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Post by The Author on May 13, 2008 21:25:52 GMT -5
Alright, lets get started. If we're going to have a real w00tness RPG, we're gonna need to flesh out the w00tniverse. SO!
You people have questions, and inside my genius cracked and somewhat vacant mind, I have answers. SO BRING IT ON!
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Post by The Author on May 14, 2008 1:23:36 GMT -5
Ok, so the first question was actually from the other thread: 'Ey Duo, what year is it? w00twise I mean. And the answer I gave there was... kind of a cop out. Yes, time flows at just the right speed to fill plot holes, but that doesn't exactly tell you anything, now does it? I've given it some thought, and I figured that I should at least try and give a proper explanation in my typically verbose and slightly uninteresting manner. So, here I go. *aherm* Right. So. To start off, the world of w00tness takes place in the far future. It wasn't always this way. Remember this? Painful, isn't it. Too many words, shitty artwork, but enough about my lack of talent back in the old days. We're talking about now - Right. Where was I? w00tness takes place in the future. The FAR future. However, I don't want to actually nail down a date, because every time you nail down a date for something to happen in the future, it will never happen, and I don't like that, even if it is in such a far future, that none of us would ever be able to see said far future. However, here are the facts: FIRST! The history of the far future is outlined here: sheason.deviantart.com/art/A-History-of-the-Future-79151776And if you want to see how the earth roughly looks, it's right here: sheason.deviantart.com/art/Earth-circa-the-future-79143057The cast of w00tness live somewhere in the middle of Centricity 3, in an apartment building on the top level. But back to the original question: when should this take place? We'll be rough, shall we? A few decades between the invention of FTL craft and the system war, the war itself lasting 20 years, a few more decades between the end of the war and the creation of the Terran Empire, with the Empire being in existence for roughly 400 years or so. How long between now and the development of the Meiji Stardrive? Buggered if I know. |
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Post by knightdisciple on May 14, 2008 21:01:23 GMT -5
First: Ok, so if we're wanting this to be in the same time reference as the w00tness storyline, sounds like it should be somewhere post-war/building of the cities. At that point, it's all pretty relative anyways, right?
Next: Are flying cars/repulsor craft the standard of the world at that point?
Finally: Assuming a post-war/Terran Republic-Empire world, are there any major technologies we should know about, besides FTL drive?
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Post by The Author on May 14, 2008 21:20:15 GMT -5
First: Ok, so if we're wanting this to be in the same time reference as the w00tness storyline, sounds like it should be somewhere post-war/building of the cities. At that point, it's all pretty relative anyways, right? Next: Are flying cars/repulsor craft the standard of the world at that point? Finally: Assuming a post-war/Terran Republic-Empire world, are there any major technologies we should know about, besides FTL drive? 1st question: post war, yeah, but the war's been long gone for hundreds of years now. I just gave you that for history. Yeah, people know about it, but it's as far removed from everyday thought as the American Civil War is. The centricities have been built for a long while. 2nd question: Yes. Most people drive flying cars. Or they just use public transportation. You'd be surprised just how many trains crisscross between the buildings. 3rd question: Major technologies... well, there's been lots of advances in medical science. Most modern day illnesses have been cured... AIDS, Cancer, the common cold, what have you. However, there are lots of alien diseases that have come to earth. Ever hear of Rithelik Multi-pox? Nasty, but theres other technologies are things you'd think of in a far future setting. There's laser and plasma technology, giant robots, replicators (but better than those that exist in Star Trek), no teleporters, holograms, etc. A lot of the really highly advanced stuff is mostly military, but there's other civilian versions that can get ludicrously expensive. Unless you know somebody like Duo, but his technology is WA-A-A-AY beyond the tech level of the Terran Empire. That's something else entirely. |
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Post by knightdisciple on May 14, 2008 21:28:50 GMT -5
How old is Duo?
Also, how old are cast members? Especially the ones in the comic the longest?
Vague ranges are fine.
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Post by The Author on May 14, 2008 22:07:46 GMT -5
How old is Duo? Also, how old are cast members? Especially the ones in the comic the longest? Vague ranges are fine. Duo... Duo is very, very old. At least a few hundred years if not more. Well, how can this be, you ask - isn't he human? Well... yes and no. He's almost human, but not human insofar as almost none of his original parts exist. See what's going on here? That's Duo regrowing an arm. Inside him, he has lots and lots of highly advanced parts - organic adamantite skeletal structure, much more efficient organs, hyperdense muscular structure, etc. Because of this, he's been able to extend his lifespan indefinately Rachel, being an elf, is also very old. Much older than Duo, but still a child by elven standards. Oh, and Rachel isn't her real name, that's just an approximated english version of her elven name, which I still haven't quite figured out yet. Not totally. Duo and Rachel have been together for at least 400 years or so. Moog is likely the oldest being in the apartment (if not the whole damn world) because he is an *coughexiledcough* demon prince. I know he doesn't show it. He's been around the universe for so long, that he just doesn't let anything get to him anymore. He'd rather go through the world without a care and heedless of consequence, because it's more fun that way. Barb is also pretty old - much older than a human, at any rate. However, she's also the youngest of those in the apartment over 100. She's maybe... 200... ish? Parco, Randy, Hoot, Ray, Art, Spitzer, and Jo are all normal humans, however. Ray and Spitzer are the two oldest, being in their early 30's - Ray is an accomplished ninja, and Spitzer is a veteran zombie hunter. Everyone else is likely in their early 20's. Erynn is... odd. Nobody knows how old she is, but that's possibly because I haven't figured out what the Feliade life cycle is like, or how old they can get. Xazz and Venn, being aliens from another world (Ceralians), also have a different age category. They're about roughly 40 earth years old, but to Ceralians, 40 earth years is like 20 to them, physiologically speaking. I think that covers everyone... WAIT! The Little Mage. Yeah. He's... You know, now that I think of it, I don't know how old he is. |
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Post by LE4dGOLEM on May 15, 2008 11:39:53 GMT -5
What's with the UK being in CoE? Was it totally assimilated or do British folk still prefer to consider themselves separate?
