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Author Topic: Roll for Definition (Time-Travelling, Hermaphromorphic Inventor)  (Read 13634 times)

Harry Baldman

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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #105 on: March 23, 2013, 10:51:07 am »

Your ability to travel in time causes more trouble than it's worth, though - anything you go back in time to change was supposed to happen anyway, thus never actually changing your reality, and the future has far too many time traveling countermeasures and is generally far too awful to even contemplate, let alone visit.

Naturally, this makes you quite dissatisfied with your invention, though the rest of the people after you seem to want it anyway despite your continued explanations of its general uselessness. You keep it mostly because the time-stopping feature makes for a great party trick.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #106 on: March 23, 2013, 11:10:22 am »

Your machine takes the shape of a brass pocket watch, which has three dials on the side, one for years, one for days, and one for hour. You can't managed to get the jump accurate enough to get the minute or second down, but its good enough you figure. To activate the time stop, you just press the button at the top.

On the inside of the lid, which is nothing but a protective cover for the screen that shows the set coordinates, time wise, you have a picture of your family, your wife and child. You haven't seen them since you started this attempt at inventing time travel, but you think of them often. Now with people hunting you down, its too dangerous to see them again, lest they use them against you.

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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #107 on: March 23, 2013, 12:18:55 pm »

Getting chased constantly has made you quite paranoid, so you keep a wide variety of sharp and pointy objects on your person. You don't carry guns because running out of bullets 499 BC sucks, and they don't comfort you the way sharp and pointy objects do.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #108 on: March 23, 2013, 12:22:42 pm »

Consequently you have a large knife collection, and are eager to display it to people whenever possible as you are quite proud of it.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #109 on: March 23, 2013, 12:47:58 pm »

Parts of your time machine run on magic.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #110 on: March 23, 2013, 04:06:45 pm »

You have dabbled in playing the guitar, though. You are good enough to just barely pay your bills.
[4] It helped.

Your ability to travel in time causes more trouble than it's worth, though - anything you go back in time to change was supposed to happen anyway, thus never actually changing your reality, and the future has far too many time traveling countermeasures and is generally far too awful to even contemplate, let alone visit.
[3] On the bright side, you're guessing stable time loops are possible. In addition, the time travel authorities in the future are ineffective due to the incredulity time travel is treated with. The future is useful for visits to de-aging clinics and whatnot, you guess.

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Naturally, this makes you quite dissatisfied with your invention, though the rest of the people after you seem to want it anyway despite your continued explanations of its general uselessness. You keep it mostly because the time-stopping feature makes for a great party trick.
[2-1] No, the time machine is genuinely useful when used right. Probably the most useless part is the time stop; it's too unpredictable.

Your machine takes the shape of a brass pocket watch, which has three dials on the side, one for years, one for days, and one for hour. You can't managed to get the jump accurate enough to get the minute or second down, but its good enough you figure. To activate the time stop, you just press the button at the top.
[4] Yes. It was your grandfather's. Or maybe you picked it up from a pawn shop, but if that were true you wouldn't admit it.

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On the inside of the lid, which is nothing but a protective cover for the screen that shows the set coordinates, time wise, you have a picture of your family, your wife and child. You haven't seen them since you started this attempt at inventing time travel, but you think of them often. Now with people hunting you down, its too dangerous to see them again, lest they use them against you.
[3] Inside the lid, which conceals a normal watch face, is a picture of your fiancee. You haven't seen her since you invented the time machine...well, not much, and not when she knows you're there.

Getting chased constantly has made you quite paranoid, so you keep a wide variety of sharp and pointy objects on your person. You don't carry guns because running out of bullets 499 BC sucks, and they don't comfort you the way sharp and pointy objects do.
[5] You've become moderately skilled with swords and spears and always have at least one on you. That lead to an interesting scene last time you visited an airport.

Consequently you have a large knife collection, and are eager to display it to people whenever possible as you are quite proud of it.
[6] You have, hidden in Knossos, the Dhamek Stupa, Tikal, Gao, the Sydney Opera House, and the Antarctic Arcology at various times, a set of knives from all time periods. That's also where you store copies of notes you find warning you that the collection is about to be stolen. The collection is typically under guard by those chasing you; they have very nearly caught you more than once when you want to show off or take care of your knives.

