Forming a Team

[Bilbo]

You are "The Time Traveller the Victorian creater of the time machine from HG Wells. In your travels your time machine also ocassionally goes into alternate timelines. In open of these trips for one reason or another you end up in a timeline where the Illuminati a secret society that has taken control of the Earth. For whatever reason you have decided to save this world. Unfortunately you cannot do this alone. The Illuminati are a massive socity with control of every major government at almost every level.

You have decided that your only chance is to gather yourself a 6 person team (Think League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and then usign your time machine go back to various times in the 1700's, 1800s, and 1900s, where you can decipher the actions of the Illuminati and stop them.

So now you must assemble your team. You can grab anyone from tv or movie fiction but there is a caveat. For some reason your machine wont grab anyone from a reality after 1975. It doesnt matter when the fictional material was written it matters what the setting is and that its on Earth. so you could get General Maximus since the movie was done after 1975 but set in Roman times. You could not though go get Obi-Wan since while its set in the past its not set on Earth.

Also the realities you can enter do not include super heroes. No Superman, the flash, or any realities of that genre.

Possible genres include:

Steampunk
Gothic Horror
Near super science (James Bond etc)
Crime fighters


Now gather your team. It can be six members. You can visit their reality once to get them and once to return them no exception. Your time machine allows you to take them and as much as they can carry. You could go get 60's tv Batman but not the Batmobile and he wont have access to the Batcave.


Your goals are to ferrit out the Illuminati and defeat them. So raw power is not your only option. You need resourceful people who are also good strategic thinkers. As a side note, since you have a time machine your team can use this to prep to the degree that everyone will be able to learn a common language. General Maximus could be taught English. Your complete control of the Time Machine and the promise to return them to their own time guaruntees their loyalty to you and the cause.


So who is your team?


Mine so far:

Indiana Jones - Clever survivor who is intelligent and very well educated. No schlep in a fight either.
Steve Austin the 6 million dollar man - Pure muscle for the group without standing out.
Griffin the Invisible Man - To fight the Illuminati I will need infiltration.
Professor Moriarty - He headed his own secret society so he would be an expert in deducing them.
Daniel Jackson - A stretch but at one point he ends up back in 1969 and while there I could grab him for a split second.
Ba'al - In his rather poor movie he goes back to well before 1975. So he fits time wise. As a System Lord he has lots of goodies and he is very smart. Unfortunately the way he dies in the movie I do not believe he has a personal shield on him.


What is your team?

[Bilbo]

Quick change. I replace Steve Austin with Jaime Sommers. She first appeared in 1975 so she squeezes in time wise. Being a woman gives me a new angle on things when fighting the Illuminati.

[Covenant]

You need more limitations, or else we're going to get some incredibly broken responses. Anyone who has ever been in the past? Fine.

My TimeTeam:

Nikola Tesla - David Bowie version, less insane, more magic.
Dr. Who - This is an "I Win" button.
Dr. Emmet Brown - I like backup time travel devices.
The Crew of the Enterprise - For obvious reasons. Whales, motherfucker. Also, more time travel. And torpedoes.
Someone's Dad - So long as his descendants grow up to be illuminati, and I throw him off a cliff.
..and finally..
The God-Emperor of Mankind - Born in ancient Anatolia, I'm sure he's pants-shitting badass by 1975.

[Covenant]

Note, I don't mean the movie version, since I want the Enterprise and not some stupid Klingon piece of shit. Besides, they only went back to the 80's in that movie. Unless I'm mistaken though, they had travelled back in time before, but I may be mistaken, in which case forget it since that was just another example of the hilariousness of such an open-ended time-grab. I'll settle for the GEoM.

[Bilbo]

You need more limitations, or else we're going to get some incredibly broken responses. Anyone who has ever been in the past? Fine.

My TimeTeam:

Nikola Tesla - David Bowie version, less insane, more magic.
Dr. Who - This is an "I Win" button.
Dr. Emmet Brown - I like backup time travel devices.
The Crew of the Enterprise - For obvious reasons. Whales, motherfucker. Also, more time travel. And torpedoes.
Someone's Dad - So long as his descendants grow up to be illuminati, and I throw him off a cliff.
..and finally..
The God-Emperor of Mankind - Born in ancient Anatolia, I'm sure he's pants-shitting badass by 1975.

Well you broke multiple rules so what is your point?

