Letters from the past

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

I have no angel food cake... will a shirtless icon do?

[walks-two-paths.livejournal.com]

Tasty angel food cake?

*giggles*

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

What if they sent the letter between arriving in the past and getting into stasis?

[blessed_twice]

Question (just to be difficult ;) -- why would people in present time forget the letters? Wouldn't that cause a paradox because then they'd forget that they knew what had happened to the missing people, and therefore wouldn't be around to get them out of stasis?

I could see the people who wrote the letters forgetting them, because they didn't write them in the new timeline, but for the people in the future, their knowledge hasn't changed. Or am I misunderstanding something?

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

I've got another question about the letters.

I can absolutely understand the letters disappearing if they were written from a point after the stasis break. But I'm still not sure why the person who got the letter, particularly if they never left Fandom would have to forget it. Remembering it isn't going to hurt anything or change anything. It's just going to be one more part of the wackiness of the plot.

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Okay, just double checking here: Letters sent pre-statis: remain. Letters sent post statis: go poof. Yes?