duck-foot wrote: Part 3 In 1961 Japan invades the former US and fights the German occupation in North America. In retaliation Germany sends 3 nuclear ICBM toward Japan. The whole entire Japanese ruling family dies. Leaving Tojo Hideki has the proxy Emporer of Japan. Fearing a retalitation the Kaiser leaves Germany heading towards towards Paris. Hearing of this the Japanese nuke France (luckly the Kaiser gets out alive). The Japanese crack the German enigma code and realize the Russians and Geramans are plaining on invading Japan. the Japanese with the help of the restored Confederation of the East, Mexico and the Republic of Dixie send a huge convoy with battle zeppilins, jets, aircraft carriers, juggernauts and destroyers to intercept the German and Russian force. meanwhile both Germany and Japan are working on interceptors to blow ICBM and bombers out of the sky.
Wouldn't it be funny if the last of the IMperial Royal Line was a bastard-child fathered by one of the previous princes while touring America? Nh...the traditionalists would ignore the guy and go with one of the cadet branches back in Japan....
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
This would probably go better in Nightbane, HU, or N&SS.
Two very different alien ships engage in battle in Earth orbit. The battle is so intense that anyone on the planet can look up and see it with the naked eye as the battle lasts nearly a day and circles the globe several times. One of the ships is destroyed, the other crash lands (lost control, but gently floats down on anti-grav and settles) in the middle of the pacific/atlantic ocean. It's bigger than New York City. There is no communication from it, and soon there is a mad rush as all the world powers try to be the first to land teams on the ship to harvest its technology and possibly be the first to establish relations with an alien culture.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
Nature gets tough about Green Laws....Enforcement by mythical creatures...anybody tossing rubbish out of their car onto the side of a road gets chased down by faeries and turned into a salamander(not the flaming kind)..Pretty soon the police are dealing with abandoned cars and squished amphibians on the roadways...Polluting businesses can expect to be visited by dragons or elementals trashing their places...Dwarves prowl the streets and neighborhoods looking to pick up your recycable metal...If you're nice, they may even trade a little repair work for your scrap metal...Smoking in a no-smoking area merits getting attacked by swarms of hornets, mosquitoes, and other insects appearing out of nowhere... Lawn over-chemically gets you toxin-resistant crabgrass and poison ivy...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
VampireHunter_D I never said we'd be richer. Just financially equal. Interesting point though. And thanks for the numbers.
Excellent new alternate universes.
Nice additions everyone! Keep up that alternate history Duck-Foot!
Early on in our history our ancestors discover the tree spirits we really the truth. Trees not only had spirits, but could move at certain times during their life. So harvesting the forest by our ancestors is significantly changed.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
Operation Sea Lion(Hitler's Invasion of England) goes ahead as planned..it is neither a success nor atotal triumph, but instead becomes a prolonged morass for the Germans as the Brits show their teeth...the resulting bloody campaign tears up England, but also tears up the German army so badly that reserves intended for Barbarossa are drawn away...The Russians learn of the intended reason for massing German troops and decide to break the Nonagression Pact and hit Germany first, invading Poland,...being ill-prepared for it, the Russians take a bloodying and fall back several times, but with U.S. Lend-Lease, hold their ground...Europe devolves into a bloody back-and-fro...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
The Roman enjoy a crushing victory over every opponent. Their generals never know defeat. But the pressure on the borders doesn't abate for over 2500 years. And thru it all Rome maintains control over their expanding empire against every and any enemy they encounter. Eventually the Roman empire comprises all of europe, most of africa (down to Kenya) and most of Asia (over to India) all of the way to the arctic circle. The roman empire continues to be a major power up to our present time in this alternate universe. With all of the modern tech as we do.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
In 1861 the Government of Texas seeing no way for the Confederacy to Win against the Union,did not join them,they become independent of both,they made a deal with England,where in exchange for giving up Slavery,Texas would get reorganized and Protecton.
