This November rather than trying to put 50K into one project I've decided to do a couple of things. One of them is getting words in on an RPG setting. For the final result I'm aiming for something like the old staple bound floppy paper books from the 70/80s or similar sometimes perfect bound books from the early 2000s indie/small press RPG boom. Mostly print, two columns of text on an 8.5x11" page, in the 64-128 page range (aiming for the low end but well see). Inspired some by GURPS worldbooks in that it will be mostly description of the setting with only a small fraction of the space given over to anything system specific (for which I'm leaning towards FATE since it's a fairly descriptive system).

For the setting... I'm reaching back to two entries I made for the second 30 Days of Flashfic: Day 6 Write a Pitch For a Final Fantasy Styled RPG and the second half of Day 11 Movie Trailer Style. That setting being the Magical Girl Apocalypse, an alternate Earth which was invaded by magic wielding youngsters from a fantasy world. Aerth was in it's own version of the 50s (or maybe early 60s) when portals opened up and the invaders came through. Their parents had completed taking over the fantasy world and were starting to worry about potentially ambitious heirs who might not want to wait to sit on the thrones, so what better solution than to send them out to conquer somewhere else, preferably far enough away to not trouble their parents.

What I'm looking at currently as an outline would be:

* Introduction
* * History of Aerth
* Aerth Before the Invasion
* * The Invasion
* * After the Invasion
* The Magical Girls
* * Who Are They?
* * * Are They All Girls?
* * * What Do They Want? / Are They Evil?
* * Factions
* Post Invasion Aerth
* * Factions of The Resistance
* * Life After the Portals
* * Magic & Technology
* Major Figures & Places
* Creatures of Fantasy
* The Other World

And probably some random tables for generating stuff because random tables are fun.

Think I'm missing anything? Comments? Suggestions? "Hey where have you been?!" pokes (Mastodon mostly) all welcome.

Awake
Fandom/'verse: Original
Prompter: kunama_wolf
Triggers/Warnings: MC stuck in isolated space
Note: Response to kunama_wolf's prompt and not where I originally thought I'd be going with this prompt. I think I'll want to return to this one later...
Words: 554

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Title: Reasons
Fandom/'verse: Random science fiction setting, follows Coup Warning
Summary: Lind meets one of her fellow coup plotters
Prompter: aldersprig's Thimbleful Thursday Prompt for 8 January 2015; Mad As A Hatter
Triggers/Warnings: Set amidst a coup, on screen death
Note: Trying something new, going to see if I can link all five of January's prompts
Words: 440 words (of a target 360-440 words)


"Junior Vice Manager of Security Lind, or should I call you Chairman of the Faeland Colony Corporation Lind now?"

Lind gave him a smile and shook her head, "No, Manager of Headquarters Security and Safety Dimarzo, Vice Chair of Security is sufficient to do my duty. But what about you, does Vice Manager of Security Dimarzo sound good? You were after all one of the first to warn of the corruption." She watched closely and whatever his words she could see the greedy hunger in his eyes.( click here to continue reading )

Title: Ending the Feud
Fandom/'verse: Science fiction
Summary: Jonas McMillan heads home to end a feud, one way or another.
Prompter: aldersprig's Thimbleful Thursday Prompt for 6 November 2014, Red Tape
Triggers/Warnings: None noticed
Note: Barely revised, posting shortly after completing
Words: 550 words (of a target 450-550 words)


"Well as I live and breath, Jonas McMillan has returned to grace us with his presence." Every hint of humor disappeared from Kincaid's voice. "I thought I made it clear you weren't welcome here cousin."

