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thecapitol2014-03-24 12:14 pm
etcircenses) wrote in thecapitol2014-03-24 12:14 pm
Entry tags:
- cassandra marko,
- commander shepard,
- event: crowning,
- harley quinn,
- joan watson,
- matthew "punchy" o'connor,
- sigma klim,
- the grand highblood,
- the signless,
- wesker,
- wyatt earp,
- ✘ azula,
- ✘ brainiac 5,
- ✘ carlos the scientist,
- ✘ cecil palmer,
- ✘ courfeyrac,
- ✘ cuthbert allgood,
- ✘ dale "barbie" barbara,
- ✘ donatello,
- ✘ dr. holiday,
- ✘ elim garak,
- ✘ ellie,
- ✘ elsa,
- ✘ enjolras,
- ✘ eponine thenardier,
- ✘ felicity worthington,
- ✘ gabriel,
- ✘ garrus vakarian,
- ✘ guy crood,
- ✘ hanji zoe,
- ✘ hans,
- ✘ hawkeye pierce,
- ✘ ian chesterton,
- ✘ ian gallagher,
- ✘ jack frost,
- ✘ jesse pinkman,
- ✘ jessica wakefield,
- ✘ joel,
- ✘ kankri vantas,
- ✘ karkat vantas,
- ✘ katurian katurian,
- ✘ kevin,
- ✘ kili,
- ✘ lyle norg,
- ✘ marius pontmercy,
- ✘ max guevara,
- ✘ maximus,
- ✘ mindy macready,
- ✘ nasir,
- ✘ orc,
- ✘ pruna,
- ✘ rat,
- ✘ riley abel,
- ✘ sherlock holmes (bbc),
- ✘ sherlock holmes (cbs),
- ✘ shion,
- ✘ some ovmennet,
- ✘ starkiller,
- ✘ stephen reagan,
- ✘ susannah dean,
- ✘ the disciple,
- ✘ topher brink,
- ✘ velma kelly,
- ✘ venus dee milo
The Crowning of Mindy McReady
Who| Everyone who's anyone.
What| The Crowning.
Where| A warehouse on the edge of town.
When| Starting from early evening till late into the night.
Warnings/Notes| Be sure to check the linked thread for plot purposes, even if you don't tag into it.
The party is brightly colored.
The theme, subtly, is super heroes. Boldly paints city scapes are splattered across the walls, and hallways are made to look like dingy, potentially crime ridden alleys. From the upper walkways of the warehouse, party goers can get hooked into harnesses and swing out over the dance floor. Above them, tributes and VIPS can find themselves on a clear plastic dance floor levitated above everything, looking like they're hanging in air.
Masks are passed out in plenty, and capes are easy to find, while brightly colored drinks themed around super powers are plentiful. None of them actually work, but many of the Capitol people are happy to pretend, mocking super strength or invisibility with each new beverage.
Under the dance floor a catacomb of tunnels and rooms full of obstacles is splashed with black light receptive colors. Party goers are given vests and laser guns, marked green for villains and red for heros, and set loose to hunt each other in the laser tags playground. The screens in the dance floor keep a running tally of which side is winning, displaying the players on the screens around the room, along with clips from the arenas.
About half way through the night, everyone is gathered to the main stage for a special announcement.
What| The Crowning.
Where| A warehouse on the edge of town.
When| Starting from early evening till late into the night.
Warnings/Notes| Be sure to check the linked thread for plot purposes, even if you don't tag into it.
The party is brightly colored.
The theme, subtly, is super heroes. Boldly paints city scapes are splattered across the walls, and hallways are made to look like dingy, potentially crime ridden alleys. From the upper walkways of the warehouse, party goers can get hooked into harnesses and swing out over the dance floor. Above them, tributes and VIPS can find themselves on a clear plastic dance floor levitated above everything, looking like they're hanging in air.
Masks are passed out in plenty, and capes are easy to find, while brightly colored drinks themed around super powers are plentiful. None of them actually work, but many of the Capitol people are happy to pretend, mocking super strength or invisibility with each new beverage.
