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#Post#: 175--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: MisterCuttlefish Date: April 8, 2013, 2:03 pm
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Tree: Casti says to go to sleep.
Castaway and I will write more when were at actual computers.
#Post#: 176--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: A Sexy Tree Date: April 8, 2013, 2:07 pm
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@Idola - SHHH. I already slept for 17 hours and I'm too tired to
sleep anymore. ;u; Leave me alone. Besides, it's just a migraine
- sleeping won't do anything to make me better, it'll just make
time pass.
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Re: So like roleplay
By: Red Date: April 8, 2013, 2:21 pm
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My timeline pulls a few ideals from my story idea, but not all
of them. Here's what I got.
Humans reside in heavy forts along a desert wasteland, with
sustainable agriculture, bustling and evolving technology, and
wealthy trade systems. Their only real enemy is themselves.
Constantly at war with other forts and fortified countries
hundreds of miles away, most societies are somewhat
militaristic. One of the biggest and most successful forts runs
under the authority of a king, and it is written that the
kingdom is only inherited by bloodline, yet nobody has ever seen
royalty roaming the streets. In the center of this fort
town/city/thing, there is a large tower constructed, much more
like a castle than anything. It is said that here is where the
king resides.
Inside the castle are several workers, which under law, wear
blindfolds. They are of an unknown race, yet still seem quite
human besides the absence of emotion. This race tends to the
king and his only heir. His heir has never seen the king's - his
father's - being. Residing in a heavily secured room in the
tower, the king, only attended by the blindfolded beings,
doesn't have a political image. He's merely a symbol to his
people and his son. The reign came about through what's believed
to be divine right, and those who question it within the city
are questioned to be either spies or simply ludicrous. The
nondescript religion that dictates the city has no traditions,
but merely says that those who question authority will feel the
wrath of the gods, whoever they are.
In reality, but unknown to the people, the kingship was
established by an underground organization. They have no
mainstream image, and only pull strings from the shadows. Their
members know little of its history, but keep true to the groups
goal. Underneath the fort and tower lies an ever-expanding, long
chain of crypts and keeps and dungeons that extend to the molten
mantle of the planet. At the very base, complex, gigantic, heat
resistant mechanisms hold three pistons in place as they are
left to rest within the magma itself, and the churning of the
underlying convection currents cause the pistons to rise and
fall in succession. This turns gigantic gears which power the
whole city, from the very base and heart of the fort. Closer to
the surface, no civilians are allowed to enter in to any level
of the crypts, while members of the underground organization
fear going further than the fourth level.
Ancient beings (sound familiar?) which are naturally peaceful,
populate the crypts down to the mantle. They use embedded
systems in the rock to get jobs done, and these systems were
build thousands of years before humans came and populated the
city, causing the initial refugees (the unemotional keepers of
the king) to retreat into the keep. Ever since, the organization
members spur on war with the other forts in secret, placing bets
with unholy amounts of money, kidnapped human slaves, and other
spoils to create imbalance and turmoil within the nations. The
ancients, meanwhile, simply keep the city running, as if their
genetic programming tell them that that's all that's important
to them. Oftentimes, one of them may be assaulted by members of
the organization, and offered up for trade. They are used in
other forts for similar reasons, or distracted, providing rare
resources virtually unobtainable anywhere else.
The plotline following this universe could be something along
the lines of breaking out the bored prince from the keep,
undermining or surfacing the hidden authority of the
organization, and wrecking the illusion of the kingship to
promote peace among the warring forts.
Was that too in depth? It's just a prototype if people are
interested.
#Post#: 178--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: Red Date: April 8, 2013, 2:25 pm
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[quote author=A Sexy Tree link=topic=28.msg174#msg174
date=1365447680]
@Red - Whoooooooooooooa what. I'm not sure I'm following, but
that may just be due to the fact that I'm barely coherent. ^^;
So like, the plant is created and there are ancient (magical??)
beings that come to exist somehow and have lived there for a
while. That part I get.
But like.
How do humans fall from the sky if they don't have the
technology to be in the sky yet? And then how would there be
humans still on the ground, because presumably the ancients
would make the city big enough for all the humans.
Unless you didn't mean fall from the sky literally, like maybe
the ancients went into hibernation or something and then humans
evolved and started destroying the world and then the ancients
woke up and sent them away?
Or maybe I'm completely off base so Imma shut up now.
[/quote]
Maybe the humans resided on another planet and were checking
that one out until there was some hardware malfunction on the
ship and people fell or something yet somehow survived. Idk,
hahaha.
#Post#: 179--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: A Sexy Tree Date: April 8, 2013, 2:43 pm
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@Red -
Oooooooooooh. Okay, so I think I'm starting to get a feel for
what you're saying. My concern atm is the fact that we have lots
of little bit's that don't really seem to fit together at all,
so I think that maybe we should sorta make a summary of what we
know that we want, and starting making it one whole conglomerate
instead of lots of little fragments that are all super cool but
lacking cohesion??
From what I can tell, the parts we're really interested in
keeping are in the following list, with parentheses denoting who
wanted what for the sake of keeping track.
