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<blockquote data-quote="Ladybird" data-source="post: 6265370" data-attributes="member: 10689"><p><strong>Episode 1, Chapter 12: In Which Everything is Spilled</strong></p><p></p><p>Just a few more hours left in the Kickstarter! <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinkulp/timewatch-gumshoe-investigative-time-travel-rpg" target="_blank">Help make TimeWatch happen!</a> We've had an amazing time playing, and we want the world to see how great this game is.</p><p></p><p>And now, on with the show!</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>As Edward bleeds on the floor and Yves celebrates his triumph at knocking out Forrest, Kat quickly tethers to Team Lunatic, telling them to get back to the palace. Fortunately, they get there quickly - Mace Hunter! knows some shortcuts, and he and Hypatia hurry back in time for Hypatia to give Edward the medical attention that he very badly needs.</p><p></p><p>Now we settle down to the real interrogation.</p><p></p><p>"How about Good Cop-Bad Cop?" Mace suggests.</p><p></p><p>We all consider our various skills to see how we can go about doing this. To everyone's surprise, it turns out that Edward is the most intimidating (in a technical skill-point sort of way). To everyone's greater surprise, he's only too happy to be the Bad Cop. Edward enthusiastically intimidates Forrest, impugns his honor, and even punches him a few times. </p><p></p><p>Equally surprising is the fact that Mace takes the role of Good Cop, offering his own particular brand of friendly reassurance to Forrest. So, while the 20-year-old chivalry-obsessed king plays Bad Cop, and the battle-hardened adventurer plays Good Cop, Kat uses her knowledge of psychology to play mind games on Forrest. Through everyone's combined efforts, he spills everything.</p><p></p><p>Forrest explains that he doesn't actually know that much about Damiens, but does know that Damiens killed Louis. Yes, on his own, and yes, with a penknife. So Forrest's first attempt to change the timeline was to just try to keep Damiens away from Louis, but Elizabeth prevented him from doing that. (In telling that part of the story, Forrest describes Elizabeth in some racist and sexist terms that make Edward hit him again.) </p><p></p><p>"So I started looking for alternate timelines," Forrest explains. "I found one where Damiens failed because the knife didn't go deep enough. So Louis lived, and he overruled Choiseul on the Falklands War, and the American colonies rebelled. It wasn't ideal, but it was the best I could find." That familiar smirk starts to crease his face. "I could work with it. After all, it was a timeline in which the South rose up against Northern oppression. I could encourage that."</p><p></p><p>After we've gotten all of that, we start to pump Forrest for information about his home timeline. "What's the government like?" Hypatia asks. The British Empire dominates North America, which is what we'd thought.</p><p></p><p>Kat leans over to say quietly to Edward, "You were interested in the royal succession. Now might be a good time to ask."</p><p></p><p>Edward nods, and says, "Queen Anne reigns at the beginning of the 21st century. What happened to Elizabeth II? And Prince Charles?"</p><p></p><p>"Oh," says Forrest, with the offhanded tone of someone discussing the distant past, "they died when London was bombed."</p><p></p><p>Everyone is silent. </p><p></p><p>Finally Edward manages to ask, very quietly, "Bombed by whom?"</p><p></p><p>"The Soviets, of course," says Forrest. "You know, in the second phase of World War II."</p><p></p><p>The first phase of World War II was the one that happened in our timeline, more or less, although in Forrest's, it was mostly the Nazis against the British Empire, since there wasn't any US. The second phase was between the British Empire and the Soviet Union, triggered by still-PM Winston Churchill's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable" target="_blank">Operation Unthinkable.</a> In our timeline, Churchill planned Operation Unthinkable but never put it into practice.</p><p></p><p>The second phase of the war was nuclear: all major cities on both sides were nuked. Moscow, London, Edinburgh, Leningrad, and many more. When London was bombed, Elizabeth II and Charles died, but Princess Anne - who was just a baby - was saved somehow. </p><p></p><p>(Edward thinks that a baby being saved in the middle of a nuclear war sounds exceptionally lucky. If Princess Anne was saved by more time travelers intervening, he really doesn't wanna deal.)</p><p></p><p>"I do not think that this is a very good timeline," Yves says quietly.</p><p></p><p>We also think that we've gotten as much out of Forrest as we need. We knock him out again, Memtag him and send him up to TimeWatch HQ to join the other copy of himself. It's even more satisfying the second time around!</p><p></p><p>But…now what do we do?</p><p></p><p>Forrest and Elizabeth's timeline is the original one, but in that timeline, most of Europe was destroyed by nuclear war. The one that we all came from was better, but it was created by Forrest's intervention.