Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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December 8th!
From Dresden Codak on Koala Wallop.
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Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
You must spend the entire day in costume and character. The only rule is that you cannot actually tell anyone that you are a time traveler. Other than that, anything's game.
There are three possible options:
1) Utopian/cliché Future - "If the Future did a documentary of the last fifty years, this is how badly the reenactors would dress." Think Star Trek: TNG or the Time Travelers from Hob. Ever see how the society in Futurama sees the 20th century? Run with it. Your job is to dress with moderately anachronistic clothing and speak in slang from varying decades. Here are some good starters:
- Greet people by referring to things that don't yet exist or haven't existed for a long time. Example: "Have you penetrated the atmosphere lately?" "What spectrum will today's broadcast be in?" and "Your king must be a kindly soul!"
- Show extreme ignorance in operating regular technology. Pay phones should be a complete mystery (try placing the receiver in odd places). Chuckle knowingly at cell phones.
2) Dystopian Future - This one offers a little more flexibility. It can be any kind of future from Terminator to Freejack. The important thing to remember is dress like a crazy person with armor. Black spray painted football pads, high tech visors, torn up trenchcoats and maybe even some dirt here or there. Remember, dystopian future travelers are very startled that they've gone back in time. Some starters:
- If you go the "prisoner who's escaped the future" try shaving your head and putting a barcode on the back of your neck. Then stagger around and stare at the sky, as if you've never seen it before.
- Walk up to random people and say "WHAT YEAR IS THIS?" and when they tell you, get quiet and then say "Then there's still time!" and run off.
- Stand in front of a statue (any statue, really), fall to your knees, and yell "NOOOOOOOOO"
- Stare at newspaper headlines and look astonished.
- Take some trinket with you (it can be anything really), hand it to some stranger, along with a phone number and say "In thirty years dial this number. You'll know what to do after that." Then slip away.
2) The Past - This one is more for beginners. Basically dress in period clothing (preferably Victorian era) and stagger around amazed at everything. Since the culture's set in place already, you have more of a template to work off of. Some pointers:
- Airplanes are terrifying. Also, carry on conversations with televisions for a while.
- Discover and become obsessed with one trivial aspect of technology, like automatic grocery doors. Stay there for hours playing with it.
- Be generally terrified of people who are dressed immodestly compared to your era. Tattoos and shorts on women are especially scary.
And that's it. Remember, the only real rule is staying in character and try to fit in. Never directly admit you're a time traveler, and make really, really bad attempts at keeping a low profile. Naturally, the dystopian future has a little more leeway. And for the record, I've already tried out all of these in real life, in costume. It is so much fun you want to pee yourself.
I've set the tentative date for December 8th. Who's in?
but today is December the 12th? you missed it. ;)
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I was totally into this idea when we did it in 2023. Remember that one, Timitius? When you made me laugh so hard I spat my Starbucks Body Fuel serum out of my nose? That was such a great year. :)
I'm glad we're trying this experiment again, but in an earlier year. I don't recall 2007 all that well, except that it was the year Pathfinder started. Awww... it's so cute as just a little book. I wish I hadn't sold mine in '18 for 30,000 Euros. They're worth almost double that now. :\
YOU FOOLS! Why doesn't anyone see!?!
4E will blow it all up!! You have to listen to me!
I was totally into this idea when we did it in 2023. Remember that one, Timitius? When you made me laugh so hard I spat my Starbucks Body Fuel serum out of my nose? That was such a great year. :)
I'm glad we're trying this experiment again, but in an earlier year. I don't recall 2007 all that well, except that it was the year Pathfinder started. Awww... it's so cute as just a little book. I wish I hadn't sold mine in '18 for 30,000 Euros. They're worth almost double that now. :\
Mr. McArtor, you are hereby under Temporal Exile for subversion of the proper flow of time. Unless you and/or your accomplices correct this event to excise it from the timestream, you will suffer Due Justice. Temporal travel is forbidden by the cosmic laws for the risk it poses to an orderly continuity.
Mr. McArtor, you are hereby under Temporal Exile for subversion of the proper flow of time. Unless you and/or your accomplices correct this event to excise it from the timestream, you will suffer Due Justice. Temporal travel is forbidden by the cosmic laws for the risk it poses to an orderly continuity.I was totally into this idea when we did it in 2023. Remember that one, Timitius? When you made me laugh so hard I spat my Starbucks Body Fuel serum out of my nose? That was such a great year. :)
I'm glad we're trying this experiment again, but in an earlier year. I don't recall 2007 all that well, except that it was the year Pathfinder started. Awww... it's so cute as just a little book. I wish I hadn't sold mine in '18 for 30,000 Euros. They're worth almost double that now. :\
How quaint-the cosmic laws. And here I thought I'd come back before such silliness.
