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Taako ([personal profile] spellslots) wrote in [community profile] 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:
  • 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:
 
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Sieglinde of Catarina | Dark Souls

[personal profile] oniondaughter 2017-06-04 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hey all i'm back from hiatus just in time to throw this onion knight into some shit.

Undead AU: Sieglinde's world is plagued by an undead curse that prevents people from truly dying. Instead, the dead simply rise again - and again and again, each time they die or are killed.

It's an unpleasant experience, to say the least. And if that weren't bad enough, the undead begin to lose themselves after some time. Their memories fade and they become less coherent, until eventually they become a maddened husk of their former selves that attacks everything it sees. To the people of her world, it's not entirely clear what the cause of this curse is, but it's clear that it's spreading.


And in this Alternate Universe, Sieglinde has contracted it, instead of her father. Knowing how the living fear the undead, she fled her home of Catarina to the country of Lordran in the hopes of perhaps finding the source of the curse - or at least going mad in a place where her Hollow form won't be able to hurt anyone.

Now that she's in riverview, her motivations are less to go back into Lordran and more to stay away from the populated city, thinking of herself as a danger and fearing what people will think of her. She'll have memories of riverview from before, though, she'll remember all of her CR well enough (although she'll probably remember a few conversations as being slightly different).
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Eichi ♪

[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
So, this plot works perfectly to just change up things a little! I'm going to temporarily change Eichi's canon point to second year, when he was in the middle of doing a bunch of really cruel shit to everyone who was trying to be his friend by using them, all in order to get on top himself so he could make the school a better place and encourage more growth in the students. a kind of overdramatic "sacrifice everyone close for the greater good" idol plot, basically.

What this means for when he's younger (like 17) like this is:
♪ He will only remember CR if he thinks they'd be "useful" to him in some way
♪ He will be kind of a snake to get what he wants. Talking to people just to get to their assets, plotting to destroy anyone who gets in his way through really rude ways, saying suspicious things out loud sometimes because he has even less of a filter?? These are just some examples.
♪ He won't remember what real friendship is... He assumes everyone who considers him a friend is using him just like he's using them
♪ I think this is a perfect time to ask if he can take over leadership of some of his night clubs or at least the entertainment parts of them SO I'LL BE ASKING ABOUT THAT...
♪ His health was especially bad during all of this, which is nothing new but he'll be overexerting himself a lot more often probably. Might end up in the hospital again if it works for plotting things.

So!! He'll know of riverview and eluvio and all of the basics there, but if anyone wants to be a bad influence or be used somehow (really he just wants dumb idol things, but he could also dig for information on riverview and the people in it in general), or anything else hit me up! new cr and old cr alike!!
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Jamie Dodger

[personal profile] smokedout 2017-06-04 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
I'm gonna need all new icons for this BUT...

Kingsley AU: Maddison Kingsley and James Walker eloped as teenagers, running away with stolen credit cards to America from England. When they discovered Maddison was pregnant, James mysteriously left. Maddison was left homeless and alone in a foreign country, with her newborn son Jamie. She struggled like this for eight years, barely scraping by until she died and Jamie was taken by the leader of the Sun Riders, starting on the slippery slope that led him to the persona of Dodger.

In this AU, she was instead aided by a friendly soul named Jack McCollough, who in his canon timeline had simply passed her by. Jack became a family friend and sort of father figure for Maddison, helping her get back on her feet. Maddison became a waitress and got a small house, and despite being a somewhat troubled teenager Jamie turned out pretty well. By the age of 25, Jamie Kingsley has graduated college and works as a police officer for the Boston Police Department. He's working toward becoming a detective, both to try and fix the world and to get a salary that will allow his mother to live as well as he feels she deserves.

This version of Dodger is better-dressed and better-mannered, and has a muddled British accent. Jamie is likely to spend his time trying to apologize to people he's upset as Dodger, and will also take a more academic approach to Dodger's firefly project. He is also notably missing his scars, tattoos and wrist wraps, and his general appearance is a lot less sickly.
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genji 💚

[personal profile] flowlikewater 2017-06-04 01:51 am (UTC)(link)

the nasty crimeboy arrives

Basically Genji's going to revert to how he was as a young man (early 20s) and he was... pretty awful. A complete playboy and the son of a criminal empire, so he's used to doing pretty much anything he wants without consequences. His father coddled him too, so he's extra spoiled. I apologize in advance for his everything.

