Shinko's 2017 NaNo - Hero City Prequel
Oct 16, 2017 7:28:29 GMT -5
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Post by Shinko on Oct 16, 2017 7:28:29 GMT -5
So I had a four-year streak of NaNo wins going from 2011-2014, but that streak was broken when I decided not to participate in 2015 or 2016 for life-being-a-jerk reasons. Said jerky life-ness has finally resolved, however, and I'm itching to get back on the wagon. I've had a creative block for non-collaborative writing that's lasted entirely way too long (like, close to two years long) and I'm hoping the old self-discipline of NaNo will finally snap me out of it.
So! Given the aforementioned block that has refused to go away for ages and this being my first NaNo in a long while, I've decided to ease into the shallow end of the pool by playing in a familiar narrative sandbox. This sandbox being, as some of you will have guessed from the thread title or seen in my other thread last week, the city where my superhero forum game took place last year: Heraclia. Home of a superhero reality show where metahumans (and a few lucky others) compete against each other to exact the most justice and dispatch the most evil for a fabulous cash prize.
I'll be setting my story nineteen years before the events of Hero City, when the network CEO Bill Sinclair was still just another hero in the cast, Dossier Dame wasn't yet breaking records for longest consecutive active seasons, and mihtium was still just a mystery element kept in a closed-door government facility whose potential had yet to be discovered. That said, the tone is going to be pretty different where the heroes are concerned. In the main Hero City game most of them weren't all that concerned about the competition or the prize, instead opting to prioritize cooperation and the public safety. Towards the end of the game, however, it was revealed in a flashback that things weren't always like that. Before Sinclair became the network CEO and reformed the recruitment policies and training standards, the heroes functioned less like the Justice League and more like the Big Brother house. They formed temporary alliances only to later backstab, showboated in ways that could cost an arrest, and even paid off some of the villains to stage impressive looking fights just for more points regardless of the collateral damage. Not all of the heroes were corrupt, of course, but enough were to make everything several notches harder for everybody than it should've been in a literal Hero City.
Which is of course would be a problem if saaaay, the city came under threat by a highly organized, highly intelligent army of alien invaders. =D Huh, didn't Bill's son Ossie mention aliens at some point? I think Tim noted it was the most highly rated and frequently rerun season of the show. Must've been really interesting, let's we explore that!
Since I have a whole huge roster of heroes I need to fill for the sake of the plot, I have a thread going over on the splatterboard for people to submit design and power ideas to. =3 Just remember, considering the aforementioned "most of the heroes in this are going to be kind of catty and showboaty," don't give your submissions an elaborate backstory or personality that you get really attached to. Not all the submissions will be made jerks of course, but uh. A lot of 'em will at least be pretty self-serving.
\ o / Now then, away to my hole of outlining!
So! Given the aforementioned block that has refused to go away for ages and this being my first NaNo in a long while, I've decided to ease into the shallow end of the pool by playing in a familiar narrative sandbox. This sandbox being, as some of you will have guessed from the thread title or seen in my other thread last week, the city where my superhero forum game took place last year: Heraclia. Home of a superhero reality show where metahumans (and a few lucky others) compete against each other to exact the most justice and dispatch the most evil for a fabulous cash prize.
I'll be setting my story nineteen years before the events of Hero City, when the network CEO Bill Sinclair was still just another hero in the cast, Dossier Dame wasn't yet breaking records for longest consecutive active seasons, and mihtium was still just a mystery element kept in a closed-door government facility whose potential had yet to be discovered. That said, the tone is going to be pretty different where the heroes are concerned. In the main Hero City game most of them weren't all that concerned about the competition or the prize, instead opting to prioritize cooperation and the public safety. Towards the end of the game, however, it was revealed in a flashback that things weren't always like that. Before Sinclair became the network CEO and reformed the recruitment policies and training standards, the heroes functioned less like the Justice League and more like the Big Brother house. They formed temporary alliances only to later backstab, showboated in ways that could cost an arrest, and even paid off some of the villains to stage impressive looking fights just for more points regardless of the collateral damage. Not all of the heroes were corrupt, of course, but enough were to make everything several notches harder for everybody than it should've been in a literal Hero City.
Which is of course would be a problem if saaaay, the city came under threat by a highly organized, highly intelligent army of alien invaders. =D Huh, didn't Bill's son Ossie mention aliens at some point? I think Tim noted it was the most highly rated and frequently rerun season of the show. Must've been really interesting, let's we explore that!
Since I have a whole huge roster of heroes I need to fill for the sake of the plot, I have a thread going over on the splatterboard for people to submit design and power ideas to. =3 Just remember, considering the aforementioned "most of the heroes in this are going to be kind of catty and showboaty," don't give your submissions an elaborate backstory or personality that you get really attached to. Not all the submissions will be made jerks of course, but uh. A lot of 'em will at least be pretty self-serving.
\ o / Now then, away to my hole of outlining!
