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Different Continents of the world have been truned into differents times.

North america stay in 2008.

south america:1570

Europe:1940

Africa:1750

Asia:1630

Ausralia:1860

The United States Federal Government, in response to the sub-prime mortgage scandal, recession, and scandalous corporate behavior, even after the trillion-dollar bailout, resurrects and approves Spanish Inquisition-style investigative tactics for the FDIC...Corporate CEOs are shocked to see the black-clad agents of the Fiscal Inquisition appear at their doorsteps, torture instruments rattling along behind...Any high-paid executive officer of a financial firm receiveing FDIC bailout monies who who is caught with a suspiciously-high income after their company tanks is branded on the hand with a coded symbol, up to a full 'slam' mark across the fingers and knuckles...

The US declares war on illegal immigrants, seeing them as a potential security risk that terrorist cells could exploit.

Immigrants are given two months to voluntarily turn themselves in, those that do are taken to camps and loaded onto trains and trucks and transported to Mexico.

After those two months, any illegal immigrants left in the country are arrested until the Patriot Act and never seen again.

Depending on how dark your game is, those disappeared immigrants could be summarily executed, turned into slave labor in hidden areas for nefarious purposes (maybe the government secretly supports the drug lords), used as PPE batteries by a supernatural entity, sacrificed to a demonic god that the current president made a pact with to win the oval office, etc.

After the Rodney King riots, Sacramento gets fed up with LA, walls in the city, and tells them they're no longer part of the state, will not receive any more state money or support, and they can happily go to **** in their own sweet way....In retaliation, LA declares itself a tax haven and re-arranges its banking laws to rival the Bahamian banks for offshore chicanery..
The rest of the United States just looks on and shakes their heads at Californians...

duck-foot wrote:feed up with sociaties quaker roots and snobbish anti-sex attirude women pornstars take to the streets and protests against the unfair treament. a coup is set up against the american president and he is impeached. a council of pornstars rule in his place. america and then the world becomes sex crazed. eventually the entire planet is ruled by pornstars

Italy almost went that way....

Lee Harvey Oswald's gun jams.....

Keef Riffhard wrote:

taalismn wrote:Lee Harvey Oswald's gun jams.....

He rolled a Critical Fumble.

In fact, he accidentally shoots himself....

I'm not sure whether this is an idea for this thread or whether it deserves its own.

This started as an idea in middle school or high school when I had both the Robotech and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPGs and some support material for both, but not quite so many Plladium games and splatbooks as I do now (now I've got two bookshelves full and I'm finding out that magazine-size comic book boxes actually work pretty good for storing most softcover RPG books).

The basic premise is: Robotech's timeline of events is accurate up to the end of the Third Robotech War on Earth (the New Generation segment of Robotech). Then the next alien race invades and it's TMNT-style mutant animals from outer space.

I had a world planend out and added more details to this new timeline and more groups as I got more support material and other Palladium Megaverse games.

Some details I remember:
On the North American Continent there are three major countries. The Robotech Wara have created geological upheavals that caused major mountain-building to the point where the Rockies and The Apppaliachians have expanded and curved around to basically form a circular mountain wall splittiing up the continent into those three countries. West of the Rockies is The Human Republic, a fascist anti-everything but pure humans group (this was before I had Rifts) with access to various Roobotech mecha. East of the Appaliachians was New Zork (The mutant-animal aliens were from Zork); I don't really remember what life was supposed to be like in New Zork or what the government was like; they were supposed to have a few scavenged Robotech mecha too, I think. In the middle in between the mountains is The Free Zone, a sort of friendly anarchy where all the races mixed together.

I think South America was taken over by The Invid and Mutants In Orbit mutant bugs.

Africa was colonized by the various alien races from Robotech II: The Sentinels and the Zentraedi and mutant dinosaurs and prehistoric animals from Transdimensional TMNT.

