bearing with me, here, but a game set in horizon: zero dawn's setting, a bit tweaked.
it'd be post game, with aloy on her own so she wouldn't be a major NPC. it would be panfandom/power loss with setting aus, with an actual explanation for such (hence tweaking).
the idea is hades claimed he had the only records of information, but what if eleuthia, the program that made the vat seeding clones, had some fandom-based information accidentally cached in her?
so you would get clones that think they are fandom characters, but its all false memories (although from a play point, they look and are like the fandom character), though this would not be initially known. setting aus would be either blank, unfandom imprinted clones or people who were born and raised in the setting naturally.
the plot i'd want to run is people figuring out eleuthia has that old info and NPCs wanting it, on top of haphaestus activating other cauldrons and people having to de-activate those to stop machines. maybe hades, sylens and aloy showing up later for a more dire plot.
i'd definitely want to run it with a plan to end it after the plot is resolved and run its course.
i have a few ideas for rewards, monsters/monster takedown rewards, possibly an IC skill system but for a short game, i might just toss the idea of a skill system and stick to rewards based on the setting.
i'm also considering outside of all the canon tribes, having an NPC who is from a fake future canon, running their own kind of tribe. Which would open up the idea of OCs as well.
horizon zero dawn-based game (spoilers)
it'd be post game, with aloy on her own so she wouldn't be a major NPC. it would be panfandom/power loss with setting aus, with an actual explanation for such (hence tweaking).
the idea is hades claimed he had the only records of information, but what if eleuthia, the program that made the vat seeding clones, had some fandom-based information accidentally cached in her?
so you would get clones that think they are fandom characters, but its all false memories (although from a play point, they look and are like the fandom character), though this would not be initially known. setting aus would be either blank, unfandom imprinted clones or people who were born and raised in the setting naturally.
the plot i'd want to run is people figuring out eleuthia has that old info and NPCs wanting it, on top of haphaestus activating other cauldrons and people having to de-activate those to stop machines. maybe hades, sylens and aloy showing up later for a more dire plot.
i'd definitely want to run it with a plan to end it after the plot is resolved and run its course.
i have a few ideas for rewards, monsters/monster takedown rewards, possibly an IC skill system but for a short game, i might just toss the idea of a skill system and stick to rewards based on the setting.
i'm also considering outside of all the canon tribes, having an NPC who is from a fake future canon, running their own kind of tribe. Which would open up the idea of OCs as well.
Thoughts?