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The trouble with time travel, is which set of Cosmic laws do you apply to 'offenders'? Unless you have a being with an absolute time-line, omnipresent at all moments in time, the Cosmic Laws under which Mike is/will be an offender now, mean that he was/is being rewarded with large quanitities of sauce anglaise, and is in fact the only person viable to stand for supreme under directive president (thereby qualifying for immunity in the appropriate time-frames).
Furthermore, this post may not even exist in 30 minutes time.
Quaruts aren't known for flexibility on that sort of thing anymore than any other kind of Inevitable.
Me, I've seen the manifold complexity of Time. I think the Quarut's insane and should place itself in temporal suspension for paradox violations.
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Mr. McArtor, you are hereby under Temporal Exile for subversion of the proper flow of time. Unless you and/or your accomplices correct this event to excise it from the timestream, you will suffer Due Justice. Temporal travel is forbidden by the cosmic laws for the risk it poses to an orderly continuity.
Damn! They caught up with me! Which is to say, they went to the proper timestream and happened to find the precise time when any possible time-related crimes I might have committed (and note that this is not, was not, and won't be an admission of guilt). I knew I should have gone to a different when. Oh well, I guess it would be appropriate for me to now reset the paradoxical timestream to a version not altered by the future me from several hours ago.
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Mike: Even though you apparently posted from most people's point of view of events after Kassil's post, you have evidently posted before it from your point of view, and were not aware of it. The rogue dragon (Quarat) in question is/was/will be dealt with, and your name has/is/will be cleared!
Unless you both were/are/will be bad guys?Edit:
Or do I mean Unless one of you is/will be/was a bad guy and the other will be/is/was also?
Um Charles...that Holiday Party you are going to soon....don't drink. And keep your pants on. And stay away from the cashews. Trust me, you don't want that. It was bad.
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Wayfinder, PaizoCon Founder
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Mr. McArtor, you are hereby under Temporal Exile for subversion of the proper flow of time. Unless you and/or your accomplices correct this event to excise it from the timestream, you will suffer Due Justice. Temporal travel is forbidden by the cosmic laws for the risk it poses to an orderly continuity.Damn! They caught up with me! Which is to say, they went to the proper timestream and happened to find the precise time when any possible time-related crimes I might have committed (and note that this is not, was not, and won't be an admission of guilt). I knew I should have gone to a different when. Oh well, I guess it would be appropriate for me to now reset the paradoxical timestream to a version not altered by the future me from several hours ago.
Ha! Quarut? Geez, Mike, you remember Quarut, right? Back in 2021...when your ninja empire was in jeopardy from a nosey do-gooder galactic cop. Right! Quarut. So you sent your elite gninjas to take care of matters, and they unfortunately mistook his brother for him...oh, and you stole his woman away from him.
Yes. THAT Quarut. Geez, he sounds kind of peeved.
<Sips sake> Ugh. I hate you for introducing this stuff to me in...2009 was it?
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...Would you all QUIT mucking up the timestream? Ugh. I now have about fifty different versions of today competing for room inside my skull thanks to you lot.
"Oh, nobody'll notice. We'll just fiddle with things and everyone'll change with it."
...Except, of course, for those poor sods with temporal inertia. Y'all are giving me a migraine!
*flies off to a quieter corner of spacetime*
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Timitius, don’t you remember the Consensus? They might say that I am violating it as well, but at this point, so many people could take this so many different ways. When I knew you back in the teens you said that these little “pops” were for research only, but now you are interacting. That’s all fine and dandy, but you pulled the veil for the kiss and everyone’s face was there behind.
No worries of course, because there is no way this community will think this anything else than a silly project at enlightening a mass audience.
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The rogue dragon (Quarat) in question is/was/will be dealt with, and your name has/is/will be cleared!
Ah, that's a relief. I was going to worry about that in a few years from now, but now I didn't have to. *whew*
Ha! Quarut? Geez, Mike, you remember Quarut, right? Back in 2021...when your ninja empire was in jeopardy from a nosey do-gooder galactic cop. Right! Quarut. So you sent your elite gninjas to take care of matters, and they unfortunately mistook his brother for him...oh, and you stole his woman away from him.
Oh, THAT Quarut!!!
