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I've got an idea for a quasi-Urban Fantasy story about a nihlistic young man who has died and become a ghost. To move on he must complete whatever unfinished business he has left. The story follows him adapting and attempting to free himself from his eternal unlife.

"I drank the blood of angels from a bottle, just to see if I could call the lightning down."

Alexandria:

An epic military sci-fi FPS game. Three major galactic powers race to a distant world to gain access to a long believed lost alien artifact. What they find there and the secrets revealed could change the galaxy forever.

a mythology revolving around goddesses of law, dreams, and the sun.

an adaptation of Eros and Psyche, where both are girls/guys.

a series of short stories revolving around a prince and a dragon. this one also teaches politics.

so much to do, and yet... here, it feels like one cannot do anything but lie here and sleep forever.

An epic fairy tale saga about the Origins, Rise, Fall and lasting Legacy of The Good King Mistletoe; A fearless youth, born from the bloom of a mistletoe, who became king after slaying a dragon and fell in love a fae woman he could never have...

Think The Snow Queen meets Bone and The Great Gatsby

edited 20th May '13 11:55:49 PM by AtomJames

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.

A Cyberpunk story: Technology is outright overused, abused in 2030. Nations have divided: One is a cluster of majority of the countries of the world collectively called "Gondwandaland" (the ancient supercontinent), while four technologically-advanced countries united as one and domineered by a large corporation that I based on Apple. The Gondwanaland area is very poor as they did not receive from the enigmatic exports from the corporate states, and thus became a Zeerust and retro-futuristic Scavenger World, which used obsolete technology from the 90's. The corporate states actually wanted an Assimilation Plot to unlock the mysteries of the universe by sucking in all the knowledge available in the Cyber Space and take control of everything, so they developed a MacGuffin Girl known only as "Test Subject 83." Her powers are locked in her cybernetic subconscious, and inactive as a result. She was then abducted by the Gondwanaland super government and incarcerated in a highly-protected and classified research facility,to be studied for the rest of her life. As a result, she has No Social Skills and became an imaginative Cloud Cuckoo Lander. Her stored abilities manifests itself quietly as empathy for machinery, because her ability in a world where Everything Is Online is a lot more stronger than the normal people's connections with machines and each other. She spent the rest of the book contemplating her existence, purpose, the universe, and what lies beyond it all. She escaped the research facility and set out on a Walk the Earth quest, with four troubled people coming along with her. They uncover a great deal of conspiracies and try to avoid the many groups pursuing 83 for their own profit. The MegaCorp that originally conceived her set a program on a rampage as a sort of virus in all the people's Brain Uploading-enabled, cybernetically augmented minds to track her down, with all the victims forming a Hive Mind and acting like zombies to get to her. The program was initially sent to her to focefully unlock her Black Box subconscious that stored all her Reality Warper abilities with the password unknown as a result of her human creators going mad and destroying her blueprints and manufacturing information. Then the MegaCorp modified the unlocker program and used it to reverse the mental state of the human mind from ego to shadow. (Jungian Psychology, ahoy!) 83 does all she can to slow the procession and resolve everything, but in the end, she did a Heroic Sacrifice, Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence, becomes the goddess of the Cyber Space, and reverses all the Divide by Zero that her creators had done and makes a Time Paradox by Retconing/deleting her existence and all the events that led to the 2030 Mayhem. It's quite the Mindscrew.

All in all, it's about the audacity and brilliance of the human being that can lead to the universe and everybody going mad, and all their follies and wrongs in using science and technology to break their limits. It ends in a Singullarity that is wholly incomprehensible, but 83 reverses it all by erasing her existence from the Universe's database buried under the depths of Cyber Space that can be mind-breaking to go under. It's sort of Cyberpunk + Cosmic Horror. Any feedback?

edited 21st May '13 12:33:51 AM by ManicPixieGamine

Maybe I'm a hopeless dreamer, maybe I've got it wrong, but I'm going where the grass is green if you'd like to come along.

I'm making an RPG for a school project. It's kinda in the style of FFIV/V/VI. Your characters are basically two robots (and a cyborg). The main mechanic is Power Copying from your foes, but it's possible to beat the game without doing so.

Characters (need names)

The first guy you have are a ranged/thief character with decent attack, firepower, good speed/evasion, but low defences and health. He can use "Data Extract" on an opponent to gain their ranged (and some melee) abilities, while draining a very small amount of MP.

The second guy you have is a robot swordsman. Good attack, defences, health, slow speed, poor evasion and firepower (magic attack). He can use "Challenge" to goad an enemy into physically attacking him with a strong move, and can learn that move from the enemy as long as he sees it and survives.

