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Upcoming Event: THE PILLAR
This event will run from October 25th through November 8th.
EDIT: Sign-ups extended until end-of-day October 22nd.
Event Text
Tonight there is a storm. Lightning flashes across the sky, and the tang of electromagnetic interference is thick in the new air of Cybertron. The strikes are beautiful, lancing out in every color of the visual spectrum and more than a few colors beyond it, moving through the stars.
There are no clouds, however. There is no weather or rain.
There is only the Lambda, churning violently above the Haven, pulling winds in vast, large circular patterns around its epicenter: The Junk Pile. Dust swirls. Debris flies. The winds grow stronger and stronger through the night, until even the heaviest robots find themselves impeded if they try to approach.
It is only the Firstforged who remain steadfast, appearing one by one from their temples to approach the temptest storm. In the morning, they gather, and as the first light of the distant Cybertronian sun crests the horizon, they each unsheathe their weapons of choice.
The winds calm.
The lightning ceases.
For a moment, all is well.
Then, the Pillar strikes the ground.
It sends up shockwaves, burying the Firstforged in clouds of dust and rubble, making a deep noise like vast plates of metal buckling. To some, the sound seems oddly high-pitched and painful to hear. To others, it is disorienting.
To a select few, it is even changing.
When the dust clears, the Firstforged are gone and the junk pile has resettled, its peaks and valleys utterly different than they have been before. Buildings outside of the temples may have sustained damages from the heavy winds, and some electronics will still be functioning oddly from the lightning strikes.
However, there is something even stranger to note.
Sitting in the junk, amidst the rubble, is the Pillar.
It is precisely in the center of the Haven, just beneath the lambda and extending up as far as the naked eye can see--appearing even to reach into the lambda itself. Those who approach will find it makes a low-pitched hum, and is eerily warm to the touch. However, even those who do not approach will find it difficult to ignore the quiet unsettling feeling it leaves by just existing.
What’s worse is those who were ill-affected by the initial shock of its landing. They’re different, now, in both appearance and thought. They cannot remember their time here in the Haven any more than they can remember aspects of their lives before. Now, they remember different lives.
Alternate lives.
They act as if their past has utterly changed...and for a time, the Firstforged are not around to explain it.
It is up to the citizens of the Haven to realize what is wrong, and to come up with a solution for the problem--if one is even possible. It is up to the citizens to hold down the fort while its protectors are away. It is up to the denizens of Re-Aligned to chose their alignment.
How this works
Again, this event will run from October 25th through November 8th...meaning all that text above hasn't happened yet.
On the day leading up to the event there will be the storm, and starting the first day of the event the Firstforged will have ‘vanished’ and the Altered History effect will begin. This effect will last for two weeks, at which point either the players have solved the problem of the pillar or it will resolve itself.
By November 9th, the Firstforged will be back in the Haven and everyone will have returned to normal.
Firstforged Departure
The Pillar event consists of two sub-events...the Firstforged Departure and the Altered History effect.
Up until October 25th it can be assumed that the Firstforged have been going about their usual duties--generally unavailable but still present in the Haven.
After the night the Pillar falls, they will be unreachable. For two weeks, the Firstforged will be absolutely gone, vanished as if they’d not been there in the first place. Acolytes will wander in a daze or will continue tirelessly to do tasks that no one has told them to STOP (leading to many an over-polished floor.) Glyphs will still be present on all Refugees, but will seem dimmer. Those who have previously died or entered the badlands will feel a distinct pull towards the Pillar.
Something is definitely wrong.
Following the event, the Firstforged will return for a brief period (starting on November 9th). The appearance of the Pillar will have alerted them to the fact that Unicron is stepping up his game, and its now time for them to get serious. Some will be departing to watch the Lamda from space, others to keep an optic on the badlands, and others still to speed the work on Cybertron’s interior in hopes that Prima will return sooner if its done.
Before leaving to do all of those things, they will want to talk to their aligned.
Altered History
The second half of the Pillar event is the Altered History effect.
Participation on the Altered History effect is up to you! Should you wish to take part, you will need to complete the sign-up form below and submit it to this post before October 20th.
All characters hit by the Altered History ‘waves’ that the Pillar emits will find themselves changed. One significant moment in their past will have been altered, disrupting their personality and even potentially their appearance. Their new history will feel (and will BE) the real history for them. They will not remember changing, they will not remember any parts of their previous past, and they will not remember any time spent in Re-Aligned.
For all intents and purposes, it will seem to them like they just landed on this Cybertron for the first time.
However, the Altered History effect will only have an influence on THEM. While they may look and act very differently, their glyph will not have changed, their room will still have the same contents, and all their previous messages will still be on their communications device (or in their logs, for those with built-in Link connections.) Additionally, anyone not affected by the Pillar's AH waves will still remember them as they are supposed to be.
