Dear Traveller,
check out the following link for information before your journey
… a very helpful site for all
E.
The 4th of March across time
Lots of action today and quite a few places to avoid!
As always, we begin with the good stuff:
1152 A.D. – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1351 A.D. – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 A.D. – Władysław II Jagiełło was crowned King of Poland.
1877 A.D. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
And a lot of places to avoid (unless you are feeling really lucky):
1238 A.D. – The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1793 A.D. – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1804 A.D. – The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1814 A.D. – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1893 A.D. – The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
1894 A.D. – Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed in a fire in Shanghai.
1899 A.D. – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland – over 300 dead.
1908 A.D. – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1930 A.D. – Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1941 A.D. – The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1944 A.D. – First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
1960 A.D. – French freighter ‘La Coubre’ explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
1966 A.D. – Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 A.D. – French submarine Eurydice explodes.
1977 A.D. – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
2001 A.D. – A massive explosion in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 A.D. – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
Take care and remember,
What can go wrong in time travelling – Messing up the timeline…
Dear Traveller,
One of the most common problems a traveller might encounter is messing up the timeline (i.e. the history) and thus distorting the time-space continuum.
Examples:
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(accidentally) talking Shakespeare out of writing Romeo and Juliet
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(accidentally) meet Aspasia, she falls for you and never gets to be Pericles mistress and influence his political decisions (Pericles was a famous leader of the Athenian people in 500 a.d., did some great things – The Golden era of Pericles – and had a mistress called Aspasia who influenced and often wisely counsel him in governing Athens. Look it up…)
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(accidentally) discuss the String Theory with Einstein and give him food for thought he didn’t have in his life line…
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(accidentally) talk J.R.R. Tolkien out of writing the Lord of the Rings trilogy… or convincing him to ACTUALLY have Arwen say “If you want him, come and claim him!”…
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(accidentally) start talking to Elvis in the coffee place he used to hang out and have him miss the audition that got him discovered…
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(accidentally) go to Flemings lab and trust his research on Penicillin…
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(accidentally) convince yourself not to follow that line of work…
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(accidentally) take an object from the past, that was supposed to be there and now it’s not (cause you took it), for e.x. take Leonidas sword right before the battle of Thermopylae…
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(accidentally) meet Bill Gates as a teenager and suggest he should be an actor… and actually having him pursuit that kind of a career…
I mean… imagine what the timeline would be like if anything like the above happened… and trust me there are more examples where those came from…
An experienced traveller is much less prone to create a problem into the time-space continuum than an inexperienced one. All experienced travellers know when something went wrong (how, will be explained another time…) The first thing that needs to be done, is check the reality you came back to (your present). If even the slightest thing is different, then something went wrong. In that case, return back to your travelling destination, follow your “past” travelling self and fix whatever went wrong. Usually, this should do the trick, as long as you leave a message to yourself in the present so as your past self will go back and fix it…
Should you can’t find what you did wrong, go back in the past and convince yourself not to take that journey. You won’t have a big problem convincing your past self: it’s you from the future telling you not to do something… so you do it! Yourself is the only one you can trust the most and even more if it’s yourself from the future…
If that doesn’t work, check you handbook (pages 140- 203)… If that doesn’t work contact your mentors…
Keep in mind though, that asking them to fix your mess will be frowned upon, and will somehow end up in your record… which is not a very good thing in the long run…
Generally, mind you don’t mess the timeline. Try to be as discrete as possible and keep a low profile.
It will all be fine… 
Until the next post,
Goodnight to you, “whenever” you are…
E.
Meeting Yourself … – Useful tips
Dear Traveller,
This post contains info that the “older” time travellers know, but the newbies in the “sport” would find very useful.
Meeting yourself is one of the perks of time travelling. There is an extensive chapter in your handbook about it (Chapter 5: Meeting yourself, pages 532-605). You can find further information about meeting yourself in the “C°ntinuum” rulebook under “Gemini” (“C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet”, C. Adams, D. Fooden and B. Manui, Aetherco/Dreamcatcher).
