Well, Tom surprised me with the paranoiad twist he's taken with his character, but thats one way of gaming, an intensely personal style.  I didn't get much beyond the edge of this world, but yes, Project Stargate was tracking him.  However, they didn't have telepathy or the ability to pinpoint his precise location.  Instead, the security guard had a copied hand-drawn picture of his face, and so did a lot of other police.

And the lawyers weren't seeking to get him.  They recognized a golden goose when they saw one, and weren't stupid enough to kill it.

But, me wonders me does, paranoia...hmmm, maybe I should give him something to be paranoiad about...


PT

A certain psycho-swordswoman comes to mind... what you say, PT?

Well, from his perspective it wasn't necessarily a 'lose lose' scenario...I mean, he is paranoid, but honestly how sane can you tell me you'd be if you died traveling from world to work? :)

Sure you'd get used to it eventually, but you get the idea...that, and the fact that his conversation with Mike told him that he might eventually end up back there...so it was a balancing act between whether or not the lawyers really were after him or not....

See, on the flip side, for now at least, he's got a complete kit....ie every item I wanted when I started is now in my possession...it was a gamble.

As for 'something to be paranoid about'....well.....I figured it'd happen sooner or later....though I also think 'Dying on a regular basis via interdimensional travel' qualifies :)

I enjoyed it immensely :)

So, I guess that Misty2 is out of a job again?

Day, Misty has committed suicide to get out of a world, too.  I know how that kind of thing can happen.  You played the world well.

I just had an idea.  Day requested 10 books.  What suggestions for a book would you add to his pack?  I would add "How to Do Just About Anything: A money-saving A-to-Z guide to over 1200 skills and household solutions" by Reader's Digest.  Thos books lists a lot of things in alphabetical order from Abalone, How to Cook to Wrenches, Standard types and how to use them.  It's a general "Jack of all Trades" text including things like specific types of vehicle repair, how to play games like chess and hangman, and a lot of household hints.
One five page section, chosed at random, covers Bonsai trees, Bookbinding repairs, Bookcase Building, ridding Book Lice, throwing Boomerangs, Botticelli (a guessing game like 20 questions), Bowling, tying a Bow Tie, Brading bread, Braiding Hair, Braiding rugs from scraps, Braising meats and veggies, and coping with Brake Failure.
It is one of the books I would include in a survival kit.
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Thanks :)

Lilandra is off to bug Jhiaxus.

Misty2 is out of a job.

I don't believe you would have your guns worked on yet, by the gunsmith.  That was going to take a week.

And you have definitely helped Beckman the Lesser become a partner and made his law firm a major force in the music industry.

Book:  I'd say the Bible.  After that, though...hmmh, I have a copy of Story's Basic Country Skills which might be useful.

PT

Oh! Frak! :( I forgot about the guns.....no I know I didn't have them with me....but I forgot about them....:p

Say...now THAT Would be an interesting read....Bible in a different timeline might be...a very interesting read indeed :)

We did a mild version of it in the Northgate City setting for MJ.  Mentioned the early Japanese translations affecting the Majority Text that they had in that universe which they didn't have in his home timeline.

And Oak did not get to meet the Holy REMAN Church priests of Haston.

For those without a very modest grounding in Bible translations, the Majority Text, or the Textus Receptus is the foundation for the King James Version which is the predominant English language translation.  The MT is also the most documented historical document in history by a long shot.

Now, in The Man Who Folded Himself, an interesting and at many points gross and disgusting fiction book, the time traveller at one point rescues Jesus from the Cross.  When he goes back to the present day, he finds the world so changed he can't understand it, so he goes back and undoes his effort even though he is anti-Christian.

Of course, theres also the notion of a Jesus for each timeline that had Him, and perhaps an inspired collection of writings with the same ideas, but different writers.

That is to say several things 1)The MT is a very large and stable structure.  Moving it would require some doing.  2)If you did change the foundational documents in doctrinal and important ways you end up with a very strange world.

And this is a great discussion for Oak to get into...

PT

Wow, what a difference between yesterday and today -- talk about feast and famine!  :)

I am still awaiting the arrival of my copy of the Multiverser book (alas!), so my impressions of the Multiverse as a whole are second-hand.

However, I see some analogies between RL here and the Multiverse.

