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theearth) wrote in saveyourselves2015-05-30 01:07 pm
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All good things come to an end
This will be the last mod post on this community. Save The Earth is over. It was a blast, and we hope that everyone who played here had fun, too. Stay as awesome as you are!
There will be a successor game,raisetheearth, run by Lexil (of L), Ken (of Lily, Saretha, Natalie), Zalein (of Cesar) and MaxSalsa (of Winter).
All of that said, there is one last IC post for Day 4 on the IC comm for playing out the aftermath of the invasion. Boy NPC tags will be continued.
Going by the threads so far, it has become clear that the Boy has been "defeated" for good, as player characters have already managed to a number of crucial points with him. More information on this can be found at the bottom of the "storytime" under the cut/in the second blockquote.
Thus the game will end as follows:
And in this place, we'll give you a bit of story time. THIS IS STRICTLY OOC KNOWLEDGE. It is also tl;dr – simplified and shortened but still long. Still, it seemed to us that leaving the StE arc of this universe, you deserve to get at least a rough look at the part of the part of the “background info” that likely won't show up again in RtE (if it seems incomplete, that is because other parts will likely show up again in RtE).
Please use this post for telling each other where your character stands at the end of the invasions, if they survived, perhaps even if you'll continue on to RtE, and say your goodbyes. There is a general questions thread below for your last questions and comments.
So long, and thanks for the fish! It was a blast.
There will be a successor game,
raisetheearth, run by Lexil (of L), Ken (of Lily, Saretha, Natalie), Zalein (of Cesar) and MaxSalsa (of Winter).All of that said, there is one last IC post for Day 4 on the IC comm for playing out the aftermath of the invasion. Boy NPC tags will be continued.
Going by the threads so far, it has become clear that the Boy has been "defeated" for good, as player characters have already managed to a number of crucial points with him. More information on this can be found at the bottom of the "storytime" under the cut/in the second blockquote.
Thus the game will end as follows:
On the morning of May 2nd, the 4th day of the invasion, enemy soldiers around the world will suddenly cease their attacks. They will tell anyone around them who might hear to go home and make sure that their parents and children and other loved ones are well, and then return to their ships and take off, returning to whence they came from.
The Animals will return to their resting states... and a sight can be seen above Las Vegas and Locke City: A orange-red dragon, rising from within an unconscious Arthur York's body, flies up over Las Vegas, circles over it for a few times and then barrels into the mountain. It instantly heads for the bottom of the mountain and curls up on the gold hoard there. And there it will stay, too. At the same time, Phillip Santorini faints somewhere in Locke City. From his body, a quite different being rises and floats above the city for a while before diving right into the ground, sending tremors through the city for a while as it dives down and burrows deep under the city. The Animals of Locke City and Las Vegas have thus been replaced, and Earth has resealed all her openings, enabling those who live on her to rebuild ...eventually. The Animals will now rest until such time when they should be needed again.
Characters who went to the aliens' home world will be escorted back to Earth personally (please either thread this out with the NPC or contact Kira-mod if you wish to handwave/know ahead of time). In return for each of them, one of the named aliens will be able to return to their place, so by the end of this exchanged, Geoff, Badri, Meredith (if he survived), Young and the Zhangs will all be gone.
The world isn't in a good state after their departure. North America is to a large part inhabitable or at least in a terrible state - it's pretty much your standard apocalyptic setting, complete wasteland in some and "only" ruined shambles in other areas. South America, Europe and Asia are partly in a terrible state, but in other parts all right or even untouched. Even Oceania and Africa, which saw no direct Enemy encounters, carry scars due to the world serpent smashing against them in places when fighting, though they remain for the most part as they were before the invasion. Obviously, even areas of the world that are untouched on the surface will see the disaster on their doorstep with international trade being down, tons of refugees and displaced persons all over the world, and so on.
The numbered will also find that the whole world is an echo boundary now - they won't lose their echoes anywhere any more, unless they lose them completely. Doppelgängers and Wolpertingers stay around if they survived the invasion, but all other Animals go back to sleep. The teleporter has been destroyed in the attack on Locke City.
And in this place, we'll give you a bit of story time. THIS IS STRICTLY OOC KNOWLEDGE. It is also tl;dr – simplified and shortened but still long. Still, it seemed to us that leaving the StE arc of this universe, you deserve to get at least a rough look at the part of the part of the “background info” that likely won't show up again in RtE (if it seems incomplete, that is because other parts will likely show up again in RtE).
In the original timeline, Earth was not a her yet, it was an "it" - a rock in space, not an entity. On this planet, reality wasn't as fixed as it is on ours, and adhered much more to how things "should be" - the good guy always won, and so on.
