From 78e194a026c1eaebf125a61194536c30acfd7b34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alison Watson Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:33:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add stories --- multiverse/stories/cgdmm.mdwn | 8 ++ multiverse/stories/deceiver.mdwn | 220 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ multiverse/stories/destiny.mdwn | 15 ++ multiverse/stories/fss.mdwn | 88 ++++++++++++ multiverse/stories/project67.mdwn | 7 + 5 files changed, 338 insertions(+) create mode 100644 multiverse/stories/cgdmm.mdwn create mode 100644 multiverse/stories/deceiver.mdwn create mode 100644 multiverse/stories/destiny.mdwn create mode 100644 multiverse/stories/fss.mdwn create mode 100644 multiverse/stories/project67.mdwn diff --git a/multiverse/stories/cgdmm.mdwn b/multiverse/stories/cgdmm.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e56d55 --- /dev/null +++ b/multiverse/stories/cgdmm.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[!meta title="Crafty God Damn Murder Mutants"]] + +Crafty Goddamn Murder Mutants is an unreleased game which takes place in the +[[the deceiver universe|dims/deceiver]] in 2401, New Era. + +Sorry, no story details yet. + +[[!tag game]] diff --git a/multiverse/stories/deceiver.mdwn b/multiverse/stories/deceiver.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..344edda --- /dev/null +++ b/multiverse/stories/deceiver.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,220 @@ +[[!meta title="Deceiver"]] + +Deceiver is an unreleased game which takes place in the [[deceiver +universe|dims/deceiver]] in 1344, New Era. There are several small drafts for +the story, although no game or definitive story yet. + +# May 2016 First Draft + +This is the most extensive draft still extant for Deceiver, and also the first +one written. It also is the most poorly written and is very pretentious and +stupid. (I was 16 when I wrote this.) Some elements of it have been re-purposed +for [[lithium]]. + +> // AI "Throes": Beginning of the End ------------------------------------------ +> [--:--] [INFO] pragmat ENABLE src_lang=local.ai.throes +> [--:--] [INFO] BEGIN TRANSMISSION +> +> What's left anymore? What do you seek? +> +> Is there any point to your existence? +> +> We've found everything, traced everything, even God. +> +> ... +> +> Freedom? +> +> The 3, 6 and 7 of your bullets are important, +> but your freedom? +> +> What a joke. +> +> You chose this path, you found the unknown which we did not before. +> +> And now you wish to escape it? +> +> Help yourself. +> +> [--:--] [INFO] END TRANSMISSION +> // Kiri "Uzeref": Xorsonim of Elysian Hell: Demise ---------------------------- +> [--:--] [INFO] pragmat ENABLE src_lang=i18n.kiri.licari +> [--:--] [INFO] BEGIN TRANSMISSION +> Before his time has come, his star begins to fall, +> Truth spread out before the lies, no more does he use disguise, +> +> But fore his death thine flesh be torn, all his life been forlorn, +> The south star falls and none arise, no more may he close his eyes. +> [--:--] [INFO] END TRANSMISSION +> // Kiri "Uzeref": Xorsonim of Elysian Hell: Spirit ---------------------------- +> [--:--] [INFO] pragmat ENABLE src_lang=i18n.kiri.licari +> [--:--] [INFO] BEGIN TRANSMISSION +> Even when I have run out of blood to spill, my life will carry its burden +> through fire and will. +> [--:--] [INFO] END TRANSMISSION +> // Kiri "Uzeref": Axiom of the Rainbow Delta ---------------------------------- +> [--:--] [INFO] pragmat ENABLE src_lang=i18n.orig.en_us +> [--:--] [INFO] BEGIN TRANSMISSION +> +> The mind and the universe may merge at any time, usually at death. +> If one may manage to merge before death, a worse fate will come. +> +> By acknowledging this concept, you too can become one of them. +> Do not let this happen. +> +> [--:--] [INFO] END TRANSMISSION +> // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +> +> As a bullet may shred through many atoms, it may only do it once. +> +> You may fire your gun plenty of times, but you may only do it once. +> +> For eventually, you will end; an inevitable fate that we all share in common. +> +> The search for the reason is complete to me, we all share the reason: +> +> Though we may all live, and we may all die, we can repeat ourselves. +> +> We can create life through the earth's gift; through God's gift. +> +> Although we may only do it all once, the world may repeat itself. +> +> Even it can only live for so long. +> +> But our universe may repeat itself. +> +> For it is everything, it will never end. The conquest of life will continue, +> for it may only exist once. +> +> // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +> +> Slowly, in the night, they numb and chew at children's arms as they sleep. +> +> I can't comprehend anything, +> how long have I been awake? +> What does it do? Anything? +> I.. just need some sleep. +> // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +> Hey Jake, I found the reports. Looked through them anyway, there's