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<blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9115089" data-attributes="member: 467"><p>A buddy and I sat down and brainstormed over beers and pizza and we came up with the following broad strokes explanation for what is happening:</p><p></p><p>In the fantastical far future,an alien force has descended on the world and, being alien, doesn't realize its actions have the potential to destroy the world. A benevolent Gandalf like figure takes up the banner to fight them and in his explorations and study discovers that human genetically from our era can connect with the super-science of the future and can thus serve as a bulwark against the aliens. With the help of a network of supporters, he discovers an operational Creche that will grow modern aka now human babies. His plan is to raise them to be super soldiers against the aliens. Unfortunately it turns out the aliens get wind and Gandalf has to hide his baby weapons. He discovers a time machine and sends the babies back to our now, with the intent that he will recall them once the coast is clear. Because time travel has a lot of potential unintended consequences, Gandalf does not tell his followers about this aspect of the Plan.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately Gandalf dies (or is defeated and captured, not sure yet) and the potential super babies are stuck in our past for decades. These. Are, of course, the PCs.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, Gandalf's followers (now cult) decides to create one more super baby and raise it to be the weapon against the enemy. They succeed in creating the baby but as it grows to adulthood it is corrupted by power and becomes a Sauron like force in the world,turning Gandalf's cult into a vile religion.</p><p></p><p>In the meantime, because time moves differently, the PCs grow to adulthood. Before they are brought forward, tho, another group is. These first generation heroes get close to defeating both the Alien and Sauron, but ultimately refuse to go back to their mundane lives and figure out a way to remain.</p><p></p><p>The PCs represent the time machine breaking down even further, randomly drawing and returning the now grown potentially super babies to the future.(This is a conceit for uncertain attendance.) The PCs will be brought to the future and sometime shunted back, with some as yet undetermined time relationship.</p><p></p><p>If the PCs seek each other out they can discover they were all adopted under strange circumstances and start to piece their origins together. In the future, both the Alien and Sauron seek them out while uncorrected followers of Gandalf help them and the first generation heroes just want to be left alone and never go back to their lives as accountants and waitresses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reynard, post: 9115089, member: 467"] A buddy and I sat down and brainstormed over beers and pizza and we came up with the following broad strokes explanation for what is happening: In the fantastical far future,an alien force has descended on the world and, being alien, doesn't realize its actions have the potential to destroy the world. A benevolent Gandalf like figure takes up the banner to fight them and in his explorations and study discovers that human genetically from our era can connect with the super-science of the future and can thus serve as a bulwark against the aliens. With the help of a network of supporters, he discovers an operational Creche that will grow modern aka now human babies. His plan is to raise them to be super soldiers against the aliens. Unfortunately it turns out the aliens get wind and Gandalf has to hide his baby weapons. He discovers a time machine and sends the babies back to our now, with the intent that he will recall them once the coast is clear. Because time travel has a lot of potential unintended consequences, Gandalf does not tell his followers about this aspect of the Plan. Unfortunately Gandalf dies (or is defeated and captured, not sure yet) and the potential super babies are stuck in our past for decades. These. Are, of course, the PCs. In the meantime, Gandalf's followers (now cult) decides to create one more super baby and raise it to be the weapon against the enemy. They succeed in creating the baby but as it grows to adulthood it is corrupted by power and becomes a Sauron like force in the world,turning Gandalf's cult into a vile religion. In the meantime, because time moves differently, the PCs grow to adulthood. Before they are brought forward, tho, another group is. These first generation heroes get close to defeating both the Alien and Sauron, but ultimately refuse to go back to their mundane lives and figure out a way to remain. The PCs represent the time machine breaking down even further, randomly drawing and returning the now grown potentially super babies to the future.(This is a conceit for uncertain attendance.) The PCs will be brought to the future and sometime shunted back, with some as yet undetermined time relationship. If the PCs seek each other out they can discover they were all adopted under strange circumstances and start to piece their origins together. In the future, both the Alien and Sauron seek them out while uncorrected followers of Gandalf help them and the first generation heroes just want to be left alone and never go back to their lives as accountants and waitresses. [/QUOTE]
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