But things weren't perfect, and people didn't always agree. And sometimes those grew worse, and eventually, there was a war so terrible that suddenly all humans could agree on one thing: That the war should be over, or should never have started, that it „should not be“. This first-ever universally shared perception was so powerful that it managed to tear a hole into time and reality, and there was only one way to fix it: To remove all humans from the planet. To not entirely let go of humanity, one human should be put into an ark designed to allow for them to be just by themselves and create a world around themselves as it "should be" (the group of people that had built this ark had meant to built one for every member of humanity, but at this point only one was finished) and eventually recreate humanity. But while there was still a discussion over who should be the chosen one, two parents who just loved their child too much put their little boy into that ark and sent it away. The ark fell into the hole in time.
And our timeline happened. In this timeline, Earth is sentient to at least a degree. It was created by all of humanity and indeed all of life on Earth ceasing to exist all of a sudden, which turned all of their souls into Soul that then joined up. All those Soul units joined up into one being: Earth.
For a long time, the collective entity Earth just floated through space, her timeline existing along with a lot of other timelines - these other timelines being those in which your characters existed. But then the child in the ark woke up. An infinitely powerful being in a world where barely anyone else was left who could control what „should be“, he still was only a child and couldn't imagine very much at once. So his scope of what "should be" was limited to the inside of his ark - he simply couldn't comprehend there being more.
And all that "should not be" ended. The worlds didn't explode - the timelines simply sped up infinitely and unravelled within seconds, the universes in which characters' worlds existed reaching their end within a few heartbeats of the boy's time (this is also why StE has no pull-points - all characters' lives went down as in canon, no matter how long it took). The only timeline that survived what that of the Earth entity, because she was still inherently linked to the Boy at this point, and in time what little survived of the other timelines gathered on her. Millions of years passed before the Boy looked out of his ark, and in this time, something happened on Earth:
Continents. An atmosphere. Evolution. And finally, humans.
But then the Boy peered out of his ark and saw that there was something that wasn't a part of the world that he had created through his ideas of how it "should be". He first was interested and curious, but then Earth refused his meddling and being the aeons old eternal child that the ark made him, he threw a temper tantrum at seeing a place that wouldn't just conform to how it should be according to him. The war was short and devastating, bringing upon the last ice age. Earth created the Animals as her defences: Parts of herself, made up of thousands and millions of pieces of Souls, guarding the weakest points of herself. After the battle, the Boy retreated and the Animals were laid to rest.
And humankind developed, and the Boy sulked and then made plans as to how to not lose next time. He would have to be more crafty, slow and careful... (It is important to note here that he never quite understood what the life on Earth, or even Earth herself, was. He just saw that it was there and wouldn't just be nice to him.)
But even when trying to be stealthy, he wasn't stealthy enough. When the first infiltrator entered Earth's sphere, she caught him and activated a rather different defence mechanism from the Animals: She took advantage of the Soul pieces that resided in some of the people who walked her surface – that is, the last remainders of the unravelled other timelines that were stuck within ordinary humans. The numbered. For this, she first had to weaken the Animal Seals - this caused the pink lights.
Now, Soul contains recorded lives, and this Soul would give more information to the body and mind whose soul it had become. And for the first time since the pieces of Soul had arrived on Earth a long time ago, they slowly came back to life again... and this is how echoes turned people into their "preincarnations".
Why didn't Earth just reactivate its Animals to level Tiny? Not for love of the people who live in Locke City - Earth is a collective, not an individual, and as such it is very hard for her to "agree" on a course of action that goes beyond the most common one, which is wanting to survive (this is also how the Animals, which are smaller parts of Earth, function - self defence (which includes the defence of Earth) is the one thing that they will do because the collective of Soul that they are made of can't agree on anything else). No. It needed them as they were to keep out the aliens, or at least the stronger ones.
What are the "aliens"? They are, essentially, beings that the Boy created by thinking that they "should be". A child should not be alone, a society needs this and that person to function - they aren't figments of his imagination, they are real and individuals (more or less - the more actual thought went into one of them the more of an individual they are - the soldiers of the invasion are really more or less persons cloned 99 times and altered a bit each time to resemble individuals while Young, Badri etc are very individual persons) but in the end they are creations of the Boy's mind that can act independently of him because they aren't parts of him - the Boy is the ultimate individual, unlike Earth who is the ultimate collective. All life on Earth is individuals that are essentially unrelated to Earth or the Boy, with exception of the wolpertingers and doppelgängers, which is parts of the Earth collective merged with individual life - either through one Earth Soul physically merging with one or more animals, or through one Earth Soul doing a negative print of a numbered human and acting as this negative print's soul.