Under the dance floor a catacomb of tunnels and rooms full of obstacles is splashed with black light receptive colors. Party goers are given vests and laser guns, marked green for villains and red for heros, and set loose to hunt each other in the laser tags playground. The screens in the dance floor keep a running tally of which side is winning, displaying the players on the screens around the room, along with clips from the arenas.
About half way through the night, everyone is gathered to the main stage for a special announcement.
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He tilts his head, thinking deeply. "The first was William Thomas Stead. He was a successful author, and wrote several books about steam ships that hit icebergs, resulting in great losses of life due to an insufficient number of lifeboats. He predicted that he would die freezing to death in an ocean... Then, years later, he perished when an ocean liner he had boarded hit an iceberg and he drowned in the frigid sea due to being refused a lifeboat, which were too few in number to accommodate all passengers on board. Now, how could that be...?"
Sigma decides he will need his wine, after all, and reaches for his glass to knock it back. "It is because we are capable of doing more than receiving from the Morphogenetic field: we are capable of reading the information left there by our many other selves across time. In rare instances, we are also capable of jumping or returning to the time from which that information was sent, and swapping our consciousnesses altogether." His cheerfulness diminishes significantly at that, and for a moment, Sigma breaks gaze with Terezi to swirl his wine around idly. "But the consequences of inflicting a paradox are usually too grave to meddle with such powers. However... it has been done before."
Sigma shuffled in his seat, cleared his throat, and shrugged. "There is one other. One who wrote a similar novel to Stead, but was capable of including more details: what others would say about the ship, the ship's name, the speed the ship was traveling on impact, the rough number of passengers and casualties... When we read memories from other times, it is not often clear, unless we have experienced the phenomenon multiple times. Think of it much like trying to recall a bad dream: at first, the dream is hazy, and only the strong feelings can be remembered after waking. If similar terrible dreams are experienced repeatedly, they become easier to recall. But... exchanging our consciousness with another point in time... that is an entirely different scenario. Only then are we capable of recalling information without any difficulty during and after the swap. And there is a clear difference between Stead and Robertson: Robertson did not die."
He emptied his glass, now. "It is because I believe he changed time. I believe he returned to the past to write that novel and save himself," Sigma concluded. "The Robertson of the future knew the details, and the Robertson of the past experienced the suffering while his other self occupied his body. By swapping their consciousnesses back and forth, he made the decision never to board that ship, and never even to travel to the country it departed from in the first place."
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When he finally finishes, Terezi frowns a little, furrowing her brow. This isn't like the kind of abilities that she's used to. Honestly, it sounds a little more like Dave or Aradia's fields, but... "Doesn't that mean he made a paradox, then? He learned about the details of the shipwreck from his future self, but then avoided the circumstances that would lead to his future self being in the situation to give those details to his past self."
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Sigma cannot stand to look at Terezi, now. He turns his gaze away, watching the guests in the upper walkways to distract himself. He sounds every bit of his age when he speaks: "There is always a failed timeline, always the worst possible outcome for every success. Perhaps that is what stabilizes us. Because it exists, because it is reality for another version of ourselves, we can remember it."
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"Is that what you did, then? With your powers, when you saved Don from me and Karkat and Cuthbert?"
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"...In any event, I'm afraid I've rambled for too long. I believe it is your turn. You said time travel operated under a similar principle, but are there any differences you have not mentioned?"
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"My friends and I ended up in this... game. It's sort of horrible to call it a game, since it was actually the culmination of the end of the universe as we knew it. But it had monsters and levels and treasure, so you call it how it is!"
"Anyway! When we entered the game, each of us had a prefabricated title, planet, and destiny designed specifically for us. My title was the Seer of Mind. The combination of Seer and Mind meant that I could foresee the consequences of the choices that others made. It wasn't something I could do right away. It's part of your personal game quest to figure out what powers your title grants you and how you're able to apply them. Some of us figured it out pretty quickly, and some of us not at all."