05-07-2020, 05:44 AM | #141 | |
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which means you need to get source code and convert it to the local programming language. substantially more adventurous than simply pirating.
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05-07-2020, 05:54 AM | #143 |
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Re: Cross-time Adventure Seeds
Try this one...
Two groups of out time researchers, one working in a Q6 parallel going through the early 1960s, researching German families that produced terrorists like the Red Army Faction, the other working in a Q5 parallel going through the Amarna Period researching the art and literature, are reporting seemingly linked phenomena. First, New World and Asian crops are showing up in 18th Dynasty Egypt. Maize, bananas, mulberry bushes, silkworms, and more. Egypt is going through an economic boom. Someone has also introduced the spinning wheel, the push pedal loom, the box bellows, and the crossbow, into ancient Egypt. Meanwhile, works of art clearly in the finest Amarna style are showing up in Germany. There also seems to be a cult that is proclaiming that their hidden master is transforming Ancient Egypt and will create a "Time Wave" to wash the modern world away. Clearly there's a world jumper who thinks they're a time jumper. So far the fact that the Egyptian relics are brand new has made the cult simply amusing, but something worse might happen. Find the World Jumper and shut this mess down.
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05-07-2020, 01:43 PM | #144 |
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What if the alterations are having an effect on the later parallel? Most out of timers would believe it's merely some kind of linked reality quakes though.
This could imply that the world jumper knows understands cross-time physics in ways that even Centrum doesn't.
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05-07-2020, 04:10 PM | #145 | |
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[B]Burglarizing W13[B] Tate-8 seemed like an exception to the weirdness of Tate parallels, but on investigation that turned out not to be true. It's not that Tate-8 isn't weird but that there are illuminated groups working vigorously behind the scenes to conceal and sequester the weirdness. Unfortunately dead visitors from Centrum or Homeline who fell afoul of the dangerous weird stuff and their conveyor count as "weirdness". Your mission is to locate the facility where weird artifacts are being held and studied, infiltrate, sequester or destroy the evidence, erase any research, and get out without making things worse. Good luck with that. |
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06-11-2020, 08:26 PM | #146 |
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On Echo 1889 a team of hitmen just arrived. Their mission is to kill a baby. Your job is stop them. But will you choose to fail in your mission when you realize it's baby Hitler?
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06-12-2020, 01:34 PM | #147 | |
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That aside, why would someone mess up a timeline where Hitler would only come to power in 40+ years? Remember, it is not about real time travel, and homeline would change it just to prevent WWI. So - yes the hit man have to be stopped. They are killers who are after a baby, for gawds sake. So, the fearless agents of the patrol will deal with them. And the homeline historians, who watch Baby Adolf since the second he was born, will continue their studies.
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06-14-2020, 10:18 AM | #148 |
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Re: Cross-time Adventure Seeds
Try this one...
Someone is publishing works from several different worlds on this one Q4 parallel. The main focus seems to be Shakespeare. On this world, Shakespeare died in a visitation of the plague in 1605. This means that not only that many of the plays weren't written but several of those that were written were then forgotten and lost. This world had only sixteen of Shakespeare's plays and the Bard's reputation was far lower. Then, an American publisher in 1995 published the rediscovered Works of Shakespeare which included plays from at least eight different parallels in a collection of seventy plays. The evidence of the plays themselves proves to Homeline scholars that they are all provably works of Shakespeare. Quite apart from the sudden introduction of a New "Dead White European Male" and such an overwhelming one too, which is causing large amounts of fuss in English and Literature departments. Homeline wants to know why? Also, Homeline has intercepted several communiques from the Cabal talking about the "radical transformation of the cantosphere." The Cabal deals in magic and Cantosphere has been used in their communiques to speak about the realm of mythic beings and spiritual powers. Is someone using the Bard of Avon's plays to rewrite reality? The PCs are being sent to this Q4 low manna world to prevent the whole reality of this world from being restaged. The same company that released the Works of Shakespeare has now released a Historical Dictionary of Middle Arabic, with Grammar " (something that doesn't exist on Homeline) and has announced the goal of a full and complete translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and the One Night. Is this also part of the plan? Basically, cloak and dagger in 1990's academia. Finding out who is a fanatical agent of mystic chaos and destruction and who's only a fanatical Postmodern deconstructionist with be a major challenge in itself.
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06-28-2020, 12:14 PM | #149 |
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Try this one...
Ancient Egypt had a fantastically long history putting even China in the shade. And several times in that history Egypt collapsed. Right now an Echo of Earth is going through a mega-drought so brutal that the lake at Lake Moeris died up so completely that the lake bed turned to dust and blew away totally erasing the geological history. This means that a clever swagman can pick up incredible works of art for bread, beer, and onions. This means that scholars who want to protect this heritage need to stop this trade. Note: Many swagmen aren't heartless, they want to bring desperate people food and take refugees to safer lands. Which infuriates the scholars still more. Bonus fun, many scholars routinely accuse other scholars of being swagmen. This is often jealousy and often a cultural misunderstanding. Academic politics are brutal. Don't forget the brutal bands of robbers that would see robbing outsiders as defending Egypt from barbarians. Extra Bonus Fun! There are signs of cannibal gangs in this period. Remind the PCs that they look tasty.
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06-29-2020, 03:10 PM | #150 |
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Try this one...
In this Q6 echo of Homeline, a mysterious figure is showing up across the battlefields of WWII in the year 1944. He only shows up in places where American troops might plausibly show up. And he always announces himself with the friendly cry of "Tea Trolley!" The Tea Trolley Guy always looks like a fairly stressed and tired US army man in a somewhat the worse for wear uniform pushing a large cart for serving hot drinks and sandwiches ahead of him. Physically he's described as tall with dark hair, blue eyes, and fair skin, with an accent somewhere between American and Irish. The Tea Trolley Guy is also said to be youngish, good looking, and strong. Because of the tea trolley he pushes, or rather the places he shows up pushing the trolley, he's assumed to be either superhumanly strong or the most stubborn man on Earth. The Tea Trolley Guy always feeds allied soldiers, civilians, and PoWs, good food, and a variety of beverages out of his trolley. If emergency medical supplies are needed or a spare piece of equipment is needed he always just happens to have what's needed and can spare what those asking need. He seems to know many languages and can always translate between locals and troops or between different groups of troops. No one ever remembers seeing him come or go except children and they can't really say how he came or went, But they love the American candy and comic books the Tea Trolley Guy leaves for the kids. When asked details about what he's doing, the Tea Trolley Guy always says with a shrug that it's a new morale-building program of some kind or other. He claims to have no details. The various allied militaries assume that the Tea Trolley Guy is suffering from some new kind of combat fatigue and want to arrest him so they can give him medical treatment and medals. The Axis wants to shoot him yesterday. Many a refugee he gave food and medical supplies to wants to have him declared a saint. Meanwhile, the Cabal is freaked out. What is this Tea Trolley Guy? They assume he's a local supernatural being, perhaps an Irish fairy being who spent time in North America. If the PCs are young Cabalists they've just been sent into the battlefields of WWII to find someone they know nothing about and might be far more powerful than the PCs. If Homeline or Centrum agents are sent on the same mission, they know much less.
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