Well, then I am back...I have had a long week and I apologise for my absence gentle viewers. Well, school starts tomorrow and I went to the French Laundry...oh the near celestial banquet that they presented before me during that phantasmal evening...*drools*...
Anyhow, I basically took the concept of V from V for Vendetta and inverted it on it's self. Here you have an upper middle class adolescent who possesses great intellect but is some what weak. Now his small feudal region is rather poor and is going through some difficult ages, and the due to the state of government...supreme executive power is purely passed down to the oldest son in the Royal Family. Thus, the current ruler is an impatient bloodthirsty moron who's council consists of a circle of rich Yes Men and nothing more.
After watching his mother and little sister succumb to disease and famine caused by the devastatingly poor economy, he forms a small terrorist organization consisting of a few fellow young men of like minds and a handful of thugs, drug addicts and homeless citizens. After raising enough money to obtain some resources and weaponry by harvesting and selling narcotics at high prices, they have control of the slums. With a staple supply of men and power, the local law enforcement can do little against him and his men. Soon after a bloody civil war between the local law enforcement and the terrorists, they gain utter most control over the settlement. Intent on expanding their power, the leaders split up and each of them takes 10-20 men and moves to the nearest decaying settlement.
The leader takes him men to the capital city, where within the Red Light District they make an abandoned brothel their base of operations. While they befriend the local gangs and distribute narcotics to them in exchange for their loyalties...the other leaders use the same tactics as they used before granting the organization control of three to four settlements. While the other leaders send their men to besiege the capital city, the adolescent takes his new found brute squad and infiltrates the palace at the heart of the city by navigating through the labyrinth sewer system beneath the city. Once they enter the palace halls, they use sleath and cunning to seek past any and all royal guards stationed and finally assassinate the moronic king and any who would be his successor biologically. As a sign of his victory, he has his men burn all the flags stationed within the palace...
And that's as far as I have gotten...
Nollaf's Tower Overture of Apathy and Emoness: Part One
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Sounds excellent. Do you read much fantasy fiction? Because that's how it reads - like a fantasy novel.
ReplyDeleteBut then it also sounds like a resource management RPG. I can almost picture the gangs infecting the settlements and the city like aggressive viruses.
You know, you say "that's as far as I've gotten", but I think that's far enough, at least for episode 1. You need to flesh out the detail in the exsisting storyline, rather than expand it (although you can, of course, do both).
Have you read about "The Hero with a Thousand Faces"?
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ReplyDeleteYes I have heard of the tome of which you speak of, but I have not read it. Overall, the setting of the story will take place in an almost parrerl version of World War II, but rather than the eqvilaint of Nazi Germany being a dicatorship it shall be a therocary. The protagonists are a bunch of unsavory antiheroes who each have their own motives for overthrowing the corrupt goverment. The main villain shall be one of the protagonists whom, after the plot takes a downward spiral into tragity...becomes a homicidal anarchist who wants to destroy civilaztoin which he belives will become a utopia afterwards.
ReplyDeleteAlso, later on some of a protagonists form a small oligarchy centering at the city governed by the usuper anti-hero listed before.
ReplyDeleteTheocracies make good adversaries. It reminds me of the Golden Compass books. Interesting melding it with national socialism though.
ReplyDeleteI've not read "Hero..." either, but it's a good thing to at least be aware of the basic structured described in it.
I'm planning on focusing the facism elements of the theocracy in question.
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