Oooh. Time paradoxes. Always fun for roleplay plots.
Nope, no time paradox.
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Tsss. But every RP needs a time paradox! o_o;
Just like how every villain needs to first tell their entire plan for world domination to the hero, before leaving them hanging by a rope above piranhas, not bothering to check back if they're actually dead.
Clearly, you haven't been around GG much.
Time paradoxes, dimensional twins, temporal twins, all are banned for the simple reason that we've had so many of the damn things it got boring.
No time paradox. No.
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Tss. How can you have a classical villain without time paradoxes, dimensional twins and temporal twins?
You've ruined the world!!11one!!
*Cough.*
Yeah, I'm good now.
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And everyone should remember that, after midnight December 31st, Miss Ellie will be known as Oook. 
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Oi!! I resemble that remark!!
Anyone turns Ellie in a mon.... ape... Is gonna get their arms ripped orf! 
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
A damn good reason; It allows us to play our unplayable characters again. Yay! 
As part of the retcon, Rachel Swan, who one or two of us old-timers will remember as having died in the very first Nevermore plot, is still alive. She does know who Nevermore is, and not only was she saved from Ripper by Nevermore, but the two had not split up at that point. They did, however, split up afterwards for personal reasons, including the fact that Alan Drake was worried she would be in danger again in the future.
The Culture Shock Festival, and the events involving The Order and Lady Chill following, happened as normal. Lady Chill escaped from the Zig in the confusion following the spate of Arachnos-led break-outs (around the release of CoV), and is still at large.
The Masquerade plot happened as before.
The Salmarien plot, I'll have to talk with Aisla, as with any of the events surrounding the character Clover.
Alan Drake is still currently single, having never married, nor even had any relationship whatsoever with Amelia Careros. He is still known for dating models and other beautiful women, sometimes he even only dates one at once. They are never serious, however, and the longest he has been associated with any one woman in recent months is about a week.
Is Samantha Wells still going to be his adopted daughter?
The Salmarien plot didn't happen. Exact details of what happened to the old duffer to be decided later.
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Alan Drake is still currently single, having never married
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So the wedding, what happened? Or didn't happen?
Eric (Tower of Power whom I admit I rarely play) was kind of hoping for an invitation to the large reception, and has made some stock speculations as a result of the wedding.
It's easy for me to make it never happen, but... maybe it'll become clear what you guys are up to when the story is post.
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If you have nothing useful to say, you have two choices: Say something useless or stay quiet.
Well, the idea is that Amelia Careros (Stargazer, who later became Aluria Careros) never broke up with War Crow, and never had a relationship with Alan Drake at all, so a wedding would be a little hard to manage without a bride. 
That I get... I just don't see yet what you gus have in mind, sounds like it's more than your characters being affected, more like the entire world for where they interact with your characters in a way that will no longer be possible.
So how will that change the rest of the world?
A nagging sensation that you've forgotten something?
Completely oblivious as to why I did that speculation on Drake Enterprises stocks at that time?
As I said, I'm sure it will all become perfectly clear when the story is up. (I'm assuming there will be a story?)
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Yes, the entire world, indeed the entire universe, is being adjusted to fit the desires of one person.
No one will be left wondering what it was they missed, there's nothing to miss.
Regarding the example: perhaps Eric didn't invest in Drake Enterprises, perhaps he had another reason to, such as some announcement of a technological breakthrough by the company. Pick whichever makes you happiest.
The object of the enterprise is, believe it or not, to make people happy. All sources of angst must be removed before execution. That's why no one remembers anything.
Hmmm... remove all angst. Maybe we should be turning Minako into an Orangutan? 
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Okay, it's been pointed out that I have been overly direct in my statements concerning what can be done about this retcon. I guess I'll have to be more direct in explaining my enthusiasm.
Okay:
"No one remembers anything" This is an entirely OOC thing. I was, originally, going to have War Crow remember since (I think obviously) he's the one that initiates it. Unfortunately, that leaves plenty of potential angst. I hadn't thought of it myself, Stef pointed it out to me. The object of the exercise is to remove angst, not create it. So, no one remembers, no one can remind anyone of what happened, no one can come to the conclusion that Crow did it and re-inject the angst. That's the reason, plain and simple.
I'm not even asking that anyone believes Crow is capable of doing that. Something else will finish what he started, something which I am asking people to believe could do it, but which is far easier to believe in the setting.
"No one can find out anything" Same reason, but I shouldn't have said it. I was just being too honest. I did not mean to indicate that no one should try, I was just being honest in saying they will not find anything. I should have let people do the searching and just let them get nowhere. My mistake.
