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"Who is there to pray to?..."
"There are only demons and fiends here."
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« on: September 06, 2011, 04:02:16 PM » |
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...we get anything on the new smash bros, and this site returns to its glorious age, I thought I'd put this here in case anyone wonders what's going on with 2100. It's far from dead, and I think I did something very cool with the plot that goes back to its roots when I first came here. A mix of those old roots, and new, freshly grown ones. As you all know, 2100 is an amalgamation of different genres, even art-styles. My goal is to create the perfect story; one that will silence both western fans and eastern fans on "which is better? Manga or comics?" But which of the old ideas am I reusing that got slight adjustments?
1. The Drocons have been replaced, name-wise and race-wise, but the concept is about the same. I just wanted an overall more menacing race. Not a bunch of anime-ish aliens. That makes no sense lol
2. The constellations have, in a sense, returned, except they serve a different purpose. Instead of 88 people carrying them, 88 cities will carry those constellations. The plot will mention them at some point.
3. There is a new Shikon, somewhat. The only difference is that he does not share Shikon's goal for power, rather, he wants the universe to start over in his very own image.
The new plot has helped me help develop characters made by people due to the new changes such as:
4. There's two geographical Earth-maps now. In the new plot, the world is sort of "closed in". Goryan, for example, has a new goal in his agenda; to dig through the world to get to the other side (again, you'll see what I mean in the plot). Another goal he could be seeking to accomplish is creating his own land for his own family/race. Goal-wise, he has it pretty big already, but of course, lots of ideas are left out for now.
5. The second geographical map is equivalent to a fantasy world, meaning cities can be made up and characters not from any city (or any city they want to mention in their own profiles) can appear in specific parts of the second map.
6. The "closed in" world is the center-piece for the final enemy, for what would be a unique battle in the game as well.
And so, I reintroduce the plot, explained in third-person, almost like Soul Calibur and its character descriptions before going through its story modes:
2100's New Plot:
2000:
“A woman with short, blonde hair bids her lover fair well. The man who was to marry her suffers slowly and painfully from the back of his eyes. Being the Akasha's Avatar, he clings to a dim hope of survival. His human body will soon fall to the ground, along with the tears of his followers.”
2001:
“His lover leaves in search of a vampiric priest who is to be reborn once again in a never-ending cycle. It has been a year since her first two children. Not a sign of the man she was looking for...”
2003:
“She meets a man-in-red and a demon on a flaming motorcycle. She befriends the two, and the three decide to open a demon-hunting business. She leaves a very close friend in care of her sons.”
2005:
“At this point, something is realized. She is not in search of the priest, but rather, someone else. Her twin sons turn 3.”
2006:
“An alien ship is sited somewhere in Japan.”
2009:
“She tells the man-in-red and the hell-biker that her 'time is coming'. She then tells them of a man she's been searching for almost a decade by now, and how well-hidden he is. This man is not the priest, but someone different...”
2011:
“The hell-biker and the man-in-red meet one last time in New York City. The former tells of the latter that he is going to try and find the man the woman has spoke about on his own. The man-in-red tells the hell-biker that he is going to look for clues in Tokyo on the man's whereabouts. The man-in-red knows more than meets-the-eye.”
2012:
“Judgment Day is near. The woman arrives in Tokyo, never again having re-encountered the man-in-red. An incident at the Yoyogi Park occurred; demons rumored to have killed innocents. The man-in-red is mentioned by a few people as 'dangerous', while nothing is said of the woman herself. Whether the Park-incident or the man-in-red are connected, it is unknown.
A high-school graduate wearing a grey sweater and black shorts walks past the woman. The two exchange eye for a split-second, but nothing happens. The woman however, detects a powerful presence in the teen and decides to follow him in secrecy. She follows him to an area of the park where she spies on a conversation between him and very trendy man. The teen receives a magazine by this man and is called by a friend to see him in the hospital. The woman proceeds to follow the teen to the hospital, where it is empty when he arrives there for the strangest of reasons.
