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riverviewooc2017-06-04 10:15 am
spellslots) wrote in riverviewooc2017-06-04 10:15 am
PLAYER PLOT: BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Good mornevening, Riverview, welcome to baby’s first player plot! Which I’m putting as a disclaimer so when I make a mistake somewhere we can all blame it on that.
As per the little sneak peak on the calendar, this is a timeline and AU shenanigan related plot, because every game needs one, and I’m here to provide you with the perfect excuse. “So what exactly is going on, Justine?” I hear you ask. Lemme tell you. After the cut and this fun gif.
On the 10th, the portal is going to make the mistake of trying to bring through an object from Taako’s world, namely the Temporal Chalice, which allows its wielder control over time. Due to the nature of both the chalice and the portal, the former is going to get stuck in the latter, resulting in some interesting effects for characters in game. Namely that they’re going to be able to come from a different point in their timeline, or from an AU version of their life.
The main restriction on the AU section is that the alternate timeline needs to be based around a choice that could be made differently by the character or someone character-adjacent. For example, you can’t have a Batman AU where he goes to Hogwarts, but you could have an AU where Bruce’s parents decided not to go to the opera/movies/theater the night they were murdered, and are therefore still alive. We’re (being me and our dear mod friend) aren’t going to police anyone’s AUs too heavily, just try to be reasonable!
The second option available is that the character simply comes from an earlier or later point in their timeline. This is open to things depicted in canon, implied in canon, or things that aren’t implied in canon but can be reasonably assumed. The restriction on this part is to not go crazy with it, to use the Batman example again, you could pick a point from his travelling the world days that aren’t explicitly shown in canon but are implied, or a future point where he’s retired from being Batman, but not a future timeline where he’s been bitten by a vampire and decided to take over the world.
We’re trusting you guys to be sensible with this, so don’t get weird.
The other few things of note are important but I’ll sum them up in dot points below:
And now for the solution to the plot, which is another interactive part of this! On the 10th, I’ll be posting a mission that multiple teams/characters can sign up for, with the aim of returning the chalice through the portal. ICly, characters will find out what the problem is on the 12th, when Taako makes a network post explaining the situation.
I have no particular solution in mind for this, and you don’t need to actually come up with a reasonable explanation for how characters do it, the mission is there to be used for CR building, mostly. If there are multiple teams that sign up (which is allowed), the solution that works will be decided by RNG. As a note, Taako does not need to be involved in this solution process at all, or his involvement can be handwaved, but if your character would want to talk to him and you wanna thread that out, just let me know.
So, in summary: alternate timelines/canon points, and an optional mission if people want to develop CR.
If you have any questions, there will be a thread below where you can ask them, and this post is also the spot to do any OOC planning if you’d like!
I don’t know how to end posts like this so C: HAVE FUN NERDS C:
As per the little sneak peak on the calendar, this is a timeline and AU shenanigan related plot, because every game needs one, and I’m here to provide you with the perfect excuse. “So what exactly is going on, Justine?” I hear you ask. Lemme tell you. After the cut and this fun gif.
On the 10th, the portal is going to make the mistake of trying to bring through an object from Taako’s world, namely the Temporal Chalice, which allows its wielder control over time. Due to the nature of both the chalice and the portal, the former is going to get stuck in the latter, resulting in some interesting effects for characters in game. Namely that they’re going to be able to come from a different point in their timeline, or from an AU version of their life.
The main restriction on the AU section is that the alternate timeline needs to be based around a choice that could be made differently by the character or someone character-adjacent. For example, you can’t have a Batman AU where he goes to Hogwarts, but you could have an AU where Bruce’s parents decided not to go to the opera/movies/theater the night they were murdered, and are therefore still alive. We’re (being me and our dear mod friend) aren’t going to police anyone’s AUs too heavily, just try to be reasonable!
The second option available is that the character simply comes from an earlier or later point in their timeline. This is open to things depicted in canon, implied in canon, or things that aren’t implied in canon but can be reasonably assumed. The restriction on this part is to not go crazy with it, to use the Batman example again, you could pick a point from his travelling the world days that aren’t explicitly shown in canon but are implied, or a future point where he’s retired from being Batman, but not a future timeline where he’s been bitten by a vampire and decided to take over the world.
We’re trusting you guys to be sensible with this, so don’t get weird.
The other few things of note are important but I’ll sum them up in dot points below:
- Characters can switch to their temporary timeline at any point during the plot, it doesn’t have to start on the 10th, but once they’ve switched they’ll be stuck that way until the 24th
- Characters can have memories of Riverview, to avoid the “where am I” song and dance - you can be as general or specific with these memories as you’d like
- If you want to use an alternate journal for icons or whatever reasons, that’s fine, just request comm access with that account and fill out this form.