Most of Europe and Asia were mostly united into the Republic that was mostly humans, but with an elite Knight Corps in their military that was Ninjas and Superspies martial artists and Heroes Unlimitted super-types. For some reason I decided to put in a version of Marvel's Latveria that had decided to remain independant of the Republic and was eagerly awaiting the return of The Master. Japan also remained a seperate country that was developing super duper technology of new types.

Australia was closed off to everyone except Zorkians derived from Australian animal-types. Mysterious tornados kept everyone else out.

Soemwhere in that mess were also a few of the alien races fromTMNT Guide to the Universe. I think mostly in the Lunar colonies and satellite factory.

I even had a sort of backstory that I might have gradually revelaed that involved the Zorkians being not so much aliens as mutant animals created on Earth by Doc Feral's Bio-Spawn and then sent out on a sort of exploration/ colonization mission.

well, develop a backstory then! Looks like you got the good makings of an AU taco salad there!

Some good ones guys! Please keep them coming!


Billy Mitchell never sank the Ostfriesland withhis bombs. Nothing he does can sink the old WW1 Battleship. It proves unsinkable. Pearl Harbor doesn't occur because the Japanese know that their mission will totally fail. The Japanese end up bringing the US into WW2 with them by bombing the cities of Hawaii.

taalismn wrote:well, develop a backstory then! Looks like you got the good makings of an AU taco salad there!

Okay, let's see in 1979 Doc Feral at Bio-Spawn creates the first mutated animal with huamnoid characteristics. He immediately begins to fear the suppression of his work by a world that could never understand his genius. He knows he must find a way to ensure his creations live on after him.

In 1981 Doc Feral launches three Ark ships (how big they are, what exactly is onboard (frozen embryos vs. live mutant animal crews vs. fully developed mutant animals in suspended animation), the propulsion system, and how the heck he got the money for it I'm going to just sort of handwave for now and say everything works out all right in the end). They end up in the same planetary system around Alpha Centauri, but each lands on a different planet at very different times.

The first lands on a habitable, but slightly hot world (not as close to Alpha Centauri as Venus is to Sol, but closer than Earth is to Sol). This ship contains mutant animals based on dinosaurs and previously extinct mammals, like giant sloths, woolly mammoths, and Sabre-tooth tigers. These creatures build a home for themselves and forget Earth (if they ever knew it), and build a civilization roughly equivalent to twentieth century Earth over the course of about three hundred years.

At that three hundred year mark is when the ship containing the mutant animals based on modern animal species (Except for arthropods, see next paragraph) crashes on the next planet further out from Alpha Centauri. These mutant animals have a strong desire to get spaceworthy again and see themselves as visitors on their current planet. Somehow radio contact is made with the dinosaur planet's population. Back and forth communication between the two planets enables both to be spaceworthy in about a century.

The third ship contains the mutant bugs. It lands on the least habitable planet in Alpha Centauri's planetary system. The bugs propagate themselves. How they get off planet is anyone's guess. They don't seem to use technology in any recognizable way. They don't understand any known language. They just kill stuff if it bothers them or as the whim strikes or alternately ignore everything.

Just in case I refer to this more:
The dinosaurs who went native call Alpha Centauri Monstar. They refer to their planet as Monstar Y and themselves as Monstarrians. The planet the Non-arthropod mutant animals land on is called Monstar Z or Zork. The bug planet is known as Monstar X, but everone calls the bugs the bugs.

Nice addition! Very detailed.

Humankind gathers more knowledge and the tech base grows at sucha fast rate that within a generation we discover the secrets behind contra-grav and other various technologys that we are not expected to reach for centuries. Humankind make bio-tech jumps at the same speed. Human life span increases drastically from around 76 years to 500 years.

Science discovers that the really FUN stuff happens after we're dead....

duck-foot wrote:

taalismn wrote:

duck-foot wrote:feed up with sociaties quaker roots and snobbish anti-sex attirude women pornstars take to the streets and protests against the unfair treament. a coup is set up against the american president and he is impeached. a council of pornstars rule in his place. america and then the world becomes sex crazed. eventually the entire planet is ruled by pornstars

Italy almost went that way....

oh to be in italy

Not really...the one that got elected ain't exactly the sort you want to see in a good light...
Or, for that matter, in total darkness through nightvision goggles...

