Hey Smash, I'm eating your times!

[iamtheeggman]

You've waited. You've watched for the signs. And now, the stars have aligned, and it's finally happening.

TIME EATER PLOT!

Background:
The plot begins on June 23, Sonic's birthday. As in Sonic Generations, at Sonic's birthday party, a giant purple monster called the Time Eater will strike. All participants will be separated as the Time Eater starts to consume and erase all of history, leaving only bits and pieces of the timeline left unconsumed. Those caught by the Time Eater's attack will be left in the empty void left behind, the White World, forced to explore and relive moments from each of their histories in order to fix the timeline, find the Time Eater, and put everything right.

Log Structure:
After the initial opening log, everyone is free to open up logs, private or open, set in the time period the character(s) are reliving. It doesn't have to just be your native character, it can include other characters as well, who have come to help. Entire in-game canonmates are welcome to experience the same event, as much as non-canonmates are welcome to join in if you so desire. You can even do a solo log if you like. The sky's the limit! Then on Monday, a new log to confront the Time Eater will go up, and once the Time Eater is defeated and the event ends, everyone will be returned to Sonic's birthday on Saturday, and have lost no time at all.

What if I don't want to participate?:
Since when the event ends everyone will be returned to the moment in time when the Time Eater attacked, if you were not involved in the event, your characters won't even realize something has happened. Feel free to carry on as if nothing has happened.

Sign-Ups:
If you'd like to be involved in the plot, please sign up below! Fill out the following form for each of your characters, if you want to solo or have an open log:

<b>Player:</b> Self-explanatory. <b>Character:</b> Self-explanatory. <b>Canon:</b> Also self-explanatory. <b>Game Event:</b> The moment in time that your character will return to. Can be any moment from your game series' canon. <b>Open/Solo Log:</b> Is this log open to anyone, or is it closed to only you?

If you want to sign up a group, use this form:

<b>Players:</b> The players involved. <b>Characters:</b> The characters involved in the log. <b>Canon:</b> Your characters' canon(s). <b>Game Event:</b> The moment in time that your characters will return to. Can be any moment from your game series' canon. <b>Open/Closed Log:</b> Is this log open to anyone, or is it closed to only your group?

Sign-ups are open until June 22, after which a full list of all the time periods in play will be posted up.

NPCs:
Of course, if there are going to be NPCs involved in your jaunts through time and space, you're free to play them yourselves, or find other people to play them. If you can't find someone else to play them, I can try my hand at it. Otherwise, I'm also opening sign-ups to volunteers who want to take on the various NPC characters who are native to the time periods being visited. Feel free to offer your services under the individual character/group sign-ups if you're interested.

Questions:
I've tried to be as thorough as possible here, but if I've missed anything or there's anything you're not clear about, please let me know! There's a thread below for questions, or hit me up on Plurk (G30FF), or on AIM.

That all being said... HAVE FUN!

Comments

Questions

[iamtheeggman]

Important Question

[tank_rockarms]

What the hell are the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog smoking?

Re: Important Question

[iamtheeggman]

One of life's greatest mysteries.

Re: Questions

[fullunlifeconsequences]

Okay I have never played a Sonic game beyond the early ones with almost zero plot. GET READY...

What exactly are the details of reliving it? Do people watch themselves go through it, or do they have to repeat it all by mimicking the choices of the past? What happens if they try to change the past? How does it work if other people are there too? Do they help the person in question retrace their steps, are they suddenly a part of the past, or what?

Re: Questions

[iamtheeggman]

Your characters relive the events themselves. In Generations, what happened was you replayed old levels and fought old bosses again. So that's basically what happens here.

Re: Questions

[carbonatedwater]

Do you become yourself from the past, though, reliving things, or are there two of you? I ask because like in Sonic Generations there were two Sonics, etc.

Re: Questions

[iamtheeggman]

True. In that case, I'd say play it by ear. If you want your character to relive it themselves, do so. If you want to see their younger self doing it, that is also acceptable.

