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12 years ago
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[EDITED] I remembered one!
For years, I've been coming up with isolated ideas, or as I've started to call them, "seeds". Some more developed than others, but none fleshed out enough to become a writing piece or a full roleplay. It's getting to the point that I'm forgetting the older ones, replacing them with newer, but not necessarily better ideas. I want to work on these, but I just can't find the time or inspiration to get past the seed idea.
Instead of letting the ideas wither and die on the vine, I'm going to dump them here. I might move them to a document on dropbox sometime, but for now, this journal will do. Some of these are developed concepts, others are just a basic story premise.
There are two factions in the world, the humans, who specialize in mind magic, and the scalies (for lack of a better name) who specialize in elemental magic. They are, of course, at war. Each believes the others are evil and horrible. During one battle, the protagonist is blinded by a flame spell. He is nursed back to health by a mystery woman, and falls in love with her. as his sight comes back, he discovers that she's a scaly, and his sworn enemy. [insert love and tolerance message here]. Don't have an ending for this one
The realm's best knight has married and retired in secret, his family not knowing who he used to be. His country is mounting an expedition to find a lost colony across dangerous territory, and needs the best to protect the caravan. He is drafted, and his son comes with him. They find the "missing" colony well and prospering. The colonists imprison the rescuers, as they don't WANT to be found. They'd rather be forgotten.
Meanwhile, back in the big city, the rest of the knight's family is coming to terms with their newfound wealth and status. Luckily, they have the knight's retired and crippled master to help with this. After being injured badly in a training accident years ago, she embraced her nobility, and helps the knight's wife and younger children fit in.
Da Vinci Code-style story, set in the modern world. A teenage boy receives a sealed envelope in his grandfather's will. It contains a letter explaining that magic is real, and that the family is the last keeper of the secret. It also includes the first clue to finding the book of magic that is his heritage. There is an organization also after the secret (how they know, or why they care I have no clue). Race against time!
(possible D&D plot) Mystarylxember (Mystie), an overly chatty brass dragon befriends a group of adventurers, and allows them to use her den as their base of operations, so long as they bring back news of their adventures. She even hints at where they might find some people in need. They go on adventure after adventure, starting to see a pattern. There is someone behind much of the evil in the land, but they can never quite catch up with whoever is causing the problems. As time goes on, they piece together the clues, eventually figuring out that the one behind all their problems is the very dragon giving them shelter. She isn't doing it to be evil, or to hurt anyone; she's lonely, and wants to make sure the adventurers always come back to talk to her again.
(poetry/song) "Other Me". A piece where the singer goes into a grocery store, and finds himself working there. The two talk, and find that the singer is the one who jumped on opportunities as they presented themselves, while the grocery worker let them slip past. The two both cry, one in shame for the failure he's become, the other in pity. The singer goes home, looks at himself in the mirror, and despises what he sees; a successful person with no personality. The grocery worker goes home and does the same, seeing a failure of a man. They both hang themselves, unable to cope with their lives.
(this one's for a medieval themed D&D/rpg) The king's daughter is sick, poisoned by a courtier. There is an antidote, but since the poison is so rare and old, the antidote has been dropped from common knowledge. The heroes are tasked with finding it, and only have a week. (suspension of disbelief people!) Sitting at the tavern, they hear a bard playing the crowd's fave folk song; scarborough fair. Clever adventurers will hear the nonsene refrain, and realize it's a clue; parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme. These alone aren't enough though, there's a missing ingerdient. If they do a little research, they'll find that scarborough is the name of a town that used to be nearby, centuries ago. It was famous for the beautiful red flowers that grew there. The flowers are known a "Love Lays Bleeding", and they are the fifth ingredient (he was once a true love of mine). The song isn't a love song, it's an oral memory version of the remedy.
I'm sure there are more ideas in my noggin, but they're buried a bit deeper than these at the moment. As I think of them, I'll pop some more up. Don't get your hopes up though; these are what I think are the gems of the ideas. The rest are much less complete.