In there, the teenager meets with a friend of his who tells him of the one who called him over and where he is. She also mentions their professor has not arrived for whatever reason; their professor requested them to be there, but there has been no sign of her. In the mean time, the teen looks for his other friend on the second-floor, which he does, and recruits him back in the main room where the girl is.
The woman keeps a good listen on their conversation and hears of an occult hell-bent on ending the world and bring about The Conception. It is also said the hospital might be the hide-out of the man she was looking for. The teen's male friend tells him to look for their professor in the basement; he gives him an access card so that he would be able to traverse the halls in the bottom.
When he goes there, there are spots of blood and a room with a satanic circle under an orthodontic chair. The clues slowly unravel themselves.
With every room the teen explores, the woman does so too, and comes to the conclusion that the man is hiding here. The teen finds one room and enters it, drawn by its mysterious power. A man is seen sitting in front of a large cylindrical device with several connections. The man turns his chair around to face the teen, upset by his presence. He lectures him and reveals himself as the one to bring about 'The Conception' and attempts to make the teen the first one to witness it for interrupting him. Luckily, the aforementioned professor arrives in time to persuade the man to stop. He listens and decides to spare the teen, whereas the professor instructs the teen to meet her at the roof-top of the hospital.
The teen walks his way out of the basement to meet with his professor. On the way out, he sees a mysterious old lady and a young boy talking to each other. Afterward however, they seem to vanish. The teen goes into the elevator on his way up to the roof to meet with his professor as told.
While the teen and the professor converse with each other, the woman who spied on the teen breaks into the room where the man was and exclaims her success in finding him. She tells him she has been looking for him for over 10-years after learning of his occult and her weakening in power. The man chuckles at her and watches as the cylindrical device begins to function on its own entirety. The woman tries to stop the man, but Earth faces a 'sudden death', and she falls to the ground, dying. The man laughs.
On the roof-top, the professor tells the teen that she will be his strength and lead him through this troubling-time. A light dawns upon her and disappears. The teen watches the world end before him.
The entire world crunches into a ball, inside-out, with a shining light in the center as the core of the new-world's warmth. After countless chaos and destruction, the teen reawakens in a dark room, encountering the old woman and the little boy. They give him something that changes him forever. The boy infects the teen with a demonic bug that changes him into a demon, while harboring his human-heart still. After the excruciatingly-painful demonic-ritual, he reawakens again in a bright room. He is seen without a sweater, and his body is covered by dark and green marks. He hears a voice telling him not to bore her master. From that point on, The Conception chronicles the adventure of this teen.
What is known as Earth becomes the 'Vortex World' (or 'Hollow World') from this point on, and a sentient star floats within this new world's center.
The man-in-red meets the half-demon teenager, fights with him on a few accounts, and even teams up with him to see how much the world 'changes'. They fight against the Avatar of God, who was the central sun all along. Upon defeating it as with every Demonic Sponsor along the adventure, the Vortex World forever remains. On their final battle against the demon-prince, the man-in-red's fate is unknown, until he is seen somewhere in post-apocalyptic Tokyo, carrying the woman in his arms. After the uneventful end of everything, and the fall of the demon-prince, the man-in-red bids the demi-fiend a farewell and searches for the hell-biker to keep the woman safe in the mean time. When the man-in-red and the hell-biker meet again, they decide to change their names into 'The Devil-Hunter' and 'Wrath Itself' respectively.
The fate of the woman's children is unknown at this point...”
2020:
“The twins are safe and sound. Their foster-parent however, has met an ill-fate with the demi-fiend, as well as many of her close ones. One of the twins finds love and marries a human survivor. Due to his demonic-heritage, he bites his wife, turning her into a vampire. The need for warmth destroys his sense of sanity, and after the ordeal, he comes to realize how much of a monster he became in that moment. In shame and regret, he fears the day he meets his mother again, having betrayed an important oath he made to her.
His wife lives on and forgives him. Thanks to her immortality, they wait for several decades until they decide to have their first child.
The other twin marries one of the aliens that have landed on Earth in 2006. The rumors of the landing where true.”
2040:
“One of the aliens, the one who flew the ship to Earth in 2006, meets with the non-human Earth-races for the first time, after much studying. He makes a proposal to them and predicts a 'positive change' in the Earth that could benefit all of them. Most of them refuse to listen, while some partake in the project.”