The third character is a cyborg Program user (a.k.a. Mage). She's not in the party yet as she needs to be rescued by your guys. Low health and physical defence, decent speed and evasion, very high firepower and Energy Defence (magic defence). She gain her abilities from an enemy after killing a foe. Special ability is Siphon, which drains a huge amount of MP from a foe.

Story

Not too sure about the story. Most likely you're sent to rescue a girl from being roboticized. Unfortunately, you get there too late, but she doesn't mind being a cyborg and finds it cool that she can use "programs". After that, the three of you find and beat up the evil bot behind all this. Yeah. It's a 4-week project, can't have much story.

Combat

Battle is relatively simple. There's an ATB bar that fills up and when it's full, it's your (or the enemy's) turn. During action selection, the ATB bar doesn't fill up. Your characters have the option of 1. Attacking with a skill 2. Using their special ability 3. Recharge (Basically defending, while restoring a bit of HP and MP) 4. Wait (wait until an opponent begins to charge up a startup move. When this happens, it immediately becomes that char's turn and they can interrupt/counterattack before the enemy pulls it off) 5. use an Item 6. Escape from battle.

Certain skills have a startup time, during which certain attacks can interrupt them and cancel the attack (for no MP loss).

Enemies so far:

Grunt

• Regular soldier Mook. Both the gunner and swordsman can learn Stagger Kick from it, which interrupts and cancels an opponent preparing a startup move. Later on, these Grunts have Rocket Launcher, which does big but inaccurate damage to all enemy targets. The Gunner can learn this.

Survey Lance

• An airborne surveyor drone with a bayonet. Partially based off FFVII's Guard Hound. Very low health and attack, but very good evasion and speed. Gunner can learn Spray Fire (Hits all enemies multiple times, very inaccurate), Swordsman can learn Draining Spear (Dark-element Life Drain, physical), and the Mage can learn Drain (Dark-element Life Drain, magic)

Doublade

• The Giant Mook of the first "dungeon". A Chicken Walker thing with two blades for arms. High attack, moderate health, decent dodging. Gunner can learn Mug (Damage+Steal), Swordsman can learn DualClash (Powerful sword attack but cannot hit fliers), Mage can learn Attack Up (boosts an ally's attack power). Amusingly, this guy will try to steal from you, and realize it has no hands and can't do so.

ElecBot

• A patrol drone found in the security area where you sneak in. Very low defence and low health, but very high magic defence and attack. Based off Mono Drive from FFVII, but lightning- instead of fire-based. Will usually charge up an Electrolaser and fire it, or may sometimes use E-Grinder to hurt and temporarily paralyze you. Later on, it will have an even more powerful Thundervolt that can be learned by the mage. Has a ton of MP, but beware- when it runs out of MP, it will use a massive damage attack that will probably cause a Total Party Wipe.

Spanner

• The Mook Medic, basically an engineer. It doesn't attack, but uses Repair to heal its friends (Learnable by Gunner and Mage) and can use OverClock (Learnable by Mage), which temporarily raises speed. Either take its friends out first or take it out first. Oh, and it's very resistant to Fire/Ice/Water/Lightning, because it needs to work with heat/cryogenics/moisture/electronics.

Swordie

• Little dude with a sword that appears in groups, and very dangerous. They normally use a Three-Strike Combo, but also come with Spirit Blast (Mage learnable, does physical damage but runs off magic attack), Wind Slash (Gunner learnable, good wind damage to all foes) and Deathblow (High damage attack that instacrits, but very bad accuracy)

Scannera

• A deadly security camera. It has very low defence and energy defence, but that doesn't matter because they will use a massive defence and energy defence buff on their first turn. After they're buffed, they will start charging a massive damage attack that will likely kill a character unless interrupted. If the battle drags on too long, they'll also use a move that prevents you from escaping. (Hint: They can't move. Deathblow is your friend)

edited 27th May '13 1:35:58 PM by ironcommando

...eheh

In a future where the world is being run rampant with overpopulation, life and death is now something that can be decided by the common public on a whim. Should you have wronged someone and they believe you should be faced with death for it, an impromptu trial commences. The trial is viewable on the internet by common citizens, and is opened for votes from the viewing public once both sides have made their case. Should the one you accuse be found completely innocent of their crimes, you instead shall suffer the penalty of death.

I somehow get the feeling this is something that's already been done multiple times before though. Regardless, it was just something I thought about for a minute or two.

The only reason why I like waking up is because I like falling asleep.

Reminds me of Minority Report. A great idea.

edited 22nd May '13 1:37:45 AM by MorwenEdhelwen

The road goes ever on. -Tolkien

I'm quite often a sucker for post-apocalyptic works, and that feels like something I would give a read.

The only reason why I like waking up is because I like falling asleep.

Plotline

In the future 2021, Aliens known as the Sxian made contact with Earth. Making friends with each other, they shared their resources and a colony of humans was sent to their planet to live on and vice versa.

