Hi everyone!

I’ve been having a few ideas over the last month, and I’ve also been more than a little shocked to find that I have the mental bandwidth to maybe think about running a second thread. So, naturally, I thought I’d see who might be interested in what’s been floating around my head. :3

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One

[i]Don’t you see? Now is the time to strike, to change everything. The old world is dying - what we’ll do can only be called mercy. [/i]

A story-focused, character-driven cyberpunk conspiracy thriller. This world would look a lot more like [i]Blade Runner[/i] or [i]Ghost in the Shell[/i] than [i]The Matrix[/i]. If anyone’s read Chuck Wendig’s excellent new book, [i]Zer0es[/i], there might be some influences from there, too. :3 The characters will have to cut through a web of secrets and lies not only for their own sake - but for stakes larger than any of them likely could have imagined. The world will be filled with artificial augmentation, synthetic intelligence, pervasive technology, and maybe even a little body horror. You’ll dodge corporate goons, chase government agents, find unlikely allies and, if you survive, change the world. But will you change the future - or only delay the inevitable?


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Two

[i]…We must no longer be defined by our memories of that great conflict. A generation ago, we were explorers. Today, we continue that legacy.[/i]

This would be a continuing series of stories set in the [i]Star Trek[/i] universe, considerably after any of the TV series, and not in the new films’ alternate universe. Decades ago, the major powers of the galaxy were collectively involved in a protracted, wide-scale war with an implacable enemy that they only barely defeated. Now, a generation later, the governments and infrastructure of those once-powerful nations have finally recovered to the point where some of them are preparing to explore the territories, colonies, and bases that they’ve lost, and discover a galaxy both familiar and alien. Your characters will be the likely-somewhat-irregular crew of the (shrunken, battered, but still extant) Federation’s first new starship in the better part of a century, on a mission to extend the edges of the map. The game world will feel like a gentle mixture of 90s-era [i]Star Trek[/i] with a measure of [i]Firefly[/i] and [i]Oregon Trail[/i] thrown in, along with whatever else we collectively make of things.

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All of these would [i]not[/i] be first-come first-served; like the thread I’m running right now every character submission would be more like an audition. I also expect all of these ideas would have fairly small casts - likely not more than 6-8 people. That is, course, provided there’s enough interest to even start one of them. :3 I'm really only going to take on [i]one[/i] of these ideas right now - as other things wrap up or come to the end of their stories, I might start others, though. 

Let me know!