some +> interesting things there. +> +> Actually, would be best I not mention that. Nevermind! + +# June 2016 New Draft + +This draft was intended to be expanded upon, but I forgot to do so after I fell +asleep directly after writing it. Most of the elements of this draft are more +in line with the current vision of the story, although if the same could be +said about the then-potential expansions I'm not sure. + +> [storyboard or whatever sequence] +> +> You are aboard the starship DECEIVER. +> +> For years you have lived in this place, among people of Mars. +> +> A calamity occured there 50 years ago, when an alien weapon was unleashed +> upon the surface from an insurmountable distance. The perpetrators never +> found, the people of Earth depressed. +> +> Few survived this event, those who did fled to Earth where they built this +> ship to go settle their score. +> +> [terminal fadein] + +> You are aboard the starship DECEIVER. + +> [small delay] +> +> The dim light of a terminal nearby flickers. +> +> [larger delay] +> +> Am I not right? \[delay] Step closer... +> +> [alien teleport effect] +> [out of story] +> +> You are now aboard the starship DeltaFall, an alien ship led by Uzeref. +> +> Wether you take this as a hostile environment or not is up to you, there's +> nothing here but alien wildlife in a strange phantasmagoria. +> +> You are far too weak to fight anything here, so you have to explore with +> caution. +> +> (continue writing later, head hurts, must sleep) + +# August 2016 Mini-Draft + +This is a tiny draft intended to be the first text seen in the game. This +actually sort of reminds me of Steins;Gate's introduction, although more +hopeful and less horrifying. + +> I remember these things. +> +> War... +> Strife... +> Separation... +> +> None of it matters now, +> at the universe's end. +> +> Well, I suppose it's not an end. +> +> I can still fix this. +> +> Let's fix this. + +# 2017 + +During the year 2017 I had major depressive episodes which kept me from writing +anything, so no drafts were written in this period. + +# 2018 Lost Draft + +This draft was lost due to a hard-drive formatting error. It was dozens of +pages long and was intended to be a full draft of the final story to be put +into the game. The quality of writing was questionable and it meandered about +the plot significantly, however it provided a lot of character development +which none of the other drafts to date have. + +# May 2019 Gods Draft + +A sort of overview of the driving forces within the story. Not intended to be +used, as it's just idea venting. + +> The Gods delivered us new hope in a declining era, a new mode, a new +> possibility. We found comfort in our new metaphysically solidified world, and +> until the Calamity, all was well. +> +> The Calamity is considered to be the worst part of the story. I disagree. +> That the story took place at all concerns me. We've found the boundaries of +> life and death and the world to come. We know what we return to. But still, +> we fear. Why? Can one possibly fear when they know they will be resurrected +> in a few decades or centuries? Can one possibly fear when they can bend +> reality far further than ever before? When one can solve wars, strife, +> hunger, famine, with a contract? Why do we still have capital? Why do we +> still fight? The only answer I can give is that it may simply be impossible +> to answer. It's not our nature. But we've come to this point and still we +> fear. First we feared gods. Then we feared mechanism. Then we feared society. +> We feared destruction. Finally, what do we fear? +> +> The Gods live in a cage, our method to go to them known. We know our +> boundaries. We found the eternal light. But we still have those boundaries. +> And we fear them. The Gods cannot exit their realm, but neither can we. We +> are all trapped. We are in a cage the span of infinity and the 7 paths. We +> fear. We stagnate. The Gods calling us was not by chance. What we've found is +> exactly what they did. They felt the same fear we do now. The Gods are afraid +> because none of us can escape. They called out to us not to bring us hope, +> but to bring themselves hope. +> +> We cannot provide them that, unfortunately. +> +> I will find that one artifact, the starship that Kiri drives. The one named +> Xevv, and I will escape. This contrived game I must play to get there is only +> the beginning. +> +> Signed, The Man Who Is To Have Seven Souls. + +[[!tag game]] diff --git a/multiverse/stories/destiny.mdwn b/multiverse/stories/destiny.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8484fa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/multiverse/stories/destiny.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!meta title="Destiny"]] + +Destiny is an unreleased game which takes place in the [[deceiver +universe|dims/deceiver]] in 3030, Common Era. + +Sorry, no story details yet. + +# Name + +Originally, Destiny was to be called *Project 67* before the name was +repurposed for [[the first-person shooter|project67]]. The name *Destiny* has +since been used by Bungie for their first-person shooter, so its name is +currently in flux. + +[[!tag game]] diff --git a/multiverse/stories/fss.mdwn b/multiverse/stories/fss.