The Boy's creations needed to waken the Animals and have them destroyed. Their methods varied - Tiny still needed a lot of human help, plotting and time for that with Wise Snake, while the stronger Meredith needed a bit less help and time for Crablobster, and then it started to get a lot faster and easier with Young and the Zhangs arriving. Young in a way had a special role because she was not supposed to take action but was specifically sent to figure out the Animals.
The numbered that at the end of the invasion went up to meet the Boy made him realize and learn a few things about the life on Earth, that until then had been absolutely abstract for him, and most importantly made it clear to him that those people are humans like him, but with the important difference that unlike him they still live in relationships, something that he only vaguely remembers from before he was placed in the Ark. That those relationships are as great, if not greater, than what he remembers having with his parents, and there are many different kinds. But he also learned about what living in relationships means – that there are other wills and needs which have to be respected, that they need time and effort to develop, that they may work out but also may not work out, that they take someone who is entirely outside of you.
He decided that all of that means that he should interact with the life on Earth in single relationships because they are like him, and their relationships have as much worth as what he had with his parents. But also that they are outside of him and not something that he can touch without their permission. So as long as animal life exists on Earth, Earth will be safe from him.
(He might have adopted a few birds or other living beings in return for sending all numbered back to Earth. This depends a bit on threads that are still happening, but it's quite likely.)
Please use this post for telling each other where your character stands at the end of the invasions, if they survived, perhaps even if you'll continue on to RtE, and say your goodbyes. There is a general questions thread below for your last questions and comments.
So long, and thanks for the fish! It was a blast.
General Questions
This is Kira-mod
I'm a bit stumped for words but THANKS EVERYONE AND I HOPE YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE AN AMAZING RIDE IN RP LAND!
Mark
Liam will not be returning for RTE, but that doesn't mean I'll stop playing him. He's a character I had a lot of fun with, and I hope that he made you laugh now and then!
Some of my favorite moments include:
- The salad incident
- Getting attacked by the mafia
- The impromptu vacation that got him in trouble!
- The "bird flu" incident.
Some of my favorite echos:
- pointy ears
- sealonging
- elven sight and hearing
It's been fun, Save the Earth!
<3!
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Liam's a treasure, and it's always been fun seeing him.
eta: also, applause for the helper-mod!
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Applause for Kira, last of the mods of StE! It's been a contentious couple of years in that regard, but I'm glad our last moderator was great.
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Raise the Earth housekeeping
I want to note that, while we're not making returning reincarnates fill out a full app, there'll be a fairly short claim form that needs to be filled out! One of the things we'll be asking for is your info post, and we will be looking to make sure your Echoes are up to date! Please ensure your info post is ready to go, and we'll be getting back to you in a little while with information on the new game when we're all set!
I don't want to hijack this post with RtE questions - while it's for plotting for what comes next, this post is for the rest of this game. We'll have an FAQ page up for your RtE arcana soon. Until then, it's been a blast playing with everyone here, and we're looking forward to seeing you on the other side!
XC
Marina will be getting badly injured fighting, receiving a severe wound to one side of her face along with a few smaller ones, losing her left eye as a result, and will be recovering and receiving medical attention in the immediate aftermath. She'll be back for RtE!
I've yet to decide what sort of shape Umi will be in, certainly not fantastic, but when the battle ends, she'll be heading off to more or less travel the world for a little while. I'm probably keeping her along, with her own brand new journal to avoid endless confusion.
It's been a blast, and I'd love to keep RPing with everyone one of you elsewhere if you aren't coming along to RtE!
Aaron Strider
His STE CR is completely free to assume he's around and still in touch; he'll keep his Echoes, if that's allowed. Even if he loses them, he'll stay in contact with the people he met through the Numbers, as much as he can. You're also totally free to handwave him helping you out, if you need him.
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Nat is maybe more likely to go to RtE. I'm not sure.
Gwyn, I wanna say travels North America and goes and is this benevolent warlord figure. If I ever pick her up again... well, we'll see.
Julien's dopple Caius is around. After the molt you won't even be able to tell if he was injured. He largely keeps to himself. Nat's dopple may or may not have lived and lurks around, mostly hiding.
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Torin has taken to living inside Bragigas's Spirit Base with his pandemonium of parrots. He's traveling the world, going where he thinks a gigantic dinosaur robot might be of use.
Arthur is finally free to TRAVEL THE WORLD and SWIM ALL THE WORLD'S OCEANS, so that's just what he's going to do.
As for their doppelgangers, what has happened to them is a mystery
because I didn't know they'd last this long. Arthur's was pretty much totally useless during all this and likely just tried to go live as a normal guy somewhere, and Torin's was enough of a Blood Knight that he probably died fighting aliens. (If the Boy wants to adopt a big weird whiny bug, hey, Hajime's doppelganger is totally available...)And thanks for everything, guys. It's been a blast playing with you!