Uh... geez. Yeah, I remember him. His brother... you knew I operated under bad intel, right? I shouldn't have trusted that newb ninja with such a delicate job. Well, no matter, he suffered worse than Quarut's brother.
And as for the woman... well, I needed a replacement ninja. Y'know?
But I don't know why I'm trying to justify all that now. We talked about this extensively in '23, when it became such a big scandal. :\
<Sips sake> Ugh. I hate you for introducing this stuff to me in...2009 was it?
I think it was, yeah. Remember when we started up our own sake brewery in 2014? LOL! OMG, what a mistake!!! Those body covers we used to make ourselves look Japanese were so gawdawful! That's what I get for being impatient, though, and buying first-generation stuff. The body covers they came out with in the late teens were so good.
Timitius, don’t you remember the Consensus? They might say that I am violating it as well, but at this point, so many people could take this so many different ways. When I knew you back in the teens you said that these little “pops” were for research only, but now you are interacting. That’s all fine and dandy, but you pulled the veil for the kiss and everyone’s face was there behind.
Nice metaphor. :D
Bah! The Consensus. :P They only follow their own rules when it suits them. I remember that I will be afraid of them when they first rise to power in 2017, but after I see what they're really like (around 2019 or so) I just stop caring. They wouldn't know a good seventh-dimension plug if it fell on their eyeballs and wiggled.
No worries of course, because there is no way this community will think this anything else than a silly project at enlightening a mass audience.
And thank goodness for that!
And Daigle, I saw what you did with your zhershun. That thing was awesome!
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Timitius, don’t you remember the Consensus? They might say that I am violating it as well, but at this point, so many people could take this so many different ways. When I knew you back in the teens you said that these little “pops” were for research only, but now you are interacting.
<snicker> Um...actually....the Consensus was my idea back in 2014. I think Mike and I had a really wicked batch of sake, and I came up with this great idea. (Well, that, and making the 520 bridge a REAL FLOATING bridge...as in the sky floating. Despite my meddling, they continued to "study" it until 2040, when I planted the technology for anti-grav to Toyota. Darn my impatience!)
Anyway, the Consensus. It always was a consensus of one. I am exempt.
As for for campaign....that too was stored downtime. In a monastery in Europe. Whoa. Those Dark Ages were something weren't they? <nervous whistling> Heh. Heh. Hmmm.
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<snicker> Um...actually....the Consensus was my idea back in 2014. I think Mike and I had a really wicked batch of sake, and I came up with this great idea. (Well, that, and making the 520 bridge a REAL FLOATING bridge...as in the sky floating. Despite my meddling, they continued to "study" it until 2040, when I planted the technology for anti-grav to Toyota. Darn my impatience!)
Anyway, the Consensus. It always was a consensus of one. I am exempt.
** spoiler omitted **
See! It’s always so weird when I forget those things, then again, I rarely spent too much time around y’all then. It was like I only came back up from the downstream to pay my bills and feed the cat. (Yes, I still insist on having a real cat, so I keep taking them from the downstream! They don’t know where they are and the ones that did can’t really do much about it.) I really like it here in these times....they have no idea what's coming up. It's like all those 2-D clips that they like to watch here on the net. You know someone is going to get hit in the balls or crash their little spranteels, er bikes, and the build up is even better than the finale.
Anyway, did you ever find out it was me that painted the bottom of the 520 to look like a grey, cloudy sky (complete with gulls) just to mess with those hoverboats? I didn’t think you’d mind since Sea2Air basically ripped off your reselling of an existing idea from another time. I always hated those silly hoverboats.
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See! It’s always so weird when I forget those things, then again, I rarely spent too much time around y’all then. It was like I only came back up from the downstream to pay my bills and feed the cat. (Yes, I still insist on having a real cat, so I keep taking them from the downstream! They don’t know where they are and the ones that did can’t really do much about it.) Anyway, did you ever find out it was me that painted the bottom the 520 to look like a grey, cloudy sky (complete with gulls) just to mess with those hoverboats? I didn’t think you’d mind since Sea2Air basically ripped off your reselling of an existing idea from another time. I always hated those silly hoverboats.
THAT WAS YOU!?!?!?!
Nice.
I remember that I'm gonna love that prank. ^_^
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I am zirko Klixzon. Why are you placing me under observation?
Gads, your psychiatric care.....what barbarism!
What is this "shock therapy" you keep speaking of? Can't you tell I'm already shocked at my treatment thus far?
Why, where I come from, the nannites would simply be sent the orders to run a diagnostic, and to stabilize the chemical imbalances if any were present.
