Utterly Mad

Alright so as it turns out, I'm more in the mood to write a cyberpunk-theme'd revenge story then I am about another post nuclear wasteland.

And the first draft was going great until I reread it and thought about it. The first opening chapters honestly felt like there's a missing chapter explaining the motivations behind everything, why the characters are like what they are, and why certain names are so important in the grand scheme of things. It maybe because I didn't even have the basic plotted netted out vaguely for me to build and create off of.

I also ended up characterizing the environment more then I did the characters. Painting Detroit as a constantly dark city, drenched in both rain and neon. With dimly lit buildings, large towers that take up entire city blocks, and clubs that soak in all forms of vices. And with the descriptions I'm using in the draft, The Tide has turned out to be a pretty good pick for the name (not because its based off the RP of the same name.).

So yeah, I'm rewriting most of the beginning chapters, adding more in, subtracting some, making the motivations actually make sense (I was reading it, and it does make sense in some context, but not entirely.) But the first "act" if you could call it that, ends with a bang. And after that it goes to Hawaii.

Basically it takes the story of the RP, and does all the things I wanted to do with it. Minus the group of trenchcoated agents shooting up the place, now its [REDACTED].