Mikeavelli
2011-12-03, 12:30 AM
So, I've been playing me some Flames of Eternity
For those who don't know, it's a Chrono Trigger romhack that is essentially a brand new full-length game with a storyline comparable in quality to the original game, and consistent with the whole chrono cannon.
Think: Fanmade Chrono Trigger II - easily superior to, say Chrono Cross, or that DS port.
Anyways, the storyline goes really in depth with the consequences of time travel, including one segment where, well, spoilers I guess.
The entire human timeline is removed, and replaced with one where the Reptites are the dominant species on the Planet. Due to time-travelers immunity, the Chrono crew are sent into this reptite-dominated future, and encounter Reptite time travelers.
They eventually use the gates to travel back in time AGAIN to the event that caused the Reptite-dominated timeline, and undo it.
It is possible, in several places, to convince various NPC's that the reptite timeline is an aberration that was never meant to be. They willingly help the PC's, even though it means the retroactive nonexistence of their entire history.
This makes me want to run a game where either this all happens to the PC's and they have to convince a completely different timeline to accept nonexistence to restore their own.
Or...
Introduce a party of NPC's who are, in fact, survivors from a previously-existing timeline, who explain to the PC's that this current world they're living in was never meant to exist! They're fighting to send the entire world of the PC's to nonexistence for the purpose of reinstating the world that once was.
Just to see what happens.
I imagine one of those Time Abominations from the Epic Level Handbook should show up at some point.
For those who don't know, it's a Chrono Trigger romhack that is essentially a brand new full-length game with a storyline comparable in quality to the original game, and consistent with the whole chrono cannon.
Think: Fanmade Chrono Trigger II - easily superior to, say Chrono Cross, or that DS port.
Anyways, the storyline goes really in depth with the consequences of time travel, including one segment where, well, spoilers I guess.
The entire human timeline is removed, and replaced with one where the Reptites are the dominant species on the Planet. Due to time-travelers immunity, the Chrono crew are sent into this reptite-dominated future, and encounter Reptite time travelers.
They eventually use the gates to travel back in time AGAIN to the event that caused the Reptite-dominated timeline, and undo it.
It is possible, in several places, to convince various NPC's that the reptite timeline is an aberration that was never meant to be. They willingly help the PC's, even though it means the retroactive nonexistence of their entire history.
This makes me want to run a game where either this all happens to the PC's and they have to convince a completely different timeline to accept nonexistence to restore their own.
Or...
Introduce a party of NPC's who are, in fact, survivors from a previously-existing timeline, who explain to the PC's that this current world they're living in was never meant to exist! They're fighting to send the entire world of the PC's to nonexistence for the purpose of reinstating the world that once was.
Just to see what happens.
I imagine one of those Time Abominations from the Epic Level Handbook should show up at some point.