Why don't you just point me towards the nearest service kiosk, and I'll be on my way.....a jacket? No, I don't need a jacket. My poly-mono-ionic-t-shirt is fine. What? AHh! Stop! What kind of idiot makes a jacket with the sleeves wrapped around like this??? Ahh! Let me....go!
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In 1952 I was in a psych ward for a while. Something weird about that place kept me from popping and I had to deal with it. I really think it was the medications. Mike busted me out by posing as an orderly, and even that took a month or so. While I was in I noticed that a few of the others were travelers too, but didn’t realize it. Like they had gone back and forgot that there was a forward.
That event was why I created the Lost Presents Society, dedicated to reclaiming travelers that have become stuck. Now, I will admit that we have a very editorial view on who should stay there and who we take back, but the decision is still there.
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In 1952 I was in a psych ward for a while. Something weird about that place kept me from popping and I had to deal with it. I really think it was the medications. Mike busted me out by posing as an orderly, and even that took a month or so. While I was in I noticed that a few of the others were travelers too, but didn’t realize it. Like they had gone back and forgot that there was a forward.
That event was why I created the Lost Presents Society, dedicated to reclaiming travelers that have become stuck. Now, I will admit that we have a very editorial view on who should stay there and who we take back, but the decision is still there.
Help me, the velociraptors are coming... and my strakkaker is entirely out of needles.
*vzssssouuuuuuum*
Hey, it's me, I just got back from Dec 8th, it was awesome. Flying cars, laser wars, free love (it's back), and marijuana is legalized.
Oh sh*t it's Jean Claude Van Damme, *whispers* I gotta go!
*vzshouuuuuuuuuum*
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In 1952 I was in a psych ward for a while. Something weird about that place kept me from popping and I had to deal with it. I really think it was the medications. Mike busted me out by posing as an orderly, and even that took a month or so.
I remember that like it was yesterday. Well, it was, actually. For me, anyway. But yeah, that break-out was a challenge. Thank goodness I had ninja snipers on the rooftops nearby for support.
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I remember that like it was yesterday. Well, it was, actually. For me, anyway. But yeah, that break-out was a challenge. Thank goodness I had ninja snipers on the rooftops nearby for support.In 1952 I was in a psych ward for a while. Something weird about that place kept me from popping and I had to deal with it. I really think it was the medications. Mike busted me out by posing as an orderly, and even that took a month or so.
"mmmm...Juicy Fruit...."
I remember that like it was yesterday. Well, it was, actually. For me, anyway. But yeah, that break-out was a challenge. Thank goodness I had ninja snipers on the rooftops nearby for support.
*vzshouuuuum*
*gases Ninja snipers five minutes before they can...snipe*
*Vzshooouuuuuuum*
I remember that like it was yesterday. Well, it was, actually. For me, anyway. But yeah, that break-out was a challenge. Thank goodness I had ninja snipers on the rooftops nearby for support.
*vzshouuuuum*
*gases Ninja snipers five minutes before they can...snipe*
*Vzshooouuuuuuum*
*Transports in new wave of ninja snipers, ready to snipe*
*Departs back to the future to get next wave ready*
*Transports in new wave of ninja snipers, ready to snipe*
*Departs back to the future to get next wave ready*
*Vszhouuuuuum*
*gases Lathiira five seconds before she transfers new wave of Ninjas*
*sips a mai tai*
*Vszhoouuuuum*
*Transports in new wave of ninja snipers, ready to snipe*
*Departs back to the future to get next wave ready**Vszhouuuuuum*
*gases Lathiira five seconds before she transfers new wave of Ninjas*
*sips a mai tai*
*Vszhoouuuuum*
*Inhales pleasant fragrance, goes about business, ignores little blue creature*
*Inhales pleasant fragrance, goes about business, ignores little blue creature*
*Vshouuuuum*
*admires Lathiira's tenacity*
* bites Lathiira's butt*
*Vshouuuuuum*
*Inhales pleasant fragrance, goes about business, ignores little blue creature*
*Vshouuuuum*
*admires Lathiira's tenacity*
* bites Lathiira's butt*
*Vshouuuuuum*
Thankfully my immune system had evolved to instantly eradicate all chemical and microbial assaults by the 31st century. Nice try, HH. Now don't make me get out the Multiversal Cookbook!
