016 | The Good Old Days

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone!
What: Ageswapping
When: July 15-17
Where: Everywhere
Summary: A breach in the space-time continuum is messing things up.

Edit: OVERFLOW is here!



The Far Shore has been dealing with a lot of space-time pulsating through the past week or so and everything is culminating on the night of the 15th, even though the Heavens are preparing for an all-out Obon bash. They had planned to have the celebration on the 15th itself, but Amaterasu asked to postpone a day due to the horrible feeling that is permeating the Far Shore.

And it turns out she was right to postpone everything. In fact, it will have to be postponed another whole month at this rate...



Before

Late in the day on July 15th, the new batch of shinki will arrive to a Far Shore with a thick, tense atmosphere. All night on the 15th it feels like something is about to happen - and it's difficult to tell whether that something will be good or bad. Any attempts to contact the management of the Far Shore have fallen on deaf, slightly harried ears and so everyone is left to their own devices to try and figure out why things are so tense.

July 16

Just after midnight, an explosive shock wave rips through the Far Shore, bringing on the age changes with it. Even the spirits of the Far Shore seem to be affected - for example, the library goblins are either toddling around on wobbly legs or are dragging themselves from place to place and looking decrepit. There are a few gods and shinki that seem to have been exceptions from the change, though it is not clear why.

July 17

Another wave of energy comes in the early morning of the 17th. Fewer people are affected this time and it seems to alter those people's ages a second time. There is no rhyme or reason to who is being affected further. Several of the library goblins have just dropped dead from severe old age. Oops.

Aftermath

Late on the 17th brings about one final burst from the energy that has been plaguing the Far Shore. For a short moment, every new temple glows with a soft light, seeming to beckon to their owners. But the light is gone quickly and everyone will find themselves back to normal with complete memories of everything that happened during their age adventures. The goblins that died, though, are still very dead. Looks like the library will need to get some new help soon.

In Summary:

• Meet the newbies
• Get aged or de-aged
• Deal with other too young/too old people
• Try to handle the consequences
• Have fun~

Comments

[letteropener]

Well... I last remember having it before I got here. But everything between then and now is fuzzy, so somewhere in between there is where it vanished.

[clothes_make_the_man]

Oh... I see.

[Forrest frowns. It may not have made it here at all. But he doesn't want to disappoint her right away.]

Well... where were you when you first arrived?

[letteropener]

I only remember walking here. If magic clouded my mind, I might have flown from somewhere else and just not remembered.

[She knows. Look in her eyes or hear the edges of her voice and she's sure it's gone.]

[clothes_make_the_man]

[Oh noooo, don't make that face, it's breaking his heart. ;u;]

W-well... we can look anyway! Don't give up!

[letteropener]

Thank you. It would really be nice to have my books and supplies here. [Really, she just wants something familiar. Nothing here is! Nothing at all, and it's terribly sad and lonely.]

[clothes_make_the_man]

If we can't find them, maybe we can get you some new books.

[He's going to slowly ease into that idea.]

[letteropener]

Well, we can, and I would like that, but they'll be full of references to things like hands and arms and not fur. I like humans just fine, but living among you all the time is a little exhausting!

[Younger Celestia is not quite the gentle diplomat, either.]

[clothes_make_the_man]

Ah... yes, I hadn't thought of that. I'm sorry, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about that problem.

[letteropener]

Oh, I know! [She's immediately all regrets and sheepish smiles.] I didn't mean it as if you could. It's just how it is here.

[clothes_make_the_man]

Still... I wish there's more I could do to help you.

[letteropener]

It's all right. I really do appreciate the offer.

[Celestia hasn't had all those years to be perfectly polite and serene, but even as a pony-teen she knows she has to be special, an example. She's an alicorn, after all.]

[clothes_make_the_man]

I'll still take you to the library if you'd like.

[letteropener]

I would like that!

[Celestia LIKES libraries.]