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GODS AMONG US [modplot/network post] [video]
[It happens everywhere. The entire ship starts to shift and change. It's subtle at first. Simple design changes: a new hallway here, a new hub there, a meeting room where there wasn't one before. But then the people start to shift, too. Familiar staff members disappear, new ones take their place. The technology changes in style, sometimes to something shiny simplistic, like something out 1950s sci fi, sometimes to something darker and more organic.]
[Then the alarms sound, klaxons blaring. They shift occasionally in tone, but all of them are equally urgent. Anyone that looks outside the ship will see that the lunar debris field keeps warping back and forth from a field of debris to the moon being whole.]
[Everyone's omnicoms buzz with an urgent message. Brainy speaks to them all from the lab's wall comm unit.]
I need all displacee Legionnaires to report to my lab immediately!
[He's...building something. Setting something up. It looks important.]
We don't have much time!
[ooc: Anyone in the game can respond to this, however anyone who didn't sign up for "Gods Among Us" (and therefore won't make it to the time bubble in time for the trip) won't remember ever responding, as events will erase the crisis (and therefore this network post) from the timeline.]
[Then the alarms sound, klaxons blaring. They shift occasionally in tone, but all of them are equally urgent. Anyone that looks outside the ship will see that the lunar debris field keeps warping back and forth from a field of debris to the moon being whole.]
[Everyone's omnicoms buzz with an urgent message. Brainy speaks to them all from the lab's wall comm unit.]
I need all displacee Legionnaires to report to my lab immediately!
[He's...building something. Setting something up. It looks important.]
We don't have much time!
[ooc: Anyone in the game can respond to this, however anyone who didn't sign up for "Gods Among Us" (and therefore won't make it to the time bubble in time for the trip) won't remember ever responding, as events will erase the crisis (and therefore this network post) from the timeline.]
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[ It was the first thing to come out of his mouth, although he immediately started noticing that no, he was not seeing things. So, he started to scramble to his feet. ]
Alright, I'm on my way, but someone just tell me I'm not seeing things?
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[Which is why he's working faster than he's ever worked before.]
This universe has an exceptionally large number of time travelers, many of whom attempt alter time maliciously -- especially during the 21st century. It means that the present day is extremely fluid.
I had alarms set up to warn me of alterations to the past.
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[ This all sounds incredibly familiar to Danny. ]
... So uh, I guess I'm upgrading to running then.
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No, walk. Enjoy having a leisurely stroll as the world as we know it gets destroyed.
Idiot.
[This variant of Brainy is apparently not very nice, but he's at least still working on the time travel device.]
Since you're from outside the universe, your past won't be immediately effected, despite your recent past having been spent here. Due to the flexible nature of spacetime in this universe, it'll take time for this timeline to fully collapse.
But once it does, it'll destroy all of you as well, because of all the time you've spent here getting erased.
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... Great. It's what I've always wanted. To be erased from existence.
[ Again. ]
I'll owe you that leisurely stroll, how about that?
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[...says the now very genial-looking Brainy, who is once again different from the last time. The array on his forehead is different and his skin is a bluer green.
He's also smiling, despite working so quickly, far friendlier than the last Brainy.]
Let's hope we can keep this timeline intact long enough for a leisurely anything.
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[ Although, on the plus side, he's not a jerk. And can probably appreciate that Danny is actually kind of booking it, trying to put on the last part of his uniform, the eyemask. ]
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[This version of Brainy isn't nice.]
[He yanks on some wiring, angrily.]
Given that it takes me less than a nanosecond to process a thought, every minute I spend around you brainless idiots is filled with a hundred thousand mental screams, begging for the sweet release of death.
[Apparently, this version of Brainy is really not nice.]
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[He's not exactly there immediately, but it's as close as anyone can possibly come.]
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'Kay.
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[At least there are still granola bars.]
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Yeah, yeah, coming! What's the mission briefing? How much time until deployment? What's all up?
[Don't mind the trail of fire he's leaving through the halls, it's entirely harmless.]
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The timeline is collapsing due to interference in the past, and the damage must be repaired to preserve the present.
We don't have time for a briefing. Deployment is whenever at least some of you deign to arrive. I'll send off the time bubble when it seems like we've run out of time.
[If some of them miss the boat, so be it. Hopefully, the crisis will be wiped out of existence anyway, if the team is successful.]
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So time travel stuff, alright, got it.
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You know. I was hoping for a little more time to get acclimated before getting thrown in the deep end. No rest and all that.
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[ Also talking while running, somehow managing not to run into anyone while he's yanking his helmet on. Practice does make perfect! ]
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[Yeah. Bruce totally gets father of the year awards for that sort of thing.]
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[ How...young did he even start, wow. ]
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[And it's a when, not an if. This is not going to be something that they can't fix, after all.]
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[The Brainy that he's shifted into is... not very nice, but that's timeline interference for you.]
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[Dick can handle not-nice. At least Brainy isn't trying to kill him, like Jason's tried.]
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I can understand your relief. According to the historical records, he wasn't quite what you'd call sunny.
Not like Superman.
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Well, it's hard to compare anybody to Clark. And a little unfair, really. But Batman had his moments.
[Mostly before Jason died, but he'd been getting better.]
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[She's bringing her computer, just in case.]
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Paladin, make sure you bring a computer. I can send you back with some technology that might be of benefit to you, but I can't guarantee that I can place you at the exact moment of interference. You may find yourselves needing ways of integrating into the past, or may have to fix more subtle manipulations of events.
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I imagine that what you see is different from what I see. To me, the Legion Outpost has always looked the way it looks, but you must be seeing it shift between different possibilities.
So no, that isn't just something it can do. What you're seeing are the shockwaves from the time stream, showing you various alternate versions of the station.
Fortunately for all of you -- [He pulls goggles over his eyes and starts welding something together] -- one version of me left a contingency in place. Alongside the time alarms he set on the past, he created a device with the ability to resonate across multiple nearby timelines, ensuring that any Brainiac 5 that replaced him would get the message. Every possible version of us that could exist in this timeline has the same schematics, and the same time travel device already mostly-finished.
I only have to make some last minute adjustments to ensure it'll survive the transition -- which I couldn't make until getting the right readings from the adverse event itself.
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If you can do it quickly enough, make sure to gather any supplies and equipment you may need along the way. Physical contact with you will grant a protective influence over any supplies; otherwise they'll be lost to the timestream as the Legion Clubhouse shifts and changes.
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How much time?
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He didn't bother to announce himself. He calls out from behind Brainy. ]
Yeah, okay, what?
[ He stretches and yawns a little. He may not have screwed around, but his nap was interrupted and it's a tragedy. ]
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The present is altering around us because someone in the past is messing with time travel. Brainy's building a time machine to send us back to fix everything.
The fact that he keeps randomly switching between alternate versions of himself hasn't seemed to stop him from being able to manage it, which is actually kind of weird even by my standards.
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everything about time travel in this reality gives me either headaches or anxiety
or both
its kinda both right now