Post by Dead Sidekick on Feb 6, 2012 5:58:08 GMT -5
ooc: After pouring over the last two-plus years of game posts, I've derived this helpful story reference timeline, including "damage" done to the timeline by certain players and NPCs
;D Warning, may contain spoilers, and definitely contains hardcore comic book continuity headache physics ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
Edit: I've decided that while I like the temporal paradoxes aspects of the game, the ONE BIG temporal paradox that was unresolvable is the "two Thursdays in a row" caused by the original text of the game starting on a Tuesday - so, in order to fix this, I'm subtlely changing the beginning of this adventure at the meeting with Maximillian Pride at the Met Museum to Monday afternoon, rather than Tuesday afternoon in the original text (which I'll go back and change, because I'm detail-oriented like that...)
Pregame:
10 / 31 / 1692 - Bartholomew Jacobs burned as a "witch."
9 / 26 / 2009 - Glitch discovers the "Paladin Institute" agents he's trying to crack a database for are actually HYDRA LMDs, he is subdued and imprisoned in the Angel Towers Complex
10 / 16 / 2009 - Friday afternoon; Nome, Alaska, a chronologically displaced shadow duplicate of Renegade appears, begins gambling in local pool halls for money for a plane ride back to New York City
Chapter One - Chapter Five
10 / 17 / 2009 - Saturday night; first recorded monster attack at Crimson Smiles hangout
10 / 18 / 2009 - Early Sunday morning; Bartholomew Jacobs' grimoire stolen from Metropolitan Museum of Art
10 / 19 / 2009 - Monday afternoon; Shockwave, Flashdance and Oldschool meeting with Maximillian Pride at Met Museum
10 / 19 / 2009 - Monday night; driveby shooting battle in Central Park, met Solo
10 / 20 / 2009 - early Tuesday morning; after midnight battle at Hank's Tavern / Flashing Blades hangout, met Windchill, Spellbound, and Elixir
10 / 20 / 2009 - Tuesday morning; Maximillian Pride and Felicia Bifrost go missing
Chapter 5.5 - Seven
10 / 20 / 2009 - early Tuesday afternoon; battle with Dreadnaught robots on Port Authority docks. Windchill wounded [and later kidnapped from hospital] the "real" Oldschool goes missing, later replaced by an LMD.
10 / 20 / 2009 - late Tuesday night; battle at Starky's Pool Hall / Buzzcuts gang hangout; met Renegade [Spellbound uses time manipulation to put battle in heroes' favor!!!]
10 / 20 / 2009 - late Tuesday night; battle at Starky's Pool Hall; Renegade's shadow duplicate attempts to follow Shroud through the Darkforce Dimension [and is diffused through time by interference from Spellbound's time manipulation]
Chapter 7.5
10 / 21 / 2009 - early Wednesday morning; after midnight - Vendetta discovers Windchill, bleeding and abandoned in a warehouse, and takes him to a gangland "medic" and seeks out Oldschool at the homeless shelter
[insert start of ongoing in-game temporal paradoxes here, heh]
[Chapter 9.99]
10 / 21 / 2009 - Wednesday morning; the time-travelling / dimension hopper known as the Omen emerges from his splinter Hell-Realm encounter with Mephisto and Nightmare onto MSHG Earth to meet with the Demon Bitterhorn.
Chapter 8
10 / 21 / 2009 - Wednesday night; Vendetta leads the team to Windchill, team attacked by ninjas. Shockwave shot. Spellbound "dies"
10 / 21 / 2009 - Faces of Fear gang attacks nightclub owned by Wilson Fisk (the Kingpin)
10 / 21 / 2009 - Meeting between Nefaria family and Jade Phoenix Clan Yakuza disrupted by Oldschool (LMD) and Faces of Fear members
Chapter 8.2 - 8.7
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday morning - One of Renegade's temporally displaced shadow duplicates locates a Hypnoporter node via telepathic guidance from his missing master Stick, freeing an LMD copy of Oldschool who somehow pulls one of Rin's hypnoportation avatars into reality. **The REAL Oldschool remains missing**
Chapter Nine - 9.8
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday mid-morning - Rin's hypnoportational avatar induces sleep attack on lower Manhattan during Deadpool's assault on the homeless shelter. Flashdance, Shockwave, Elixir, Windchill, and Vendetta are knocked asleep and enter Nightmare's Dream Dimension. [all but Flashdance wake up] Windchill flash-freezes Deadpool into a block of ice in anger. Vendetta knocks out Windchill.
