03-02-2009, 06:35 AM | #1 |
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Infinite worlds: The Earth of Shadowrun
After reading the interesting thread about character templates I tried to create a writeup of the SR-Earth.
Here's the result, what do you think? Popol Vuh-1, 2027 Current affairs: The world is in chaos as magic reawakens and new powers fight in this strange new “sixth” world. Divergence point: Somewhere in the 1980s. (no idea) Or was it the Seretech decision in '99? Major civilizations: Western, Japanese, Aztec, elvish, native Americans, many, many more. Great Powers The 10 Megakons and the corporate court. Organized Crime. Dragons. Worldine Data: TL: early 9 Mana Level low, but rising steadily. Quantum 6 Infinity class: R1 Centrum Zone Red This world was named “Popol Vuh-1” because the main divergence point was placed at 12/21/2012, the end of the fifth age of the mayan calendar called popol vuh. Magic returned. It seems popols history differed from homelines in drastic ways before that date,especially concerning the megacorps and corporate court, but the most important difference to the survey team detecting it in late 2026 was magic. No one really believed it, even as a copy of the Dunkelzahn Interview was shown at the Infinity headquarters at homeline. But then it happened: in late January 2027, an infinity patrol member mutated soon after he set foot on this world. He became one o those persons called “orc” on their world. Sent home immediately, he was checked by skilled magicians and they proved it was magic. Popol was closed for infinity personnel without special orders in less than 24 hours. Since then, Popol is under strict control. Nobody may enter it unless he has direct order to do so. Stealthy drones watching the media channels collect new, strange and frightening data every day and send it home weekly. Big, powerful nations fell after rebellions fueled by native magic, the VITAS plague or megacorps dwarfing them economically and politically and in most ways imaginable. Those same corps just developed a technique to connect neurally into the WWW. Infinity is very interested in that, as well as in the cybernetic implants produced there. Campaign note: A team of ISWAT hackers may have a possibility to infiltrate echo mirage and fight the virus of '29 themselves. |
03-02-2009, 06:54 AM | #2 |
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Re: Infinite worlds: The Earth of Shadowrun
I'd think the designation would be 'Merlin-4'
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03-02-2009, 07:56 AM | #3 |
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Re: Infinite worlds: The Earth of Shadowrun
Don't know about current edition, but in the earlier edition, the divergence was earlier, evidenced by Ehran being known before the Awakening, and some elves and dragons having knowledge of the 4th World, or even lived then.
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03-02-2009, 08:36 AM | #4 |
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Re: Infinite worlds: The Earth of Shadowrun
Merlin-4 sounds right to me too.
The key feature to the Merlin series is that magic suddenly starts working. Merlin-1 and -2 were nuclear triggered, but Merlin-3 was too early for nuclear weapons. It could be a magical ritual gone exceptionally right/wrong, just like the Great Ghost Dance. Technomancer hints that there was magic sometime before, but nothing as definite as Ehran the Scribe's ages of magic. Incidentally, anyone know what event in Nuremberg in 1919 IW might be referring to?
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Of course one could say "divergence point: 1^-1000000000000000000 seconds after the big bang" (or even somewhere before...), considering the dragons mythos of creation as reality. Just picking a date in the 5th world isn't very good, so I decided to pick the date had to diverge when 1st edition came out, not thinking that much about the crossover. And if we take the 1980s date, a divergence point of '99 seems plausible. |
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03-02-2009, 08:46 AM | #10 |
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Re: Infinite worlds: The Earth of Shadowrun
Good point about the Merlin 1-3 having hellstorms. Are there any more worldline series with drastic increases in mana in recent history?
I guess it would be up to Infinity to decide if a "Merlin without a hellstorm" is still a Merlin, or something else.
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