Scenes of Worldplay, A

There is a step in progress of photography, or even more basically speaking optical. Our eyes see better than ever, really. And as photography has this spatial element it to can increase in degree toward a realism, from still to slo-mo to fast forward time lapse.
We could always kind of see the Earth's limits of rotation, but now sped up, and trained our eyes to speed up, it can be visualized ever better.

So Earth Zap Two: unlike the Triassic bio catastrophe, this Gamma Ray Burst occurred in closer proximity and greater voltage.
The times of the ends are when the Earth is being baked a super heated gas transfer from the Gamma Ray Burst Two, over one week, from normal to total wipe.
It spun, actually, in time with the Earth for a good two days.
The moon gained a temporary atmosphere of mostly helium and hydrogene, but then the burst ovewhelmed shields and for one decade the moon survived by using fusion.

But this is like 4,300 CE!


Others are sometimes called Modern scenarios.

The idea is to get the sense of now, today, through the lens of WorldPlay.
Sure, an auto planet generator is already available.
One has to quickly fill in the maps but the whole world is not normally explored...just a small region.

Otherwise, there is a great deal of ease in setting things in the Now simply because the images, maps and technologies are easily referenced.
As in searching for the magic item, or the coolest space ship...always there is this search for the most interesting technology. So even Modern or in the Now settings there is a Scout which provides some data for the Investigators, and the investigators will want weapons.
The Scout should be incompetent and, there is a ongoing contest to whom will be the highest bidder.

To do our sense of the Politics of Now: the Libertarian, the Conservative and the Liberal.

Libertarian: 1
Conservative: 2
Liberal: 3

Libertarians can be bribed.
Conservatives must be treatied.
Liberals...diplomacy.

Of course, here is always criminal investigations. And this entry into the Now (from either the future or past or stranger reality) is well and good a criminal investigation of a time traveling pirate lodging in this "happens to exactly resemble now" parallel reality.

Another stranded sci fi scene

List of encounters for B27/5102/81/4
Planets: Unklow

Aliens: AAA threat
Beach

"You have just graduated from Time Travel School. Your pizza delivery training is over, now there is this new assignment.

We have sent you to this planet of Unklow in the Parallel Reality A1-1. There is an alien who the Scout could not identify, the broadcast was interrupted.
The disaster due to the alien is not understood. The Alien is on top of a Space Elevator.
Meet the alien, figure out what happened to the scout, and have the responsible party sign the insurance papers."



"Here is a copy of the insurance:

In order to cover the expenses of the disaster you are about to initiate, please sign on the line next to the date...and we will pay you a monthly stipend of 1 billion time tokens.

Time tokens are herein defined as: a moment of time travel. You may use them to learn how to time travel better. By time travel we mean any moment in time you may go to, future or past, from the date alongside the signature below.

This is in no way meant to reward your iniquity. Herein and hereon, at any moment you 'misbehave', your time travel tokens will be forfeit.





Signed_____________________________ this 4th day of B27/5102/81/(4)