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magicalworld) wrote2013-07-31 04:26 pm
magicalworld) wrote2013-07-31 04:26 pm
PLOT ANNOUNCEMENT: Honey, the Kids Shrunk Us
Hello everyone, Jesse and Carolyn here to tell you about an upcoming plot where two small children ruin everyone’s lives!
Calvin is six and thinks he is a brilliant inventor. Valeria is three and actually is a brilliant inventor, and she has taken on Calvin’s challenge to improve his non-functional shrink ray design. On August 11th the kids will bicker over Valeria’s improved and entirely functional shrink ray, resulting in a malfunction and the release of Pym Particles. Pym Particles are COMIC BOOK SCIENCE that will be drawn to ImPorts because of more COMIC BOOK SCIENCE, resulting in affected ImPorts SHRINKING!!!
The scale of the shrinking can vary depending on player preference. The default is one-quarter of an inch, but it can range from the loss of a foot of height to being made the size of an action figure to dwelling among the insects to full-on microscopic Fantastic Voyage adventures.
Anything an affected character is wearing or holding will shrink with them, and electronics like the communicators will keep working because shut up this is from the Silver Age, that's why. If you would like your character to disappear and be cut off from contact, their communicator will not be affected if it’s not on them when they get hit- have fun trying to work your new jumbo comm by jumping on its keys with your little legs!
To give the plot more structure, an open log will be set up with pre-posted threads setting up the shenanigans affected characters could find themselves in: having to dodge giant traffic, becoming accidental lords of the ant kingdom, being chased by household pets, and the like. Participants will be free to set up their own threads in this log or logs outside the main one, as they prefer.
Calvin and Val will be the first to shrink and the last to be restored, since they'll be hit by the highest concentration of the gas. The Pym particles themselves have no inherently deleterious or long-term effects after one exposure, so after they wear off it will be back to normal. Once the kids are restored, they will do a joint post arguing over whose fault the incident was and likely get yelled at.
We are soliciting ideas from players for what kinds of situations and prompts should be featured in this log’s threads! Please fill out the form below to sign your character up and specify any ideas you have for what kind of situations will be featured in the main plot log. As a side note, while we encourage participants to get into all kinds of perils, we ask that no characters actually die in this plot; because then Calvin would be responsible for killing people and it would be super weird.
This plot will run from August 11th, when the accident happens, to the 14th, when the last affected ImPorts return to normal. Please let us know if there are any questions!
Calvin is six and thinks he is a brilliant inventor. Valeria is three and actually is a brilliant inventor, and she has taken on Calvin’s challenge to improve his non-functional shrink ray design. On August 11th the kids will bicker over Valeria’s improved and entirely functional shrink ray, resulting in a malfunction and the release of Pym Particles. Pym Particles are COMIC BOOK SCIENCE that will be drawn to ImPorts because of more COMIC BOOK SCIENCE, resulting in affected ImPorts SHRINKING!!!
The scale of the shrinking can vary depending on player preference. The default is one-quarter of an inch, but it can range from the loss of a foot of height to being made the size of an action figure to dwelling among the insects to full-on microscopic Fantastic Voyage adventures.
Anything an affected character is wearing or holding will shrink with them, and electronics like the communicators will keep working because shut up this is from the Silver Age, that's why. If you would like your character to disappear and be cut off from contact, their communicator will not be affected if it’s not on them when they get hit- have fun trying to work your new jumbo comm by jumping on its keys with your little legs!
To give the plot more structure, an open log will be set up with pre-posted threads setting up the shenanigans affected characters could find themselves in: having to dodge giant traffic, becoming accidental lords of the ant kingdom, being chased by household pets, and the like. Participants will be free to set up their own threads in this log or logs outside the main one, as they prefer.
Calvin and Val will be the first to shrink and the last to be restored, since they'll be hit by the highest concentration of the gas. The Pym particles themselves have no inherently deleterious or long-term effects after one exposure, so after they wear off it will be back to normal. Once the kids are restored, they will do a joint post arguing over whose fault the incident was and likely get yelled at.
We are soliciting ideas from players for what kinds of situations and prompts should be featured in this log’s threads! Please fill out the form below to sign your character up and specify any ideas you have for what kind of situations will be featured in the main plot log. As a side note, while we encourage participants to get into all kinds of perils, we ask that no characters actually die in this plot; because then Calvin would be responsible for killing people and it would be super weird.
This plot will run from August 11th, when the accident happens, to the 14th, when the last affected ImPorts return to normal. Please let us know if there are any questions!
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[Calvin looks just thrilled about the whole adventure. He's standing next to Val, wearing his ordinary red shirt now instead of that ridiculous lab coat.]
Anyway, as the head visionary of this project and the original genius behind the experiment, I feel I ought to apologize to everyone...
[Calvin's not a great liar. He's actually a terrible liar. Fortunately, he has other talents, like deflecting responsibility. He points at Valeria and starts yelling.]
...for letting this absolute chowderhead anywhere near my inventions!
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I do accept responsibility for letting an unqualified observer like Calvin into the lab. I should have seen something like what happened coming a mile away. I'm really sorry to everyone I inconvenienced, and I won't be "collaborating" [the sarcasm quotes on that would be audible in a vacuum] with him anymore.
[You know, when Tony lets her back in one of his labs sometime a decade from now.
Aside from the swipes at Calvin, which come paired with with a truly masterful bit of sideeying, it's a Oscar-worthy performance--she practices seeming contrite on Susan Richards, after all. And she does feel a little chastened. Having an experiment go this badly wrong is beneath her.]
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That's right, you won't be, because you are fired. You're the worst assistant I've ever had, and my last one was a ferocious jungle cat!
[Long story.]
You heard her, she accepts responsibility for everything being her fault. So that settles it!
[He turns to Val.]
You can get pelted with refuse by the angry mob, and I'll just take my new shrink ray back home and keep perfecting it, without you messing things up.
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Suddenly, Calvin goes sliding out of his seat and onto the floor with a thump as she pushes him out of the frame with a force field.]
Yeah, okay.
[She reaches forward and the video ends.]