Is there anything going on in Antarctica besides science of the same sort of level as IRL today?
What lies between Centricities?
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Post by The Author on May 15, 2008 12:24:57 GMT -5
What's with the UK being in CoE? Was it totally assimilated or do British folk still prefer to consider themselves separate? Is there anything going on in Antarctica besides science of the same sort of level as IRL today? What lies between Centricities? The confederacy is interesting. Every one of the member nations inside the confederacy considers itself separate - the government is just in place for conveniences such as a stable currency and laws and such. However, the English still hate the French, so don't worry. The reason for the confederacy is so that there can be a quasi-modern section of earth, because Europe will not have changed much at all geographically behind the giant energy field. However, because of the semi-autonomous nature of each of the nations, they're still able to set up their own colonies off world - which is exactly where excess people go when the population gets too high. The only real difference between Europe today and in the story is that in w00tness, Old Europe in the confederacy is the home of the ludicrously rich and powerful. Everyone else lives off world. There are a few science stations, but the main feature in Antarctica is the massive structure called The Lighthouse - this serves as traffic control for space travel, air travel, and sea travel all around Earth. Most structures like that on other planets are off the surface, and in geosync orbit around the planet they're monitoring, but those on Earth do like to preserve what little there is left of the past. Between the Centricities is whatever is left on Earth. It may have been hundreds of years since the end of the war, but the scars of that conflict still marr the planet. The places that weren't rendered infertile have been reclaimed by mother nature - a good portion of the surface, however, was and so there's lots of completely uninhabitable desert. Plus, the north pole has never recovered in all that time from the strike that melted much of the ice and rose the sea level. That's why Australia is mostly underwater - the sea level rose CONSIDERABLY. There are a few cities and communities that live outside the walls, some of them pretty big by modern standards, and they're also mostly all self sufficient, but they're all very small compared to the centricities. |
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Post by King of Asmar on May 15, 2008 16:27:16 GMT -5
How much monitoring is there in the desert? Could there be some sort of massive uprising from out there?
Does anything at all live in the desert? Mutants or what have you?
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Post by The Author on May 15, 2008 17:12:38 GMT -5
How much monitoring is there in the desert? Could there be some sort of massive uprising from out there? Does anything at all live in the desert? Mutants or what have you? I would say uprising from who, because the people who live there aren't exiled. They live there by choice. There's nothing keeping them there, except their own free will. As for monitoring, there is what the Empire has called "enough" - they know when the truly weird stuff goes on, and they to help those that get caught in any kind of disaster, just like they would any other citizens. There are many hazards out in the deserts. Mutants that have further mutated through generation and generation are... not as common as you'd might think. But they do exist. Then there's zombies - before the zombies started showing up in the lower levels of the centricities more and more often, zombies would often infect a small town or city out in the middle of, essentially, nowhere. That's where Spitzer got his start - he used to live in one of those towns and was the only survivor. There's also giant precambrian life forms out there - perhaps you've heard of them? They're called Graboids. |
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Post by King of Asmar on May 15, 2008 17:18:09 GMT -5
I was thinking some fringe group that might be able to rouse enough of a following to be an actual threat... but I guess if allt he cities out there are there by choice that would be harder then I would have though.
So the monitoring being 'enough' means if some terrorist group started making their home in the desert and were smart enough not to make it completely obvious their moves would be unseen untill the first attack?
Mmm Graboids... those are fun.
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Post by The Author on May 15, 2008 17:39:03 GMT -5
I was thinking some fringe group that might be able to rouse enough of a following to be an actual threat... but I guess if allt he cities out there are there by choice that would be harder then I would have though. So the monitoring being 'enough' means if some terrorist group started making their home in the desert and were smart enough not to make it completely obvious their moves would be unseen untill the first attack? Mmm Graboids... those are fun. I suppose. They'd have to deal with mutants, zombies, graboids, and who knows what else, though. There's also more scanning than visual, though. The one thing I've tried to do is create a fictional government with the Empire (which isn't really an empire, it's just called that so it won't be disregarded immediately in the astro-political landscape of the galaxy.) that isn't stupid like most modern day governments. |
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Post by King of Asmar on May 15, 2008 18:29:51 GMT -5
Well, yeah, I can see that, but at the same time with such an inhospitable inviroment out there it would probably be the last place they'd be looking for a fring terrorist group that has yet to reveal itself.
If you can't tell where this is going I think the RP is gonna take place in the desert, just a heads up for everyone. It was pretty much sealed in stone when Duo mentioned graboids were out there.
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Post by knightdisciple on May 15, 2008 19:29:43 GMT -5
Another question: is there any tech that Duo doesn't have, or have easily available (i.e., friends, or whip it up quickly in the lab)?
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Post by The Author on May 15, 2008 19:38:24 GMT -5
Another question: is there any tech that Duo doesn't have, or have easily available (i.e., friends, or whip it up quickly in the lab)? Time travel. |
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