Good morning, Cadelle!
As March takes its final bow to make way for April, we're sure you're without a doubt wondering with bated breath if the city will somehow experience another deluge from the skies above or some other kind of natural disaster. After all, there's probably a number of you familiar with the concept of April showers, right? Despite the predictability that the first of the month tends to bring, the sun rises on a new month without much fanfare at all. The skies don't open up, the earth doesn't quake, and perhaps most disappointing of all, there's no fun activities to partake in hosted by the city's beloved Volunteer Coordinators, Flora and Cornelius.
However, that’s not to say nothing exciting has happened. Mayor Drake’s gone missing — in reality, she’s simply headed south of the border for a little much-needed R&R — and while the mayor’s away, the cats will play. (Or is that the other way around?)
As the sun begins to rise, it’s clear that there’s certainly something in the air. Check your CuddlePhone, and you might notice a strange crackling sound, as if you’d wandered into a field of static electricity; try to access anything but the city’s main pages and you’ll be greeted with a cheerful yellow message. Strange, but it may be worth reading:
DEAR CITIZENRY:
It has come to our attention that the city of Cadelle has begun a dangerous descent into a dungeon of disaster. Debauchery, drag racing, and even drunken revelry have begun to pervade our once-wholesome city, turning our citizenry into a class of common courtesans and charlatans! We shall not settle for such shameful social airs! Resist raunchy recklessness, Cadellians, or be redressed!
— CCC
The Concerned Citizens of Cadelle
While there’s admittedly quite a lot of alliteration to be found in said message, there’s not exactly a lot of meaning here. Should you head to City Hall for answers, you’ll find yourself greeted by the ever cheerful, smiling face of Doris Delatante — conveniently enough, the same Doris who so happens to be wearing a pin emblazoned with the logo of the CCC. (For the curious, said logo is a cat. They may be wordsy, but no one said they were particularly clever.)
You won’t get much in the way of answers out of Doris, only calm reassurances that everything is as it should be. It’s fine, of course! What could possibly be wrong with a little call to action? It’s only in the best interest of the city, isn’t it?
Whatever the reason, and whatever you think about Doris’ strange all-pink attire, it’s hardly the strangest thing you’ll experience in the coming days. Over the course of the following 24 hours, the city and its inhabitants begin to find themselves… well, shall we say, adjusted?
▸ As soon as the sun comes up on the morning of the first, a gentle breeze begins to blow through the city. With it comes a subtle change. You may notice it straight away, or you may not notice at all… but regardless, the change still comes: no swearing. No, really, we mean it. No matter how fervently or desperately you try, anything more colorful than a golly won’t slip past your lips… or your pen tips, for that matter. Any attempts to do so will result in comically ridiculous substitutions — like bullshirt, motherforker, or fish sticks!
▸ By mid-morning, the rays of the sun have left the city in perpetual spring warmth. It’s a beautiful day, complete with merrily chirping birds and the sweet smell of flowers blooming in every corner of the city. The day should stay beautiful, shouldn’t it? So perhaps it’s with no surprise that even your naked body won’t disparage it… as nudity, even seemingly innocuous moments like showering, is met with censorship. Should you disrobe to your birthday suit, you’ll be met with sudden and efficient pixelization from the neck down, blurring out all those distasteful parts of you a la the Sims. This might make getting frisky a bit difficult…
▸ Finally, by the time your first meal of the day rolls around, you might find yourself ready for a hot meal on the go, or perhaps just another cup of coffee. No matter whether you stop at your usual joint or wander around looking for something new, every delicious delectable food item you’ve been enjoying will have been replaced by the gently spinning faces of self-serve froyo machines. Shops look normal on the outside… but inside, you’ll be greeted with the florescent glow of your favorite (or perhaps least favorite ) trendy frozen yogurt shop. Come in for coffee and you might be irritated yet amused, but the flavors don’t stop at cheesecake or chocolate or caffe mocha. Nope! Keep exploring, and you’ll be greeted with such strange offerings as pasta flavored froyo, complete with marinara or alfredo flavored cookie crumbles, or bacon and eggs froyo with sausage sprinkles … or, for the desperate, beer flavored froyo. (Bar nuts cost extra… and yes, that froyo’s a virgin. Alcohol would ruin the consistency!)
