from a game to make a game. add these cards in as illustrations for the potential time periods

Potential Time Periods

• A fictional geological time scale period
  • Romers Gap - named after a person who discovers something specific in the archeological record
  • Carboniferous period - something developed in the strata that can be measured, like coal or nuclear fallout.
• Paleolithic or Neolithic era
  • Early human art
  • Non-human evidence - biological, geological event data (such as
• Late Bronze Age (~1500 BCE)
  • Bronze or copper art
  • Scrolls
• Patristic Era
  • Fictional Hexaemeron - Books that have been copied for a dozen centuries. Much fighting about this later.
• 1300 CE
  • Self-centered travelogs
  • Monastic paperwork
  • Weather/navigational charts showing anomalies missed at the time of creation
• Late 1800s
  • • Start of spiritualist society
  • When the collection of earlier artifacts began by a private but well-funded eccentric.
  • These people visited many archives (or talked to people) and made terrible notes about them.
  • Their beurocracy as they became more organized
  • Attempts made to develop devices with developing technologies to further their aims
• 1920s
  • First archivist examining the eccentrics personal estate as donated to a municipal archive.
  • This person hunted down evidence of much of the pre-1800s artifact but didn’t have access to them, but verified or disputed the existence of the 1800s artifacts.
• Late 1940s
  • Major archive relocation, much data collection but also objects lost. Interest in the society becomes more academic and less sincere.
• 1970s
  • (paranormal government sponsorship) Harebrained initiative, government funded, paranormal investigation. Very, very badly run. Much is collected but much more is mishandled and damaged
  • University researcher, writing a history book, her notes for the book, news clippings of her going missing
• 1990s
  • First disastrous digital migration
  • Another artist is visited
  • Maybe the 90s art is by the archivist themself - the archive is defaced?
  • website vs of wayback machine - missing images
  • conspiracy websites
  • punk zines
• Present? Who owns this? Who wants you to do this?