Soon enough human and alien interaction happened and they became allowed to marry and even breed. The Sxian are known to have special powers of all sorts (Their exact biology and source of power is unknown) but claimed that a half breed child with powers was 90% unlikely.

However a secret corporation (made by the Human government as a corporation to deal with alien issues) has kidnapped multiple child "half-breeds" to use for their own means as weapons and soldiers since they are the 10% with powers, with Sxian not knowing about it.

Eventually six teen halfbreeds escape, out to clear their names and expose the corporation while stuck on a technologically advanced Earth.

• Planet Earth:

Thanks to the sharing of resources with the Sxian, Earth has become highly advanced. With hovercars and hoverbikes, ray guns and Swiss Army Guns, Phones that can perform even more different tasks etc.

The visual look of Earth as I imagine is a Cyberpunk mix of Tron Legacy and Blade Runner. Covered in bright lights and technology.

edited 22nd May '13 4:05:44 PM by JRPictures

I have this really dumb idea of a fictional pantheon doing a smackdown in a cyberpunk universe. This doesn't make any sense but that's definitely where this is going.

Came up with this idea a few years ago while listening to the Writing Excuses podcast. Incidentally, also the source of my general dislike for Brandon Sanderson.

Premise: Magic has rules, right? But who figures out those rules? Surely someone has to pioneer the field of thaumology.

Set in an alternate universe in the time of a vaguely Roman-esque empire (what with most incantations being Latin) we follow a variety of characters with the ability to perform magical feats. The problem is that magic is incredibly powerful and apparently capable of doing absolutely anything,and worse, it's impossible to know exactly what the effects of the spell you're casting are going to be due to factors you can't possibly know. Enchanting your broom to sweep the floor by itself could end up with a horde of self-replicating broom beasts swarming the countryside and upsetting everyone's allergies terribly with all the dust they kick up. And something always ends up on fire.

So our protagonists are constantly running into wayward magic and trying to fix things without inadvertently making it even worse. There's a bunch more world building stuff I've done, but I have yet to actually write anything on paper. Came up with the idea years ago as I said, but it's only just now fermenting into something I think people would like to read.

First story is about three wizards trying to reattach a floating mountain to the ground before it breaks something important or falls.

The really troubling part is coming up with neat ideas, character names and even a title for the series. So uh, what do you think?

But that's a story for another time.

Certainly sounds like something that could be fun to work with.

The only reason why I like waking up is because I like falling asleep.

Indeed! Just going by the description you've given us I think it needs a title similar to The Man from U.N.C.L.E or Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events.

Theres sex and death and human grime in monochrome for one thin dime and at least the trains all run on time but they dont go anywhere.

Oh So Into Cats: That sounds pretty epic! Would it be mainly about the pantheon or would some cybernetic humans join in?

One idea I've been working on for years is one I've come to call "Refuge." The gist of it is that humanity advanced enough to achieve immortality, among other things, and live until the end of the universe where they were faced with total oblivion. However, in order to continue the species they constructed artificial bubbles of space-time called refuges with modern-day humans to populate them. I don't know what the plot would be about, but this idea has completely plagued my mind for the last few years.

Is not impressed.

I guess possibly the idea would be that at this time there's at least as many androids as there are humans, if not more so, and because the god's domain is humans and they don't really have much power over the androids, so they're picking humans to do that.

Because there's that whole thing where when you do things like Create Life there's some kind of divine retribution, but in this case it's kind of the opposite. You Create Life without claiming to be a god? No, can't do that. They need gods. Clean up your mess.

My concept is that a life in this story's universe is an equation; it is made of Constants and Variables. Constants are facts of a single human being (e.g: death at the age of 50, amputation of an arm, addiction to nicotine) that will invariably become true at some point of their lives (and they can't change that). Even if someone knows what his Constants are, circumstances will conspire to keep the Constant true. Variables are things that can be changed as long as sufficient effort is put into changing it (e.g: time of death, number of languages fluently spoken).

Note that if a person has the Constant '3 languages fluently spoken' then by the end of that person's life he had been able to speak three languages fluently for a significant part of his life, no less, no more.

The story itself is about a group of Equation-seeing people called Calculators, people born without Constants. Their aim is to prevent singularity. Singularity is caused by a coefficient in the equation the Calculators named as the 'Justice Coefficient', which is gradually decreasing. Just like entropy, eventually the Justice Coefficient of every being will become zero and all life will be reborn into the same life.

They tried to avert that by nullifying other people's Constants with their Variables. This is because when that happens, the Justice Coefficient of that person increases to balance what the system deemed as an 'Injustice'.

