Time after time...

[lucetimods]

Howdy, paaaartners. Come gather 'round the chuck wagon 'cause it's time for another mod post.

So you’re back a few hundred years in the past. That’s mighty neat. But now I reckon you’re wondering what else there is to do, and how much your character can affect the future. Here are some examples, so take a real good look:

• Head to the tunnels and leave a message for the future! AKA troll the hell out of future generations
  
• Leave a tree in the middle of someone's future house!
  
• Build something to leave to your great-great-great-greeeat grand-self (or, you know, for the rest of the village too)
  
• Finish off the community buildings and houses, or build village shops and landmarks
  
• Put a dead pig in the foundation of someone’s house when it’s getting poured, so the house will always smell bad.
  
• Leave children behind and be terrible parents
  
• Salt the earth so that nothing can live!! Or plant new orchards and farms that will be plentiful by the time you get back, if you have to be nice about it
  
• Tinker with current technology to make way for more advanced technology in the future
  
• Go crazy, find your own things to do, be amazing! Just don't eat the bugs - or do and see what happens you monster
  

However, whatever you decide to do, please get mod approval down below before you do anything too drastic. This will help us track what's happening and give you an idea of how far you can go.

Some of you have had questions about the past townspeople (AKA the random background NPCS), so to give you an idea of what they’re like and what the “climate” of the town is, Here are some snippets of conversation your character may be hearing around town:

• “The town is looking livelier these days...we haven’t had this many people around since before, well, you know…”
  
  
• “At least when I showed up, I didn’t bring a whole church basement potluck’s worth of people with me! Back then, you were on your own until someone came along and found you!”
  
  
• “The red guy has been pretty quiet for a while now. I mean, especially quiet. Advanced quiet. He still creeps me out a little…”
  
  
• “Maybe if we ended up with so many here, it means there were less for the other guys to get a hold of...right?”
  
  
• “I don’t know, Tyr doesn’t seem to mind having them around, and what’s good enough for Tyr is good enough for me.”
  
  
• “I don’t know why we don’t just get somebody to Shift the new building into existence… I guess some people just like doing things the old-fashioned way.”
  
  
• “Wonder if any of the other towns got hit as hard with newcomers, or if it’s just us that get all the luck.”
  
  
• “Haven’t heard much from those raving lunatics lately...makes me nervous, you know? Yeah, yeah, I shouldn’t call ‘em that because it’s ‘insensitive’ or whatever, but my mama taught me to never tell a lie.”
  

Now, what if your character feels too claustrophobic in the village and wants to see the outside world like never before?! Well, they can do that too! SOON, characters are going to have the opportunity to go out and explore the outside world! They may come across very familiar landmarks they've seen before on missions and drafts--albeit different-looking due to the difference in time--and maybe even some new places too. Let us know if you are interested in having your character explore a particular area, and we can provide details for what they might see. Gather a merry band of men (and women!) together to make the journey! There is no power cap outside of the barrier, so you can’t be tamed!

Be warned that if your character does decide to go out and explore, they may miss out on some of the goings-ons in the village itself. World exploration is a time-consuming affair, after all! But with your efforts… Who knows, maybe you'll be able to map out the world itself. Provided you have a cartographer, of course. ;) So please keep that in mind if you decide to send your character out on an extended exploration trip.

Of course, there's plenty more to come during this all this timey wimey business. We've got something big coming up that was hinted at in John's post, and more details will be forthcoming soon. Of course, as always, any questions should be directed down below.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[lucetimods]

[tsundroid]

18 is definitely keen to get out of the barrier and explore, given how much her abilities have been nuked down. Not that that's a lot considering DBZ but...
ANYHOW. If anyone wants to go out amongst the wilds and needs a --tank-- fighter to go along with them, hit me up. I'm eager to get her out and socializing with other people.

Opal is likely to stay behind for a while and help finish building things up in the village. If there are any parties going out fairly late/after things are built up more, I definitely want to send Opal with them! :3

[showsomepeg]

Hiccup is definitely interested in helping build the village up. While he can't lift as much as a grown man, he can craft things (metal, leather, w/e) and will be looking to help in that regard.

[lordhotman]

Zuko will be among the first to go exploring with Eley and whoever else they go with.

Wan Shi Tong though will be staying in the village. Wan Shi Tong is practically a living library so anyone can ask him anything since he pretty much read all that he possibly could back before they got sent to the past.

[pokeboy]

Red has been helping out on the farmlands, though with one I've been thinking he has been able to help expand their land to be used for growing on later on (clearing off weeds and levelling after amateur double-digging), helped by his pokémon (Snorlax and Venusaur, who even without the power cap are rather large and handy). Red was also helped out by Special!Red (bravefighter) and his pokémon.

Granted the weather made it so he hasn't been able to do too much with this and probably only one 1 farmland with the rainy weather! But that's a thing.

Another thing is planting pokémon berries around. These berries were being grown in the future (on the farmlands, the house with the most of the pokémon cast also had these berries in their garden). Red had quite a few he brought along, and the main berries in Luceti were the ten in the list starting from cheri to sitrus. As long as the moderators doesn't mind their existence, they've been getting planted around in multiple locations, some hopefully in the farmlands!

They're mostly used on pokémon, but I don't know if there would be anything to stop them from being used on people (or even putting them into mixtures than being eaten in their normal forms for people). Each of the berries have some kind of healing property to them, and Red would tell any NPC on the farmlands about this (and he is talking to another character in the game about if they could be used in potions too!).

[whiskytraitorfirefight]

Ginia will be heading out to explore, not sure if she's tagging along with an existing group or forming one with others.

Also Ginia, Saori, and Ash planted some apple and pear trees just west of C1/Flame Building. They planted them in the shape of a smiley face so that's something new to see in the present village.