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[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

13 minutes ago, Kobold King said:

 

Flight is actually surprisingly vital for a healthy, natural chicken. They use it to get onto high branches and evade predators.

 

 

Evil alien spirits masquerading as corpses?

That's creepy. Pretty sure I'd have trouble sleeping for months after reading it. 

You should totally write it.

[Kobold King he/him]

1 hour ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

That's creepy. Pretty sure I'd have trouble sleeping for months after reading it. 

You should totally write it.

 

That could actually potentially fit in the setting I've been working on here lately... I'll have to keep you updated.

Edited February 4, 2017 by Kobold King

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

2 minutes ago, Kobold King said:

 

That could actually potentially fit in the setting I've been working on here lately... I'll have to keep you updated.

Ooh. Same setting as the one you'd done some worldbuilding on before vanishing into the Nethersphere lurking for a while?  

[Kobold King he/him]

3 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

Ooh. Same setting as the one you'd done some worldbuilding on before vanishing into the Nethersphere lurking for a while?  

 

You so spectacularly overestimate my attention span.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

8 minutes ago, Kobold King said:

 

You so spectacularly overestimate my attention span.

So what if this new setting?

[Kobold King he/him]

2 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

So what if this new setting?

 

It's a superhero setting of my very own, actually. It's jam packed with alien armadas, malevolent spirits, evil demigods, science fiction technologies gone horribly wrong, and other horrible things that constantly threaten a beleaguered superheroine's goal of preventing humanity from being annihilated within her lifetime.

It's a losing fight.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

32 minutes ago, Kobold King said:

 

It's a superhero setting of my very own, actually. It's jam packed with alien armadas, malevolent spirits, evil demigods, science fiction technologies gone horribly wrong, and other horrible things that constantly threaten a beleaguered superheroine's goal of preventing humanity from being annihilated within her lifetime.

It's a losing fight.

I'd read that.  So is she the only one, or are there other heroes like her? 

[Kobold King he/him]

4 minutes ago, TwiLyghtSansSparkles said:

I'd read that.  So is she the only one, or are there other heroes like her? 

 

She founded a group of heroes called the Knights Nine, after it became clear that even with her own Superman-esque power set she simply wasn't enough to take on a universe of threats on her own.

The problem is... a good number of these "heroes" are themselves dangerous maniacs who only consented to join her team after she thwarted their various plots and convinced them that they'd be better off fighting for her to protect the world. They include among their roster a mutant man-lion with a hunger for human flesh, a billionaire inventor who engages in some incredibly morally dubious research programs, a pair of sociopathic children with the powers of super speed and teleportation, and a literal angel who was banished from heaven for attempting to jumpstart the apocalypse and end humanity and all its wickedness in a scourge of radiant fire.

The world, safe to say, is not in the best hands.

 

(If you're interested in hearing any more, I'd rather take it to PMs. I actually intend to write stories based in this one and don't want to reveal all the spoilers out in the open. :ph34r:)

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

Have you even noticed that most dystopian novels are set in the United States (or what's left of it)? The Hunger Games, Divergent, Legend, Steelheart... Why don't we have a dystopian India? I would read a dystopian India novel, or for that matter, a dystopian Australia too.

What would dystopian India be like?

[Oversleep]

8 minutes ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

Have you even noticed that most dystopian novels are set in the United States (or what's left of it)? The Hunger Games, Divergent, Legend, Steelheart...

Probably because authors of those live in USA?

Universum of Metro is usually set locally. For example, there are some set in Italy (Italian author) or one set in UK (English author), few set in Poland (Polish authors)...

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

Just now, Oversleep said:

Probably because authors of those live in USA?

Universum of Metro is usually set locally. For example, there are some set in Italy (Italian author) or one set in UK (English author), few set in Poland (Polish authors)...

Ah. Well, I haven't read those yet. Are they good?

[Oversleep]

5 minutes ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

Ah. Well, I haven't read those yet. Are they good?

I don't know. The first, the original one is definitely worth reading (Metro 2033). It's great.
I've read the sequel, Metro 2034 and it was not so great. I haven't read the final installment, Metro 2035.

In meantime, it gave birth to a shared universe of post-apocalyptic world where people survived nuclear apocalypse usually by hiding in metro/subway. Different authors set their own stories usually in their own cities.
I have read one book set somewhere in Russia, don't remember where, and the first Italian. They were not really memorable.

There is one set in my own city, it could be fun to read it.

[Kobold King he/him]

2 hours ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

Have you even noticed that most dystopian novels are set in the United States (or what's left of it)? The Hunger Games, Divergent, Legend, Steelheart... Why don't we have a dystopian India? I would read a dystopian India novel, or for that matter, a dystopian Australia too.

What would dystopian India be like?

