Letho
08-19-08, 01:24 PM
So, here's the thing. Oddly enough, I feel like writing and the activity in the threads I'm currently in can't quite cater to my desire to write. I'm not blaming anyone, though, since I bailed out on a bunch of stuff when I took my hiatus. But, that aside, I really want to write. I can't write very well right now, I but I still want to do it. And also, I'm very eager to play the new Fallout game. So I figured, why not mix the two?
The basic idea is this and it practically abuses liquid time. Some time in the future (a thousand years, perhaps more), the face of Althanas is drastically changed. You have sandstorms, toxic wastelands, mutated stuff, civilization crumbled, basically your run-of-the-mill post apocalyptic setting. If you ever played the Fallout games or watched any movie that deals with destruction of mankind as we know it (I am Legend), you probably get the picture. How, you ask, can we use our characters in such a setting? Simple.
A bunch of distant relatives of our characters still exist in this time. Gran-gran-gran-gran-gran daughters, cousins, whatevers. A bunch of these find themselves in a gang of sorts, a camaraderie of scavengers that scout the wastelands in search for useful things. And one of the things they discover (at the start of this quest) is an uber-secret underground research facility. Well, not so uber-secret since they did find it. Anyways, in it they find a quirky machine that has this pretty nifty ability. It takes a DNA sample of an individual and from it it can extract the DNA of someone's forefathers (The game Assassin's Creed uses a similar idea, only to retrieve memories from the DNA). So our future adventurers fiddle around with the stuff and somebody pushes a button and BAM!, the machine takes a sample of everyone and clones our characters. And we all find ourselves in a future, and the outlook is pretty crappy.
From there, we can play it by ear. I was thinking of something Resident Evilish, where we kill a bunch of mutated shit with guns and stuff. Oh yeah, our characters wind up dead in the end. But who gives a damn, right? They're just clones. I know the idea isn't too fresh or original, but I think it could give us access to a very different and possibly very interesting setting.
Anyways, I need two active people for this. And by active I mean that you can be able to post 24-48 hours after your turn comes to post. That's the only requirement.
Also, if you have ideas how to improve this idea, feel free to post. Nothing is set in stone. Well nothing other than the cool Fallout setting, of course. Also, naturally you have to change your avy into one from Fallout. ;)
The basic idea is this and it practically abuses liquid time. Some time in the future (a thousand years, perhaps more), the face of Althanas is drastically changed. You have sandstorms, toxic wastelands, mutated stuff, civilization crumbled, basically your run-of-the-mill post apocalyptic setting. If you ever played the Fallout games or watched any movie that deals with destruction of mankind as we know it (I am Legend), you probably get the picture. How, you ask, can we use our characters in such a setting? Simple.
A bunch of distant relatives of our characters still exist in this time. Gran-gran-gran-gran-gran daughters, cousins, whatevers. A bunch of these find themselves in a gang of sorts, a camaraderie of scavengers that scout the wastelands in search for useful things. And one of the things they discover (at the start of this quest) is an uber-secret underground research facility. Well, not so uber-secret since they did find it. Anyways, in it they find a quirky machine that has this pretty nifty ability. It takes a DNA sample of an individual and from it it can extract the DNA of someone's forefathers (The game Assassin's Creed uses a similar idea, only to retrieve memories from the DNA). So our future adventurers fiddle around with the stuff and somebody pushes a button and BAM!, the machine takes a sample of everyone and clones our characters. And we all find ourselves in a future, and the outlook is pretty crappy.
From there, we can play it by ear. I was thinking of something Resident Evilish, where we kill a bunch of mutated shit with guns and stuff. Oh yeah, our characters wind up dead in the end. But who gives a damn, right? They're just clones. I know the idea isn't too fresh or original, but I think it could give us access to a very different and possibly very interesting setting.
Anyways, I need two active people for this. And by active I mean that you can be able to post 24-48 hours after your turn comes to post. That's the only requirement.
Also, if you have ideas how to improve this idea, feel free to post. Nothing is set in stone. Well nothing other than the cool Fallout setting, of course. Also, naturally you have to change your avy into one from Fallout. ;)