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Marco ([personal profile] livestoannoy) wrote in [community profile] trans_pilgrims2011-04-13 02:25 pm

Plotting Post: Melting Clock

Alright, now that Shore Leave's underway, it's time to start plotting out how the Melting Clock plot will really get into gear once Shore Leave's over.

This initial part is just for the affected characters (obviously), but also Medical, and other characters that might be involved in the investigation. But, because changes in the affected characters won't be noticed all at the same time (and affected characters won't realise that something's wrong with them themselves), so for the most part, this is left up to the individual players to plot what their character does specifically (you'll be able to do this in the next biweekly plotting post).

To give everyone an idea of what's going to be happening timelinewise, the planned breakdown of events is as follows:
  • Affected characters start showing signs of changes. Some of this may be written off as someone having an odd week, or being a little out of it. But some will be brought into medical by other people - exactly what happens with each person will depend on the character and what changes they show.
  • After enough people are brought into Medical, the guys there will connect the dots and realise that all these people are showing the same symptom - deaging. At this point, a Quarantine will be instigated, and the affected people in Medical will be taken to Contagion.
  • At this point, a search will start for anyone else affected. Anyone found to have the same symptoms will also be taken to Quarantine.
  • They'll also start trying to figure out what's wrong with the affected people - both by questioning them and by doing various medical-things. Eventually, they'll realise that the common thread is that they all heard the Melting Clock chime.
  • They'll ask Stacy about the Clock, and she'll tell them about it. At this point, since they'll know that it's not contagious, everyone in Contagion will be released, and Stacy will go back to XaXing to pick up the Clock.
  • After that, you're pretty much free to just play out whatever deaging shenanigans you like until the end of the plot. (Other characters will mostly spend this time trying to destroy the Clock)

Obviously, this isn't going to happen all at once. I'd estimate that it'll probably take around two-four weeks, depending on how long it takes for things to develop. But, it should give anyone playing an affected character idea of the timeline and let you plan accordingly (especially if there's a stage that do do/do not want them to go through while in Quarantine). Also there will probably a lot of various crazyness from deaging people throughout this as well.

For those people who aren't interested in playing out their character being discovered though, handwaving is an option - you can just tag straight into the Quarantine Log that will come later and assume they were found and brought in by someone.

What I do need today though is some volunteers for the characters who will get discovered before Quarantine is set up. They'll need to be brought to Medical within the first week, and unless they leave/escape beforehand they'll probably be in Contagion for all of Quarantine. They'll also need to have some threads where Medical personnel check them out. I need at least five characters for this, and no more than eight. If you're interested, reply to this thread.

I'll also need some volunteers for people who are going to assist with investigating this. Specifically, I'm going to need Medical staff (who can sign up here), and I'm going to need any other characters that can help out with Quarantine once it's set up, such as members of the Science Department (who can sign up here).
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Re: Volunteers for being brought to Medical pre-Quarantine

[personal profile] pretty_lethal 2011-04-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
RACHEL TOO because Blue and I were talking about them getting caught together.
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Re: Volunteers for being brought to Medical pre-Quarantine

[personal profile] pretty_lethal 2011-04-13 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
... fdgsfdgdf YES. Forever.
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Re: Volunteers for being brought to Medical pre-Quarantine

[identity profile] lives2annoy.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
XD

Re: Volunteers for being brought to Medical pre-Quarantine

[identity profile] hatngartersnake.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Jeka is kind of going to start literally dissolving at some point. Medical should be able to stabilize her, but then she's going to suddenly be a giant snake.

That will...probably be the biggest sign of "deaging is going on here" for the crew. Well, once Jeka convinces them that no, she's never had arms or hair, her whole species looks like this, what the sprock are you all talking about?

Re: Volunteers for being brought to Medical pre-Quarantine

[identity profile] hatngartersnake.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
*salutes* Works for me!