 

Not a novel, but I believe Mad Max: Fury Road is set in Australia.

EDIT: Also, 1984 is set in Great Britain.

Edited February 4, 2017 by Kobold King

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I've heard some things about a TV series (I think it's called 3% or something like that) that's a dystopia set in....Brazil, I believe. I didn't pay much attention.

Edited February 4, 2017 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Oversleep]

2 hours ago, Kobold King said:

Not a novel, but I believe Mad Max: Fury Road is set in Australia.

Wait. I think all of Mad Max films are set in Australia.

...

Hold on. Did I somehow slip into alternate universe? I was pretty sure we're talking about post-apo genre, not dystopia Please disregard everything I said about Metro 2033. Those are all post-apo.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

So I had a really crazy dream last night. It was really complicated and made no sense, but I remember some cool details. We were fighting...I don't even know, but my friends and I were fighting something, and we had cool powers. Near the end of the dream, I stole some powerful diamond-thing from the enemy by using my super speed and teleportation powers to sneak and get it. Then this girl (I think it was a girl) started chasing me with her superspeed, and I would teleport around, but she would always catch up to me because her super speed was faster then mine. Right when she was about to capture me, I jumped off the mountain that we were running on (which was like, on a different planet than the fight was on), turned towards her, winked, then teleported away. I think that I was just distracting her while my friends did whatever they were trying to do. Anyway, after that, we exited out of this facility, and I said that she did a good job, and I liked her acting. Then I talked to my band director, who was the director of the movie (heh, get it?). 

That dream gave me an idea. What if movies were made in these facilities where they simulated these worlds they make up, and it makes the actors become the characters they're playing. Everything in that facility actually happens to this actors, until the facility is turned off, and any deaths that happened (if any) are reversed. So, as one of the characters, you subconsciously know that anything that happens to you won't effect you, but you don't consciously know that. If you die, you really feel like you died until the facility turns off. 

My question is this: What if something goes wrong?

[Physicist of the Cosmere she/her]

On 2/4/2017 at 0:32 PM, StrikerEZ said:

So I had a really crazy dream last night. It was really complicated and made no sense, but I remember some cool details. We were fighting...I don't even know, but my friends and I were fighting something, and we had cool powers. Near the end of the dream, I stole some powerful diamond-thing from the enemy by using my super speed and teleportation powers to sneak and get it. Then this girl (I think it was a girl) started chasing me with her superspeed, and I would teleport around, but she would always catch up to me because her super speed was faster then mine. Right when she was about to capture me, I jumped off the mountain that we were running on (which was like, on a different planet than the fight was on), turned towards her, winked, then teleported away. I think that I was just distracting her while my friends did whatever they were trying to do. Anyway, after that, we exited out of this facility, and I said that she did a good job, and I liked her acting. Then I talked to my band director, who was the director of the movie (heh, get it?). 

That dream gave me an idea. What if movies were made in these facilities where they simulated these worlds they make up, and it makes the actors become the characters they're playing. Everything in that facility actually happens to this actors, until the facility is turned off, and any deaths that happened (if any) are reversed. So, as one of the characters, you subconsciously know that anything that happens to you won't effect you, but you don't consciously know that. If you die, you really feel like you died until the facility turns off. 

My question is this: What if something goes wrong?

First off: Awesome concept! The first thing that popped into my mind was that the actors would then actually have to go on an adventure to defeat the evil in that movie, so that once the movie "ends", they can get back. Or maybe the two worlds mesh, which could wrec all sorts of havoc.

[Oversleep]

3 hours ago, Physicist of the Cosmere said:

First off: Awesome concept! The first thing that popped into my mind was that the actors would then actually have to go on an adventure to defeat the evil in that movie, so that once the movie "ends", they can get back.

I don't want to drop crem all over that idea... but you know that's pretty much every "stuck in a game" plot we can see everywhere nowadays?

[Eagle of the Forest Path he/him]

25 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

I don't want to drop crem all over that idea... but you know that's pretty much every "stuck in a game" plot we can see everywhere nowadays?

Besides, one can assume that the "big bad" would also be an actor... kind of takes the tension off.

A more divergent take could be that for some reason the powers stop going away after a shoot.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Well, I got another idea. You know how they sometimes use CGI to create characters in movies? It would be like that. They create some big baddy, but he goes all evil AI and breaks free, and they have to stop him, blah, blah. You get the idea.

[Pagerunner he/him]

I've been dredging through really, really old Brandon quotes, looking for any long-lost WoBs. In that process, I came across an old blog post of a story idea.

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Dump planet. Write a story about a planet that has, for one reason or another, become a dumping grounds. Other planets use it as their junkyard, or maybe their nuclear waste dump.