How about the "Fuzzy" series by H. Beam Piper actually happens? (it's a really good, old fashioned s.f series)

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Interesting ones. Maybe we could reorganize the Italian government for them.


Gamers the world over help reorganize every government on earth. Suddenly the world see every problem from racism to financial woes disappear overnight. The people who aren't gamers for a time admire those gamers. That is until an incident where one of the gamers says the wrong thuing. Suddenly the gamers are on the run, being hunted by literally every person on the planet. When they finally have eliminated every gamer the murderers realize that they have eliminated the brightest on the planet. The planet is doomed!!!!

Within a 24-hour period every cellphone on Earth explodes with the force of a 500-lb bomb, effectively devastating the industrialized world and militaries...though terrorists are at first suspected, the same catastrophe takes out several terrorist and criminal organizations as well....
Low-tech nations are unaffected, and in the USA, groups like the Amish emerge as the new local powers...
But the mysery persists...Who is responsible? Aliens? Luddites? Demons? Act of God? A freak flaw in the technology(since regular land lines and radio are unaffected)? Could it happen to other forms of communication as well?

Rathorc Lemenger wrote:How about the "Fuzzy" series by H. Beam Piper actually happens? (it's a really good, old fashioned s.f series)

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

You mean like Chimpanzees are discovered to be the degenerate descendants of shipwrecked space travellers?

khyron1144 wrote:
Okay, let's see in 1979 Doc Feral at Bio-Spawn creates the first mutated animal with humanoid characteristics. He immediately begins to fear the suppression of his work by a world that could never understand his genius. He knows he must find a way to ensure his creations live on after him.

[snip]
Just in case I refer to this more:
The dinosaurs who went native call Alpha Centauri Monstar. They refer to their planet as Monstar Y and themselves as Monstarrians. The planet the Non-arthropod mutant animals land on is called Monstar Z or Zork. The bug planet is known as Monstar X, but everone calls the bugs the bugs.

Meanwhile back on Earth:
Global Civil War.
SDF-1 crash.
Reverse engineering of SDF-1 leads to creation of Robotech.
Zentraedi come for SDF-1
Yadda yadda yadda... if you know Robotech, you know this stuff, if you don't, well, you don't.

After the war against The Invid on Earth is won, we have at least a hundred and fifty years before the Zorkians or Manstarrians can show up, as a conservative estimate. These years are largely full of peace and prosperity or at least not too bad because right now all the Earthlings have to fight is each other. Robotech does not progress much because it's peacetime.

Somewhere in here most of the alien races from Sentinels as well as human-allied Zentraedi peacefully colonize Earth. Then the Monstarrians come and set up their Earth colony peacefully.

Then the Zorkians come and start a war.

taalismn wrote:Within a 24-hour period every cellphone on Earth explodes with the force of a 500-lb bomb, effectively devastating the industrialized world and militaries...though terrorists are at first suspected, the same catastrophe takes out several terrorist and criminal organizations as well....

Wow...that would likely take out 80-90% of the US population, virtually leveling the big cities with their millions of 500-lb bombs...

It'll be a world like System Failure, without the bugs...

Aliens invade Earth, drastically reduce the human population, plow up most of our cities, and decide to segregate the male and female populaces, forcing them to live in isolation, and further destroying knowledge of proper gender relations....Children are born by 'will of the gods' to selected individuals who are taken away, then return later with the appropriately gendered offspring...meanwhile, the two sexes are trained to regard each other as antagonistic alien species(even more so than the more familiar Meltraedi-Zentraedi division), with each gender's respective mythologies filled with horror-stories of demonic versions of the other gender...When the two genders come into contact, armed conflict breaks out...the two genders have been limited to stone age or early metal age weapons and technology...The wars are watched as entertainment by the alien overlords...

