09-11-2021, 07:02 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Girl Genius' Europa in the Infinite Worlds?
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09-11-2021, 08:00 PM | #12 |
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Re: Girl Genius' Europa in the Infinite Worlds?
Europa's weirdness seems like the kind of thing that would inspire even Interworld to act with caution.
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09-11-2021, 08:42 PM | #13 |
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Re: Girl Genius' Europa in the Infinite Worlds?
Yeah, there are all kinds of ways this could potentially work out - ways the Spark and similar phenomena could interact with parallel-jumping, ways Centrum, Homeline and the others could approach it, probably other things, and you can pick whichever leads to a story you feel like running.
Even if the big organizations don't want to touch it on a large scale, if the Spark, or even the Sparks' inventions, continue to work off-world, or even just if things or people repaired using Spark-tech stay repaired off-world, then once it's discovered bolder or more foolish Swagmen are going to be going there to get impossible jobs done all ze time.
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09-12-2021, 12:30 PM | #14 | |
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09-12-2021, 06:26 PM | #15 |
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Re: Girl Genius' Europa in the Infinite Worlds?
True. In fact, another possible premise for an adventure is that they didn't know the parallel existed, and the first they know about it is when a Spark discovers world-jumping and starts leaving a trail of chaos across the parallels. Cue two objectives: catch this bloody lunatic, and track down just where the heck they came from.
The answer will not make Infinity feel any better. "There are how many of these guys?"
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09-12-2021, 06:54 PM | #16 | |
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The mere idea of a reasonably powerful Spark getting their hands on time-travel technology would give powerful people on both Homeline and Centrum cold sweats. Quote:
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The Leyden jar-lit orichalcum lining to all these potential storm clouds is that Baron Wulfenbach will take as dim a view of such activities as Homeline/Centrum. Tenuous alliances could be formed between House Wulfenbach and the major players, along the lines of "I'll keep my people out of your hair, as long as you respect my world's autonomy." Experiments on the first 37 "volunteers" have been inconclusive, but the truth cannot hide from us forever! BWAH-HA-HA! Running away is always a good option. Hiding is a good second best. There are already enough weird extradimensional critters running around in Europa that the odd parachronic beastie wouldn't be out of place. Assuming that it has a high tolerance for being put in a private zoo, vivisected, stored in a jar of formaldehyde, taxidermied, and/or subjected to horrifying experiments. Last edited by Pursuivant; 09-16-2021 at 04:07 AM. |
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09-13-2021, 09:52 AM | #18 | |
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I'd expect the major players of IW to give this parallel a wide berth. The risk of a Spark reverse-engineering parachronics is very high, and the world has a small infestation of obscenely powerful extradimensional/extratemporal entities (such as the dreen). The slaver wasps - particularly given the sapient variant of those who are wasped (which I think has been indicated to actually be the bulk of victims of wasping) - are significant enough of a security threat alone to justify forbidding travel to that world.
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09-13-2021, 11:00 AM | #19 |
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Re: Girl Genius' Europa in the Infinite Worlds?
I think there's a certain possibility that placing the timeline in the vicinity of Centrum may very well have the Centrans go full Strangelove and attempt to blow the timeline back to the stone age. No idea if that would work out well though.
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09-13-2021, 12:17 PM | #20 |
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Re: Girl Genius' Europa in the Infinite Worlds?
I suspect the Cabal would initially drool over the possibilities that recruiting Sparks would bring...
But the Sparks are very rarely team players. They mostly aren't in need of protection from the mundanes (though they are from more powerful Sparks) and I can't see the Cabal organising the place. I can see Sparks bursting out of their homeworld as soon as they find out the Secret. This would put a strain on all the 'police' organisations.
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