The Texaen forced all ex-slaves to leave ther state.
gaby wrote:In 1861 the Government of Texas seeing no way for the Confederacy to Win against the Union,did not join them,they become independent of both,they made a deal with England,where in exchange for giving up Slavery,Texas would get reorganized and Protecton.
The Texaen forced all ex-slaves to leave ther state.
How would this changed things?
We'd never have GWB as President...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Everybody in the world wakes up to discover we all have superpowers..ALL of us.. ...And we're going to need them...because in six months a vicious, rapacious alien race is going to invade Earth...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:Operation Sea Lion(Hitler's Invasion of England) goes ahead as planned..it is neither a success nor atotal triumph, but instead becomes a prolonged morass for the Germans as the Brits show their teeth...the resulting bloody campaign tears up England, but also tears up the German army so badly that reserves intended for Barbarossa are drawn away...The Russians learn of the intended reason for massing German troops and decide to break the Nonagression Pact and hit Germany first, invading Poland,...being ill-prepared for it, the Russians take a bloodying and fall back several times, but with U.S. Lend-Lease, hold their ground...Europe devolves into a bloody back-and-fro...
After the war when British high command was shown Sea Lion, they war gamed it out, result= Germans can land troops across the channel for 12-16 hours till the Home Fleet arrives from Scapa Flow, after that? It's a masacre, the kriegs marine wouldn't stand a chance in the channel.
The plan already excisted in the war that in case of incasion British capital ships should beach themselves on the invasion beaches, thus becoming massive bunkers, and crushing infantry that was clamberin ashore, while blocking the beach as a landing zone even if they could be destroyed. It has to be remembered that the Battleships could engage at 20 plus miles.
Basically the land battle of britain could be expected to be approx 100,000 german troops, cut off from resupply or retreat vs the pissed of might of the British army. And at that time 100,000 would have captured or killed very fast.
And considering what they were arming the Home Guard with....The Middle East has no monopoly on suicidal bomb designs or weapons of desperation...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
duck-foot wrote:This follows my other WW1 scenario.
Part 4. In 1963 nearing the end of the second world war Germany beats Japan in creating ICBM's, Germany nukes Tokyo, New Delhi, Cairo Tallahassee, Iwo-Jima and Sacramento, however unbeknown-st to Germany Japan hasn't fallen to far behind and creates ICBM submarines and nukes Berlin and Paris. The German and Russian invasion convoy manages to get past its Japanese opponents and lands on the island of Japan itself. The Russians suffer horrible causalities while the Germans start to take every town and instillation they can. The Japanese start to dig in has German armor advances on Nagasaki (the default capitol) creating huge networks of trenches reminiscent of the Great War. The war bogs down to a stall mate has Germany and Japan race to create more nukes. The war in Japan quickly becomes a war of attrition has troops get massacred going through "No-Mans Land".
Geez...where's Godzilla when you really need him?
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
<Insert hated country here> is invading the US with suicide bombers...armed with low yield nuclear warheads disguised as various easily dismissed items such as cell phones, laptops, etc.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
batlchip wrote:In light of all the doom and gloom Ya'll are writing I think it's time to play a game.How about Global Thermonuclear war?
Annoyed by what they perceive as an unwarranted invasion and proxy-war fought on their territory, an alternate electronic realm(similar to the universe depicted in Tron) declares war on the source...our world...our networks go down, computers crash, and ...are those Space Invaders coming down out of those thunderclouds?
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
batlchip wrote:In light of all the doom and gloom Ya'll are writing I think it's time to play a game.How about Global Thermonuclear war?
Annoyed by what they perceive as an unwarranted invasion and proxy-war fought on their territory, an alternate electronic realm(similar to the universe depicted in Tron) declares war on the source...our world...our networks go down, computers crash, and ...are those Space Invaders coming down out of those thunderclouds?
Who is evil? Who is joy Who is pain Who is death Who is good Who is blind Who is foolish Who is smart Me and you that's who For we are mankind.
batlchip wrote:In light of all the doom and gloom Ya'll are writing I think it's time to play a game.How about Global Thermonuclear war?
i like that idea
I prefer Global Lobster Thermidor War.... Restaurant Wars!
