You know what'd be amazing? A roleplay that lets characters travel through time, starting from the beginning of the roleplay. I'm thinking of Achron-like shenanigans, where posts would have to be edited, and the course of the RP adjusted over and over.
I wish I could think of a way that that'd work.
Like, maybe have everyone run through the plot once, resolve it (unfavorably), and then start editing and note when you edit what post in the OOC? But then you'd have to have dedicated players to update all their posts.
Or restart the IC entirely any time someone travels to/from the past?
I'm not sure how to make it work. I wish I could think of a way. If anybody does have an idea, please post it and/or try it out!
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mattmanganon said
Alright, I have a kinda shitty announcement to make, I can't GM this anymore... I've been working with a few other people on a project for a few months, we went on a hiatus due to one of the teams grandmother passing away and well... We're back... So, i'm not gonna have time to GM this. Queen, would you take over?
Sure! I'd appreciate any plot inklings you've got.
Apparently Facebook bought Ocuclus Rift, those 3D immersive monitorgoggles. Thoughts? I just have one question: why'd Facebook buy it?
KIS Jebediah
|Mission: Investigate Big Glowy Cloud Land on a planet in Shao XI.
|Location: 30,000ly, Bearing 30 Degrees (quite near to the Septonium Concordant)
Five hours ago:
The Jebediah had decelerated out of the first reasonably successful, controlled, and purposeful FTL jump in Kerbal history. As soon as the Alkubierre drive had spooled down, the Jebediah quietly re-obeyed the standard laws of physics and resumed going the direction and speed it had been going (relative to the galactic center) pre-jump. While the Kerbals had been prepared for this, they hadn't known what, exactly, they should have done about it. Chris had guesstimated a reasonable distance from their target asteroid, hit the little red "stop" button, swung the entire ship around, and then frantically burned retrograde. Several MkRocket Meals™ had tumbled from the snacks locker. The end result was that the Jebediah narrowly missed crashing into its target asteroid at 2,236m/s - around 2,200m/s faster than their desired orbital speed.
The whole maneuver had started because Gregara had asked a stupid question: whether or not they would, in fact, have enough fuel for both the lander to land and the Jebediah to decelerate from FTL. So Danman had picked a nice, small asteroid on their way to the target.
That nice, small asteroid was, at that point, 7.2km behind them. By the time the Jebediah had slowed down sufficiently, they were much closer to a different, lumpier, slighty larger asteroid. So Chris had decided that they would simply spool up the Alkubierre drive and jump to the proper side of the new asteroid to let their course and speed take them into orbit. Being the first Kerbals to ever use the Alkubierre drive for a second time, it had taken a few hours of reading the manual to realize that the drive needed to cool down before it could be reactivated after such a long initial jump.
So when the Jebediah had come out of FTL orbiting yet a third asteroid, Chris threw up his hands, declared that it was good enough, and retired to his cabin.
Now
Completely unaware of the stealthed ship on the far side of the asteroid, Ferfen suited up for EVA. While his brother Danman had figured out a good asteroid to aim for, this wasn't that asteroid, and Ferfen had no idea whether or not this asteroid would have kethane. Kethane was a valuable and easily-refineable fuel source. The best way to detect it would have been a surface sample, but they also could use the parabolic stereomagnetic spectrographic kethane scanning dish (understandably referred to as the "Kethane Detector"), which was mounted on the outside of the ship. It was a good thing they had the kethane detector, as the lander was incapable of returning from moon-sized objects without refueling.
Ferfen adored EVA's. He could flip endlessly, and often did, just for fun. Just now, he'd completed a quinteple backflip before reluctantly activating his suit's manuevering thrusters. Nearing the kethane detector, he activated it, performed a few barrel rolls, and went back inside the ship. The results of the scan showed a few scattered deposits, and nothing else unusual. It was time to assemble the lander.
KIS Bob and Bill, vacuum configuration
Chris, Gregara, and Barlas all crammed into the lander's tiny cockpit. As it turned out, they had even less fuel than they'd thought - despite the miniscule amount of thrust needed to land on this particular asteroid, they ran out of fuel halfway up. They were going around 1m/s faster than the maximum impact tolerance of the landing legs. Desperate, they piled out of the ship, grabbed on, and activated their spacesuit maneuvering thrusters. The Bob and Bill slowed fractionally. Around 15 seconds before impact, Gregara shoved everyone back into the cockpit, trying to at least angle the ship so that the legs would all touch down simultaneously.
