Discuss BeatleMania Redux [Underground] (PG - VL)

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=Purple][CENTER][COLOR=Black]BeatleMania Redux [Underground] (PG - VL) [/CENTER] [/COLOR]
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Ok?I haven?t got the story for this weird idea of mine completely hammered out, and players are welcome to bring their own suggestions?here would be where to put that. Also, if you have questions, you can post ?em here too.

The main story involves time travel. A madman from the RP?s present has gone back in time and somehow (I?m not sure how, yet), gotten rid of the Beatles before they had a chance to record their most famous and influential album, Sgt. Pepper.

This affects the future pretty badly. You see, for the last 7 years or so, Earth has been struggling against a recurrence of the Bubonic Plague. Scientists and Doctors rushed to find the cure, but none could be found. Travel has been restricted to only that which is deemed necessary by the ICDC, the ?International Center for Disease Control?.

In the year 2100, Earth had its first contact with the Te?tani, an alien race, that had set out to Earth some years earlier, after hearing radio transmissions from a certain album?the Te?tani brought fresh ideas to the scientist, and now, with the Te?tani?s help, the Plague is in remission.


Once the scientist goes back and gets rid of the Beatles, however, things change. The Te?tani never arrive, and the scientists are as ineffectual as ever. Humanity is dying with only one hope: The Temporal Continuance Department.

The TCD has been called a government organization, but that?s not entirely the truth. They work completely separate from any of the countries, remaining neutral so that no one can accuse them of bending the past for their own nefarious purposes.

Members of the TCD come from all backgrounds; from the ?Holiday Children? (super-smart children trained and raised by the mysterious man known only as ?Mr. Holiday?) to normal, average, everyday citizens. All must pass the Academy, a two year school, which trains them in such subjects as the use of the time monitoring computers, recognizing permissible deviations, and the study of past cultures.


The TCD is headquartered in a dimension that is separate from the flow of time in the normal timeline. As such, the members of the TCD can effect the past without affecting themselves. This is where their main job comes in.

Temporal shift equipment has been abused almost since its conception. Mad scientists, terrorists, radicals and the such like have all attempted to use it to shift the face of life as we know it. The TCD exists to prevent such events from occurring. Through the use of devices that track shifts in the very fabric of space, time and existence, the TCD can usually track exactly where the deviation from the ?original? timeline occurs.

Once a deviation is detected, the TCD sends a team of operatives to the place the deviation occurred, often weeks or even months prior to the event, to ensure that history happens the right way.

The RPG will be following the operatives sent back to ensure the continued existence of the Beatles. So far, they are:

[B]Prudence Jones [/B] ? Ozy Jones (me)

[B]Eleanor Maxwell [/B] ? Darksbane (now StarrStruck)

[B]Abigail ?Abby? Rhodes[/B] ? Shy

[B]Jude Hayes[/B] ? Angelus_Necare

[B]Bill "Bulldog" Henderson[/B] - Billy Shears

[B]Penny Forsythe[/B] - Rhian (now Mouse)

[B]Lucian Diamond [/B] - Methuselah (now Saishi)

[B]Michelle MaBelle [/B] - Grammar Panzer

[B]Julia Stanley [/B] - Muse


There?s plenty of room. I don?t really have a set number in mind?I know we could use a few more players, but I don?t want it getting too out of hand.

Sometime later in the RP, if all goes well, I hope to have the Beatles as playable characters. To do that however, you must be able to play them believably. I will most likely ask for an example of this ability, so these names aren't quite set in stone...

[B]John Lennon[/B] - Saishi

[B]Paul McCartney[/B] - Muse

[B]George Harrison[/B] - Billy Shears

[B]Ringo Starr[/B] - Starrstruck

I plan to start this a week from today, February 20th. If you have friends you think might like to play, ask ?em. They don?t necessarily have to be a Beatles fan, even. It does help to have some knowledge of the 1960s; culture, current events and the suchlike...

[url=http://www.beatleradio.com/player.html]Beatles Radio[/url]
[url=http://www.stevesbeatles.com/songs/]Steve's Beatles: Song Lyrics[/url]

1960s related:
[url=http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html]1960s Culture[/url]


The year we will be traveling back to is 1965. This is about two years before 1967, the ?Summer of Love?. Hippies are around, but not quite mainstream yet. The Beatles have just released ?Beatles ?65? in America, but have not yet released ?Early Beatles?. Their latest single would?ve been ?Eight Days a Week/I Don?t Want To Spoil the Party?. In England, they have just released ?Beatles for Sale?, and the latest single would be ?I Feel Fine/She?s a Woman?. Any song not written before then, obviously, cannot be referenced in conversation with citizens in the 1965 timeline?although it could be amusing. Ringo Starr was married to Maureen Cox on February 11th, becoming the second married Beatle. On February 22nd, filming for HELP! (Their second movie) began.

Popular music at the time consisted mainly of ?British Invasion? bands like Gerry and the Pacemakers, Herman?s Hermits, and Petula Clark. Popular American artists are Diana Ross and the Supremes, Simon and Garfunkle, the Beach Boys and The Mamas and the Papas. Popular Movies were The Pink Panther, and My Fair lady, and television shows included Bonanza, Bewitched, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show, The Fugitive, and The Dick Van Dyke Show.


