This was a write-up for a faux-MMO concept I was challenged to make by a friend. His proposal was to "make an MMO where every server was in a different time period of the world, and major events happening in one server would have a ripple effect in others."
This was the second of three concepts I came up with, and while he said I way missed the mark with this one, I still think it was by far the best of the ideas. In hindsight, this would work much better as a Table Top RPG. In fact, I recall I took some influenced from Mage: The Ascension for the magic mechanics and the idea of Paradoxi.
FRACTURED ERAS
Some theorize that time is ultimately just another
dimension, akin to distance, depth, and length, that humans interpret as an
irreversible linear progression. However, if it were possible to shift one’s
perception and see time as merely another measurement of distance, one could
theoretically “walk” from one second to the next. Each moment of time would
essentially be its own separate reality; in order to time travel, one need only
“step” into another dimension. In short: time is an illusion.
