Take a Load Off (Beta Story)
November 11 - December 11
Log 1: 11/11
Log 2: 11/28
Return to the Library: 12/12
It is the year 2019, and for humans, life just… keeps going on. You wake up. You go to work, you work a
lot, you come home. You do the tasks needed to keep your house running and yourself functional, you sleep for less time than you should, and you get up and do it again. There are breaks in the routine, days off, vacations for some; but at the core it never changes. As the years go on, the more worn down the average person gets.
Enter the Interstellar Mindfulness & Wellness Group. Normally serving the various species and worlds of the Coalition, a recent survey into the Andromeda Galaxy revealed the planet "Earth" and the alarming state of the “humans” upon it. The state of general wellness, especially in the psychological realm, is concerningly below targets.
Technically, the Group are not allowed to do anything about it.
Technically, they are not permitted to be the first point of contact in any new civilization. But surely, if no one
notices that they’re there, it should be fine, right? There’s no way they can just sit back and watch these creatures work themselves to death!
And so, a small, mostly novice, contingent of the Group takes a ship to Earth. Staffed with professionals of various stripes, with a definitely brilliant idea: bring some humans up to their fully equipped ship, for rest and relaxation and whatever short-term therapies they might require! As well as sending some staff down to the planet disguised as those humans to administer more care on-site, as it were, to the humans left behind.
It’s only after arriving above Woodhurst, a small human settlement, that they realize there are two main flaws in this plan. One, some of the humans seem
very resistant to the idea of taking care of themselves, even when it’s explained that all those things they’re worrying about are being taken care of. Two, those staff members sent down to replace them are all
horrible at acting and have no idea how to behave like the people they’re meant to be replacing.
It’s clear they can’t stay long, but maybe they can still do some good while they’re here. What’s the worst that could happen?
HOW THIS WORKS
Please read the information in the comments below. You will decide if your character is a Reader or Actor in this Story. If they are an Actor, you will build their AU based on the information in the comments.
Actors are fully immersed in the AU. This is their world, and they have been here the whole time. Any powers the Actor has in the Library are absolutely not a thing in the Story. Actors who are Aliens during the Story will have free use of their respective Alien Skills during the Story. After the Story, if you want to keep the skill, you will need to claim it as part of your AC skill redemption. After the Story, characters will remember their time as an Actor; but while they are an Actor, they will have no memory of the Library or their actual selves.
Readers will be dropped into Woodhurst as visitors, some of whom can be picked up onto the ship and others left behind. Readers are aware that they are in a Story and remember the Library and the people in it, including the ones who don't remember them anymore (whoops!). If you don't want to/can't think of an AU, or you just think it would be hilarious to have your character as themselves in this setting, this is the option for you.
Once you've got some thoughts on where you want to go with this, or even if you're just spitballing ideas, put up a comment with your plan! Let others bounce off your ideas and see what comes out of it.
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