Post by Unpredictabloo on Jul 28, 2016 13:20:11 GMT -6
A five-minute thing where I was brainstorming and did not allow myself to stop typing for the whole 5 minutes. This is what happened. Unedited because otherwise it would no longer be a five-minute deal.
But yes, trying to figure out plots. Plots. How do plots work again? With actual... events? Scenes? STORYLINES???
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There was once a little hiccup in space that served as a sanctuary for people who had no other place to go. It was a blank expanse of nothing, and it was highly unstable. The small crowd of people who lived there managed to find an “island” in the abyss where the floor was much less likely to fall straight out from under them, and settled down. But the population grew, and it soon became apparent that not only were things crowded, they were quickly losing space — it kept falling away, or pushing against them, getting sucked into the big white void, and so forth. Even though the population was given pretty much everything that they needed to survive and they had no real complaints about the space except for its unpredictability, they decided that a change of lifestyle was at hand.
Enter Cricket, who is very, very willing to risk his life for the sake of stupidity and exploration. He has a habit of falling through roofs and stumbling into doors that were not there only seconds before. In fact, some note, the void almost seems like it.. picks on him, just a bit more than it does others.
One day Cricket falls through a door and into a new world. It is surprisingly ordinary. A coffee shop. He orders a sugary coffee. But he does not know how to get back, and, does not have any money. It is awkward. He steals the coffee and runs down the street — there is so much space! — stumbles into a couple people, makes a scene of himself, and eventually falls straight into a puddle and back into the original void.
This is amazing because he thought they were alone in the world. But there is a new world! And it has wonderful things. Solid ground. Blue-ish grey sky. A reliable atmosphere. And plenty of space. His friends, family, fellow voidians can have a new life — except, he does not know how to get back.
Let’s up the ante. He left something in the other world that is extremely extremely important. It is something that can help save the people. And he was able to access it better than others. And he lost it. In an alternate dimension that he has no idea how to reach.
He needs the help of Lye to get back there — she can sometimes hear frequencies and echoes in the void, it’s how she gets around since she is blind — and he also needs to somehow gain some sort of relationship with the void, which again, for some reason seems to listen to him. I don’t know why he is special. Cricket doesn’t think he is special. I don’t think he is either. It could just as easily have been Lye. But somehow, for some unfair reason, Cricket shares some similarities with the void and can therefore act as a middleman between his world and the other world — ours.
And there is someone who is after that power for the wrong(?) reasons. Because of course there is. She wants to control the void, close the leak between our world and theirs, and effectively seal the voidians into confined society — no more unpredictability, no more exploration, no more hiccups, no more expansion or recession, maybe no more Cricket.
But yes, trying to figure out plots. Plots. How do plots work again? With actual... events? Scenes? STORYLINES???
:::
There was once a little hiccup in space that served as a sanctuary for people who had no other place to go. It was a blank expanse of nothing, and it was highly unstable. The small crowd of people who lived there managed to find an “island” in the abyss where the floor was much less likely to fall straight out from under them, and settled down. But the population grew, and it soon became apparent that not only were things crowded, they were quickly losing space — it kept falling away, or pushing against them, getting sucked into the big white void, and so forth. Even though the population was given pretty much everything that they needed to survive and they had no real complaints about the space except for its unpredictability, they decided that a change of lifestyle was at hand.
Enter Cricket, who is very, very willing to risk his life for the sake of stupidity and exploration. He has a habit of falling through roofs and stumbling into doors that were not there only seconds before. In fact, some note, the void almost seems like it.. picks on him, just a bit more than it does others.
One day Cricket falls through a door and into a new world. It is surprisingly ordinary. A coffee shop. He orders a sugary coffee. But he does not know how to get back, and, does not have any money. It is awkward. He steals the coffee and runs down the street — there is so much space! — stumbles into a couple people, makes a scene of himself, and eventually falls straight into a puddle and back into the original void.
This is amazing because he thought they were alone in the world. But there is a new world! And it has wonderful things. Solid ground. Blue-ish grey sky. A reliable atmosphere. And plenty of space. His friends, family, fellow voidians can have a new life — except, he does not know how to get back.
Let’s up the ante. He left something in the other world that is extremely extremely important. It is something that can help save the people. And he was able to access it better than others. And he lost it. In an alternate dimension that he has no idea how to reach.
He needs the help of Lye to get back there — she can sometimes hear frequencies and echoes in the void, it’s how she gets around since she is blind — and he also needs to somehow gain some sort of relationship with the void, which again, for some reason seems to listen to him. I don’t know why he is special. Cricket doesn’t think he is special. I don’t think he is either. It could just as easily have been Lye. But somehow, for some unfair reason, Cricket shares some similarities with the void and can therefore act as a middleman between his world and the other world — ours.
And there is someone who is after that power for the wrong(?) reasons. Because of course there is. She wants to control the void, close the leak between our world and theirs, and effectively seal the voidians into confined society — no more unpredictability, no more exploration, no more hiccups, no more expansion or recession, maybe no more Cricket.