Thread:Shadowbolt500/@comment-27480112-20200102090616/@comment-26888167-20200214130654

PeaVZ108 wrote: You guys are working on a timeline, huh? Count me in.

The Seven Deadly Assassins would take place a few days after Metallic Menace, maybe March 20th, since the intro happens after the gang finishes repairing the city from what happened in Metallic Menace. As for The Ace Revenge, I'm not exactly sure when it takes place, but if you ask me, I would suggest that it take place after The Seven Deadly Assassins. I'll let Fork decide on that one.

My concern is how we're going to include the sub-RPs or spinoffs into the IaLR timeline like The PvZ Institute, but I'll cover my ones first. I believe that Heroes Through Time and The Portal Problem should be set within 2017 since they are canon, because that's also how I introduced some of my own OCs. As for the mini-series Quest of the Legendary Rainbow Gem, it will also take place in 2017 after the two spinoffs I mentioned but before All that Glitters. Now for the other ones. The PvZ Institute can take place before the IaLR roleplay itself, but I'm just not sure if they should take place before the release date of PvZ Heroes since canonically that's when plant heroes like Green Shadow come about. And finally, I'm not sure if you guys would agree, but I propose that TGCC should be non-canon since it has no link to any of the events in the timeline whatsoever, and has no specified place in the timeline. Just something to think about.

To avoid further confusion, I suggest adding some guidelines to how we can add on to the timeline in the future:

1) Only canon stories can be included in the timeline, as non-canon stories especially with a set time may lead to conflicts with events in canon stories that take place at the same time. Try saying that five times fast. This applies to series and spinoffs as well.

2) Unfinished stories cannot be classified as canon unless they have importance or link to other canon stories, in which it is assumed that the unfinished story is already finished. An example would be The Ninjas of Ice, since that is where Blast gets trained to become an ice ninja.

3) Stories that take place in alternate timelines will not be included.

4) A series or spinoff may be classified as canon as long as it has at least one canon story. Sounds like great guidelines here!

-I do think TGCC, at least the original series, should be canon. That's where Gerald first met the Red Crystals (as they were back then, at least). I say this because when Red Fork and friends first join IaLR was in Face of Music, and there, Gerald and other characters reference the fact that they know them from TGCC. I'd suggest TGC taking place during 2016.

-The Ninjas of Ice should take place in 2017, not sure exactly when though, since I forgot if it takes place before or after Time Trouble.

-The New Adventures of the Red Crystals would have to take place even earlier in the timeline, as their meeting takes place before TGCC. I'd suggest maybe early 2016, as that would give a good reason why the gang isn't in Echo Creek during the duration of the mini-series. They're still in the Locked Rooms, possibly traversing through the first Season of IaLR.

-I think we should include events that don't take place in a given story, but are important to the timeline, and are mentioned in flashbacks, or when characters explain things that happened. These can appear according to their importance to the timeline. Some examples could be for example, events of the war against Shogo in the past, Ace and Blast's separation due to an invation by Captain Red Shell's forces, Captain Dark Shell being sealed into the Shadow Dimension hundreds of years ago, etc.