Ok… so let’s talk about encountering yourself…
There are two possible ways of meeting yourself: Meeting your future self and Meeting your past self. More particularly:
Meeting your future (older) self:
We were all young once and wondering “How will I turn out in the future”. And that’s one of the best things in Time Travelling – You are actually able to see how you turned out!
The most probable thing is that your future self will be expecting you (Since you are the one that arranges the trip you are bound to know that in the future – duh!) Try to ask questions that “guide” you into decisions and not “lead” you into them. Your future self will be experienced enough so as not to provide info that can change things a lot for you…
Don’t be surprised about your future self “appearance”… You are older and you have to be prepared about seeing those grey hair, wrinkles, scars or whatever… (Piece of advice: Don’t ask about the scars, you’ll probably get no answer about that…) Don’t mind the wardrobe either (though you might like it… since technically you are the one that picked out the outfit, and you have the exact same taste as yourself! 
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Generally, keep in mind that meeting yourself takes a lot out of you, both mentally and physically. Meet yourself only if there is a particular reason, not just for kicks… Your time (though infinite) is very precious… Don’t waste your time, and especially your future self’s time.
Once you do spend the time you want with your future self, and get what you want out of that meeting, return to your present and document EVERYTHING that happened in as much detail as possible so as to be able to “replay” it in the future as you being the older self and… you being the younger self…
CAUTION: Things need to be exactly the same, otherwise there will be consequences… and there always are…
Meeting your past (younger) self:
This is almost always fun! Meeting the guy/girl you once were brings out memories and makes you feel like a parent trying to explain to a teenager what’s good for him/her (besides, you ARE older and wiser – though this is not always the case, but that’s a different story…)
Before meeting your past self, make sure you study the documentation you have from your youth on that particular meeting, and do everything exactly like it happened the first time you did it (as a younger traveller).
Since you know what has already happened in that meeting, you can guide the conversation and when it gets out of track you can say something like “You are not asking the right questions…” or “Are you sure this is what you want to know?…”
Since you are the experienced traveller, you know that in order for your younger self to arrange this meeting, he probably needs something from you and might be in distress. So… make your younger self feel comfortable about it… Cook yourself something to eat (you know what you like… ). Talk about your favourite places, pictures, songs, movies… you’re are the only one that have the exact same tastes as.. you (you are bound to find a common ground to stand on).
Try not to laugh at your younger self… The big hair, the tight pants, the cowboy boots, the big belts and weird makeup used to be cool back in those days… And if you don’t like what you see, at least you KNOW you grew out of it…
Most important thing you need to keep in mind: DON’T LECTURE your younger self. It’s true you’re older and wiser but, if you haven’t made the mistakes you had, you wouldn’t be the you you are now (or then). Some piece of advice is encouraged, and some information is definitely off limits and shouldn’t be available for your own sake…
Concluding, I would like to remind you that you need to be very careful, especially when you meet your past self to keep the meeting strictly as you remember it to be. If things happen in a different way than you remember, somebody (meaning you – both past and future) will definitely be in trouble. So avoid changing stuff…
Try to avoid meeting yourself during the time you didn’t time travel. This can cause serious SERIOUS SERIOUOUOUOUS problems. For the both of you… and the person you least want to hurt, both mentally and physically is you…
As a general note, though, I have to say that meeting yourself, both past and future, is a very cool experience, and you should definitely try it. I know I had fun with it every time and on the both sides I was. So, don’t delay it… go meet yourself. Isn’t that what all the teachers, parents, feel-good books always told you?… So, take their advice literally and… GO MEET YOURSELF!!!
Until the next time,
Goodnight to you, whenever you are…
E.
The 27th of February across time
A bit slow today with some opportunities to celebrate and a couple of timespots to avoid.
We begin with a few places to party:
1594 A.D. – Henry IV is crowned King of France at the city of Chartres. Coronation fever!
1844 A.D. – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1967 A.D. – Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
And a few ”beware” places (unless you crave explosions and fire):
1943 A.D. – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
2002 A.D. – Godhra train burning, a Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya. The incident took place in the town of Godhra in the Indian state of Gujarat at 0630 hrs.
2004 A.D. – The bombing of Superferry 14 by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116.
That’s all for now,
