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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 2, 2012 1:59:48 GMT -6
So I'm needing to get together a new campfire that everyone can have a part in so we don't get off to a really rough start. Anyone have any ideas or genre's your wanting to play with at the moment? As long as it's not modern war stuff. Still have Perfect War for that and maybe Magistricide if I manage to overcome my depression on losing all that lol.
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Post by Quaddy on Aug 2, 2012 19:06:08 GMT -6
Well, what genres don't we play with much? We have a lot of fantasy, both traditional and dark, we have science fiction (with the Earth Rising series), Perfect War is (as you said) war as well as Magistricide (which I still have my first addition to!). So...there's noir, urban fantasy, western, mythological (though my stuff tends to have a mythological bent to it, so maybe not)...hrm...
I think the easiest would be Urban Fantasy. Usually that deals with fantastical elements like magick and faeries and stuff in a modern setting, like the Dresden Files, so it's something we're familiar with as far as fantasy, but it's also in a modern (usually city-based) setting. The easiest to do would be the Under World concept--a secret world of faeries, monsters, gods, etc that normal people don't know about. Neil Gaiman is amazing at that sort of thing: American Gods and Neverwhere BOTH deal with something like that as does, to a lesser extent, Stardust (though people DO know about that world, it's just on the other side of a wall that happens to have a hole in it).
I get to be Loki if we do something like this.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 3, 2012 12:58:55 GMT -6
LOL come now Quaddy how often do we take the easy way out? Anyone here?
Though I do like the idea of an urban fantasy shot along with that one we discussed. I'll be popping off some brainstorming for that later today so stay tuned.
Funny enough I had something I wanted to incorporate into a story of mine that my girlfriend and I blabbed about offhand due to watching something I can't remember but I thought of a faux father daughter pair where the daughter is some kind of wicked badass that operates on a trigger phrase (I remember recalling American Dad's "I'm getting fed up with this orgasm!" trigger phrase lol).
I just remembering thinking of a scene where they set her up to get kidnapped and when she's in the custody of the criminals he gives the "Please just let me speak to her for a moment. I just want to hear her voice!" thing and he tells her the trigger and she does some kind of crazy ridiculous assassin badassery and kills them all and tells her 'dad' her location.
Anyway I dunno how the fuck to fit that into anything though so back to the whole Urban Fantasy thingy.
My brain continues to drift into Supernatural territory and as much as I love that show I want to avoid this story ending up like that or Grimm, but regardless I got the vibe of the genre.
Had a thought just now, I shall type as I think...
What if the modern world as we know it is based on some catastrophic failure that happened long ago in the times of magic and all that. What if something happened that literally destroyed arcane energy as a whole? What if it literally wiped gods from existence and caused a ripple throughout the universe that left man quite alone? What if it caved the portals and doors from other planes and shut our world off from everything else?
Whoa, what if one person saw this catastrophe coming and prepared by finding people who were immune or something for lack of a better term or any real idea of what exactly failed and what exactly happened. Better yet maybe he found out their descendents would be immune in hundreds, perhaps thousands of years of evolution?
Anyway maybe this person made it to the future using the catastrophe itself as a slingshot to try and circle back with these people to bring them to the only time where this catastrophe could be stopped.
I thinking these people are very much mortal though and that the story starts out quite low key but with a lot of buildup to the things they're against (gods and demigods and other entities of power no mortal should ever face). Either way it starts out quite 'normal' and has a slow build that goes high. From ground level being something like a character being a detective charged with figuring out a small crime like thievery. A step up being that he ends up tracking this time traveler. High level stuff would of course be like "Oh shit we're in the past where magic is fucking real" and we shoot off to space with "Fuck life, these gods want us dead."
For BeastBlue you may recall how I intended "Chains of Light and Shadow" to be.
Sorry for the rant but anyone have anything to add? I'm liking this idea so far.
