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Originally Posted by L.J.Steele
I like dead tree edition. :)
Minor Spoilers ahead:
There are five provided possible futures you can try to avert -- Cthulu, Dagon, ShubNigurath, Narylthotep, and the King in Yellow. Each has a series of events the future PCs were briefed on and told to stop or alter. (Their data may or may not be right.)
Future characters can be sent back up to 30 years by a ritual invoking Yog-Sothoth. This comes with a cost to the character -- Corruption (their version of SAN loss inherent in messing with the Mythos). In theory, you could then do the ritual again and move back still further in 30 year jumps, but the Corruption cost would likely be crippling for more than a couple of jumps.
The Mythos is not bounded by your linear notions of time -- some mythos entities may become aware of the future PCs on arrival and change their plans. Changing things spins off alternate time lines, so it is possible to have two PCs co-existing in the past, each from a different future.
Magic and future tech are ill-defined, which may be the biggest weakness of the book. There are a few examples; they probably had to steer clear of CoC's IP. I would have liked say a two full pages each of examples of spells and possible tech.
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Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't quite define the question about the model/cosmology/paradigm. I meant like
these models. So e.g. the spun-off new timelines - do they overwrite or coexist, and is jumping between them doable etc.? Which of the listed models is the closest, and which additional rules of temporal physics are in play? (Also, here's a
link to my question elsewhere, in case more elaboration is required and/or you'd be interested in earning some rep on RPGSE.)