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday afternoon; Angel Tower's Complex - Windchill awakens in a Kick-addicted rage and flies back to the homeless shelter to get a sample of Kick from Elixir. He shoots down a news helicopter. The team subdue Windchill with assistance from Ferine. Solo and Elixir take Windchill to Symkaria and place him under the care of Silver Sable.
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday night; Roaring 20s Club - Ferine and Elixir go to Hammerhead's club. Mephisto gives Elixir a strange stone. Elixir fights Raptor and "kills" him, and is subsequently recruited into Hammerhead's gang. The Faces of Fear attack, and the team arrives to give backup to Ferine. Rin, Elixir, and Oldschool (his LMD copy) go missing after the building collapses.
10 / 23 / 2009 - Friday morning, after midnight - Raptor revives from death with a mysterious message from Spellbound for the Stark Fist to join the team at the Angel Towers complex
Chapter 10 - 10.3
10 / 23 / 2009 - Friday morning, the Omen lands on a plane from Chicago in the adopted identity of Sam Evans. Spellbound and demons loyal to the Omen save him from repeated chronological assassination attempts from the Forerunners. Renegade's temporally displaced shadow duplicate was on the same plane the Omen arrived from Chicago on, himself flying cross-country from Alaska. Elixir, as "Chris" witnesses a bus crash that he presumes killed Sam Evans and Hammerhead's lieutenants that were accompanying him.
10 / 23 / 2009 - Friday morning, Shockwave, Solo, Vendetta, and Ferine discover the Paladin Institute was infiltrated by HYDRA LMDs somehow disintegrated by a force that emerged from Bartholomew Jacobs' artifact, and that there's a lot more going on that they first realized.... The team frees the real Maximillian Pride and the real Glitch from captivity in the base. It is discovered that Glitch and Flashdance have been replaced by LMDs. The real Flashdance remains comatose from Rin's sleep induction attack the day before, indicating that it was an LMD duplicate of Flashdance that helped in the battle at the Roaring 20s Club. There is suspicion that Oldschool has been replaced with an LMD as well. Flashdance's eyes broadcast from some other dimension the view of himself fighting alongside Spellbound, the Omen, Rin, Oldschool, Elixir, Renegade, and Raptor against a nightmarish army of zombies.
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As the story shifts, and the time-travelling dimension hopping characters really get their groove on, this timeline sketch will change accordingly.![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
![:)](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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![:P](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
Edit: I've decided that while I like the temporal paradoxes aspects of the game, the ONE BIG temporal paradox that was unresolvable is the "two Thursdays in a row" caused by the original text of the game starting on a Tuesday - so, in order to fix this, I'm subtlely changing the beginning of this adventure at the meeting with Maximillian Pride at the Met Museum to Monday afternoon, rather than Tuesday afternoon in the original text (which I'll go back and change, because I'm detail-oriented like that...)
Pregame:
10 / 31 / 1692 - Bartholomew Jacobs burned as a "witch."
9 / 26 / 2009 - Glitch discovers the "Paladin Institute" agents he's trying to crack a database for are actually HYDRA LMDs, he is subdued and imprisoned in the Angel Towers Complex
10 / 16 / 2009 - Friday afternoon; Nome, Alaska, a chronologically displaced shadow duplicate of Renegade appears, begins gambling in local pool halls for money for a plane ride back to New York City
Chapter One - Chapter Five
10 / 17 / 2009 - Saturday night; first recorded monster attack at Crimson Smiles hangout
10 / 18 / 2009 - Early Sunday morning; Bartholomew Jacobs' grimoire stolen from Metropolitan Museum of Art
10 / 19 / 2009 - Monday afternoon; Shockwave, Flashdance and Oldschool meeting with Maximillian Pride at Met Museum
10 / 19 / 2009 - Monday night; driveby shooting battle in Central Park, met Solo
10 / 20 / 2009 - early Tuesday morning; after midnight battle at Hank's Tavern / Flashing Blades hangout, met Windchill, Spellbound, and Elixir
10 / 20 / 2009 - Tuesday morning; Maximillian Pride and Felicia Bifrost go missing
Chapter 5.5 - Seven
10 / 20 / 2009 - early Tuesday afternoon; battle with Dreadnaught robots on Port Authority docks. Windchill wounded [and later kidnapped from hospital] the "real" Oldschool goes missing, later replaced by an LMD.
10 / 20 / 2009 - late Tuesday night; battle at Starky's Pool Hall / Buzzcuts gang hangout; met Renegade [Spellbound uses time manipulation to put battle in heroes' favor!!!]
