Here goes ... something.

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blight

Temporal Novice
This seems to be the place for it, since I've been poking around a bit on the net and happened across the forum here. I've been lurking a while, a few things here have looked legit but most of it looks like nonsense. So what the heck, I'll come out and say it; no reason not to anymore.

I am from 2035.

Here's the catch. I'm certain it wasn't a future that you can get to from here. I was a smart kid for the most part and read my history books, at least the ones I could get my hands on. Back where I was from, the US dropped three bombs on Japan then fought it out on the ground, and here Japan surrendered. There are a lot of other things, technology seems a lot further back than I thought it would have been, but I didn't actualy realize that until, well. 2005.

Most notably in 2001 a couple of buildings in New York came down, which I never heard about. But there was no global nuclear holocaust in 2005. So it's something of a relief that I got out of there and ended up being dropped off here a while back.

Heck, I don't know what to go on from here. Comments, questions, concerns? Ask me stuff, I guess that's the standard rote, and I'll answer as best I can. And what the hell is everyone's hangup on cloning anyway? That's been driving me nuts since I got here, you should have had your first human clone before the turn of the century!
 
Hi welcome to the party. The Situationists believed that the reintroduction of 'play' is essential to combat the sheer poverty of the cultural experience of modern life and you're sure in the right place here.

I would certainly agree that a parallel Earth such as ours where global nuclear destruction didn't happen in 2005 like in 'your own' is a relief. I am always glad when I wake up to find out that my legs haven't been eaten by sharks although I'm sure on another parallel thats happened to some poor Dave. At least you haven't got Chronohistorian living in your mind though, every silver lining has a cloud.

Wow! Looks like I've got Creedo living in my head as well looking at what I've just written!

So...whats the cake like where you're from? Any Lizard Men?

Dave/Chrono
 
Er, try krill wafers. I never had the money at the time to get actual cake but that kind of happens when most of your farmland glows in the dark. So far I'm finding more silver linings than clouds. As for lizard men, well, you've got mutants. I think I saw a couple who had skin that could be mistaken for a lizard, but I'm told that there's a skin condition that can cause that. If you mean more like actual lizards with slit pupils and tails, then no, I never saw any like that. Some people said they were out there but then they say they've got fire breathing dragons in space.

And everyone was hoping the crazies would have been wiped out when the bombs fell.
 
Krill wafers? You live on fish food? Mmmm nice

Right. Next person pretending to be time traveller on here - can you please come from a timeline or parallel where things are, like, really nice? Y'know, no Terminator style nuclear armaggedon or US civil wars?

I know that a milkfloat destroyed Big Ben where I came from and we wiped out the whole Skaaran race for looking at one of our women 'funny' but at least we have some chirpy upbeat cake action.

Love
Dave/Chrono - Church Of Chronohistorian
 
... You know, I wonder if Big Ben actually was around. I don't think anyone ever made mention of it. Most of the food was made from algae or soy derivitives, pretty much tasteless at best and pretty nasty at worst. But hey, it's food, isn't it? Some people these days live off canned dog chow. (Which is actually pretty damn good, but that was way before I found Papa John's.)

Why would someone come here if they were from somewhere worse anyway? I thought that was part of the whole point if you're going to live somewhere else. Then again I'm guessing, I was just along for the ride.

And there was cake! I just... never got any of it.
 
well welcome to this 2006 can you tell us what kind of time travel machine you use?? also I would like to know that what does the future hold?? and what will happen to this coming year..


write back.. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
As far as what 2006 holds, where I was from before you had nuclear winter setting in for a good decade at least and about three billion corpses. Clearly that isn't the case here - you've got blue skies instead of a hazy cloud cover. As far as the way the machine worked, I'm not entirely certain - I was told that the machine itself moved through time and space and what I was actually in was some sort of fold or pocket in space, I forget what Vladimir said it was. He never explained the mechanics of how it worked to me, though the baldie was kind enough to render me unconscious whenever it jumped. Never used it myself, and he dropped me off here some time ago. Early 2001.

As far as what he future holds, the future's what you make it! I haven't been to the future of this timeline, and you can always change it anyway, that's the nice part about not having fate/destiny/whatever overbearing and free will not being illusory. Of course the problem is that there are more people determining which way the world's going beside yourself and you don't get to pick what condition the world is in before you're born into it...
 
that sound scary to me....I did not know that you were in that condition sorry about it...very sorry.. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/cry.gif


anyway so this must be your new life to live..do you know anybody?? were you with someone with the mission?? are you going to go back home or stay here in ohio?? write back.
 
YES!
Ask, and you shall receive.

I wanted a new TT to come here. YES!
Please tell loooong tales of your timeline & travels.
I mean looong descriptions. Make them good.

That way our TT busters can get cha. Oh also so I can read it here at work. zzzzzzz
 
To have any hope of anyone taking you seriously;

You are going to have to at least know some more of the basic TT concepts of the method that 'brought' you 'here'.

You might want to also give your story some more context (i.e. background to your current situation). The fact you havent yet, makes me assume straight away - you just havent bothered to think something up yet. Probably because this is the most laborious task of any TT story.

As it stands now - you've have lost me, as you havent even interested me yet....I know that i speak for many others, with this regard. You're going to have to try a lot harder!

kind regards,
Olly
 
Re: Here goes ... NOTHING.

I agree with Olly's analysis... excuse me while I yawn... (Y - A - W - N).

