DueceEsMachine
2011-01-10, 12:36 PM
Alright, so I have had a solo-game going for a while that has stalled out due to my severe lack of creativity, and I thought it would be worth a shot to come on here and ask for help, since there has to be someone with some other cool ideas.
For the sake of this being an introductory post, I'm going to try my best to keep this short and sweet, since it could very well get too long to read...
The story so far:
Dani, the player character, was part of a settler family on a small planet, the entire settlement funded by the Horizon corporation.
The settlers had 20 years land arrangements. Pretty basic rundown - you stake your claim, stay there and keep it safe and productive for 20 years, and the land becomes yours legally. The corporation maintains shipping rights, ect, but in the end, everyone wins. Or at least, they should.
So, Dani has a nice family, moms a cop, dad's a farmer. Brothers, sisters, ect - even has a couple friends, Bertrem and Hale. Pretty nice gig. The catch? Mom and dad were former Alliance soldiers, both Biotics, and Dani's showing distinct potential herself.
So, just before her 18th birthday, Bertrem ships off to join the Alliance military, she's getting her standardized tests done, ect, and then one night, all hell breaks loose.
Anyone remember Warlord Darius from ME1? Yeah, I'm using him as the leader of a group of raiders that attack Waypoint and start rounding people up as slaves, and land a metric crap-ton of mining equipment in Dani's backyard.
Unfortunately for our little Dani, there's a huge deposit of element zero under their land, and Darius wants it for his own.
So does Horizon, who hired the raiders to attack (one of the clauses in the settler contract was to maintain a safe, stable settlement. obviously void if they can't defend against attack, thereby reverting ownership to the corporation, who gets that juicy deposit).
So, the parental units (being crazy prepared) have a safe-room in the basement where they hide the kids, and try to defend their property, and by the time the dust clears, Dani has managed to get herself, her siblings and her friend Hale off-planet, and onto an Alliance Dreadnaught where Bertrem is stationed. So, they're safe.
Alliance goes in, saves the day... kinda. And everything returns to normal. Except that the corporation takes control of Waypoint and relocates the remaining settlers, burying the whole thing in paperwork as they set to work to clean out the Eezo.
So, Dani decides that she's going to track down whoever was responsible and after getting her siblings setup with a great-aunt who lives on Mars, hops the first passenger shuttle heading for the Terminus, with every intention of joining with Mercs to make some Cred and get started.
Of course, nothing is ever that simple, and one foiled pirate attack later, Dani finds herself having saved the passenger ship, and aboard a merc Ship, the CMV: Fjord.
Now, I've got the Pilot, a batarian (Burt), the Captain, Nef (Asari Vangaurd) and A Turian exile soldier, Pellius as the NPCs, as well as a crazy russian-speaking quarian Mechanic as the crew.
Onto other things: So, I guess what I really need is help thinking up cool ideas for low-level encounters, things that could be happening as story-filler until she gets a little higher level. She's at level 3 now.
I've never been amazingly good with future games, and this one is no exception. As far as working in why the characters would do certain things, I can come up with that, but I'm just drawing a complete blank as to what to do next.
I've got a good idea of where the story as a whole is going to go, but just need some help coming up with smaller steps for the character. I guess another important thing to mention - her parents were both Purifiers, using the Dark Heart of Space variant, and she has both their sacred blades, though no idea yet as to what they are....
Well, beleive me, that's the short version. I've got 13 pages written up for this, but I just need some help coming up with different smaller things I can do...
so, any thoughts? Please?
For the sake of this being an introductory post, I'm going to try my best to keep this short and sweet, since it could very well get too long to read...
The story so far:
Dani, the player character, was part of a settler family on a small planet, the entire settlement funded by the Horizon corporation.
The settlers had 20 years land arrangements. Pretty basic rundown - you stake your claim, stay there and keep it safe and productive for 20 years, and the land becomes yours legally. The corporation maintains shipping rights, ect, but in the end, everyone wins. Or at least, they should.
So, Dani has a nice family, moms a cop, dad's a farmer. Brothers, sisters, ect - even has a couple friends, Bertrem and Hale. Pretty nice gig. The catch? Mom and dad were former Alliance soldiers, both Biotics, and Dani's showing distinct potential herself.
So, just before her 18th birthday, Bertrem ships off to join the Alliance military, she's getting her standardized tests done, ect, and then one night, all hell breaks loose.
Anyone remember Warlord Darius from ME1? Yeah, I'm using him as the leader of a group of raiders that attack Waypoint and start rounding people up as slaves, and land a metric crap-ton of mining equipment in Dani's backyard.
Unfortunately for our little Dani, there's a huge deposit of element zero under their land, and Darius wants it for his own.
So does Horizon, who hired the raiders to attack (one of the clauses in the settler contract was to maintain a safe, stable settlement. obviously void if they can't defend against attack, thereby reverting ownership to the corporation, who gets that juicy deposit).
So, the parental units (being crazy prepared) have a safe-room in the basement where they hide the kids, and try to defend their property, and by the time the dust clears, Dani has managed to get herself, her siblings and her friend Hale off-planet, and onto an Alliance Dreadnaught where Bertrem is stationed. So, they're safe.
Alliance goes in, saves the day... kinda. And everything returns to normal. Except that the corporation takes control of Waypoint and relocates the remaining settlers, burying the whole thing in paperwork as they set to work to clean out the Eezo.
So, Dani decides that she's going to track down whoever was responsible and after getting her siblings setup with a great-aunt who lives on Mars, hops the first passenger shuttle heading for the Terminus, with every intention of joining with Mercs to make some Cred and get started.
Of course, nothing is ever that simple, and one foiled pirate attack later, Dani finds herself having saved the passenger ship, and aboard a merc Ship, the CMV: Fjord.
Now, I've got the Pilot, a batarian (Burt), the Captain, Nef (Asari Vangaurd) and A Turian exile soldier, Pellius as the NPCs, as well as a crazy russian-speaking quarian Mechanic as the crew.
Onto other things: So, I guess what I really need is help thinking up cool ideas for low-level encounters, things that could be happening as story-filler until she gets a little higher level. She's at level 3 now.
I've never been amazingly good with future games, and this one is no exception. As far as working in why the characters would do certain things, I can come up with that, but I'm just drawing a complete blank as to what to do next.
I've got a good idea of where the story as a whole is going to go, but just need some help coming up with smaller steps for the character. I guess another important thing to mention - her parents were both Purifiers, using the Dark Heart of Space variant, and she has both their sacred blades, though no idea yet as to what they are....
Well, beleive me, that's the short version. I've got 13 pages written up for this, but I just need some help coming up with different smaller things I can do...
so, any thoughts? Please?