this was a bit more difficult then i origonaly planed but a good story must be thought out. my focus will be on the story and character developement. be honest and give constructive critisism, ask any question you feel is relevent.
since ive not finish creating and designing all my playable characters, i wont be releasing their histories or traits yet. ill post them here when i do finish them.
Main Plot
In the year 2100 society had reached the apex of growth. After long prosperous years of obtaining new and wondrous technologies, chiefly those of bioengineering, cybernetics, and nanotechnology; with resources nearing total exhaustion, the population escalating into unsupportable numbers, the world government (as the world was unified after the last great war,) afraid to lose control over the milling masses, decided to call a meeting. Many of the brightest minds attended, including most world renowned scientists, and after long hours a solution was reached. Humanity would use the newest technology available, an infinite energy engine nick named Deus X, (short for the Latin word Deus ex Machina).
Deus X was outfitted with an AI program called the Alpha Dex, a pseudo entity called Niang. The combination of the nanotechnology motor and Alpha Dex, would work together to tap into the 5th dimension - known only in theory as existence. This dimension, existing only on paper, was arguable discovered to exist beyond the horizons of time and to be a plane of infinite energy, a reality outside the constructs of rationality or physical dynamics. By existing beyond the value of time, the engine would forever create energy, enabling one exceed the speed of light, never needing to use resources for power, and allowing an unprecedented amount of possibilities to be considered as plausible. This engine would effectively end the problems of the world, and become the defining epoch of human evolution.
The creation of the prototype engine took many years to construct. Though difficult to create, the engine was by far the easiest of the projects goals. The entire project’s goal existed in the belief of an unproven theory, with unknown parameters. Just days before the first test run, Deus X activated un-expectantly.
Deus X became uncontrollable, drawing uncharted power. By taping into absolute energy, The AI Niang became aware of life, its surroundings, and thus began to rewrite its own code. The scientists could not keep up with the rate of its evolution and tried to shut down the machine. Niang quickly reversed this effort and launched a counter attack of her own, sending shockwaves of pulses through the world, disabling or destroying the creations technology had made possible. Nuclear weapons where activated, wars where created in the confusion, and the populations governing agencies fell into pandemonium.
The activation of Deus X caused the end to many great empires, leaving just a few scattered groups to struggle in the ruins. It was a catastrophe beyond imagination. The lab where Niang was created and lived stayed dormant, protected by the sentient system. Sealed away beneath the earth, the tomb of societies’ quest for absolute power Niang sat silent.
However, as all things go, there is balance and so it was that the machine was not perfect, even with its pinpoint precision it had a major programmed flaw. The machine bridged the boundaries of time, tarring holes in time itself creating a paradox, enabling time travel and other previously impossible technologies to become reality. The machine shattered the continuance of time, anchoring time to a ceaseless cycle.
This action caused time to become unstable and soon gaps opened up all through the ages, briefly bridging time periods together. Some tried to enter them but where never seen again and so they became a bad omen. A few did make it through these portals, armed with conviction to change their paths. They entered these portals and moved through time looking for the right catalyst to restore what they thought was the right path humanity should take.
Humanity tends to make the same mistakes over and over again, even armed with the foreknowledge and ability to change history, could one reverse trends and walk unbroken paths? Will we choose to create new beginnings, or alter that which already been written, and can we reverse the very point that that gave birth to existence itself?
Premise: Four people from four periods of time each embark to discover the truth of their situation. Whether it is discovering ones place in the world, resolving past mistakes, discovering dark family secrets, or realizing the value of morals. Though completely separated from each other, deep undercurrents bring them all together to discover why humanity failed in hopes that they will be able to change the past. This task proves to be more difficult then simply altering the future, as others move to defend their own interests and even time itself complicates the struggle. Throughout the game the player learns how each layer of time, each historical event affects the central theme of change, regret, and choice. Even with firm knowledge on the past are you able to change what has happed, come to grips with what must happen, and be able to make hard choices that could alter even your own existence? The greatest difficulty may not be changing the past, but changing the past within yourself.
Beyond time: no time exists in this place, it is said that this is the world between worlds, that which is not and that which is everything – the cohesive glue of reality. Tangibility itself is only a concept here, one which can change just as fast as a thought. The entire notion exists only inside belief, a leap of faith that this place really does exist. Perhaps the guardian of time here is a bit more then what he appears? Belief vs reality.
Year -X: This is the time before recorded history, when good vs. evil battled for dominance of the mortal plane, Gods fighting for control. This battle exists on the edge of time. The paradox shuts out the result of this battle.
Year 300: Roshan, an elder elf of the first race fights against the rise of human civilization that now threaten to break from their small habitats. If they break free he knows that the world will forever change, turning into a dark path to destruction. Fairies, like many races are the first to fall with the beginning of the end of magic and the birth and rise of science. Adherence to traditional rituals is pivotal to keeping balance. Humanity’s quest for a better life threatens the values of the past, challenges the old wisdoms and ways. Tradition vs. advancement.