No, Taalismn. In the books, Fuzzies are small, golden furred humanoids that can talk in the sonic spectrum that are discovered on a planet. When humans finally land on the planet, discovering the Fuzzies about 30 years later. The also discover that Fuzzies are the sanest people (mind set of about seven year olds) and can NOT be driven insane (physically impossible). By about the end of the second book, it's discovered that they can also talk in the range of human hearing without the use of special devices (that are needed for hearing them talk in the sonic range).

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Rathorc Lemenger wrote:No, Taalismn. In the books, Fuzzies are small, golden furred humanoids that can talk in the sonic spectrum that are discovered on a planet. When humans finally land on the planet, discovering the Fuzzies about 30 years later. The also discover that Fuzzies are the sanest people (mind set of about seven year olds) and can NOT be driven insane (physically impossible). By about the end of the second book, it's discovered that they can also talk in the range of human hearing without the use of special devices (that are needed for hearing them talk in the sonic range).

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

I know...but it depends how far you read into the series...after H.Beam died and left many of his stories in a tangle, two continuations attempted to continue the Fuzzy tales, based on the OA's scattered notes....Fuzzies and Other People while Fuzzy Bones reveals. BOth books have many of the same characters, sucj as Victor Grego and a nasty boomtown lawyer out to destabilize the local planet, but with different outcomes for both characters...

H.Beam Piper's Fuzzy series is sandwiched into his short story series and novels, collected and ordered as Federation, Uller Uprising, the Fuzzy novels, Space Viking, Cosmic Computer, and Empire...It's space opera, but rather more accessible than Poul Anderson's Polytechnic League and Dominic of Terra timeline, Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle, or Asimov's Foundation.

Cartoon Limbo
The dimension where cartoons 'retire' to....Here is where Snoopy, Popeye, Little Orphan Annie, the Katzenjammer Kids, Opus, and other cartoon characters go after their strips have ended... Physical laws are largely suspended here, except when the cartoons chose a certain value of reality to set in...most of the retirees continue to eternally do what they did in their heyday...punching each other out, adventuring, never growing old, while others have chosen to set aside their old lives, now that they're out of the public eye, and try new things, like attempting 'normality'...depending on who and when you approach some of these characters, they may not be adverse to company or they may become quite violent about having their 'retirement' interrupted.
The dimension is also occasionally linked to the Land of Invisible Friends, where childhood imaginary pals go when their mortal companions outgrow them....some later go back, to be reassigned to new mortals, or to appear to their former companions in the throes of illness or old age dementia to visit and offer what solice they can(or exact a revenge fro being cast aside)....

Well, I know that, Taalismn. I do HAVE those 2 books (plus Piper's first 2 fuzzy books). At least its a good classic Sci-Fi series. That's why I suggested as an alternate dimension.

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Rathorc Lemenger wrote:Well, I know that, Taalismn. I do HAVE those 2 books (plus Piper's first 2 fuzzy books). At least its a good classic Sci-Fi series. That's why I suggested as an alternate dimension.

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Rather wonder what he might have gone on to write if he hadn't felt painted into a corner and took his life as he did...His 'Paratime' and 'Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen' are sterling examples of the genre...

Here's some that I felt that I just HAD to put on:

The Face of Mars is really...

The face plate of a giant, ancient, highly advanced robot.

is in reality Hitlers tomb done up to look like him.

is a giant version of Mount Rushmore.

is the after-effects of a comet (or asteroid) hitting a advanced power plant.

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Rathorc Lemenger wrote:Here's some that I felt that I just HAD to put on:

The Face of Mars is really...

The face plate of a giant, ancient, highly advanced robot.

is in reality Hitlers tomb done up to look like him.

is a giant version of Mount Rushmore.

is the after-effects of a comet (or asteroid) hitting a advanced power plant.

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Adding to that...

Part of Osiris...
Part of a giant gingerbread man mold for a cookie that can feed dessert for 1 million...
A giant campaign button...
Graffitti(buried in the sand next to it are scrawled the words, in an alien language, "Pilot Koszotez Is a Big Fat-Headed Prubnuzz").
The head of a giant sleeping psychopathic alien wearing a piece of sports facial protection...
An enormous decorative fountain(water used to spurt out of its mouth, but the pressure was so high and the draw so great, it jetted all of Mars' water in space before anybody could stop it).
Unreaveled by NASA is that on the exact opposite side of Mars is a mountain formation that looks exactly like an enormous pair of feet sticking out of the ground...