Emmet can come but only with what he carries. So no Dalorian. No Enterprise. God Emperor was never in a movie or TV show. Someone's Dad. Will do you no good since you one dont know who they are this is a secret society and even if you do you are grabbing them from an alternate reality so killing them will not go crap.


So you have someone's Dad and the Doctor without his Tardis.

[Bilbo]

Note, I don't mean the movie version, since I want the Enterprise and not some stupid Klingon piece of shit. Besides, they only went back to the 80's in that movie. Unless I'm mistaken though, they had travelled back in time before, but I may be mistaken, in which case forget it since that was just another example of the hilariousness of such an open-ended time-grab. I'll settle for the GEoM.

What part of has to be on a tv show or movie is too complicated? Also you get a person plus what he can carry. Your time machine hops time and realities so talking them into going back in time in their own time machine does you no good. They will be back in time at the wrong time.

So you can grab a crew of the Enterprise from when they went back in time in the origional series but that is it.

Also you can grab one of two Doc Browns. You can grab from the first movie when Mart meets him but he has not developed his time machine is still just a crackpot or you can grab old West Brown but he was thrown into the Old West by accident and has no modern gear with him.

[Bilbo]

Also you need to know of s specific episode where the Doctor was on Earth before 1975. As long as there is a specific episode where he is then you can use him.

As I stated in OP you must have a specific incident on screen. Knowing someone was alive is not good enough. A show set in the 80's would by logic have characters over a certain age alive before 1975 but we never see that timeframe on tv or in a movie so it does no good.

[lance]

Also you need to know of s specific episode where the Doctor was on Earth before 1975. As long as there is a specific episode where he is then you can use him.

Considerring that Doctor who started in the 60s I think he will have plenty of appearances. Like when he was in Pompei, With Charles Dickens, Teaching in 1910s England and more I'm sure.

[Thanas]

This thread belongs in testing, IMHO.

As for the rest, easy. You only need one - Trance gemini (RHW version).

[Covenant]

I'm just making you flesh out your rules, don't get your panties in a knot. You never said that you needed to specify what episode of whatever someone comes from, and you didn't either, so don't pretend like you had your rules thought out.

That said, the fuck you talking about? Firstly, a specific episode that Dr. Who was around in 1975? How about the first Dr. Who episode ever, Bilbo, set in London of 1963... and airing in 1963. I could find other specific episodes, but this was just kinda wacky. Before you criticize me for not specifying when so-and-so is where, make sure you're not being more general than I am. You should also be more inclusive when you say "No superheroes," since there is a great deal of overlap between Steampunk and Superheroes, and you already included Batman as someone you can bring. So I can get Batman, but not Superman? What about if it's Batman carrying some Kryptonian technology? You also said nothing about Magic, so theoretically I could go back in time and strike a bargain with Melkor, or the last Balrog during the 6,000 years or so before our own where Tolkein set the Third Age of Middle-Earth. And I can point to exactly what movie it's in too.

Secondly, I find your rule about "only what they carry" to be rather odd, especially since I chose people specifically because they carry with them their own apparatus of time travel. It's good that you've added in the fact that these are completely non-joined realities retroactively, but nothing about what you said ever specified originally had any mention of altering realities, it just said that my time machine could only go there once and return there once. The Time Machine from the H.G. Wells novel was not a reality-shifting apparatus, so this needed extra clarification, since the reference you used was League of Extrordinary Gentlemen, in which all candidates live in the same 'reality' regardless of being from different media. I had assumed you meant for the same thing.

However, you're still full of shit. Dr. Brown returns to 1955 during Back to the Future II, so I can grab him there in the full glory of his time. I could also go back and get him when he's in the Wild West, yes, but it's not like it matters, since I have nearly any of the Doctor Who regeneration's sonic screwdriver and Tesla's know-how, so there's not a damn thing I can't do anyway, including using the combination of Dr. Brown's genius flux capacitor (which I could not only have him pull out of the car, but re-build at a later date the same way he did with the flying fucking Locomotive), Movie Tesla's amazing duplication technology, and Dr. Who's time-related knowhow. Unless you're banning any other time travel, I still end up with lots and lots of time machines, which would make solving most problems fairly ridiculous. My trans-time murder spree could crush the Illuminati fairly easily.

