New Reality Seeds

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Originally Posted by Astromancer

A Sargasso of Lost Parachronic travelers would be an interesting place. Start with a badly failed experiment at Cal-tech during some parallel's 1920's, giving a tech level six California for a start. They drop in people from dozens of different worlds over a century or two.

Other groups...

2077's "New Eonists;" they have the clearest idea of where they are and what happened, as they were actually intending to go to a different physical universe. However, they couch all of their knowledge in an eccentric "atheist-spirtial mysticism" and soon after arriving set about to establish a "sustainable life environment," which in practice means that they are TL-3 to 4 with possibly TL-6 medicine. They are in this timeline's Colorado.

A colony of TL-2 Elves populate the British Isles. They are immensely hostile to humans, as several early contacts between the two groups resulted in the spread of human diseases among the Elves. They permit one small enclave of humans near London; people arrive there not frequently, but frequently enough, and so Elves leave the place alone. They live quite comfortable hunter-gatherer lives, but unlike their forebearers they usually only live to see their first century; they have no access to magical medicine. They have very little material culture but incredibly rich musical and storytelling traditions.

A crazed inventor departed 1860 due to his experimental "time machine," and arrived some years ago in Brazil. His Weird Science inventions don't function nearly so well here, but they do work on occasion. He and his followers (A number of South-American crossovers found him just by following the tower of smoke,) have TL-5 tech with a number of TL-5+1 to 5+4 gadgets with very low HT. We're talking weapons with malf rates of 12 here.

Under Kozi Wierch, a mountain near the southern border of Poland, a massive and entirely empty bunker complex lies in pristine condition. The lights are on, the air filters are working, and there are even furnishings and rooms that are clearly barracks, galleys, armories, offices, workshops, warehouses, even a small hangar. Nonetheless, there are no signs that humans have ever entered the structure, and animals will not willingly step within sight of its vault doors. Those who have ventured inside report intensely "creepy" feelings. The lower levels are dangerously radioactive; no one has yet entered the bottom three layers, marked "Gyógyászattal," "Irányító Központ," and "Reaktor."

A small town in an alternate rural China found itself in a new timeline after a wandering alchemist sold virtually everyone an "elixir of health." Everyone who took the potion reported feeling invigorated at first, but the next morning and each morning thereafter awoke in a wildly new dimension. It only stopped when each one arrived here; they've gradually rebuilt and now live much as they did before. They don't trust travelers much here.

A colony of Anglo-French settlers in the Normandy region welcome most anyone. The rough TL is an affluent TL-5, and the population has cheerful anachronisms, such as the tradition of drinking to the health of "Queen et Roi,*" without specifying any one ruler, just to be safe.

*Not sure about this. The point is stuff that sounds kinda French-English.