Child of Mine - Debate and Voting

[thelostmods]

Characters have reached the point in the narrative of Child of Mine where they have a decision to make. There is no particular mystery to solve in this world hop, no villains to fight, there is only a choice.

Will they support the Crone, the embodiment of Chaos, or the Boy, the embodiment of Order? Or will they have a third option to convince others with?

Story So Far

• Timeless is a small sliver of a larger world that was hidden and created to be a place of perfect order without time.
  
  
• The Boy created Timeless to rescue children away from the war-torn nations of Winternesse and Dorwynne.
  
  
• The Boy fears chaos and change and all the strife it has brought upon the inhabitants of the wider world. He thinks the only way to stop all that is to create his haven for only children, stopping them from aging to adults who bring war.
  
  
• The Crone is the Boy's twin sister. She holds no malice, only wishes to bring the natural chaos of the world to Timeless. She is unhappy her brother hid this place from her and believes it will stagnate without change.
  
  
• Most of the children in Timeless are content. The main NPCs Vixy, Drake, Colt, and Buck are all happy with the nature of Timeless as it is. They all faced various hardships in their lives.
  • Vixy suffered abuse and neglect within the factory she has lived for almost all her life.
    
  • Colt and Buck were in the same factory that Vixy was.
    
  • Drake was once a part of a child gang, forced to kill and scrap just to survive.
• The Wormies are a separate faction led by Katz who are tired of the lack of change and the timeless nature of this part of the world. Even with Katz suffering her own hardships--her parents were killed in bombings--she still craves something different, a return to time.

Voting for what the PCs want to do in this situation will end at 11:59 PM PST, 7/21/18 (EDIT) 7/23/18.

There is no Right answer to this question. The only limit on alternatives that characters can come up with is having children who want to leave Timeless come with them to the Meadous. Sorry! They will all have their own reasons for ICly wanting to stay in their own world and this is not feasible on an OOC-level. The discussions with the Crone and Boy remain ongoing! Feel free to tag-in if you have not, yet.

1. Questions
2. Debate
3. Voting

Comments

[ignes_fatui]

Ienzo will argue that this is too life-altering a decision to be making on anyone else's behalf, and that people should be free to make their own choices - and mistakes, if need be. That said, he wants to know; if Zan's third option is chosen, will the way out of Timeless remain open (or perhaps open again at a later time), for anyone who wants to stay ? Or will everyone be forced to decide immediately and live with the consequences forever?

He understands that there can't be any coming back once you leave, but he thinks it would be best if there was adequate time to for each person to consider before making that final decision for themselves, be that days, months, or years, and it would be deeply unfortunate for anyone to miss their window of opportunity out of indecisiveness.

If the answer is no, he'll still support this option as the one that allows the most freedom, but he won't be pleased about it.

Edit: If Royce's suggestion to split Timeless into an aging-half and a non-aging half is feasible, he'd also want to support that to give the children another option - but he does think returning to their original world should be on the table as well.