Things which may be going on back on Earth as it gets dramatically Weirder...

- A clan of vampires overthrows both North and South Korea, reuniting them as a single country under so-far-as-anyone-can-tell benevolent vampire rule.

- Godzilla, King of the Monsters, establishes a Kingdom of Monsters (population: kaiju) on islands in the South China Sea.

- King Arthur returns to Britain and a handful of people across the isles suddenly gain divine powers as new Knights of the Round Table. Arthur pledges their service to the Queen.

- 13 Elvises return from death, alien abduction, roadside diners, and Las Vegas. They hold a terrifyingly destructive battle of the bands for the right to Graceland.

- Australia vanishes into the Dreamtime.

- Sundiata Keita returns, raises armies to rebuild the Malian empire.

- Someone steals the Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan rises from the grave as a ghostly sorcerer bent on revenge for the desecration of his wife's tomb.

- Tokyo is overrun by ancient forests filled with creatures of Japanese myth.

- The dead of Colma rise and march on San Francisco.

- An avatar of Ganesh stalks British cities, attacking neo-Nazis and ripping off their swastika tattoos.

@BESW -> Japanese culture continues on mostly unabated after some turmoil, quickly adapting to the new way of life and restoring many of the Old Ways.

@doppelgreener Trogdor's already suggested that they specifically get a force of supernaturally-powered samurai to keep the myths in check.

@BESW this actually flows right into one of my ideas for sessions I expect to run

@trogdor I thought it might.

- A Terracotta army wakes up and takes over the land around it in preparation for the arrival of their Glorious Emperor. (They may be confused about whether this is the afterlife or not; their Emperor may or may not be coming.)

I also thought you might like the Kingdom of Monsters (it's Dan's idea!).

- One of the Pharoahs wakes up. Turns out they were just a corpsified vampire all this time, not a mummy. Gets along well with museum patrons, very friendly and talkative.

Oh, right!

- An ancient Egyptian power (king, demigod, it's hard to tell) establishes a pop culture update of an old city on the banks of the Nile: Priestesses of Bast wearing My Little Kitty masks, servants out of a hip-hop music video, Las Vegas lightshows at night...

(My Little Kitty: No brands were harmed in the making of this pop culture reference.)

lol

@trogdor International summit meetings are going to be fun.

yes they are

@BESW @trogdor I have a compel I want to make when we get back to earth. Amaterasu HQ is gone. Blew up. Ground-zero of one of several worldwide calamities. Where HQ was is now very dangerous. Best estimates are someone summoned an elder god, somehow. But nobody's sure why. All of those scrolls were marked for digitisation and then destruction, and nobody was supposed to actually read them. (cough OCR cough)

Might be fun for helping things shake up, and explain how James comes into the picture: "I've got a base that isn't the center of an ongoing calamity, wanna hang out?"

I likes it.

It's also a great way to get Parrish out of the picture without making it impossible for her to come back.

@BESW the Delegate is probably Anguirus

@doppelgreener "The Pacific Northwest is still Code Octarine."

@trog @BESW I'll bring this up in the Skype group, shall I?

which bit?

the whole thing about HQ being gone

ah

I guess they actually might not have been made aware of that whole idea huh?

we've talked about james taking over, but this is me saying it now for the first time, there was nothing for them to be aware of with this thing yet

unless you two have been talking about the same thing happening

of course, it might logistically make sense if the kiaju emmissary was Rodan

@doppelgreener we kinda have a little, but not too much that you couldn't have seen I think

alright, well I'll bring it up there anyway

mk

@BESW <- An enormous number of spider species vanish entirely with no proper explanation. Luckily for us this included most of the most dangerous ones. The coincidence that this happened simultaneously with Australia disappearing is a semi-popular thing to make joking observations about.

heee hee heeeee

I would say Adrian did it, but he would then unleash them on the world again, plus he is just not powerful enough to do something like that

@trogdor Obv. he did it by accident.

maybe so

but then what was he trying to do?

though to be fair, for all I care he was trying to make coffee

something weird happened at that exact moment that he could not explain

Science! (except magic was obviously involved)

@trogdor "maybe I'll try that new coffee recipe I read on the internet."

lol

that would actually be hilarious if some magic stuff was just randomly posted onto the internet

[minutes later, running out of the building at full sprint] "THAT WASN'T A COFFEE RECIPEEEEEE"

@doppelgreener Alternately:

- The worldwide spider population mysteriously triples at about the same time Australia disappears. Terrifying though many find this, the "Australian refugee" jokes write themselves.

lol

not sure some of us would be ok with that alternate there

Myca's player would murder us all for that one

- Because magic cares little for the square-cube law, megafauna start to become a thing again, despite the low amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. Humans start to feel a little smaller than they once did. (Activists and many other individuals find it refreshing and good for our sense of perspective.) Also, SCUBA diving equipment has improved a lot now that manufacturers have caught on to how these creatures manage to keep breathing enough.

- SCUBA diving becomes a little more dangerous, though.

I would straight up stop diving if Megalodons were back

not even to mention any other of the underwater nightmares that are not around anymore

Mmm, pristichampsus.

yeah,... no thank you XD

hmm

right down the bottom are some bananas for scale.

somehow I am not sure they are quite that kind of agile

fast yes, but jumping that high?

I think the intended implication of the scribbles at the bottom is that he's propelled himself out of the water in an ambush.

I was actually picturing that being underwater.

And the scribbles at the bottom being the riverbed or whatever.

hmm

if he was underwater I suppose he could have gotten a swimming start first

I mean, Great Whites do that kind of thing to get seals

more plausible than I thought in that case ( I thought he was jumping that high on land which I would be skeptical of)

Then there's Primeval's version:

lol

well Primevals version of anything looks silly most of the time

I imagine it is mostly the CGI's fault

Yeah, especially the earlier seasons.

@BESW That thing's head resembles a horse skull.

Iz crocodile.

But, yanno, ~35 million years ago, so it was still getting post-release updates.

lol

In Primeval, the portal to the pristichampsus's era was caught in a magnetic cage formed by an ancient Egyptian statue of magnetite.

The characters theorised that the Egyptians treated the proto-diles as avatars of Ammut.

(A major plotline of the last few seasons involved making a four-dimensional model of portal activity by correlating myth and anachronism throughout history.)

"Myth and Anachronism" would be a good name for a band.