@King Kindred Roight... So, turns out the 101 Dalmatians timeline is even more confusing than i thought. Pretty much, every 101 Dalmatians movie and series is it's own self contained thing with major retcons from the previous one, with ONLY 102 Dalmatians being an actual, total sequel to something that came before. The 1996 series is set in 96 and in America, as opposed to 1958 Britain (I got that wrong, but also, i don't know why i thought 1930's, considering they had TV, which wasn't really widespread until the 50's anyway.) BUT the events of the first film happened the way they did in the movie, but no time at all has passed as the puppies are still puppies. 101 Dalmatian Street takes place in another continuity where the Dalmatian Plantation was bought, but they also kept the London house and a bunch of the dogs moved back there... Also, he 96 Cartoon may be or may not be canon, there's a throw away line referencing it, but 4th wall humour is always subject to canonicity issues and-
Oh no, i've gone cross-eyedSo, yeah, i'd like to request we go with either 1 of 2 explainatins:
1) original idea of "The same world with branching timelines can appear multiple times across the Space Between, don't think too hard about it." handwaving explanation. Because, as i said, this solves a lot of problems, doesn't cause any major ones and leaves doors open for more interesting stuff down the line. (Example, someone can do Atlantis world, another person could do Gargoyles world and despite the two stories taking place 60 years apart, they are confirmed a shared universe as, if the Atlantis cartoon series had gone ahead, there was going to be an episode where
the Atlantis crew would fight Demona in Paris during her years walking the Earth alone.)
2) A slighty more handwavey explaination that explains how Pongo & Perdita ended up in Traverse Town from London with their 99 puppies, but the timeline continued on in London with them having been there, the result of which ended with the events of 101 Dalmatian Street.
Alternatively, we
could go with a convoluted Time Travel BS story that KH is known for. But i would rather avoid that.
Point is that Dotty's motivation is that she DIDN'T go on any big adventure. She has no callousness to her, she's never really faced any real hardships and when she finally did, she had a secret god-mode cheat she could activate for it by just letting Zen-Aku deal with them. It's why she's so upbeat and has no idea of how the world really works. So, her having been kidnapped and almost made into a coat doesn't really fit with the kind of motivation i've given her. I just feel that, yes we could say she's one of the original 99 and handwave the Poodlewolf thing, but this just causes too many problems with her character background Vs the growth i'm trying to portray with her (The idea being that she will eventually be given that VERY real taste of just how small she is in the cosmos, growing more calloused like Zen-Aku, while Zen-Aku has to learn to be more upbeat and let go of the past that he can't remember to be more like Dotty, focusing on the here and now.) I mean, how can you have a character who's entirely blind to the horrors of the world because they have never faced them and who's only experience with them was through he medium of 90's grimdark melodrama stories, when they absolutely came face to face with their own mortality only a short time beforehand?
I'm sorry, i'm really not trying to be obtuse or argumentative or anything like that, but as i said, i'm finally on a path for the character that i like and i'd really rather not have to try and write in a big glaring hole in that character background. That being said, any idea's you have to keep the consistency are always appreciated. Just, preferably an explaination that requires minimal rewrites. But at the end of the day, you are the DM and it's your job to make sure that stuff like this doesn't fuck up anyone elses fun or any of the story you've got in mind for us going forward and if you say i've got to do he re-writes, then absolutely i'll do them. But i'd rather find a more amiable resolution.
@Sadu I'll be honest, i was a little confused as well, so i just went with he flow of what Taivas layed down. I don't remember any of the district lay outs as i haven't played KH1 in about 6 years and i only played it through, start to finish once. You may notice in my posts that i'm sort of hand-waving district lay-out descriptions, mainly just to avoid stepping on any toes.
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