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TIME TRAVEL PLOTTING POST PART 2
AS MOST OF YOU PROBABLY RECALL, a little while back we put up a post for discussing a plot where a group of characters would show up from 10 years into a grimdark alternate future to try to change the past. WE WOULD STILL LIKE TO DO THIS, but a few things need to be hammered into place before we can go ahead with it.
What we DO know is that ten years into the future, Earth will be approximately half under the tyrannical rule of Sovereign, and half under the equally tyrannical rule of Princess Unikitty. Each of them is trying to wrest control of the other half from their rival, but they must also contest with various resistance groups, as well as the planet being ongoingly under siege by various alien forces – Alternians, Skrulls, etc. - which are only just being fought off every time they stop clawing at one another's throats for long enough to try to invade, leaving Earth increasingly dystopian and war-weary.
A group of rebels will use a time machine – I think there was talk of it having been constructed by Black Ghost – to travel back to CH's present day in order to prevent this future from coming to pass.
After this is accomplished, all or some of the time travellers will go back into the future with some present-day characters in tow in order to, probably, do something with the time machine to make sure that the timeline will be properly reset.
THINGS WE NEED TO ESTABLISH:
• Which characters are coming back into the present? Doesn't have to just be resistance fighters – they can be followed through or infiltrated by villains! In fact it would be pretty great if they were followed through by a few bad guys, because that would better justify needing present-day characters to come back to the future with them to help seize the time machine back.
• What event are they attempting to stop?
• Who came up with this plan?
SO reply to this post with what your character/s are doing in all this (their status in the future timeline, whether they'll be involved in goings-on in the present), and if you want to, make suggestions for the above bullet points, and GET DISCUSSIN'
(If anyone has any characters they would like to app to bring in during this plot and leave in the past after it's over, also, feel free to throw ideas around for that!)
What we DO know is that ten years into the future, Earth will be approximately half under the tyrannical rule of Sovereign, and half under the equally tyrannical rule of Princess Unikitty. Each of them is trying to wrest control of the other half from their rival, but they must also contest with various resistance groups, as well as the planet being ongoingly under siege by various alien forces – Alternians, Skrulls, etc. - which are only just being fought off every time they stop clawing at one another's throats for long enough to try to invade, leaving Earth increasingly dystopian and war-weary.
A group of rebels will use a time machine – I think there was talk of it having been constructed by Black Ghost – to travel back to CH's present day in order to prevent this future from coming to pass.
After this is accomplished, all or some of the time travellers will go back into the future with some present-day characters in tow in order to, probably, do something with the time machine to make sure that the timeline will be properly reset.
THINGS WE NEED TO ESTABLISH:
• Which characters are coming back into the present? Doesn't have to just be resistance fighters – they can be followed through or infiltrated by villains! In fact it would be pretty great if they were followed through by a few bad guys, because that would better justify needing present-day characters to come back to the future with them to help seize the time machine back.
• What event are they attempting to stop?
• Who came up with this plan?
SO reply to this post with what your character/s are doing in all this (their status in the future timeline, whether they'll be involved in goings-on in the present), and if you want to, make suggestions for the above bullet points, and GET DISCUSSIN'
(If anyone has any characters they would like to app to bring in during this plot and leave in the past after it's over, also, feel free to throw ideas around for that!)
WHAT HAPPENED
Re: WHAT HAPPENED
Pinpointing the event that triggered the grimdark future would probably be a good idea, but since there hasn't been any discussion of time traveling to that point to change things directly it may not be as integral for the plot?
Perhaps the time machine that Black Ghost and Ravirn made has the potential to alter the timeline remotely (magic) but it needs something in order to make that work (magic amulet? power source? super computer chip? all of the above?). The Future Rebels travel back to the past to obtain it, but are followed by Evil Forces. Maybe the Evil Forces take the mcguffin and return to the future to deliver it to their lord and master? So the Future Rebels and their newly acquired Present Allies travel back to the future to steal them back, power up the time machine, and fix everything. Once the machine works all the Present Allies are immediately thrown back to the past as the timeline resets itself (does anyone remember the trip to future, or no because time travel paradox would now make it so it never happened?).
Is the time machine compromised when the Evil Forces go through it? Does this become a problem that needs to be solved?
This gives us a few different direction points for each part of the event so people can get involved in whatever suits their character best.
PART 1:
- Obtaining the McGuffin
- Evil: Stealing the McGuffin
- Planning the Trip to the Future
- Fighting?
PART 2:
- Preparing for the Final Battle
- Retrieving the McGuffin
- Recovering/Fixing the Time Machine
- More Fighting?
Anyway like I said, just throwing ideas around, feel free to chime in with suggestions or alternatives.
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i have admittedly been a LITTLE out of the loop on how things are supposed to go but i think harry mentioned that they needed to have something done to the time machine in order to ensure the timeline properly resets? as of right now i am NOT SUPER SURE why present-day folks would need to go into the future (i have probably missed something feel free to explain to me) but i think it would be good to hammer out the event that precipitates the grimdark future.
maybe it can be some kind of technology falling into the wrong hands that needs to be destroyed?
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[McGuffin] is the item that, upon falling in to the wrong hands, may or may not have triggered the chain of events that led to Grimdark Future. Because of that, it has High Values Of Potentiality; it could be something simple, mundane, but because of the importance to the Grimdark Timeline it's essential to the spell. So, 'originally', the plan was to obtain the McGuffin and destroy/Do Something with it...
(Alternatively; something important to Timespace. Go get the Large Hadron Collider, put it in this tiny box, and get it back to the future, guys, have fun.)
...but because plans never go right, in order to secure this past as the past, the whole future-jump is necessary, too. Whether it be because the McGuffin is stolen or they need an 'anchor' of some sort to ensure things don't just readjust and go Grimdark anyway (or at least Completely Removing This Timeline From The Table- hey, future!Ravirn wouldn't want it at all)...reasons, basically.
It could also be because as it turns out, the McGuffin isn't enough, and/or they need some people from the present/past to trigger it as well.
I really like making up reasons for things I'm sorry guys /o\