In world history, Leonid I. Brezhnev has replaced Nikita Khrushchev as head of the Soviet/Communist government, Lyndon Baines Johnson (more commonly called LBJ) is president of the United States, and the Chinese Government had tested its first nuclear bomb only 4 months previous. If the TCD employees arrived in the 1965 timeline on February 20th, Malcolm X would be assassinated the next day. The Vietnam War started becoming more and more of an issue, with the United States beginning bombing runs against North Vietnam in March.

That?s the basics. If anyone has questions, again, post them here. Yes, this is mostly the product of a deranged, time-travel obsessed fan who?s upset that she?ll never get to see them. Yes, time travel is currently considered impossible.

But do we really care? Let?s have fun with the impossibilities.

Peace,
Ozy[/COLOR]

[4815162342]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]Do you have a basic idea for our first posts? Are we supposed to write a certain event? Just wanted to know so I could start working on it...[/COLOR]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Ok...the RP basically starts at the time the TCD gets the timeline alarm. The particulars will be in my post, but basically you put what you're doing before you get the alarm, and how you get back to the department. *shuffles papers on podium* Any further questions?[/COLOR]

[Muse]

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Ok...since Methuselah has John *sniff* can I have Paul for later on?

I'll try to post as soon as possbile...probably after someone else does.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Aw...phooey. I wanted Paul...just kidding. Most likely. I've been keeping them pretty much for actual Beatle fans...I don't mind players not being fans and whatnot, but to play a Beatle, you have to get the personality right...but if you're Zap I don't think that'll be a problem. ;)


I also decided to put Julius's profile here, instead of in the recruiting thread. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet your villian!

Of course, the characters really know none of this...except for the fact that Rathbone is the son of their department's founder.[/COLOR]



[COLOR=Navy][B]1. Name:[/B] Julius Rathbone

[B]2. Age:[/B] 37 (Y.O.B. 2067)

[B]3. Discription:[/B] Tall and well toned, slender. Some might say "perfectly preportioned". He has thick brown hair, and ice blue eyes. He dresses in dress slacks and lab coats, and always carries a revolver in his pocket. He has a mild face that hides most of his emotions. His one oddity is he never wears shoes - only sandles.

[B]
4.Bio:[/B] Julius Rathbone's grandfather was Brian Rathbone, the scientist who invented the Temporal Shift device. His father was Philip Rathbone, the founder of the TCD. All his life, he felt the need to live up to his grandfather and father's acceivements. However, he didn't care for temporal mechanics, delving more into the medical realms of science. He graduated Johns Hopkins at the head of his class.

In 2093, he was hired by the ICDC to help them find a cure for the small reoccurence of the Plague that was happening in rural China.

Julius was intrigued by the disease, expirementing with and modifying the very way it worked, making it more lethal or less lethal as he saw fit.

Around this time, Julius fell in love with another scientist, Rita Pilchard, who was also interested in medicine. They had a stormy relationship...she loved him, he loved her, but hated the idea of commitment. Feeling she couldn't deal with him never commiting to anything, she ended the relationship in 2095, three months before she died, contracting a highly fatal strain of the very plague Julius loved to expirement with.

Julius snapped, releasing his disease into the world. If it had taken his love, it should take more...why should he be the only one to suffer? Once the ICDC discovered the way to stop the plague with the help of the engimatic Te'tani, he didn't want it to end...so he made his trip to the past....[/COLOR]




[COLOR=DarkOrange]If anybody wanted to invent a look for the Te'tani, they may do so...all I have decided about them is that

a)only the doctors and world leaders have seen them. No one else really know much of anything about them other than a passing glimpse. and

b)they have fur and tails

Considering they really aren't important to our part of the story, this isn't necessary...I just like to have lots of background info...[/COLOR]

[Muse]

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Ok, cool. That explains alot.

I've got a question, too. Do our people know about the Beatles? Or...what?[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Some of them do. For example, my character majored in past culture study. She would probably know [i]of[/i] them at least. [B]Lucian[/B] (Methuselah) and [B]Eleanor[/B] (StarrStruck) are both more or less "flower power" type characters, and more likely to know and like them than...say...[B]Michelle[/B] (Grammar Panzer), [B]Bulldog[/B] (Billy Shears) or [B]Abby[/B] (Shy).

Whether or not your character knows/likes the Beatles is more or less up to you. Obviously, we can't all be screaming fans...variety is the spice of life.