10 / 20 / 2009 - late Tuesday night; battle at Starky's Pool Hall; Renegade's shadow duplicate attempts to follow Shroud through the Darkforce Dimension [and is diffused through time by interference from Spellbound's time manipulation]
Chapter 7.5
10 / 21 / 2009 - early Wednesday morning; after midnight - Vendetta discovers Windchill, bleeding and abandoned in a warehouse, and takes him to a gangland "medic" and seeks out Oldschool at the homeless shelter
[insert start of ongoing in-game temporal paradoxes here, heh]
[Chapter 9.99]
10 / 21 / 2009 - Wednesday morning; the time-travelling / dimension hopper known as the Omen emerges from his splinter Hell-Realm encounter with Mephisto and Nightmare onto MSHG Earth to meet with the Demon Bitterhorn.
Chapter 8
10 / 21 / 2009 - Wednesday night; Vendetta leads the team to Windchill, team attacked by ninjas. Shockwave shot. Spellbound "dies"
10 / 21 / 2009 - Faces of Fear gang attacks nightclub owned by Wilson Fisk (the Kingpin)
10 / 21 / 2009 - Meeting between Nefaria family and Jade Phoenix Clan Yakuza disrupted by Oldschool (LMD) and Faces of Fear members
Chapter 8.2 - 8.7
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday morning - One of Renegade's temporally displaced shadow duplicates locates a Hypnoporter node via telepathic guidance from his missing master Stick, freeing an LMD copy of Oldschool who somehow pulls one of Rin's hypnoportation avatars into reality. **The REAL Oldschool remains missing**
Chapter Nine - 9.8
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday mid-morning - Rin's hypnoportational avatar induces sleep attack on lower Manhattan during Deadpool's assault on the homeless shelter. Flashdance, Shockwave, Elixir, Windchill, and Vendetta are knocked asleep and enter Nightmare's Dream Dimension. [all but Flashdance wake up] Windchill flash-freezes Deadpool into a block of ice in anger. Vendetta knocks out Windchill.
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday afternoon; Angel Tower's Complex - Windchill awakens in a Kick-addicted rage and flies back to the homeless shelter to get a sample of Kick from Elixir. He shoots down a news helicopter. The team subdue Windchill with assistance from Ferine. Solo and Elixir take Windchill to Symkaria and place him under the care of Silver Sable.
10 / 22 / 2009 - Thursday night; Roaring 20s Club - Ferine and Elixir go to Hammerhead's club. Mephisto gives Elixir a strange stone. Elixir fights Raptor and "kills" him, and is subsequently recruited into Hammerhead's gang. The Faces of Fear attack, and the team arrives to give backup to Ferine. Rin, Elixir, and Oldschool (his LMD copy) go missing after the building collapses.
10 / 23 / 2009 - Friday morning, after midnight - Raptor revives from death with a mysterious message from Spellbound for the Stark Fist to join the team at the Angel Towers complex
Chapter 10 - 10.3
10 / 23 / 2009 - Friday morning, the Omen lands on a plane from Chicago in the adopted identity of Sam Evans. Spellbound and demons loyal to the Omen save him from repeated chronological assassination attempts from the Forerunners. Renegade's temporally displaced shadow duplicate was on the same plane the Omen arrived from Chicago on, himself flying cross-country from Alaska. Elixir, as "Chris" witnesses a bus crash that he presumes killed Sam Evans and Hammerhead's lieutenants that were accompanying him.
10 / 23 / 2009 - Friday morning, Shockwave, Solo, Vendetta, and Ferine discover the Paladin Institute was infiltrated by HYDRA LMDs somehow disintegrated by a force that emerged from Bartholomew Jacobs' artifact, and that there's a lot more going on that they first realized.... The team frees the real Maximillian Pride and the real Glitch from captivity in the base. It is discovered that Glitch and Flashdance have been replaced by LMDs. The real Flashdance remains comatose from Rin's sleep induction attack the day before, indicating that it was an LMD duplicate of Flashdance that helped in the battle at the Roaring 20s Club. There is suspicion that Oldschool has been replaced with an LMD as well. Flashdance's eyes broadcast from some other dimension the view of himself fighting alongside Spellbound, the Omen, Rin, Oldschool, Elixir, Renegade, and Raptor against a nightmarish army of zombies.
=====
As the story shifts, and the time-travelling dimension hopping characters really get their groove on, this timeline sketch will change accordingly.
![;)](http://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)