Another month, another time, another poll to determine the infinite dance of death that Notepad must jig to. There are EIGHT potential options this time around and of the top FOUR will be selected to enact glorious SPRUG upon. Which sounds like a sex act the more I read it, but screw it, we're doing it live.
The Poll will run through the 18th of December. A bit longer, but holidays are holidays.
There's something appealing about stellar dogfights, zipping through the air at mach 10 as you detonate an enemy fighter in 3-Diemensional Space Warfare. Hell, I loved the carrier fights in Star Wars Battlefront, which someone purchasing me Star Wars Squadrons had absolutely NO influence over this (it completely did). "But Notepad, you already have a dogfighting game!" You're right! But that's diceless, and I want to do something different this time.
Reading "Red Markets" prompted me to learn more about the term, which is actually the vaguely (il)legal market of organs in the world. Noting it down, I took a moment and realized it could be fun in a weird way. The game is mostly a justification for a -weirdly detailed- medical system as you extra organs from a creature of your choice. The "Lore" is currently between a Meatpunk Nightmare Extravaganza and a weirdly comedic grisly corporate nightmare future. Perhaps both!
Death has permeated the land and from its rotting corpse, many seek to plunder its riches and ancient vaults of treasures. But -Death- is a very real thing, and those of mortal composition find themselves rotting away within a day, becoming nothing but dust before they see the glimmering gold they desire. The improvised way is simple, a bond between the would be fools, binding their life force together in a bid to keep -Death- at bay. A band of hopefuls now set upon the darkness of this land, to get rich, or die trying. The gimmick is that everyone shares an HP bar. That's it.
With the Endless series currently getting shot behind the barn, I think it's a perfect time to revisit the TTRPG that was the entire series placed in a single game. At once. Generally it's going to be a massive "Clean, Fix, and Tweak" versus a full overhaul kind of Redux. All of the parts are still in place, it's just making sure those parts are displayed better. Hell, I may even reach out to Amplitude to get their blessing. Or just rename it to Precursor Horizons or something, giving a big wink to the whole mess.
Mechs got faster, deadlier, and more lethal to the pilots inside of them. But speed's always necessary out on the rim and the slowest one dies the fastest. Many PMCs decided on the logical conclusion, dead pilots. Methuselah's are in a purgatory, living in a digital dream as their corpse is loaded into a full metal mecha to move as fast as physically possible to complete the mission. All the benefits of the processing power of a human brain with none of the downsides (outside being dead). It's mostly a justification to "redux" an even older game called Granbelm: Dancing in the Midnight Realm as that franchise is dead and nothing ever will happen with it again. Zamn.
I'm going to admit this right now, it's going to be a Dragon Ball Z game, except everyone is a Saiyan. There's nothing more complicated than that. I realized an Initiatiive System from a mediocre game was perfect for this and it clicked. The goal would be to create a system for those rapid exchanges as someone gets wombo-comboed, only to immediately retaliate with an weird named beam attack.
An older game at this point, DC&OT was one where the focus shifted midway through development. Rather than being "You're part of the Elder Horror Cult," it shifted into "You're part of a Cult who thinks they're summoning an Elder Horror." A small, but crucial difference that mused on (but never really expanded on) the nuance of being part of a cult and those who get brought into it. With a bit more of a focus behind it, I'm confident The Final Sacrifice can be the cult nightmare it always needed to be.
Commander, the Pilots are loaded and ready, the Angel has landed and is advancing. What are your orders?
In Neon Genesis Evangelion: The White Book and Neon Genesis Evangelion (MAGIUS), there is a detailed section about "Leading Up" to the conflict with the likes of Misato, Ritsuko, and Co. Of course, you would then take control of our wayward pilots. But, what if . . . you didn't. The final ultimate nightmare of the Adeptus Evangelion team. I'm making no promises that this will be finished, hell, I don't even know what this monster will even BE. But whatever happens it WILL exist and I WILL live with the consequences.
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