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[recollecters]

Three options for you. 1.) We test the timelines based on the ideas of people who went backwards and checked into things. You know who you are. Like I said before, we have three tries to check to try and improve the situation. 2.) We just charge straight ahead and hope for the best. 3.) We actually come up with a plan with volunteer basis, split you guys into groups, and proceed from there. As I've mentioned, Mr. Murdock raised a proposition of having volunteers for the Retrospec project to prove themselves to Vanderweele and get him to back off the project. Mr. Togusa changed the contract in the past that Retrospec will go public, more or less, when the first world has reached full completion. Ms...Anna (Anna it's too weird to call you by something proper) has volunteered herself to jump forward to a degree where she's regained her abilities, powers, and strength. So if you see double, don't be alarmed. Here's the thing. No matter what path we take, it's always been the same. The end has always been about stopping Vanderweele's influence over the city and shutting down his power. While there are a lot of ways we can do that, it's always been that ultimate goal to get the city back to what it was. Release people memories. Adjust everything. All that. The pieces of the puzzle finally fell into place to give us a clue of what we're supposed to do here. Under the ocean there's a base in a trench hidden away. The further you go, the less the water appears. It's displaced, but the pressure of the ocean itself might kill you before you get down there unless we loosen the binds. We have two objectives here: destroy the eye that's feeding his defenses in the city, and destroy the base in the ocean to siphon his power out and stop what's been started. Pick a side. Once you know your strengths and weaknesses, we'll have a better sense of how to attack and take him by surprise. Got it? Fixing the city? That's "finishing" its regrowth. And taking away his power means sending memories and energy back to where it belongs. This is going to be the last thing I'll ask of you guys. So...think on that. Zee Carlisle Hiring Manager Retrspec Incorporated Characters' display names are the same as whatever has been previously chosen and are permanently locked in! 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, though you're free to hit up his individual inbox later. As a friendly reminder, you may also claim one of this month's freebie by submitting a thread from this mod post. This thread must be 10 comments from you and submitted before AC closes.

Comments

[hauntedsavior]

Still haven't actually tried jumping into the future and convincing myself to come back, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be down. If I can get that far, at least.

If it does work, I'm gonna take out the eye. Actual proper-ass A2 Anna is gonna go underwater. Hell, by the time she gets here, she'll already know what she's gotta do, right?

Shit, I'm gonna need the computer brain to figure out how that's supposed to work.

[blondferret]

Has Zee explained to you how you jumping forward in time is going to work?

[hauntedsavior]

Nope! But he didn't say I couldn't do it. So I'm just gonna try the same thing we've been doing, but with something in the future.

[blondferret]

So, let me just make sure I understand this correctly, you're going to go to the future where your other self is and... bring your other self back, or a part of her? Did I understand that correctly?

[hauntedsavior]

My current plan is that I jump to a time when I've got everything back that A2 had. Where my soul's been restored, I guess? If that's how we're gonna think about it. Then I talk it out with her, I tell her that we need her help to save the city, and she comes back to now with me. Then you get two of me.

[blondferret]

[Give Derek a few minutes to respond back as he thinks about this.]

So you're not travelling to A2's world, but our own timeline after all this happens? And it's a more powerful you?

[Gears are moving in Derek's head.]

[hauntedsavior]

That's the idea.

No clue how or if it'll work, but that isn't about to stop me. We've got too much riding on this for me not to bust out the crazy shit.

[flametheif40]

Wait...a proper A2?

Wouldn't you be completely robotic at that point?

[hauntedsavior]

Yep. Only thing missing right now is the neck up. That's why I'd want her to go underwater and break into wherever Vanderweele's holed up. Don't know if my human brain still needs oxygen, but I'm not gonna risk it.

[flametheif40]

makes sense, for me, water doesn't mix well with my power set, so, probably going to focus more on the defences.

There is a chance I might actually open up a gate to hell

If that's not metal, I don't know what is :P

[hauntedsavior]

Fuck yeah, dude. Tell Dio I said hi when you open that thing up. Pretty sure he's gonna be on his throne.

[flametheif40]

That would be one hell of an return concert for him XD

[He has no idea who she is talking about and is googling like nuts.]

[hauntedsavior]

God, are you even old enough to remember Ronnie James Dio? Holy Diver, Don't Talk to Strangers, Rainbow in the Dark? The eight or so lines he dropped in the Tenacious D movie?

God, don't tell me you know him from that shitty OP:MC sequel album. Not even Dio could save that one from Geoff Tate.

[godcards]

I don't know, you're pretty easy to convince, in my experience...

:)

[hauntedsavior]

Oh, you talk me into something stupid one time and you act like it's the way I always am.

Just because you're right doesn't mean I have to like it.

[godcards]

More like talked you out of something stupid. Give me some credit!

Now, if you wanted me to talk you into something stupid... I could convince you to abandon any hope for another successful time jump, or I could suggest that your assault against the eye thing is a bad idea.

But I won't. Maybe. :)

[hauntedsavior]

See, I appreciate the warning, but this is the kind of bad idea I ain't gonna be talked out of. It's not just my future on the line here anymore. The stops are being pulled out. How many? All of them.

[godcards]

If you insist, but you better have a plan that is more than just "I'm going to do it."

[invocate]

I'm going after the giant eye too. I'm much better at aerial battles than underwater ones.

[hauntedsavior]

Hell fucking yeah you are. Be an honor to fight alongside you again. Be sure to wear your pointiest heels.

[invocate]

They're even pointier than the last time you saw them. I got an upgrade thanks to last month.

[hauntedsavior]

Nice. That thing is probably real weak to getting dive bombed. But, I mean, you fight like you do and everything's weak to getting dive bombed.

[invocate]

[Funny Anna should mention dive bombing. Li-Na can't help but chuckle to herself once she figures out what the phrase means. If one were to describe her Iron Shackles attack in two words, dive bombing would be fitting.]

I may have used them to do just that a few times.

[belligerentwarrior]

there's a pretty easy way to test if you still need oxygen you know

[hauntedsavior]

If you're waiting for me to figure it out, don't hold your breath.