I think I'm going to go with him not remembering any CR because Genji's a character that's gone through a lot of things and growth so he wouldn't really be any different if he had any idea about his future/this place. So!! Obviously he's not going to know Hanzo attempts to kill him, that he joined Blackwatch, etc etc.

He's probably just going to party and not really care about the plot that much, cause mischief. Current Genji is going to be so embarrassed rip............

But yes, feel free to hit me up with ideas for shenanigans! He'll probably try to throw a party or hit up multiple bars and get a few dates.
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Cain ♼

[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-06-04 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Here is where the fun starts. (Or... ends?) For this event, I'll be reverting Cain hella way back to his younger twenty-something self before he turned immortal. Back when he was plotting escape from being owned as a slave with his brother, and when Rome was just beginning to form as an idea.

This Romulus is incredibly curious but much less adventurous and will basically need someone to lead him around and be all "Yes, you dork, it's okay to go out on your own, it's cool, c'mon let's go check out this awesome stuff!" Since that was a lot of Remus's role in his life and Remus isn't going to be here for the event. Even if he knows about Riverview, all the breadth of STUFF is overwhelming.

He's very smart and attentive and gentle, and he's gonna want to learn some hella lots of magic. Is there anyone around who would want to teach him those things? Magic or bestow powers or whatever. I've got AP for it but only if it... happens. Ya dig? Sure you do.
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Reaper / Gabriel Reyes

[personal profile] hellshot 2017-06-04 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
A perfect opportunity for people to meet Reaper before he turned into a death-punning, unfriendly piece of shit and meet a more friendly, still kind of edgy Black-Ops Dad Gabe.

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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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-06-04 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
would it be possible at all to jump to say, two canon points over the course of the event

i'm asking for a friend
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Shigeru Miyata

[personal profile] mysophobic 2017-06-04 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
So Shigeru in this AU event is going to turn into a being known as a Forenthieth. This will happen in the future where he kills Alex (instead of going on a journey with him to find a cure) after Shigeru is overtaken by the dark god when his gates goes out of control/the dark god seeps through it and possess him. He'll join Jern in amassing an army to revive the dark god and lay siege on the planet.

Forenthieths are basically super powered phrobiests that are more in touch with the dark god (to do its bidding more or less) with additional powers via the dark god. He'll have his eldritch black tentacle powers that disintegrate everything they touch alongside with a case of the nasties.

He'll be smooth talking and manipulative along with a deep rooted evil streak. He'll also look quite different in that his eyes will be black and purple and he'll have rune marks along the right side of his body up to his neck. He'll also have his voice back. He'll remember his time in Riverview so if anyone wants to deal with this trainwreck let us plot.
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[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
GAA I NEED THIS IMMEDIATELY would he care about eichi more outwardly if he's half dying, also will he share his real name
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-06-04 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
Nah I feel you that totally makes sense, thank you for the quick reply!
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[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
genji........... I want eichi to see him just so he can reference it later when he's back to normal and embarrass him
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[personal profile] hellshot 2017-06-04 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
yES TO BOTH OF THESE THINGS

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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[personal profile] oniondaughter 2017-06-04 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Gabe should catch Sieglinde trying to go beyond the wall by herself or something. I really want these two to interact, especially when they're in this state.
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[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
GREAT, USEFUL INFORMATION FOR LATER...

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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[personal profile] hellshot 2017-06-04 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
wow eichi fucking rude people have other reasons for hanging out with each other rather than being useful to one another

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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[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
GASP great, eichi will say concerning things, learn as much as he can about reaper and they can bond and later when they're back to normal eichi will harass reaper about it (and maybe apologize if he ends up being rude)

slaps desk he hates the hospital bless u reaper
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[personal profile] hellshot 2017-06-04 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
i will make a toplevel closed to eichi for a hospital visit in my player plot toplevel for you in this case

im already pumped
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[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
omg I know we don't have CR as of yet but I would love for them to meet now of all times HAHA eichi manipulative in this bitchy high school way, meeting actual monster demon shigeru au who can disintegrate things?? sounds fine
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[personal profile] finethanks 2017-06-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
SOUNDS GREAT SLAPS DESK I am very hype... younger reaper... opens arms
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[personal profile] hellshot 2017-06-04 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
omg absolutely

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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[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-06-04 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Come protect tiny Romulus pls and kthx

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