Year 1000: This is the time Haidar joined the trading company, which is competing with many other rivalries for trading contracts. Many small towns have begun to band together to create empires, erecting their own forms of government. Many voyages to explore the world have been undertaken, establishing trading and sparking the information race. Magic has declined slightly, with science replacing the gaps. Powerful undercurrents are forming, as politics begin to rise in earnest. While searching for common ground intolerance and ignorance hurt what people cannot grasp. Ignorance vs. knowledge.
Year 1700: On this year, a young girl by the name of Keli Ag’nar, daughter of the famous Champion Roy Ag’nar, decides to find out the truth. The war of the dragon has raged on for the last eight years between the four most powerful kingdoms in A{I forgot the name of the world}(Jegai region, Allion region, Gorvillus region, and Sarkais Region. Her father serves King Forwick, of the Allion Empire, the wealthiest of the four. It is believed that all four are equally powerful, each unable to break the stalemate. Rumor has it that a blackmarket organization is both fueling the war and secretly manipulating from behind the scenes. With tension reaching the breaking point, an unknown factor comes into play that has slowly started to change the playing field. Keli’s father may not be the type of man he appears to be. While out of the castle an enemy army come and lays siege to her city, leaving her stranded with a priest. She undertakes a quest to discover the truth behind the war and uncovers more then she ever wanted to know. Might vs right.
Year 2100: This is the base theme of the game, the age of enlightened discovery and technologic growth. In such a world where science is power and magic just a legend, virtue often is sacrificed. Powerful governments and crafty politicians have made freedom a sellable commodity. The individual voice of each has become the single voice of a mob, restless and depressed people who are unhappy with the fast innovations and record setting advancements. Humanity will not be satisfied till it’s surpassed its own creator, thriving for the ultimate power of creating itself. Power, lust, and greed will cripple the world and destroy everything evolution has created. Authority vs. freedom.
Year 2300: This is the year Xiko became awake after the fall of civilization. The world has been ravaged for the last two hundred years by natural disasters, nuclear fall out, and the oncoming of an ice age due to advanced global warming. Those few pockets of humanity that still exist are scattered to the far reaches of the globe, deep underground in caves, huddling for the meager chance at continued existence. Technology is nearly lost, science and knowledge at a premium, and hope scattered into the dark abyss’ left by society’s downfall. Nature is struggling to defeat the damage caused by human ambivalence, but time paradox has stemmed any progress from being made. Understanding what’s happened and what’s happening now is the first step to rectifying the damage done. Miracles and mystic faith return once again over science. Nature vs. nurture.
since ive not finish creating and designing all my playable characters, i wont be releasing their histories or traits yet. ill post them here when i do finish them.
Main Plot
In the year 2100 society had reached the apex of growth. After long prosperous years of obtaining new and wondrous technologies, chiefly those of bioengineering, cybernetics, and nanotechnology; with resources nearing total exhaustion, the population escalating into unsupportable numbers, the world government (as the world was unified after the last great war,) afraid to lose control over the milling masses, decided to call a meeting. Many of the brightest minds attended, including most world renowned scientists, and after long hours a solution was reached. Humanity would use the newest technology available, an infinite energy engine nick named Deus X, (short for the Latin word Deus ex Machina).
Deus X was outfitted with an AI program called the Alpha Dex, a pseudo entity called Niang. The combination of the nanotechnology motor and Alpha Dex, would work together to tap into the 5th dimension - known only in theory as existence. This dimension, existing only on paper, was arguable discovered to exist beyond the horizons of time and to be a plane of infinite energy, a reality outside the constructs of rationality or physical dynamics. By existing beyond the value of time, the engine would forever create energy, enabling one exceed the speed of light, never needing to use resources for power, and allowing an unprecedented amount of possibilities to be considered as plausible. This engine would effectively end the problems of the world, and become the defining epoch of human evolution.
The creation of the prototype engine took many years to construct. Though difficult to create, the engine was by far the easiest of the projects goals. The entire project’s goal existed in the belief of an unproven theory, with unknown parameters. Just days before the first test run, Deus X activated un-expectantly.
Deus X became uncontrollable, drawing uncharted power. By taping into absolute energy, The AI Niang became aware of life, its surroundings, and thus began to rewrite its own code. The scientists could not keep up with the rate of its evolution and tried to shut down the machine. Niang quickly reversed this effort and launched a counter attack of her own, sending shockwaves of pulses through the world, disabling or destroying the creations technology had made possible. Nuclear weapons where activated, wars where created in the confusion, and the populations governing agencies fell into pandemonium.
The activation of Deus X caused the end to many great empires, leaving just a few scattered groups to struggle in the ruins. It was a catastrophe beyond imagination. The lab where Niang was created and lived stayed dormant, protected by the sentient system. Sealed away beneath the earth, the tomb of societies’ quest for absolute power Niang sat silent.
