Recently (last century and +) a vast number of pottery, jewelry, toys with what is possibly first wheel in human hystory and even tableaux have been found in large Danube region. All of those containing some strange symbols. Letter-like symbols. If those /are/ not just mere sybols but rather proto-letters, then... Then my friends, not Messopotamia, nor Egypt are cradle of civilization. That would mean first Hochkultur is on Europe to claime. And that would shatter the knowledge we hold sacred today.
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Vinča, 1893, Kingdom of Serbia
Professor wakes up after a dream where silouethe stands above him telling him he found the place and the item is HERE, close, near by, Prof even eyed the exact location but left it burrowd. He URGES him to go and take a look.
It is 1894 and Prof is with small team in a camp on excavation sight near capital city — location is Belo Brdo in the village of Vinča — for almost a year. They are about to make history and find /the/ epicentar of... Of a thing that will change an onlook on our perception of world history. They excavate what will be revealed to be a capital of a civilization; huge neolithic culture that spanned vast region of lower Danube. They will find villages and houses, cemeteries and sacred sites, weapons and tools, technology for decoration and art. Technology and...
Professor Vasić awakes in sweat. Get's dressed before coq even sounded and goes out, waking his students, ordering to follow him.
He comes to the place the dream showed him, the place his tools passed-by in yesterday all-days-work. Students arrive as he has already started digging, and not much time passes by — he finds IT.
Flash of lightning of power never seen happens in fracture of a second. And everything changes.
Prof. and his team are suddenly in totally different place, although paysage and Danube are the same. It takes them a while to realize... They /are/ still in Belo Brdo but the year... Year is circa seven millenniums before /their/ time.
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— Prof. starts to excavate specific items that grant him ability to transpire time: he and those around him travel to the date of the item found.
— Prof. get's to know people living in this times, on various locations he starts visiting and /time-jumping/ to
— He learns that there is magic in this cultures. Although many of them different, they share common traits:
+ They are all white
+ They know about /magic/
+ Their priest class is one who posses this /arcane/ knowledge
— Porfessor Vasić learns there are more than one races of people. And not only non-white, but others too (Neanderthal, "Denisovan", and few others)
— Prof. is able to go back and forth between his timeline and this Old European one
— Prof. is, in his timeline (fin de siècle) also active: he starts being in contact and correspondence with some of the greatest minds of science, art and business of that time (Tesla, J.P. Morgan, Baudelaire, Rockefeller, Poincaré, Planck, etc.)
— Prof. goes into search for this /magic/ and the "master race" that controlled it and spoon fed other cultures through their emissaries — local shamans and priests
— Prof. brings what he has learn to his time-line and with communications decides which group of people, which "side" he picks to share his findings (success or failures?)
Close past goes distant past, manages to change it or not, or just learn from it, then goes back and changes (or not) it's own (past) time, and maaaybeee influence our time.
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Then I wrote bunch more but then it all goes spoiler-y even if I decide to make short story of it. Or not, but I need other day to look at it to be sure.
Short story? Film? A game?!
Why should this be a game, how to convince myself (and others)... Well as I see, interactivity and possibility to take many paths bring it much closer to gaming medium than just literature or film.
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Vinča, 1893, Kingdom of Serbia
Professor wakes up after a dream where silouethe stands above him telling him he found the place and the item is HERE, close, near by, Prof even eyed the exact location but left it burrowd. He URGES him to go and take a look.
It is 1894 and Prof is with small team in a camp on excavation sight near capital city — location is Belo Brdo in the village of Vinča — for almost a year. They are about to make history and find /the/ epicentar of... Of a thing that will change an onlook on our perception of world history. They excavate what will be revealed to be a capital of a civilization; huge neolithic culture that spanned vast region of lower Danube. They will find villages and houses, cemeteries and sacred sites, weapons and tools, technology for decoration and art. Technology and...
Professor Vasić awakes in sweat. Get's dressed before coq even sounded and goes out, waking his students, ordering to follow him.
He comes to the place the dream showed him, the place his tools passed-by in yesterday all-days-work. Students arrive as he has already started digging, and not much time passes by — he finds IT.
Flash of lightning of power never seen happens in fracture of a second. And everything changes.
Prof. and his team are suddenly in totally different place, although paysage and Danube are the same. It takes them a while to realize... They /are/ still in Belo Brdo but the year... Year is circa seven millenniums before /their/ time.
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— Prof. starts to excavate specific items that grant him ability to transpire time: he and those around him travel to the date of the item found.
— Prof. get's to know people living in this times, on various locations he starts visiting and /time-jumping/ to
— He learns that there is magic in this cultures. Although many of them different, they share common traits:
+ They are all white
+ They know about /magic/
+ Their priest class is one who posses this /arcane/ knowledge
— Porfessor Vasić learns there are more than one races of people. And not only non-white, but others too (Neanderthal, "Denisovan", and few others)
— Prof. is able to go back and forth between his timeline and this Old European one
— Prof. is, in his timeline (fin de siècle) also active: he starts being in contact and correspondence with some of the greatest minds of science, art and business of that time (Tesla, J.P. Morgan, Baudelaire, Rockefeller, Poincaré, Planck, etc.)
— Prof. goes into search for this /magic/ and the "master race" that controlled it and spoon fed other cultures through their emissaries — local shamans and priests
— Prof. brings what he has learn to his time-line and with communications decides which group of people, which "side" he picks to share his findings (success or failures?)
Close past goes distant past, manages to change it or not, or just learn from it, then goes back and changes (or not) it's own (past) time, and maaaybeee influence our time.
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Then I wrote bunch more but then it all goes spoiler-y even if I decide to make short story of it. Or not, but I need other day to look at it to be sure.
Short story? Film? A game?!
Why should this be a game, how to convince myself (and others)... Well as I see, interactivity and possibility to take many paths bring it much closer to gaming medium than just literature or film.