Example!
War for Cybertron!Megatron’s past has been changed. Instead of flying into a rage on the council floor and deciding to form the Decepticons and kill everyone ever, he distinctly remembers accepting Optimus’s offer to join with him to fix the corruption inherent in Cybertron’s bureaucracy. Together, they began building a system of significant reform, aiming to eventually abolish the Senate and start their political system anew. However, when the Senate received wind of this they reacted badly, naming Optimus, Megatron, and their followers outlaws. Megatron spent the next several million years with Optimus at the head of the Rebellion, championing equal rights for robots, campaigning peacefully sometimes to get help from alien races and to convince the Council of the error of their ways (Optimus’s idea), and conducting deadly battles other times against the vast armies of drones sent to annihilate them. They called themselves the Autocons.
In R/A Megatron’s brand is now different, a blue symbol with square eyes and sharp points. It matches his eerily blue optics.
He remembers his last conversation with Optimus on his homeworld, the red truck arguing with him about whether the coming battle could be avoided, both of them throwing angry words at each other as he staunchly refused to back down. He remembers turning to leave, disgusted, before hearing Optimus sigh and say ‘be careful, and don’t die.’
This makes Megatron thoroughly perplexed at the actual death threats he clearly has been exchanging with Optimus on his Link device in the Haven a week before.
He’s even more perplexed by the purple Decepticon motif that is emblazoned on everything he owns, and has no idea how these items came to be in a room which only opens for him.
Sign-ups
Anyone who wants to notice the bizzare happenings surrounding this event are welcome to do so at any point during it! Catch an Acolyte walking in circles, find yourself hugging the pillar every day before work, clean up all the debris that mysteriously flew into your room during the storm.
If you’d like to be additionally be changed by the Altered History, all you’ll have to do is fill out this form:
We do ask that you really think about your answers, and provide three or more large paragraphs for the history and personality sections. We’ll look each submission over and give it an okay so long as its solid and not game-breaky(so basically so long as it follows the rules of a normal app). If there’s something we’re unsure about we’ll ask before approving it. However, its better to be thorough than to be vague (especially since we will be reviewing these, and we’re already notorious for our slowness in pinging back and forth.)
Beyond that, feel free to use your creativity and come up with something you'll really enjoy~
~
EDIT: Sign-ups extended until end-of-day October 22nd.
Event Text
Tonight there is a storm. Lightning flashes across the sky, and the tang of electromagnetic interference is thick in the new air of Cybertron. The strikes are beautiful, lancing out in every color of the visual spectrum and more than a few colors beyond it, moving through the stars.
There are no clouds, however. There is no weather or rain.
There is only the Lambda, churning violently above the Haven, pulling winds in vast, large circular patterns around its epicenter: The Junk Pile. Dust swirls. Debris flies. The winds grow stronger and stronger through the night, until even the heaviest robots find themselves impeded if they try to approach.
It is only the Firstforged who remain steadfast, appearing one by one from their temples to approach the temptest storm. In the morning, they gather, and as the first light of the distant Cybertronian sun crests the horizon, they each unsheathe their weapons of choice.
The winds calm.
The lightning ceases.
For a moment, all is well.
Then, the Pillar strikes the ground.
It sends up shockwaves, burying the Firstforged in clouds of dust and rubble, making a deep noise like vast plates of metal buckling. To some, the sound seems oddly high-pitched and painful to hear. To others, it is disorienting.
To a select few, it is even changing.
When the dust clears, the Firstforged are gone and the junk pile has resettled, its peaks and valleys utterly different than they have been before. Buildings outside of the temples may have sustained damages from the heavy winds, and some electronics will still be functioning oddly from the lightning strikes.
However, there is something even stranger to note.
Sitting in the junk, amidst the rubble, is the Pillar.
It is precisely in the center of the Haven, just beneath the lambda and extending up as far as the naked eye can see--appearing even to reach into the lambda itself. Those who approach will find it makes a low-pitched hum, and is eerily warm to the touch. However, even those who do not approach will find it difficult to ignore the quiet unsettling feeling it leaves by just existing.
What’s worse is those who were ill-affected by the initial shock of its landing. They’re different, now, in both appearance and thought. They cannot remember their time here in the Haven any more than they can remember aspects of their lives before. Now, they remember different lives.
Alternate lives.
They act as if their past has utterly changed...and for a time, the Firstforged are not around to explain it.
It is up to the citizens of the Haven to realize what is wrong, and to come up with a solution for the problem--if one is even possible. It is up to the citizens to hold down the fort while its protectors are away. It is up to the denizens of Re-Aligned to chose their alignment.
How this works
Again, this event will run from October 25th through November 8th...meaning all that text above hasn't happened yet.
