Kinds of Mu*s Wanted

[SG]

@Ghost said:

I've always wanted a zombie-themed mush with high mortality, an ensemble cast, and a game with a constantly changing grid based on human migration. Like TGG with people having their intestines being eaten.

I was on No Return for a while, but it was pretty much people playing house, having movie nights, and doing yoga. It was like The Walking Dead: Woodbury (but a GOOD Woodbury where nothing bad ever happens and you can be a cute veterinarian who teaches yoga) Edition

I'm sure the game is great for those types who want to play house with minimal drama and never have their characters at risk, but that place was totally not for me.

I think this would work with a completely random character generator. Like, you log in, it gives you: David the gas jockey, or Julia the community college janitor who's sick to death of people shitting on the toilet seats instead of in the toilets, like COME ON PEOPLE!

Then you try to navigate these poor souls through the apocalypse. For some, it might even be an improvement.

[Ghost]

That's an awesome idea. I'd give that a spin in a heartbeat.

Rolls up character: You are Nikki, also known as Starr, a 38 year old day shift stripper who both failed to be a good mother and failed to save her 17 year old son from getting torn apart by zombies! You have very few survival skills and must choose a PB of a non-model 42+ year old woman due to unnecessary aging caused by a meth habit in her twenties.

[Songtress]

I think game that's very much 'Walking Dead', but one where moving is important. Move, stay live, find food and shelter. My problem with 'No Return' was that because it was set 19 years after the start of it all.. built had built and repurposed cities, gotten power and generators and something akin to normal living.

Not Bad. But it always skeeved me out in a way. I want my character to be surviving, with her companions, forming alliences and pacts, needing to find, food, shelter, and dealing with bites and broken limbs. Learning to shoot. Not watching 'FullHouse' inside safewalls.

I want my commuties that I encounter to be freaky and weird, and trying to be normal, but 'failing to be'. Enacting draconian laws to 'protect' its citizens. Making people who want to join jump through hoops.

I want the kids that are born who grow up in this new fucked up world, to be kid like and have their innocence ripped from them, as mom yells to go, and take the younger sibling as she beats a walker to death, and sets off a rigged Car explosion.

I also want to see groups forming and splitting up, not artificially staying together for long periods of time. "The Walking Dead" does it well. That group splits and fragments , and then rejoins itself. They loose people.

Also I want Walkers that aren't caused by a plauge or virus ( which should theorhetically 'burn itself out after a few years', depending on vectors of transmition, and immunity (After 19 years as in No Return, most people should be either immune or have developed some kind of resistance.

Ok my rants over.

Though my other MU* want is "Vampire" ( but like Trinity Blood, decadence, lace, culture, and back stabbing. But not WoD. I want... a world where 'Vampires' are ruling the world. Where humanity are their sheep and cattle. Where its good to be king, and politics and intruige rule ( also living Vampires.)

[Bobotron]

@Songtress said:
I've wondered how a Vampire Hunter D-style 'post apocalypse, decadent high-tech vampire society' would work.

[Songtress]

@Bobotron

Ooh.
I can imagine it ( and I may take this as a 'Vampire/Fae' set up for a game. Post apoclyptic set up. ( Forum game yes)

[ThugHeaven]

Damn, I was thinking about trying No Return. The concept sounded great!

[Bobotron]

@Songtress
I had theorized (and honestly still might do it, if I get this VtM game open and it tanks) about a VHD-based game, designing an isolated section of the Frontier that hasn't been struck as hard by the vampiric societal decline, still controlled by a group of Nobles who are at odds with each other. Set up with four or five Vampire families, the Barbaroi and other mutants and cyborgs and creatures that serve them, and the Frontiersmen caught between the machinations and battles of the vampires. Players would be able to app for the Noble line vampires (shy of the heads, which would be NPCs), and spiral out from there. Cyborgs, sorcery, magic, magitech, mutants, and all kinds of cray shit.

[Ghost]

@ThugHeaven said:

Damn, I was thinking about trying No Return. The concept sounded great!

Well, the game does have a freakishly high number of virologists, brain surgeons, and pastry chefs for a setting that hasn't had universities, society, or regular access to electricity for nineteen years, so you're absolutely more than welcome to make a 22 year old brain surgeon and roll with it.

[Songtress]

@Bobotron said:

@Songtress
I had theorized (and honestly still might do it, if I get this VtM game open and it tanks) about a VHD-based game, designing an isolated section of the Frontier that hasn't been struck as hard by the vampiric societal decline, still controlled by a group of Nobles who are at odds with each other. Set up with four or five Vampire families, the Barbaroi and other mutants and cyborgs and creatures that serve them, and the Frontiersmen caught between the machinations and battles of the vampires. Players would be able to app for the Noble line vampires (shy of the heads, which would be NPCs), and spiral out from there. Cyborgs, sorcery, magic, magitech, mutants, and all kinds of cray shit.

