resurge / refresh

[savmods]

Resurge

Thisavrou's revival mechanism relies on a transfer: an entity using the most recent link formed by the Ingress energy to pull characters-as-they-were to the present day. Consequently, the default death penalty is a loss of anything that happened in the intervening period: the time between this interaction with the Ingress energy and now. Interactions include direct contact, world travel, or (at player discretion) prolonged proximity to a channel such as the Ingress shrines or memorial.

As the last visit or travel date is a matter of player choice, the duration of this loss is flexible—as (to a degree) is its permanency. For a first death, you have the following options:

1. (For a base memory loss of at least three days) The character's revival is otherwise seamless, resulting in no damage to body or mind. However, they will have no signs or memories of the lost experiences, and will not regain them in the future.

2. (For a shorter base duration) The character's revival is relatively seamless, but being drawn from a point so close to death will bring some trauma along for the ride. They will acquire a significant and lasting phobia associated with the event, with its severity determined by how close to the death they were pulled back from. (i.e. two-and-a-half-days' loss and being consistently unsettled in dark places versus a-few-hours' loss and being reduced to immediate panic attacks when the lights go out). As above, what time is lost will stay lost.

3. (For a base memory loss of at least three days) A character's revival is initially seamless, and comes with the loss of time as described above. However, within a period of five days, they encounter a trigger that awakens a connection to the events of their death. This can be exposure to the corpse, a similar scenario to the one that resulted in death, or anything appropriate to the character. When this happens, they will experience traumatic flashbacks to their death, regaining both glimpses of the missing time and physical echoes of the harm they took. (ex. a broken limb for death by physical trauma.)

To submit a character death, please will out this form and post as a comment.

<b>Character Name & Journal</b>: NAME [<user name=USERNAME>] <b>Date of Death</b>: <b>Date of Resurgence</b>: (Must be at least three days after their death] <b>How they died</b>: (Who killed them, etc.) <b>Has your character died before during Arc 3? If so, how many times?</b>: <b>Of the listed resurge possibilities, which general option would you select?</b>: (1, 2, or 3. Keep in mind that options are limited by when your character last interacted with the Ingress energy—including any active portals on Avagi.) <b>Keeping in mind that some aspects of the death penalty are fixed in the new system, do you have any limits or preferences for the mod assigning penalties to keep in mind?</b> (May cover general tone—lighthearted vs. serious—in addition to more specific requests—"serious is great, but I'd like to avoid limb loss", for example.)

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Refresh

Canon updating your character is OOCly simple, though the in-universe explanation may prove complicated. Your character will fall into a brief coma for three days while their mind and body refresh to the new canon point. During this interval, they will be kept in cryogenic stasis in the Medical Wing.

Submit a comment using the form below, which asks for basic information and an updated description of the canon and character.

<b>Character Name and Journal:</b> <b>Previous Canon Point:</b> <b>New Canon Point:</b> <b>Detailed Description of New Canon Information:</b> <b>Any Notable Changes in Personality or Appearance</b>:

Comments

[gridfather]

Character Name and Journal: Kevin Flynn gridfather
Previous Canon Point: Leaving the End of Line club
New Canon Point: On the bridge to the portal

Detailed Description of New Canon Information: Flynn finally agrees to head for the portal, and escapes with Quorra and Sam on a solar sailer, crossing the virus-laden Sea of Simulation. He repairs Q's damage from the EoL fight, catches up properly with Sam (finally), and gets to hear all about Clu's plan to leave the Grid (and drag a huge invading army with him) via Flynn's disc from the Admin himself. Flynn also witnesses the large-scale rectifier at work on Clu's ship, and gets his first (and last) in-canon glimpses of Rinzler. Following an aerial dogfight, in which it seems both Admin and enforcer lost their lives, Team Flynn finds Clu waiting for them on the bridge to the portal.

Dun dun dunnnn.

Rejecting Flynn's apology, Clu's reply comes as a hard kick that sends the User sprawling- and right back to Sav 💔

Any Notable Changes in Personality or Appearance: He's gonna need to process all of that, so he might be tetchy for a little while. Otherwise, now that the worst has happened, he's pretty damn sure he's moments away from death, and he already knows Sam will escape with Quorra, Flynn will be quite sanguine about the time he has left to him in Thisavrou. All the more reason to make this all count, right?

(Also, Flynn went into cryo on the 20th/21st, for reasons related to the absolute dreadful air quality and his health, so I'm cool with his not waking up until the 1st!)

[savaides]

APPROVED

On March 1, Flynn will wake up in Avagi's Medical Wing having experienced the listed changes. At your option, they may also experience nausea, headaches, or general disorientation for the next few days.