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
All the restaurants of the world get tired of competing through marketing, and begin arming their employees and making guerilla attacks against their competitors. In the case where one chain is within sight of the other, sniping from the rooftop is an almost hourly event. Treaties and alliances are made, broken, remade, etc. In the end, one victor survives...<insert favorite here, although realistically I'm betting on McDs, they probably have more employees than any other two food chains combined>.
Could take it further, and take HOL's idea. Church and Fast Food combined into one entity.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
LostOne wrote:All the restaurants of the world get tired of competing through marketing, and begin arming their employees and making guerilla attacks against their competitors. In the case where one chain is within sight of the other, sniping from the rooftop is an almost hourly event. Treaties and alliances are made, broken, remade, etc. In the end, one victor survives...<insert favorite here, although realistically I'm betting on McDs, they probably have more employees than any other two food chains combined>.
Could take it further, and take HOL's idea. Church and Fast Food combined into one entity.
That almost happened in my hometown...a Burger King and a MAcDonalds back-to-back...we suspected they were sneaking their garbage over the dividing wall and cutting each other's cables at night...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:That almost happened in my hometown...a Burger King and a MAcDonalds back-to-back...we suspected they were sneaking their garbage over the dividing wall and cutting each other's cables at night...
Which is exact opposite of where I grew up. The McD's and BK and Pizza Hut traded food late at night. Pizza Hut would send pizza over, McD's would send Big Macs, BK would send Whoppers. But they were all stoners and big on the "make love not war" attitude, and of course getting stoned on your work break (big drug bust at McD's, so we know they were smokin' on their breaks) gives you the munchies.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
taalismn wrote:That almost happened in my hometown...a Burger King and a MAcDonalds back-to-back...we suspected they were sneaking their garbage over the dividing wall and cutting each other's cables at night...
Which is exact opposite of where I grew up. The McD's and BK and Pizza Hut traded food late at night. Pizza Hut would send pizza over, McD's would send Big Macs, BK would send Whoppers. But they were all stoners and big on the "make love not war" attitude, and of course getting stoned on your work break (big drug bust at McD's, so we know they were smokin' on their breaks) gives you the munchies.
Brings new meaning to 'Happy Meal'...
Hmmm...Micky-D brownies...ummmm
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
batlchip wrote:Tom::He got shorted a pizza slice again.
I think the franchise wars will start in my neighborhood. The McD's can never get an order right...I haven't eaten there in years, but everyone else I talk to that goes to that location always complains that they got shorted something, or their sandwich they ordered without cheese (because of a dairy allergy) came with cheese, their shake machine is broken 29 days a month, etc. Basically something is always wrong. Just yesterday I talked to a guy that ordered 4 McRibs for his family in drive through, 3 of them came with just the meat and bun. Only one of them had the BBQ sauce, ?onions? and ?pickles? (not sure of the toppings, but think that was it) its supposed to come with.
I keep waiting to hear that some disgruntled customer came back with a SMG or assault rifle and went postal.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
batlchip wrote:Tom::He got shorted a pizza slice again.
I think the franchise wars will start in my neighborhood. The McD's can never get an order right...I haven't eaten there in years, but everyone else I talk to that goes to that location always complains that they got shorted something, or their sandwich they ordered without cheese (because of a dairy allergy) came with cheese, their shake machine is broken 29 days a month, etc. Basically something is always wrong. Just yesterday I talked to a guy that ordered 4 McRibs for his family in drive through, 3 of them came with just the meat and bun. Only one of them had the BBQ sauce, ?onions? and ?pickles? (not sure of the toppings, but think that was it) its supposed to come with.
I keep waiting to hear that some disgruntled customer came back with a SMG or assault rifle and went postal.
The minute they step in the door, they get overwhelmed by dope smoke and mellow out, forgetting violence...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:The minute they step in the door, they get overwhelmed by dope smoke and mellow out, forgetting violence...
Sadly, this is a different McD's...the stoners could actually fill orders correctly and well...probably the best McD's I've ever heard of.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
You have been seen by customer! You must commit seppukku!