Re: Questions

[poyo]

What if reliving a certain event of the game means the death of a character?

Re: Questions

[iamtheeggman]

In that case, they can either not die this time around, or they'll stay dead until the Time Eater is defeated, and then be returned to normal with everyone else.

Sign-Ups

[iamtheeggman]

MY BODY IS READY

[thewrightidea]

Player: Carbon
Character: Phoenix Wright
Canon: Ace Attorney
Game Event: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations, Case 1. Phoenix returns to one of the recesses in that case to find his college-aged self being a complete moron.
Open/Solo Log: Yes, this log is open to others.

LOOK. LOOK. I EVEN GOT A YOUNG PHOENIX ACCOUNT ALL READY OKAY. thewrightloser

TENTATIVE GROUP SIGN-UP

[obfuskate]

Players: Essay, Kris, Fort
Characters: Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog, Silver the Hedgehog, and classic!Sonic NPC cameo (by one (1) Essay)
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog
Game Event: This will be edited later with a decision!!
Open/Closed Log: Closed

Re: Sign-Ups

[after_the_flower]

Player: Liz
Character: Sophie
Canon: Tales of Graces
Game Event: The beginning of the game. Bits and pieces of important things will happen.
Open/Solo Log: Opeeeen.

Apples Kid

[ihateplumbers]

Player: Chris
Character: Apple Kid.
Canon: Urfbownd.
Game Event: Apple Kid is in a house and needs some food and also $200. Insert sandwich to continue game.
Open/Solo Log: Open and also really dumb, but what are you expecting from me.

Re: Sign-Ups

[will_be_god]

Player: Blackjack
Character: Cyrus
Canon: Pokemon DP
Game Event: The creation of the Red Chain through the summoning up to his defeat by Dawn
Open/Solo Log: Open to anyone!

Time to go a bit crazy

[speaknotthewatchers]

Player: Sam
Character: Manah
Canon: Drakengard
Game Event: Manah forcing Furiae to kill herself
http://youtu.be/mmm6zUpLJ-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asx20wWEXYs
Open/Solo Log: Open for anyone who wants to see Manah as a crazy child.

[littlehero]

[speaknotthewatchers]

Don't look D:

Re: Sign-Ups

[monotreme_101]

Player: Jim
Character: Knuckles the Echidna
Canon: Sanic zah haidjuhaggu
Game Event: Knuckles Chaotix - FINAL BOSS. Basically a building-sized Metal Sonic that Knuckles has to beat up with the help of one or more friends all tied toigether with magical ring energy that works something like a rubber band.
Open/Solo Log: Log would be open to one or more other parties - The nature of the boss makes it hard to defeat alone. NPC Chaotix would be love as would non-castmates or castmates not from that game or just Knuckles pals from school or... whoever

[kumagypsy]

I'M GOOD AT POSTING HURR

Player: Groove
Character: Kumatora
Canon: Mother 3
Game Event: Chapter 8. All of it. She's gonna get a crash course in What Actually Happened and it will probably blow her mind a little.
Open/Solo Log: Open!

[planking]

Player: Groove
Character: Flint
Canon: Mother 3
Game Event: Chapter 1! He gets to relive the worst night of his life. Awesome.
Open/Solo Log: Open!

[mandana]

Don't worry bro I will be here to give you all the concussions you need.

[lovely_wind]

Players: Jeff and Groof
Characters: Goombella and Flurrie!
Canon: Paper Mario: TTYD
Game Event: The final battle against the Shadow Queen. Ever wondered what happens when Mario games go GRIMDARK? You're about to find out!
Open/Closed Log: I'm gonna say open for now!

Re: Sign-Ups

[icequeen_aran]

Players: ANGELA and KAT and WHOEVER ELSE WANTS TO JOIN US
Characters: Pit, Samus
Canon: Kid Metroid II: Uprising of Samus
Game Event: Chapter 8 of Kid Icarus: Uprising, then tapering into the events of Metroid II, up until the death of the Queen Metroid.
Open/Closed Log: Le open! There will be lots of shooting and fighting and broken 4th walls, so bring your wits and weapons.

just in case his log needs this too--

[obfuskate]

Player: Essay
Character: Shadow the Hedgehog
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog
Game Event: The Space Colony ARK, 50 years ago
Open/Solo Log: Open to anyone!

