Krall
Banned
That's a pity; I was looking forward to seeing your map after you said it would show the travels of a common person!
It's meant to end this Saturday/Sunday, but at this rate we may have to extend the contest by a week.
MotF 77: On the Road Again
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That's a pity; I was looking forward to seeing your map after you said it would show the travels of a common person!
It's meant to end this Saturday/Sunday, but at this rate we may have to extend the contest by a week.
Alex Richards
Donor
This one's from the same universe as my Alsace-Lorraine one. More details can be supplied if necessary.
From the TV listings for New York City
Saturday 8th June
HTV: 9PM
Flight of the Imperial Train.
Continuing the story of the 1921 escape of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolavena from the Bolsheviks and the journey of the Imperial Train through Central Asia to reach the safety of Kiev. In this episode the Grand Duchess faces Bandits on the line from Verniy to Tashkent and experiences the sublime beauty of Issyk-Kul.
Episode 4 of 6.
Screenshot provided by HTV. All Rights reserved.
From the TV listings for New York City
Saturday 8th June
HTV: 9PM
Flight of the Imperial Train.
Continuing the story of the 1921 escape of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolavena from the Bolsheviks and the journey of the Imperial Train through Central Asia to reach the safety of Kiev. In this episode the Grand Duchess faces Bandits on the line from Verniy to Tashkent and experiences the sublime beauty of Issyk-Kul.
Episode 4 of 6.
Screenshot provided by HTV. All Rights reserved.
That's a pity; I was looking forward to seeing your map after you said it would show the travels of a common person!
It's meant to end this Saturday/Sunday, but at this rate we may have to extend the contest by a week.
Hm, well if it's extended b a week, I think I will enter.
Krall
Banned
That's not what I originally imagined, but it's cool and it falls within the Vaguest Possible Interpretation of the challenge, so yes! That'd be fine.
Different Toledo War, leading to Michigan getting Toledo in exchange for giving up the UP?
Krall
Banned
Sorry, I forgot to reply to this earlier. If you're asking what I think you're asking (specifically about whether you need to show the trail of a person or just the sites they visited), then the answer is yes.
Quick question Krall; Would ASB include (the scientific, really small numbered/endangered species) Sasquatches?
The map's nowhere dependant on the idea, but I thought it'd be an interesting addition in the form of adding a note for one of the areas shown visited as being visited to see them.
The map's nowhere dependant on the idea, but I thought it'd be an interesting addition in the form of adding a note for one of the areas shown visited as being visited to see them.
Krall
Banned
I think sasquatches actually existing would be ASB, at least without a really far back PoD. You can have their existence be ambiguous, or the theory of their existence be more widely believed, but having them actually confirmed to exist would be ASB, I think.
I hope that doesn't mess up your map too much.
I think sasquatches actually existing would be ASB, at least without a really far back PoD. You can have their existence be ambiguous, or the theory of their existence be more widely believed, but having them actually confirmed to exist would be ASB, I think.
I hope that doesn't mess up your map too much.
Ah ok, was just curious.
An no, it does'nt, I actually though of it after I was almost done with the map; basicaly I was just trying to think of notes for some of the places visited and I thought of it; I think I'll go the 'no proof they exist, but person still believes they do and searches for them fruitlessly' route.
While most AH Maps and Stories are made with a PoD either being a major event or really important historic person I wanted to make a map showing both how a change to unimportant people could gradually change history and how change gathers slowly, with it not seeming different if you're only looking at the big picture.
The basic PoD is that in the early 60's a West Coast family that would've otherwise developed poor, eventually making it to Middle Class when the parents were old, comes into a large sum of money which the parents then put in trust funds for their five children, buy a nice, but not luxurious or fancy house and a little bit of land and invest the rest.
The map shows the trips (defined as staying overnight once night or more) made by their most successful and entrepreneurial grandchild in the first decade of the 21st century, including both personal and business trips, some of which mix together.
The basic PoD is that in the early 60's a West Coast family that would've otherwise developed poor, eventually making it to Middle Class when the parents were old, comes into a large sum of money which the parents then put in trust funds for their five children, buy a nice, but not luxurious or fancy house and a little bit of land and invest the rest.
The map shows the trips (defined as staying overnight once night or more) made by their most successful and entrepreneurial grandchild in the first decade of the 21st century, including both personal and business trips, some of which mix together.
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[QUOTE="A Brief History of Rexism" by Amadeus Scherer (Austrian Historical Society, Vienna, 1999)]Few men can genuinely be said to have reshaped history forever; as a rule, change is driven by a large number of factors and people, and the concept of "great man history" is largely caused by oversimplification and/or a nationalist narrative seeking to turn certain individuals into examples of virtue or vice. However, T.E. Chapman, the leader of Rexism in Britain and absolute leader of that nation's government from 1932 to his death in 1963, is one of the few individuals who truly did shape human history. From the political quagmire that was post-SEW Britain he forged a "new order" driven by strength of leadership and by a form of totalitarian nationalism that glorified the self while simultaneously demonising several groups in society (chiefly the Jews, Welshmen, Irishmen and socialists). His new Britain fought the "Soft War" against the United States, and Rexism became one of the world's dominant ideologies; however, nothing can last forever, and by Chapman's death in 1963, the events had already been set in motion that would lead to the fall of the greatest empire in history...[/QUOTE]
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Alex Richards
Donor
Hmm. Well it's not as if the Nottingham Council Building doesn't already look like the backdrop for a totalitarian speech
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Krall
Banned
Hmm. Well it's not as if the Nottingham Council Building doesn't already look like the backdrop for a totalitarian speech
I'm afraid the rules are that you're not allowed to post images outside of entries, so it's clear which posts are entries and which are not.
One Executive's Accidental Contamination Is Another Executive's Opportunity To Branch Out.
In essence: One part Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (the planet builders), one part Truman Show, a very stressed-out band of travelers are somehow marooned on a completely non-populated but verdant Earth...
During pre-purchase inspection, the band was discovered, and corporate decided to take a delicate and deliberate approach to removing the contamination. But fate intervened: drone footage obtained of the travelers was passed around and ended up going viral. One thing led to another.
The viewing audience measures in the dozens of billions. Colorful phrases uttered by the travelers under duress are part of popular culture. Interventions that collect the travelers and deposit them in a new location on the planet are greeted with enthusiasm and festivity befitting an official holiday.
Besides the corporate executives, the most compensated of those involved are the staff who are depicted tracking and occasionally messing with the travelers. An inset box of the crew making hilarious remarks about the program's "stars" and discussing what to do to them next is a very popular part of it.
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In essence: One part Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (the planet builders), one part Truman Show, a very stressed-out band of travelers are somehow marooned on a completely non-populated but verdant Earth...
During pre-purchase inspection, the band was discovered, and corporate decided to take a delicate and deliberate approach to removing the contamination. But fate intervened: drone footage obtained of the travelers was passed around and ended up going viral. One thing led to another.
The viewing audience measures in the dozens of billions. Colorful phrases uttered by the travelers under duress are part of popular culture. Interventions that collect the travelers and deposit them in a new location on the planet are greeted with enthusiasm and festivity befitting an official holiday.
Besides the corporate executives, the most compensated of those involved are the staff who are depicted tracking and occasionally messing with the travelers. An inset box of the crew making hilarious remarks about the program's "stars" and discussing what to do to them next is a very popular part of it.
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