taxonooc | SYSTEM FAILURE IMMINENT: PLOTTING TIME

Some of you may have heard that there's a SYSTEM FAILURE coming up. We heard that, too. This is why you get a super special post all about it!

Up above somewhere in the Alien HQ, there's going to be a little oopsie-daisy, which is going to lead to a whole mess of trouble. Different things will go down on different days (and we have a bare-bones schedule for you under the cut) with the malfunctions getting more and more serious as time goes on. Each day, from June 25 to July 03, we'll be putting up a post in the IC community detailing exactly what's going on for that day and just how the malfunctions and shut downs are effecting the city. Remember: once this starts, any glitched character will be stuck in their glitch for the duration.

And then, on the seventh day, ~~God rested~~ everyone will be able to escape. The barriers will go down and reveal a network of tunnels leading somewhere we'll tell you about later but we assure you is full of death and destruction. (Side note: if you'd rather not play through the finding of death and destruction, characters are totally allowed to stay put in the city and continue dealing with stuff up there. If you want to not participate in this plot entirely, we totally understand and pause glitches are definitely available for you.) When it gets closer to the time for all that to go down, we'll put up a post with more information.

Finally, on the ninth day, the Aliens will begin repairs. Again, we'll post the details on that closer to when it actually happens.

Now for your lovely schedule of horrors:

Day 01 (June 25)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: sky remains at noon and temperatures hover at around 90-100 degrees with no wind

Day 02 (June 26)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: sky remains at noon and temperatures hover at around 90-100 degrees with no wind
Extras malfunction: begin to behave oddly, group together, and stop performing their tasks properly.

Day 03 (June 27)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: sky remains at noon and temperatures hover at around 90-100 degrees with no wind
Extras malfunction: begin to behave oddly, group together, and continue to not perform their tasks properly.
life support shuts down

Day 04 (June 28)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: sun remains at noon, but there is now warm rain and wind and clouds blocking most of the fake-sun's light
Extras malfunction: begin to behave oddly, group together, and continue to not perform their tasks properly.
life support remains offline
building program malfunctions: unoccupied buildings will look fine one moment and then damaged the next

Day 05 (June 29)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: there is rain and wind, temperatures drop dramatically
Extras malfunction: begin to behave oddly, group together, continue to not their tasks properly, and begin disappearing
life support remains offline
building program malfunctions: unoccupied buildings will look fine one moment and then damaged the next
sky illusion goes offline: no more sun, and cave walls can be seen through the clouds

Day 06 (June 30)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: there is rain and wind, temperatures remain low
Extras malfunction: begin to behave oddly, group together, continue to not their tasks properly, and continue disappearing
life support remains offline
building program malfunctions: unoccupied buildings will look fine one moment and then damaged the next, some begin to disappear completely
sky illusion remains offline: no more sun, and cave walls can be seen through the clouds
barriers malfunction: becomes permeable above the city, pushing in nasty smelling air for characters to breathe

Day 07 (July 01)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: rain leads to flooding, wind gets worse, lightning strikes at random
Extras malfunction: begin to behave oddly, group together, continue to not their tasks properly, and continue disappearing
life support remains offline
building program malfunctions: unoccupied and occupied buildings will look fine one moment and then damaged the next, some will disappear completely
sky illusion remains offline: no more sun, and cave walls can be seen through the clouds
barriers malfunction: they are down completely, pushing in nasty smelling air for characters to breathe and allowing them to leave the city
tunnels in the cave are accessible

Day 08 (July 02)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: rain leads to flooding, wind gets worse and some small tornadoes form, lightning strikes at random, temperatures continue to drop providing hail and snow in some parts of the city
Extras malfunction: there are none left in the city at all
life support remains offline
building program malfunctions: unoccupied and occupied buildings will look fine one moment and then damaged the next, some will disappear completely
sky illusion remains offline: no more sun, and cave walls can be seen through the clouds
barriers malfunction: they are down completely, pushing in nasty smelling air for characters to breathe and allowing them to leave the city
tunnels in the cave are accessible
SURPRISE AT THE END OF THE TUNNELS (more on that in a special OOC post we'll put up on July 01)

Day 09 (July 03)
tablets can only broadcast in [voice]
economy malfunctions, everyone receives debt shocks
weather systems fail: rain leads to flooding, wind gets worse and some small tornadoes form, lightning strikes at random, temperatures continue to drop providing hail and snow in some parts of the city
Extras malfunction: there are none left in the city at all
life support remains offline
building program malfunctions: unoccupied and occupied buildings will look fine one moment and then damaged the next, some will disappear completely
sky illusion remains offline: no more sun, and cave walls can be seen through the clouds
barriers malfunction: they are down completely, pushing in nasty smelling air for characters to breathe and allowing them to leave the city
tunnels in the cave are accessible
SURPRISE AT THE END OF THE TUNNELS (more on that in a special OOC post we'll put up on July 01)
WELCOME HOME SURPRISE AND REPAIRS BEGIN (more on that in a third OOC post we'll put up on July 03)

We're going to put up three different comment threads for you to tag into so we can pretend we're organized. After we have those threads up, start your own and plot at will!