived in Sirocco with. They don't know what to make of it. They can't get into it through standard methods, scans reveal nothing, and all the time it just sits there and hums serenely at them. Nothing infuriates a scientist more than a truculent box, so they get desperate. And when they do manage to crack the thing open, the result is an instant explosion, a concentric detonation of gold-coloured light and energy that erases the scientists' memory of what they saw and twists time across all of Sirocco.
How does that happen? Well, you see, TARDISes are sapient to a greater or lesser degree, and the Doctor's is quite sapient. It has decided to seal itself up and wait until he's recovered sufficient memory to be able to go near the thing without turning reality inside-out. TARDISes have no conventional weaponry but they have defences. However, if it simply used the Hostile Action Defence System (in which it simply dematerialises when attacked) there wouldn't be a story. SO instead it discharges extra energy in a burst of special effects and plot.
And how does it do that? TARDISes are powered by, among other things, artron energy, an insufficiently-explained kind of energy, possibly particles that nobody's discovered yet. I'll have to consult with my scientific adviser on that one. Artron energy is very closely tied to the weft and weave of time--the wibbly-wobbly, if you will, so any waves of artron energy will mix up the lay of the temporal land.
So what does that mean for you? It means time goes even more wibbly and wobbly than usual, and your character ends up in a body from the past or the future until time essentially snaps itself back into place. It's up to you whether your character remembers being a kid/old.
Thoughts? Questions? Theories?
ETA: There are now environmental effects, as well if you don't want to scramble the age of your character but still want something for him/her/it to do. Bits of past and future are all tangled up in the city. Primordial jungles next to hovercar freeways sort of thing. Stick the past or future of your character's canon in there and see what happens!
From the desk of the scientific advisor:
That being said, the artron blast will be a lightspeed-fast shockwave that emanates out with the TARDIS at the epicenter, temporally scrambling the landscape and everyone in it into one big anachronistic mess. Barren rock reaches, primordial seas, and dinosaur-infested jungles will show right next to abandoned futuristic glass cities of TEH FUTUR. Players can have fun coming up with ancient versions of their own canon's critters.
Re: From the desk of the scientific advisor: