Yeah, it’s a list of Yet Another Very Good Ideas I had before. It’s just a stupid way of calling my creative efforts that felt just so utterly cool I actually gave them extensive consideration… Oh, well, but none of them has ever been finished though.
Note that at the time of writing, my brain has been half-fried. Perhaps, I will write this later again…
A Daybreak
I remember coming up with this while I was pondering about the classes I should take for my senior year in high school. I noticed that my high school offered a Sci-Fi class, which I was kinda intrigued about. So I asked a friend of mine who had a brother who attended the class… and told me that all he did was watch famous sci-fi movies and write a sci-fi story in the end. Being a loser that I am, I wanted to turn in something well-developed and thought out. So I began working on A Daybreak a year and half before it was necessary. Well, it turned out that we didn’t really have to turn in a story in the end… Good thing as I got cosmically lazy despite all the images and ideas I had for A Daybreak.
Even though I tried to write a sci-fi story, it ended becoming a sci-fantasy story. It was set in several millions of trillion years in the future, or when the cosmic phenomenons should have destroyed the universe. However, nothing happened. The world kept going on, and people were content with it.
And then one day, a strange object is discovered, in the middle of nowhere. Out of curiosities, many nations send explorers and scientists to find out what it really is. Soon enough, they recognize it as some kind of an abandoned colony ship… Though they aren’t too sure where it is from. Throughout many galaxies, conspiracy theorists speculate that it is an alien artifact, a ship of time travellers from the future, or such strange things. Bored from countless years of nothing, the object becomes actively researched by the entierty of humanity…
The story starts off with April Ares, one of the scientists residing in and researching the nature of the unidentified satellite, coming back to her apartment in Houston, Belfast for her vacation. Beside the doorstep, she finds an apparently homeless boy… Considering the casualties Houston winter reaps every year, she lets the boy stay for one night in her house. And thus she is thrown more deeply into the true nature of the satellite…
As the plot unfolds, April learns that the satellite is in fact the brain of a god-like entity. Several millions of trillions of years ago, when humanity first defeated the speed of light, the being(s) that created this reality was terrified that one day, humanity might be able to leap across the boundaries of reality and find them. Fearing such a result, the creators locked the reality in a stasis and tried to run away from what they created… And all was fine until the heart of God felt the guilt was becoming too great to ignore. It told the thought process unit that it was their duty to either destroy this reality that contained a potential for transcendence or let the residents achieve this transcendence. It took much to change the brain’s mind… but in the end, it agreed with the heart and decided to return to the reality, to let it either end or flower. As the heart travelled and looked into humanity to see whether or not they should survive, the brain was to teach them the language of reality, to let them assume the position of God as the creators departed to do whatever they should do…
And April Ares was chosen as the representative of humanity’s ability to comprehend Godhood, both in mind and in heart.
Oh, I don’t know. I really liked how I fused mysticism and science with Daybreak. Circuits of silver drawn on an Engineer’s body works as a conduit of thought, assisting one’s electrochemical signals fired from the brain to be translated into command lines, executing Protocols that directly alter an integar of reality. Or… something like that. In the end, I was crushed under the weight I put on myself, and I learned not to aim too high. Eck.
Shards of Infinite
Inspired by God’s Debris by Scott Adams and Exalted and Mage: the Ascension by White Wolf, this was what I came up when I first messed with RPG Maker XP. First I wanted to make one of those high fantasy settings which the default character and art set was modelled after. It was quite simple and generic at first, but something inside me kinda forced me to do something creative (while never being actually creative, of course,) and the result was this… Well, it’s still unfinished.
The basic setting/theme/premise of SoI is thus: An infinite and unbound being, conveniently named God, supposedly created the world. However, it is almost certain that the world at the time of the story lacks the prsence of God. One can only assume that God disappeard or became the world. Most people believe the former, and they wait for the time when God will come back. Until then, they will follow the rule of two houses of divine beings, which presents the duality of the universe… However, as the suspicion that God is not coming back creeps up the minds of the members of these divine houses, they ponder taking the control of the world themselves… Thus, a worldwide battle between two conflicting ideas and views rage against all continents of the world…
The two houses of gods are called the Supernal and Infernal realms. The Supernal Realm, manifested in the physical world as the white noonday sun that shines warmth and light, is composed of beings who believe that creation controls destruction and carrots are superior to whips. They promote doing what is good and constructive, even if that may cause chaos and entropy. The Infernal Realm, manifested in the physical world as the black midnight sun that rains coolness and darkness, is the home of gods who believe that the world must be kept in check through decimation and the system is what holds everything together. Even if their actions might cause pain and sorrow, they will do anything necessary to prevent dissolution and descent from status quo. Between them are the people… Some of them lived without a care of higher orders, but some devoted their lives serving two houses, depending on what they believed to be true and superior. Some lucky enough were chosen and given powers of the gods to serve as their avatars and soldiers…
But then, I want to ask, should one stick to such strict virtues in all things? Even if your conscience tells you what you could better, should you abide by what the beings above dictate? Perhaps… you should follow the path your heart desires?
It’s been a while since I tried to develop more background information for the world of SoI, but with my newfound affirmation of Godliness, I should be able to come up with something decent… I think.
Googlism (Temporary title)
Ipanema (Working title :P)
