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Justin
So I've been rereading posts about time after reading the latest issue of the Invisibles(comic
book) and thinking about time in three dimensions and a whole host of other influences, and
have been working on getting a new campaign up and running and have come up with the
following(horrible grammar, I Know). The name of the campaign would be 'Memories of a life
of Crime?'. Setting the game in the 1940's with the PC's being Gangsters, in a kind of
hard-boiled/noir kind of atmosphere. The way I figure it, the Demiurge disappeared at the
moment that they detonated the first Atomic Bomb in the Nevada Desert, causing a massive
ripple in space-time. This Ripple would extend both Forward in time and Backward, Changing
both the future and the past(I think this was hinted at in the Metropolis book?). I think they had
an example of how our perception of history changes only its not just our perception, it's history
ITSELF that is changing.
In such a localized area of time as right when the Demiurge disappeared, this could have very
noticeable effects on the PCs. So I am Forcing all my players to keep Diaries(which goes hand
in hand with my Alternate rules system, hopefully being posted to the list server soon and
possibly cross-posted).
The campaign would start in 1941-2 and would just consist of a few random adventures per year,
mostly just standard Gangster stuff, but with each adventure give a slightly more supernatural
element, slowly lowering the PC's Mental Balances until the actual disappearance of the
Demiurge, when the true weirdness begins. After this point history itself begins to change, in the
form of people 'disremembering'(at least according to the players, who have been keeping
Diaries, remember) progressively larger things until the major changes take place, like people
the PCs killed having returned to life, with full memories of their public life for the last several
years, and the only people who remember the way things"really" happened are of course the PCs.
Thus their illusion slowly begins to break down and eventually they end up in metropolis during
some sort of massive riot/carnage that breaks up reality.
So, you ask, Why odes all this happen only to the PCs? Well one possible solution is that they
are all close, personal associates of Don Michael Cimmaro(a lictor or razide who is the mafia
Don of the West Coast), and that all of the assignments they 'misremember' all had to do with
powerful supernatural forces, that wont be affected by the Demiurges's disappearance and the
subsequent ripple for many years. Just my first idea, any more would be helpful.
OK so all of this was just posted to get Ideas moving in people's heads.