Utterly Mad

Alright so before I get around to writing it, I've been tossing this idea around in my head for a long while. I've started to rewrite more and more of the lore and I kinda wanted to do something that could tie into the RP, but still be independent from it; so obviously that means a story that could be affected by events in the RP.

So before I get into the why's and how's I'll just tell you the premise: It follows a group of merchants that are barely scraping by on the west coast, simple set up that could lead to bigger things. Most of it will be just them dicking around, talking, and occasionally I'll have something happen because its The Highway. I have no planned out plot, I have ideas and arcs for characters, but that's about as far as it goes in terms of anything else.

Why:

-Because my lazy ass won't figure out Gamemaker or Unreal until I figure out what I really want The Highway to be, and even then it probably won't be the first game I produce... or maybe it will be I don't know. I kinda want it to be a CRPG to stick with the forum-RP roots, but I kinda want it to be a action RPG or a sandbox game akin to GTA. But all three of those would require insane amounts of skill, time, and knowledge of programming. I don't want to half-ass anything Highway related if I'm actually going to make it.

-Also I'm not really good at writing characters or dialogue, so consider this my way of trying to improve it.

How:

I will type it out on a keyboard, magic happens, and then it pops up on the thread as a forum post.


So tell me if you'd like to see this come to fruition or not. And any questions you may have.

Doo eet.
We really should get that writing contest going.

Fury road is really good.

I've started writing up a new draft, with characters charted out, trying to figure out what I want the story to be, and some other shit like that.

Uhh... also remember that cyberpunk RP thing where it was going to take place in Hawaii, well I'm also writing a story for that as well. For some reason I really want to write a crimedrama set in a very relaxing, calm, island-like place.

Alright I'm copying- er... taking inspiration from one thing that Fur did, chapter intermissions. You see there's a lot of time spent traveling in The Highway (no sh1te!), so detailing the routes, the surroundings, etc... would get really fucking boring for both the Author and The Reader. And I personally feel that jumping to a location is way too jarring of a transition. So I decided that the time spent in-between chapters, I'll have one, two, all characters thoughts detailed in a sort of a journal entry, or conversation.

It all just really depends on what I'd think would flow better, and all that jazz. So it just really depends, but traveling in-between chapters will be like a mini-chapter. Chapter, chapter, chapter... chapter chapter, chapter... chapter... Fuck now its sounds weird to say.

Anyway, I'm almost done writing the characters (along side the fuckton of lore I need to send to Symbionic Furaotic), I already had them written out before hand, but I'm making a character sheet (of which only I can see in order for the audience to not know what they act like completely). And the first chapter will be a redone, rehash of the chapter it was before I deleted the original Broke Caravan. So expect much better writing, flow, and eventually that'll come out.


So just watch this thread.