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Much less powerful than the PC's, make numbers their only advantage.

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Better gear, but a less powerful time machine.

0 (0%)

Put them on the same footing.

1 (7.7%)

Give them similar powers, as well as an extra point or two for future gear.

11 (84.6%)

Time cops are a horrible idea, and you should feel bad.

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Total Members Voted: 13

[Nicholas1024]

Hm. Not going to do the subconscious/conscious thoughts one, but I'd accept the "knocks you out" or "inability to move in space" one as a -1 disadvantage.

[monk12]

I told you this was coming

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Carmen Sandiego
Time Period: 1980s
Background: Carmen was abandoned as a child, and grew up in a series of San Francisco foster homes. From a young age she proved remarkably adept at solving logic puzzles, and gained notoriety for solving a local burglary. That incident provided a connection with the SFPD, where she got a job as a detective after high school. After a brief but spectacular career that saw a flurry of cases resolved, Carmen became bored of catching dimwitted criminals and sought a greater intellectual challenge- outwitting the best and brightest of the SFPD. Her life of crime began at the age of 26, and after an eventful year that saw her pull off two incredible heists, Carmen found herself cornered by FBI agents working with her former colleagues. On March 13, 1984 she ran through a junkyard praying for a working automobile to make a getaway in, and found herself facing a miracle lifeline- one of the Time Machines of M. Oron.
Appearance: See above

Strength: 2
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 2
Intelligence: 5
Willpower:  3
Luck: 0


The Time Chopper: Carmen Sandiego's time machine resembles nothing so much as a brilliant red helicopter. In fact, it functions in much the same way as an ordinary helicopter would, except that it does not appear to require any fuel and, of course, it can jump through time.

Precision: 1
Power: 3
Activation: 0

I was trying to figure out a way to recreate the Chronoskimmer, but something as big and obviously futuristic as that really wants some kind of Cloak or camo special, and my silly self-imposed Power requirements don't give me a lot of wriggle room. The lowest I can go there is 3, and even that assumes multiple failures before a successful getaway. Maybe if I figure out a suitable disadvantage.

Incidentally, with my Activation of 0, can time jumps be aborted?

[Nicholas1024]

Yeah, if you're interrupted, you can cancel and make a run for it. As far as moving around the pyramids goes, I'm willing to say you can transport almost anything through time without issue (it's still going to take a bit of luck, especially with the pyramids), but it'll cost you a point if you want a stasis beam or something to carry them around outside of time travel.

That said, if you know where to look in the future, you might be able to abduct some equipment that would work for that without needing to sacrifice the point.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I updated the Sidewinder. I'm sad about not being able to, you know, sidewind, so I renamed it to the Butterfly, relating to the Butterfly Effect.

[misko27]

This is cool. I'll have character sheet up as soon as I can write it out. My current posting method is slow.

Spoiler: Alexandar W. Galus (click to show/hide)

Name: Alexander W. Galus
Time Period: 1844
Background: Alexander is a mechanically inclined 23 yr-old man. Born at the tail-end of industrialization in Britain to a comparitvely well-off (But still damned poor) father, a machinist, he spent his time his time working, at least until the passage of the Factory Act of 1833, in factories. Following it's passage he spent his free time tinkering about, trying to get a better life for his family. He fell in with some radicals who wannted better living conditions, but didn't feel he could do much, and his father found him and convinced him to return home. When he reached the age set by law he started working, again, in factories, specifically ones where he had access to machinery. He was very good, and his superiors noticed. He was heading for good things (or at least alot better things) when he found a strange arm-piece on his way to work... He figured out quickly how the self-explanatory device worked, and, seeing potential for great things, and the chance to improve the lot of his family, and everyone, he set off.

Description: Alexander is 5'11, with a fairly thick frame a clean-cut face. Short brown hair as is the style, he has a shallow arching scar through the right side of his face from an industrial accident. He has a number of similar scars on his arms and hands, all from the same machine (nick-named the shredder by the workers). He is missing the tip of his left index finger. His skin is pasty white. His taste in clothes is simple, with a slight preference for tight-fitting clothes (so not to get caught on anything).

