Subject: When Agents whom no existing canon can accommodate retireÂ…
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Posted on: 2009-08-27 18:46:00 UTC
…how are they accommodated?
My idea was the crafting of a special universe, with a world described and enough locals to prevent inbreeding, but no plot for the Agents' DNA and abilities to screw up. And a whole group of Agents is retiring. If that setup won't work, what will instead?
embrio
No Agent is well-enough liked or impossible enough to accomodate that the Flowers would create an entire universe for them. That brings me to my second point; the Flowers might have advanced technology, but that's something they just can't do. If they could, I get the feeling they would've done it before, but for themselves, not Agents. My opinion/idea is that the Flowers would pick 'verses most able to accomodate the Agents, and if there are several there might be a choice involved (like Acacia deciding to retire to Rome). For example, if Tawaki's one of the ones you're retiring they'd probably let him retire to Doctor Who. If they find nothing, which I doubt since we're talking an infinitely huge multiverse, they just wouldn't allow the Agents to retire yet.
...KG, are you channelling me?
Retiring isn't something agents generally do. I can't see the Flowers or whoever setting up an entire world in which your agents can retire. I can see them okaying a world in which they can retire, but that's about it.
…that ex-Agents can stay out of the canon's way, right?
And can it accommodate odd somatotypes as long as the people with said somatotypes don't interfere with the stories? Because some Agents are more disturbed than others and may require help from said others.
Generic Fantasy, Generic Sci-fi, etc. Or an Alternate Universe. Nexis universes are good, too. They pop up mainly in role-plays.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "old somatotypes"? A somatotype is just someone's physique, as I understand it: ectomorph, endomorph, or mesomorph.
~Neshomeh
I meant near-human but with odd features.
And Generic Science Fantasy would work best, I think.
I don't think the Flowers have discovered every 'verse there is. For example, Blue Photon, the Telyans, and Tango Dioxide (I might've missed a couple) were all from the same original 'verse, and never did manage to actually find it. If they found one more sci-fi oriented for the Agents, they could put them there. An original universe without published works, but where the Agents' presence wouldn't damage anything (maybe with some help from Disguise Generators). I think your best bet is that or Doctor Who.
Pick a system with a wide enough cosmology and a fluid enough campaign world, and you just kinda get lost in the mix of PCs wandering about.