Time Stand Still

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PHASE 2

Time Stand Still
Dates run:	November 3-14, 2020
Run By:	Sam and Frito
Read the logs:	Time Stand Still

Quote from the plot

Things get a little Weird around the mansion when a group shows up claiming to be from the future of an alternate dimension.

Cast

Topaz, Amanda Sefton, Marie-Ange Colbert, Doug Ramsey, Emma Frost, Jean Grey

Kevin Sydney, Betsy Braddock, Sooraya Qadir, Logan, Artie Maddicks, Clarice Ferguson, John Allerdyce, Angelo Espinosa, Maya Lincoln-Lopez.

Alternate Universe Cast: Topaz, Talia Sefton (Nocturne), Franklin Richards (Tattletale), Nate Barton (Ronin), Shogo Lee (Sentinel/White Rabbit), Shakti (Topaz), Ruby & Garnet (N/A), Ellie Colbert-Ramsey Wilson (Sombra)

Timing

November 3-14, 2020

Plot Summary

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Nov 3 - Time Stand Still: Topaz emails Amanda, Marie-Ange and Doug to let them know her therapist has sent her on a weekend retreat.

Nov 9 - Time Stand Still: While at the retreat. Topaz is approached by an emotion-draining witch who seems familiar, but who leaves her memories of the encounter jumbled; Amanda alerts the teams to the incident.

Nov10 - Time Stand Still: An odd group of mutants arrives at the gates of the mansion, telling Sooraya they’re from the future and they’re there to stop something bad; while they’re waiting for someone in charge to appear, one of the strangers reveals she looks a lot like Kurt and calls Amanda “auntie”; Doug and Emma question half the group while Jean and Topaz do the same and it appears they’re telling the truth, that they’re there to stop Topaz from their future from destroying the mansion; Doug discovers one of the newcomers is his and Marie-Ange’s daughter, by way of Wade; a strange conversation between Marie-Ange, Doug and Ellie follows; Darcy is confused about the sudden appearance of children; Amanda’s ‘niece’ stops her to apologise for the earlier scene and reveals her name is Talia and she’s the daughter of Kurt and Wanda; Topaz and Amanda talk about the discovery there’s a version of her that has gone bad, and what to do about it.

Nov 11 - Time Stand Still: A teams meeting is held to discuss what to do about the other Topaz; Alison meets Franklin, the six year old son of Sue and Reed, and is bemused; Kevin goes over Topaz’s schedule for the plan and is concerned about her lack of life.

Nov 12 - Time Stand Still: Molly comes across Shogo, the technopathic son of a vampire Jubilee, and they discover the toaster is evil; Jean meets Ruby and Garnet and they bond over ‘old’ movies; Ruby and Garnet force a confrontation between Emma and 14 when they reveal that they are clones of 14, with possible Summers DNA mixed in and Emma finally owns her ‘daughters’; Ellie comes across Artie, who is totally Done with everything; Shogo meets Jubilee and has trouble remembering she’s not his mother or a vampire, asking her very strange questions.

Nov 13 - Time Stand Still: Alex meets Franklin early in the morning in the kitchen and helps him achieve mac and cheese and cartoons; Kurt meets Talia and it’s not actually weird at all; Cypher calls for volunteers for the ambush in Avalon; Kevin draws the Other Topaz to Avalon and the trap is executed; Wolverine, Facade and Sombra cut a path through Other Topaz’s shadow creatures on one side, while Ronin, Blink and Pyro do the same on the other side; Echo, Skin and Sentinel take care of the third side and the Frosts - the White Queen, 14 and Ruby and Garnet - psychically prevent her from draining emotions for power; finally, Tarot, Dust, Marvel Girl, Psylocke and Topaz overload Other Topaz, allowing Daytripper to come in and kill her.

Nov 14 - Time Stand Still: Topaz posts to let people know the crisis is over and their guests have returned to their own time and place; Betsy points out that the whole thing was a good example of why not to have kids; Alison admits she enjoyed the experience, in small doses at least.

Related Links

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External Links

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Trivia and Meta

Trivia

While socked by Frito, Franklin Richards was partially ghost-written by Typechip (Frito's and Twiller's child who also happens to be six)

Shakti was an entirely self-indulgent character for Sam, who wanted a physical representation of how far evil!Topaz was willing to go to get what she wanted

Meta

Plotrunner: Sam and Frito

This plot was originally conceived in 2018 during a (possibly alcohol-influenced) discussion about Topaz and morals. It took two years to follow through on due to a combination of Real Life and figuring out all the alternate universe and time travel shenanigans.

Ninety-nine percent of the log titles are from three different Rush albums, all of which include the song Time Stand Still. This was Frito's idea.

The time traveling gang was mostly based on Marvel/MCU characters (Ruby/Garnet being the only exception. They were blatantly stolen from Steven Universe, although Ruby Summers is Marvel canon). The characters were chosen based on how funny it would be to have them, how useful they would be, and how painful they would be to the XP-verse characters.

"Will this hurt?"
"Probably."
"Excellent, let's do it." - Summarized planning session

The time traveling gang was socked by: Frito (Franklin Richards), Sam (Talia Sefton), Cai (Ellie Colbert-Ramsey-Wilson), Rei (Nate Barton), Shai (Shakti), Chris (Shogo), and Twiller (Ruby & Garnet)