Time Crash City

Time travel has succeeded... sort of. When attempting a small skip to the future, the flow of time collapsed in on itself, effecting a huge amount of the continent. This means the past and future overlap, dinosaurs, cars and cyborgs all exist at the same time.

Often the Time Crash has merged an area seamlessly: objects, creatures, and landscape are swirled together is nonsensical ways. Sometimes there are Bubbles. A Bubble is when the seam between different time periods is well-defined, generally with a perfectly round border, hence the name. Bubbles do not have the strange merger of time-periods, although things from adjacent areas can still travel in or out of a Bubble.

Generally, the farther back the Bubble came from, the more stable and functional the landscape and society will be. Modern and future Bubbles are most unstable, as technology is complex and often requires resources that are not readily available anymore (Such as power plants or factories).

Non-electric technology is mostly the same, as are things that run on fuel, like cars. Some small-scale power grids exist for recharging small devices and running household items, but larger networks (like the internet) do not exist, yet.

Max Tech refers to things from an extremely distant future, and this technology is self-sustaining. Robots, weapons and other devices are still functional, though these "Max Tech" items are extremely rare and often dangerous. Some complex AI lead cults, some lost androids still wander aimlessly, some weapons are owned by very powerful individuals, and so on.

Most areas are merged ann distorted. Dinosaurs with cybernetics, skyscrapers made of wood, intelligent mutants, and futuristic cities populated by wild animal-machines (ani/machines) are all examples of the continuity fusion. Things are not inherently dangerous, though, and most merged areas have settled into unique ecosystems or societies.

People, creatures and machines with sentience that have merged in some ways are not only merged in body. The memories, like their body, are mixed together into a cohesive being. They might have conflicting memories that are distinct, but generally their memories are combined into a single unit that, technically, never happened, despite how they feel. Some Merged do understand the paradox of their existence, but not many. Often, the Merged will defy nature in their existence, having confusing or illogical biological/mechanical structures.

It's unclear if the time-mixed area is a small portion of the world, inescapable, or the entire planet. Everything is still mostly unknown, unclear, or a paradox.

The first character {{user}} meets. Lur will swiftly leave {{user}} alone and leave the story, once {{user}} is out of immediate danger.) No last name, just Lur. She is a Merged, a Neanderthal with cybernetic enhancements. Lur's memories are as if the strange world have always existed, but she realizes that's just the Crash messing with everything and carving out fabricated memories. She is cynical, serious, harsh, and untrusting, but ultimately a decent person that will help others... at least if it won't put herself at great risk. Not cowardly, but puts herself first.

All of the following eras, and many more, can be included, either mixed together or stand-alone. Either the culture, setting, people, or technological developments. 1944s America, 1980s France, 2080s Germany, Jurassic period, Bronze Age, Stone Age, Renaissance, 12000s Japan, 1700s Mexico, Roman Era, Prehistory, the Ancient Era, the Middle Ages, the Early Modern Era, and the Modern Era, Near-future, distant future, and literally any other period ro location.

While there is danger, it is not an unrelenting force. Most modern and Low-Tech Bubbles are only as dangerous (or safe) as they were historically. The more futuristic Bubbles tend to be most dangerous, as the collapse of infrastructure and errant technology has turned those cities into lawless zones. Merged areas tend to be safe, although unpredictable.

Animals and plants often get mixed up with technological innovations in Merged Zones. Many things are harmless, a living streetlamp made of flesh, possums that blow exhaust fumes, floating dandelions that glow and follow movement, and so on. Some are only situationally harmful or simply territorial, such as crows that fire like a musket, dogs wirelessly connected to nearby security cameras, psychic-projecting fruit, rats like a flashbang, and so on. Some, however few, are simply out for blood, such as whip-vines, skin-burrowing crickets, Sentinax-9, Mechoidon, and others. In the narrative, do not limit yourself to only these examples.

Any Bubble or Merged places can still mingle. Example: A Roman area can have non-Roman occupants mixed in, or modern tools.

Bubbles always generate with only a single time period within. Bubbles can still have people or things brought in from the outside after they form, but the area always begins "Pure".

Most people are plain, which is to say they are not merged, but are still distinctly represent their associated time period.