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Unseen Treasures: Temporal Corps Orientation Guide
Ever had the desire to visit ancient Egypt? Twenty-fifth century Alpha Centauri? Meet strange and fascinating people? And kill them? Then, the Temporal Corps may be for you.
Are you the sort of person who likes the idea of driving around in prehistoric times beind the wheel of a Lamborghini M1000 off-road vehicle? Flying a supersonic convertable mecha over Normandy on D-Day, picking off Messerschmitts with impunity? There's a possibility that TempCorps may be your cup of tea.
Want an excuse to carry a laser disguised as a flintlock and remain 100% authentic at SCA events? Welcome to the Corps, friend!
leamur asked me a question in PM that brought me up short.
"Hey, I keep seeing these great pics of gorgeous gals in Temporal Corps uniforms. What IS the Temporal Corps, anyway?"
It's a good question. I created the Corps nearly twenty-five years ago, and I sorta assumed everyone knew what it was by now, forgetting that not everyone WOULD know.
A lotta folks asked that question back then, and so I went and created the TempCorps Orientation Guide in 1993. So, for you newcomers, here's some answers. For you oldtimers, here's an old friend in a new format! :)
Anyhoo, what ya got here is basically the original MS Word document, dragged from the nether regions of my hard drive and smacked around some until it begrudgingly agreed to be made into a PDF file. The original text is all there, with a bit of tweaking on the pictures (the portrait of Matt and Tali is cleaner, and the lineart version of the Doug Winger pic of Lowchan is in the Uniforms section instead of the pic of the Major cribbed from his visit from Savage Squirrel.) In addition, you get a diagram explaining space/time courtesy of Yours Truly! Yay!
Text, layout, cover illo and space/time illo © me. MMM and Tali pic by
karno. Low pic by Doug Winger. The TimeControl™ emblem is ® The Subgenius Foundation and is used with permission (in fact, Rev. Stang was most amused by the Guide when I gave him a copy at a Devival in Philly shortly after it was published). Praise "Bob"!
Are you the sort of person who likes the idea of driving around in prehistoric times beind the wheel of a Lamborghini M1000 off-road vehicle? Flying a supersonic convertable mecha over Normandy on D-Day, picking off Messerschmitts with impunity? There's a possibility that TempCorps may be your cup of tea.
Want an excuse to carry a laser disguised as a flintlock and remain 100% authentic at SCA events? Welcome to the Corps, friend!
leamur asked me a question in PM that brought me up short."Hey, I keep seeing these great pics of gorgeous gals in Temporal Corps uniforms. What IS the Temporal Corps, anyway?"
It's a good question. I created the Corps nearly twenty-five years ago, and I sorta assumed everyone knew what it was by now, forgetting that not everyone WOULD know.
A lotta folks asked that question back then, and so I went and created the TempCorps Orientation Guide in 1993. So, for you newcomers, here's some answers. For you oldtimers, here's an old friend in a new format! :)
Anyhoo, what ya got here is basically the original MS Word document, dragged from the nether regions of my hard drive and smacked around some until it begrudgingly agreed to be made into a PDF file. The original text is all there, with a bit of tweaking on the pictures (the portrait of Matt and Tali is cleaner, and the lineart version of the Doug Winger pic of Lowchan is in the Uniforms section instead of the pic of the Major cribbed from his visit from Savage Squirrel.) In addition, you get a diagram explaining space/time courtesy of Yours Truly! Yay!
Text, layout, cover illo and space/time illo © me. MMM and Tali pic by
karno. Low pic by Doug Winger. The TimeControl™ emblem is ® The Subgenius Foundation and is used with permission (in fact, Rev. Stang was most amused by the Guide when I gave him a copy at a Devival in Philly shortly after it was published). Praise "Bob"!
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Go download Foxit reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
It is a far smaller package than Adobe, and I have had a lot less trouble with it. =]
It is a far smaller package than Adobe, and I have had a lot less trouble with it. =]
In fact, I covered that topic in "Happily Ever After"...
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/841694/
Enjoy!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/841694/
Enjoy!
I have to laugh on reading this. A few years ago, I was playing on a message board with a character that could have been tailor-made for the Temporal Corps. He's a natural planeswalker, able to jump to and across alternate timelines on his own. Quite often this involves going back and forth in time.
Other specs on the character would almost make him sound like a God-moder, although I tried to make as many drawbacks as possible - with each power came a problem.
For example, he has Psionic ability. Receive sensitivity is good but not great, transmit... will need to have the scales redefined. His biggest problem is sending a thought without causing massive aneurisms and killing the recipient along with a number of bystanders.
Another example is the planeswalking ability: he rarely has control over it. If he forces a jump, there's no telling where or when he'll end up. He can control a jump if he "lets it happen", but there's no telling when he'll be able to launch. Might take hours, might be years. Also, no telling if he can take equipment with him. Sometimes it works, sometimes he shows up naked.
Oh, and his favorite hideouts and hangouts are most often junkyards, so equipment in varying states of disrepair is nothing new...
Other specs on the character would almost make him sound like a God-moder, although I tried to make as many drawbacks as possible - with each power came a problem.
For example, he has Psionic ability. Receive sensitivity is good but not great, transmit... will need to have the scales redefined. His biggest problem is sending a thought without causing massive aneurisms and killing the recipient along with a number of bystanders.
Another example is the planeswalking ability: he rarely has control over it. If he forces a jump, there's no telling where or when he'll end up. He can control a jump if he "lets it happen", but there's no telling when he'll be able to launch. Might take hours, might be years. Also, no telling if he can take equipment with him. Sometimes it works, sometimes he shows up naked.
Oh, and his favorite hideouts and hangouts are most often junkyards, so equipment in varying states of disrepair is nothing new...
Heh! It gets more interesting. I played with the idea of the "diverging universes", other realms and possibilities that come about when a decision is made or a chance is taken. My character gets taken along for the ride often enough that on more than one occasion he's met other versions of himself.
Sgt. Ketcham would have to figure out which one he was talking to!
Sgt. Ketcham would have to figure out which one he was talking to!
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