Strength: 2
Endurance: 5
Intelligience: 5
Willpower: 1
Dexterity: 1
Luck: 1

Time Machine: The Traveler's Timepiece. A Fair all-around watch, it is designed for the traveler on the go. Composed mostly of a latex like glove over your arm, it has a watch like hud that controls it. Designed for quick get aways, it lacks much power, but charges rather fast, and is very precise, making it suited for multiple jumps to your location. Because it's about the journey as well as the destination! Self-explanatory, just put down your time and get going.

Power: 1
Activation : 2
Precision: 1

EXTRA: Traveler's news. A little radio on the watch-thing that periodically spouts a translated version of a news article soemwhere across the timeline. It's mostly useless, but tries to focus on where you are or where you're going, and, notably, has articles regarding the time-travelers and other changes to the time-line set to high priority. The draw-backs are A) If it doesn't get to a news place, it's useless, so anything befoer the age of at least rome is right-off, and barbarous areas have equally spotty coverage. and B) Deciphering the important stuff and what a article means has happened can be hard. (i.e., a article about the formation of the time-police would be straight-forward, but an news snippet about mysterious glowing people is incredibly vague.)

Up. Tell me how much the Extra would be, because I plan to change it if it's too much.

[Powder Miner]

I'm going to make a sheet, definitely.

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: April Eploc
Time Period: 1925
Background: April had always chafed at restrictions. She was a daredevil at heart, which had been encouraged by her uncle, a mischievious man who April enjoyed pulling pranks with. She didn't want to care about the restrictions of society. If she wanted to do something, she was going to do it! This made her a bit embarassing to those that knew her, and especially to her family- she was this young woman going off to do god knows what and she was hardly respectable! She got a bit of backlash this way. This didn't stop her though- growing up until 20, she had a life of adventure. That's not to say she stopped- no, in June, at 20, she vanished. Noone knew why- except April herself, who had found some flashy sort of device- it was really, really cool but she had no idea what it was! Well, she never let that stop her. Testing out the thing, she ended up not in the field she's been running in, but somewhere displaced in time...

Appearance:
April is a lithe young woman, 20 years of age, who is built like an acrobat. She has flame-orange hair that's braided to her shoulders, and leaf green eyes. She usually looks to be ready to adventure- looking quite energetic. She is 5'7'' and of slightly (but not very) light weight. She prefers to wear simple pastel yellow clothing, which, in the fashion of the time, is a pastel yellow chemise (1925s chemise, not modern chemise, so basically not particularly provocative, a simple dress.) that she seems to have cut a few ragged holes in while running around adventuring, and patched them.

Strength: 3.
Dexterity: 5- she's an acrobat and an adventurer, to the dismay of her family.
Endurance: 0- amazingly for someone who adventures so much, she doesn't take injuries well. She wasn't built for it, it seems...
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 3
Luck: 2

Time Machine Description: Her time machine is an advanced PDA, basically, a little computer a little bit larger than smartphones today. This doesn't mean April knows how to use it well, having come from 1925- she mostly just mashes buttons. The thing is actually connected to a server floating in time which lends it the power it needs to function, but since the accident it hasn't lent it the power or the precision it's needed.

Precision: 0- the thing's a little time PDA, the server connected to it is barely reaching it, and April doesn't know how to use the thing well at all. Do you think it's going to be precise?

Power: 0- it's a little PDA, and it was more powerful when the server functioned better- but the server doesn't function better, so it barely works.

Activation: 5- At least it can be activated quickly, though this is made confusing by the fact that it's been accidentally put into the hands of someone from the 1920s- but when handled well, the thing moves in a flash. April's managed to find the time travel button.

Extra Features: It's got a server going haywire in the time stream which is mostly responsible for it being extremely imprecise and non powerful. It should probably have a failure roll or something because April is a 1925-er trying to use an advanced computer.

The reason I elaborated on the server and suggested a failure roll for April is because I'm trying to slap early penalties on, to be improved later (if anyone fixes the server) (if I get accepted).
Also because it's funny to have 0 power and 0 precision but I had to make it viable somehow.

[Nicholas1024]

Hey GreatWyrmGold, your math is off by one, you need to deduct a point or add another penalty somewhere.

[anailater]

I'll do one when I get home, how much longer is left for sign ups?

[Harry Baldman]

I will make a sheet as well.

