NOT for Magnus

Welcome to a Martial Arts Tourney World.

1. The Tech is 15@10, and the Psi is medium high as well. Magic is zilch. Body is 15@10 as well.
2. Lots of space-faring alien races, mostly in a brawling, rowdy array of racial states that sometimes extend to numerous star systems that have been alien-formed. A few empires rule multiple alien races and star systems up to 200. Lots of trade and travel by hyperdrive.
3. Some alien races are really nasty, others are just mean, and some are decent folk. The Tartkighul are Really Nasty. Rumor has it that they make clones of other races to eat their brains after a general coalition of other races put to the stop their kidnapping other races adn doing it free range. Now the Tartkighul are limited to their star system, but there are smugglers who go to ....
4. The chief setting of the game is an asteroid in the middle of the Big Dark. It has no sun, but its located conveniently close to several major trade routes. And its current owners, the Sawcuth, are telepathic giant snails who run it as a giant casino with only two rules 1. Bring lots of money. 2. Don't mess with the Snails.

You can buy slaves (which is illegal in most jurisdictions). The drugs are available, but more expensive because the Snails think having dopies scattered around the place is unaesthetic...so there are Dope Rooms.

And to bring in the crowds, there are martial arts tournameants.

But they needed more.

And so by means not generally known, (it involved an old man who was a lot older than he looked), they built a space-time bubble, as they call it. Versers would call it a bubble universe. Inside it, magic worked.

They used it for the arena and staging ground, etc.. It was not really all that large...but it had Magic bias in the sevens.

And then they used a Superspace Attractant to snag anyone travelling nearby. Oh, they use criminals and such from their own universe, but they also use extra-d's.

So far...
1. 'I must find Sarah Connor and kill her'.
2. A giant hound dog who claims to be an interdimensional tracker on the path of a criminal. He respects Man a great deal, as in his universe, animals are uplifted, and Humans are superhuman, almost low angels. He's disdainful of the local universe as his is far more civilized.
3. Not too many versers, but a couple.
4. A scout from Intertemporal, Ltd..
5. A crewman from the Mary Piper, but the Emerald Duke device sorceror version of it. He's unhappy, and trying to decide between boiling everyone's blood or creating a miniature black hole and sucking the whole asteroid into it.
6. Captain James T. Kirk.
7. Lt. Cmmdr. Spock
8. Minuteman, a punky superhero
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More are welcome. Need all sorts of travellers. And of course, I need a fair number of villainous scum.

The guy lifting him is a slave,a nd not actually a bad 'thing'. But enormously strong.

Of course, I'm going to have some sort of override to keep the versers from versing out.

The fights are supposed to be non-lethal, at least at the beginning. If you win, you get a trillion credits. You also get the chance to challenge the house champion....nobody has won against him....if you win, the House will give you any request in its power.

Also, cheating by the House in the game is not wise as many of the gamers are the sort who can whistle up an armada of warships if they think they were cheated. Now, the HOuse does have good defenses, but its best defense is its impartiality. If soemone tried to intimidate the House, the other players who can whistle too would do so....unless they thought the House deserved what it got. So for the House ...reputation of honest dealing is a must.
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Thinking mainly along the lines of "television shows or movies where people travel through time or dimensions".

What's-his-name... Sam? From Quantum Leap.

Any of the doctors from Dr. Who.

Lister from Red Dwarf.

The guy from MST3K.

The Shredder.

Bill S. Preston/Theodore Logan.

Gandalf the Gray/White.

Frank (the guy/ghost in the rabbit suit from Donnie Darko)

The guys from Live-a-Live: Pogo, a caveman; Oboro, a ninja; Yuan, a monk; Oersted, a knight; Sundown, a western-style gunman; Masaru, a wrestler; Akira, a psionicist; Cube, a robot.

Many more, those just come to mind immediately.

Um scum

Pick any bad guys from DC or Marvel, they are known to be sucked into places like this, should give you plenty of normal skum or superpowered scum to use

Anthony Bourdain. Definitely.

Alice, as in Alice in Wonderland.

The human characters in The Chronicles of Narnia (hey, MJ hasn't run ANYONE from the forums in those worlds, has he? Pretty good stories about versers who went through them). The White Witch also travelled to another dimension (though not by her own power), if you recall the part of The Magicians Nephew.

I'm reading The Magician's Nephew to my kids at night right now. Just got through the Woods the first time....

Its been a looooooong time since I read them. Almost like reading them new.

Just finished Dawn Treader *yeah, I'm reading the whole Narnia set to them*, and then I saw the advert for the movie coming in December. Yippee.

Going in the order they were written?

The non-believers say to read them starting from The Magician's Nephew and go chronologically, but I still say there's some old-school charm in starting with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Started with Prince Caspian in part because Mr. C had read The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (which is what I'd start with), and then Dawn Treader, and now Nephew, and probably Horse and His Boy next...

Interesting. I'd have done Silver Chair and Horse and His Boy before Magician I think.

On the Narnia question, I'm definitely old-school--

1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. Prince Caspian
3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
5. A Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
6. The Last Battle

The sixth book explains a lot of stuff that happened in the earlier ones, but it doesn't make sense as the first book.

Mister Mxyzptlk comes to mind, but his powers are all magical and he would be severely hampered in a low-bias world. On the other hand, it occurs to me that all of your combatants are from off-world, so they're not bound by the bias level, only the curve. You'd already realized that, right?

While I was looking for how to spell Mxyzptlk I stumbled on a Wikipedia list of Superman's enemies which might help.

I've a nagging feeling that I've got more dimension hoppers--oh, the Sliders probably count.

--M. J. Young

Ptirru, the galaxy-sized serpent who eats stars and other planetary bodies, travelling from dimension to dimension.

(There aren't enough interdimensional space monsters in the Multiverse =) )