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Toushirou winds up pretty busted up in all the fighting, probably wound up using his multiple-mile-radius ability and passing out from lack of energy after that. Fortunately, that was right about the time the invasion was called off. So yeah, he needed a good share of medical attention afterward, but he's gonna be okay and relocate to New Zealand with his Granny, who also survives. And he'll be attending high-school by the time RtE starts. (But he's still tiny, the poor thing.)
Nathan is among those who went up to speak with the Boy. The whole invasion has left him pretty shaken, but he's in one piece. He'll be continuing on with his adopted family of Lazarus and Tony, just basically doing whatever he can to help people.
As for their doppelgangers . . . well, I'm know I'm not going to be doing anything with them in RtE, but honestly killing them off would make me sad because I'm a huge dork of a softie. So they're around somewhere, just having fun as they are wont to do.
It has been super awesome fun here, and I wish everyone the best whether we see each other in RtE or not!
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Summer also made it through, mostly with anger and a stubborn desire not to lose to Winter; she'll be hanging around in the future, though I'm not sure what capacity it'll be in.
I'm moving forward to Raise the Earth with Winter, as well as helping to run it, so I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there! For those that aren't coming along, I've had a great time playing with you, and I wish you the best wherever you go from here.
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I'm still undecided on whether I'll join y'all in RtE, so Stefan will finish up college in either Jordan or Harvard if it's still up/around - feel free to handwave or assume CR with him in the remaining year! He won't be a stranger.
(Stefan's doppelganger, on the other hand, has decided to travel the world, hopping between country to country with doppel-Xander. I have no clue what their relationship to each other is, tbh, but it's entirely possible others will run into them.)
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And ugh they were so much fun, all of them, and I'm sad that their muses didn't stick for more than a year for the most part. Still, I had a lot of fun with them (and I enjoyed greatly the reluctant blood relation between Blaine and Julien).
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how about an armed dodoThey were all fun, and I was glad to see 'em all. |D The cousins thing certainly holds a special place.
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The siblings do too, but they don't have as much history yet and aren't over so! Where did Nat hang our during the invasion, anyway?
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True! I had several days of no motivation for anyone but Julien, so I dropped the ball with her. >< She encouraged evacuation into the Ghost Zone and recruited some ghost animals like the tiger. Probably spent a lot of time there, though she got her X-wing.
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He settled on a plot of land in the relatively-unaffected New Zealand outside of Christchurch, which he's working on developing and building into a small and safe community/base. Now that Espresso Yourself and Willow Ridge are destroyed, he's got a lot of time and energy on his hands. On South Island, Shepherd's Haven is possibly one of the safest places for recuperating, unpowered or frightened Numbered to go.
His deeds aside, Lazarus could be faring better. Though he was able to get Aaron's standard out of the school before the collapse, along with his ice stave, some medical supplies and his medications, he only has about a month's supply. Lazarus is medicated for a reason; he suffers from schizophrenia and OCD, and relies heavily on his prescriptions to function normally. By the time Shepherd's haven is up and running, he'll be struggling and relying heavily on his close CR (chiefly his "brother" Tony) for protection and care. He'll be out of commission for a few months until he can get back on his normal schedule of antipsychotics, and in that time he will insist that he and Cesar take an indefinite break rather than let the difficulties chip away at their relationship.
Lazarus' doppelganger is still around! I'm going to make a journal for him and continue to play him in RTE.
Luca, the cowardly chameleon Mafia henchman, is still around and may wind up with a Number of his very own in the near future. <3
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It's been a blast from the beginning to the end
Drizz
Shaken, tired, and scared, but Rakka was alive in the end. And she got to see the fighting stopped.
After meeting up with her friends, Rakka first made her way back to locke... only to find not much left of it. Her house, which had been turned into a sort of hospital, was completely gone. Nothing left, not even the bodies. Gathering what she can, she finds the others again and heads for New Zealand to begin her new life with them. In the meantime, she'll help her parents with a relief effort for the world.
Reki - Rakka's doppelganger - survived as well... though she wasn't as lucky as Rakka. She fought alongside some of her "friends" but lost part of her left arm in the process. She's recovering, but unhappy about it. I might make a separate journal for Reki for RTE, so look out for that, I guess.
I'm looking forward to wherever the future takes Rakka and all these other characters. I wish everyone the best in the new game, or even if they're not coming back!
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Ivy "Granny" Curry and the rest of the extended Curry clan managed to get out of America just in time. They now live on a fleet of boats that were formerly owned by Ocean Monster, Arthur's brother's boat dealership, and are engaged on a world tour as Granny decides where she wants them to finally settle.
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Any colors you'd like?