-A cyber punk (Idola) flying city (Mono)
-A second surface world (Red + Mono)
-Ancient beings that live on said world, with great mechanical
ability, that sent the humans into the sky (Red)
-Humans still on this world (Mono)
-A society without touch due to culture (Red) being embedded in
the flying city??? (Mono)
-A society where people can touch (Casti), probably the ground
world? (Mono)
And then lots of other smaller snippets of epicness floating
around.
For me, I think a viable timeline would be thus (please feel
free to tweak it all over the place)
-Two planets are created in the Goldie Locks zone of one solar
system
-Ancients, whatever they are (Red, are they human-esqe sort of
at all, or did I just make that up in my head?), evolve on one
planet, while humans evolve on the other
-Somehow, humans end up being advanced enough for space travel,
and for whatever reason, leave their home planet and crash into
the Ancients planet (Idola, incorporating your idea of a nuclear
war might work here, in that the humans had to leave their
planet because they, you know, destroyed it)
-The Ancients planet is covered in some sort of fog or something
that the humans, because they evolved on a different planet,
aren't biologically equipt (that's a word right?!) to deal with
-The Ancients save the humans (possibly for the sake of getting
them out of their hair) by using their mechanical
genius/powers/whatever to create a floating
city/country/continent/what have you (possible out of the
remains of the humans space crafts, to make it more easy to ad
in cyber punk elements
Massive time break in which humans forget the Ancients really
exist, and the two cultures are completely separate
-The floating cities start to fail because of lack of
resources/because the engines are failing and the humans don't
know how to work them/idk help me out here
-Eventually, the humans crash back to the planet once more
-Either the fog on the planet is no longer toxic to the humans
because they have been exposed to traces of it in the sky or
maybe we can go steam punk now and give them all gas masks
-Ancients and humans come into contact after -long time here-,
now that both cultures believe the other doesn't really exist
and is just a myth
-PRESENT TIMES
.... Would something like that be more workable?? Or am I still
completely off base?
#Post#: 180--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: Red Date: April 8, 2013, 2:50 pm
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Whoa, okay I'm getting a lot of mixed messages, haha, but it's
all good. I think that outline is good, though there are still a
couple misunderstandings. I won't bother to correct them,
though. I want to see what other people have to say.
My long spew of information was initially completely separate
from your topic, but it seems like, combined, they can mesh
nicely. Once again, I'll say that I want to hear other people's
opinions before I move on, and if something like what you're
saying, Mono, checks out with everyone, I'm cool with developing
your prototype further and I won't bother with proposing my
other universe.
#Post#: 181--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: A Sexy Tree Date: April 8, 2013, 2:59 pm
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Oh no mixed signals. ;u; I liked the idea of Ancients, and I
figured they could be incorporated into everything else thus
far, but... I'm not actually sure what I'm doing, considering
I'm barely awake right now. Uhhh.
Yeah, I agree that we should wait until other people are online,
and I think Imma shut up for now because I don't really know
what's happening anymore. orz
Also I still want to hear about your other universe, cause it
seems like it's really interesting and I want to incorporate
everyones everything into one giant melting pot or else I'll
feel like I'm unfairly steering the plot where people might not
want it to go.
#Post#: 182--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: MisterCuttlefish Date: April 8, 2013, 3:23 pm
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Haha Castaway and I have some similar ideas because we've been
discussing it.
Emily is going to wait for us to sort out the plot before she
creates a character and she isn't going to intervene. Prepare
yourselves for the next poll, you can change your vote if you
would like, it will be up once school gets done. c:
#Post#: 183--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: Red Date: April 8, 2013, 3:23 pm
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I partially agree with the "melting pot" ideal. I feel that a
lot of my constructions are built upon reason and logic, much
like my thought process i guess, and they tend to emulate the
real world to a certain extent. I appreciate having my thoughts
utilized effectively, but I also like seeing certain things pan
out by their design - to do what they were intended to do, so to
speak. If people really want to read what I've got, I'll create
a separate thread for discussion of that, but for now, what's
been brought to the table by me at this point should be enough
to lay a foundation. I enjoy working out details rather than the
basic formula, usually, since it's hard to develop brand new
paradigms that are merely fictitious, and therefore have no
morals surrounding their creation.
That's another reason why I'm excited for more details for other
people, because it's like people giving me different resources
to build different things with, and I want to create a new way
to make them fit and work together hahaha.
The upside to this being on a forum is that it's all easily
logged, rather than with spoken word, where details get lost
incredibly easily. It's altogether endlessly intriguing on here.
#Post#: 184--------------------------------------------------
Re: So like roleplay
By: Red Date: April 8, 2013, 3:24 pm
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[quote author=MisterCuttlefish link=topic=28.msg182#msg182
date=1365452621]
Haha Castaway and I have some similar ideas because we've been
discussing it.
Emily is going to wait for us to sort out the plot before she
creates a character and she isn't going to intervene. Prepare
yourselves for the next poll, you can change your vote if you
would like, it will be up once school gets done. c:
[/quote]
Which Emily are you referring to?
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