08-28-2016, 01:39 PM | #61 |
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Re: Lucy's Choice: Let's make Lucifer Parallels!
Mutatis mutandis, the setting remains the same if you correct for my poor history research (which, tbqh, I didn't even attempt; I was typing off the cuff). The basic plot point remains teh same either way: "ridiculously powerful nukes".
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08-28-2016, 02:44 PM | #62 | |
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08-28-2016, 02:55 PM | #63 | |
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I do think the engineering of nuclear bombs get easier the purer your fissionables are.
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08-28-2016, 02:55 PM | #64 |
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Or maybe the clearly different nuclear physics caused Trinity to occur earlier.
But I don't think you're making enough pains to recognize the fact that, in a single test, the USA did more harm to itself than the war did to most other countries -- and that's with the weapon positioned in one of the least-populated areas! Any other side would consider the possibility of setting off a nuclear bouy in international waters east of DC and wiping out the eastern seaboard. What remains of the US after that would be swiftly crushed by communist boots.... Wild: Some unknown spellwork on this High-mana worldline converted the entire planet to a massive wild-mana zone. The current year is, astronomically, 1880, but the society was originally 5+2 with heavy magic integration. Noir: A primeval hell world, this place has always had death-aspected low-mana, trace in some places. Only these oases have any form of life at all, and they drift with time. It is a realm of skeletal trees and torporous undead that wake to stalk trespassers beneath a colorless sky. Lost: In 1964, a bizarre cosmic phenomenon caused all human bodies to fade away-- every human alive became an intangible, immortal spirit. Though they can communicate with one annother fine, only very sensitive visitors can hear them. It's been 50 years, although decay seems to be arrested here, and many places are almost exactly as they were left. Some of the voices have gone mad, others have achieved a serenity. Most concerning, though, is that visitors to this worldline will fade away, too, over the course of twenty four hours, as their resonance patterns come to match the frequency of this potentiality. Hunger: A toxic fungus that grows in cold conditions, but not above room temperature, reached endemic status around the world in 1993. The spores can survive high heat well enough that even canning is unreliable. Only thoroughly dried and salted goods are safe. As a result, the animal world is mostly unaffected, but human food distribution cannot function. It's 1995 and food riots are a global phenomenon, and a five-year-old can of beans is precious. Some food is radiation-sterilized, which is effective, but there's not nearly enough equipment to protect from everything. |
08-28-2016, 03:04 PM | #65 | |
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Nukes, moon, religion, and astronomical destruction could be an interesting link between a few Lucifers.
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08-28-2016, 03:13 PM | #66 | |
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I once imagined a world lacking grass. That removes rice, corn, wheat, rye, oats, bamboo, barley, sugarcane, etc. According to Wikipedia 70% of all crops are grasses. And while they may have evolved in the time of dinosaurs, they did not become anywhere near as ubiquitous until post KT extinction event. Switch that to some insidious disease that only affects them, and you have a mostly similar earth but with grass-eaters like humanity royally screwed.
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08-28-2016, 03:56 PM | #67 | |
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08-28-2016, 04:20 PM | #68 | |
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The resulting panic would do as much damage as actually loosing next years crop. We could switch over to other crops, and if everyone was rational and worked together we'd probably have few deaths... but that's not going to happen. Long story short: we could live off other stuff, but we don't, and when the grass dies society will far apart out of worry if for no other reason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- One I've actually used in a game: Psi exists, and can be awakened in anybody or everybody. And it has been. The world is filled with telepathic soldiers who have the ability to stun or kill with their mind, rewrite your beliefs and loyalties, and to awaken your abilities to do the same. The conflicts these "soldiers" fight are now meaningless, but they roam the world trying to complete their mission, rewriting each other's minds and hunting anyone who's survived the wars that spawned them. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Were-wolf: This would be a gotha world if the virus had made zombies. Instead it made werewolves. Cities were torn apart monthly, and the ability of the lycanthropes to go back to being people made hunting them all down even harder. Its suspected that in the end it was the human forms that really ended the world. Most surviving communities are were-wolves themselves. Every full moon the packs appear and make war with each other -- which makes it really hard for different communities to get along -- you're just going to try and kill each other at the end of the month. Still, life goes on.
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08-28-2016, 04:52 PM | #69 |
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Psi exists, and it's very strong in this worldline. It appears the awakening occurred in 1844, at which point this otherwise ordinary, no-mana parallel suddenly underwent some kind of psionic transformation. All human beings, several cetean species, and several great apes joined into an overmind. This did not bring about the end of technology or even society; the overmind cultivates its constituent parts with utterly ruthless efficiency, as it seeks for other minds in the universe. The only scout to go there actually resisted the overmind long enough to jump back and warn of the danger to the secret....
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It kind of resembles theoretical 'deep sleep' for space travel. Which would make it interesting to some people on Homeline (even with infinite worlds, there are going to be people who want to travel the stars). Quote:
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Or if the virus isn't as widespread, maybe it's just this great fear among medieval townsfolk, who ostracize/kill suspected lycanthropes (in human state or wolf), but still are terrified once a month. Or in a high-tech media world, lycanthropes are the new slave gladiators, second-class citizens (at best) who once a month become celebrities on the biggest night for watching. Indeed, it could stretch across various worlds, like the gotha virus. Call them 'Lycan' worlds, and Infinity wants to know how this condition spread across the multiverse. |
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