Spoiler: Character Sheet, Epaphroditos of Athens (click to show/hide)

Name: Epaphroditos of Athens

Time Period: Ancient Greece (around the middle of the Hellenistic period)

Background: Though raised on tales of great heroism and initiative with the full intent of creating a great man, Epaphroditos has always had serious problems making something of himself. He wasn't smart enough to be a philosopher, wasn't brave enough to be a general, wasn't good for much of anything. But in his mind, the words of his father always resonated clearly, almost accusingly: "Epaphroditos, my son, the world is full of opportunities, you only need to know when and how to take them." However, these opportunities always seemed to slip him right by, so he turned to alcoholism and general uselessness instead. Maybe he could become a poet or something if he drinks enough, he always thought. One day, however, the fabled opportunity of his life finally came in the form of an odd object he found while stumbling through the streets of Athens on one of his benders. Little did he know that this was one of M. Oron's time machines, a magnificent mechanism of great power, though also great complexity. After failing to sell it, he decided to begin messing around with it. He'd heard of things like these - you manipulated the gears and it gave you things. Maybe one of those things would actually be useful.

Appearance: A tall man, well-built and sporting a full head of dark brown, curly hair and an equally curly full beard. Has a perpetually bewildered look on his face.

Attributes:
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 3
Endurance: 3
Intelligence: 3
Willpower: 0
Luck: 3

Time Machine Description: The Arcane Mechanism - an iron and copper device, approximately spherical and one and a half feet in diameter, made up of all sorts of knobs, levers and gears that decide where exactly one wants to go by approximating the positions of stars and planets at that moment. Manipulating it is far from an exact science, as Epaphroditos finds, but it still seems to work about right most of the time.

Precision: 3
Power: 3
Activation: 1

Extra Features: Very Complex (-1), Bizarre Contraption (-1).

EDIT: Added disadvantages. Seeking approval from GM.

[scapheap]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Harry Button
Time Period: 30th century
Background: Born on good old earth Harry was no one special, good grades in school, got dumped, join the police, you know. One day walking his beat, Harry got beaned by a watch. Picking it up he noticed it was at the wrong time so he turn the dial to fix that...
Apperance: Dressed in a policeman combat armour with no helmet. Black hair, black eyes,   handlebar moustache

Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Endurance: 3
Intelligence: 0
Willpower: 4
Luck: 0

Time Machine Description: Broken Spring-a blue wrist strapped watch, never show the right time.

Precision: 3

Power: 1

Activation: 1

[Nicholas1024]

48 hours left for sign-ups, since I'll be mostly away tomorrow.

[Fniff]

How is my sheet?

[anailater]

Spoiler:  Johnston Ryder (click to show/hide)

Name: Johnston Ryder
Time Period: Early to mid 21st century
Background: An adventurous chap, Johnston (Or "J" as he likes to be referred) often liked to play in the small forest behind his house, living in the highlands of Scotland this was quite common. He was understandably surprised when a Large flash caused a London phone box to appear in front of him in the middle of his explore, when he realized this was a time machine he was understandably surprised. A strange person, he often distanced himself from others, instead reading books and researching biology, his favorite animal was the frog, and he believed it would serve humanity well to be more like them. Unfortunately nobody listened to him about frogs or time machines, as he was 12 years old.

Appearance: A brown haired 12 years old boy, of above average weight. He has a scar along the side of his leg from when he fell out of a tree when he was 6. His skin is pasty white. Wears a small fedora and a dark blue shirt,his trousers are beige.

Strength: 1 (-1)
Dexterity: 3 (+/-0)
Intelligence: 5 (+1)
Willpower: 3 (+/-0)
Luck: 3 (+/-0)

Time Machine Description: Here you get 5 points to spend, each point in a category is considered a +1, but the difficulty of time travelling varies widely depending on how precise/far you want to go.

Precision: 0
Power: 2
Activation: 2

Extra Features: THE MEMORYLISER! TM
A device that makes it so that if something happens to past you changing his memories you keep your memories and gain their memories too!
e.g. someone makes it so that the entirety of humanity is mole people, if your lucky enough to still exist you keep your pre-mole memories and gain the mole memories too.

How's my Extra feature?

[MonkeyHead]

I want in, just to casue crazy paradox nonsense.

