Pastel Community Game project and discussion

[Boingo]

We're kinda stuck for hands on board.
3-4.
2 reply if you're lucky on a day.

How about an alternate timeline, set in the 2060's? The linchpin would be around the time of the cold war?

[Babylon]

maybe in 2060 the oil has run out, the world is in crisis, and this experiment was supposed to save us somehow.
It would raise some interesting ethical questions anyway.

[Boingo]

You mean something was going to happen, this government said the project was to save us, and (ooh, opportunity) placed up a force field to protect against insurgents, or other countries.

(Bit like the cold war).

[Babylon]

Maybe, as I think it was mentioned in one of the back-stories, they are trying to harness the 'energy of the mind' to provide an alternative for the running out oil. It would give us a good opportunity to explore anyhow.

[Boingo]

where's vortex when you need him?

[Babylon]

Damn right, he'd have something good to say. At the moment I'm kinda dried up when it comes to this sort of thing.

[Boingo]

No offence intended... I wasn't expecting such a dynamic answer!

I think we need to keep the mind energy thing secret to the rest of this fictional world.
Just saying

[The Abacus]

I don't think "mind energy" is very realistic – what if the experiments are to develop some sort of psychological weapon?

[The Kakama]

Good point. Maybe the "dark forces" would be better.
Just a suggestion.

[Vortex]

How's that more realistic?

Anyways, if we're gonna set it in an alternate reality, there's no need for the plot elements to be realistic, only verosimile and self-consistent.