Something terrible has happened. Something terrible is happening. Something terrible will happen. You're caught in an eternal loop of the same sequence of events and you don't know how to make it stop.
» Post with your characters. » Roll for a number. » Play out the events of the thread. The timeline ends with your death. » Repeat.
Cause of Loop
1. YOUR DEATH It's all because someone doesn't want you to die. They can't accept it - you can't accept it.
2. THEIR DEATH They're that one special person you can't live without. It's all your fault. You can fix it, you know you can. Just one more time, just one more time.
3. FAILURE It's not an option. You're going to continue to do this until you succeed.
4. PURGATORY There's something you need to come to terms with. You're not allowed to go until you have.
5. YOUR CHOICE There are a billion reasons for time travelers.
Loop Number
FIRST It's your first time dying and coming back. You don't know what happened, you're just in your bed again. Maybe it's a week before, maybe it's a year before. All of that must have been a dream. Time to go on with life as usual!
FIFTH It wasn't a dream and it keeps happening. The same events, the same terrible sequence.
FIFTEEN You know the drill now. You know the name of the song that's going to play, you know the order of the guy in front of you at the coffee shop, you know all your mistakes. You can fix it, you can make it better, you can't stand seeing someone die again.
ONE HUNDRED You're apathetic. Maybe you've lost all hope. Everyone is going to die and you take solace in what little time you have with them. You know the exact moment when it's all hopeless.
FINAL You know how to make it stop. It's over. Whatever was causing the loops has stopped and you can move on with your life. Maybe it's all left you a little reckless, maybe you simply can't adjust. Maybe you're now a very old soul trapped in a young body.
[voicetesting, but this seems like the perfect meme to voicetest in! Happy to get caught in a timeloop herself or stumble into your character's repeating nightmare and help them out.]
Rory sighed. "All right, Missy. Take seventeen and we're entering the endgame again." He knocked on the door which slid open, and stepped into a TARDIS interior.
"You can't do this forever!" A furious woman's voice interrupted him, mixed with a lightning bolt and Rory screamed as it struck him.
"You said that last time. And as I said last time I don't need to. I only need to do this for two days. And you remember it as well as I do." He lunged forward and pressed two buttons on this TARDIS console that River had told him never ever to press together in the Doctor's TARDIS.
And opened his eyes in his own bed, and glanced to his left to see the clock read 7:03 for the eighteenth time. But it wasn't the sound of his alarm clock that had woken him this time; it was a very familiar sound and in the corner of his bedroom familiar a blue box was materialising, drawn by the time anomaly. Amy was of course in New York on a modelling gig so it was just him for now bat seemingly the cavalry had arrived.
[Either he's been looping through time to save your character or prevent a tragic event. Or your character is trying to prevent him from becoming an evil Overlord and failing to defeat him. Open to other scenarios!]
[ Open to having her be the one looping, or being a part of the loop. Who wants to watch their friends fall to their apparent deaths over and over again? ]
[We all know who the Madoka is in this scenario, and it ain't Kojuro. Oh no. He's always accepted dying first, dying unhappily if he's lucky, but to have let Masamune down enough that he has to watch him die--
Well, that's unacceptable.
It's unacceptable. It's unacceptable! It's fucking unacceptable! This is the first time, and there is blood on Kojuro's face but it's neither of theirs, another man's, but he roars in anguish and pain when he sees Masamune fall because he knows that kind of fall, knows there won't be mercy shown here. He doesn't even see who did it, he's that fucking blind with pure wounded animal rage. He's running, feet pounding to the still-warm body blue and red, and--
Then he's not running.
Then he's sitting in camp, and his head still hurts from the race of blood, he's still panting, mildly clammy, but he's sitting in camp and Masamune is there in his peripheral vision, right beside him and moving. A vision, maybe. A dream. Ill omen? Whatever. He's reaching over with a vice grip onto whatever he can grab, still trying to catch his breath from that last bolt.]
...Lord Masamune. Do not fight tomorrow. Please do not fight. [He knows it's a stupid request, but he's still panicking. It'd all been too real to push aside immediately, okay.]
[ been there, done that, got the t-shirt trauma. Most likely the one responsible for getting your character into their time loop under the guise of helping them. Also open to her somehow becoming part of someone else's time loop! ]
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