Test Thread - Rise of Weirdness MG - Rules

Rise of Weirdness – Map Game

There had always been weirdness, which science couldn't explain. It was thought that it had disappeared in the early 20^th Century, but it wasn't so. Shortly before the Second Great War, a discovery was made in Mesopotamia. A stash of cuneiform tablets. A Sumerian library. Little did the archaeologists know what that library contained.

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Ancient Sumeria

Various strange phenomena are recorded and placed in the library would be discovered thousands of years later. These include 'spells', phrases that interact with the basic structure of the universe with unpredictable results.

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Rules:

Be plausible. Magic is implausible, but otherwise people and nations would act as they would in OTL.

Turns during World War 2 (or the Second Great War) would be four months long, and a year post-war.

Claim before you do a turn. Once your turn comes up you have 168 hours or 1 week to post.

Edit the map in MS Paint, save as a PNG.

• If your events don't change the map, don't post a new one--it darkens it and ruins the quality

• Try to include more than just military or colonial events in your turns. A bit of cultural or scientific colour never hurts. Any posts that are just three lines about wars are not acceptable and will probably not be accepted.

• No planning too far in advance.
  Discussion about how things can go are fine, but they should not go too far ahead of the current year, nor should they take up the majority of the thread.

• When you claim, add yourself to the latest claims list. It will cut down on your claim being accidentally ignored. Failing to do so falls upon you, and you will have to reclaim at the bottom of the list.

Don't engage in lengthy arguments in this thread. If I tell you to cut something out for the sake of not swamping the thread, please do so. If you want, you can always fill my inbox with further complaints, I don't mind that.

• No Turn swapping unless both parties agree. If one of those players is offline, do not bring it up.

• Editing older post to retcon events in is banned. This is a collaborative game, and as such things are to develop with input from other players. Doing so will result in an immediate ban from the game.

BUTTERFLY RULES:

• Try to keep the butterfly effect in mind when making characters - people born after the POD are unlikely to exist at all, let alone take the same role they did IOTL.

Can't say 'Especially Hitler', given the time period but: Especially Kim Jung-Il.

• No Ideological Wanks.

• Ideologies need to be period appropriate. Things take time to form, spread and become popular.

• People born around the POD can change depending on circumstances.