If you provide ideas or text for me to use on the IST25 project, please post a note in this thread that says you give me permission to use it in the book.  At the moment, I think just an informal acknowledgment will be sufficient; if something more lawyerly is required, I'll let people know.
Thank you!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

This subforum is for the "International Super Teams 25th Anniversary Edition" project I've begun, and is where I am hosting those parts which are crowdsourced or which have been offered for use over the years.  In advance, let me say thanks for all help, suggestions and contributions anyone will make.
Please be aware that if you do contribute any ideas or text you should be willing to transfer the rights to that material to me, as I will have to be free to transfer such rights to Steve Jackson Games in turn.  There will be a thread where you can essentially post a "release", just to keep them all together and organized; please just put a note in there indicating your agreement.  If we need something more formal, the thread will also let me find and contact you.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Is anyone going to be at AnimeNext in Somerset, NJ this weekend?  It's only a couple miles down Easton Avenue from our place, so we're planning on doing Saturday there.  I wouldn't mind meeting up with any forumfolk who might be attending.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Okay, an experiment.
I have yet to start laying out even the broad strokes of a timeline for events after 12/31/1999.  And I thought, hey, maybe I could see if a dozen heads converging on this would be better than one.  So I'm issuing a request/challenge -- let's brainstorm up the as-yet-unwritten history of the IST world together.
A few notes.  First, I'm not going to guarantee this will be exactly -- or even close to -- what I finally use.  But as the old saying goes, that's the way to bet.  Anyone who contributes anything that ends up in the final timeline will get a credit on the book/PDF.  But you've also got to release the rights to me to use your contributions, because I will have to be able to do the same to SJG when the time comes.
If you're cool with that, well, let's begin.
I have a few things in mind to start with. 
First, before anything else -- IST was starting to diverge strongly by the end of the 1980s, and my timeline for the 90s kept that up, although it was perhaps not nearly as divergent as it should have been.  The prime directive here now is that there is no need to parallel "real" history except for irony and/or humor.  We can go anywhere.
Second, the Infinite Worlds PDF for IST mentions a reality quake on 1/1/2000.  We're going to keep that, as the primary mechanism of the Wall -- this date was a nexus point for any number of possible futures to come into being, depending on which groups, gangs, governments, and/or conspiracies came out on top in the battles between their various plans and schemes.  Most of the outcomes were bad -- hence the varied visions of apocalypse received by precogs beforehand.  However something as yet undefined happened, and a "good" -- maybe not best, but good -- timeline resulted.  I want to figure out what that something is, or even if we need to define it at all.
The 1990s timeline on my website ends with Chinese forces poised to roll into both Hong Kong and the Korean DMZ.  I want this to turn into a full war, lasting anywhere upwards of five years.  (Working from 13 years later, we have a lot of freedom to do wild things, and this will be one of them.)  What is the result of this war?
9/11 does not happen.  It took several different sociopolitical trends converging in a specific way to motivate Bin Laden and al Qaeda to attach the US the way they did, and most if not all of them didn't happen (or happened very differently) in the IST world.  This is not to say something similar doesn't happen -- but when, where, and by/to whom?
If I think of/remember anything else I want nailed down firmly at the start of this little project, I'll add them to this post.  In the meantime, feel free to brainstorm.
And don't worry, I won't just be sitting back and making you do all the work.  I'll be jumping in and adding my own contributions.
In advance, thank you.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

This line popped into my head on the way home from work last night, and I just had to share it. It's spoken in the manner of someone sincerely trying to figure out the world they live in, like a not-presently-being-obnoxious child asking a question of a parent.

"Friend Computer? What is a friend?"

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/06/07 ... ons-online

I haven't been playing CO since about Janurary, but here's hoping that this means it's finally getting more then new vehicles and timed events. This game needs story content badly, and Neverwinter and STO show that Cryptic knows how to do that.

Just sent you an email re: Fenspace...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Razputin, from Psychonauts, is a hero who is all about helping people with their deep, emotional trauma (and seeing deep into their souls at the same time).

Seems like he's ripe for any number of possible crossovers - as long as there's a maguffin on the other end to pull him in.

PMMM has, in its wishes, a maguffin of almost infinite versatility - and it certainly doesn't lack for people with deep-seated emotional problems.

Seems like something could be done with that.  A fair number of somethings, really.

Hey - anybody want to post designs and explanations for their character's Nemesis?  Feel free to add a pic of the Hero of the Nemesis as well. 

(Edit: Since nobody else seems interested in replying to the thread, I'll just post whatever else I've got for archival purposes and we'll call it a day. Changed the title of the thread as well to reflect the personal nature. You want to post your own Nemesis? Go make your own thread. Geddouddahere! )

Latest Nemesis I created is... Uhm... Yeah. Sorry. Couldn't resist. ^_^

Just what it says on the tin. If you don't have these two games yet and you wanted them, NOW is the time to get them! I just picked up both for slightly under $13.00!