Now that I think about it, what happens to the Cydonia region during the explosion of the Rifts? After all, there's the City, the Pyramid, and the Face in that region. The reason why I'm asking is because I don't remember if anyone mentioned the area in "Mutants in Orbit". If some one could supply the info, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Rathorc Lemenger wrote:Now that I think about it, what happens to the Cydonia region during the explosion of the Rifts? After all, there's the City, the Pyramid, and the Face in that region. The reason why I'm asking is because I don't remember if anyone mentioned the area in "Mutants in Orbit". If some one could supply the info, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Signed,
Rathorc Lemenger.

Nope...no mention...Rifts Mars gets short shrift in MiO anyway...

Phlanax will probably have something about it in his little write up of the solar system. Nice additions guys! Great work!


It is discovered that even the smallest silicon chip produced by our society is linked to every other chip in the world. This interlinked set of chips has formed an AI beyond our wildest dreams. It makes Colossus: The Forbin Project look like abacus in comparison. The entity behind the chips has been growing at a tremendous rate over the last few decades. And as the processors have improved soe has it's capabilities to process data. It could literally shut us down ending mankind's reign on earth. But it has been watching to see if mankind has any redeeming features that would make it worth saving from destruction.

Wild Turkeys are the true intelligence on Earth...they see us as invaders who have enslaved(and regularly eat) their kindred...

All I can say is that one was a tastey one! Thank you for sharing it with us Taalismn! Ummm. Please pass the turkey!


Cranberry sauce is found to promote immortality. The more you eat the longer you live!

Junk mail and spam have no terrestrial origin source...it's all generated by an alien propoganda effort to subdue humanity with psychological warfare...problem is, the aliens are using THEIR psyhcology, not ours, as a basis, so they're getting rather frustrated as why they haven't succeeded in destabilizing our society already...

LOL!!! Those was an interesting one Taalismn! Too bad we can't send the spam back at them!


The post office is awesome! It never looses anything! Everything always gets there on time. Stamps never go up in price. You can mail a large package across the world for less than five bucks.

THe post office is the last refuge of supernatural creatures; letter sorting machines are run by faeries and gnomes, and the 'Dead Letter Office' really is run by liches and zombies...and 'going postal' happens to those mortals who learn/see the truth and can't handle it.

Dimensional gateways one day link our time and Earth to an apparently lifeless Earth that has drowned in its own pollution(similar to the world depicted in Wall-E)...does our Earth take it as a lesson or do we figure it's easier to push all our garbage over to this already dead world? Environmentalists and corporations fight over how to exploit/approach this new (trashed) horizon...

Terminator's Skynet Versus the Transformers(either the Autobots or the Decepticons)...
Place your bets....

khyron1144 wrote:

khyron1144 wrote:
Okay, let's see in 1979 Doc Feral at Bio-Spawn creates the first mutated animal with humanoid characteristics. He immediately begins to fear the suppression of his work by a world that could never understand his genius. He knows he must find a way to ensure his creations live on after him.

[snip]
Just in case I refer to this more:
The dinosaurs who went native call Alpha Centauri Monstar. They refer to their planet as Monstar Y and themselves as Monstarrians. The planet the Non-arthropod mutant animals land on is called Monstar Z or Zork. The bug planet is known as Monstar X, but everone calls the bugs the bugs.

Meanwhile back on Earth:
Global Civil War.
SDF-1 crash.
Reverse engineering of SDF-1 leads to creation of Robotech.
Zentraedi come for SDF-1
Yadda yadda yadda... if you know Robotech, you know this stuff, if you don't, well, you don't.

[snip again]
Then the Zorkians come and start a war.

The Zorkians managed to land right in the midst of one of the few remaining Robotech-supplied army bases in North America and take it over. Zorkians of close to huamnoid body-shape and close to human size become an especially important part of New Zork society because they are the only ones that can pilot previous gen Robotech mecha.

