Matt Knight: Chaos Theory

Sure thing:

Well let's see... chaos theory (lowercase) is this idea that you can create large changes in a system by making very small changes to the variables in the system (some people refer to this as the "Butterfly Effect").

The gist of it involves this cloud-like phenomenon that is intentionally removing people from the time-line to effect changes at some undetermined point in the future, since it seems to have a presence in just about every era it is able to monitor the changes it creates and thus effectively manipulate the flow of time.

These people are removed and placed in a temporal locale that is neutral (i.e. End of Time, Chrono Trigger anyone?).

To what end all of this is leading to, I can't really say... wouldn't want to spill too much or keep other people from making up their own twists and such.
 
So then I have a question, are we supposed to play those who are taken or those who are left ? Also does the cloud exist in any other places for instance another planet, another dimension, things that would be differnet than say normal people ? Because what I was gathering is it would be something akin to the Sci-fi channels Movie/Mini-series River World, where people from numerous differt times were all assembled on a new world, but they didn't know where the hell they were, and there was atleast one non-human there.
 
Well, I wasn't imagining it to transcend dimensions or planets really. I'd prefer it remained a temporal phenomenon focused on Earth.

However, you could consider this "neutral temporal locale" to be something of another dimension, and yes, all of the people taken co-exist in this place at the same time.

As for playing those who get taken, that is completely up to you. I imagine the "neutral locale" (haven't named it yet), where all of the taken are brought, to be a physical realm, like being on another planet... the idea is that when one is taken it isn't a hellish torture: Aside from being apart from everything and everyone you know, you are still alive and capable of having a somewhat pleasant existence.
 
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That was kind of what I didn't understand... Whether we were playing people who had been taken, or people who were left behind, or the people who were from the future and trying to fix things.
 
I was mainly anticipating that people would want to play those who'd been left behind, but I want to leave it open to let other people's ideas come into play.

While there are a lot of people who have been taken up (and/or are being taken) most of the people on Earth are still there... There is a method to the people being taken: their absence from the timeline changes the future, and this "cloud force" is playing that, manipulating where the future goes, and how it turns out, ever-so-subtley ...

My original idea was that perhaps a group of people from different eras would slowly come together, with the ultimate goal of eradicating the cloud and reversing the alterations to the time-line.

I realize this has a lot of potential to be confusing... such is the nature of the time-RP beast... So keep firing off questions, I'm only too happy to answer :)
 
Hmmm well assuming that the cloud is transporting people it would be far more likely at least from where I am sitting people would be far more interested in playing those who are taken as it would be a mixing of times further than "I am an agent of the future, take me to your king, cave man" It would allow more freedom of character movement I would think. The main reason I asked for different worlds/dimensions was for elves and such from Norse mythology. Anyhow I'll work on more questions, but I think I know what I'll be taking in.

Also Matt not to mock you or anything, but I have to say this: the cloud force, sounds like the care Bears are to blame! "
 
Well, I posted on the roleplay a couple of days ago actually and gathered that the 'cloud' itself was an entity that came upon certain people and transported them to a transcedental reality. I guess that through this transcedental reality other characters who roleplay will come across each other and convene to see how the time shifts caused by the cloud can be worked.
 
Raharanor - I like the way you're interpretting this. :)

Okay, so it seems like the general concensus is that it is more viable to play as characters who are taken by this force... Analyzing our options I have come to agree that this seems like the best way for cross-genre character interaction. So let's go with that, shall we?

Mith - I was hoping for some non-human characters to thrown into the mix, but not by way of alternate dimensions... They're just there, ya know?

My "future agent" character is actually a werewolf by way of a somewhat tragic incident that he was involved in while working in the distant past.

Also I'm not offended by the whole... 'magic cloud' thing... I agree it's somewhat comical just by the sound of it... My rationale is that I've always felt that humans are most terrified by things they have absolutely no control over, and one of those things is the weather... and while this cloud phenomenon is not actually weather related, the thought was that it would stir some primal part of people's beings to induce a bit more fear (or at least it would if it were real)... That and a cloud is just that... cloudy... so there is no face for this force just yet which adds to its mystique.
 
I've got another new post up.

Is anybody going to be dropping in to play with us?

I'm also going to take the time to point out that there is a RP thread on .com called "Chaos Theory," and it is completely unrelated to mine.

Mine came first anyway I think. :p
 
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I may get involved. I was hoping that things would get going a bit more before I thought about joining in though.
 
Ah okay,

I was under the impression that if people were going to join they'd hop on the bandwagon early so that there wouldn't be as much "catch-up" to do, ya know?
 
Matt Knight said:
I've got another new post up.

Is anybody going to be dropping in to play with us?

I'm also going to take the time to point out that there is a RP thread on .com called "Chaos Theory," and it is completely unrelated to mine.

Mine came first anyway I think. :p
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Indeed I noticed that you replied to the Chaos Theory thread on here...will post my next entry in the next day or so as I'm keen to continue with it. It seems to be more my theme than the theme displayed in the rp thread shown on Com. That Chaos Theory thread on Com to me is far too Americanized with its military glorification, stupid stereotyping as all Muslims being terrorists in a sense and so forth. Your thread, Matt, is far more suited to my tastes.

Raharanor
 
Raharanor said:
...That Chaos Theory thread on Com to me is far too Americanized with its military glorification, stupid stereotyping as all Muslims being terrorists in a sense and so forth. Your thread, Matt, is far more suited to my tastes.

Raharanor
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Indeed. Awesome. :)
 
So Matt, what about the concept of paradox Agents ? Especially with a sixty three percent change, they could feasibly be added. Just felt like asking before just tossing one in.
 
Mithrandirxx said:
So Matt, what about the concept of paradox Agents ? Especially with a sixty three percent change, they could feasibly be added. Just felt like asking before just tossing one in.
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Thank you for asking!

I like the idea of having a more personafied villain (as opposed to just a cloud), though I'm not sure if a "paradoxal" agent is quite what I feel would reasonably work. If by paradoxal all you mean is a reasonable antithesis then I'm totally down with that. However, I'm curious if you could also mean a "perverted" sort of "alternate-dimension" kind of agency or something like that.

Here's a tiny spoiler: the cloud-force has basically manipulated history so that no true governments ever form, and that technology never really evolves, so it wouldn't be possible for the agency to still exist in any form in the future, 'perverted' or otherwise, if this is what you're getting at.

That said however, I think it would be intriguing to explore the idea of the forces at hand (i.e. the intelligence manipulating time) creating a humanoid facsimile specifically meant to deal with the time-savvy techno-heads that are more adept at avoiding normal means of "removal," seeing as there are several of them scattered throughout time now.

So yeah, I'm extremely intrigued by the idea, please tell me more. :)
 
I'm not ready to jump in yet, but I have an idea for a character.

Its actually a character who travelled between different parralel realities, but the origins of his cybernetic hand work just as well when I change it so he is and always was a time traveller.

The bad guys would have disabled his own means of time travel, then pulled him out of the time line in order to stop him from righting their wrongs.

Sound interesting?
 
Hrm so a time-traveler AND an inter-dimensional traveler? Sounds awesome to me. :)

Is he/she going to be a tech-head char or a magic wielding one?
 
Well he wont be an interdimensional traveller anymore. I'm reworking a character from a game on another site.

He'll have a couple of spells and the odd bit of tech, but he's not a massively combat focussed character, and doesn't have a massive amount of stuff either way.

His actual time travel comes from a stolen blue gemstone, which is either magiv, or very very advanced tech. He's never worked out which.
 
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