Zybourne Clock (ザイボーン・クロック, Zaibōn Kurokku?) is an upcoming roleplaying game created with RPG Maker. First announced in 2006, Zybourne Clock takes place in a fictional, steampunk-style world. One of the stated goals of the ZC project is to create a massive video game that will feature over 100 hours of gameplay and full voice acting, and lack clichéd characters, settings and storylines, centering around a mysterious device called the Zybourne Clock. Due to repeated harassment by members of the Something Awful forums, the project has become secretive, making current information difficult to come by.
Gameplay
Battle System
A tech demonstration was released in 2007 demonstrating the combat system employed in Zybourne Clock. Combat in Zybourne Clock is menu-based, in which the player selects an action from a list of such options as Fight, Magic and Item and utilizes the Final Fantasy series' Active Time Battle system. The magic system is currently said to be related to music, played from an Enchanted Flute. Happy music will heal your friends, while angry music will harm your enemies, and sad music will make them depressed and unable to fight, a fourth, currently unknown musical style is yet to be released, many fans assume it is related to the Zybourne Clock somehow.
Plot
Setting
Zybourne Clock takes place on an unnamed planet, in the nation of Rasenni, bordered on the north by Bookworld and to the south by the warlike nation of Capital, which has annexed much of the land between the cities of Prey Bark and Wallitston's Hill. The world is one of magic and technology. The most important technologies yet revealed are the Zybourne Clock, Golden Egg and Electromagnetic Pulse weaponry ranging from EMP gloves to EMP grenades and firearms that fire EMP ammunition. The Zybourne Clock is thought to be a powerful time-altering device. According to leaked documents, the newest timelines replace the oldest ones, like a ball knocking another ball off a cliff.
Characters
Though little is known about Zybourne Clock, several characters have been revealed. The hero is Sylus, a true atheist who is accompanied by his clever assistant, the nonsexual flapper girl Nina. The party is also joined by Johnny "Aces" Johnson, a hard-drinking, hard-living gambler and Scholtz, a tough-as-nails photojournalist. The creator of the Zybourne Clock, Dr. Zybourne, appears to be something of a mentor to Sylus. Besides his obsession with the Zybourne Clock, the motivations of the game's antagonist, Dr. Malaprop, remain unknown.
Story
Little is known for sure about the story of Zybourne Clock outside of leaked conceptual documents.
According to these leaked documents, the events of the game are set into motion when a robotic child steals a device called the Golden Egg from Dirk McLauren in a crowded room.
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He began his music education under Anderson Williams, Deputy Director of Music of the Royal Barbados Police Force [RBPF]. Five years later, he then studied with Hal Archer [a concert flautist that studied under William Bennett]. Dexter then received a National Development scholarship and attended the University of Surrey. There, he trained with Anna Noakes and Ian Clarke. He also attended master classes given by William Bennett. 1998, Dexter was made an Associate member of the Trinity College of Music, to be appointed a Licentiate member two years later. In 2000, he won the 'Young Musician of the Year' award in Guilford, England, and in 2001, he won the 'Bell and Colvill' scholarship. Next, he won the 'Croser-Hughes' solo recital competition. Norville has performed in London, Germany, USA, Guyana and Barbados. Presently, he holds a Bachelor's degree in Music with honors from the University of Surrey.
List of academic scandals
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* False verifications
o Verification of the James Ossuary by the Geological Survey of Israel (GSI) and Andre Lemair of Sorbonne University
o The verification of the authenticity of the Hitler Diaries by Hugh Trevor-Roper
* Corporate involvement in academia
o Nancy Olivieri/Apotex scandal
o Cases involving refusal of data or ghostwriting by corporate sponsor: Blumsohn Case/P&G Kahn/Immune Response Inc Sheffield Actonel Affair
o Cases involving suppression of publication by corporate sponsor: Dong/Boots Pharmaceuticals
* Academic fraud
o Gideon Koren - allegations of fraud against Gideon Koren were dismissed by the College of Physicians as inflammatory. He was reprimanded for misconduct after admitting he was the author of anonymous letters (CBC Report 1999) directed at other doctors at the hospital with regard to the controversial Olivieri/Apotex scandal.(Maclean's 2005)
o Jon Sudbø - fabricated data in cancer research
o Michael Bellesiles forced to resign from Emory University for fabrication and academic fraud in a book he authored.
o Fujimura Shinichi - faked archaeological finds in Japan
o Ward Churchill - was fired from the University of Colorado for "plagiarism, falsification and other misconduct".
o Piltdown Man - fake composite hominid skull, hoaxer is still unknown
o Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarism in doctoral thesis
o Jan Hendrik Schön
o Luk Van Parijs
o Victor Ninov
o Hwang Woo-Suk - fabricated data in stem-cell research
o Ian Wilmut - admitted, under oath, 10 years after the birth of Dolly the Sheep that he was not her creator
o Gerald Schatten authorship on a high profile publication without contributing any scientific input, misappropriation of human eggs
o Sir Cyril Burt's twin study research
o Morton Smith's Secret Gospel
o Zed Zorichak, Lecturer University of Wales Lampeter acredited with the 'plagiarism game' as he delberately falsified plagiarism results using EVE software as retribution against students who had complained about his unprofessional conduct. He brought the strategy by UK Universities against student plagiarism into disrepute.
* Academic experiments with ethical issues
o Stanford Prison Experiment
o Little Albert
o Milgram experiment
* Academic freedom
o Biscuit Fire publication controversy
* Misrepresentation of qualifications / 'Diploma mill' degrees
o Marilee Jones, MIT dean admitted lying about her degrees.
o Barry McSweeney, Irish government science adviser resigns after claims over a dubious PhD.
* Other
o The Sokal Affair
o The Bogdanov Affair
o The Orr Case
o J. Michael Bailey see The Man Who Would Be Queen and bisexual erasure
o Inflation of first year MPharm exam results by De Montfort University academics in 2004
o E.J. Corey - Graduate Student Suicide Rate