Calling all Researchers! And other interested folks!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Starting tomorrow (Wednesday) after our illustrious principal announces the angels are the cause of the disappearances, people will be gathering in the library and computer labs to figure out where their friends are disappearing to and how to get them back. Not that it'll be quite that easy, of course. The first day of research will consist mainly for the inevitable running into dead ends and reading lots and lots about pretty angel statues on gothic cathedrals.

Towards the end of the day, you are welcome to start finding tiny references to people in the past babbling about the future and stone angels. Most of these people will be dismissed as crazy people, of course, but that'll provide a lead for the continued research on Thursday and Friday to figure out the clues needed to send the away teams out.

AND!  For anyone who might still be confused by the timeline situations, we have a handy diagram made by the awesome vkandis_son

The angels send people back in time to the past [A]

They live out their lives and die/get very old [B]

But they also send a message [C] to 2008, telling them where and when they are.

This message [C] causes the Fandom 2008 people to send a message [D] back in time, telling the victims to get to a certain place as soon as they can to go into stasis.

This causes Timeline [B] to split off into Timeline [E], in which they will stay in stasis until they reach Fandom 2008 again. A retrieval team will get them from the stasis place on Sunday night/Monday morning.

The victims will remember everything that happened from their arrival in the past until going into stasis.

They will not remember anything that happened in Timeline B (everything in the purple oval), and any knowledge of those events will be forgotten by the away teams by the time the victims are back.

The purple oval is the history you may create for your character if you want, and post in your LJ. It may be individual, or in pairs or with the rest of your group. It will not be remembered by anyone, will have no impact on your character or the game.

The time between arriving in the past and going into stasis [X] will be remembered in 2008, will have impact on your character, and is limited to two years maximum. Again, you can post it in your character's journal.

Both of these are entirely optional.

The story of what happened during Timeline B would be best posted on Saturday. What happened during period X on Sunday.  Since this week is being played out in real time and any additional weeks, months and years will be crammed into one day (Sunday), it's probably a good idea to pre-write anything you want to post on Sunday.

Any questions, comments, pie?

Comments

[ecirpnellehada.livejournal.com]

Would you guys prefer a special research OCD in tomorrow's library post, or do you think regular OCD will suffice? Does it not really matter? Should we leave it up to the sway of Adah's mood (God help us)? What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Do these pants make my butt look big? And finally, pie (http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb3/skylieicons/peach_apple_pie.jpg).

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

1) Maybe an "after announcement" OCD for the researchers if you like since I assume people'll be dedicated and stay later than the normal school day. :D

2) IT IS π

3) NOOOOOOOOOOOO

4) YAY PIE THANK YOU

[just-add-starch.livejournal.com]

Omg, BUNNY.

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

This has nothing to do with the Researchers, but did something go up about the Away teams? Because I was looking back on posts in fhplotterywheel, as I remembered volunteering Sky for that because he missed out on being a victim. One post mentioned something about info on Away teams going up on Saturday, but I can't find anything more. Was something posted and I, like, completely missed it?

Sorry if I'm sounding demanding/grabby, I'm not trying to be. *offers shirtless Sky as a distraction*

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

I think what you read was that the Away teams were going to be played out on Friday and Saturday. The away team post will be going up shortly. :)

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

You don't really want to be on the away team, do you?

Come on, come play with us.

We don't bite.

Hard.

[mike-cannon.livejournal.com]

Will there be OCD in the library posts for the computer lab or will that be a separate post? Just wondering since Mike might actually assign his class to work on their Google-searching skills.

*sends in hot male stripper twin to ask*

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

The computer lab will be a separate post as the computer lab is in a separate room (and a separate floor) from the library. :)

Did that answer your question?

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Also, I don't care whose brain I hurt in saying this, but, I'm sorry, that diagram is too vaguely dirty.

*cough*

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Totally does, yes.

[remember5th.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME.

:D:D:D

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Vague? What is this "vague" thing of which you speak?

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

It took me seven read throughs, but I think I finally got it. (I lost my brain/sanity, ask me how!)

Also, Anathema is known for her cracky ideas...so if you have anything really silly, toss it my way and she'll consider it an actual something to research. (I'm thinking...poisoned custard to begin with.)

I don't actually remember my point.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

If she researches the "documentary" Touched by an Angel at some point, I'll love you forever.

[blessed_twice]

Can everyone leave some sort of message, or have those people already been informed they can?

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what message you mean?

[gkar-lastkhari.livejournal.com]

PIE!! (http://picasaweb.google.com/anitajoseph12/MySkills/photo#5128297130508928066)

*splat!*

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

*eyes* I used to like you. *wipes pie off face*

;)

[intraspective]

I'm sorry if this has been mentioned already, but do you know what time the announcement is slated for? Will it be before or after 3rd period?

*is totally working on Juli's class for tomorrow*

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

It'll be mid-afternoon! Thank you for asking. :D

[the_merriest]

How does our illustrious principal find out it's the angels? *confused okay*

I READ GOOD

here I bring you pie YAY PIE.

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

*hugs* There's a lot of information to sort through. :D

YAY PIE!

And anyone can drop in on the researching though the major discoveries are going to be dropped on those who signed up in advance.

[death-of-hope.livejournal.com]

No pie yet! You must save the pie for Pie Day on Friday! It's 3.14! PIE PARTY!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!

There can be pie everyday, heretic!

[needsaparrot]

I think you just answered the question I was going to ask above, but just to make sure -- since Xander's not getting kidnapped until Saturday (and he'll be flipping out over Bridge, Willow, and Mel going missing), is he ok for joining the researching, with the understanding that he won't be an actual clue-finder?

[Edited because Just to make sure. Not UST!]

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

He certainly may! And he can start to find the stories of crazy people talking about angels and such, just none of the big discoveries. *pats Xander* He's got it rough this week!

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Would it be possible to get some more details about the stasis and how/when/where that's happening? People planning to write up adventures (read: me) could use a clearer idea in order to do that. (For example, if the stasis place is down the street from where Bridge ends up, he'd probably spend less time in the past than if it were halfway across the world and he needed to travel to get there)

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

The stasis point will be in London, but as said in an earlier post, you can use any reason you wish to keep a character in the past longer than just the traveling time so definitely don't feel limited by that.