Re: Volunteers for being brought to Medical pre-Quarantine

[identity profile] riseupnchargem.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Tentatively signing up Jamie for this, but if you get more volunteers than you need and someone else really wants it I'll bow out.

[identity profile] so-pregnable.livejournal.com 2011-04-18 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
Superboy is a good candidate for this since even his earliest changes would be...drastic, considering his canon point.
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Re: Medical Volunteers

[personal profile] encourage 2011-04-13 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Offering up Sakura! Especially if people with different medical backgrounds/training want to do a general consensus based on what all of them can detect/notice/observe/good words to describe like things here. Chakra! We swear it's not magic!

Re: Medical Volunteers

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 12:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Depending on how many Medical people sign up, I'd like to chuck Howard in (if someone bumps you up to nine characters I wouldn't feel bad pulling him out). We already knows what Evs is going to be doing during all this. ;)

Re: Medical Volunteers

[identity profile] vissernone.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, gotcha, I read the paragraph wrong and assumed you meant 5-8 Medical chars. Early morning reading comprehension, gone.

Cool beans. Yeah, Howard's first-aid/assistant atm.

Re: Medical Volunteers

[identity profile] 8wings.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
As a medical admin, Anwei would definitely help. She'll also go through her own alien medical DBs to try and find possible causes.

Re: Medical Volunteers

[identity profile] kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Kaya's up for this, of course. She's starting to realize this is her default place when chaos comes down.
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Re: Medical Volunteers

[personal profile] couldputitback 2011-04-13 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Faiza's right there!

[identity profile] leapoffayth.livejournal.com 2011-04-16 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
in which Yuna tries all the Dispel and Esuna spells in the world, to no avail.
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Re: Medical Volunteers

[personal profile] aaaiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee 2011-04-19 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
Now that she's actually in Medical, I'd like to sign Miranda up for this too! Although she'd need to tag along/assist someone else, because on her own she doesn't really have any actual first aid skills yet.
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Re: Medical Volunteers

[personal profile] theboywhowaits 2011-04-19 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
I've got a nurse! He's good at doing things mundanely and a fair hand with learning new tech.
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Re: Investigation Volunteers

[personal profile] makeherblue 2011-04-13 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like to offer up Eleven for the investigations. I figure he could multi task and try to look into this and that part of Trojan Horse, perhaps wrangle Daniel into being an assistant. :|a

Re: Investigation Volunteers

[identity profile] shapeshiftqueen.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
If possible Gandrayda might be interested at what happened, if anything to make sure she doesn't have it. But she cares. Really.
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Re: Investigation Volunteers

[personal profile] hi_there_aliens 2011-04-13 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like to put Daniel out there as an Investigation volunteer (probably assisting the Eleventh Doctor).
Edited 2011-04-13 09:44 (UTC)
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Re: Investigation Volunteers

[personal profile] encourage 2011-04-15 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
... cross volunteering Sakura, if in part because belatedly realizing that putting people in quarantine and then watching for symptoms in others can also lead to being around enough to ask questions.
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[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-04-13 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like to add that, though I don't mind handwaving if necessary, it is totally IC for Zetta to put up one hell of a fight when being told to come to Quarantine. Possibly literally depending on the methods. If anyone wants to thread out attempting to haul or wheedle him there...?

[identity profile] brustriese.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Signum's still going to be a Hero of Justice until she loses 10+ years, and she's pretty much a Disgaea character as far as abilities go, so if you don't mind irony, I don't mind fight threads.
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[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-04-13 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
^.^

Would you prefer stupidly-OP Zetta, or Zetta playing more evenly for the sake of the fight? Because either is totally justifiable, thanks to the Overlord being a capricious jerk.

[identity profile] brustriese.livejournal.com 2011-04-14 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Disgaea generic character, so let's have him hold back the world-ending attacks.
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[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-04-14 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, hey, just because the attack destroys the world doesn't mean it's not just fine as soon as the animation ends.