So aside from the God Emperor of Man and most of the Enterprise, I still fucking get the team specified. But let's be more specific this time:

Nikola Tesla - From the Prestige, set in the late 1890's or early 1900's. I go to his Lab and take him with me. Tesla never really used notes anyway, so I don't need anything but him and a place to set him up. He can create a machine the likes of which you've never seen! I get a tophat and a cat though.

Samuel Clemens - Who will be of great use coralling the above guy to behave, as well as being my A-Team's humorist. Otherwise known as Mark Twain. Maybe he'll write a book about Time Travel after his experience in my group. Maybe. I don't believe I get anything useful from him besides attitude and maybe a nice pipe.

Dr. Emmet Brown - Intercepted in 1955, brought onto the team to help with the construction and maintance of Time Travel technology, possibly bribed by the fact that I could give him information on Causality Violation Protection technologies, or whatever it is that stops me from just having everyone time-travel to my time. He can grab the hoverboard at least, though probably also remove the Flux Capacitor. Not that I'll need it once I have him make me fifty more of them.

Dr. Who - Just about every Doctor goes back and forth through time, but grabbing the second season Doctor while in London would give me the Sonic Screwdriver as well as tons of science know-how. I'm not sure which would be the best grab, I never saw them back then. I believe I also get a snazzy scarf.

The Fucking Enterprise - Minus the Enterprise, that is. Stardate 1968. Assignment: Earth is the episode name, I just recalled, and I can grab anyone I want from the whole ship, because the entire vessel travelled back to the late 60's. If I can only grab one person (a rule not specifically stated before, honestly) then I may have to make a difficult decision between Spock and Kirk, but having either would be quite a boon. If I can take a few people, I also have access to Future James Bond in the form of Mr. Seven and his playboy Playmate transforming cat Isis. Either way I get some tricorders and phasers, and grabbing the cat chick is pretty obvious.

...and finally, do we have a rule about maximum character size, or it is like a beaming apparatus where I can shoot it at one 'person' and anything they carry comes with? Because if I can bring a large person with me I choose:

Megatron - From the movie. I teleport into the scene of the movie back in 1897 where Captain Witwicky discovers the body of frozen Megadouche, and I strike a deal. Unfreeze him and he gets a chance to kill a fuckton of humans before I locate the Allspark for him and send him on his way. Clearly, he will betray me at some point at the end of my TimeTeam's series, and then I will banish him back to the freezing arctic where I pulled him from. He's not a superhero, just a robot. He doesn't need to carry anything either.

[Bilbo]

The rules specifically say you can have a team of 6 people. It says your time travel method allows you to enter other alternate histories, which is why talking to people with their own time travel would be pointless. They cannot travel to the right alternate timeline like you can.

I only mentioned a specific episode because it was fucking obvious you didnt read the rules.

Btw, you can take Megatron though he isnt the cartoon that turns into a small gun so how is he fitting into your two time machine that I said could only hold the target plus what he cary. Wouldnt matter anyway. You bring Megatron you lose. The goal is to travel back and forth through time and find out how to stop the Illuminati from taking over the world. Megatron would be useless for any of this. All he would be good for is straight firepower and you better hope in your travels that you don't encounter strong opposition because you sure arent going to hide with a giant angry robot on your side.

[Bilbo]

This thread belongs in testing, IMHO.

As for the rest, easy. You only need one - Trance gemini (RHW version).

So are you saying that there is an episode set on Earth sometime before the year 1975 or are you telling me you are a fucking moron who cannot read either?

[Bilbo]

Also you need to know of s specific episode where the Doctor was on Earth before 1975. As long as there is a specific episode where he is then you can use him.

Considerring that Doctor who started in the 60s I think he will have plenty of appearances. Like when he was in Pompei, With Charles Dickens, Teaching in 1910s England and more I'm sure.

Which makes him completely legal. I do not watch Doctor Who though and the fact that Covenent didnt bother to read the rules (tell me what movie or show the GEOM has been on) I was jus trying to be as clear as possible.

[Samuel]

This thread belongs in testing, IMHO.

As for the rest, easy. You only need one - Trance gemini (RHW version).

So are you saying that there is an episode set on Earth sometime before the year 1975 or are you telling me you are a fucking moron who cannot read either?

A time travel episode for a series made by the same man who made Star Trek... the odds are good.

[Thanas]

This thread belongs in testing, IMHO.

As for the rest, easy. You only need one - Trance gemini (RHW version).

So are you saying that there is an episode set on Earth sometime before the year 1975 or are you telling me you are a fucking moron who cannot read either?