*Looks in on 48th century, all the while sending out next wave of cyber-ninjas to Mike McArtor's domicile for duty*
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*Inhales pleasant fragrance, goes about business, ignores little blue creature*
*Vshouuuuum*
*admires Lathiira's tenacity*
* bites Lathiira's butt*
*Vshouuuuuum*
Unbeknowst to them, the Consensus (primarily Mike, Daigle and I) have encapsulated the two of them in one of our Transdimensional Pocket Universes (TPU) (Trademark). Gosh, they were having so much fun trumping each other, we didn't want to just step in and spoil their fun...but they were causing so much paradox that other travellers moving through that period were getting abdominal cramping as a side-effect. THAT is unacceptable. (I mean have you ever BEEN to a lavatory in 1736?? Talk about unsanitary.)
*Vshouuuuum*
*admires Lathiira's tenacity*
* bites Lathiira's butt*
*Vshouuuuuum*
Thankfully my immune system had evolved to instantly eradicate all chemical and microbial assaults by the 31st century. Nice try, HH. Now don't make me get out the Multiversal Cookbook!
*Looks in on 48th century, all the while sending out next wave of cyber-ninjas to Mike McArtor's domicile for duty*
*Vshouuuum*
*watches next wave of Ninjas in sadness and defeat*
*bites own butt*
*Vshouuuuum*
Unbeknowst to them, the Consensus (primarily Mike, Daigle and I) have encapsulated the two of them in one of our Transdimensional Pocket Universes (TPU) (Trademark). Gosh, they were having so much fun trumping each other, we didn't want to just step in and spoil their fun...but they were causing so much paradox that other travellers moving through that period were getting abdominal cramping as a side-effect. THAT is unacceptable. (I mean have you ever BEEN to a lavatory in 1736?? Talk about unsanitary.)
*Inhales pleasant fragrance, goes about business, ignores little blue creature*
*Vshouuuuum*
*admires Lathiira's tenacity*
* bites Lathiira's butt*
*Vshouuuuuum*
Great, so that new load of cyber-ninjas won't be delivered on time/place. Here I am, tryin' to help out and get the ninjas to Mike on-time/place and someone has to go and shove me into a pocket universe when I'm looking at the receipt. As long as it wasn't a drop into the 52 universe . . . .
Ziggy! Ziggy!
*hits colourful box frantically*
Oh boy.
Great, so that new load of cyber-ninjas won't be delivered on time/place. Here I am, tryin' to help out and get the ninjas to Mike on-time/place and someone has to go and shove me into a pocket universe when I'm looking at the receipt. As long as it wasn't a drop into the 52 universe . . . .Unbeknowst to them, the Consensus (primarily Mike, Daigle and I) have encapsulated the two of them in one of our Transdimensional Pocket Universes (TPU) (Trademark). Gosh, they were having so much fun trumping each other, we didn't want to just step in and spoil their fun...but they were causing so much paradox that other travellers moving through that period were getting abdominal cramping as a side-effect. THAT is unacceptable. (I mean have you ever BEEN to a lavatory in 1736?? Talk about unsanitary.)
*Inhales pleasant fragrance, goes about business, ignores little blue creature*
*Vshouuuuum*
*admires Lathiira's tenacity*
* bites Lathiira's butt*
*Vshouuuuuum*
*Vshuouuuum*
I win!
*Throws away Cure record and puts in Huey Lewis and The News*
*swings tail in victory dance*
*Vashouuuuuum*
Ziggy! Ziggy!
*hits colourful box frantically*Oh boy.
*Vashouuuuuum*
*swallows Evilturnip*
*Vshouuuuuum*
*Vshuouuuum*
I win!
*Throws away Cure record and puts in Huey Lewis and The News*
*swings tail in victory dance*
*Vashouuuuuum*
*Activates temporal tracking device to find Huni.*
*Curses device for being screwed up due to excess of chronaton particles in vicinity.*
*Shrugs, disassembles cyber-ninja plant, looks in on android body in 48th century.*
*Sends note back in time to tell self not to worry too much about cyber-ninjas.*
*Vshuouuuum*
I win!
*Throws away Cure record and puts in Huey Lewis and The News*
*swings tail in victory dance*
*Vashouuuuuum*
*Activates temporal tracking device to find Huni.*
*Curses device for being screwed up due to excess of chronaton particles in vicinity.*
*Shrugs, disassembles cyber-ninja plant, looks in on android body in 48th century.*
*Sends note back in time to tell self not to worry too much about cyber-ninjas.*
*stuck in Ninja day thread, unconscious*
*stuck in Ninja day thread, unconscious*
*pops vial of smelling salts into Ninja-day thread under huni's nose with a note*
"You fought a good fight, feel free to mess with the rest of the time-stream or steal KC's wallet if you can*