GRAVEYARD of UNFINISHED PROJECTS

I urge you not to mourn these ideas. Although unfinished, the ideas themselves brought joy, did they not? And, AND! Given a miracle, a project may be ressurrected. Do not lose hope.

Larps

• Snallycaster: Awaiting Calamity
  • LARP about accepting inevitable death. Takes place on the S.S. Snallygaster (or Gallywacker), a starship on a mission to find new life. Ship will crash into the surface of Xenarth at the end of the LARP. Attempts to avoid this are futile, but encouraged.
  • Alternative title ideas: "RAW UNFILTERED CLOWN MILK", "Pathetic and Fictitous Urgency"
  • HPC: Thought Owner. As a participant in such a venture, you gave up access to all privacy.
• Codename Dinkus

  • Living in the country is good. The year is 2020, but not really. That’s simply the year we are aiming to create.

    There are apples now. We haven’t been able to get the color right, or the taste, but they are non-toxic and almost nutritious to humans. From apples, other fruit should be easy to develop.

    You are employees of the Allogator. The Allogator wishes to build a society that approximates human life before the change. You all work on projects that will help achieve that dream. The humans deserve this. It’s your fault that this happened. Well, not you personally, but the collective you.

    Today is May 18th. Due to an act of sabotage, 85% of all systems are down. Security is at an all time low. The experiments are loose. There is a leakage of oxygen. Cloaking is down, the institute may be visible to humans. Both your lives and everything you have worked for is in jeopardy.

  • 10 or less human players, quarantined in different rooms throughout an underground facility. Each player has different crises to deal with in their situation, and require the assistance and expertise of the other players to overcome their crisis.

  • Players communicate and interact with their terminal via Discord. The game will be more mechanics heavy than most LARPs, and even has what can be considered “a win condition” for certain players. I anticipate about half of the human players will die by the end of the game. Negotiation with other players is essential for your survival.

Games

• Sacred Vigor

• Game about giving up gameplay elements; start off with many powers, but slowly choose to give up abilities
• Character does not speak the language of NPCs; you make choices, but the choices merely change how your character understands the plot, not what actually happens. “Why would you think it could understand us?”
• Player continually prompted to speak, but the mask is in the way. Taking it off leads to game over instantly.
• Demeaning and passive-aggressive narration
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Writing

• On the Wires
  • Short story about a man who underwent an operation to become a more efficient employee. However, this destroyed/altered his personality greatly. The man methodically follows instructions secretly left by his former self to him on how to live his life, with mixed results.
  • (slightly edited) excerpt: "I have two contradictory instructions. I must 'do things with my friends', but also 'treat them kindly'. My friends are all uncomfortable around me now, so the kind thing to do is to avoid them, but I must engage in activities with them nevertheless. My solution is as follows. I “coincidentally” arrive at the grocery distribution center at the same time as my friends. I ensure that they do not notice me, while I retrieve my own groceries. Therefore, we are technically doing things together. I have all of my friend’s schedules memorized such that these happenstances can be regularly orchestrated. I am aware of how pointless this is, but I cannot disobey my directive."
  • I have no idea how to end this story, could maybe clean up what I have and convert it to some okay microfiction...

• The Machine
  • Short story about an isolated rabbit scavenger (Cloud) who builds robots, who encounters two foxfolk who help her to trust people again.
  • Wrote a bunch of VERY BORING pages. This story probably was more suited to being a cartoon than a text story.

• Werewolves in the Wereworld
  • Steampunk werewolf heist!! I wrote out a couple of pages in the middle of the story that were fun but I never went back to it
  • “Ha ha… yeah. Anyway, I’ve been doing my job, sweeping floors, cleaning, playing the fool as always, but of course there’s opportunities there, and I figure, hey, they won’t mind a few doses going missing here and there. Deviled G’s, J-Mos, that sort of thing. And I’ve got a lotta friends who’d like that sorta stuff, enemies too, and I like making enemies into friends or at least into people that don’t wanna kill me as much so-- you know Big Rufus, after I schmucked up his operation in Eastside, he made a deal with me, well mostly made me make a deal, deal implies there was a choice-”

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• Sublime soup lime