Zk | Marsh (or The Apocryphal Book of Marsh)

Everyone notices a jump in systime of almost a year, no one phys-side will give them a straight answer. Turns out someone figured out how to make a self-replicating virus a la the syringes that wound up essentially shredding the system. It was recovered (another thing phys-side is cagey about), but there are some changes. Maybe a small percentage of people don’t return

• Marsh (they/them) — tracker — Root instance; disappears shortly before Reed is to merge down
  • Reed (he/him) — Relationship fork, merges down to sync up once a year, discovers Marsh is missing, date has jumped, has to lean on partner and clade, tries to stay level-headed and organized, embroiled but tries to take leadership, though whether that’s his idea or he’s forced into that role is up for debate
    • Sedge (she/her) —
      • Tule (he/him) —
    • Rush (they/them) —
  • Lily (she/her) —
  • Cress (it/its) —
• Pierre LaFontaine (he/him) — tasker — In a relationship with Marsh, has a bit of a hard time controlling his emotions, specifically grief
• Fenne Vos (she/her) — tasker — In a relationship with Marsh, singer, does her best to stay strong, but it comes with an edginess
• Hanne Marie (she/her)— tasker — In a relationship with Reed, a bit short-tempered, easily overwhelmed, which leads her to lash out

• I Remember The Rattle Of Dry Grass of the Ode clade (she/her)— dispersionista — In a relationship with Tule and Cress, tries to be helpful, kind of irks Reed and Hanne (more so than Reed), though they do their best to hide it

• [o] Intro — The false start

• Part 1 — Marsh has gone missing and the date has jumped forward — whaaaa — exploring the new System, what it looks like, contact from the LVs
  • 002 — It all kicks off
  • 003 — Dealing with fallout of Marsh being gone
  • 004 — Exploring other clades throughout Lagrange, walking sims and seeing how others are reacting
  • 005 — The perisystem feeds, tallying up the missing, building up percentage of lost personalities
• Part 2 — Phys-side is being a little sketchy about what happened, turns out there was a reset and a lot of work behind the scenes after a coordinated attack between phys- and sys-side, taking the form of a generalized weapon that wiped out most of the System. Large chunks of it were restored after a lot of work and help from the Artemisians, but not total success — virus loophole was fixed (incl. singular attacks), but no guarantee there won’t be another work-around, plans to split the System into smaller pieces, move some of them to Earth/Sun Lagrange points
• Part 3 — The ramifications, both global and personal (but mostly personal) — a lot of talk among the Marshans, their partners, and a chill phys-side syseng — looking into trying to reconstruct Marsh by cross-tree merging Reed, Lily, and Cress — it doesn’t work, so it turns into coming to terms with letting go of the past