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The Journals; What does the future hold?
Topic Started: Jan 15 2016, 01:05 PM (1,990 Views)
Beetleboy Jan 15 2016, 01:05 PM Post #1
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This is something of a reboot of my Account of a Time Traveller, but I've changed the format a great deal. Firstly, there's a group of time travellers now - each biologists, experts in their various fields (entomology, mammalogy, etc). They are going to be travelling through various time periods, stopping briefly in each. This is going to be the collected journals of the biologists, put into something like a sensible order. It will be a lot more exciting and more of a sense of danger in this, with a slightly darker feel at times, where as the original was more like happy ride through time with a time travelling Gerrald Durrel.
This is, of course, a thought experiment - I'm not going to explain how they built a time machine, but they did.

20 million years hence
Southeast Asia, part 1
Southeast Asia, part 2
Southeast Asia, part 3
Southeast Asia, part 4

50 million years hence
Antarctica, part 1
Antarctica, part 2
Edited by Beetleboy, Jan 27 2016, 10:50 AM.
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Tartarus Jan 25 2016, 05:02 PM Post #31
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Interesting. I'm guessing Antarctica is at this point in your timeline in the early stages of thawing out. That would fit with what the time travelers are seeing- a land where life from elsewhere has already come and gotten fairly well established but biodiversity has not yet reached as great a level of biodiversity as it potentially could further down the road.
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Beetleboy Jan 26 2016, 10:09 AM Post #32
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Interesting. I'm guessing Antarctica is at this point in your timeline in the early stages of thawing out. That would fit with what the time travelers are seeing- a land where life from elsewhere has already come and gotten fairly well established but biodiversity has not yet reached as great a level of biodiversity as it potentially could further down the road.

Yes, that was the idea.
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Beetleboy Jan 27 2016, 10:50 AM Post #33
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Adrian Danes, mammal expert
Today I found the first sign of possible danger here.
I was walking along the beach towards the seal colony when I saw something lying amongst the rocks, unmoving. It was brown and about 70cm long. I went forward cautiously, not wanting to scare whatever it was, then I saw the flies buzzing around it, and a seabird landing nearby to peck at its unmoving body. I realised that it was a dead.
I came right up to it, scaring the bird off. It was a seal pup, but long strips of skin had been peeled roughly away from around its shoulders, and one of its flippers looked like it had been torn clean off. There were bit marks on its face and neck, and dried blood crusted thickly around its nose.
Upon further investigating, I found that its head was strangely hollow.
Later that day, I returned with some dissecting kit, and cut into its skull. That was when I found that the brain was missing, just leaving bloodied smears of pink flesh swilling about at the bottom of its skull. It had clearly been attacked by something, yet the skull was intact apart from some bite marks, so how on earth had it removed its brain? And why?
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CaledonianWarrior96 Jan 27 2016, 11:18 AM Post #34
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Is this another sapient creature that has made a kill? The mystery thickens...
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Beetleboy Jan 27 2016, 01:17 PM Post #35
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Is this another sapient creature that has made a kill? The mystery thickens...
You'll see. :)
Edited by Beetleboy, Jan 27 2016, 01:17 PM.
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DroidSyber Jan 27 2016, 01:37 PM Post #36
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Jan 27 2016, 01:17 PM
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Is this another sapient creature that has made a kill? The mystery thickens...
You'll see. :)
Is this place full of infinite sapients?
Non Enim Cadunt!

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Beetleboy Jan 27 2016, 01:38 PM Post #37
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Nope. I don't actually have any other sapients planned.
Besides, I never said this mystery creature was a sapient at all . . .
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DINOCARID Feb 8 2016, 09:29 AM Post #38
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Spooky...
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Beetleboy Feb 8 2016, 10:58 AM Post #39
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Yeah. Though the culprit may not be what you expect.
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DaDog Dec 11 2016, 03:52 PM Post #40
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So, are you gonna continue this project or is it dead?
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Ivan_The_Inedible Dec 11 2016, 03:58 PM Post #41
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When it gets to the point where it's almost a year after the last post, I can be pretty confident in saying that almost all cases are dead projects.
Quotes are a thing
Who will know?

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Beetleboy Dec 12 2016, 02:29 AM Post #42
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It's dead dead dead. Please don't necropost, if there's a project that you wanna ask about please just PM me.
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