And those of you who have yet to post: You don't have to be out of the TCD when the alarm goes off..you can be on the inside while it's happening...giving us the view from the TCD... ;) Just some ideas...[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Navy]Edit: Also, to ward off any confusion: the opening scene, with Rathbone shooting the vid screen, happened at another office, a side office to the TCD main headquarters. It wouldn't be common knowledge yet, due to the fact that they (the side office) would currently be dealing with two emergencies:

a) Rathbone set the self distruct. They would be focusing on shutting that off, and that takes a LOT of manpower. LOTS and LOTS. Trust me...I designed it. Temporal terrorism is an issue in the day and age of the TCD, and in case of hostile takeover, they don't want there to be ANYTHING left. Also,

b) Rathbone used one of their machines to go back. That means that machine, and that machine alone, can trace his exact date. In the case that the self distruct proved impossible to turn off, the machine must be moved, or tracing the good doctor would be nearly impossible. That's where the rest of the employees are currently. The main office has had no contact from the side office. Just for your random information.[/COLOR]

[4815162342]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]Would any cds or whatever we use in the future disappear? Like, if someone was listening to something the Beatles wrote after 1965, would it just...vanish?[/COLOR]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[quote name='Darksbane][COLOR=RoyalBlue']Would any cds or whatever we use in the future disappear? Like, if someone was listening to something the Beatles wrote after 1965, would it just...vanish?[/COLOR][/quote]

[COLOR=DarkOrange][SIZE=1]In esscense, yes. But they wouldn't remember that they had ever been listening to it in the first place.

Also, everyone's first post was really good...we're just waiting for Grammar Panzer to post now. *pokes Grammar*. I have worked out a sorta chapter system for this...but remember, I said "sorta".

[B]Prelude: A Beginning[/B]

It's a normal day in the TCD, the Temporal Control Department...or so it seems. A mad scientist (see previous posts) has suceeded in sending himself back in time. Something is changing, and changing so dramatically that it nescessatates the immediate recall of every single agent, whether they're active and on duty or not. This chapter will have only one post per player, and it's self explanitory...
[b]Complete[/b]

[B]Chapter One: Yesterday[/B]
[i]In Progress[/i]
So. They've all arrived...they've found out what the emergency was - time is shifting dramatically. But why? What's missing? Time has been scoured again and again...but all the major political events are there; nothing should've brought about this change. And why have the Te'tani ships disappeared from orbit?

If you've read the information in the previous posts, you know why...but how do the characters figure out? That's your job. :D.

[B]Chapter Two: Act Naturally[/B]

The mystery's solved - no wonder no political events are gone...Dr. Rathbone didn't make any changes to political history. What he did remove was the Beatles, in 1965. So the TCD gathers their...er...best agents...ok, who are we kidding? They're a group that will most likely never get along, led by someone who's never led a mission, expected to fit into a culture one hundred and forty years into their past. Dare we say mankind is doomed?

[B]Chapter Three: Day Tripper[/B]

Finally housed and semi-firmly ensconsed in the timeline it's belived Dr. Rathbone is in, the TCD agents begin their assignments...1. Find Dr. Rathbone and 2. Prevent him from offing the Beatles. How will they do this? Technically, it's up to you. If you want to split up into two groups, one searching for Rathbone, the other playing Beatle-bodygaurds, that would work; if you have something else you think would work, send it my way...I love new suggestions, it keeps me from having to make them all.

[B]Chapter Four: Magical Mystery Tour[/B]

Discription Coming Soon

[B]Chapter Five: Eight Days A Week[/B]

Discription Coming Soon

[B]Chapter Six: Tomorrow Never Knows[/B]

Discription Coming Soon

[B]Postlude: The End[/B]


*Laughs at own chapter titles* I'm such a geek... [/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Billy Shears]

[COLOR=DarkRed][SIZE=1]Araby...he seems shady. Just the way he was delivering his speech so calmly was strange...will he be a constant important factor in the story? On my 2nd post, I had my character calling him "Dr. Stuckup". He just seems so...arrogant. Plus, I beefed up the story and had it so Araby was to monitor Rathbone, but he let him go...

-the one and only
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[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Actually, thank to IM sessions with helpful contacts...(who will currently remain nameless... :p ) I have realized Araby may play a more important role in this then I originally thought...although I won't tell why yet...and he's still not coming back in time with us.

And yes, both he and Riggs are stuck up...and a lot of fun to write...as I'm discovering.

EDIT: 3/11/05:
I will now say this: due to unknown circumstances, Grammar Panzer hasn't been on in a week and a half now, so Agent MaBelle is just going to dissappear until such a time as Grammar gets back online.

To those of you who have not posted and plan to do so in this particular section, you would have until around 6 (et) tomorrow to do so, then the meeting will be moving along. Thank you.[/COLOR]

[Skye]

[color=pink]*sigh* I did my job. *pokes Ozy* You said you would pester someone else. *pokes again* I'm becoming bored, and this seems to be the only RPG I have any inspiration for.[/color]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]I'm poking! Trust me...Angelus_Necare has been duly poked, I pestered Muse over IM...I'd poke Shy, but he hasn't been feeling good...plus we have general idea on how to get Abby into this mess I seem to have created other than in the meeting, so Shy may not be posting in this chapter. Muse and Angelus, however...*begins looking for pencil*[/COLOR]

[Skye]

[color=pink]*grins* Maybe they need more than just a poke. *hands you the folding chair of doom.* :devil:[/color]

[Ozymandius Jones]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]Ok...the next post is up...instructions for this time are basically normal reactions, however your character would react...feel free to throw in character development, tech stuff (within reason), etc...not hard, eh?[/COLOR]