AH Title and Description Game

[Emperor Norton I]

I got bored, and had a fanciful idea, so here it goes.

The game is to put up a Title to an AH timeline. The next person to reply will post a description of the TL they think that title would/could be for. And then, they can post Timeline Name after that and let the next person write a description and post their own Timeline Name, and so on.

For example:

Originally Posted by 1st Person

Blue Sky Blues

Originally Posted by 2nd Person

In an alternate world, the airplane fails to take off. As a result, alternate forms of transportation rise in prominence, such as continued prominent use of the train, ships, and Dirigibles. The lack of airplanes also alters the world wars.

Next Title: Blah-Blah-Blah

To start off with, I will put up a random title, and the next person will then post the description and their own Title:

The Darkness and the Light

[QuoProQuid]

An alternate account of the War of the Currents and those involved. As the conflict between the supporters of Tesla and Edison escalates, each strains to outdo the other. The world quickly becomes a much brighter place.

Pray for Us Sinners

[anon_user]

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

An alternate account of the War of the Currents and those involved. As the conflict between the supporters of Tesla and Edison escalates, each strains to outdo the other. The world quickly becomes a much brighter place.

Pray for Us Sinners

A TL involving a more successful Councilarism and its efforts to reform the Catholic Church.

Up, Up and Away...

[vultan]

Originally Posted by anon_user

A TL involving a more successful Councilarism and its efforts to reform the Catholic Church.

Up, Up and Away...

A timeline about a comic book fan who grows up to be President, and starts the next level of the arms race, trying to create the perfect warrior: the Superman Program...

The Agony and the Irony

[Badshah]

Originally Posted by vultan

A timeline about a comic book fan who grows up to be President, and starts the next level of the arms race, trying to create the perfect warrior: the Superman Program...

The Agony and the Irony

A story about the "special relationship" between the United States and Britain slowly melt away.

The Sun Bestows upon us Dark

[Scipio Africanus]

Originally Posted by trollhole

The Sun Bestows upon us Dark

A timeline where a different 20th century creates multiples superpowers, the US, Germany, Britain, Russia. These powers all develop nuclear weapons and warfare in the mid-late 20th century involves recurrent use of small-scale nuclear weapons, but no apocalyptic nuclear wars. Very messed up world.

Take the Money and Run

I like this game!

[Emperor Norton I]

Originally Posted by Scipio Africanus

A timeline where a different 20th century creates multiples superpowers, the US, Germany, Britain, Russia. These powers all develop nuclear weapons and warfare in the mid-late 20th century involves recurrent use of small-scale nuclear weapons, but no apocalyptic nuclear wars. Very messed up world.

Take the Money and Run

I like this game!

Donald Trump runs for the Presidency, and wins. What follows is an economic disaster as the President tries to run the nation in signature Trump style. All style and no substance. Tension with China is also on the horizon as President Trump tries to initiate a new Cold War and economic sanctions.

Three Presidents and a Funeral

[DSS]

Originally Posted by Emperor Norton I

Donald Trump runs for the Presidency, and wins. What follows is an economic disaster as the President tries to run the nation in signature Trump style. All style and no substance. Tension with China is also on the horizon as President Trump tries to initiate a new Cold War and economic sanctions.

Three Presidents and a Funeral

On November 22nd, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates not only President John F. Kennedy, but shoots Lyndon B. Johnson who is riding closer to the President's motorcade than IOTL. JFK dies immediately, making LBJ President for 10 seconds. In Washington, John McCormack is informed that President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson have been assassinated, and is immediately depressed. Three hours after being sworn in as Acting President, President McCormack dies of a heart attack (he is an old man after all). The funerals of the three Presidents are strung out over three days. Tragedy ensues in America.

(Wow, that was depressing Really glad that didn't happen)

He Came, He Saw, She Conquered

[QuoProQuid]

Three Presidents and a Funeral

James Madison dies several months later than he should have. To celebrate the life of the man who practically wrote the Constitution, both John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson pledge to attend the funeral. The ceremony continues as planned, until a strange man approaches the scene and fires wildly into the crowd.

