We hope you've all settled into Haven well enough. The people who live here still don't trust you. The solar paneling that powers the town is still spotty and there's still no school for the teenagers, but everyone seems to have settled into some manner of a routine, right?
By now, some of you reading this will probably be going "oh, crap. what's happening now?"
Guys...
friends. Loved ones of Fluxscape.
The Circus is coming to town. This traveling show won't be announcing it's coming, but NPCs will be talking about a caravan coming from the West for the next couple weeks, with reports of dancers and exotic animals and music. It's going to create quite the buzz in town. People will be excited.
On June 20th, the Sunspot Circus will arrive! Don't worry, they won't need help setting up. They'll have everything up and running by mid-morning, and staff will be walking through town, friendly as you please, making stops to tell people all about Sunspot Circus. They'll tell of the upcoming performances, and all of the side-show acts people can see. The tickets are reasonably priced, and bringing a date is encouraged. Who knows? Maybe the fortune teller will have something lovely to tell couples. And the food is amazing. The smells of it drifting through the entire town for the duration of their visit.
People with old fashioned cameras will be walking around, selling photos for cheap, so it's absolutely a wise idea to get a photo of yourself and your friends at the circus, if you don't mind holding still for two minutes. But don't worry, the day the circus leaves, you'll get your photo delivered by courier.
On June 23rd, they'll pack up and leave and wasn't that the most amazing thing you've ever seen?
We hope you enjoyed their visit, because it was a huge distraction.
You see, while you were at the circus enjoying a good time, and while you were watching the performers roam the streets of Haven, giving a small demonstration of what they'll be doing at the circus, they've been setting up for something bad.
And they'll have done this so discreetly, that even the paranoid residents of Haven haven't noticed anything amiss.
On June 24th is when things start going downhill. Someone somewhere is very aware that you don't belong in this universe, and they're very aware that your presence will make life difficult for them. And they've found a way to use that against you.
Up until now, you haven't experienced the horrors that is your body aware on a cellular and molecular level that they're in the wrong place. But now, you'll be going through what a few people in town know as Glitching.
And in case you're wondering what that is, we have a handy dandy
video for you. At the 16 second mark is what your body will go through. At random. Several times. As often or as infrequently as you choose. It is exceptionally painful and sometimes debilitating. Every single possible version of yourself is trying to exist one spot for anywhere from five seconds to ten seconds at a time, and it is exhausting.
Not only that, but it's causing rapid cellular degeneration. And for those that have powers, please note something very, very important:
Your powers are gone for the duration of this event, from the 24h to the end.
Basically, this is dangerous. You'll recover at the end, we promise. But until then, it's probably best to try to find why this is happening and to be very careful going through your day to day life.
There have been several devices planted around town. This won't really be discovered until a week into glitching because these devices have cloaking capabilities, but some of the brilliant NPC minds at Wechester have discovered what's causing it and for those that want to help, they've developed an app for your FluxPhones that will help you track these devices.
There are seven of them.
1: In the
market place, close to the food stalls. Tucked under the underside of a stool.
2 and 3: In the broken down mall. One of them in an
old shoe store, the other in a broken down book store.
4 and 5: In the school.
One in the art room (taken by Miles Morales),
another in the old gym. (Claimed by Eli 'Hawk' Moskowitz).
6:
The roof of the hospital.7: The Caldera, right inside an old drain.
We need volunteers to find a device, so if you're interested, please let us know which one you'll want to find.
Around this time, the cloaking devices will be faulty, so they'll be easier to spot. They'll flicker in and out of visibility, but they'll be there. No bigger than a matchbook. Easily broken.
By July 3rd, all devices will be destroyed and people will start to recover. But it's probably a good idea to at least start trying to figure out who sent the Circus and the devices. We'll have clues for that at the end of this event.
Now, a final bit of insanity. While this wasn't part of the glitching shown above, whoever sent these devices either programmed this in on purpose, or wasn't even aware this was a side effect of it, but while an infinite number of you are trying to live in one spot, people nearby will see memories tied to the you that's here. They'll experience them as high def or as minimally as they want, but people within touching distance will suddenly live a brief part of your life. Whether they're experiencing it as if it was their own memory, or standing on the sidelines watching this whole thing, that's up to the players. But this should make for some interesting moments during all of this, right?
Please feel free to start plotting below. If you are offering memories to share, please mention them in your comment. And it doesn't have to be someone they're always around. Please use this opportunity to build new CR.
Thanks! Have fun!
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