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Ok?I (still, two years later :P) 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. There?s plenty of room. I don?t really have a set number in mind?I know I could use about seven 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. 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...

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

[B]1960s related:[/B]
[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]