Volume XI: Butterflies
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Time travel. It's not a new concept, in this world. We've had demons of a faraway future come back to haunt us in an attempt to change their own present by steering the course of the world. Presidents ascend, people die, and villains are toppled, drastically altering the future as we know it. As far as we know, they were successful, which means… maybe they knew what they were doing after all. And there are some of those that aren't interested in changing the future — they would prefer to change the present, and to do this, they must go back.
In Volume XI, we embark on a storyline entitled "Butterflies", which is a tale of time travel told from a different angle. Rather than exploring the potential of the future, we'd like to give players an opportunity to explore the past.
Starting September, we’ll be introducing a storyline that will allow you to interact with the past by RPing past selves or relevant ancestors, characters that will be subject to victimisation when a group of supposedly villainous intentions are sent back to change the course of history. They may do this through murder, or trying to steer the course of your life in some significant way that would alter your present entirely – and maybe everyone else’s present too.
It’s up to the characters on the grid to go back in time and meet these confrontations head on with the help of Hiro Nakamura and the mysterious postcognitive, Rhys Bluthner, and a little help from a certain precognitive as well in the recruitment area of things.
We will also definitely need a few heroes to help construct the individual forays into history that create the over arcing story, so please consider whether you would like to be approached IC in some way (willingly or not…) to be sent back to protect the space-time continuum. Your character will be tasked in protecting (perhaps unlikely) past-self characters, and so there is opportunity to explore the backstory of acquaintances, lovers, enemies – whoever the case may be – as well as confront the enemy as directly or indirectly as you like.
If you would like to RP a younger version of your character for a given story, send your PCs back to help, or maybe even side with the time-changers, then this is an opportunity to consider what you might like to do, collaborate with others, or express your interest and brainstorm with staffers/storytellers about the kind of arcs you’re interested in pursuing.
Considering some of the complexities of the storyline, I will be compiling an FAQ over the rest of August, so feel free to @mail me questions you have – I can answer directly or collate them for a more permanent reference.
Keep your eye out for a more detailed wiki infopage to come, including links to examples that have already taken place, suggestions if you’re stuck, and things to consider when it comes to brainstorming what you’d like to do and preparing for September. EDIT: Find that here.
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