November 20, 2010

• Mind Games

  For almost all my life I have had various different imagined worlds that I spend many hours inhabiting depending on my mood or the situation.

  Usually I’ll have maybe 2 or 3 on the go, at the moment I have 3 major ones which are:

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  First and longest running is a Fantasy Medieval world with magic and monsters where a character very similar to me but not the same (I’m never sure just how much impact the regular visualization of these things would effect me if it were me in them) is brought through from ‘this’ world to the fantasy world to come to the aid of a hero (who is of course a beautiful woman) The woman is a hero with a quest and heroic party who are just about to depart on a grand adventure, an adventure that the woman’s father a very famous hero died trying to complete.

  So her and her brother are going to take up the quest of their father and complete it in his name, but this is a big task as their father and mother where great adventurers and they are comparatively inexperienced.

  But that’s all just the long setup. This Story has gone on for ages and there are several detailed characters with history and various flaws and abilities, I’ve so far completed the first quest and been on at least two follow on quests, of course the heroine and the summoned character have fallen in love and there have been various tribulations.

  But the main plan for this MindGame was to do it as slowly as possible and imagine every detail even mundane ones like walking, I sort of have stuck with that but not religiously.
  This one I usually only do when I don’t have other distractions and I can really put some attention on it, or when I’m going to sleep.

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  The next one is a Sci-fi story set on the Black Stone Space Salvage Station:
  It’s a pretty standard Firefly sort of feeling space drama with a small group of characters 6 in total and charts various events and interactions.

  In this there’s no-one similar to me, in fact the main character (not that there really is one) is a woman.
  This Game is quite different from others that I’ve done in that it’s very dream like and stylised and really only works if I’m listening to music, which is pretty much the only time I do it.

  When it dose go thought it’s really quite good and flows really well. The theme of the world is loneliness and trust between a small group.
  It also has some long running intrigue as one character has some kind of alien technology that basically makes him a god which he is hiding from the government.

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  And the third is a slightly sci-fi (mostly alternate reality)  post-apocalyptic story:
  In this world the entire environment has been devastated by chemicals produced by rampant over production by super corporations, and as they grew bigger and less and less resources were available they began to fight each other, and now there are only two left.
  The world is dead everything is covered with various harmful chemicals, it rains acid, the rivers flow with acid. And worst of all the companies have re-animated corpses with cyborg implants to create zombie soldiers to fill out the dwindling human ranks, these creatures now swarm the world and are barely controlled they will attack anything (but do have vague sides) and can transform humans into more of themselves (they are just a sci-fi zombie basically).
  In this world communication is hard and not very long range so they use message runners who are pretty much unaffiliated with the war because they struggle enough with the day to day living in the wastes, but they do have sides and are very careful when venturing between lines, they are often blamed for spying and can be targets for both sides.

  The characters in the game are two of the runners a man and a woman who are from different sides and meet while delivering a rare and unusual message between the two corporations.

  The story is that a meteorite is going to hit the ea rth and kill everyone so the two corporations decide to work together to use some of the last remaining technology powerful enough to launch something at it and deflect it (or something not got to that bit yet)
  The action follows these two runners as they first of all meet then deliver the message and then follow and guide one of the corporations to meet up and save the world!

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  Well that’s all of the detailed ones I’ve currently got going, not sure why I’ve written them all out I suppose that’s the most interesting thing I could think of sharing lol

  Anyone else do this sort of thing in their spare time? Or do other people actually have real lives?

   

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