That's why it's arguably easier to work in a Ninja Restaurant(see Freefall for an exploration of this idea)
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
ROFLMAO!!! Now this is something I never expected! So when are we going to have our movie Demolition Man starting? Nice addition Duck-foot!
As the world spins towards what seems global destruction something happens a single star shines down on earth and a child is born. It is believed to be the second coming. The truth comes out as it is the coming of the dark one. Evil is going to try and take out everything that is good.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
The new Messiah isn't interested in saving the world...he's already rotten to the core...not Good, not Evil; just thoroughly apathetic....It's going to take a woman to straighten out this mess and kick the Redeemer's butt back into line...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
It starts off small with a group of friends discovering a fissure in space and time. This allows them the chance to actually adventure on another world. The time on this other world speeds along at about double our universes overall time. This allows the intial adventuring groups to carry out massive campaigns. Then upon returning they can spend their riches quietly. Of course someone spots them spending more than they should be able to which exposes their secret to the world. Suddenly the world discovers that they can colonize a world in the next dimension. Gold rush sort of population move towards this new universe.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
The Spirit Mars Rover airbag-bounces to a landing in the middle of a Barsoomian city, causing a panic and crushing a fruit stand on landing....
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
LOL!!! Now that is one old Edgar R Burroughs would have loved to have been around to see.
Suddenly everyones inner voices manifest themselves in the physical world. Anarchy follows. Humanity goes out of it's ever loving minds. Things go from bad to frightful as every 24 hours humanity manifest more and more inner characters. Wars spring up very quickly as humanity looses it's grip on reality.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
I'll go out a limb, and mention the setting Rocketship Empires; it's a 'systemless' setting series that the author states out front is meant to allow people to plug in their favorite game system, so it's short on stats, and the biggest stat-blocks, the ship construction system, is very generic, with hints at what the author feels should be reflected in the stat-adaptation. It pretty much reflects some of the ideas previously posted here: -Earth is a prison-world for Humanity, which was once a big galactic empire boogieman....the rest of the sentient galaxy still fears Humanity, and we're the stuff of their nightmares and bad legends. -Just after WW1, the Martians arrive and offer to uplift us to starfaring status again, gifting Humanity with advanced technology(but tightly controling what they give us...sorta like the Prometheans handing out Phase-Tech), letting us set up colonies and stellar empires. Electronics haven't emerged as such; it's still vacuum tubes and all, and spacecraft design still harks to wet-navy and early prop aircraft designs(there are even biplane starfighters!). -Thus, we have 1930's technology faring off into space, as well as all the world problems transplanted to an interstellar scale...In some cases history repeats itself; the Soviet Union and German Reich(Space Nazis!) arise as militaristic powers, there's a Spanish Civil War that has the Euro-interstellar powers involved), and the Brits and the French are decadent and colonial. ON the other hand, the Chinese are a dominant power, and the Americans are rather average and freewheeling without any real clout(part of the American colonial zone has become a Confederacy) -The bad news is we're being allowed to grow in numbers, industrial capacity, and military might because in another 5-10 years we're going to be thrown in the deep end as the front line troops of a war being waged by our Martian benefactors against an unmentioned Enemy...a war the Martians are losing... -Oh, and by the way, the FTL drive may take ships through Hell...literally....Jump drive ships have a chance of encountering indescribable evil and contagious Undead when passing through Jump-Space...
The setting's best for SDC settings like Ninjas and Superspies(especially if you're a Chinese...all those martial arts) and Beyond the Supernatural, but could be also a low-MDC setting(especially into the 1940s when we see Humanity finally going up against the Enemy) as the Martians keep their best hardware for themselves...