- ETA: If you're taking a character from a future canon point, once the event is over they can remember their time in Riverview and that they were from the future, but they won't remember specific details of their canon future, since this crosses the line into a canon update.
And now for the solution to the plot, which is another interactive part of this! On the 10th, I’ll be posting a mission that multiple teams/characters can sign up for, with the aim of returning the chalice through the portal. ICly, characters will find out what the problem is on the 12th, when Taako makes a network post explaining the situation.
I have no particular solution in mind for this, and you don’t need to actually come up with a reasonable explanation for how characters do it, the mission is there to be used for CR building, mostly. If there are multiple teams that sign up (which is allowed), the solution that works will be decided by RNG. As a note, Taako does not need to be involved in this solution process at all, or his involvement can be handwaved, but if your character would want to talk to him and you wanna thread that out, just let me know.
So, in summary: alternate timelines/canon points, and an optional mission if people want to develop CR.
If you have any questions, there will be a thread below where you can ask them, and this post is also the spot to do any OOC planning if you’d like!
I don’t know how to end posts like this so C: HAVE FUN NERDS C:
Reaper / Gabriel Reyes
BLACKWATCH AU
☠ Basically, he'll be thrown back in time about 20 years.
☠ He won't be wearing a mask, because amazingly, he won't be dead! So no more hiding his corpseface. ...Until the event ends, at least.
☠ He's far more willing to help people/talk to them--but he's still the same rough-around-the-edges man with no problem pointing a gun at people.
☠ He'll be from a point where he's still working for Overwatch, but as the head of Blackwatch--which means he'll have the ideals of a Hero--even if they're the 'do anything if necessary' sort of ideals.
☠ Completely willing to play the leader and is far more supportive as a team-member than Reaper is, instead of just expecting people to follow his order because 'he says so', he'll give people good reasons to follow his example.
☠ He will protect your ass.
☠ Nobody Left Behind.
For this AU, he'll be remembering all of his non-canon experiences--meaning he'll have memories of all his """friends"""/cr from both Eluvio and Riverview--but his memories on being 'The Reaper' are going to be extremely blurry. So he'll be mostly confused on being called that name, as well as people commenting that HIS VOICE being far less raspy and deep, that he's not leaking smoke, and that his body isn't 'rotting away'.
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because he's not tryhard 'i dont need friends i dont even need acquaintances' man anymore, he'll probably show more concern towards eichi's condition
and because he won't be too clear on his future self / the reaper, he'll say his name is Gabriel Reyes if Eichi tries calling him anything else
kekekek
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and eichi will be a jerk who only remembers reaper because he's capable and therefore useful and will just assume reaper talks to him because he wants something from him too, this is how friendship works surely, you just use each other and then you're done
they should have real cute tea or something, while eichi is stuck in the hospital or something.
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BUT GOOD, because i headcanon that reaper visited jesse in the hospital when he lost his arm
and genji all the time when he was being rebuilt into a cyborg, so...
he'd come by and bring him something better to eat than hospital food
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talk about a complete role reversal...
I can make a toplevel closed to sieglinde in my post for you, trying to run off on her own, then!
he'll have super vague memories of being undead but
I'm sure they'll have great interactions while they're like this
and stuff to talk about when it all wears off haha
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What a fucking thing to bond over, oh my god.
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and Here you go !!
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but that aside yes
anything you have in mind or?
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2770 years younger so you know
it's relative???
Um not specifically but this kid is going to have not a whole lot of sense and be like a frightened animal and confused?? so he probably pings those senses a bit, I'd imagine!
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Gabriel has a habit of taking in strays, so seeing this guy in a bad spot would definitely ping his 'protector of the people/military man' in him.
I can make a toplevel for us, then! Have Gabe find Romulus looking like he's lost and out of place and ask him what the heck is up, something along those lines? (Maybe near the perimeter so there could even be monster involvement, haha)
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Are you down for him being more open about his crush on Gabe?
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I'm fine with that! So long as Dodger is ready to be jeered/teased about it. Because Gabe is still unremarkably Gabe about that sort of thing, haha.
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I'll make a toplevel of them meeting up somewhere for a chat, then! any preferences to setting or circumstance? otherwise ill just wing it lol
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I just want them to bond and for it to be awkward when Reaper goes back to normal
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Just like we discussed on discord !
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But on the other side of it YES
at least because gabe will be keeping his memories of the people he's met in RV, he'll not be offended by Wikus' appearance, just more or less
'wow you certainly turned more alien'
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