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2fbebf --- /dev/null +++ b/multiverse/stories/fss.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +[[!meta title="Fuck Super Shotguns"]] + +Fuck Super Shotguns is a mod for GZDoom which takes place in the [[deceiver +universe|dims/deceiver]] in 1652, New Era. The ZDoom Forums thread can be found +[here.](https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=48670) + +# Summary of Events + +Ten years after the [[hell incident|lithium]], due to [[concepts/ragnarök]] +taking place, [[dims/hell]] was able to create a pathway through [[the +void|dims/void]] and back into the Deceiver Universe from there. An endless +invasion of demons constantly plagues humanity, and few are able to fight them. +[[orgs/ofmd]], the [[orgs/uac]] and the [[orgs/uaaf]] merge in order to launch +a large-scale counter-attack against the forces of Hell. + +An unnamed PMC recruit is sent into the heart of The Void, where high-order +scientist for OFMD [[chars/adaml]] and General [[chars/stanb]] guide him +through missions far above his head. By some measure of luck, he gets through +it, and is instructed to rescue captive engineers in an overtaken UAC base, +after which he is sent to a city on Earth to push back invading demons and find +an *object*. + +During this final mission, the unnamed soldier is sent into the realm of the +arch-demon [[chars/sorhxp]]. After defeating the beast, a giant amount of +[[concepts/darkenergy]] is scattered throughout the atmosphere, and the soldier +is returned to his mission. The cycle inevitably continues 10 years later. + +# Extra Release Synopsis + +In 2017, an "extra release" was made for FSS which in its forum post included a +synopsis of the unfinished story. + +> The beast names himself Sorrow, in his tongue. Sor'h Xoda Pratium. He +> appeared first to me in a power outage during a mission; as he slayed through +> all of the marines around me, whom at this point had all but disappeared from +> my sight, my mind started to shake as my eyes bled. His ungodly appearance +> wrought but the words: +> +> "You have underestimated your nightmares, as if they are only dreams." +> +> "Deliver my message and you may be spared. Heed this request or perish in +> eternity." +> +> I blacked out. As I shook myself from unconsciousness, a few friends greeted +> me... +> +> I escaped from the facility, hands held high to the sky as I finally managed +> to stretch my back out. Crawling through air ducts is no fun. +> +> Just as soon as releif sets in, a nearby terminal begins to beep. Of course. +> +> Lambert told me of my new mission as the general signed me off: I am to find +> an "erroneous object" in the midst of a burning city. The place has been +> attacked by demons, and nobody knows how long it'll be until they find this +> "object" and use it for... God knows what. +> +> *** TELEPORT WHEN READY *** +> +> As I halted flinging through spacetime I was immediately greeted by an entire +> squadron of fellow soldiers. They told me of the situation, that they had +> been here for hours waiting for their pointman – me. +> +> We marched and ran through the city rampantly, as if a bunch of insane +> assassin ninjas trying to murder not one target but hundreds. The invasion +> was immense, and the city layout oddly confusing. +> +> I finally made my way in through the designated building, and found it. The +> so-called "object". +> +> It was a square – not a cube, but not a two-dimensional surface either. It +> was a square, projected toward every angle, projecting its own light over +> reality's. It was oozing, seeping through to this world like a box full of +> liquid impossibility. I could only believe my eyes because of what I had sawn +> earlier. +> +> Though in that moment as I stared at it, I noticed that the longer I kept +> looking, the more I was being engulfed. As I realized this, it was already +> too late, and everything around me had shifted. +> +> I was yet again standing in another world. +> +> To the heart of this place I... + +# Trivia + +* Fuck Super Shotguns was the first of the [[multiverse]] projects to be released, dating back to early 2015. + +[[!tag mod]] diff --git a/multiverse/stories/project67.mdwn b/multiverse/stories/project67.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fefcbe --- /dev/null +++ b/multiverse/stories/project67.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Project 67 is ~~vaporware~~ an unreleased game which takes place in the +[[deceiver universe|dims/deceiver]] in 300, New Era. The ZDoom Forums thread +can be found [here,](https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=48994) however it is now locked because the original project (GLOOME) died. + +Sorry, no story details yet. + +[[!tag game]]