Spoiler: Ryan Mason (click to show/hide)

Name: Ryan Mason
Time Period: Late 1990's to Early 2000's
Background: Physics undergraduate residing in the UK, and in his early 20's. Brought Dragged up by dad after mum died, emotionally cold, known to be prone to rage when pushed too far. Doesnt do friendships or sharing. Likes to take things apart, and building entertaining contraptions. Has had a number of brushes with univeristy authorities - they didnt like the railgun made during a lab practical, amongst other things. Ryan found the device while scavenging for materials in his uni department store room amongst some old thermionic valve gear and obsolete robotics parts.
Apperance: An athletic 5 ft 10, dark eyes, shaven hair, stubbly beard. Dresses in an unkempt manner - lots of torn jeans and old grubby shirts.

Strength: 2. Nothing special.
Dexterity: 3. Honed by too many computer games.
Endurance: 1. Too lazy to develop stamina.
Intelligence: 4. Smart lad, but not as smart as he thinks.
Willpower: 2. What cant be worked out with ease isnt really worth working out.
Luck: 3. Tends to land on his feet.

Time Machine Description: Sitting in a crate of small robotic arms, Ryan found the baton. Deactivated, it resembled a pistol grip with a cross section - suprisingly light, and not unlike a police baton, but with a dull silver colour. Squeezing the hand grip brought the device into life - a holographic GUI encased his lower forearm, with remarkably simple controls for selecting a time and place. However, the device is quite low powered, and operates on an energy conservation principle - if Ryan were to move somewhere else, something must come back to take his place.


Precision: 3 points: Good to the street block level, within a few days, assuming a suitble item can be found to swap with.

Power: 1 point: this is a one person/item device only.

Activation: 1 point: it takes time for the device to find a suitable object to swap with.

Special: The glove is swaps the relative position of objects in space and time - so for Ryan to move, something of a similar mass from the destination must be displaced to the origin. This could be another person, an item of furniture or even a Ryan shaped lump of rock (instantly fossilizing Ryan inside a mountain). If the object is strapped to something (for example, a large boulder), then off it will pop, to be replaced by something else of comparable mass... say a nice hovertank. A built in autoreturn timer is also a handy feature to return the glove once you are done with whatever it brings you from the past/future/wherever.

[+!!scientist!!+]

I have a feeling this RTD is going to be amazing

Spoiler: Jack Robson (click to show/hide)

Name: Jack Robson
Time Period: late 1950's
Background: previously a well respected scientist, he was practically exiled to a mining town after nearly wiping Chicago off the map with a nuke during the Manhattan project (his name was convieniantly struck from the records) he tried at first to figure out how to get back at the government, but without any access to lab materials he eventually gave up and learned to live with the other inhabitants of the mine town. He believed that all was lost, until he found the artifact that is.
Apperance: 6'0'' and very thin. Looks like he never worked out a day in his life (looks aren't really decieving in this case). appears mild-mannered at first, but those who know him well know he harbors rage for the government and he is, at his core, power hungry.

Strength: 0 incredibly weak, going to need to fight with a gun, and that's going to be difficult.
Dexterity: 3 The reason for Chicago not quite being fried.
Endurance: 0 paper cuts really hurt, let me tell you.
Intelligence: 8 He speaks fluent techno babble, and actually understands what he's saying.
Willpower: 4 not a mindless drone, that's for sure.
Luck: 0 the reason for Chicago almost getting fried.

Time Machine Description: The Artifact, a small titanium orb found in a coal deposit underground. It has a small gold button on one side, and a blue button on the other, and red lights forming a ring around the center. To use it you simply think of the time and place you wish to go to, then the ring of lights light up as it "locks on" to you're destination. You press the gold button to travel, the blue is the extra feature

Precision: 3 points, good enough not to end up in Pompeii on volcano day.

Power: 1 point, now one's going with me, with the possible exception of one of their limbs.

Activation: 0 points, hopefully the percision keeps me out of accidental combat.

Extra Features: The Blue button turns purple as its wielders timeline starts being approched, and red when a paradox occurs. Pressing this button will start the artifact locking on to roughly the point where the paradox is occuring.

Edit: Forgot Manhattan project wasn't in Manhattan.