On the day leading up to the event there will be the storm, and starting the first day of the event the Firstforged will have ‘vanished’ and the Altered History effect will begin. This effect will last for two weeks, at which point either the players have solved the problem of the pillar or it will resolve itself.
By November 9th, the Firstforged will be back in the Haven and everyone will have returned to normal.
Firstforged Departure
The Pillar event consists of two sub-events...the Firstforged Departure and the Altered History effect.
Up until October 25th it can be assumed that the Firstforged have been going about their usual duties--generally unavailable but still present in the Haven.
After the night the Pillar falls, they will be unreachable. For two weeks, the Firstforged will be absolutely gone, vanished as if they’d not been there in the first place. Acolytes will wander in a daze or will continue tirelessly to do tasks that no one has told them to STOP (leading to many an over-polished floor.) Glyphs will still be present on all Refugees, but will seem dimmer. Those who have previously died or entered the badlands will feel a distinct pull towards the Pillar.
Something is definitely wrong.
Following the event, the Firstforged will return for a brief period (starting on November 9th). The appearance of the Pillar will have alerted them to the fact that Unicron is stepping up his game, and its now time for them to get serious. Some will be departing to watch the Lamda from space, others to keep an optic on the badlands, and others still to speed the work on Cybertron’s interior in hopes that Prima will return sooner if its done.
Before leaving to do all of those things, they will want to talk to their aligned.
Altered History
The second half of the Pillar event is the Altered History effect.
Participation on the Altered History effect is up to you! Should you wish to take part, you will need to complete the sign-up form below and submit it to this post before October 20th.
All characters hit by the Altered History ‘waves’ that the Pillar emits will find themselves changed. One significant moment in their past will have been altered, disrupting their personality and even potentially their appearance. Their new history will feel (and will BE) the real history for them. They will not remember changing, they will not remember any parts of their previous past, and they will not remember any time spent in Re-Aligned.
For all intents and purposes, it will seem to them like they just landed on this Cybertron for the first time.
However, the Altered History effect will only have an influence on THEM. While they may look and act very differently, their glyph will not have changed, their room will still have the same contents, and all their previous messages will still be on their communications device (or in their logs, for those with built-in Link connections.) Additionally, anyone not affected by the Pillar's AH waves will still remember them as they are supposed to be.
Example!
War for Cybertron!Megatron’s past has been changed. Instead of flying into a rage on the council floor and deciding to form the Decepticons and kill everyone ever, he distinctly remembers accepting Optimus’s offer to join with him to fix the corruption inherent in Cybertron’s bureaucracy. Together, they began building a system of significant reform, aiming to eventually abolish the Senate and start their political system anew. However, when the Senate received wind of this they reacted badly, naming Optimus, Megatron, and their followers outlaws. Megatron spent the next several million years with Optimus at the head of the Rebellion, championing equal rights for robots, campaigning peacefully sometimes to get help from alien races and to convince the Council of the error of their ways (Optimus’s idea), and conducting deadly battles other times against the vast armies of drones sent to annihilate them. They called themselves the Autocons.
In R/A Megatron’s brand is now different, a blue symbol with square eyes and sharp points. It matches his eerily blue optics.
He remembers his last conversation with Optimus on his homeworld, the red truck arguing with him about whether the coming battle could be avoided, both of them throwing angry words at each other as he staunchly refused to back down. He remembers turning to leave, disgusted, before hearing Optimus sigh and say ‘be careful, and don’t die.’
This makes Megatron thoroughly perplexed at the actual death threats he clearly has been exchanging with Optimus on his Link device in the Haven a week before.
He’s even more perplexed by the purple Decepticon motif that is emblazoned on everything he owns, and has no idea how these items came to be in a room which only opens for him.
Sign-ups
Anyone who wants to notice the bizzare happenings surrounding this event are welcome to do so at any point during it! Catch an Acolyte walking in circles, find yourself hugging the pillar every day before work, clean up all the debris that mysteriously flew into your room during the storm.
If you’d like to be additionally be changed by the Altered History, all you’ll have to do is fill out this form:
We do ask that you really think about your answers, and provide three or more large paragraphs for the history and personality sections. We’ll look each submission over and give it an okay so long as its solid and not game-breaky(so basically so long as it follows the rules of a normal app). If there’s something we’re unsure about we’ll ask before approving it. However, its better to be thorough than to be vague (especially since we will be reviewing these, and we’re already notorious for our slowness in pinging back and forth.)
Beyond that, feel free to use your creativity and come up with something you'll really enjoy~
~
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Character journal:
Altered History:
Blackarachnia's past as changed quite a bit. Instead of being brought online and reprogrammed as a Predacon, she's brought online as a Maximal and joined their ranks. From there she served as the groups spy and helped Rhinox keep the base running. A lot of her time she spent trying to steal parts and other needed things from the Predacons to help keep the Axalon running. Of course, she became very good at this and on one of her little 'missions', she stumbled across something strange.