Kindly do society a favor and remove yourself from it. Trance, as established in the series has been around since the beginning of the universe. In fact, all she does all day long is to create alternate universes/realities by messing with time. She is there at any time she chooses and at any time she wants. She is not really fixed in time or space.

So now you must assemble your team. You can grab anyone from tv or movie fiction but there is a caveat. For some reason your machine wont grab anyone from a reality after 1975.

Trance would qualify here, since while she was not created as a fiction character till 2000, her journey explicitily places her at the beginning of creation, creating realities all the time, some playing on earth, some not. You did not say anything at all in your OP about specific episodes, retard. So yeah, you do not really have that much of a leg to stand on.

Besides, what kind of chatbot are you anyway? Do you think this board likes people like you who wander around and try to post worthless caveats and idiotic restrictions that are entirely arbitrary on this kind of debate and serve no meaningful purpose? In fact, what makes you think your post had any place in Sci-fi since you, being the ignoramus you are, also included genres that are not covered in this forum.

But of course, that thought didn't enter that big parking space betwen your ears, you worthless non-sapient, because you apparently thought this is spacebattles. You want to know how hilarious your setting is? Because under the terms you picked I could easily select God almighty himself.

There, I choose god almighty. He is clearly depicted as all-powerful in many movies before 1975. He can carry anything he chooses since as an omnipotent being, he can do as he likes. He just thinks about it - problem solved. How about any of the olympian gods? Or Wotan, the wise? Or how about Q? Snip, snap, problem solved. Same with the Doctor, as Covenant already noticed. Did you even think your concept through, Dildo, before you opened your mouth? Hey, how about those names: Saturn, Loki, Norns? Or should we stick to Sol invictus?

Think before you hit submit next time. Oh wait - that would actually require some effort on your part, so who am I kidding?

[Bilbo]

This thread belongs in testing, IMHO.

As for the rest, easy. You only need one - Trance gemini (RHW version).

So are you saying that there is an episode set on Earth sometime before the year 1975 or are you telling me you are a fucking moron who cannot read either?

Kindly do society a favor and remove yourself from it. Trance, as established in the series has been around since the beginning of the universe. In fact, all she does all day long is to create alternate universes/realities by messing with time. She is there at any time she chooses and at any time she wants. She is not really fixed in time or space.

So in other words you are a fucking moron. I clearly said the person has to be shown in a show or movie before 1975. Otherwise anyone from a later show who is old enough could be chosen which defeats the purpose.

I guess reading is too fucking complicated for you. Wasted all your braincells on dumbass remarks didnt you. Fucktard.

[Bilbo]

This thread belongs in testing, IMHO.

As for the rest, easy. You only need one - Trance gemini (RHW version).

So are you saying that there is an episode set on Earth sometime before the year 1975 or are you telling me you are a fucking moron who cannot read either?

A time travel episode for a series made by the same man who made Star Trek... the odds are good.

A quick wiki once over of the Andromeda show didnt show anything that suggests wandering Earth in the past.

[Thanas]

So in other words you are a fucking moron. I clearly said the person has to be shown in a show or movie before 1975. Otherwise anyone from a later show who is old enough could be chosen which defeats the purpose.

Really, did you say that?

So now you must assemble your team. You can grab anyone from tv or movie fiction but there is a caveat. For some reason your machine wont grab anyone from a reality after 1975. It doesnt matter when the fictional material was written it matters what the setting is and that its on Earth. so you could get General Maximus since the movie was done after 1975 but set in Roman times. You could not though go get Obi-Wan since while its set in the past its not set on Earth.

No problem here. Just grab her from one of the realities she created that ended in 1974 when she no longer could save that reality or got bored with it. Concession accepted.

[Thanas]

EDIT: Also, I still chose god almighty. There, I win.

Do you know recognize how poorly thought-out your concept is? Really, it is nothing more than childish wanking. How old are you, again?

[lance]

Really, did you say that?

[quote="Your original post" You can grab anyone from tv or movie fiction but there is a caveat. For some reason your machine wont grab anyone from a reality after 1975.

No problem here. Just grab her from one of the realities she created that ended in 1974 when she no longer could save that reality or got bored with it. Concession accepted.

I think when he said grab from tv or movie fiction he literally meant reaching inside the tv and grabbing them through.

[Ghost Rider]

Another ill thought out topic.