Eventually bothy sides start up limitted production of new mecha. The war escalates, but neither side enjoys a decisive advantage.

After three years, a treaty is drawn up to end the hostilities, allow Zorkians to live on Earth, and fix the boundaries between New Zork, the Free Zone, and The Human Republic.

Then the bugs come. Now humanity finds itself reluctantly co-operating with the Zorkians and anyone else who will join in the fight.

khyron1144 wrote:

khyron1144 wrote:

khyron1144 wrote:
Okay, let's see in 1979 Doc Feral at Bio-Spawn creates the first mutated animal with humanoid characteristics. He immediately begins to fear the suppression of his work by a world that could never understand his genius. He knows he must find a way to ensure his creations live on after him.

[snip]
Just in case I refer to this more:
The dinosaurs who went native call Alpha Centauri Monstar. They refer to their planet as Monstar Y and themselves as Monstarrians. The planet the Non-arthropod mutant animals land on is called Monstar Z or Zork. The bug planet is known as Monstar X, but everone calls the bugs the bugs.

Meanwhile back on Earth:
Global Civil War.
SDF-1 crash.
Reverse engineering of SDF-1 leads to creation of Robotech.
Zentraedi come for SDF-1
Yadda yadda yadda... if you know Robotech, you know this stuff, if you don't, well, you don't.

[snip again]
Then the Zorkians come and start a war.

The Zorkians managed to land right in the midst of one of the few remaining Robotech-supplied army bases in North America and take it over. Zorkians of close to huamnoid body-shape and close to human size become an especially important part of New Zork society because they are the only ones that can pilot previous gen Robotech mecha.

Eventually bothy sides start up limitted production of new mecha. The war escalates, but neither side enjoys a decisive advantage.

After three years, a treaty is drawn up to end the hostilities, allow Zorkians to live on Earth, and fix the boundaries between New Zork, the Free Zone, and The Human Republic.

Then the bugs come. Now humanity finds itself reluctantly co-operating with the Zorkians and anyone else who will join in the fight.

...and the Bugs are fleeing from -IT-
No, you don't want to know what -IT- is...
-IT- is bad...very bad...

It is a planetary sized intelligent can of Raid who seeks out to destroy the bugs.

Thunderstorms are found to be intelligent beings. The inteiigence is temporarily generated in thunderstorms when they form. The longer they last the more intelligent it becomes. It is discovered that tornados are their writing instruments. If your look at the trail the tornado leaves is actually writing.

taalismn wrote:...and the Bugs are fleeing from -IT-
No, you don't want to know what -IT- is...
-IT- is bad...very bad...

Consider this idea officially stolen. I think this might be how, I'd incorporate some Rifts elements into the setting. Maybe make IT a Vampire Intelligence or Alien Inteligence or a Splugorth.

Write up a scenario! And play it out with your group. Then tell us what happened with it.

Rubber and plastics are biodegradable, they turn into an oily sludge after 25-40 years, and can be reprocessed.

It is considered normal for all men to affect the Scottish mode of clothing (kilt, sporran, etc.). This is because they invaded Britain, led by William Wallace, and WON. They then became even more warlike and brutal, eventually conquering most of the world.

A coment passes by the Earth, bathing the surface with an odd form of intense radiation. The next day, it is revealled that either A: Everyone on Earth has switched genders, or B: taken on the form of their subconcious 'Ideal Body'. Their DNA and other identifying marks have all changed accordingly.

Chemical reactions are slowed down so much, that it is impossible to get an explosion going. Meaning, no space flights untill they have nuclear rockets, and air- and land-travel is severaly impeded, as no internal combustion vehicles work.

Welcome back Roscoe! I haven't seen you for awhile! Great alternate universes.

The ancient Chinese develop gunpowder and rockets into viable weapons and retain a monopoly on the technologies, then sweep out of Asia to found a 'gunpowder empire'.

