Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Words in your Yet.

These are words you already know, but only your elders have used them all...

Frag
(Noun): What you feel when the world you live in is no longer the world you remember. Left untreated it can lead to insanity, death and/or everyone else forgetting you ever existed.

Frag (Verb): To go back in time and change some aspect of a person's life so as to cause them Frag.
As in "So I hopped in my time machine, prevented their first date, and Fragged them both!"

Spanner (Noun): 1. A time-traveller, specifically one capable of moving through time without an external time-machine. 2. A member of the Continuum. 3. A wrench.

Chrony or Chronie (Noun): A friend or ally, especially one who is a spanner.

Gemini (Noun): 1. In incident or event in which you meet your self. 2. Your junior or elder self.

Slipshank (Verb): 1. To declare that you will one day do something, and thereby cause it to have already happened. 2. To bring something from your own future into your own past by force of will. 3. To get yourself an item by means of Slipshank.
As in "I needed a gun, so I slipshanked one, duct-taped to the bottom of my chair"
Warning: Slipshank causes Frag. It's easily cured Frag, but it's still Frag.

Yet (Noun): 1. Your destiny. 2. Events you know happen(ed) to you sometime, but you haven't experienced them.
As in "I slipshanked myself that gun, so going back and taping it to the chair in the first place is in my Yet."
Warning: Failure to complete events in your Yet causes Frag.

Frune (Verb): 1. To gather information by talking to other Spanners. 2. To gather information by traveling up the time stream and researching the historical records available there.

Cobweb (Verb): 1. To falsely plant information about an event or person, so as to create the appearance of them existing at a particular time, for the specific purpose of deceiving time-travellers or preventing a Frune. 2. To manufacture an event that never occurred for the express purpose of sewing confusion.
As in: "I didn't want them to know I was responsible for all the Freebirding, so I cobwebbed it."

Iron Man (Verb): 1. A dangerous attempt to Frune 2. To determine whether (and how) you survive the current dilemma by means of traveling into the future and checking to see if you're still alive then. 3. A desperate gambit in Time Combat.
As in: "After the cobwebbing, I did a quick Iron Man to make sure I lived through their retaliation - thankfully they don't kill me. For this."
Warning: Iron Manning does not cause Frag, but denying the items in your Yet that were revealed by means of an Iron Man gambit may. Many find it deeply disturbing to know the manner of their own demise.