ENDGAME PART 2: Time Compression Chaos

[wrmods]

Today marks the start of Time Compression Chaos. After emerging victorious against Sol Invictus, Balamb Garden has repaired the damage done in the battle, licked its wounds, informed the families of the casualties, and taken control of Galbadia Garden. Zabala remains out of commission, and the Training Center remains strangely deserted... but slowly, for the most part, normality has reasserted itself. A week later than scheduled, the new school term started -- to the remaining faculty, the battle had made it all too clear that the cadets need training if they are to face the threats brought to this world by Time Compression.

Because as of February, Time Compression isn't just going haywire in far-flung parts of the world any more. Balamb Garden is not immune to its effects, and soon -- though increasingly frequently as the month wears on -- characters may notice that parts of Garden itself are in flux. It may be subtle: midwinter frost materialising in a flash over a warm bench in the Quad, hot dogs vanishing from the cafeteria before anybody can buy them. But the problems will escalate: hiccups with disappearing or teleporting vehicles, equipment and machinery, entire recently-renovated classrooms reverting to a dusty, unpainted state and back, some of the newer dorms temporarily disappearing for hours at a time. What's more, the changes aren't even restricted to locations. People may find that their possessions get moved around or replaced or their memories or abilities fluctuate to other levels and times of their lives.

Sometimes Time Compression brings a few familiar faces -- perhaps you're one of them. Maybe you have some vague recollection of going home, or maybe it was just another day in your Time Compressed life, you took one step down the familiar hallway, and the scenery just changed. What's going on? No orientation is forthcoming from most of Garden's staff, who are adrift with the Commander out of action (wait, what do you mean they're not talking about Squall?). Some stranger may have taken over your dorm or your BBS ID if you decide to retreat there to gather clues. But chatting to anyone else will at least clue you in on one thing: this is all pretty messed up, and it's only going to get worse...

In other words, from now until the end of our final plot arc, previously-dropped characters may be brought back to the game. Formal reapps are not required, although we will be checking reclaims against previous apps.

Some notes on logistics:

• Essentially, every character that was accepted to WR between its inception on LJ and the beginning of endgame in 2014 is allowed.
• The key word is Time Compression Chaos: multiple versions of characters, AU or OU, are not only welcome but hilarious! The one major exception is characters who have since gone on to be played as CRAUs in other games; in this case, we will ask you to retcon their memories to the point that they left WR.
• Otherwise, memories remain intact. Whether your character went home prior to reappearing in Garden or was simply zapped into the present day is left to player discretion.
• If you have changed your character's journal name or your own contact details since leaving the game, we additionally require a link to a thread on Dreamwidth that said character participated in, to verify your identity. (This should not exclude older characters, since all IC posts from the LiveJournal days were imported to witchesreign and concoursec during the move. If you can't find a thread in particular, let us know.)

If you wish to reclaim a character, respond to this thread (NOT outside it!) with the following copypasta. Multiple characters in the same comment are fine.
<b>Player name:</b> If you've changed your handle since leaving the game, please list both names. <b>Player DW:</b> <user name="JOURNALNAME"/> <b>Character name:</b> Western order, please! <b>Character canon:</b> If AU or an OC, please indicate this here as well. <b>Character journal:</b> <user name="JOURNALNAME"/> <b>Sponsor/Position:</b> Cadet, SeeD, Instructor, other staff. <b>Thread link:</b> Delete this field if both your contact information and your character's journal are unchanged.
Once you've left a comment here, you're free to submit comm requests to witchesreign, concoursec and concourseooc; we'll approve them as soon as we've matched your name to an old app. Feel free to also friend/fan the mod Plurk, witchesreign, to keep up with announcements. There is now a mingle log to bring your characters into if you wish.

For characters remaining in game, feel free to play with Time Compression's effects on your characters! We ask that you keep these effects temporary and for memory/ability fluctuations, within the limits of your character's canon (and if applicable, any nerfing your character may have received for the game); any more permanent changes will need to be applied for as a canon update.

You may plot out any handwaved CR you would like to happen here or backdate it (reclaimed characters may not post to anything dated earlier than February 1st). For questions about anything in this post, please use this thread. If you have any other remarks about this phase of endgame, feel free to throw them out in the comments.