Unfortunately, the Bob and Bill was landing on a hill. It touched down, the legs compressing to their fullest extent before one of them collapsed. The shock caused the entire lander to start tumbling down the hill end over end, bouncing in the very low gravity, before settling in a cloud of dust and small rocks at the bottom, miraculously rightside up, though leaning precariously. Pleased at their progress, Chris ordered everyone out. Their first order of buisiness would be finding enough rocks to make up for the missing leg. Between the three of them and the low gravity, they should be able to lift it. Their second task would be to use the Bob and Bill's mounted drilling and refining units to refuel the Jebediahi. That would take several trips from the asteroid's surface back up to their ship. After, of course, Chris planted the mission flag.
Landing the Bob and Bill would be interesting now that one of the legs was missing. Chris made a mental note to aim for somewhere more flat next time.
Kerbin
Eva Kerman, current KIS administrator, stared at the small pile of papers on his desk. Out of the corner of her eye, she'd noticed something stuck to the bottom of her "in" box. Curious, she lifted the box, dumping half of the project requests and approval-needed papers into an auxilliary "in" box. The paper was a small brief about a potential rescue mission.
She had to do a double-take at the date and location of the rescue mission. This form was from 150 years ago. It was written on by none other than Jebediah and Bill Kerman! Still, Eva had had rescue missions take a long time before. A few kerbals may or may not be still trapped on Eve. They had been for at least 35 years. She kept meaning to rescue them, but with the Alkubierre drive, there were so many other interesting places to go. She did at least paradrop them supplies every so often, along with notes saying that she'd really rescue them soon, and that she meant it this time. 150 years, however, was pretty long.
And the location of the stranded kerbalnaut? Kerbin. Some mysterious desert temple. She wrote a note:
|Mission: Investigate Big Glowy Cloud Land on a planet in Shao XI.
|Location: 30,000ly, Bearing 30 Degrees (quite near to the Septonium Concordant)
Five hours ago:
The Jebediah had decelerated out of the first reasonably successful, controlled, and purposeful FTL jump in Kerbal history. As soon as the Alkubierre drive had spooled down, the Jebediah quietly re-obeyed the standard laws of physics and resumed going the direction and speed it had been going (relative to the galactic center) pre-jump. While the Kerbals had been prepared for this, they hadn't known what, exactly, they should have done about it. Chris had guesstimated a reasonable distance from their target asteroid, hit the little red "stop" button, swung the entire ship around, and then frantically burned retrograde. Several MkRocket Meals™ had tumbled from the snacks locker. The end result was that the Jebediah narrowly missed crashing into its target asteroid at 2,236m/s - around 2,200m/s faster than their desired orbital speed.
The whole maneuver had started because Gregara had asked a stupid question: whether or not they would, in fact, have enough fuel for both the lander to land and the Jebediah to decelerate from FTL. So Danman had picked a nice, small asteroid on their way to the target.
That nice, small asteroid was, at that point, 7.2km behind them. By the time the Jebediah had slowed down sufficiently, they were much closer to a different, lumpier, slighty larger asteroid. So Chris had decided that they would simply spool up the Alkubierre drive and jump to the proper side of the new asteroid to let their course and speed take them into orbit. Being the first Kerbals to ever use the Alkubierre drive for a second time, it had taken a few hours of reading the manual to realize that the drive needed to cool down before it could be reactivated after such a long initial jump.
So when the Jebediah had come out of FTL orbiting yet a third asteroid, Chris threw up his hands, declared that it was good enough, and retired to his cabin.
Now
Completely unaware of the stealthed ship on the far side of the asteroid, Ferfen suited up for EVA. While his brother Danman had figured out a good asteroid to aim for, this wasn't that asteroid, and Ferfen had no idea whether or not this asteroid would have kethane. Kethane was a valuable and easily-refineable fuel source. The best way to detect it would have been a surface sample, but they also could use the parabolic stereomagnetic spectrographic kethane scanning dish (understandably referred to as the "Kethane Detector"), which was mounted on the outside of the ship. It was a good thing they had the kethane detector, as the lander was incapable of returning from moon-sized objects without refueling.
Ferfen adored EVA's. He could flip endlessly, and often did, just for fun. Just now, he'd completed a quinteple backflip before reluctantly activating his suit's manuevering thrusters. Nearing the kethane detector, he activated it, performed a few barrel rolls, and went back inside the ship. The results of the scan showed a few scattered deposits, and nothing else unusual. It was time to assemble the lander.