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Post by Quaddy on Aug 3, 2012 16:51:14 GMT -6
That's a little less urban and a little more traditional, but it's good.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 3, 2012 17:41:02 GMT -6
Well I'm thinking now maybe it's more like the time traveler ends up stuck and can't get back and magic begins to bleed in from his entry point. Maybe others begin to come through looking for him or her and they have to try and solve said problem the hard way (after it's already happened) instead of the easy way (going into the past and stopping it at the source. This would create a rift between the 'chosen' who want to keep everything the way it is and the chosen who want to see the world in it's true form.
Of course now that I think of it the role could be flipped either way and either side could be good or evil.
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Post by Aldersmaine on Aug 3, 2012 22:20:35 GMT -6
I do recall Chains.
Have you tried traditional medieval type stories. no magic fantasy but more medieval... something or other lol.
Or you could go an alternate route and make the entire setting different like the setting be like the little mermaid and everyone lives underwater or maybe inside a hollow earth able to see the other side of the world past the sky but is otherwise a normal modern world?
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 4, 2012 9:42:24 GMT -6
Hmm yeah I like that sort of stuff too....hmmm...maybe I should just think more.
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Post by Quaddy on Aug 12, 2012 17:29:32 GMT -6
If we do Medieval, I am going to nitpick the FUCK out of all of you. I'm a historian, you know.
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Post by Aldersmaine on Aug 12, 2012 19:44:22 GMT -6
I didn't know that actually. Tell me more.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 12, 2012 20:08:14 GMT -6
And this guy's lazy and hates research lol. Thus the lack of a strictly medieval story ;D
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Post by Aldersmaine on Aug 12, 2012 20:25:45 GMT -6
hahaha
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Post by Quaddy on Aug 12, 2012 20:34:36 GMT -6
Truth be told, my degree is in American History. But I do Renaissance Reenactment, and a great many of my friends get paid to joust and travel around the country performing at Faires. You learn some stuff that way.
A story about a Renaissance Festival would be fun, though. Maybe a mystery? Or the typical "get transported back in time" story, with a twist of some sort? There's always the plot of Knights of Badassdom, in which a bunch of LARPers accidentally summon a succubus...
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 12, 2012 20:36:14 GMT -6
Lol sounds very entertaining.
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Post by Aldersmaine on Aug 12, 2012 20:37:41 GMT -6
lol that's rather hilarious sounding actually.
I once ventured a little into the SCA which is a large enough medieval reenactment group that they had "kingdoms" around the world. They kind of scared me though. lol
Anyways, I wouldn't be adverse to Modern characters tossed through time. Though honestly I'd pick one of the medieval people to be my character so I can be amazed all the time, lol.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 12, 2012 20:42:59 GMT -6
Ohhhh! Ahhhh! Magic! SORCERER!!!!!
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Post by Aldersmaine on Aug 12, 2012 20:45:27 GMT -6
TEACH ME! lol
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 12, 2012 20:49:16 GMT -6
"And pray tell great wizard...what does this 'cell phone' spell do?"
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Post by Aldersmaine on Aug 12, 2012 20:59:31 GMT -6
LOL yes quite.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Aug 13, 2012 17:14:22 GMT -6
I think for now I'll focus my efforts on staying caught up and I'll work on Anti Hero
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Sept 5, 2012 22:00:04 GMT -6
Hmmmmmmm random thought. Four hitmen/assassins in modern day hired by a shady character each paid to target one of the others. They are all 'friends' as in they associate regularly with one another but money comes first. The shady person ends up having been hired by an even shadier person to kill all of them.
Not really going anywhere with it, just a thought I wanted to get out.
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Post by Aldersmaine on Sept 6, 2012 16:14:51 GMT -6
Sounds appropriately convoluted lol
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Sept 6, 2012 21:12:15 GMT -6
Indubitably.
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Post by Quaddy on Sept 8, 2012 21:18:08 GMT -6
Well, it does sound a little Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but that sounds good to me.
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Sept 9, 2012 16:47:31 GMT -6
Heh, forgot about that lol
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Post by Zephyr Shenkiken on Dec 22, 2012 1:57:15 GMT -6
So anyone have any random characters knocking on their frontal lobe but have no outlet yet?
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