Fun setting from what I've read so far...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
One of our deep space probes has reached another civilization. Problem is, over the course of its travels outside of our solar system it has encountered some unusual gravity and spacial distortions and achieved near speed of light velocity. It collides with the flagship of this civilization, destroying it. To make it worse, the most beloved offspring of the ruler of this civilization was onboard the flagship at the time. Earth is squarely in the crosshairs of a pissed off alien civilization who believes we have declared war on them and struck the first blow deliberately.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
Humanity is doomed because we aren't funny enough...so decree the aliens who are going to obliterate us...we have one year to figure out how to be funny by their standards...after that, it's final curtain call for the human race...naturally, they neglected to leave us any material on what THEY consider funny...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Magic is a proven part of everyday life, but there are some extremes, since gatehring the PPE for magic is rather difficult....With modern twists...prayer groups are the biggest, and being part of a 'magic pool' gains members benefits, but of course there's problems about how to use the PPE, accusations of people not pulling their PPE weight in the group, and the more well-funded PPE bank associations send counsellers around to make sure members are feeling fit and well to give it their 100%. Blood sacrifice is easy and assured, but sacrificing animals takes a toll on wildlife, the ASPCA's getting involved, and some claim the quality of the PPE is low...Needless to say, most TW factories and magic workshops are based next to slaughterhouses. Human sacrifice yields a high PPE spike, but finding willing virgins is getting harder and harder...even with post-morten economic incentives and the prospect of easy living up until the Big Event...Wall Street sacrifices a virgin before every annual trading season, but some states are banning the practice...even banning the use of death-row inmates for PPE tapping...There are some services coming forward who offer to procure and maintain a pool of ready sacrificial subjects(the Society of Sacrifices), but some are suspect (fronts for organized crime)and others coming under attack by such groups as the Liberators. And 'Solstice Riots'...arguments over who gets to occupy holy sites and other known high PPE areas during annual peak seasons, and accusations of graft and corruption in the issuance of user licenses for those areas...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
During the early part of the 20th century when exploration was still occuring. They discovered many areas on the continents that were throw backs to ancient periods of time. This areas were complete environments. But most of the periods of time in earth past were represented by these locations. The locations were as followed. None were duplicated, although not ever period was discovered either. each continent has at leasat one of these. The larger continents have at two and three at most. Explorers continue looking for new hidden locations to this day. North America had two hidden periods of time. The first one was Cretaceous period including part of the inland sea. The second one was from the Pliocene period. South America had the Jurassic period. Europe had one hidden area and it was the Cambrian period. Africa had two hidden periods of time. The first one was from the Holocene Period and the second one was from the Silurian Period. Asia had three distinctive periods. The first one was Pleistocene periods, the second one was the Carboniferous Period and the third one is Ordovician Period. Australia had one from the Permian Period. The explorers continue to criss cross the continents looking for more of these hidden reserves. Each one adding to our knowledge of the past and it brings more resources to the world in general.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
Each continent is blessed with a literal Rift Valley where space and time fold into a permament and seemingly infinite frontier....anybody entering these regions really can't tell the point of transition except when they realize they should have travelled into already mapped land on the other side of the unknown region...getting out is simply a matter of reversing course and going back the way you came in....The result is that each continent apparently has an infinite amount of new land, 'folded' in a pocket of space/time not visible from orbital survey.....Regulation, control of access, and proper mapping of these regions becomes a major occupation of the nations dominant on the continents(the European, African, and Asian Rift Vallies being hotly contested as to who can claim ownership...).
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
What with the way nukes have been thrown around in this war...it's a 'cold war' that follows indeed...like a nuclear winter....
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Ah...but Russians fight better in the winter!(unless they're invading Finland)
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
But as the people playing Russians in an older British comedy said ("Whoops Apocalypse") to the British ambassador when visiting to finding out about the Soviet Block. Telling the British character that their choice is "rare", "Medium" and "well done" when the global thremal nuclear war occurs.
In a spectacular news story a creature is captured in Loch Ness. While it is not a pleisisaur, it is something almost as spectacular. They capture a small moaisaur in the loch.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
Humans have an set annual sexual season wherein once or twice a year fertility spikes and libidos soar....all other times of the year, interest in sex drops and chances of successful conception plummet....So children are all roughly born within the same two-month 'window'...and for two months of the year, people get very agitated and sexually promiscious....Take note of what this does to economics and fashion..
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
gaby wrote: Italy stay Neural in world war 2,What is the effect?
