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initiates NPCs ([personal profile] initiatesnpc) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-06-23 08:33 am

TEMPORAL TURBULENCE: STONEHENGE&WOODSTOCK

Date & Time: 3089 B.C./1969 A.D.
Location: Assorted
Characters: Anders, Anora, Castiel, Lea, Mukhari, Nathaniel, Raven, Roslyn
Summary: Group #1's adventures spent lost in time.
Warnings: Drugs and hippie nudity?? (notify Elle or Liz of anything else worthy of labeling)



The mission was set. Team members were given their equipment: The cloaking devices would acclimate to the area and disguise them based on the historical data pulled in. There was a weapons check: The Initiative was insistent about having those chosen weapons along for the ride. Four operatives were introduced as beacons: They would stay in contact with the Initiative and relay any alterations in plans until the mission was deemed a success. And it had to be a success, or disaster would be the only thing left.



1890 A.D.

There was a man, not very well-known as far as famous men go. A writer. His existence alone was not the significant factor in the timeline's disturbance, but his profession and his choice to tell a particular, peculiar story.

This man, the Initiative states, helped sow the seeds for modern time travel centuries before its prime. What was a captivating fiction in that man's time was the reality of today, and without his account of the Time Traveler, there was risk of the very existence of so much. The recruits absolutely have a stake in this.


To the export room — the massive, rather bare and bleak place where so many were to exit and put a stop to what was putting a stop to the writer's tale. It was as yet unclear, but the Initiative is certain they'll know it when they see it, that it will be revealed once their reluctant soldiers set foot on ancient soil.

One last check, one last insistence on the urgency of their task. One, final urging to avoid as direct an impact as possible without ruining their chances; keep your temporal footprint as light as you can.

Good luck. We're counting on you.



A flash, a bitten-back breath, a blink...The room was gone.

But this wasn't right.

Out of the many who were assigned, only eight remained. Eight, and an Initiative's operative, who was immediately aware of a problem. A big problem.



STONEHENGE, 3089 B.C.


They had made it to England, all right, but far too soon. This was an ancient place, so far lost to history the cloaking devices struggled to attribute safe disguises. It was a cloudy place in the timeline, where the things they knew about it were things they were going to know about it: Those nine lost people were to bear witness to things never remembered, but often fantasized, of a monument so wildly famous in the future.



WOODSTOCK, 1969 A.D.


The Initiative's attempts to recalibrate and move its soldiers to the right place in time had another hiccup, and the nine were once again off the mark. An overshoot — nearly a century too far and an ocean away.

Luckily (or unfortunately), their issued technology quickly recovered to suit the time it had ample information on. Beads, tie-dye, hemp, denim...There were mountains of books on this time. This place. This mother of all music events.

From Stonehenge to stoners. It was hardly the smoothest of transitions.
feel_nevermore: (Meditation)

Woodstock - Open; dibs to Nath and Cas

[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2012-07-03 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
After refusing countless offers from long-haired people who wanted to braid her hair, make her taste strange substances or whatever other nonsense... Raven had eventually found a relatively quiet spot under a tree. So she sat down cross-legged in her favorite meditation posture and closed her eyes. Soon she was levitating a few feet above the ground and quietly reciting her mantra.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos... Azarath Metrion Zinthos..."

Half an hour later though, her concentration was disturbed by the presence of other people abnormally close to her. She cracked an eye open to discover a dozen of hippies sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding hands, and looking up at her in a dazed kind of awe.
noble_nate: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] noble_nate 2012-07-05 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Nathaniel had seen several groups of hippies sitting around like this in various places, usually passing around some sort of device in which to smoke their mind-altering herbs. He was surprised to see Raven sitting in the middle of this group, though. And all of them looked as if they'd been hypnotized.

He approached the group with curiosity. "Uh, is everything alright?" he asks Raven.

feel_nevermore: (Annoyed)

[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2012-07-05 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Everything's just perfect. Why do you ask?" Raven answered, voice dripping with sarcasm before she looked down at her 'public'. If looks could kill, they'd all be dead already. "Have you nothing better to do with your time than staring at me?" The hippies smiled and shook their heads in unisson. "I can't teach you to levitate in case that's what your hoping for. It takes powers none of you have." More oohs and aahs. Raven facepalmed and glanced at Nathaniel. "I give up. Please make them go before I send them all into another dimension."
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[personal profile] noble_nate 2012-07-06 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Nathaniel looks at the crowd, thinking. He can't very well use force to disperse such a peaceful crowd, so he'll have to take a different route.

He raises his voice. "There's a bloke on the other side of that clearing who's giving away free sausages." As one, all of the hippies jump up and run in the direction that Nathaniel's pointing. Needing to satisfy the munchies trumps learning how to levitate any day of the week.

He turns to Raven, smirking. "That better?"
feel_nevermore: (Sun)

[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2012-07-07 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Raven smirked back at him. "Definitely. You're a life savior." She got back to her feet. "Still I think I'd better find some other spot before they realize there are no free sausages and decide to come back here."
noble_nate: (Smiling)

[personal profile] noble_nate 2012-07-09 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably a good idea." Nathaniel looks around him. "We should probably go find the others. There's no telling what Anders is up to. And Ros seems to be acting strange."
feel_nevermore: (Dubious)

[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2012-07-10 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
She quirked a quizzical eyebrow. "Strange? Strange how?"
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[personal profile] noble_nate 2012-07-12 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
"She seems to be forgetting things," Nathaniel replies. "Not all the time, mind you; sometimes she's her normal self. But there are other times when it seems like..." he thinks about the best way to word it, "like she doesn't even remember who she is, let alone who everyone else is."
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[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2012-08-05 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Well that wouldn't really have worried me since we don't really know each other. But I guess it could be a problem. Especially if she decided to refuse going back to the future with us... Where is she right now?"