It’s not the worst thing in the world, but it certainly doesn’t feel like you’re in the Cadelle you’ve come to know and love, does it? Hopefully Mayor Drake will come back sooner rather than later, but until then… well, we suppose you’ll just have to make the best of this Good Place!
Isn’t this sweet? April Fool’s, Cuddlers! We hope you enjoy this particularly silly spring event, brought to you by a meddling citizen and her penchant for good behavior… and your mod team’s recent bingewatch of a topical NBC comedy. We hope you’ll have fun ruining the bad behavior of your characters, even if they won’t have much fun with it!
If you have any further questions specific to this event, we encourage you to ask away on our QUESTIONS COMMENT here in this post. If you have general questions, or prefer a more private venue, our GENERAL INBOX (and SCREENED INBOX) is always available for you. In addition, if you've got an idea for a future event, feel free to drop us a line at our EVENTS SUGGESTION POST.
Have fun out there, and just remember: be excellent to each other! |
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[It's a lie, but he hates telling people that he's from Texas, because he's not. Texas decided it wanted Mexico and his family lost a war, that's all.]
Wait, Jax? I know Jax. We usually only talk about animals, though.
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yeah, I know Jax! He's one of my teammates, back home.
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Teammates? What sort of team?
[This is what you get when you spend all your time worrying about animals.]
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oh, we travel through time, together. We're part of a team that is meant to prevent historical events from unraveling and changing the world.
[ Ish. Nate wouldn't say it so easily before, but he's been in Cadelle for a little while now and he's grown confident that no one can really use this knowledge against him.
And obviously he and Vasquez are from very different times already so it's not like he's not familiar with the concept, since Cadelle does time traveling, apparently. ]
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[Oh look, there's his little problem with swearing, making it clear that whatever issues Nate is experiencing, it's not just him.]
Why always prevent things from happening? Shouldn't there be some things you help, to change things for a better future?
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Thing is, you may think you're changing things for a better future, but you can never be sure that whatever you change will not repercussions that mean a worse future, further down the line. Time is a... malleable thing, and changing the smallest thing can have drastic consequences. Our team is tasked to preserve history as we know it. It isn't our place to make decisions on what 'a better future' is.
Before you ask, yes, it's incredibly frustrating at times.
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Fork preserving history. I'd make it better.
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and, if we start making too many changes, and playing around with timelines, we could completely break time.
we just can't play gods.
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What's a nugget?
[And when is Vasquez going to learn to stop asking questions like this from people that are never going to be able to actually give him a proper answer.]
I think maybe you're just afraid to break something. I'd rather do something.
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nuggets are fried chicken but it's just this whole... thing where we can't swear, apparently. i didn't mean to say nugget
[ Yeah, okay. ]
very easy to say for someone who's not doing the job. i've just finished a mission where, if we didn't preserve events as they were supposed to happen, my whole life would have been different. you keep someone from doing something in the past, and suddenly millions of people are not born. suddenly a country you know as the USA turns into a subsidiary of the Roman Empire.
People who think they'd rather do something and change history to fit their own ideals are not the good guys.
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[He'd pretty much tried to set everything up so that either Emma or Sam could, which had happened, so he'll mark that as a hearty success.]
Who said it's my ideals? I'm just saying, people change the future all the time by doing something. Why not go back and nudge it? What's so different about that compared to someone changing their mind in the moment and altering the world?
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because the future isn't set. because the future doesn't dictate anything. the future is entirely open, because we decide it. other people have decided the past, and it's not on us to change it.
imagine, someone went into your granddad's past to change the events of the war. you could not been born at all.
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I'm not as important as what that battle meant.
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think of kids you may have or may want in the future. you're not born? neither are they.
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[And he definitely doesn't need that burden.]
See? No harm, if there's no me.
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you may disagree, but this is what we do, and how we do it.
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