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[recollecters]

You know, I think some April Fool's pranks are okay! Like the silly ones they do on websites or the really good natured kind. But I am LESS okay with someone changing the ENTIRE layout of our entire building and giving us treasure maps to go around it which for the record my brother-in-law did and it's a pain!! There's some weird effects coming in from outside this planet at the moment, although they'll mostly miss the city itself. There'll be a localized temporal storm, but it shouldn't be more than a mild irritation. It looks like it's just going to yank some things around and send them on through. I think Maurice is going to call out sick that day, or if I were him I definitely would. Hey, I kind of want a four-leaf clover. I know that's more last month than this month, but still. If you find one, pass it along. Also, I want to do a cutesy April Fools thing, so don't get too mad! Joanne Wiseman Technician 2nd class Retrspec Incorporated For the remainder of the day all users will have their userpic replaced with a picture of them dressed as their favorite animal. It's pretty harmless as far as pranks go, and it will change back either at midnight or after trying to change the picture twice, prompting an "Are you sure?" message but no further ill effects. Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain one of this month's freebies! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 5 or more consecutive comments from you with someone new. We define someone new as someone new to the game, or simply someone your character has never tagged before. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently.

Comments

[heiroglyphs]

Okay so
What is a temporal storm.
What is it localized to.
And what do you mean it will mostly miss the planet?

[lastcomfort]

A storm of time...? Does that mean we're going to travel through time??

[heiroglyphs]

God I hope not.
I want nothing to do with the past and the future kind of scares me right now.

[lastcomfort]

We should be prepared for that now, though! We could compete against the Olympians!

[heiroglyphs]

That's true.
Not that I'm looking for another "competition" like that any time soon.

[lastcomfort]

You don't think it was kind of fun? We did a good job!

[browbeater]

... actually, those are all pretty good questions. we just kind of accepted that they were bad without really knowing what they are.

[heiroglyphs]

I mean it's Retrospec so it's pretty safe to assume it's bad.

[browbeater]

the second half of that sentence was the key part.

[heiroglyphs]

The last time there was an "anomaly" we were attacked be hordes of wolf monsters.
Now we're getting time bullshit involved?
I just want to know what I'm getting myself into.

[browbeater]

it doesn't necessarily have to be time. looking up the definition, the first definition is being "worldly" as opposed to spiritual.

which might be the primary way they're using it here, given everything else.

who knows.

[coinflipped]

You'd think they would expand on this, especially since it sounds kind of important.

Let's just hope we don't die.

[heiroglyphs]

I swear they get off on this vague bullshit.
We're not allowed to know anything about anything.
If the world's ending next week, I'd like to know what to prepare for.

[coinflipped]

I don't know.
Dying in peace might be kind of nice.

[heiroglyphs]

Look don't start getting morbid with me.
I'm too young to die.

[loudmouths]

if it has to do with like, time jumping or something, maybe it's gotta do with those "souls" they keep talkin about?

[heiroglyphs]

Yeah, I'd really like to know more about that.
Talking about "souls" is honestly pretty disturbing.

[robitussin]

my extremely scientific guess is that things are going to get really weird

[heiroglyphs]

See, my scientific guess is that we're all fucked and nobody wants to tell us.
I'll send the lab coats back to the field to find out just how bad it is.

[robitussin]

maybe we're both right

hooray for us

[heiroglyphs]

Forgive me but I seem to have misplaced my streamers.
I'll be sure to have them handy the next apocalypse.

[truedetective]

The first two questions are reasonable, but the third seems somewhat unnecessary.
Really, that part was the clearest for me.

[heiroglyphs]

Allow me to expand:
How much of the storm is going to miss us? Are we talking 99% or 51%? That's a big difference.
What is that going to change?
How long is it going to be here?
Is it going to be a localized event or will it be hitting us directly?

[truedetective]

See, those are much better questions. I'd have led with those instead.

[heiroglyphs]

These questions were implied when I asked them to clarify their initial statements.
It's called being concise.