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Post by agonyembraced on Jun 8, 2013 17:44:16 GMT -5
O.k., this seems like something covered in the Etiquette Guide, but it hasn't reached my timestamp so I feel the need to ask: When there are multiple versios of one person around, what is the proper way to refer to them?
And similarly, how exactly do you refer to events that are in your personal past but the chronological future. Similarly, how do you refer to events that are the opposite (personal future, chronological past)?
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Post by cryptologicalMystic on Jul 1, 2013 13:24:29 GMT -5
Alchemize a clock && any grammar book || a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (the fictional one). You'll get a first edition copy of Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook for 1001 Tense Formations. The thing hasn't let me down yet where time shenanigans are involved.
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Post by cursedGardener on Jul 1, 2013 21:28:22 GMT -5
I've never rolled Time, nor have I managed to get my hands on a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but so far I made do using possessive pronouns when talking about subjective time, things like "My yesterday", "Your Tomorrow", and "Her next year", anything without a pronoun is assumed to be relative to when you are. People are referred to with terms like "My past self", or "His future dreamself" etc. It's simple, but it works once you can get your sessionmates to agree on what a day is.
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Post by agonyembraced on Jul 1, 2013 22:15:01 GMT -5
I've tried something like that, but then problems were run into when I was trying to describe the actions of my Dupliclones, especially when they work as a group. Do I refer to them as "my dupliclone"? No, that's not quite right, I'm as equal a clone of them as they are of me. Do I refer to all of them as "me", "I". and similar? Then it becomes hard as hell to keep track of plurality (they won't be able to tell when I switch to referring to myself as an individual, or me as a group). The closest I ever came to solving them was to carve distinguishing marks into ourselves, and then give ourselves titles based off of it so that they could refer to an individual by their title and just treat us all like different people for conversation purposes.
Sadly, I don't think I could alchemize that, given how this Spire doesn't have many books in it, much less grammar books. Probably is one somewhere of prospit, but getting it would require me to have a sleep ration that isn't utter crap all the time (and before anyone mentions bed-stacking:my land makes carrying things around very difficult, and I don't think you can captcha the land beds).
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Post by everlastingSnow on Jul 12, 2013 19:03:34 GMT -5
I have similar issues. I have trouble with the whole past future self thing. I get kind of confused over whether I should refer to them as 'mes' or different people. I have a habit of switching. Future me appears to have the same problem (or did before she stopped talking to me). I think the proper way to refer to them is by your own name (Because they are you after all!) but take that with a grain of salt because I'm not certain. As I've said, even future me doesn't quite understand it!
Also, the Etiquette FAQ hasn't reached my timestamp either, which sucks because future me told me about it while she was explaining the concept of GodTier to me. I had asked her if you could ascend on another person's Quest bed. (Past me hadn't read the FAQ yet.) She then told me to read GM's Etiquette FAQ and GGTG's FAQ. I only found one of them. I've been curious about it ever since.
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Post by ladyArjuna on Jul 19, 2013 6:24:13 GMT -5
Our time player wants to dictate it to me, he's too paranoid to try and get on the boards. Personally I think he should pitch in, but whatever.
"Basically, think of your continuity as one long, turning line. It goes up and down on the ruler, but it never leaves itself- unless it frays, but frankly I'm not going to get into Frag and Sburb's a bit of a bugaboo there.
"So if something is down the ruler, closer to one, it's 'downtime'. If something is further along, it's 'uptime'. If it's something that's already happened to you, it's your 'Before'. If it's something that hasn't happened to you, but you're pretty sure it is due to other Time shenanigans, it's in your 'Yet'.
"As for Geminis, it's a little easier to refer to them as 'Elder' or 'Younger', based on if they're in your Yet or your Before, respectively."
... And he just told me that 'further information is not available here', which is his codeword for "I'm done talking about this for now."
Whatever.
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Post by agonyembraced on Jul 20, 2013 9:14:03 GMT -5
"As for Geminis, it's a little easier to refer to them as 'Elder' or 'Younger', based on if they're in your Yet or your Before, respectively." Whatever. Time player in my current session actually has something similar going on in this respect. Whenever stable time loops are involved, they number themelves based on how many times they've been through the loop. First time through is number zero, each additional time through is +1. Doomed selves are given imaginary numbers, while doomed timeselves that are part of a stable Alpha loop ore given complex numbers of (number of times through loop+imaginary number designating doomed status). Generally, the doomed selves were numbered by chronology of events that Doomed them, using normal linear time. So the earliest splinter produced a doomed timeclone of 1i, the second 2i, ect.. In retrospect, it was probably a bit overly complex, but it unambiguously identifies everyone. If I ever roll Time, I'll probably use his system. |
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