Comments

CHARACTER RECLAIMS

[wrmods]

To reclaim a character, please comment with the following copypasta:
<b>Player name:</b> If you've changed your handle since leaving the game, please list both names. <b>Player DW:</b> <user name="JOURNALNAME"/> <b>Character name:</b> Western order, please! <b>Character canon:</b> If AU or an OC, please indicate this here as well. <b>Character journal:</b> <user name="JOURNALNAME"/> <b>Sponsor/Position:</b> Cadet, SeeD, Instructor, other staff. <b>Thread link:</b> Delete this field if both your contact information and your character's journal are unchanged.
Then request membership to witchesreign, concoursec, and concourseooc.

EXAMPLE COMMENT

[grainsoftruth]

Player name: skarme
Player DW: blitzente

Character name: Ayumu "Osaka" Kasuga
Character canon: Azumanga Daioh
Character journal: grainsoftruth
Sponsor/Position: Cadet (Opal)
Thread link:

Re: CHARACTER RECLAIMS

[bratbeyond]

Player name: Zi
Player DW: ziriffic

Character name: Damian Razem (Robin)
Character canon: DC Comics AU
Character journal: bratbeyond
Sponsor/Position: Cadet and forever bitter he never made it to SeeD

[hotpinkwhirlwind]

Player name: Caryl
Player DW: camalyng

Character name: Sharpay Evans
Character canon: High School Musical
Character journal: hotpinkwhirlwind
Sponsor/Position: Instructor of DRA 101 and ART 101

Re: CHARACTER RECLAIMS

[werepanther]

Player name: Zi
Player DW: ziriffic

Character name: Tom Bronson (Wildcat)
Character canon: DC Comics
Character journal: werepanther
Sponsor/Position: SeeD, Instructor of BOX 101

Re: CHARACTER RECLAIMS

[espio]

Player name: Kiwi
Player DW: spudjuice

Character name: Applejack
Character canon: My Little Pony, FF8 AU
Character journal: sweetapple
Sponsor/Position: SeeD

Character name: Colette Brunel
Character canon: Tales of Symphonia
Character journal: para_ball (previously runaway_chosen on Livejournal)
Sponsor/Position: Cadet (Amber)
Thread link: here

Re: CHARACTER RECLAIMS

[scatterflower]

Player name: Mags
Player DW: custom_magnum

Character name: Chika Daimon and Biyomon
Character canon: Digimon Savers
Character journal: scatterflower
Sponsor/Position: Cadet

HANDWAVE PLOTTING

[wrmods]

Want to sort out details for what happened between your character in the last two handwaved weeks since the battle? There's been injury recovery, clean up and repair work to do, and another Garden to explore between classes.

[laughafterme]

Pinkie definitely has been in the fray, probably got sent to the infirmary during the second phase and out for a few hours, only to wake up before the end and find that there is still fighting left over to do.

Since Pinkie was actually accepted into Galbadia when she first arrived to this world ages ago, she'll definitely be exploring her old school! I'll put up a thread for that later!

QUESTIONS

[wrmods]

No question is a stupid question!

[dragonspooker]

How does AC figure into reclaims for this? Or will this finale even be long enough to worry about AC?

[wrmods]

As of endgame, we no longer require activity proofs for AC, but reclaimed characters will be expected to post a check-in in the same way as existing characters. Please see that post for a rough timeframe and more information.

Re: QUESTIONS

[werepanther]

Just to clarify: characters can come back slightly older, right? I'd like to make Damian older when he returns (roughly 13-14-ish), but I'm cool with leaving him at the age he was when he left Garden too.

Re: QUESTIONS

[wrmods]

Yes, that's fine! Though as we recall, he was thirteen when he left Garden anyway :)

[bratbeyond]

Excellent, thank you! ...Man if that's the case I might need a PB, the dude's not gonna look the same if he's actually 14 1/2 now :')

Re: QUESTIONS

[espio]

When you say a character's memory can be affected, does that mean I can sneak in the knowledge that Espio's friends survived the collapse of the Special Zone? Like, five minutes into his current canon point's future.

(Only then to take it back and he has to be told about it by family).

[wrmods]

Yes, temporary forward memory changes are fine!