[Event #12 - The Past When We Awaken]

[station_mods]

Event #12 - The Past When We Awaken

Date Start: August 14th
Date End: September 14th
Players Involved: ALL. There are no opt outs for this event like our past ones. All players will be brought into this event.
Basic Concept: Several players decided to mess with things that they didn't understand. These are the results.

INTRO:

With the puncture of the bubble around the Station, they have unfortunately started a series of events that the bubble had prevented. There will be a massive register on ALL sensors, of any sort that have been put in play, and everyone will feel a sickening sensation in the pit of their stomachs, except for Smith who will feel all of his sensors go into a blaze of code that will overwhelm him. The sensation will get worse until everyone blacks out. Our time travelers might feel something familiar in this - the time energy is suddenly in the Station in a way it hasn't been before, maybe they haven't felt before. It's twisting, turning, reversing, and encompassing you all.

Blackness.

When everyone wakes, they are definitely... not on the Station. In fact, it might take a minute for them to recognize where they are. Only people who have been in the Botharian cities will recognize where they are which is in fact, down on the planet. Except... it's beautiful. This city is gleaming and incredible, filled with light and technology and people. In fact, the vast majority of what they see out there are frog-like people, in different sizes and colors, but all bipedal with strong, thick legs, smaller weaker arms, webbed feet and arms. They are jumping in and swimming down the canals that seem like streets, and out in the vast distance is the swamp that some of you have seen. But now? The air is sweet and clean. There's music everywhere.

The Botharians are the source of it. They produce tones, ripples of music, songs... it's clear that's their language. Kale, you will recognize this as the music that's been in your head all this time. Those who saw the skeletons of the Botharians will recognize them.

The most incredible thing of all? Is if you go outside, it is nighttime. You'll see thousands and thousands of stars up in the sky. Jack, and anyone he has shared the star charts Gryf gave him, will recognize this as a match to those charts. In fact, they'll be able to see the Station up there as well and the multiple moons of the world.

Additional: If you approach any Botharian, you may very well be surprised to discover that they will speak your language. Any language you speak to them. It will be both understood and spoke in return, all with a rather musical accent.


INFO:

This is what you'll have, for now. There are several very nice people who have offered to be NPCs and they will be out there once we start this, though not immediately. Please keep an eye out for their tags or open posts.

Also please keep an eye out for mod tags. I will be coming into threads to be able to offer descriptions and sometimes, NPCs. :3 PLEASE - feel free to just go have fun! The players have returned to the past and now are on Botharius before everything went wrong. You can feel free to wake up anywhere you'd like your characters to do so. You can feel free to make things up as you go along. This world is free for you to enjoy and make things happen, to learn about what happened, learn about the race, the world, etc! Feel free to use this OOC post to ask questions, or shoot a plurk to me.

I will be putting up a post on the evening of the 14th and we will be rocking for a month of time. As usual, please keep the event tags contained to the event post!

Comments

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Questions so far, you know perfectly well I'll have more:

1: Do we all still have our comms on us? Also, do we have everything else we had on us at the time (a.k.a., does John/Jane still have the manipulator, is 'Vadum armed, does Four have his sonic, that kind of thing?)

2: What are Book and Smith's HUDs going to be displaying down here?

3: Speaking of Book, that group got plucked from off of the Serenity, the ship is not here, correct?

[station_mods]

1) Yes. Anything you had will still function and suddenly whoa are those comms lighting up with public chatter!

2) same as above - lots of new public chatter! Think of an open general chat on an MMO. Better use those private functions kiddos!

3) correct - you don't know where Serenity has gone.

[spacepeterpan]

What I'm wondering especially is how this will affect Jack's condition, i.e., whether his undying is going to come back, since The Doctor would notice it.

And, more generally, once they're on the planet, is time still feeling twisted up and still settling, like they're in the midst of something in the process of unfolding, or relatively normal?

Just so I know what The Doctor's aware of once we start. XD

[station_mods]

There is something that Jack, John, and the two doctors will feel when they arrive in the past that will be given to you when you first tag in. I'd like to leave it a surprise as it's a very large plot clue. ^^

The two Doctors will definitely feel that Jack is... collecting time energy again, but it is very, very slow instead of instant like it had been in the past.

[spacepeterpan]

Ahah, okay!

[curiousredsoul]

If one were to look for it, is there a space port of sorts in the city. Or some form of transportation to the Station in orbit, should someone wish to see what is happening on what would be assumed to be a more lively station now.

Also, would Celena's portals work without interference on world in comparison to any interference that may have come from outside the station?

[station_mods]

1) You will find out immediately on event log post about this.

2) Yes - on world. Outside of that, she will have issues.

[theendiswherewestartfrom]

Follow-up: How are everybody's powers doing, then, that are usually a little toned down on the Station? Yuna and Fran's magic, for example?

[station_mods]

They seem to be in fine working order.

[curiousredsoul]

New question, have the maps on the comms changed at all with the new location. For instance do they now have access to a map of Tinifta? Do all the other people posting on the network now show up on said maps (if the maps are updated).

[station_mods]

They sure do.

[curiousredsoul]

Excellent. Next question that came to mind, in the space port area, is there something like a regular shuttle too and from the Station and if so, would that shuttle be free to utilize or come with a transport fare?

[station_npcs]

There is a shuttle that returns people up to the Station.

[expeacekeeper]

Question! Do Aeryn's translator microbes work on the Botharian language?

[station_mods]

I'm not sure how they work? Explain a little more, if you could?

[expeacekeeper]

Sure! There's a good rundown here:

http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/Translator_microbe

Basically, the microbes colonize the recipient's brain and allows them to understand alien speech. Only the one listening needs the microbes, and it translates the language they hear, not the language they speak. So if person A has microbes and person B does not, Person A can understand person B, but person B cannot understand person A.

There are canonical instances where language was too complex for the microbes unless it was simplified.

[station_mods]

Well, their language is literally music. They can speak any language they've heard or hear - so they'll be able to understand her no matter what language she speaks. If you think the microbes can understand the language of music, go for it.

[expeacekeeper]

I'd say yes, then :)

[engineermage]

Would Kale understand it too, beyond recognizing it?

[station_mods]

Understand... what?

[engineermage]

What the frogs Bothans are saying when they're singing.

[station_mods]

And now you know thanks to plurk! ^_^