Hmmm...if Mussolini did the same thing as Franco..."Thanks, guys for the support, but we're remaining out of this..."...Italian 'neutrality' would conditional...I still see the Italians moving supplies for the Germans in North Africa, but charging stiff fees for it...The Med campaign would shift from a military one to a diplomatic one, with the Allies trying to coerce the Italians to quit moving supplies for the Germans, without annoying the Italians by bombing...German efforts in the Med shift to securing ports and lines of transport through the Adriatic, Balkans, and France(where the Resistance does banner work blowing up German supply convoys and trains)...At some point the Germans decide to whack the Italian government and invade them anyway out of sheer frustration...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
taalismn wrote:I still see the Italians moving supplies for the Germans in North Africa, but charging stiff fees for it
The only reason teh germans were in North Africa was to support the Italians.
Also the matter of preventing the Brits from moving colonial forces to Europe through the Suez Canal...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
It would make for an interesting alternate version of WW2. It would cause serious changes in the way it played out.
Interesting alternate universe Taalismn!
At midnight the night before halloween every single cementary in the world releases it's dead for the next 24 hours. The dead are back almost but not completely mindless. They go to where they died last and they attack anyone near where they died. They won't attack their relatives, but everyone else is fair game. Since it happens every year they find ways to defend themselves, without having to destroy their relatives. At the end of the day the dead return happily to their graves for yet another year.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
Peanut Butter is discovered to be the secret to immortality...Peanuts become the new hot commodity on the world market, and states like Georgia get immediately invaded...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Twist on the above...A group of renegade Kreeghor land on Earth well in advance of the invasion force...maybe they're genuine renegades, or more likely a disenfranchised aristocratic line that got beat out...they're here on Earth out of the goodness of their hearts(yeah, right!) to warn the Terrans and build us up into a society able to beat the coming Invasion, bloody the noses of the aristocratic clans involved, and start us on the way to becoming an empire of our own, able to challenge the TGE for supremacy, and allow the renegades to retire behind the scenes in style...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
A world where no one dies from injury or deprivation of necessities, only old age. It is not possible to starve to death or suffocate, however, being deprived of food or oxygen or water long enough will drive you completely insane. People can survive gunshots, decapitation, jumping off of a skyscraper or even unprotected re-entry from orbit or bear-hugging a nuclear bomb when it detonates. Severed limbs completely regenerate. They will eventually regenerate from any damage, even if it takes years, and be perfectly uninjured and no lasting damage such as limps, paralysis, memory loss, etc. Basically treat it as everyone regenerates at the normal damage rate, but they can go infinitely negative hitpoints and still come back from it. They can always come back somehow (even if the GM has to metagame). If atomized by a nuke, one atom will begin regenerating, even if it's floating in the air currents, eventually it will get heavy enough to float down to the ground. If the person is thrown into a live volcano, an atom will be ejected with smoke/ash or even steam as the body first enters the lava, and regenerate elsewhere.
Because no one fears death, the death penalty doesn't exist. Instead crimes severe enough are treated with unending torture. People are literally thrown in a cell and the key destroyed, they starve and thirst endlessly. Sanitation is obviously less of a concern, everything is dirtier.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
Historically, capital punishment is carried out by administering a psychic cocktail to a person that forces them to Astrally Project...Once their astral self is floating free, the executioners sever the cord with an enchanted silver blade or psionic abilities...the person's soul cannot return to their body...but their body remains alive as a dullard zombie that is put to work for the state or on behalf of the criminal's victims...meanwhile, the free-drifting soul can only wander, but cannot approach nor cross sacred ground or warded properties...or certain holy symbols...In such a society, a strong degree of spiritual paranoia is the norm, as while most executed souls disipate, a few hang on to cause trouble for those who aren't careful...Sometimes possession does occur, requiring a soul to be twice 'executed', the second time by an Astral Executioner or high-power exorcism... Of course, there are also times when a truly innocent person is thus executed by mistake...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
Just financially equal. Interesting point though. And thanks for the numbers. 
