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After coming face-to-face with the Crone, a goddess of chaos and the Boy, a god of order, the crew have restored Timeless to a time-free place while also forcing the creation of a New Section of Timeless, the Garden of Growth. In addition to this new section, the residents of the Meadous have secured a means for the children to leave Timeless when they decide it's time for them to go.

The Wormies (including Katz) have now moved to the Garden of Growth along with a few other children, but the majority remain in the timeless portions of Timeless, including Vixy, Drake, Colt, and Buck.

An IC finale is located HERE. Below are also additional prompts for threading. One, particularly, allows characters to continue to experience the de-aging portion of the event mechanic.

While we will not be doing any additional NPC threads, the characters may expect the following attitudes when they go to visit the main NPC children:

Katz - Katz is happy. She's excited about time returning, even if it's only in part of Timeless and she thinks everyone will eventually join the Wormies in the Garden of Growth. She'll express gratitude to everyone who helped with this, even if she was hostile before. There is a small note of uncertainty from her about her friends who have chosen not to start aging, like Vixy, but she's still overall positive. She's also thinking about returning to the mainland when she's older to try to help stop the war.

Vixy - Vixy is upset about this particular outcome. She's scared of losing Katz forever now and will express disappointment in the characters who come to visit her. Mostly, she'll be locked up in her room, making mecahnical toy cats. If people come to visit her, she'll be especially stand-offish unless they previously expressed support of keeping Timeless free of time or they're Renart or Royce. Because fluffy fox and complicated new friend.

Drake - Drake is neutral about what's happened. He's relatively new, but he likes everyone having more choices. He's generally amiable with anyone who comes to visit him and will thank them for finding some sort of compromise, even if it's upset some people. He'll assure anyone who asks that he'll make sure to take care of Vixy and keep trying to patch up her and Katz's friendship. He wants to be a peace-maker, and he'll make that his number one priority.

Buck and Colt - Buck and Colt are angry about what's been decided... mainly because they didn't get a say and they think they could have beat the stuffing out of the Crone if they'd just been there. Buck will be especially hostile toward anyone who comes to visit him. Colt has a little more poise, but he's not going to be happy with anyone from the Meadous. Characters are likely to get the cold shoulder from these two.
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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
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Hey Team,

Tomorrow afternoon, the team digging will break through into a new cavern area where they'll encounter the Boy and the Crone. This is just a heads up for this being up-coming! A new header will go up for interaction with these two when the break-through occurs.
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Hey Team,

Tomorrow evening, a new starter will go up under the NPC interactions section for the Child of Mine event. Katz and the Wormies have agreed to help in digging south of the Anthill to see if they can get down to whatever there is that's blocking characters from moving south via the regular tunnels.

Anyone is welcome to join and Renart has put up a notice on the Bulletin Board for it so that everyone is aware of this development ICly.

Characters are welcome to try to get the other kids to join in and help, as well, before the digging party starts!

EDIT
Digging Begins!
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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR UPCOMING EVENT: PLEASE READ
(cw: Discussion of child abuse/neglect)


PLEASE NOTE CW ABOVE )
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On the 7th of July, residents of the Meadous will wake to a note from Zephyr at their bedside. It's much shorter than it usually would be from the godling, and it's also much more direct.

Everyone,

I heard another voice across the planes. He sounds so worried. I've been hearing whispers when I listen across the planes, but this one is louder, louder than all the rest. He said he's scared, but he has to be strong for everyone else. I want to help him... no one should have to be that strong all by themselves.

Please meet me at the playground tomorrow at 3:00 PM. I know that's really early for some of you guys who are nocturnal, but this can't wait very long.

Love,
Zephyr


CHILD OF MINE

The Events Calendar post for the plot is HERE

CHILD OF MINE )
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Welcome to Part two of our shadow mystery, everyone!

You guys have done great work and uncovered so much laid before you. Characters persistence and natural need to poke at the taboo have definitely yielded some results.

There are still some questions unanswered, but I'm sure you're gonna knock those out of the park.

A recap before we jump into Part two proper!

Have you been forgotten? )
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On the May 6th, residents of the Meadous will wake to a note from Zephyr at their bedside. It's much shorter than it usually would be from the godling, and it's also much more direct. Those who remember The Void will find this note very familiar.

Everyone,

I hear another voice across the planes. She's calling... she's calling out for help. We need to help her. We've done this before. We can help her!

We will help her! I know we can help her just like we did the sisters!

Please meet me at the playrground tomorrow at 3:00pm! I know that's really early for some of you guys who are nocturnal, but this can't wait very long. We're gonna help as soon as we can!

Love,
Zephyr



TIERRA DE OLVIDOS )
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Hey Team!

I saw some traffic on Plurk about this, so I wanted to clear up the matter of how many drops of color it will take to get the best possible ending (all Sisters raised). Each Sister requires 100 drops of color to unlock each of her hearts. That means 400 drops for one sister. Four Sisters means 1,600 drops of color.

THAT MAY SEEM DAUNTING.

But you guys are already almost there, and we're only just reaching the halfway point of the event. If you have points, please go ahead and allocate them out now as this will have effects on The Void going forward. I'm going off of the number of tags I counted when I just did a check a few minutes ago. Please ONLY fill in the yellow squares with the number of drops your character will allocate to each Sister.

And talking of the next half of the event, we'll be meeting the Brothers that Dia mentioned to Royce. The Brothers are nightmarish creatures, but We the Lost is NOT a horror game. I don't want to hit any body horror squicks for people.

If you have anything that you definitely DO NOT want to see as far as grotesque body transformations or injury, please let me know. Comments below are screened.

There will be at least one Brother who should be relatively inoffensive appearance-wise for everyone to interact with, though the other three might be more troubling. Their personalities will vary, much as the Sisters do, but there will be themes of religious zealotry (to a greater and lesser extent) related to color from all of them. The Void is their version of paradise.
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On the 17th of November, residents of the Meadous will wake to a note from Zephyr at their bedside. It's much shorter than it usually would be from the godling, and it's also much more direct.

Everyone,

I heard a voice across the planes. That's never happened before, never except for the Rift and I found them and spoke to them first. I can hear her. She needs help. I want to help her.

We will help her.

Please meet me at the playground tomorrow at 3:00 PM. I know that's really early for some of you guys who are nocturnal, but this can't wait very long.

Love,
Zephyr


I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MAJESTY OF COLORS

The Events Calendar post for the plot is HERE

I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MAJESTY OF COLORS )