Parts of your time machine run on magic.
[2] It's an engineering marvel, but involves no magic. You're proud of it.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #111 on: March 23, 2013, 04:37:56 pm »

You are continuously hounded by your future and past selves, all seeking your help for some reason or another. It's getting really annoying.

In fact, you believe you may have stabbed yourself to death once by accident due to your honed reflexes - look, it was dark, alright? Since you obviously don't remember being stabbed to death by anyone, you believe it was a future self. How far in the future of your personal timeline, you do not know - damn de-aging clinics.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #112 on: March 23, 2013, 04:42:50 pm »

You decided once it would be fun to see how far you could travel forward, after maxing out the time machine you arrived in the year 500 B.C.E and have since concluded that time is cyclical.
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #113 on: March 23, 2013, 04:54:37 pm »

You are continuously hounded by your future and past selves, all seeking your help for some reason or another. It's getting really annoying.

In fact, you believe you may have stabbed yourself to death once by accident due to your honed reflexes - look, it was dark, alright? Since you obviously don't remember being stabbed to death by anyone, you believe it was a future self. How far in the future of your personal timeline, you do not know - damn de-aging clinics.


In fact, you seem to remember killing future versions of you multiple times, each completely accidental, with one time including a rather funny (if gruesome) incident involving a grand piano and a fifty story building. You suppose that this means either that paradoxes aren't as universe destroying as most people thought, or maybe you just cloned yourself... a lot. (if the quoted definition doesn't end up being true, only pay attention to the paradoxes/cloning part.)
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Re: Roll for Definition (Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #114 on: March 23, 2013, 05:24:02 pm »

You've met some other time travelers, some who are quite nice but there's a few who are complete jerks.
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« Reply #115 on: March 23, 2013, 05:48:29 pm »

You are continuously hounded by your future and past selves, all seeking your help for some reason or another. It's getting really annoying.
[6] On the bright side, you hound as much as you are hounded, and teaming up with yourself is a fairly effective strategy. Heck, once you invaded a small city with about 5,000 of you. Well, more like you invaded the same small city 5,000 times consecutively. It was a dull decade-and-a-quarter...and change atop that...

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In fact, you believe you may have stabbed yourself to death once by accident due to your honed reflexes - look, it was dark, alright? Since you obviously don't remember being stabbed to death by anyone, you believe it was a future self. How far in the future of your personal timeline, you do not know - damn de-aging clinics.
[3] It coulda been you, s/he coulda survived. You hoofed it a few years hence fast as you could.

You decided once it would be fun to see how far you could travel forward, after maxing out the time machine you arrived in the year 500 B.C.E and have since concluded that time is cyclical.
(Fun fact: Knossos makes that somewhat shaky.)
[6-2] This did happen. Weird.

In fact, you seem to remember killing future versions of you multiple times, each completely accidental, with one time including a rather funny (if gruesome) incident involving a grand piano and a fifty story building. You suppose that this means either that paradoxes aren't as universe destroying as most people thought, or maybe you just cloned yourself... a lot. (if the quoted definition doesn't end up being true, only pay attention to the paradoxes/cloning part.)
[4-1] You've killed yourself thrice: Once by stabbing, once by shoving into the ocean off a high cliff, and once by grand piano. You were understandably disturbed the first time, confused the second, and gave up by the third. A bit of insight might be gained by having been shoved off a cliff by a past self (no serious injuries).

You've met some other time travelers, some who are quite nice but there's a few who are complete jerks.
[4] There's also at least a dozen people claiming to be Dr. Who.
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Re: Roll for Definition ("Suicidal" Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #116 on: March 23, 2013, 06:00:00 pm »

You have a large collection of dolls, a really high number of them with no rhyme or reason between them.
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Re: Roll for Definition ("Suicidal" Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #117 on: March 23, 2013, 06:31:41 pm »

You sometimes forget the year due to your constant travels
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Re: Roll for Definition ("Suicidal" Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #118 on: March 23, 2013, 08:16:09 pm »

You make sure to visit your mother once a year.
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Roll for Definition ("Suicidal" Time Travelling Inventor)
« Reply #119 on: March 23, 2013, 10:24:10 pm »

You have a large collection of dolls, a really high number of them with no rhyme or reason between them.
[3] You have a few, stashed in 1996-7 in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

You sometimes forget the year due to your constant travels
[2+1] You always make sure to ask when you forget.

You make sure to visit your mother once a year.
[4] You've made sure to visit your mother frequently.
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