She managed to sneak aboard the Darksyde and hack into Megatron's personal files to see exactly why the purple saurian had been so quiet lately. There she found the access codes for the ARK. She wasn't too sure how or even what they were so she stole them just in case and erased Megatron's copy with a well placed virus that caused havoc with their ship's systems for weeks to come.
As she was escaping, she tripped one of Tarantula's alarm systems and quickly got caught by the other spider. She tried to get away and nearly did before he managed to paralyze her with his venom.
Blackarachnia didn't know how long she was out, only that when she came to, she was strapped down in Tarantula's lab and there was an alien attack on the planet. From there, things were a blur for sometime. What she does remember is pain. Excruciating pain from Tarantulas forcibly rooting through her circuits to retrieve the missing activation codes from the Ark. [Meanwhile, Optimus Primal saved everyone by blowing up the alien artifact trying to destroy the planet and then Rhinox retrieved his spark.]
Once he was done, he left her for the Maximals to find, battered and barely online and with a little surprise. After Blackarachnia was repaired, she came to realize there was something wrong. Tarantulas had used his time messing with her mind to forge a mental link with the she-spider. Blackarachnia was forced to become a Predacon spy and couldn't tell her fellow Maximals. For awhile she resisted, fighting him every step of the way. At times she managed to act out against her team mates, hoping they would get the hint that something was wrong. At first they figured she was still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of the Predacons and didn't think much of it.
It wasn't until Silverbolt joined the group that things started to get a little out of hand. Tarantulas forced her to try and destroy the Axalon. Thankfully Silverbolt saved her from succeeding and forced Primal and Rhinox to take a closer look. They discovered the tampering and managed to sever the link.. by exposing her to massive amounts of unstable Energon and nearly killing her in the process.
She managed to survive and pull through, though now not with out some mental damage. For awhile she refused to leave the base and only ever talked to Sliverbolt, Airazor and Rhinox. The she spider avoided Rattrap who didn't seem to want her around after the spying was discovered and Dinobot who she never really got along with. Otherwise, she simply avoided everyone else.
Eventually she started to come around with help from Sliverbolt who seemed to always be there for her. Eventually, she started to act like her old self though she still refused to speak to most bots. It was about this time she finally managed to share Megatron's plans about the ARK with Optimus Primal.
Immediately they set off to locate and protect the relic. They even managed to get there before Megatron and set up defenses. Megatron was furious and mounted several attacks. But, with Blackarachnia controlling the defenses the Predacon's couldn't get near the relic.
Not until Rampage joined their ranks. His firepower was overwhelming the Maximals at every turn and it was only just barely they managed to keep the place protected. By this time Blackarachnia was never seen outside the Ark. She was constantly linked into the Arks systems and trying to keep everything stable while everyone else tried to keep the place defended.
Then one battle the Predacon's tried a new trick. They caused a massive feedback in the system's defenses that went straight to Blackarachnia. She screamed as it felt like she was being burned from the inside out and lost consciousness for some time. When she came to, she remembers seeing Silverbolt as he held her and kept saying something she couldn't hear. Blackarachnia felt herself start to go offline and managed to confess her feelings to Silverbolt before she died.
Altered Personality:
Blackarachnia's personality has taken a dramatic shift with her AU! History. Before Blackarachnia was dangerous, confidant and every ounce of a femme fatale ready to both kiss and kill her intended target with intelligence to spare. Now? Blackarachnia is more withdrawn and quiet. This is something that every bot that knows her might just do a double take on.
She does more observing than talking and when she does say something, it's important. The she-spider is still very intelligent and she chooses to silently display her intelligence with inventions or creating programs to do something helpful to others. Even so, she is still very skilled at getting around unnoticed.
However, the biggest change would be in her confidence and motivation. Blackarachnia lacks the confidence she once had and sometimes second guesses herself, making mistakes that would have been easily avoided. As for her motivation, it's less about her survival and more about everyone else to the point where she died trying to protect others.
Like before, she still loves Silverbolt and he's still a very large factor in her life. Only now Blackarachnia is more reliant on the other bot, or she was before she died. He was her rock during the hard times and the one bot she trusted completely after her ordeal at the claws of Tarantulas. Which leads her into being very quiet around others unless she trusts them to some degree.
Altered Appearance: (
Nothing really changes about Blackarachnia's appearance. She's still a black and gold she-spider with a Blackwidow beast mode. The only real thing to note the change of is her faction symbol. Instead of being the Predacon symbol, it's now the Maximal symbol.
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