For years, I've been coming up with isolated ideas, or as I've started to call them, "seeds". Some more developed than others, but none fleshed out enough to become a writing piece or a full roleplay. It's getting to the point that I'm forgetting the older ones, replacing them with newer, but not necessarily better ideas. I want to work on these, but I just can't find the time or inspiration to get past the seed idea.
Instead of letting the ideas wither and die on the vine, I'm going to dump them here. I might move them to a document on dropbox sometime, but for now, this journal will do. Some of these are developed concepts, others are just a basic story premise.
There are two factions in the world, the humans, who specialize in mind magic, and the scalies (for lack of a better name) who specialize in elemental magic. They are, of course, at war. Each believes the others are evil and horrible. During one battle, the protagonist is blinded by a flame spell. He is nursed back to health by a mystery woman, and falls in love with her. as his sight comes back, he discovers that she's a scaly, and his sworn enemy. [insert love and tolerance message here]. Don't have an ending for this one
The realm's best knight has married and retired in secret, his family not knowing who he used to be. His country is mounting an expedition to find a lost colony across dangerous territory, and needs the best to protect the caravan. He is drafted, and his son comes with him. They find the "missing" colony well and prospering. The colonists imprison the rescuers, as they don't WANT to be found. They'd rather be forgotten.
Meanwhile, back in the big city, the rest of the knight's family is coming to terms with their newfound wealth and status. Luckily, they have the knight's retired and crippled master to help with this. After being injured badly in a training accident years ago, she embraced her nobility, and helps the knight's wife and younger children fit in.
Da Vinci Code-style story, set in the modern world. A teenage boy receives a sealed envelope in his grandfather's will. It contains a letter explaining that magic is real, and that the family is the last keeper of the secret. It also includes the first clue to finding the book of magic that is his heritage. There is an organization also after the secret (how they know, or why they care I have no clue). Race against time!
(possible D&D plot) Mystarylxember (Mystie), an overly chatty brass dragon befriends a group of adventurers, and allows them to use her den as their base of operations, so long as they bring back news of their adventures. She even hints at where they might find some people in need. They go on adventure after adventure, starting to see a pattern. There is someone behind much of the evil in the land, but they can never quite catch up with whoever is causing the problems. As time goes on, they piece together the clues, eventually figuring out that the one behind all their problems is the very dragon giving them shelter. She isn't doing it to be evil, or to hurt anyone; she's lonely, and wants to make sure the adventurers always come back to talk to her again.
(poetry/song) "Other Me". A piece where the singer goes into a grocery store, and finds himself working there. The two talk, and find that the singer is the one who jumped on opportunities as they presented themselves, while the grocery worker let them slip past. The two both cry, one in shame for the failure he's become, the other in pity. The singer goes home, looks at himself in the mirror, and despises what he sees; a successful person with no personality. The grocery worker goes home and does the same, seeing a failure of a man. They both hang themselves, unable to cope with their lives.
(this one's for a medieval themed D&D/rpg) The king's daughter is sick, poisoned by a courtier. There is an antidote, but since the poison is so rare and old, the antidote has been dropped from common knowledge. The heroes are tasked with finding it, and only have a week. (suspension of disbelief people!) Sitting at the tavern, they hear a bard playing the crowd's fave folk song; scarborough fair. Clever adventurers will hear the nonsene refrain, and realize it's a clue; parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme. These alone aren't enough though, there's a missing ingerdient. If they do a little research, they'll find that scarborough is the name of a town that used to be nearby, centuries ago. It was famous for the beautiful red flowers that grew there. The flowers are known a "Love Lays Bleeding", and they are the fifth ingredient (he was once a true love of mine). The song isn't a love song, it's an oral memory version of the remedy.
I'm sure there are more ideas in my noggin, but they're buried a bit deeper than these at the moment. As I think of them, I'll pop some more up. Don't get your hopes up though; these are what I think are the gems of the ideas. The rest are much less complete.
I've got those two, but I should find more.