Both the president and former president are rushed from the scene. Neither's condition is known by the public. In the subsequent months, US politics get turned up side down.


He Came, He Saw, She Conquered

Anthony and Cleopatra win the battle of Actium.

The Snows of the Tyrol

[anon_user]

Originally Posted by QuoProQuid

The Snows of the Tyrol

A timeline involving an Austro-German war in 1934, complete with Italian intervention on the side of the Austrians.

You've Lost That Loving Feeling

[vultan]

Originally Posted by anon_user

A timeline involving an Austro-German war in 1934, complete with Italian intervention on the side of the Austrians.

You've Lost That Loving Feeling

This tells the story (tragedy, more like it...) of President Paul Wellstone being elected in 2004 as the first truly liberal President in decades after an unbroken chain of hard-right Presidents (from both sides of the aisle) such as Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, and Ronald Reagan.

It chronicles his well-meaning but naive attempts to push a liberal agenda in an America that really isn't ready for it.

I Can't Stop

[The Space Viking]

Originally Posted by vultan

This tells the story (tragedy, more like it...) of President Paul Wellstone being elected in 2004 as the first truly liberal President in decades after an unbroken chain of hard-right Presidents (from both sides of the aisle) such as Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, and Ronald Reagan.

It chronicles his well-meaning but naive attempts to push a liberal agenda in an America that really isn't ready for it.

I Can't Stop

A timeline about the untimely death of Adolf Hitler just before the declaration of war on Poland due to overdose.

Coldest Story Ever Told

[Glass Onion]

FDR decides against running for reelection in 1940, despite his best efforts the Democratic Party nominates Vice President John Nance Garner, who goes on to defeat Tom Dewey in the election. President Garner practices true neutrality, preventing lends lease and generally cutting off official aid to the UK, and refusing to aid the USSR. An American Japanese war between 1941 and 1945 with less assistance from the UK occupies the majority of Garner's Presidency. The end result is a broken Europe dominated by the USSR and frosty relations between the UK and the US.
The Time of False Grandeur

[anon_user]

Originally Posted by Glass Onion

The Time of False Grandeur

A timeline about a Europe that avoids the Great War, but fights an even worse war in the late 1920s.

The Ace of Aces

[Son of Sphinks]

The story of the 1982 US World Cup soccer team and it`s unexpected run to the semi-finals.

In this corner...

[Glass Onion]

The aftermath of the shocking murder of Muhammad Ali after the famous 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle"

The Primrose Path of Dalliance

[azander12]

Originally Posted by Son of Sphinks

The story of the 1982 US World Cup soccer team and it`s unexpected run to the semi-finals.

In this corner...

In This Corner...

Muhammed Ali is defeated by George Foreman in the "Rumble in the Jungle" after Mobutu decides to install air-conditioning in the stadium, making the ropes less susceptible to the humidity. This leads to Ali's retirement from boxing, and his surprisingly successful run for Congress in Chicago's South Side.


The Primrose Path of Dalliance

Bill Clinton is caught with a young intern in the restroom of a Denny's during the 1992 election campaign, leading to a Republican victory and a very different America.



9 Miles, as the Crow Flies

[QuoProQuid]

A major miscalculation causes the atomic bomb that was meant to be dropped on Hiroshima to instead land 9 miles away from the original impact site. The bomb is instead dropped near the city of Kure. Heads roll and butterflies quickly become apparent.

Komm, süßer Tod

[Spitfiremk1]

The Germans manage to defeat the Soviets, only to be nuked to oblivion by the Western Allies later on.

Advance Brittania!

[Glass Onion]

Against all reason Hitler attempted to invade England in 1940, leading to a German disaster. This timeline attempts to explore the aftermath of that, for the Germans, disastrous invasion and the UK's reaction to it on the geopolitical stage.

And What's He Then Who Says I Play the Villain?