This is an idea I've been kicking around for a while, and I'm very aware the stars have to align for it to work, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on a player plot that could be as big or as small as it needs to be. (This is all Very Tweakable if the initial pitch is too convoluted. Also happy to shelve this for whenever it's handy. Or just tell me it won't work because time travel breaks the game, my feelings will not be hurt!)
This is my Five Makes Bad Time Travel Decisions plot.
For background if you haven't followed all of Five's Shit: Back in Taravast, Five lost both Vanya (now Viktor in s3, but until they know this will still be referred to as Vanya) and Klaus at the same time, then came to the conclusion that they were dead and promptly went insane. Thanks to his old buddy Mingyu's quick thinking, he calmed him down before he broke time trying to get them back by making him forget they were ever there by using his mind-altering magic. Except he took it too far, and made it so Five doesn't remember that Vanya ever existed. It's been a huge problem for someone who desperately wants to get all of his family back.
Very Soon (with thanks to Allison's meddling) he's going to be connecting the dots that it was Mingyu (and not a mirror) that did it, and he's going to get her to help him pin down an approximation of exactly When This Occurred because Mingyu is gone now and if he can just open up a portal to that time he can get his siblings back and get Mingyu to fix his stupid memory spell. And then maybe murder him and have himself a nice day.
THE IDEA (and more background): - Aside from Allison's detective work, Five has elicited the help of a certain Engineer from the Future to take a look at that old broken time-traveling briefcase he's been lugging around for a year+ and had all but forgotten about. Sometime between working on this, and combining it with his powers, he's able to open a portal to the approximate time and place he's trying to reach. - Unfortunately, Klaus and Vanya disappeared around the time the Ice Dragon was going on a rampage on the tower in Taravast. (Good times! See if you already know where I'm going with this.) - Instead of going through the portal and reaching Mingyu or his siblings, said rampaging Ice Dragon comes through the portal to the present time/making the portal collapse and possibly destroying the briefcase in the process. - Everyone gets the joy of having to defeat something that they've already defeated before and any mayhem it creates and the stress of wondering if they've created a parallel timeline where the dragon disappeared and what that means. (It shouldn't change anything but-! you know this is just a natural thing you stress about.) - We relearn the lesson that time travel is bad.
Five has been here for over a year, and he's only had one major mistake, so it seemed timely. Of course it would be destructive, so it could be wedged in anywhere this would work or be a handy plot device.
I told you it was convoluted, but it would put a nice little bow on the Five Problem everyone thought would go away.
That's pretty much the whole thing! Thanks for reading. :>
no subject
This is my Five Makes Bad Time Travel Decisions plot.
For background if you haven't followed all of Five's Shit: Back in Taravast, Five lost both Vanya (now Viktor in s3, but until they know this will still be referred to as Vanya) and Klaus at the same time, then came to the conclusion that they were dead and promptly went insane. Thanks to his old buddy Mingyu's quick thinking, he calmed him down before he broke time trying to get them back by making him forget they were ever there by using his mind-altering magic. Except he took it too far, and made it so Five doesn't remember that Vanya ever existed. It's been a huge problem for someone who desperately wants to get all of his family back.
Very Soon (with thanks to Allison's meddling) he's going to be connecting the dots that it was Mingyu (and not a mirror) that did it, and he's going to get her to help him pin down an approximation of exactly When This Occurred because Mingyu is gone now and if he can just open up a portal to that time he can get his siblings back and get Mingyu to fix his stupid memory spell. And then maybe murder him and have himself a nice day.
THE IDEA (and more background):
- Aside from Allison's detective work, Five has elicited the help of a certain Engineer from the Future to take a look at that old broken time-traveling briefcase he's been lugging around for a year+ and had all but forgotten about. Sometime between working on this, and combining it with his powers, he's able to open a portal to the approximate time and place he's trying to reach.
- Unfortunately, Klaus and Vanya disappeared around the time the Ice Dragon was going on a rampage on the tower in Taravast. (Good times! See if you already know where I'm going with this.)
- Instead of going through the portal and reaching Mingyu or his siblings, said rampaging Ice Dragon comes through the portal to the present time/making the portal collapse and possibly destroying the briefcase in the process.
- Everyone gets the joy of having to defeat something that they've already defeated before and any mayhem it creates and the stress of wondering if they've created a parallel timeline where the dragon disappeared and what that means. (It shouldn't change anything but-! you know this is just a natural thing you stress about.)
- We relearn the lesson that time travel is bad.
Five has been here for over a year, and he's only had one major mistake, so it seemed timely. Of course it would be destructive, so it could be wedged in anywhere this would work or be a handy plot device.
I told you it was convoluted, but it would put a nice little bow on the Five Problem everyone thought would go away.
That's pretty much the whole thing! Thanks for reading. :>