This one really resonates with me. In the Star Wars Expanded Universe, there's a planet called Raxus Prime, which is the galaxy's garbage planet. (A video game from... I guess it was 10 years back now, The Force Unleashed, was partially set there. But I believe it was originally from some Episode I supplementary books about Obi-Wan's early years as a Padawan.) This planet has fascinated me for a long time; why on earth would you ship trash from the galactic center all the way out to a specific planet? I mean, at the very least, just find a nearby uninhabitable star and throw your junk in it.

So, as my friends and I do various roleplaying campaigns (not as often as I would like), I've been slowly rewriting Raxus Prime's history. It didn't start out as a garbage world - it started out as an archive world, where important stuff from all over the galaxy was kept. But people started sending less and less notable things, until everyone just started sending their literal garbage there. Everyone has forgotten what the original purpose of the planet was, so no one realizes all the amazing stuff that's buried deep underneath the rubbish. So, whenever I write a mission or develop a character's backstory, I include something about ancient artifacts buried on Raxus Prime. (My favorite aspect is the washout Jedi Enclave on Raxus Prime. We all played incompetent Jedi who were sent there as a punishment, and we discovered an ancient ship with a holocron on it. Unfortunately, it was a Sith holocron, and we all turned on one another to become the new Dark Lord. Nobody survived. There's a reason we were all washouts.)

But, yeah, this story idea has been in my mind for a while, just because it makes so little sense. There has to be a very convoluted reason for why they have created a garbage planet. I think having it start out as a capital world of sorts, which just deteriorated, makes for some very interesting possibilities.

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

3 hours ago, Pagerunner said:

Dump planet.

And here I read it and thought it said "dumb planet."  

That aside….that is a really interesting idea. For some reason I picture towers of cubed garbage, like on Earth in WALL-E. 

[Eppic]

Well right now I'm trying to figure out the geography of my world (Man wouldn't it be so much easier to have a map?) but the general idea is a world very similar to earth, about 10 thousand years after an apocalypse, with an extremely reduced population. A few people have tech that no one knows where it came from or how to build more, and so while some live very plain and drab lifestyles others have showers, light bulbs, and stoves.

Of course there also exist a bunch of magical mythical creatures which control the elements and can get bonded to a person under the right circumstances. (extremely rare)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

1 hour ago, Eppic said:

Well right now I'm trying to figure out the geography of my world (Man wouldn't it be so much easier to have a map?) but the general idea is a world very similar to earth, about 10 thousand years after an apocalypse, with an extremely reduced population. A few people have tech that no one knows where it came from or how to build more, and so while some live very plain and drab lifestyles others have showers, light bulbs, and stoves.

Of course there also exist a bunch of magical mythical creatures which control the elements and can get bonded to a person under the right circumstances. (extremely rare)

Unless your race has an average lifespan of several thousand years, ten thousand years is far too distant a starting point. The Holocene, the epoch we're in, began somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago, and we have to use archaeology and educated guesses to piece together what happened back then. Even some of our best guesses have been overturned by a single piece of new evidence. The evidence we do find is frozen in ice or fossilized in stone--beyond any sort of usability. Meanwhile, entire civilizations have risen and fell while the world of those people 10,000 years ago has gradually been forgotten, their technology made obsolete. 

Basically, unless we're talking about a race with an abnormally long lifespan, ten thousand years is too long for the old civilization (and probably the apocalypse itself) to be remembered, let alone for any of their technology to have survived in any usable state. People rebuild. There should be a new, even stronger civilization in place. 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

20 hours ago, Eppic said:

Well right now I'm trying to figure out the geography of my world (Man wouldn't it be so much easier to have a map?) but the general idea is a world very similar to earth, about 10 thousand years after an apocalypse, with an extremely reduced population. A few people have tech that no one knows where it came from or how to build more, and so while some live very plain and drab lifestyles others have showers, light bulbs, and stoves.

Of course there also exist a bunch of magical mythical creatures which control the elements and can get bonded to a person under the right circumstances. (extremely rare)

Yeah, the main problem is what Twi said (Also, twi, since when did u start being active in this corner?). And also, if the world *had* been annihilated to a point, with most people dead. Then I'd assume 10,000 years is plenty of time to repopulate the planet. That's like 100 generations, and I'm gonna assume the population doubles each generation. I'm gonna assume that your new to the whole writing business. So here're some tips.

1. Write what you know (IK, said quite a fair bit, but it's totally important) Research what your writing about, see how other's have portrayed it, draw from your own experiences.

2. Have a theme, it honestly seems like your mindset is in flux between a fantasy story and a post apocalyptic story, and a sci-fi. Of course, should u put some real effort in your ideas, you could make a pretty amazing amalgamate of the genres.

You haven't really shared much, so I'm not going to say more for fear of sounding patronising.