If anyone has any problems with any of this, I'd be grateful if they would contact me directly, either by posting here, or PMing me. I'm happy to discuss this.
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The basic idea is that certain events in the past history of GG and our characters' background are being changed to that they either did not happen, or happened differently. Sure, someone could look into why Alan Drake is no longer married, but there'd be no reason to. As far as the universe knows, Alan Drake was never even engaged.
Depending on where you want to take the nevermore plot, you could lessen the "ripples" by having Alan marry A. N. Other model, possibly splitting up Hollywood style a few months later.
Very few people could link Aluria to Stargazer after all.
Of course, if the direction of plot demands that Alan never married, then that's fine, but if it's not strictly necessary....
There's simply no reason for Alan Drake to get married. Alan could only ever really marry someone who knew his secret, and wouldn't marry someone in a throwaway manner like that.
So it's more a case of there simply not being another character he could marry.
I'm just wondering, would this mean Volt is still under Council mind control?
I really need to write down the stuff he does and when, because I'm not quite sure what to do about him then.
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50's - Tridento (claws/invul scrapper), Robo Medic MkIV (empath/rad defender), Entrino (dark/dark defender) & Captain Wombat (thugs/traps mastermind)
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Um, why would it mean that?
Maybe I should explain this better.
We are not setting the entire world back to April.
What we are effectively doing is changing what happened in April, and then projecting that forward to what would the world be like now if those changes were made.
If you want Volt to be under Council mind control, then please feel free, but if he isn't under said mind control now then there's no reason why he should suddenly start saluting when an Adjutant walks past on January 1st.
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Ah, I get it now. Thanks.
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having never interacted with any of those characters directly i should be ok, indirectly though i'd appreciate people keeping me right..
Also, no worries.. TK won't say a thing about the retroactive time change (saying she'd never notice would defeat her entire IC being, as would saying she may only have a suspicion.... she does that type of adjustments almost constantly)
She'd be slightly interested in who did it but with more important things going on it would be ignored and indeed hard to tell where the change came from anyways.
In anycase she's never talked to anyone involved and so wouldn't know what the changes were *shrugs*
ok.. i just defeated the whole point of this post.. ignore me.. i haven't slept since xmas
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Ahem... at midnight on New Year's Eve, a young man by the name of Dafydd Cerwys is going to find something he's been looking for. Namely, War Crow's sword. This will result in something really drastic happening in more or less no time at all and so, the new year is going to sudden;y look a bit different from the old one.
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), War Crow will be back to being the genial Welsh swordsman he used to be, but will have no delusions about being the priest of the Morrigan, Nevermore... that's for Wordy to expound.
Essentially, a group of us are engaged in a large scale, in character retcon of several of our older characters who, for various reasons, have become more or less useless for roleplay. There will be some fiction explaining the IC side of it. This thread is to cover the more OOC side, i.e. what everyone else can expect to know about what's happened.
The main characters affected are as follows:
War Crow (currently wandering around as Dafydd Cerwys).
Stargazer (currently pregnant and out of play).
Nevermore (who Wordy doesn't bring out much).
Areulder (Dafydd's girlfriend).
Most people don't really know them, or much of the history behind them since they don't get played much these days and they originated back in the dawns of time. (February-April
Essentially, we will be resetting them back to their original state, tweaking a few things, then advancing them forward to now. Stargazer will return to being War Crow's girlfriend and will be free of the influence of her father, Areulder will have been married to a nice Welsh farmer (we ain't letting anyone be unhappy
Now, this is important, no one will know that anything has changed. No excuses, no "but my character exists outside space and time", no "my ultimate cosmic power means I'm immune." Absolutely no one will have any idea that the world on January 1st is different from what it was on December 31st. Those sensitive to magic will sense that something happened at midnight. Those sensitive to temporal events might detect a discontinuity. These events will appear and vanish in the flick of an eye, will be untraceable, and leave no apparent effects. If you want to investigate them, do, but you'll find nothing. (Yes, that sounds a lot like god-modding, and it is, for very good reason.)
I figure most of you will be able to rationalise out the changes to things that have happened to your characters. As an example, Quantum Seraphim had an interesting chat with Dafydd one night. She will remember having it with War Crow, who looks exactly the same, so it shouldn't be an issue. If there's anything difficult, or anything you'd like to discuss, please contact the player the character belongs to via PM or in-game.
I'll be expanding this thread to discuss more details of the new versions of the individual characters over the next week.
Lastly, if anyone needs a retcon doing and we can even vaguely possibly fit you in, please feel free to contact me via PM to discuss it.
And everyone should remember that, after midnight December 31st, Miss Ellie will be known as Oook.
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