>>8252454 LB
I'm just gonna go ahead and post what I've found and see what you guys think.
A few weeks ago there were some connections being made to Ivanka's trips and outift from the clock and looking glass pictures, to an old time Investigative Journalist named Nellie Bly.
It was in reference to A Race Around the World, where Bly beat the record of Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.
As I was looking into it a little deeper, it seems Nellie Bly was an important character of the late 1800's.
As I looked for more of her books and material, I found these.
So, she died in 1922, yet wrote books recently about Oprah and Barbra Streisand.
Can anybody explain how this is even possible?
Serious question, can another person pick up somebody else's pen name after the individual has died?
And to take that even further, there was a PC game in 1991 called Ultima Martian Dreams that had her, Nikola Tesla, and a bunch of other historical characters in it, and guess what it was about?
Time travel and Mars, and it had a guide/manual that I dont believe came with the original release of the game called Nellie Bly's lost notebook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima:_Worlds_of_Adventure_2:_Martian_Dreams
After the events in the Savage Empire, the Avatar is visited by a strange red-haired woman who gives a book to him and his friend Dr. Spector. The book will eventually be written by Spector himself, and explains how to use the Orb of the Moons to travel through time. Following instructions, the duo ends up in the Victorian Era, where Percival Lowell has set up a space cannon that will launch some volunteers to Mars.
Through an act of sabotage, the cannon is fired during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, with several dozen famous people and leaders of the time on board. A second cannon is prepared to find and recover the people in the first, who are now stranded on Mars.
It turns out that Mars had an extensive civilization based on plants. Most monsters the player encounters are so-called "plantimals", such as the Jumping Bean and the Planther. Mars has cities and canals, although the civilization is in ruins, so the player's first tasks are restoring the world power station, and melting enough of the polar caps (with a solar lens) to fill the canals.
Some of the people appear to have gone insane after using a device called the Dream Machine. What in fact happened was that, after massive soil poisoning, the original Martians had gone into a sort of alternate dimension called "dreamspace" to preserve themselves. Those people using the Dream Machine found themselves trapped in dreamspace, while the Martians took over their bodies. A large part of the game is spent visiting various people's nightmares and clearing them up.
Eventually, robotic bodies can be created for the Martians, since their plantamal bodies won't grow. After a showdown with the evil Raxachk, who caused the soil pollution in the first place, all Victorians can once more go home.
It was apparently re released on gog.com as a free download in 2012
https://www.gog.com/game/ultima_worlds_of_adventure_2_martian_dreams
Explore the Red Planet and save history before it’s too late!
The year is 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Astronomer Percival Lowell's colossal space cannon is poised to hurl a huge bullet-ship to Mars. Then disaster strikes! The cannon discharges a day early with dozens of history's leading figures aboard. Unprepared for the rigors of Mars, the accidental space travelers have little chance of surviving. You must rescue the stranded expedition or history will be forever changed!
Martian Dreams is the second in the Ultima Worlds of Adventure series, taking you, the Avatar, to exciting new worlds of science fiction, mystery, historic exploration, horror, time travel, espionage, and fantasy. Time and space, past and future, fact and fiction–all are are yours to explore in Ultima Worlds of Adventure!
Solve the mysteries of the Martian canals, steam-powered factories, radium-driven mechanical men, and other artifacts.
Interact with some of history's most renowned men and women, painstakingly researched and accurately portrayed. Meet and learn about Sarah Berhardt, Nellie Bly, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Sigmund Freud, Emma Goldman, William Randolph Hearst, Vladimir Lenin, Grigori Rasputin, Theodore Roosevelt, Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, and dozens more!
Conquer the eerie Dreamworld by confronting your own subconscious fears and desires.
Trips chekt.
I never got to play any of them as I was always a console gamer.
Ultima gets lots of praise and I'm kinda bummed I missed them because they all look really fun, even for like 30 years ago.
Apparently though these 2 are offshoots of the original Ultima series and the Martian one begins at the end of Savage Empire.
Interdasting considering John McAfees "parody" disclosure on Twatter recently.
I found her before Q swooped in, and before I was really woke.
That sweet old lady blew my mind.
Me neither.
I'm prepared to be surprised though with some of them and this movie's plot twists.