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fhplotterywheel2008-03-13 11:04 am
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Letters from the past
Well, as we established today, the Sorting Engine in the Fandom Post Office is awesome (as is Mr Pratchett, but we already knew that). What this means, apart from having a way to find out where and when people went, is that people who have been sent to the past can send letters to their loved ones in the now (or hated ones, or indifferent ones - love's not a requirement!).
There are going to be some strict parameters on this, just to keep the whole time travelling thing as un-confusing as possible:
-your letter can't arrive until you have actually been abducted. You can have it arrive on the same day,once you've been angelled, if you want, but not before. This is to keep Mr Paradox as far away as possible.
-it needs to be kept only to personal, not plotty, things. Life stories, declarations of love, bitching about OMG NO BOOZE: good. Any information about the angels, beyond what has become common knowledge IG with Zoe's announcement: bad.
-if you are going to mention another victim character, talk to them first and make sure it's all right.
How it will work
Each day, from Thursday until Saturday, we'll put a post up for delivery of the letters. Post either your letter, or a link to your journal where it's posted, in a comment with the recipient's name in the subject header. (This just to keep things all tidy, and make it easy for everyone to read the letters.)
The recipient can either pick it up there and react, or link to the comment and react elsewhere. You could also use these letters as a way of telling the story of what happened to your character in the timeline where they grew old and died, and weren't sent into stasis.
ETA: Remember, once the victim characters go into stasis, changing their timeline from the one they were in when the letters were sent, these letters will disappear, and no one will remember anything about them or what they said.
Questions? Comments? Tasty angel food cake?
There are going to be some strict parameters on this, just to keep the whole time travelling thing as un-confusing as possible:
-your letter can't arrive until you have actually been abducted. You can have it arrive on the same day,once you've been angelled, if you want, but not before. This is to keep Mr Paradox as far away as possible.
-it needs to be kept only to personal, not plotty, things. Life stories, declarations of love, bitching about OMG NO BOOZE: good. Any information about the angels, beyond what has become common knowledge IG with Zoe's announcement: bad.
-if you are going to mention another victim character, talk to them first and make sure it's all right.
How it will work
Each day, from Thursday until Saturday, we'll put a post up for delivery of the letters. Post either your letter, or a link to your journal where it's posted, in a comment with the recipient's name in the subject header. (This just to keep things all tidy, and make it easy for everyone to read the letters.)
The recipient can either pick it up there and react, or link to the comment and react elsewhere. You could also use these letters as a way of telling the story of what happened to your character in the timeline where they grew old and died, and weren't sent into stasis.
ETA: Remember, once the victim characters go into stasis, changing their timeline from the one they were in when the letters were sent, these letters will disappear, and no one will remember anything about them or what they said.
Questions? Comments? Tasty angel food cake?
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But if I can make a suggestion from the peanut gallery: can we just ditch the whole AU timeline? Plenty of canons out there deal with the whole "But if so-and-so went back into time to save the day, how did so-and-so ever know to go back in time in the first place??" thing via the magic of "Handwave handwave DO YOU WANT THE COOL CGI OF TERMINATOR 2 OR NOT, DAMN IT???"
I realize it is waaaaaaaaaaaay late in the plot to be making suggestions so feel free to ignore me. Just seemed like a possible solution to the overall headachey problem.
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