</p><p></p><p>Which one do we choose? And <em>how</em> do we choose? How can we possibly choose between nuclear war and racist time-traveler manipulation?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybird, post: 6265370, member: 10689"] [b]Episode 1, Chapter 12: In Which Everything is Spilled[/b] Just a few more hours left in the Kickstarter! [URL="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinkulp/timewatch-gumshoe-investigative-time-travel-rpg"]Help make TimeWatch happen![/URL] We've had an amazing time playing, and we want the world to see how great this game is. And now, on with the show! -- As Edward bleeds on the floor and Yves celebrates his triumph at knocking out Forrest, Kat quickly tethers to Team Lunatic, telling them to get back to the palace. Fortunately, they get there quickly - Mace Hunter! knows some shortcuts, and he and Hypatia hurry back in time for Hypatia to give Edward the medical attention that he very badly needs. Now we settle down to the real interrogation. "How about Good Cop-Bad Cop?" Mace suggests. We all consider our various skills to see how we can go about doing this. To everyone's surprise, it turns out that Edward is the most intimidating (in a technical skill-point sort of way). To everyone's greater surprise, he's only too happy to be the Bad Cop. Edward enthusiastically intimidates Forrest, impugns his honor, and even punches him a few times. Equally surprising is the fact that Mace takes the role of Good Cop, offering his own particular brand of friendly reassurance to Forrest. So, while the 20-year-old chivalry-obsessed king plays Bad Cop, and the battle-hardened adventurer plays Good Cop, Kat uses her knowledge of psychology to play mind games on Forrest. Through everyone's combined efforts, he spills everything. Forrest explains that he doesn't actually know that much about Damiens, but does know that Damiens killed Louis. Yes, on his own, and yes, with a penknife. So Forrest's first attempt to change the timeline was to just try to keep Damiens away from Louis, but Elizabeth prevented him from doing that. (In telling that part of the story, Forrest describes Elizabeth in some racist and sexist terms that make Edward hit him again.) "So I started looking for alternate timelines," Forrest explains. "I found one where Damiens failed because the knife didn't go deep enough. So Louis lived, and he overruled Choiseul on the Falklands War, and the American colonies rebelled. It wasn't ideal, but it was the best I could find." That familiar smirk starts to crease his face. "I could work with it. After all, it was a timeline in which the South rose up against Northern oppression. I could encourage that." After we've gotten all of that, we start to pump Forrest for information about his home timeline. "What's the government like?" Hypatia asks. The British Empire dominates North America, which is what we'd thought. Kat leans over to say quietly to Edward, "You were interested in the royal succession. Now might be a good time to ask." Edward nods, and says, "Queen Anne reigns at the beginning of the 21st century. What happened to Elizabeth II? And Prince Charles?" "Oh," says Forrest, with the offhanded tone of someone discussing the distant past, "they died when London was bombed." Everyone is silent. Finally Edward manages to ask, very quietly, "Bombed by whom?" "The Soviets, of course," says Forrest. "You know, in the second phase of World War II." The first phase of World War II was the one that happened in our timeline, more or less, although in Forrest's, it was mostly the Nazis against the British Empire, since there wasn't any US. The second phase was between the British Empire and the Soviet Union, triggered by still-PM Winston Churchill's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable"]Operation Unthinkable.[/URL] In our timeline, Churchill planned Operation Unthinkable but never put it into practice. The second phase of the war was nuclear: all major cities on both sides were nuked. Moscow, London, Edinburgh, Leningrad, and many more. When London was bombed, Elizabeth II and Charles died, but Princess Anne - who was just a baby - was saved somehow. (Edward thinks that a baby being saved in the middle of a nuclear war sounds exceptionally lucky. If Princess Anne was saved by more time travelers intervening, he really doesn't wanna deal.) "I do not think that this is a very good timeline," Yves says quietly. We also think that we've gotten as much out of Forrest as we need. We knock him out again, Memtag him and send him up to TimeWatch HQ to join the other copy of himself. It's even more satisfying the second time around! But…now what do we do? Forrest and Elizabeth's timeline is the original one, but in that timeline, most of Europe was destroyed by nuclear war. The one that we all came from was better, but it was created by Forrest's intervention. Which one do we choose? And [i]how[/i] do we choose? How can we possibly choose between nuclear war and racist time-traveler manipulation? [/QUOTE]
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