2042:
“The Devil-Hunter and Wrath Itself search the Vortex World for a tunnel into the demon-world known as the Temenigru. In it, The Devil-Hunter intends to take a special object with him. The two of them seek the tunnel for several decades. When they do..."
2083:
“A new generation of children are born in this decade, and when The Devil-Hinter and Wrath find the tunnel they were searching for, it burrows away into the ground.”
2084:
“With a new generation of children, it is encouraged that schools are to be built for the sake of their education so that the elders may teach them the ways in order to endure these harsh times in the Vortex World. The elders worship the demi-fiend as their benevolent God.”
2088:
“The father of a little blonde girl goes missing; someone murders her mother. This little girl greatly resembles the woman who died in The Conception; the same woman who left her lover nearly 9 decades ago, and the same woman who befriended the-man-in red and the hell-biker.”
2100:
“The break-point where the Earth enters its 'rebirth' stage. The oceans reappear and a new 'Outside World' (or 'Surface World') is created to take the place of the old one. The Vortex World remains still.
The alien who ran the project and predicted this event sends his inventions to dig through the ground of the Vortex World in over 88 different locations to reach the Outside World. Millions are sent in these tunnel-burrowing machines (digger-units) to rebuild civilization outside. These pioneers would be the first of the non-human kind to work together.
As the project commences, people of the Vortex World begin to question why an Outside World formed so quickly. Rumors start surfacing that the demi-fiend had somehow applied a Reason to the semi-dead God. From the moment he opposed God and defeated him, all the way to the year 2100, a new world was forming on the Outside. These are only rumors, however, and there is no proof that such a Reason or event could happen.
It should be noted that each tower is a massive piece of the central sun that demi-fiend and The-Devil-Hunter have destroyed. The essence of God is faint but still alive in the dark star, giving those who wish to escape into the Outside World an impossible goal (rather than gravity forcing them into this world, God uses the only ounce of strength he's has to keep his creations in the Vortex World as punishment).
Luckily for the digger-units, their highly-advanced technology and horse-power were able to surpass what little strength God had in order to pull them back into the Vortex World.”
2102:
“Two years later since the digger-units were launched, the first 10 cities are finished on the outside. It is confirmed that the outside world is almost as lush and habitable as the old one. Trees, grass, and oceans are formed on this side as well. It is also said however, that the oceans are bottomless, being gateways to both the Outside World and the Vortex World. The inhabitants of the Vortex World begin to question at this point why they couldn't have gone through the oceans. The alien who ran the project claimed that it would be too dangerous. He states that the oceans would be too dark to traverse safely on the night-side of Earth, saying there are dangerous demons that lurk at these hours. Other factors such as pressure and extreme cold are highly warned of. In the day-time, the sun would beam through parts of the ocean where the Outside World exposes them, and through the Outside World, the Vortex World can see these parts shine intensely. It is warned that not only are the exposed oceans too bright, but also too hot to swim through. Anyone who tries surfacing the Outside World through this would burn to dust. After much convincing, the public believes him, and the workers on the Outside World return with small tunnel-burrowers to transport one civilization after another.
After this, life in both the Outside World and the Vortex World begins anew, with a few twists.”
2103:
“Much has changed on the Outside World. For instance, the shape of the oceans are different, and the countries once known by both humans and non-humans are also very much different. The oceans on the Outside World do not match the shapes of the Vortex World. There are many islands and many Australian-sized continents. It is agreed by many of the pioneers at this point that they should rename some countries and keep others the same. Japan, for instance, as a new capital city known as 'Ryokou', named after its Mayor's son (sort of). As more and more cities are built, each one is named by its chief architect director.
(QUICK TRIVIA: Each city also holds large towers, which in reality are the digger-units after they have served their purpose. By turning these transportation machines into the frame structure of the main building in each city, the workers can seal specific items in each of these buildings in order to keep them standing, as they are memoirs for all the hard work and effort the pioneers have given to make the cities. Each main building is known as the 'Capital Tower' and contains an artifact related to the 88 current Greek Constellations. All of them share something in common aside from that. Every artifact carries a known symbol related to said-constellations with magic gems embedded on the dotted patterns.