A constant can only be broken when a variable conflicts it. Normally, the Constant takes priority and stays true for that person's life. But with the interference of a Calculator (by use of their reality-bending powers), the Constant might be broken because the natural system has no way of making it true through natural means, and the natural system generally has only one shot at it (usually a life-changing event).

One of the major themes surrounding the story is the product of the equation itself. Was it the absolute worth of a life? Or was it something else?

Played Bioshock Infinite, I see.

I'd say I'm being refined Into the web I descend Killing those I've left behind I have been Endarkened

A large set of concepts for me. Perfect.

Universal Lady Justice Aya (Anime & Manga)

• A Magical Girl series that's a massive Reconstruction to the genre, also exploring its history, and beyond. A girl tormented at school and socially isolated finds a common Transformation Trinket in the form of a Power Crystal. She then transforms and eventually begins fighting an Anti-Magical Faction, which kills magical girls, and brings hope and justice to others and the world. Has major influences from Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

Note: Will have five parts. 5 of 10 Part I episodes are already finished.

Upward Megarole Shooter (Anime & Manga)

• Strike Witches meets the Shoot 'Em Up genre. A lovely yet rude girl breaks into Secret Government Warehouse to steal an locked away Super Prototype of a Transforming Mini-Mecha/ Powered Armor. An escaped fugitive living in the museum above encounters her, accidentally activates an artifact that release a fairy-like creature for which he is now her master, and steals another powerful suit to pursue. They are forced as they fight against an interstellar empire that is mostly a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to the US, but is hypocritical as it's run by the military/intelligence agencies and very oppresive to young girls.

Conflagration (Live-Action TV)

• Code Geass meets The Avengers, with the main character as Leouch in Loki's shoes. A young engineer suddenly finds a fantasy-based alien race who have distrust over humanity's future to his agreement. He goes on a quest and gains allies to find a set of Plot Coupons in exchange of an army capable of global invasion. With such plans, but also friendlier and more ethical uses for it.

Megacosmos (Video Games)

• Basically a Mega Crossover in a set of games, involving a circle of universes in the form of cells. Can be explained later.

Any comments?

edited 28th May '13 1:19:20 AM by WiseMan23753

Englighten me, please. I'm alien to the series as a whole.

"Their Hero" is something me and my brother made up quite some time ago.

The basic setting is in "Utopia" (A dystopic totalitarian utilitarian government that took the whole world a century ago from Britian using magic.. And nukes.) All is well in the cheery city of Galeson until two old rivals, Braden and an unnamed Antagonist, duke it out in the forest. Braden is beaten and escapes the ensuing fire, but he stumbles on and saves a kid named Eero, whom he takes to the hospital.

However, a witch named Xiel (This must seem convoluted, but it makes sense as it goes. It'd be a web showthing with plenty of episodes to explain) fights the duo into a poor Ringsea's (Not author avatar, just the name. Utopia tried to eliminate "traditional" names so as to erase the past.) Mansion, dragging him into this.

As the series goes on, Utopia seems more and more false, Antagonist and Xiel are plotting, and random comedy ensues.

The most edgy person on the Internet.

More of a setting than a plot concept, but I wanted to write it down anyway:

I have a fantasy world with three "classic" races: elves, orcs, and humans. The catch is that all three of these races differ from their traditional portrayals in the genre:

1. The elves are greedily capitalistic, ecologically destructive, and aggressively imperialistic, the closest thing the world has to a truly evil race. They hold the other two races in extreme contempt, seeing them as potential slaves at best and vermin to be exterminated at worst.

2. The orcs are peaceful and noble hunter-gatherers who live in harmony with each other and the land they dwell in. However, they can still put up a fight when threatened.

3. The humans are black people whose culture draws on various African civilizations (e.g. Egypt, Mali, Ethiopia, Nubia, and Great Zimbabwe). They are not quite as peaceful or reverent of nature as the orcs, but are still nobler and less greedy than the elves.

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@Jabrosky: Interesting.

edited 1st Jun '13 4:33:44 AM by MorwenEdhelwen

The road goes ever on. -Tolkien

Is this descended from your old Cuba Libre project? You seem to have a special interest in Cuban history in addition to Tolkien and Norse mythology.

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@Jabrosky: It's from around the same time period. Besides, Batista isn't someone who's been explored in great depth, and I'm still planning to continue work on and eventually finish Cuba Libre. It's a pretty good idea (I mean Cuba Libre), given as cloning and new discoveries in DNA are often in the news and the ethical issues are discussed and will obviously have an impact on our lives in the future. I never really abandon my old ideas.

You seem to have a strong interest in Black African and ancient Egyptian cultures... every concept I've seen from you has something about Black people in it. Or ancient Egypt.

edited 1st Jun '13 4:08:35 PM by MorwenEdhelwen

The road goes ever on. -Tolkien