This one is not even worth the effort to debunk, for a couple reasons:
1) He's not claiming that he can (or will) predict anything about our specific future.
2) TT'er or not, he already admits to a powerful truth that puts US in charge of building our own future:
As far as what he future holds, the future's what you make it!
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So he left out several of the key "formula items" established by Group Titor, but wishes to continue with others ("Ask me questions, I'm happy to answer.")

No offers of any evidence from blight to support his claims... yet.
So it amounts to another story until he can back his claim.

RMT
 
Re: Here goes ... NOTHING.

Yawn as much as you like, doesn't bother me. I just don't feel like writing my own biography right off the bat. But if it makes you happy, bust away. I seriously doubt that Titor (like he actually existed) has anything to do with my getting here - I'm pretty certain that Vladimir was from a lot further out from right now than I was. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time and took a couple of rounds for his sake. I'm just happy they were using solid slugs instead of fraggers personally, I don't enjoy dying too much.

As for the method he used to travel, the apparatus itself (or whatever you want to call it) was a cylinder about eight feet high and maybe three or four feet wide with a flat bottom and rounded top. I don't know exactly how it worked, but if you were to go up to it and step through it - which felt really damned creepy - you end up in the pocket dimension or whatever it was. Again, I apologize, because I was just along for the ride so I don't know how it worked. But if you've ever seen one of the Star Trek shows, the inside looked a little like that. Very clean, smooth lines. I didn't get to see a great deal but the bed was comfortable. As far as it was explained to me, the cylinder part was what was put in different times, which kept any ill effects from happening to anyone inside the pocket. Technically that wasn't part of any timeline, it existed outside of normal time/space, I think.

As far as evidence goes all I've got are the clothes I brought with me on my back and my gun. I got dropped off in March of 2001, and pretty much abandoned from what I understand. It's amazing what you can do with a little rooting around, got a social security number and all the goodies, so I've got gainful employment and a rather nice apartment these days. Car too.
 
blight,

Heck, I don't know what to go on from here.
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You mean to tell us that all the Kings horses and all the King's men actually could put Humpty-Dumpty's Time Machine together again...and you came here without a plan?

Another Golden Fleece Award for wasting tax payer's money on a whiz-bang gadget to complete a do nothing project.

Damn good thing that it's a certainty that we can't get to that future from here.
 
Re: Here goes ... NOTHING.

I agree, this is very much cod standard time travelling by all accounts. It reminds me of Terminator except without the machines. Have you ever destroyed an entire alien planet as part of a battle fleet like I/Chrono has? No. People want Lizard Men dude, not fabricated nuclear winters.

You gotta be like Marie Antoinette and give the people CAKE.

I suggest you go back, get another user name and return with a different story. Maybe you are from 1899 and were thrown forward in time after your experimental steam engine blew up? Or you're from 2522 and you have a pet muscle tree and a Lizard clone niece? Oh no, hold on, thats me.

Anyway this particular fantasy of yours is very much on the dull side.

Talent borrows, Genius steals.
 
You mean to tell us that all the Kings horses and all the King's men actually could put Humpty-Dumpty's Time Machine together again...and you came here without a plan?
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Perhaps I should restate that I got in the way of a couple of bullets from a local thug trying to shoot this guy for the sole purpose of stealing his clothes because they looked nice. They dropped me off here - I didn't have any plan, but it was better than taking me back where I came from. Wish they'd had computers around like everyone does here - the only thing you could really pick up on the market were just decks. PDA-looking things with touchscreens. And I miss my AK, but then I don't need that these days, so I can live with it.

As far as government goes, from what I understand the US government folded shortly before or after the bombs dropped, though there was a contingent running out of Cheyenne mountain claiming legitimacy. Most of what was rebuilt pretty much ignored it, from what I heard it kind of sucked and they were running things akin to Nazis.

It wasn't ALL dull, I mean, you never had to worry about the cost of gasoline! Low, low population means low, low prices. Or so some of the salarymen said anyway. I have no idea if there was any correlation to the dollar with credits though. But in seriousness, there was a lot of damn interesting stuff going on, especially in cybernetics. To the point that enough was cranked out that it was relatively cheap and you could buy a new pair of eyes for around... what, I think about fifteen thousand depending on the brand. Not to mention the whole buying of a clone in the event that you get shot a few times too many, they started that whole thing because people kept getting the plague and keeling over. It's nice to be able to go 'oh hey, look, there's my corpse, guess I'll take my clothes back again' after you dry the goo off of yourself.


I suggest you go back, get another user name and return with a different story. Maybe you are from 1899 and were thrown forward in time after your experimental steam engine blew up? Or you're from 2522 and you have a pet muscle tree and a Lizard clone niece? Oh no, hold on, thats me.
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Tell you what, if I ever end up seeing Vladimir again, I'll have him take me back to World War II and get my head dyed red and turned into a skull by the Nazis, then get frozen in an iceberg.
 
Right now I get it - is this based on Philip K Dick's The Man In The High Castle but with nukes?

Nice one

Story still needs more Lizard Men though, the kids love them scaly bastards

Love to all fellow time travellers and primitive 21st century proles

The Davester/Chrono Hybrid
Church Of Chrono 2006 CE
 
Re: Here goes ... NOTHING.

suggest you go back, get another user name and return with a different story. Maybe you are from 1899 and were thrown forward in time after your experimental steam engine blew up?
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ahahaha
 
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