first one to make that doctor who joke loses

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone! All of you!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Definitely!
When: Anytime during the toxic moon event!

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[boy oh boy, isn't everyone just so excited to explore this... charming... place...?

this is a game-wide mingle and the timeframe isn't super-important, so throw in with whatever you want! play war games, go shopping for gas masks, get lost in the wilderness, hide up in the Iskaulit and refuse to set foot on the moon, anything goes.

here's the main event info post for reference! have fun!]

Comments

[precedented]

I've glimpsed at it. I try not to look too long and hard into the timelines of others. It gets very messy and it makes it hard for me to separate myself from the if and the now.

[ It also makes telling time very difficult. Often his memory relapses to the future or the past. Too much happening all the time can do that to a person. ]

[passingthrough]

I wouldn't envy that. [She's glad to have a physical power, not that she ever got a choice in the matter, but it's hard enough knowing your own mind let alone others. Not to mention telepaths and the like were especially hunted in her world for destruction of service to the Shadow King. No thanks.]

[precedented]

I find that not many do, when I explain it properly. Alas, people will always hunt for the future.

[ Who wouldn't, when they live in uncertainty? ]

[passingthrough]

I barely even believe it exists. [Well, not the future at all, but her place in it. She did as a child. She was full of dreams and plans. And then years of loss and death seemed to finally work away the last of it until it was rare for her to think more than a few days in advance. She had the moment and she'd hold on to it at least.

Falling in love and relaxing in the prison had changed that for awhile. She started to see a future with someone even with the painful uncertainty of the prison. It was either the most hopeful or foolish thing she could have done and of course that was taken away.]

[precedented]

It exists, even when people try to take it. Many have tried to impose their own laws and limits on the future.

My dream is for a universe of surprises, where anyone can live from moment to moment. Free of any predetermined future.

[ It says something about his will power - he won't survive to see that dream happen. He won't even get to live in it. ]

[passingthrough]

Do you see our futures as predetermined now? [She didn't have much hope for it, but she figured it was still hers to choose.]

[precedented]

Not so much in this universe, but in many others . . . yes. They can be.

[passingthrough]

I guess this place really is full of surprises then.

Who would be predetermining these things? God?

[precedented]

[ He laughs. ]

Nothing so divine as that.

[passingthrough]

Does that mean you know who decides these things? [She's not sure how far she believes any of this or how much it conflicts with her own beliefs.]

[precedented]

Hmm. Yes and no. There's no . . . proper answer for who decides. Time is immutable. Everyone's actions stirs the pot, so to speak. Who decides? Perhaps you do. Perhaps it is someone else.

Our futures collide, like stars in the sky. Every action seems small but it can give or take away.

[passingthrough]

That doesn't exactly sound predetermined to me. Poetic, but not predetermined.

[precedented]

Doesn't it? As I said, there's no proper answer.

[ It depends on whose action have the most ripples. That force everyone down a single path. ]

[passingthrough]

There never is with you. [She's smirking but you're going to have to read it from her eyes alone as she takes one of your pawns.]

[precedented]

I never claimed to be coherent.

[passingthrough]

[That gets a snicker through the mask.] Good point. I should start making you list your qualities.

[precedented]

But that might be an extensive list. Not to mention boring.

[passingthrough]

I guess you're right. I'll just stick with being surprised and try to embrace my fate.

[precedented]

It's probably a lot more fun that way.

[passingthrough]

Hasn't bored me too much yet. [Wry.] You're not too bad at chess either. [She has a feeling she's losing this one, but she's not going to make it easy on him.]

[precedented]

Am I? High praise indeed.

[ He knows he's good. He makes little effort to hide it, but he enjoys the game rather than winning. ]

[passingthrough]

Try not to blush. I know I can gush.

So what do you make of this moon?

[precedented]

It needs an air filtration device.

[ Pause. Wait, that's not an opinion is it? ]

I'm surprised it's still in use, to be honest.

[passingthrough]

Maybe all their other options are worse somehow. Sobering thought.

[precedented]

It's certainly a possibility. I could not say for sure.