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BDE: Let’s Do The Groundhog Again
Saturday, December 4th, 2021 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
my_own_advocateHello, Fandom! Thought we’d forgotten about your semesterly trauma rollicking fun event, had you?
This year’s BDE will take place from Friday, December 17th (you read that right) through Monday, December 20th in what we’d like to call "Let’s do the timewarp again!" but it’s really less of a warp and more of a loop. See, 2021 seems to be the year of time loop stories, and I don’t know about all of you, but the admin team also kind of feels like we’ve been reliving the same day over, and over, and over, and over again…
On Friday morning before classes, a piece of Blackreef Island will accidentally zip through time and space and wind up buried into the coast by the Abandoned Warehouse District. Specifically, it’s The Complex, an icy-cold section of an” already cold island that’s home to two mad scientists, Wenjie and Egor, and their various labs built into and under the island itself. Well. Right now it’s just home to Egor, as Wenjie accidentally launched herself into another AU entirely, but that’s a story for another day. Or possibly never.
Anyway, there’s a little problem with Blackreef: it repeats the same day over and over and over again. Egor and his small army of heavily armed, confused, aggressive and bemasked henchpeople, have volunteered to be there. They like living in a time loop. You can’t permanently die! You have so much fun! You… don’t know you’re in a time loop! Oops. No, it’s only interlopers Colt and Julianna - Blackreef Island’s former and current security chiefs - who remember.
And some of you guys, starting Friday. You get a never-ending last day of exams, and you get a never-ending last day of exams, and you get a never-ending last day of exams! This is not going to be as exciting to Fandom as it is to Egor’s people.
It’s up to Fandom to figure out why this little piece of Blackreef is stuck to our island and get it to go away, all the while dealing with your less-looped-in friends and family. Have fun!
( So how does this time loop work? )
This year’s BDE will take place from Friday, December 17th (you read that right) through Monday, December 20th in what we’d like to call "Let’s do the timewarp again!" but it’s really less of a warp and more of a loop. See, 2021 seems to be the year of time loop stories, and I don’t know about all of you, but the admin team also kind of feels like we’ve been reliving the same day over, and over, and over, and over again…
On Friday morning before classes, a piece of Blackreef Island will accidentally zip through time and space and wind up buried into the coast by the Abandoned Warehouse District. Specifically, it’s The Complex, an icy-cold section of an” already cold island that’s home to two mad scientists, Wenjie and Egor, and their various labs built into and under the island itself. Well. Right now it’s just home to Egor, as Wenjie accidentally launched herself into another AU entirely, but that’s a story for another day. Or possibly never.
Anyway, there’s a little problem with Blackreef: it repeats the same day over and over and over again. Egor and his small army of heavily armed, confused, aggressive and bemasked henchpeople, have volunteered to be there. They like living in a time loop. You can’t permanently die! You have so much fun! You… don’t know you’re in a time loop! Oops. No, it’s only interlopers Colt and Julianna - Blackreef Island’s former and current security chiefs - who remember.
And some of you guys, starting Friday. You get a never-ending last day of exams, and you get a never-ending last day of exams, and you get a never-ending last day of exams! This is not going to be as exciting to Fandom as it is to Egor’s people.
It’s up to Fandom to figure out why this little piece of Blackreef is stuck to our island and get it to go away, all the while dealing with your less-looped-in friends and family. Have fun!
( So how does this time loop work? )