Beta Notes
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10/13 notes
- p2 "not unreasonable" > "theoretically possible"
- p5 Combat: "Please do not actually drag your players away."
- p7 "...separate area from the main game space. This staging area..."
- Change Mark Adamson to a separate paragraph.
- Add moneychangers to dangling bullet point.
- p8 Tracked Characters font change.
- "one or both tracks" > "one or more tracks"
- p9 "Five minutes before end of game, get the numbers" Make horde GM responsible for pacing.
- Stevicans: turn the lights back on after they come in
- p10 re-add the Steve Okazaki timeline details
- Name Placard "Jennifer Hullen" > "Chairwoman Jennifer Hullen"
- p15 "There is a second colored sticker inside the envelope. Put it on..."
- remove second Props set
- p 33 Default Events "hang these on the back wall in the order they are presented below."
- remove first bit of paragraph two
- p 115 Default Footnotes - remove the word "too"
- p 128 Default Placards "USE TAPE"
- p 141 Game Boards - "see the timeline manual"
Susan
- Shopping list
Briefing
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Introduce cast, don't let them introduce themselves -
Track - At some point after playing, you may get another character with color, do not remove sticker until horde GM says so. -
Unless you have a character reason to think otherwise, you have money and can spend it.
Yes
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Add over comment that Elvis doesn't understand everything, doesn't have an opinion on everything, not entirely sure why he is here. -
Cut the Huang character. -
Fix dashes on Elvis/Hitler - wrong one is designated as starting character. -
Steve's card should not say who he really is. -
Announce timeline changes out loud. -
Floor GM or runner puts up pages, but timeline finds them. - Cut game when time ends, don't let horde end
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Fix triggers 23 and 2 -
Clearly inform horde GM of triggers -
Add "Present" page for timeline - if universe ends: 2104 - end of universe (black and white) -
Elvis/Hitler should care about guns -
Protest signs - More rejected number characters - LSD character, a few others
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Redundant Elvis killer - trigger for Adamson -
Mark Adamson should come out early -
More horde interactions - SUSAN -
Lose interns - cannot be added to apps - Batch horde characters like in HT
Maybe
- Women power track changes gender of board. Ichabod, possibly Snorri.
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If Catholic track reaches peak, Ichabod becomes Catholic. -
Cut Croquet?
No
- Move graphics behind year - not practical
- Track horde characters - too much work, will make some unhappy
- Changes made by future board - they wouldn't know, and too sadistic
- Gender ID stickers - people won't remember
- Snorri gets extra info - he's billions of years in the future, he doesn't know
Themes
Restructuring Game Space
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Tell board not to be too harsh on noise? - If there is enough hall space, horde can interact in the hall
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Unless you are explicitly there to make trouble, make sure the board can do its job
Hullen is boring - done
- Too similar in goals to Snorri
- Chairwoman of board - if the board is tied, the side the chair is on wins
- Specific goals for what happens in timeline
- Employee of Sony
- Purposefully left apps at home, as part of experiment, knows apps are real
Board Procedures - done
- More explicit planning, so board doesn't have to figure it out
- Speed to get through things
- Hullen's rules of order
Game Briefing - done
- Explain how memory works - if character was in the room, you remember both
- Write a script for briefing
- Read only events of timeline
- Explicit about track stickers
- Very explicit rules about applications being required.
Steve Okizaki - done
- Cut out one (or 2) Okizaki - done
- Needs a goal - can know that changing timeline causes apocalypse, starts by hints - done enough, unless other people think he needs a more explicit goal
End Game - done
- If wife has shown up, apocalypse cannot happen
- Stevicans don't show up if apocalypse happens, either ends game strictly
- Snorri's employee instead of Milliways - possibly his wife
- If apocalypse - lights off, flashlight, welcome to Snorri's can I take your order
- Stevicans - lights off, flashlight, either enslave the earth or incorporate, don't leave
- Apocalypse track - 1st corner lights flicker, 2nd corner timeline display briefly flashes error message, "timeline not found"