In RL, the LORD God Almighty created all things, and He alone is worthy to reign.

However, created man rebelled against the Sovereign Creator's just and righteous rule, seeking instead to rule himself, and so fell under the just sentence of death.

So we have every individual left for a time to their own devices, each ruled (incompetently and corruptly) by their own will rather than God's, and inevitably coming into conflict with their neighbors (who are all busily worshipping their own wills, seeking their own goals, etc.).

But though all are deserving of death, yet the LORD is not only Holy and Righteous and Just, but also Loving.  So He sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay the penalty of death in our place.  And He proclaims an Amnesty to all, that those who will turn away from rebellion and serve the LORD will be pardoned from the death sentence they deserve, through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ in our place.

So much for RL.  How would that extend to the Multiverse?

The LORD God Almighty is still the Sovereign Creator of all.  Creation is still cursed through rebellion.  And God's gracious Amnesty through the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ is the only hope for fallen mankind to avoid the just sentence of death.

What of other "supernatural powers" in the Multiverse?  What of them?  RL has plenty, for Satan led one-third of the angels in rebellion against the LORD, once again seeking to serve and worship self rather than God, and follow the will of self rather than that of the Sovereign LORD.  And these powers, Satan chief among them, may well disguise themselves as angels of light, in order to deceive the unwary.  But the LORD alone is God.

What of the universes without Jesus Christ?  What of them?  RL has plenty.  The LORD did not choose to manifest himself to all peoples, but Sovereignly chose those He would reveal Himself to, and those He would have mercy upon.  Many generations in many nations and tribes and languages and people groups have lived and died without hearing the Gospel... for all mankind are rebels and descendents of rebels, utterly corrupt, naturally seeking their own will rather than God's, and therefore justly cursed, and under just sentence of death.  Jesus Christ did not come to every nation in the flesh, and live among them in the flesh, and die on a cross in their midst, and rise again.  Only in one.  The rest of the world, and subsequent generations, only found out by the accounts of the eyewitnesses, either directly or indirectly.

So much for the direct analogy.  However, in discussing possible alternatives in a Multiverse, one could certainly argue that the LORD could choose to manifest His presence in the flesh in multiple universes at once.  He is Infinite, so that wouldn't be a problem.  Whether or not He would choose to do so, rather than raise up missionaries to go to different lands (and versers to go to different universes) to preach the Gospel, is an interesting speculation.  We do seem to have encountered several worlds where Christ was known and worshipped, without any evidence that such knowledge was given via someone from a different universe, so that would seem to imply that Jesus Christ did indeed appear in the flesh in multiple universes.

As I hear rumors that the game seems to have some Christian basis, and I also hear rumors that every possible world exists in the Multiverse, then an implication would be that those reflecting accurate knowledge of the LORD are of Him, and others are deceptions by Satan or his minions.

So much for my two cents.  But since I was invited to jump in, and it seemed too quiet around here anyway...  ;)

Well Jhiaxus has met two versions of Odin.  One at GO who was mostly a kindly sort, and my one in the Space Pirate game where he met the Raven.  That one keeps in mind Odin is Lord of Victory, and ultimately rather fickle.

These would probably be two different entities who went by the same name.

I would not say Multiverser is Christian per se, but like Lord of the Rings, and Narnia, its highly influenced by it, more so than D&D which is also highly influenced by it.

Its a meeting of two different ideas...a Christian history of the spirits, and the idea of multiple good spirits.

The idea of an afterlife for versers is far off, but there.  First, there is the Border Supernatural.  This is the "border" between Deep Eternity and the Multiverse.  This is, if I'm understanding right, what people talk about when they talk of Heaven, Paradise, Avalon, etc..

To travel beyond this into Deep Eternity is one of two ways for a verser to permanently die.  Because once you get into Deep Eternity, you change, become probably multiply time-oriented so that time's arrow goes in multiple directions at the same time, and you just don't fit back in a material world, and can't find your way back either.

Don't worry, in order to enter Deep Eternity, it has to be voluntary-for a verser anyways.

Now, I do have one way to easily get there in my games.  In the Tower of Rhodes world, there is a door you can enter, and another door on the far side.  Walk through both, and you're no longer a verser.  But they are well-guarded..the first by elite human guards, and the second by archangels.

PT

PT