Salt air, and the rust on their door, seeing the town they grew up in rewind back to the colors of their youth. It happens like lightning, fast and bright so that in the mere blink of an eye the people they come to know for decades suddenly look...younger? Soaked in pouring rain from the tropical storm at the funeral, they’re distracted and overwhelmed by the masses of bodies running in every which direction. Ducking to the outsides of storefronts and nearby homes, vintage coats held over their heads for cover, the locals of Nowhere fall into a cacophony of calling out the names of their friends and shrieking at the hard, cold downpour. For a moment, things seem almost normal, but through the crowd their eyes lock with someone from their past, and they squint at the realization that the person looks thirty years younger, and the person squints back in duplicate bewilderment. Pulled from the moment by someone else, it’s just enough to feel less alone.
It’s been three days since the storm that brought them back to Nowhere 1989. More details below.
It is the first week of June! Your character is most likely staying with family for the summer or in their own apartment (their whereabouts are yours to decide!).
In order to keep the timeline in tact, and to not appear crazy, they are going along with pretending to be in their 20s again until they can find a way out of this dreamland.
Feel free to have any kind of thread from the storm/funeral! This task is to encourage a small self para or explanation of what your character is thinking or went through during the storm and time jump, and if they know anyone else who has also been sent back. You can use this as an opportunity to plot with other characters, and decide how they know that they’re also stuck in their young bodies!
This can be in self para or bullet form, whatever helps you get inspired while clearing things up!
You may also now have threads taking place after the storm/funeral.
Stay tuned for a possible discord event involving the realization/new information that the next tropical storm (in three months) is most likely their ticket out of summer of 1989 and back to their regular lives!