JUST GONNA...

[travelingcascade]

STICK THIS HERE... JUST IN CASE???! I admittedly do not know the specifics or who is still interested sooo /o/

Players: Kiz, Kimi, Kate, Bret, Snap, Pix, Jeff
Characters: Teams Red, Green and Blue.
Canon: Pocket Monsters
Game Event: VS. GIOVANNI at some point in some time.
Open/Closed Log: UHHHH

Re: JUST GONNA...

[iamtheeggman]

I AM SO THERE

Maybe like. A revisit to Silph Co.?

Re: JUST GONNA...

[rivalkidneypunch]

Special cameo from Science Duck y/n
mite b cool. :Uc Putting it in Viridian Gym could work as an alternative too, if going through Silph'll be too unweildy for all of us.

Re: JUST GONNA...

[iamtheeggman]

Silph Co means we can have grunt battles leading up to the main event too.

Re: JUST GONNA...

[rivalappeared]

I'm in

Why did this take me so long to do

[bluestreaker]

Player: Kris
Character: SANIC.
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog
Game Event: Seeing as Sonic is actually post Generations (Just after the TE battle but before time is corrected), I'm going to go ahead and just redo the Generation hub world, minus the bosses.
Open/Solo Log: Open log! I HIGHLY encourage anyone to join and explore! I'm stoked to build some CR, too. If you aren't sure what the heck you wanna do for the event, you're totally welcome to come dick around in this post, too. You don't hafta interact with Sonic. Think Angel Island.

[testgasm]

Player: WHIT
Character: Weetabix
Canon: Robots & Cake 2: Electric Boogaloo
Game Event: WHEATLEY LABS. Shortly after he takes control of the facility, punches GLaDOS and Chell down an elevator shaft and begins REMAKING APERTURE IN HIS OWN IMAGE.
Open/Solo Log: OPEN for anyone who wants to solve a couple of hundred simple tests

for a few years...

Re: Sign-Ups

[thewunderkind]

Player: Pixle
Character: Lash
Canon: Advance Wars
Game Event: Aparoid Battles | OLAF'S HOMETOWN BOMBING
Open/Solo Log: Open

Re: Sign-Ups

[poyo]

Players: Meg, Carbon, Jeff, Shocky
Characters: Kirby, Kanji, Daisy, Mary
Canon: Kirby, duh.
Game Event: Return to Dream Land. Specifically, the Halcandra section to endgame, because when I apped him he hadn't gotten to that yet. :D
Open/Closed Log: Semi-open. I can take two one more characters for this, and I would like to, so gimme a holler, guys! Closed now! Others are welcome to spectate, though!

Re: Sign-Ups

[iamtheeggman]

Players: Jeff and Kris
Characters: Sonic and Blaze
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog
Game Event: Sonic and Blaze have a rematch against Captain Whisker and Johnny on Pirates Island from Sonic Rush Adventure
Open/Closed Log: Closed

Player: Jeff
Character: Blaze
Canon: Sonic the Hedgehog
Game Event: On a sailboat, sailing the seas and searching for Sol Emeralds.
Open/Solo Log: Open to anyone who wants to get in on Sol Emerald hunting!

A Link to Their Past?

[breaks_pots]

Player: RM
Character: Young Link
Canon: Legend of Zelda
Game Event: Ocarina of Time: Ganon's Castle/Final Fight with Ganon
b>Open/Solo Log: OPEN

As Young Link has not gotten to that point in his canon, this would actually require it to be a point in Spirit Track's Link's canon's History. Details/ideas being currently discussed in This Plurk. It's private unless you're friended. Feel free to friend me.

Re: A Link to Their Past?

[breaks_pots]

I've gotten some positive response to this on plurk, so I'm hoping something from this will go through.