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initiates NPCs ([personal profile] initiatesnpc) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2012-06-23 09:18 am

TEMPORAL TURBULENCE: HAWAII&THEUNKNOWN

Date & Time: 4.9 million years past/68 million years past
Location: Assorted
Characters: Artika, Equius, Jack, Loki, Mystique, Orihime
Summary: Group #3's adventures spent lost in time.
Warnings: Violence? (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 six remained. Six, and an Initiative's operative, who was immediately aware of a problem. A big problem.


HAWAII, 4.9 MILLION YEARS AGO


Something had gone horribly wrong. England was never so hot, never so close to the sun...And there were no written records of England ever having to deal with active volcanoes.

Yet there they were. And there the party was, amid the chaos of an ancient planet still flexing its muscles. Growing pains. Emphasis on pain, should there be a stagger or stumble in the wrong direction.

The operative's instruments read Hawaii, but this was no Hawaii famed for scenic vacations or exotic appeal. There were no people to speak of, in fact. Only the thick, steam-choked jungle nestled on the island still expanding, creeping bit by bit with each volcano-exhale.

Five minutes in, and the Initiative operative's reader was still trying to calculate how far back they'd landed. Not a good sign.



LOCATION UNKNOWN, 68 MILLION YEARS AGO


Instead of traveling ahead, a hiccup in the process sent the six back. Way back.

Any hope of leaving the jungle behind would be lost, as once again the party lands amid endless green and a choking humidity. Similar, yes, but still different: These trees have a different shape and scale, and ferns litter the area freely.

The rumbling felt in one's toes was not from any volcano, however. It was something living in a different sense, moving for a different cause.

As the two-way with Exsilium in the future statics to the indecipherable, a wild and foreign roar can be heard.
flightlessbird: (x lounge)

AW YEAH LET'S DO IT i vote raptors

[personal profile] flightlessbird 2012-06-30 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ It kind of sucks walking around on two legs here, with all the big leaves and stuff that flap in your face. So Artika has taken to spending most of her time in the four-legged scaly shape, even if it makes communication sort of a hassle. But she's currently snaking after Orihime, darting up trees now and then to knock down promising-looking fruits.

Which is probably about when the rustling-bushes starts up.
]
fivetimesover: (innocent)

Re: AW YEAH LET'S DO IT i vote raptors

[personal profile] fivetimesover 2012-07-02 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Orihime collects the fruit as it's dropped from the trees, giving feedback on which ones were good and which were bad. She was so used to the sounds Artika made as she climbed in the trees that she didn't notice the new rustling coming from behind her.]
hellodeadpeople: (pic#2809374)

I'm late but fuck yeah dinosaurs

[personal profile] hellodeadpeople 2012-07-03 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jack had been tottering along with them, half in the name of protection, as they'd heard those roars earlier, and half because she just wanted to steal food. Which is exactly what she's doing, biting into a fruit as they walk.

While Orihime might not, Jack does hear that noise and pauses midstep and midchew. ]


...I want fuck-all to do with whatever that is.
flightlessbird: (x snake)

[personal profile] flightlessbird 2012-07-04 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Artika had missed the sound too, but not Jack's announcement. She drops her head out of the nearest bunch of leaves, orange eyes big and curious, and makes a trill. Who cares if no one understands her like this, she's totally cool with talking to herself. But at least she's obviously checking out the surrounding bushes, tasting the air now and then. ]
fivetimesover: (surprise)

[personal profile] fivetimesover 2012-07-05 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
What?

[She makes it a point to observe the area around them better but she can't sense anything. Whatever it is, it doesn't have an spiritual power.]

Does anyone see anything?
hellodeadpeople: (pic#2809376)

[personal profile] hellodeadpeople 2012-07-09 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ The rustling comes again and Jack starts to take steps back along the path ]

I cannot be the only one that hears that.

[ scanning, she spots the bush that's moving and points to it before moving the finger to her lips in a 'shh' gesture ]