Leliel
2008-02-20, 02:21 PM
I have to admit, I can't take full credit for this idea. I got it from a different forum, but I put a new spin on it.
Basically, a governmental organization, using a combo of science and arcana, gradually grant an orca sapience through the alteration of his brain. (Why couldn't they just cast Awaken? 1. Because they couldn't mold the dolphin in their image in a true fashion if he didn't develop naturally (ie, how a human child develops), and 2. The head honcho was a sporting sort, and having a wizard do it would be "cheating".) However, what they failed to consider was that the aquatic mammal would also be highly intelligent once able to utilize his brain to the fullest extent, and that, once reading up on overfishing and other nasty things done to the ocean (not to mention he wasn't exactly treated in the best way), came to hate both his creators and most other landbreathers (his term for those that live on land, since "airbreather" is a bit of a misnomer for a cetacean). You know the drill: Rebelled against his makers, escaped into the wild, now plans to cause the downfall of civllization through doomsday device.
Basically, he plans to drastically raise water levels around the globe, flooding most of it, and severly decreasing the landbreather population. As a result, he belives, the overfishing and pollution will stop. After all, what's the point of fishing for one hundred thousand people if there's only ten? Of course, he can't do this by himself (it's amazing how much of a benefit opposable thumbs are), so he recruits landbreathers sympatheitc to his ideals-"What do you mean, 'hypocritical'? I said I hate most landbreathers."-and in return, gives them something that will help them survive this watery world-aquatic lycanthropy. Of course, not everyone who shares his ideals is willing to work for a misanthropic eco-terrorist who is willing to kill more then one (billion) person(s) to get there, so sometimes he orders his agents to somtimes infect coastal settlements and ships, then approach the likely miserable infectees and convince them to "help them build a world where people like you can prosper". A few of the recently created lycans who have not been approched by the agents yet are the PCs, and so begins a semi-underwater campagin.
So, how do like this idea? What should I do to improve it, if you don't?
Few notes:
1) Of course he's able to fight better than an odinary dolphin (yes, orcas are a type of dolphin). You see, he has a bionic harness with highly manipulatable tenticles on it (think Doc Ock from Spider-Man), that he uses when doing manual labor and when fighting. He can also easily slip them off, so as to do the better "stupid pet of his Dragon (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon) who right now players think is the main villain" act. He's also a psychic. Never increase your super soldier's intelligence without giving him psychic powers.
2) This should not be confused with my other lycanthrope game, which I still plan to run.
"Me? Oh, I'm not telling you to post right now, I'm just a dumb killer whale who happens to be owned by Leiliel...
...
...You know, for an evil genius, I can be pretty stupid somtimes."
Basically, a governmental organization, using a combo of science and arcana, gradually grant an orca sapience through the alteration of his brain. (Why couldn't they just cast Awaken? 1. Because they couldn't mold the dolphin in their image in a true fashion if he didn't develop naturally (ie, how a human child develops), and 2. The head honcho was a sporting sort, and having a wizard do it would be "cheating".) However, what they failed to consider was that the aquatic mammal would also be highly intelligent once able to utilize his brain to the fullest extent, and that, once reading up on overfishing and other nasty things done to the ocean (not to mention he wasn't exactly treated in the best way), came to hate both his creators and most other landbreathers (his term for those that live on land, since "airbreather" is a bit of a misnomer for a cetacean). You know the drill: Rebelled against his makers, escaped into the wild, now plans to cause the downfall of civllization through doomsday device.
Basically, he plans to drastically raise water levels around the globe, flooding most of it, and severly decreasing the landbreather population. As a result, he belives, the overfishing and pollution will stop. After all, what's the point of fishing for one hundred thousand people if there's only ten? Of course, he can't do this by himself (it's amazing how much of a benefit opposable thumbs are), so he recruits landbreathers sympatheitc to his ideals-"What do you mean, 'hypocritical'? I said I hate most landbreathers."-and in return, gives them something that will help them survive this watery world-aquatic lycanthropy. Of course, not everyone who shares his ideals is willing to work for a misanthropic eco-terrorist who is willing to kill more then one (billion) person(s) to get there, so sometimes he orders his agents to somtimes infect coastal settlements and ships, then approach the likely miserable infectees and convince them to "help them build a world where people like you can prosper". A few of the recently created lycans who have not been approched by the agents yet are the PCs, and so begins a semi-underwater campagin.
So, how do like this idea? What should I do to improve it, if you don't?
Few notes:
1) Of course he's able to fight better than an odinary dolphin (yes, orcas are a type of dolphin). You see, he has a bionic harness with highly manipulatable tenticles on it (think Doc Ock from Spider-Man), that he uses when doing manual labor and when fighting. He can also easily slip them off, so as to do the better "stupid pet of his Dragon (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheDragon) who right now players think is the main villain" act. He's also a psychic. Never increase your super soldier's intelligence without giving him psychic powers.
2) This should not be confused with my other lycanthrope game, which I still plan to run.
"Me? Oh, I'm not telling you to post right now, I'm just a dumb killer whale who happens to be owned by Leiliel...
...
...You know, for an evil genius, I can be pretty stupid somtimes."