Metron was a minor colony but had enough traffic to provide them with an audience. Around them traders, travelers, and the rest turned to watch Kincaid and his crew face down two men. Jonas glanced around and smiled.( click here to continue reading )

Title: ----- (None currently other than placeholder Noir Style followup)
Fandom/'verse: Original science fiction
Summary: Demifiction - Internal email from colonial fleet intelligence regarding an intelligence asset
Prompter: Three Word Wednesday
Triggers/Warnings: None spotted
Note: Only lightly revised/edited
Words: 567



To: [redacted]
From: [redacted]
Subject: Intelligence resource [redacted]

Agents [redacted] and [redacted] have confirmed that resource [redacted]'s home has been burned. Despite official reports that the fire was accidental, likely started by faulty wiring, agent's investigation showed use( ...continues under the cut )

Title: A Newspaper Article about Carter Price
Fandom/'verse: Original/Science Fiction
Summary: A newspaper article relating to last year's Home At Last
Prompter: Random demifiction prompt made using An Owomoyela's demographics generator
Note: Lightly unedited (with thanks to natalief.livejournal.com for the corrections that have been made)


From: JeevesBot@UniveralClippings.co.us.earth
Subject: Priority keyword match! Westmont Observer

Hello,

The attached article matched the following keywords:
- Westmont (city, location: Colorado)
- Westmont Observer (news source)
! PRIORITY MATCH: Carter Price (name) withing five words of ("found" or "located") and "alive"

Missing Westmont Boy Found!

Westmont, CO – The Westmont police have reported that the State Department and FBI contacted them yesterday in regards to an almost thirty year old cold case. Long time residents will recall the fear that struck Westmont when thirteen year old Carter Price's bike was found abandoned just inside Meadowmar Ranch Park. ( Click here to continue... )

Title: Discrimination
Fandom/'verse: Superhero School (uncertain if it's the same universe as Tonya)
Summary: Rick and friend discover the power of discrimination
Warnings/Triggers: Should be safe, mild expletives.
Word Count: 427
Prompter: A square on my January Prompt Bingo, prompted by dialecticdreamer
Note: Revised from the version posted earlier on deviantArt.



"The power of discrimination? I didn't think people admitted that so casually anymore. Are the wraparound sunglasses the new pointy-hoods?" Rick grinned and laughed at his own joke.

"Not that kind of discrimination dork."

"Then why do you call it that?"

Nolan gazed up at the ceiling counting to ten in his head. "Freshmen, they think they know everything already. For your knowledge powers terminology was developed almost a century ago."( Remainder of scene cut, click here to continue... )

Title: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Fandom/'verse: Science fiction, far future
Summary: Jack and Harry, two kids on a trip far from their home station...
Warnings/Triggers: Some use of expletives
Word Count: 562
Prompter: A square on my January Prompt Bingo triggered an idea


Harry looked up. Clouds. Nothing but clouds and the ribbon that was the far side of the colony ring arcing overhead. Only the knowledge that he'd just checked five minutes ago and five minutes before that kept him from checking his belt for his emergency breathing kit.

"What keeps it in?"

"What?" Jack was squinting at him as if he hadn't been hitting Harry with questions all day.

"The air, their's no roof. How can we still be breathing."
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Post One of my World Building Month project

Setting: The Unnamed/Lost Colony (Setting for the Jayce & Izzy stories, the stories set an undetermined period of time later starting with Hello, and Welcome Back which involves two entirely separate planets)

Faster Than Light Travel and implications thereof in the Unnamed/Lost Colony Setting

Welcome Back opens with the captain of the Williamson's Hope being informed they'll need to make repairs to, "the starboard array," or it will fail the next time they try to make an FTL jump. Clearly this array has been giving them trouble as he's informed that they used up the last of the spare parts the last time they made repairs. Tough luck, but since this is the first FTL ship built by the New Albany colony it's only to be expected that they'll have issues, right? But what's the biggest issue? The Williamson's Hope just isn't big enough. In a followup to Welcome Back which is sitting unfinished one of the locals comments that the Williamson's Hope is smaller than they thought an FTL ship could be built.

( Almost seven hundred words of rambling below this cut... :) )

This is to aldersprig's prompt to my January Bingo Prompt call.

Title: Experimental Subjects
Warnings: mention of human trafficking
Length: 845 words
Genre/Setting: In a world of mad science...


Alfred Stein slowly came back to consciousness strapped to a chair. Strangely it was a few seconds of an unfamiliar bouncy Japanese pop song that coaxed him out of his sleep. A moment later a cell phone chirp and a voice he really hadn't wanted to hear in person both greeted his ears.

"Sara dear, I was just about to start an experiment, can this wait?"( continues below the cut... )