Ok Now I need to See Vampire Hunter D so I know what your talking about? Are Vampires alive (because D's a Dhampir right?) Or?

[Ghost]

Post-apocalyptic setting (more wild west than Mad Max) where vampires and other monsters cause all sorts of horrible shit to go down. Bounty Hunters are a huge part of the setting, and D is a rare half-vampire who works as a bounty hunter.

[Cirno]

And he's got a face in his hand! HE HAS A FACE IN HIS HAND!

[Ghost]

My favorite was the guy who was this sickly, frail, bed-ridden thing, and the reason he is so sick is because of overuse of the drug that makes him powerful. When he takes the drug, he astrally projects as a ghost that shoots these badass lasers that murder everything and cause explosions, but the drug is KILLING HIM.

[Cirno]

@Ghost said:

My favorite was the guy who was this sickly, frail, bed-ridden thing, and the reason he is so sick is because of overuse of the drug that makes him powerful. When he takes the drug, he astrally projects as a ghost that shoots these badass lasers that murder everything and cause explosions, but the drug is KILLING HIM.

Adventure Time stole this guy and turned him into Prismo, except it's sleeping that made him an immortal god.

That makes me wonder. What if we're all Gods while we sleep? Or what if we're all individual parts of (a) God/dess's mind, kind of like how we have pieces of our brain that work on their own - left, right, cerebellum, stem, etc., - and when we dream we return to the whole?

"If we are Gods while we sleep, why do we have painful and deadly-seeming dreams, Cirno?"

Well, aren't death-and-rebirth God/desses popular? And don't many deities experience uncomfortable things?

[Ghost]

@Cirno This is the best question since "Does soap get dirty?"

You're making me think at 06:15. I hate you.

[Cirno]

@Ghost said:

@Cirno This is the best question since "Does soap get dirty?"

You're making me think at 06:15. I hate you.

Glad I could help, bro.

If by chance we go to sleep at the same time, you're welcome to use your Sleeping God/dess Powers to make me die in my own Sleeping God-dream or have something equally humiliating occur to me.

Put me through the Death/Resurrection experience, it'll be fun and rad.

[Bobotron]

@Songtress
It's complicated, but vampires in the setting breed with each other and humans though dhampir are rare. They also bite and true Nobles can turn a human completely. Vampires are born via natural birth and age to a specific point and then essentially stop.

D, for example, was born in the 1990s. Current year is the series is 12,090 AD.

[Songtress]

@Bobotron said:

@Songtress
It's complicated, but vampires in the setting breed with each other and humans though dhampir are rare. They also bite and true Nobles can turn a human completely. Vampires are born via natural birth and age to a specific point and then essentially stop.

D, for example, was born in the 1990s. Current year is the series is 12,090 AD.

So Then I need to watch this series, and yeah that sounds like sometihng I could get behind. I like the idea of it being an Empire of Decadence, the last bubble of it.

[Ghost]

I still think CthulhuTech would make an amazing Mu*.

Despite the books being overpriced, the setting isn't based on "what kind of special you are", like WoD, but more "which scale of the CthulhuTech stuff are you involved in?"

1. There's an entire setting for a Band of Brothers style military campaign, which is currently a losing battle, where humans use soldiers, tanks, and MECHA (including mecha-altered Lovecraftian beasts called Engels) to fight any number of cosmic entity armies, like the Mi-Go, attacking Earth.

2. Then the scale gets smaller. You have the city life, which includes everything from hackers, to private investigators, to prostitutes and police, living within society centers which are constantly at risk of infiltration by the cult of Nyarlothotep. You could effectively film noir this setting, like Sin City, to tell any number of stories, or have characters be drafted/enlisted into #1, the war campaign.

3. Even smaller in scale are the fringe cults (hunted by #2) who use stolen texts of Nyarlothotep to bond with a monster. They become tagers, which are basically overpowered humans who shift into fleshy monsters, and they are constantly at risk of losing themselves to the alien psychology. However, they are actually good guys who risk being hunted and murdered while they fight a shadow war against the ACTUAL cults who are attacking both #1 and #2. The mortality rate for Tagers is so high, you could probably rotate who has an opportunity to play a tager through your player base, avoiding "slots" or "applications" in favor of hard no-consent rules and high risk combat.

[Bobotron]

@Songtress
There are two movies which have pretty good English dubs. The majority of things for it are novels though. The overall premise is that vampires exist, Dracula is their founder and when WW3 happened in the 1990s/2000s, the vampires had squirreled away advanced tech and knowledge and took over the world and made this decadent, high tech society and now they're on the decline.

[ThatGuyThere]

@Ghost
I agree. The mechanics take a bit of getting used to but are kinda fun for a change of pace.
Though you forgot the top scale, the space stuff with the fleet and even more Mi go stuffs to fight. though that part of the setting is less dark then the Earth bound stuff, but I likes it, mostly because I like playing a space fighter pilot. always have since I was a kid and saw Star Wars in the theatre. (the 81 re-release.)