It's that BDE-tiful Time of the Season

[bitchprince]

Ladies and gents of Fandom! Big Damn Event time is once again at hand!

On the night of Wednesday August 4th into Thursday August 5th, something is going to go terribly wrong with the island. The machinery underneath the school is, in a cosmic sense, the same machinery across all different versions of Fandom. Eventually, after a few hints during the week that something is not quite right, it will finally buck and fail under the pressure of being used so often recently across so many dimensions. The effects will be disastrous, cleaving the skies to bits and cracking the interdimensional walls that keep Fandom safely separate from the rest of the multiverse.

What will this mean for the island?

It means that parts of the island will begin disappearing into the multiverse - and other things will be pouring in through the holes left behind them. Fandom will lose many of its characteristic establishments, and suck in only nasties to replace them. The end of the line result? The destruction of the entire island!

At least, if things aren't stopped before they get out of hand. Townies and teachers will be able to volunteer their homes and places of work for the Great Black (and Temporary) Void; the entire island is going to be dealing with the interlopers and struggling for a way to fix the damage.

And for those of you with particularly sadistic tastes, your characters, too, can get sucked into a hole and temporarily vanish from the multiverse entirely, left in limbo until the island has been rescued from its fate.

But wait! There's more!

During the early breakage, some of Fandom's finest will be sucked through the crack in reality. Rather than be frozen in the void as will happen to later victims, these folks will find themselves thrown into one of three rather inhospitable worlds, which are also in danger from the gaping holes in reality. Their task, once they awake? To survive long enough to follow the cracks, figure out a way to fix the Fandom machinery, and get home before it's too late.

Your choices, which will be explained upon in greater detail later, are as follows: a barren, irradiated wasteland on the East Coast; a murky underwater base full of hidden danger-- or an abandoned coal mining town hiding its fair share of nightmares...

The BDE will wrap up on Sunday, August 8th. Keep an eye out for sign-ups and more details this week! Questions? Comments? Pie? (With marzipan on the top?)

Comments

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

I LOVE this. <333333

Also, Len, wtf is marzipan pie? HOW DUTCH ARE YOU, TODAY?

[bitchprince]

YOU MOCK NOW, BUT: right as the World Cup was starting, they were selling AMAZING pies down at the supermarket with large piles of marzipan on it in the shape of a football! (2D, alas)

Also it's my birthday this Saturday so I can demand ANY PIE I WANT.

[sith_happened]

Anakin says, "Of course terrible things happen in August."

I say ahahahahahaha this is great.

[likes_scoundrels]

*coughs and points below your comment*

[likes_scoundrels]

And for those of you with particularly sadistic tastes, your characters, too, can get sucked into a hole and temporarily vanish from the multiverse entirely, left in limbo until the island has been rescued from its fate.

Is it so wrong that my first thought upon noting the date and reading that was "Wow, wouldn't it just suck for Anakin to have Leia get vanished on her birthday?"

But I'm not that mean.

Maybe.

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

But I'm not that mean.

... since when?

[intraspective]

...so, the character who disappears from the multiverse--when they come back would they remember anything of their disappearance? Or would it be just blink and oh hey what do you mean it's days later? Limbo means what exactly?

Uh. I ask this just out of being curious, yes. O.O

[bitchprince]

Characters who vanish into the void will do just that - they won't exist, for as long as they're in limbo. No memories, no experiences, no nothing - they'll come out the other end lacking a few days, and in terms of getting sucked in, remembering only the void opening in front of them before there is plain old nothing for a while.

So in essence, this is a way to get one of your characters off the map for the rest of the plot, if you'd like to be concentrating on others - or get them some 'what happened to my missing days' trauma.

[vanillajello]

Oooooh.

Now, I only have to figure out how this works with all the canon plottiness I have planned.

[shes-got-legs.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.




That is all.

[onlykindofdead.livejournal.com]

I'm a little confused (which I fully admit is likely due to my brain being exhausted).

When you say that establishments are going to disappear - do you mean that there will like suddenly be a huge black hole where, say, Caritas used to be? And when the plot is over, would it re-appear?

[therewaslife]

When the business/dwelling disappears, it will leave behind it a gaping black void (that nasty things can come through) since the island's growing unstable and getting nommed on by the voids. When things are put right, the business or dwelling will reappear!

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahaha, this is BEAUTIFUL and full of yay!

*begins plotting evil*

[trigons_child]

Since Raven herself is a gateway to other dimensions (oh, canon), I'm thinking this may be especially bizarre for her. I'm just not sure how yet.

[stayingfrosty.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it says about me when I instantly go 'Fallout 3, Bioshock, Silent Hill'.

[raspberryturk]

It says, "Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd!"

... She says from a Final Fantasy account, yes.

[thatsamilkshake]

That you're a big, big nerd.

[notagoodslayer.livejournal.com]

Just. Icon.

[atreideslioness]

I WANT TO SEE FAITH TAKE ON THE NOTHING FROM NEVERENDING STORY. SO DAMN BAD! \O/

[notmyownage]

OMG.

This is too very awesome and it's a time when I'll have time to play and yeah, I'm kinda stuck on OMG.

Well, that and "Claudia SO wants to get a chance to get at that machinery."

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Win! So. Much. Win. \o/

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

OHO I have a question. One that is not "What the hell is marzipan?"

Will the victims who are transported be able to bring things with them, provided they are on their person? If, for instance, someone always carried a weapon off-campus, would said weapon go with them to the other world?

[guardian-god.livejournal.com]

Yes! Characters will have whatever is on their person when they are transported. We'll provide more details about this in the next info post!

[repeterpetrelli.livejournal.com]

a barren, irradiated wasteland on the East Coast

That is a totally accurate horrible way to refer to New Jersey.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

I was AFK for a few days. But I couldn't let this pass!

Despite what you seem to think. NJ is the GARDEN STATE!

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

I have a question: My leg is itchy. Do you know any cures for itchy legs?

[endsthegame]

Scratch.