KIS Bob and Bill, vacuum configuration
Chris, Gregara, and Barlas all crammed into the lander's tiny cockpit. As it turned out, they had even less fuel than they'd thought - despite the miniscule amount of thrust needed to land on this particular asteroid, they ran out of fuel halfway up. They were going around 1m/s faster than the maximum impact tolerance of the landing legs. Desperate, they piled out of the ship, grabbed on, and activated their spacesuit maneuvering thrusters. The Bob and Bill slowed fractionally. Around 15 seconds before impact, Gregara shoved everyone back into the cockpit, trying to at least angle the ship so that the legs would all touch down simultaneously.
Unfortunately, the Bob and Bill was landing on a hill. It touched down, the legs compressing to their fullest extent before one of them collapsed. The shock caused the entire lander to start tumbling down the hill end over end, bouncing in the very low gravity, before settling in a cloud of dust and small rocks at the bottom, miraculously rightside up, though leaning precariously. Pleased at their progress, Chris ordered everyone out. Their first order of buisiness would be finding enough rocks to make up for the missing leg. Between the three of them and the low gravity, they should be able to lift it. Their second task would be to use the Bob and Bill's mounted drilling and refining units to refuel the Jebediahi. That would take several trips from the asteroid's surface back up to their ship. After, of course, Chris planted the mission flag.
Landing the Bob and Bill would be interesting now that one of the legs was missing. Chris made a mental note to aim for somewhere more flat next time.
Kerbin
Eva Kerman, current KIS administrator, stared at the small pile of papers on his desk. Out of the corner of her eye, she'd noticed something stuck to the bottom of her "in" box. Curious, she lifted the box, dumping half of the project requests and approval-needed papers into an auxilliary "in" box. The paper was a small brief about a potential rescue mission.
She had to do a double-take at the date and location of the rescue mission. This form was from 150 years ago. It was written on by none other than Jebediah and Bill Kerman! Still, Eva had had rescue missions take a long time before. A few kerbals may or may not be still trapped on Eve. They had been for at least 35 years. She kept meaning to rescue them, but with the Alkubierre drive, there were so many other interesting places to go. She did at least paradrop them supplies every so often, along with notes saying that she'd really rescue them soon, and that she meant it this time. 150 years, however, was pretty long.
And the location of the stranded kerbalnaut? Kerbin. Some mysterious desert temple. She wrote a note:
"Evas Note" said Rescue 'Ace' from mysterious temple!!!
PS: Either rescue the Eve mission, or give up on them! Stop just sending them supplies and putting it off for another year!
PPS: The Eve mission really hasn't had a supply of snacks for a while; we should probably do something about that before they die.
Delta: I love how your XO could be a Russian spy. Accepted!
Haha, thanks, Kilo6! <3
Slypheed said
Feels like this is dying :l
Agreed. I think I just don't have the time to GM this. So we should start looking for someone else. Gunther has my plot, but he may not want to become head GM. Until that happens, however, I'll keep going. A radical alternative might be a GMless game? I could just post my plot for you guys and then let you have at it. I'm not sure how well that'd work without someone to arbitrate disputes, etc.
Anyway, my vote's Gunther.
Seriously. This thread is about a controversial topic, but no trolling. Or arguing. Or getting banned. Not in this thread.
Technically, that depends on your point of view. If you're standing on the Earth observing a meteor that started to enter the atmosphere from a point beyond the horizon, the streak of light will appear to rise from the horizon, traveling towards you. I think that's where that phrase came from.
Oh, gosh. Let me organize my notes.
1/2 Hour Animation
Futurama - amusing comedy set in the future full of one-liners, puns, and occasionally touching moments
Archer - mindless spy comedy ambiguously set in the... 70's? 80's?
Jackie Chan Adventures - Jackie Chan, his niece, and his Uncle quest for 13 magic talismans. And then I think they have other adventures past the first season.
The Angry Beavers (likely just nostalgia for me) - Utterly mindless comedy aimed for kids/pre-teens about two beavers that get into very wacky hi-jinks.
1/2 Hour Pleasant Comedies:
New Girl - A girl gets an apartment with three guys. They're all over-the-top charicatures, and this show is funny.
Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt 23 - I have to admit that the only reason I absolutely adore this show is because I love every single one of Chloe's outfits and want them all ohmygod. But still, an amusing show.
Parks and Recreation - Every single episode has made me genuinely laugh out loud.
1 Hour Comedies:
The Good Guys - I can't recommend this show enough. Take a cop from a stereotypical 70's cop show and put him into a modern CSI-age procedural police show. Hilarious and wonderful.
Lilyhammer - Not exactly funny, but not quite serious enough for a drama. A New York mafia/mobster guy relocates to Lillehammer, Norway under Witness Protection. He then sets up his own mafia in this remote little Norwegian town.