These towers also serve another purpose. They also act as solstices; massive towers where a special event occurs every once in a while. The towers are built where they are (on purpose) so that the cities point directly at the actual constellations they correspond too. For example, the Ryokou City's capital tower is a club that has a hidden room containing the soul of a dragon sacrificed during settlement in the Outside World. The dragon's soul is the artifact, 'Draco'. Its soul resides in this room, but tile patterns on the floor contain its constellation pattern, right under a roof-window which lets the sun-light and moon-light in. Should it perfectly align itself at the time the tower is closest to the actual constellation, 'Draco', the town is imbued by a special light that grants its citizens a special gift. Each gift given by the events these artifacts have is unique and never the same. No one but the mayors and the veteran-pioneers know of the towers' purposes.
The towers also have a dark secret to them. A few hundred-thousand pioneers were part of a newly-formed cult that wanted to establish a brand new religion that would replace all beliefs of God and retcon the Bible. Their beliefs followed sacrifices to the Constellations, in hopes that they can make “Gods out of them” (out of simple stars that mere humans played “connect the dots” with). Each tower is built very differently, and not all of them serve the same exact purpose in career-terms. They each center around certain job-fields, and can be mayor buildings, business companies, or even casinos. How the towers are built and what the architects decide for them to pretty much revolve around is decided by the entire group of workers, and as such, sacrifices for the secret rooms target employees who work in these towers. However, as sinister as these secret rituals may be, the victim/sacrifice is allowed to fight back as a test of strength, skill, and worth. Should a victim survive the trial, they are released from the room, and the next time the tower enters its solstice-like event, the gift given by the tower would be strongest around its last champion.)
Something terrible happens, however. When the first pioneers were sent to build cities, an invasion occurred on the Outside World, resulting in a war. This happened during construction, with many casualties and deaths. Fortunately, some of the pioneers were powerful elders who decided to take up the matter into their own hands. They manage to fend off the alien invaders long enough to finish the cities. The threat however, continues.
These aliens, known as the 'Annaki' (coined 'Splicects' by urban teenagers), claim they have been on every planet on the Universe, and have visited Earth once before. They say that it was they who created the humans, mixing the blood of their own kind and different primeapes to result in the first 'homo-sapiens'. They also claim to have done the same to most races all over the universe, including making their own hybrid soldiers in which they took for their own. Upon their return to Earth, they say it is the first world to have gone through such an unusual phenomena. They decide it is so invaluable, they must have it for themselves. The Earth's inhabitants also become invaluable to them, stating that the non-humans are 'the most interesting life-forms they have ever encountered'. With this, their goal is to complete their hybrid-race by creating more soldiers with the DNA of these non-humans.”
For other twists, the man who ran the occult and started The Conception is 'still alive', and the Vortex World becomes an 'egg source' for a deity to be reborn. This deity is known as 'Alphath, the First'. A monster that one inhabitant believes is the 'first life-form, and the last', leaving its true purpose and existence a mystery.
2 years after, The Devil-Hunter and Wrath bring the tunnel they were searching for back through demonic means (such as sacrificial rituals). Upon their success, they retrieve an item called the 'power generator' and reverse its life-draining effects to do the exact opposite. They return to the home of a young girl, very reminiscent of their fallen friend, and enter her home to find the woman. This is the same girl whose father went missing. When they discover her in the basement, the girl tries to fend them off thinking they are there to cause trouble. The Devil-Hunter overpowers her while Wrath applies the power-generator to the woman, and with this generator, the woman is brought back to life. She rises from her throne with her replacement heart and develops the power to control lightning and electricity with the power generator within her. After many years of trying to bring her back, they succeed. The Devil-Hunter explains to the girl what his intended goal was, and after a long talk, things begin to piece themselves together.
The man who began The Conception utters these words, as the president of the Outside World, “The World has only come to a stop, for now. True judgment has yet begun; they cling to promise, as dark as eternity and nowhere near as bright as the cosmos. Foolish they are, these hopeless fiends.”
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