Timey-Wimey Nonsense Part 1

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone!
What: The Time Travel Trip 2014
When: HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO
Where: Luceti before it was cool Luceti
Summary: The residents are dragged into the past thanks to John's latest Shift. More information is here and here, and, ICly, here.
Rating: Varied



It's early morning in the quiet enclosure that will someday become Luceti. The sun is rising, birds are chirping in that annoyingly cheery way that makes you want to shoot them out of the trees, and the residents are beginning to wake up. Most of them are heading to work, either to farm, or to build, or to work the shops, or even just to prepare a nice breakfast for their families and neighbours. Everyone has something to do.

And then, out of nowhere, a couple hundred strangers show up in the middle of the woods.

At first there is confusion, and no shortage of caution, from the neighbours; newcomers are common enough, but usually they are announced beforehand, and never in such great numbers. The leaders of the town are called in to ask questions. The newcomers are free to explore, but any aggression will be met in kind; if need be, the Filial of the past will defend their homes. They're hoping it won't come to that, however. You're stuck with one another for a long time, after all.

Thankfully, there is one man who might be able to bring the natives and newcomers together: Tyr.

...And the other guy, maybe. We'll see.


((mingle and explore at will! further questions can be redirected to either of the posts linked above. NPCs will be available for plotty stuff soon.))

Comments

[faithfulflame]

[Rei smiles faintly and wraps an arm around her friend's shoulder.]

It's the barrier. It's interfering with what I can do. My spells just...aren't what they were back in our time. It's something to practice with though, if we're going to be here a while.

[magicalesbian]

Yeah, I guess. But I hope this doesn't mean I won't be able to transform at all. It's too tiring being myself all the time.

[And will probably only get more tiring, seeing as the weaker magic also means the spirit's influence on her personality will get weaker as well -- it's not something she's directly aware of, of course, but having her old habits and nervousness around people come back won't make things any easier.]

How long do you think we're all gonna be stuck here anyway? That John guy was pretty vague, but he made it sound like it'd be a while.

[faithfulflame]

Well, I like you...when you're you.

[The spirit? Noooot so much.]

As for that, I have no idea. I hope not terribly long, or I'll run out of things to do.

[magicalesbian]

[Considering that anything to do with the spirit is a topic Kari is still avoiding like the plague, she's just going to ignore that previous comment there. Instead, she sighs.]

Well, as long as there's a library, I think I'll be fine. I mean, we moved back like a hundred years, right? So maybe they have different books in circulation in this era.

[faithfulflame]

There may be. There…should…be. I hope. That would be really rather difficult to fathom, not having access to a library. I mean, everything is different here, but still…it couldn’t be that off. [Oh how wrong she is…]

[magicalesbian]

...wait, you don't think they're really so undeveloped here that even books are out of the range of possibility, do you!?

[THIS IS NOW A REAL CONCERN.]

[faithfulflame]

Books? No I'm sure those will be here. But...I remember hearing from Helios that the library was put together during his stay in the enclosure.

[magicalesbian]

No library? [She sounds personally offended by the very implication.] If this really is 100 years ago, how did they go that long without one?

[faithfulflame]

John-san said it was going to be a few hundred. So...maybe it's when the enclosure was still brand new?

[magicalesbian]

Maybe... though I kinda wish he'd been more specific about why he was sending us back here in the first place. You'd think he was some kind of video game NPC sending us on a fetch quest with how cryptic he was.

[Kari plz.]

[faithfulflame]

I…am afraid I don’t understand that reference, Kari-chan. I don’t play video games, remember?

[Rei is a stick in the mud. Also, she sort of pre-dates most JRPG terminology XP]

[magicalesbian]

...oh, right. [Meanwhile, Kari is forgetting just how nerdy she is sometimes.] Uhm. Basically, it feels more like he's testing us rather than actively trying to help us accomplish something.

[faithfulflame]

What makes you say that? Is it something to do with fetch quests?

[magicalesbian]

Well, if he really wanted us to change something for the better, don't you think he could have just told us what to do? I mean, even if it's supposed to be obvious, it just seems counterproductive, you know?

[faithfulflame]

Well, he's still one of the Malnosso, I'm not sure he even knows how to be straightforward...

[magicalesbian]

Yeah, I guess. But it's still annoying. I mean, changing the future is a pretty big deal, so it's not like he would have done this on a whim. And even if he did find a way to keep things from just splitting off into two timelines, there's no way things are just going to go back to how they were when we get back.