Top Gear - Three british men do ridiculous things that involve cars. Ostensibly a show about reviewing cars, but it's just a show for men. ...maybe that says something about me. To hell with it! I'm a grown woman and I can watch what I want. Be sure to watch their specials! Favorite moments include them adventuring across South America in second-hand cars, trying to make an amphibious car, and about a million other reviews.
1 Hour Dramas:
West Wing - I thought this show was for "old people". It's not. It's genuinely good and funny. I also recommend Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Newsroom (neither on Netflix, regrettably)
Life on Mars - A modern cop finds himself in the (70's?). I'd put it under Sci-Fi, but it's really not. Other than, like, showing off his iPod or something, there's very little sci-fi here.
Day Break - A cop (wow, apparently I like cop shows) is forced to repeat a very bad day over and over. That's the only sci-fi element here; the rest is just drama. Good.
The Fall - A cop (okay, yeah. maybe I should do something about this.) investigates a murder (or was it a robbery?). Real in a mildly gritty way. Tense.
Sherlock - Hilarious, wonderful, smart, witty, well-edited, blessedly 1.5 hours, cursedly 3 episodes per season, modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes.
1 Hour Dark Dramas
Orange is the New Black - Ever thought about what life in prison as a female would be like? That's what this series is about.
House of Cards - Evil, scummy, horrible American politics from the point of view of the evilist and scummiest politician. Delicious!
Breaking Bad - I've never seen a better character arc than Walter White's. I've never felt such markedly different emotions toward a character from the beginning of the series to the end. If you haven't seen it, do so.
1 Hour Dark Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Battlestar Galactica - A little bit mythic, quite a few awesome space battles, and plus some military themes. A group of ships find themselves stranded from their planets after a nuclear attack from their former robotic servants. These few thousand people are now the last of their race.
American Horror Story - Very "edgy", some sex scenes, a few gory moments, a few scares, rising tension, and a deliciously horrible ending. And it does a completely new story arc for each season! Goes down in quality after the second season, however.
1 Hour Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Once Upon a Time - What if fairy tale characters found themselves stranded in the real world? Or are these people crazy? Or is the main protagonist crazy? I lost interest after these questions were answered, but it's still good.
Sliders - Four 90's characters find themselves sliding from one alternate universe to another, desperately trying to go home without getting caught by, say, the Soviet United States, or dinosaurs, or crazy anti-epidemic world.
The Great Doctor - Korean-with-subtitles series about a modern doctor that gets sent back in time to the (medieval era?). Don't knock it just because it's Korean; Korean film and television is actually pretty good (from what I've found).
Firefly - It's a western... in SPAAAACE
Heroes - Suddenly people get superpowers!
Star Trek (TOS) - Dated in a charmingly amusing manner
Star Trek: Enterprise - Earth's first ship made for extrasolar exploration goes and explores space. People will argue that this is the worst Star Trek series. People will say it's not real Star Trek. They may be right; however, I appreciate how the technology makes it feel more relateable. The opening theme is horrendous. Jumped the shark a bit with its time travel shenanigans in the later episodes, but not bad, over all. Nice and long, too.
Star Trek: Voyager - Decent Star Trek, until the last few episodes. The Federation ship Voyager gets stuck across the Galaxy because of reasons, and now has a several-thousand year journey home.
1 Hour Light Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Eureka - Normal sheriff ends up in wacko-invention, crazy genius, mad scientist town
Warehouse 13 - Important historical artifacts happen to have mystical powers based on who used them and what they used them for. Interesting.
Quantum Leap - Late 80's/Early 90's series about a brave scientist who accidentally and helplessly takes over various people's bodies throughout time and space.
Mini-Series
Tin Man - retake on Dorothy and Oz; worth a watch
North & South - period drama set in the early industrial age about a woman coming of age
If that's not enough, tell me what you like. I can direct you places. I didn't even touch the movies, since you said so.
1/2 Hour Animation
Futurama - amusing comedy set in the future full of one-liners, puns, and occasionally touching moments
Archer - mindless spy comedy ambiguously set in the... 70's? 80's?
Jackie Chan Adventures - Jackie Chan, his niece, and his Uncle quest for 13 magic talismans. And then I think they have other adventures past the first season.
The Angry Beavers (likely just nostalgia for me) - Utterly mindless comedy aimed for kids/pre-teens about two beavers that get into very wacky hi-jinks.
1/2 Hour Pleasant Comedies:
New Girl - A girl gets an apartment with three guys. They're all over-the-top charicatures, and this show is funny.
Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt 23 - I have to admit that the only reason I absolutely adore this show is because I love every single one of Chloe's outfits and want them all ohmygod. But still, an amusing show.
Parks and Recreation - Every single episode has made me genuinely laugh out loud.
1 Hour Comedies:
The Good Guys - I can't recommend this show enough. Take a cop from a stereotypical 70's cop show and put him into a modern CSI-age procedural police show. Hilarious and wonderful.
Lilyhammer - Not exactly funny, but not quite serious enough for a drama. A New York mafia/mobster guy relocates to Lillehammer, Norway under Witness Protection. He then sets up his own mafia in this remote little Norwegian town.
Top Gear - Three british men do ridiculous things that involve cars. Ostensibly a show about reviewing cars, but it's just a show for men. ...maybe that says something about me. To hell with it! I'm a grown woman and I can watch what I want. Be sure to watch their specials! Favorite moments include them adventuring across South America in second-hand cars, trying to make an amphibious car, and about a million other reviews.
1 Hour Dramas:
West Wing - I thought this show was for "old people". It's not. It's genuinely good and funny. I also recommend Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Newsroom (neither on Netflix, regrettably)
Life on Mars - A modern cop finds himself in the (70's?). I'd put it under Sci-Fi, but it's really not. Other than, like, showing off his iPod or something, there's very little sci-fi here.
Day Break - A cop (wow, apparently I like cop shows) is forced to repeat a very bad day over and over. That's the only sci-fi element here; the rest is just drama. Good.
The Fall - A cop (okay, yeah. maybe I should do something about this.) investigates a murder (or was it a robbery?). Real in a mildly gritty way. Tense.
Sherlock - Hilarious, wonderful, smart, witty, well-edited, blessedly 1.5 hours, cursedly 3 episodes per season, modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes.
1 Hour Dark Dramas
Orange is the New Black - Ever thought about what life in prison as a female would be like? That's what this series is about.
House of Cards - Evil, scummy, horrible American politics from the point of view of the evilist and scummiest politician. Delicious!
Breaking Bad - I've never seen a better character arc than Walter White's. I've never felt such markedly different emotions toward a character from the beginning of the series to the end. If you haven't seen it, do so.
1 Hour Dark Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Battlestar Galactica - A little bit mythic, quite a few awesome space battles, and plus some military themes. A group of ships find themselves stranded from their planets after a nuclear attack from their former robotic servants. These few thousand people are now the last of their race.
American Horror Story - Very "edgy", some sex scenes, a few gory moments, a few scares, rising tension, and a deliciously horrible ending. And it does a completely new story arc for each season! Goes down in quality after the second season, however.
1 Hour Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Once Upon a Time - What if fairy tale characters found themselves stranded in the real world? Or are these people crazy? Or is the main protagonist crazy? I lost interest after these questions were answered, but it's still good.
Sliders - Four 90's characters find themselves sliding from one alternate universe to another, desperately trying to go home without getting caught by, say, the Soviet United States, or dinosaurs, or crazy anti-epidemic world.
The Great Doctor - Korean-with-subtitles series about a modern doctor that gets sent back in time to the (medieval era?). Don't knock it just because it's Korean; Korean film and television is actually pretty good (from what I've found).
Firefly - It's a western... in SPAAAACE
Heroes - Suddenly people get superpowers!
Star Trek (TOS) - Dated in a charmingly amusing manner
Star Trek: Enterprise - Earth's first ship made for extrasolar exploration goes and explores space. People will argue that this is the worst Star Trek series. People will say it's not real Star Trek. They may be right; however, I appreciate how the technology makes it feel more relateable. The opening theme is horrendous. Jumped the shark a bit with its time travel shenanigans in the later episodes, but not bad, over all. Nice and long, too.
Star Trek: Voyager - Decent Star Trek, until the last few episodes. The Federation ship Voyager gets stuck across the Galaxy because of reasons, and now has a several-thousand year journey home.
1 Hour Light Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Eureka - Normal sheriff ends up in wacko-invention, crazy genius, mad scientist town
Warehouse 13 - Important historical artifacts happen to have mystical powers based on who used them and what they used them for. Interesting.
Quantum Leap - Late 80's/Early 90's series about a brave scientist who accidentally and helplessly takes over various people's bodies throughout time and space.
Mini-Series
Tin Man - retake on Dorothy and Oz; worth a watch
North & South - period drama set in the early industrial age about a woman coming of age
If that's not enough, tell me what you like. I can direct you places. I didn't even touch the movies, since you said so.
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