GODS AMONG US [modplot/network post] [video]

[googledox]

[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.]

Comments

[googledox]

The timeline is shifting! We have maybe minutes before it's altered irreparably.

[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.

[ordinarily]

Oh.

[ This all sounds incredibly familiar to Danny. ]

... So uh, I guess I'm upgrading to running then.

[googledox]

[His appearance has...shifted. And so has his personality.]

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.

[ordinarily]

[ You know, Danny had to bite his tongue to not just immediately retort. Although watching Brainiac actually change before his eyes kind of helped cement the gravity of the situation. ]

... Great. It's what I've always wanted. To be erased from existence.

[ Again. ]

I'll owe you that leisurely stroll, how about that?

[googledox]

It's a deal.

[...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.

[ordinarily]

Okay, you need to stop doing that.

[ 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. ]

[rushing_by]

I swear it wasn't my fault this time.

[ordinarily]

Not it.

[googledox]

What about this particular moment screams "it's time to make unfunny jokes"?

[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.]

[rushing_by]

Everything? It's either this or I start panicking over something I can't do anything about until you finish that.