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ɪʀᴏɴᴡᴏᴏᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ ᴇsʜᴀɪ ([personal profile] ironwood) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2016-04-15 12:00 pm

[EVENT | FOURTH WALL] THE DREAMING'S FLATULENCE | APRIL 15-30

Characters: ALL and plus ones. (Yes, fourth-wall characters, that means you.)
Date: April 15-30 2016 (2017 in-game)
Location: Mod-posted comment starters are for the immediate aftermath of the odd explosion which starts the event, but this log can also be used for anywhere in the setting anytime between April 15-30.
Situation: The College went BOOM. Weird people began appearing randomly in the city. After that, other buildings went BOOM even though nothing actually exploded besides the College. After that, scattered buildings developed spontaneous structural damage overnight. Could these events be related? You be the judge.
Warnings/Rating: Add warnings in subject headers as needed.

The morning of April 15th dawns cold, but clear. There isn't a cloud in the sky, the sun's barely risen, and in general the kedan are going about their daily lives - opening shops, heading to work, leading kirin through the city streets. In particular, there's a small but steady stream of people moving in and out of the College.

Then, without warning, a section of the College implodes.

During the following few days, an influx of strange Foreigners appear, seemingly dropped randomly by the Dreaming throughout Keeliai. Someone might end up in a canal, or on a rooftop. Someone else might find themselves flying through the air to land heavily in a disused alley. Someone might wake up in the corner of a kirin stable. A few might even land in Hatal on the mainland, and feel a curious draw leading them back towards the turtle. They arrive in the same unexpected manner as normal Foreigners; the only differences are the sheer amount of people arriving at once, and that none of the newcomers seem to possess any soul gems.

Also during the next few days, kedan and Foreigner alike might be startled by an exact replica of that thunderous boom from the College explosion echoing around Keeliai. This only occurs for about a week, but it occurs regularly, and the source of these strange echoes is impossible to trace.

Once the explosion echoes stop, investigators might notice that specific and exact sections of structural damage from the College appear on other buildings in Keeliai without any obvious cause. These cases of spontaneous long-term damage continue all the way through until April 30th.

Apart from those disruptions, life on the turtle is generally normal for the next two weeks - or as normal as it's possible for life to be when one lives on the back of a turtle where the most powerful gang makes the rules. No one can say for sure exactly when the strange Foreigners vanish again. Some will swear they all vanished at once; others will be equally sure they disappeared one by one over several days. One thing's for sure, however -- by the time April 30th draws to a close, not one of the strange Foreigners is left in Keeliai.



LINKS
The College | The Echoes | The Structural Damage | OOC Information post | Fourth-Wall Character Check-In


OOC
The top-level comments are for the explosion and its aftermath, but fourth-wall characters should feel free to use the rest of the post for anything within the setting! Just remember to label the top-level comment for location and date. You can also add more fourth-wall characters throughout the event at the character check-in, linked above. Please direct any questions to the OOC post.

Fourth-wall characters are also free to tag into player-posted logs and console/radio posts dated between April 15th and 30th! A quick reminder that fourth-wall characters will not have soul jewelry, and will not be able to create their own network posts or logs.
social_insect: (suspicious)

[personal profile] social_insect 2016-04-24 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Wasp stopped in the middle of her righteous indignation. Because her life has been weird enough that she believes Pepper might understand what's going on. "Well... okay. I mean, this is maybe the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me that hasn't had someone try to destroy the city, or the school or something."

This was far weirder than Loki materializing a beach for them. Mostly because you expect Loki to do unusual magical things for hidden reasons. That was Loki's form of normal.
lasergrenades: (Shrug)

[personal profile] lasergrenades 2016-04-24 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Good. She's going to let Pepper explain; hopefully she won't think Pepper is insane.

"Okay, so big stuff first: you're not on Earth. We're actually on a different planet, on a living turtle the size of a continent, in a completely different reality." Pepper speaks slower than she usually does, because this isn't the kind of information that one should throw out casually.

"There used to be an emperor here, and he used a spell to pull people from dimensions all over the multiverse to fight this big bad evil guy - they're both gone but the spell is still going. And just like there are separate universes, there are also alternate ones. You... you must come from a place where there's another version of me." She shrugs her shoulders. It must sound completely crazy, but Pepper can provide some measure of proof if need be. "Sorry, that was a lot at once."
social_insect: (worried)

[personal profile] social_insect 2016-04-24 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
"That..." Well, okay, Wasp knew about other worlds, thanks to Asgard. And it was one of the ideas Tony had floated about the timefog, but everyone into science or magic at the Academy threw around ideas about what the timefog was, since Fury sure wasn't explaining more than he had to. "Okay, so you're Pepper, but not the same Pepper as the Pepper I know. And we are on a turtle so big it can have a whole city on its back and no one notices. And I guess I don't exist in your reality, or we don't know each other."

"Is it all right if this is... weird, but not too weird?"
lasergrenades: (Oh hi there)

[personal profile] lasergrenades 2016-04-24 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
That went surprisingly well.

"What? Yeah, totally. Honestly sometimes this doesn't seem like the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me either, but some of the things that've happened here might be," Pepper says, smiling brightly. "Tu Vishan could probable fit a couple cities - it's more of a resource issue, actually. Oh, Tu Vishan is the turtle's name. What's yours? I might not know you yet, but if you know me there's probably another version of you running around my reality somewhere that I should go meet."
social_insect: (excited)

[personal profile] social_insect 2016-04-25 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"My name's Janet van Dyne, but people call me Wasp. And you're still Pepper Potts, right?" Wasp offered her hand. "Nice to meet you again."
lasergrenades: (Pleased)

[personal profile] lasergrenades 2016-04-25 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yep, that's me," she confirmed, shaking the offered hand. A thought struck her and she added: "Patricia, not Virginia - there was another Pepper here once and her legal name was different than mine. Nice to meet you."

Who knows if there are more Virginias than Patricias out there.

"So - Wasp. Is that your superhero name? Does everyone have on at Avengers Academy? Ooh, do you have any powers?" She paused, and then laughed. "I should probably let you ask me questions, huh?"
social_insect: (excited)

[personal profile] social_insect 2016-05-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Yep! And everyone does, except you and Loki and Maria Hill. And the faculty." Wasp wasn't prepared to believe even Asgardians named their kids Enchatress, so she did some looking on school records.

"And, yeah I got powers! Want to see?"

Wasp should be asking other questions than that, but she'll deal with answering Pepper's first. She's a sharer like that.
lasergrenades: (All the thoughts)

[personal profile] lasergrenades 2016-05-09 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh. So your Pepper doesn't have the Rescue armor? Weird." Or maybe not. It was impossible to know how common that might be in other worlds. Loki is a name Pepper is as of yet unfamiliar with but: "Is your Agent Hill as scary awesome as mine?"

Maria Hill was one of the only SHIELD agents aside from Director Fury himself that Pepper had had any extended interaction with. She was the kind of agent the young redhead had always dreamed of being, perhaps without the straight-faced terseness.

"Yeah, totally," she replied, grinning. "Show me what you've got."