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Message no. 1
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Game Timelines (A Beginning)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 01:25:42 -0400
Hey guys...I read in one of these topic's that most of the games were in the
2055 range...okay...I have a couple of people here in my PBEM and that game
alone is in March of 2058...the main game I have here in Lafalot
(giggle-smirk) is in May with planned runs going into deep September...

Planning ahead is always fun, especially when you have more material going
through your games than the Master Game itself.

-Keith
Message no. 2
From: Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: Game Timelines (A Beginning)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 08:34:39 EST
> Hey guys...I read in one of these topic's that most of the games
> were in the 2055 range...okay...I have a couple of people here in my
> PBEM and that game alone is in March of 2058...the main game I have
> here in Lafalot (giggle-smirk) is in May with planned runs going
> into deep September...

ACtually, I would say that A lot of us are near the SR timeline,
which is currently in (ourmonth)(ourday)(our year+61), which puts
them in June 2058 now.
Message no. 3
From: Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Game Timelines (A Beginning)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 16:27:34 GMT
J. Keith Henry writes

> Hey guys...I read in one of these topic's that most of the games were in the
> 2055 range...okay...I have a couple of people here in my PBEM and that game
> alone is in March of 2058...the main game I have here in Lafalot
> (giggle-smirk) is in May with planned runs going into deep September...
>
My campain is presently sometime in July 2058, occasionally PC's like
lots of downtime so things get ahead, other sesions though see the
timeline moving about 2 days a real week so.

> Planning ahead is always fun, especially when you have more material going
> through your games than the Master Game itself.
>
Oh i plan and plan. Some of the stuff of my own i'm thinking about
now won't get run for at least another 3 months and some of the plot
threads have already been underway for a couple of years. I think its
now three years since one corporation started causing trouble, and
that was in the last campain and the plot thread they are in is still
going strong and doesn't look like being resolved in the forseeable
future, ok so runs involving said corp have been an average less than
one per three months even the ones the players don't know were
connected but. But then some of the big things i have planned need a
lot of setting up.

The annoyances happen FASA wise when books come out months after the
events they describe are supposed to have occured which is why many
GM's intentionally run around a year behind FASA.

Mark
Message no. 4
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Game Timelines (A Beginning)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:20:50 -0400
At 04:27 PM 6/25/97 GMT, Mark Steedman wrote these timeless words:

>My campain is presently sometime in July 2058, occasionally PC's like
>lots of downtime so things get ahead, other sesions though see the
>timeline moving about 2 days a real week so.
>
You want to know something funny?

Time is very irrelevant in our game... I've worked it out since we satrted
playing... # RL years have passed in Bull's Game, and 3 FASA Years have
passed (2055-2058), yet 6 GAME years have passed...:] But we're STILL in
2058...

Fun, eh?

It's kinda like Marvel Comics... Spider Man SHOULD be almost 50... Lois
Lane should be in her 70's, and yet... Comic Book time passes
differently... And so does game time...;]

Bull
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