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

[rashness]

My ears work just fine, you jerk. It's not like I don't hear things, you're the one just compressing big words into weird words no one uses!

[jailbirdprosecutor]

["-No one uses"? Come now, surely there's an abundance of people who use the word arduous on a regular basis. Surely.]

Tsk. What a self-centered thing to say. Have you taken cultural differences into consideration?

[rashness]

It's your culture to talk about wearing armor because it's hard? What, are you some sort of knight?

[jailbirdprosecutor]

[................]

There is no armor in arduous.

[rashness]

What about rocks?

[jailbirdprosecutor]

What the devil would have you assume it relates to rocks even in the slightest?

[... Earthuous...? That makes even less sense than "armorous".]

[rashness]

Because rocks are hard! And you're talking about stuff being 'ard and such!

[jailbirdprosecutor]

... No. It's arduous, not harduous. It means troublesome, nothing more. [He's really not sure how much clearer he can make this.]

[rashness]

Fine! So it means what you said it means and it just means that!

[ Ugh ] If you don't know where Romaine is then I guess we don't got anymore to talk about anyway!