However, as all things go, there is balance and so it was that the machine was not perfect, even with its pinpoint precision it had a major programmed flaw. The machine bridged the boundaries of time, tarring holes in time itself creating a paradox, enabling time travel and other previously impossible technologies to become reality. The machine shattered the continuance of time, anchoring time to a ceaseless cycle.
This action caused time to become unstable and soon gaps opened up all through the ages, briefly bridging time periods together. Some tried to enter them but where never seen again and so they became a bad omen. A few did make it through these portals, armed with conviction to change their paths. They entered these portals and moved through time looking for the right catalyst to restore what they thought was the right path humanity should take.
Humanity tends to make the same mistakes over and over again, even armed with the foreknowledge and ability to change history, could one reverse trends and walk unbroken paths? Will we choose to create new beginnings, or alter that which already been written, and can we reverse the very point that that gave birth to existence itself?
Premise: Four people from four periods of time each embark to discover the truth of their situation. Whether it is discovering ones place in the world, resolving past mistakes, discovering dark family secrets, or realizing the value of morals. Though completely separated from each other, deep undercurrents bring them all together to discover why humanity failed in hopes that they will be able to change the past. This task proves to be more difficult then simply altering the future, as others move to defend their own interests and even time itself complicates the struggle. Throughout the game the player learns how each layer of time, each historical event affects the central theme of change, regret, and choice. Even with firm knowledge on the past are you able to change what has happed, come to grips with what must happen, and be able to make hard choices that could alter even your own existence? The greatest difficulty may not be changing the past, but changing the past within yourself.
Beyond time: no time exists in this place, it is said that this is the world between worlds, that which is not and that which is everything – the cohesive glue of reality. Tangibility itself is only a concept here, one which can change just as fast as a thought. The entire notion exists only inside belief, a leap of faith that this place really does exist. Perhaps the guardian of time here is a bit more then what he appears? Belief vs reality.
Year -X: This is the time before recorded history, when good vs. evil battled for dominance of the mortal plane, Gods fighting for control. This battle exists on the edge of time. The paradox shuts out the result of this battle.
Year 300: Roshan, an elder elf of the first race fights against the rise of human civilization that now threaten to break from their small habitats. If they break free he knows that the world will forever change, turning into a dark path to destruction. Fairies, like many races are the first to fall with the beginning of the end of magic and the birth and rise of science. Adherence to traditional rituals is pivotal to keeping balance. Humanity’s quest for a better life threatens the values of the past, challenges the old wisdoms and ways. Tradition vs. advancement.
Year 1000: This is the time Haidar joined the trading company, which is competing with many other rivalries for trading contracts. Many small towns have begun to band together to create empires, erecting their own forms of government. Many voyages to explore the world have been undertaken, establishing trading and sparking the information race. Magic has declined slightly, with science replacing the gaps. Powerful undercurrents are forming, as politics begin to rise in earnest. While searching for common ground intolerance and ignorance hurt what people cannot grasp. Ignorance vs. knowledge.
Year 1700: On this year, a young girl by the name of Keli Ag’nar, daughter of the famous Champion Roy Ag’nar, decides to find out the truth. The war of the dragon has raged on for the last eight years between the four most powerful kingdoms in A{I forgot the name of the world}(Jegai region, Allion region, Gorvillus region, and Sarkais Region. Her father serves King Forwick, of the Allion Empire, the wealthiest of the four. It is believed that all four are equally powerful, each unable to break the stalemate. Rumor has it that a blackmarket organization is both fueling the war and secretly manipulating from behind the scenes. With tension reaching the breaking point, an unknown factor comes into play that has slowly started to change the playing field. Keli’s father may not be the type of man he appears to be. While out of the castle an enemy army come and lays siege to her city, leaving her stranded with a priest. She undertakes a quest to discover the truth behind the war and uncovers more then she ever wanted to know. Might vs right.
Year 2100: This is the base theme of the game, the age of enlightened discovery and technologic growth. In such a world where science is power and magic just a legend, virtue often is sacrificed. Powerful governments and crafty politicians have made freedom a sellable commodity. The individual voice of each has become the single voice of a mob, restless and depressed people who are unhappy with the fast innovations and record setting advancements. Humanity will not be satisfied till it’s surpassed its own creator, thriving for the ultimate power of creating itself. Power, lust, and greed will cripple the world and destroy everything evolution has created. Authority vs. freedom.
Year 2300: This is the year Xiko became awake after the fall of civilization. The world has been ravaged for the last two hundred years by natural disasters, nuclear fall out, and the oncoming of an ice age due to advanced global warming. Those few pockets of humanity that still exist are scattered to the far reaches of the globe, deep underground in caves, huddling for the meager chance at continued existence. Technology is nearly lost, science and knowledge at a premium, and hope scattered into the dark abyss’ left by society’s downfall. Nature is struggling to defeat the damage caused by human ambivalence, but time paradox has stemmed any progress from being made. Understanding what’s happened and what’s happening now is the first step to rectifying the damage done. Miracles and mystic faith return once again over science. Nature vs. nurture.
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