Ewtron
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:19 PM |
I'm looking to do something with a modern sci-fi feel, relating to how humans interact with their technology (bionic technology, GMOs, "Playing God"). I want to make something vast and original, not like the power roleplays that plague the RP. I'm sick, sick, SICK of superpowers. Everybody goes for the most typical of things, completely ignoring the other "normal" classes, loafing about before picking a fight with someone and blowing half the world to smithereens, escaping whatever confined them by some impossible situation, and otherwise turning the RP into the literary equivalent of the collapse of Rome.
However, mutants are okay. Just nothing Superman-esque.
Thoughts and ideas to build on this? |
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Ewtron
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:24 PM |
Post script: As is expected with every one of my RPs, this WILL be mature. I would prefer having a bunch of literate teens (technically 13+) engaging in creative writing than a 10-year-old venting his/her anger into an impossible and one-sided war whilst speaking in txt tlk.
No offence to you lot, I've just had some bad experiences, with over seven of my roleplays dying as a result of this behavior. |
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magma72
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:33 PM |
| Unfortantely, I don't have any ideas. -_- |
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:34 PM |
I'll collab i have been wanting to collab about the same thing recently, i think we can get a lot of ideas off of each other
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Ewtron
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:37 PM |
So. What have you been thinking?
I'm sort of against black-and-white plot lines, I.e, these people are evil and these people are good. It makes war-obsessed rp-trolls drool. |
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:44 PM |
Tip:
Try to keep the sci-fi to a minimum... Sci-fi RPs often overwhelm readers, generally those who don't understand sci-fi... Such as myself. :P I've never RPed in a sci-fi RP, essentially because I can't comprehend the content. At all. :L |
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:49 PM |
Well, I'd love to contribute my ideas, but the things I've create are just... Well, let's just say whenever I write something it appears as though I've gone mad.
But, when you used the word 'plague,' I got inspired to throw this idea into action; 18th Century France; Bubonic Plague (Black Death). If you don't know what that is, it's what the song 'Ring Around the Rosies' is based off of.
Ring Around the Rosies - When somebody got the Bubonic Plague, red blemishes with rings around them appeared on the victims flesh.
Pocket Full of Posies - Doctors carried posies with them to keep away the disease.
Ashes to Ashes - The burning of the dead victims.
We All Fall Down - The children passing on.
If you're looking for scary Sci-Fi, maybe something with Plague Doctors, or something based off Spontaneous Human Combustion, which you'll have to Google because I refuse to continue ranting.
Sorry for bothering you. |
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:51 PM |
What i've been thinking is...like maybe since it's modern, we can make it a ittle in the future (bout 20 or so years) since machines make machines now, and we can make it like the machines are making things that start to put ideas into peoples heads, making them do things, and nobody realizes it.
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:52 PM |
| But, of course, what I'm getting at is a modern day Bubonic Plague break out. |
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firekj
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| 23 Jan 2012 06:57 PM |
| Bubonic Plague had Black Blemishes(Rotten Blood.) |
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| 23 Jan 2012 07:02 PM |
| sunds kind of good....not sure though, although that might work, lets toy around with both see where it goes |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 10:56 AM |
I said nothing about disease or plague... and I'm not too keen on the thought of Robot Revolution. It's been done too many times (I Robot, Terminator, countless video games).
By "technology", I mean like body augmentations or powered exoskeltons and other bionic tech (think Iron Man). Our obsession with war, ruling over both fellow human and nature. |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 10:59 AM |
| I.E., Humans are the ones messing about, not their creations. |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:18 PM |
(Sorry about being so picky... I'm just very particular when it comes to roleplays. And I'm indecisive to a fault.)
I was thinking... a secret organization? A bunch of masked men working for a government-controlled genetics/bionics lab, abducting the near terminally-ill and offering to heal them (but secretly testing on them)?
...How's this? |
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Jigajig
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:27 PM |
| Soooo like Deus Ex: Human Revolution type thing?? |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:35 PM |
I... have HEARD of that game series, but I haven't actually PLAYED it...
Am I missing out? |
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Jigajig
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:43 PM |
Well damn!
So. What's it like, and how does it resemble my semi-plot? |
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Jigajig
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:48 PM |
Well Deus Ex: Human Revolution has augmentations like you menntioned so I thought that it fitted around that you see.
It's a dam good game. |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:52 PM |
Judging by your reaction (and many others), I assume you're right.
So. How do you think we could develop on this? What could this organization be called? What would the affected do afterwards that would prevent ubering, godmodding and all-out pointless conflict? |
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| 24 Jan 2012 01:59 PM |
The organization could be called something simple, but catchy, like..."The Witchdoctors", I'm with the plague masks idea, ftw.
You also said it shouldn't be a blank, good-v-evil thing, so try doing it more like different factions have different causes, I find it less...restricting, then good-v-evil. |
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Jigajig
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| 24 Jan 2012 02:01 PM |
Well the game is based around a conflict of people who are AUGS (Augmented) and normal people. Then the whole plot can twist about as you choose what to do.
As for the name.. it's it secret how about just a giant ? Symbol or if you do really want a name we could have..
Anonymous Red Schism The Church The Millennial Temple Whites |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Jan 2012 02:10 PM |
Or maybe, there's a split between them. Some want to put their powers to use (be it good or not so), some just want to carry on with their normal lives. I would like it to have a mystery vibe. Calm and mature with chases and some acts of violence to break things up.
Those names sound too religious. How about something unassuming, but creepy all the same. Maybe just "The Doctors"? If someone says "The Doctors will be seeing you now", you wouldn't know what they mean until you come face to face with the masked men. |
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Jigajig
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| 24 Jan 2012 02:15 PM |
| Ay I like that name and the idea :D |
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