Vilageidiotx

18th Century Ice Age

@Vilageidiotx

I'll see to it and try to come up with something. Historically accurate? Or we allowed some freeway here with monarchs?

@NecroKnight

I'll give leeway. They just have to make sense for the period, and for the character. I don't believe character building is that precise a science though, so I'm not going to brow beat.

But, like, I don't want somebody playing Thomas Jefferson to sound like Ron Paul, or a European King to sound like a completely modern republic type. That is the biggest thing I'd be worried about is super-cringey anachronisms.

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This George III, I hope.

@Byrd Man

I'm really wanting to do
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So, the colonies are still technically in place in North America, but the American Revolution is about to happen, or was, based on the political climate back then. Any plans for that?

@Athinar

That's definitely a question, but a more peculiar one in the context of the weather catastrophe and parliament turning up on the colonies doorstep. This is the enlightenment though, the ideas are still there, they are just going to percolate differently in this context. So whereas the colonists arguing about taxation without representation or the distance between London and the new world are going to be presented with a different math, there is the possibility that idealist Republican types might see the flight of the European monarchies as a chance push for change. Exactly how that plays out is part of what we will have to play with.

18th Century Ice Age

I know a lot would be in flux due to the fallout of the ice age, but presumably the British Isles would be underwater...

@Byrd Man

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The return of large-scale glaciers and such would actually create more land around England. Full-scale glaciation or an ice-age in the supposed scale wouldn't flood anything. Basically: Doggerland would return. A lot of other coastal areas would dry up too as sea-water is sucked up into the slowly growing ice-pack. Realistically this may happen over a long time, but I think for the purpose of this we'll be overlooking it.

Ice can hold more water in volume than it can displace it, or something like that.

But the premise comes with some fun implications, like in Europe the great city-state of Venice would now be a city on a hill and not a city on an island in the middle of a lagoon. And it'd lose its naval ability and have to learn to be a terrestrial force like Piedmont.

@Dinh AaronMk

The area around Britain probably would be exposed like Aaron is saying, but it wouldn't be somewhere you could have a complex agricultural civilization. It'd go perma-frost pretty quick and become either and polar desert, tundra, or even covered in ice.

This is to say that Britain is going to become like this, and the northern part of continental Europe like this

Now, at the time of our RP this biome shift would all be in progress, so Britain would be in the process of becoming a dying land, not dead yet. Also probably won't be as evolved, so we wouldn't necessarily see it affecting as far south on that map. It still does mean that North America in its northern portions will be suffering similarly, and the focus will end up for us in the Southern US, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

@Vilageidiotx

I love the concept. Is it possible to play a monarch or ruler from Europe?

@NecroKnight

Yes, but I'll have to see some writing sample to show you can handle the material. You could just PM me a paragraph written from the perspective of your chosen character and maybe some thoughts on how you are going to RP them so I know you can handle it.

Also, if this goes forward, I am planning on taking George III as one of my characters.

...and the British government would be somewhere in the Americas, right? I ask because I was thinking of doing a Virginia lawyer and fixer among the the first families of the colony/crown.

@Byrd Man

Yes. Charleston seems the most likely, since New England will probably be going cold too, and Charleston is the biggest town in the south at that time.

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18th Century Ice Age

You got me there. But the same could be said of all the characters in Hamilton and their real life counterparts.

... except Lafayette.

@Byrd Man

I was kinda under the impression that Lin-Manuel Miranda played himself.

18th Century Ice Age

I'm down to clown.

Also Hamilton's Jefferson is pretty close to the real guy in a lot of ways.

@Byrd Man

i don't know that he could rhyme that good

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Do they have to be attached to someone?

@SmallWonders

well we can't always get what we want

Do you sleep with one partner or two

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What about someone else's arms?

@Taaj

ideally you get as many arms as you can

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Is he also implying she'll trade insider news for sex with young ambitious journalists?

@Dinh AaronMk

Anderson Cooper better stay out of subways if she wins.