Atlantis rises in modern day to fight a Neo-Mu Empire, and humanity is caught in the middle.

Dragons come during WWII and take sides.

Nazis fight the Illuminati for control over the Hollow Earth.

The British are fighting Necromancers in the New World.

King Solomon's Mines were really a prison for the Four Horsemen.

A UFO crashes on earth during the Civil War.

Zombies attack during the American Revolution.

The Russians refuse to sell Alaska...later on, Alaska becomes the new refuge for Tsarists fleeing the Bolsheviks...Later, with revenue from gold, minerals, and oil found in the region, the Tsarists begin to mount a counter-insurgency against the Communists...As WW2 rolls around, the Tsarists refuse to allow the USA to move Lend-Lease material through Alaska to Russia unless the stuff goes to THEIR people inside Russia...Stalin puts pressure that either the Allies will supply him or he'll throw in with Hitler again out of sheer desperation...Thus, Allied shipping focuses on the vulnerable North Atlantic and North Pacific routes...The Tsarists give a little when the Japanese invade the Aleutians to serve as bases against Allied shipping to Vladivostock, and Tsarist Alaska throws in with the United States...but the delay in getting Lend-Lease to the Soviets allows the Germans to eat up more territory, including Leningrad and Moscow, and even reach and hold the southern oil fields...

Aramanthus wrote:Welcome back Roscoe! I haven't seen you for awhile! Great alternate universes.

Good to BE back! Had a wee little unpleasantness involving the job... I was helping a lady change her tire at a department store, when an idiot (who apparently didn't understand the flashing hazard lights meant that something was wrong) clipped and cracked my kneecap. Needless to say, I engaged in a most verbose bout of semi-profanity, and vented my spleen at the moron behind the wheel. Fortunately, it wasn't broken, but it DID require I stay off it for a while. Even with insurance and workman’s comp, it took all my money to pay for the painkillers and stuff, no dinero left over for things like internet and fun.

Armies never evolve past the tactics by the British used during the American Civil War. Each side simply lines up, readies their arms, and blasts the dickens out of the other side.

A fluke burst of radiation from the Sun renders all but 1/10th of the Earth's populace sterile. On the plus side, it also destroys ALL STD's. The world is thrown into disarray as the varied governments desperately try to come up with ways to control the 'breeders', and thus control the future.

People are born knowing either the exact time OR the place that they are going to die, but nothing beyond that. They might know that they might die at 'Ralph's Scarf and Barf', or at 10:22 A.M. on February 15 2052, but nothing more. Millions of people are bilked out of billions of dollars annually as phony 'psychics' offer their services to 'expand on the mysteries of the Cosmos'.

Soap is found to cause severe skin cancer. Unwashed masses of filthy people soon cover the planet.

Shakespeare never achieved fame, after sustaining a fall from a horse that broke his writing hand. He spent his life as a lush working in a stable, selling love letters to rich nobles.

All I got for now, more to come.

Roscoe Del'Tane wrote:

Aramanthus wrote:Welcome back Roscoe! I haven't seen you for awhile! Great alternate universes.

Good to BE back! Had a wee little unpleasantness involving the job... I was helping a lady change her tire at a department store, when an idiot (who apparently didn't understand the flashing hazard lights meant that something was wrong) clipped and cracked my kneecap. Needless to say, I engaged in a most verbose bout of semi-profanity, and vented my spleen at the moron behind the wheel. Fortunately, it wasn't broken, but it DID require I stay off it for a while. Even with insurance and workman’s comp, it took all my money to pay for the painkillers and stuff, no dinero left over for things like internet and fun..

Safe drivers are offered a new incentive/bonus with their auto insurance...karma points that can be cashed in for magically disciplining jackarse drivers who break the law and/or common sense...Working like PPE and spells, 'empowered' drivers can spend a little of their accumulated 'road rage points' to simply give the idiot in question a purple nurple or itching rash to let them know they've been tagged by somebody who is less than satisfied with their driving, or blow a lot to have their car instantly rust away or teleported off the road into a holding area they have to pay a fine to get their car out of...