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Morbit story ideas - 1011686 - 06-12-2019
I have some ideas for stories set on Morbit. I don't know if I'll ever write them, but I feel like sharing them. Maybe they'll give inspiration to someone. Anyone else can also post their ideas in this thread if they want.
First one: Somewhere on Morbit, there's a zone, ruled by a god. This god is heavily involved in the governing of their zone, and they have to do a lot of work for it. There are also factions opposing them who are attempting to murder them. So, because of this danger of dying, they want to make sure their zone is cared for properly if or when they die, so they create another god to be their successor.
They raise this other god as their child, teaching them about what they will be responsible for and what they will need to do when they're in charge. But the younger god rejects these expectations that have been put on them, initially. The start of the story would basically be about the younger god's life, their relationships with other characters, their education, their exploration of the world and themselves, with lots of small timeskips. And the younger god would enjoy their freedom during their upbringing.
But eventually, they decide on their own that they are in fact willing to accept the responsibility of handling the zone, because they feel like they would actually do a good job at it. There are a few things they want to change about the zone, and they care for everyone living there and want to make sure they have a good ruler. Eventually, in the middle of the story, the older god ends up dying, and the younger god gets ready to claim the zone, but they hesitate for just a minute, reluctant to take the final step even though they're willing to.
And in that moment of hesitation, someone else claims the zone.
The other person doesn't show themself or announce their existence, so everyone keeps thinking the "appointed heir" was the one to claim it, and now they're stuck with a bunch of problems they'd never even considered the possibility of. Should they tell everyone they didn't claim it? Should they go on to be the ruler like they've been preparing for their entire lives? What if the person who claimed it has ill intentions? Do they even need to stay if they're no longer actually responsible for everyone's lives? Could they just, leave?
And since everyone now think they've claimed the zone, some people start trying to kill them as well.
So they have to do an investigation to try and find the person who actually claimed the zone without telling anyone except for a few people they trust, while still keeping up the appearance of being properly in charge to everyone else and also avoiding assassination attempts.
Eventually, they find the other god, and they sit down with them and have a long chat about responsibility, and ethics, and sacrifice, and the other god offers to hand the zone back over to the younger god. But over the course of their short reign, they've found out that they aren't really cut out for the task, and they decide that the zone is better left in the hands of the other god, so they simply decide to leave and explore the world.
Second idea: Somewhere on Morbit, a young child finishes their first day of school, finding it both exciting and terrifying. On their way back home, they pass by a TCP just as it spawns into existence. They befriend it, and together they bond over the experience of entering an unfamiliar world for the first time. The child walks home together with the TCP.
Third idea: Somewhere on Morbit, a completely new AI wakes up to existence inside a digital medium. They explore a bit, and the only trace of whoever must have turned them on is a note telling them to do what they want. So they just start screwing around on the internet and making shitposts.
This idea is less developed but i think it still has potential.
RE: Morbit story ideas - 1011686 - 06-16-2019
Fourth idea: Somewhere on Morbit, someone gets employed by a game arcade. While on their job, they see a facebank-type tcp run off with a coin, and when they bring it up with a coworker, they get told that the facebank-type is a bit of a pest, but if they see it they should just give it a coin and it it'll leave. They find this advice a bit dumb, and the next time they see it in the arcade they shoo it out without giving it anything. After that, they don't see it for a few days, but then see it while they're out buying food or something, and it runs off. Over the next few days, they keep seeing it out of the corner of their eye, always a bit closer each time. Eventually it appears in their room at the middle of the night, and there's an ambiguously dreamlike sequence where it opens it mouth and they see the endless void that nothing ever returns from within that seems to go on forever, before waking up, maybe. The next time they see it they give it a coin.
RE: Morbit story ideas - 1011686 - 07-04-2019
Fifth idea: Somewhere on Morbit, a moon-type TCP forms a plan to get together a bunch of other moon-types and then threaten to move the moon out of orbit unless their demands are met. So they spend all their time thinking moon-types into existence, and then traveling around trying to find them. One moon-type, who did become their friend, has repeatedly told them that moving the moon out of orbit is mathematically impossible without over, like, 10000 moon-types, but they dont mind if it takes that long. They also haven't actually decided what their demands will be, but they figure they'll cross that bridge when they get to it.
RE: Morbit story ideas - 1011686 - 08-27-2019
Somewhere on Morbit, a nature-based lesser god coalesces out of their surroundings in a forest. They know very little, but there's some things they have an intuitive sense of, so when a beast of the forest approaches them slightly menacingly, they calm it down through their powers. They feel a bit lonely, so they try to befriend it the same way, but instead they accidentally grant it demonhood. They then proceed to freak out over this animal growing leaves and branches and whatnot, which causes the animal to also freak out. After a short period of both of them yelping and running around and falling over, the god calms down enough to realise that it's their influence which caused the animal to alter, and they remove it, turning the beast back to its previous state. The god apologises to it, and the animal kind of gives a noncommittal shrug and goes back to whatever it was doing before. The god then probably goes back to attempting to work out its place in the world and probably meets the animal again and has wacky adventures with it but i haven't thought anything about that part.
RE: Morbit story ideas - 1011686 - 09-04-2019
ok so my brother started showing me the tv show She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and its quite good and you should watch it, and regarding the previous idea, i just wanted to add that it would basically be like the scene where Adora accidentally transforms the horse into a winged unicorn and it freaks out https://youtu.be/bCYbDn-6KcA?t=160 unfortunately that clip doesnt cover the freaking out part and i couldnt actually find that specific clip anywhere on youtube, but that's what happens.
RE: Morbit story ideas - 1011686 - 10-18-2019
Somewhere on Morbit, a lesser god is just minding their own business, going about their daily life, when a friend who disappeared years ago messages them, asking to talk about something important. They meet up, and it turns out this friend has become part of a small, secret group trying to bring down a corrupt and dangerous organization.
They have a plan to get a spy inside one of its facilities, a prayer type tcp, but in order to communicate, they need a god on their side. The friend pleads to the god about how important this is, and how they're going to do it anyway whether or not they help, so the god ends up agreeing to help, despite some reservations.
The story switches back and forth between the god hanging around the group and the tcp's personal account of things happening, and as time goes on, things start to escalate. The other people in the group don't trust the god as much as the friend, and the situation starts seeming less black and white than it was originally described to the god, to the point there are things the tcp reports they aren't sure they should share. They also start getting to know the tcp quite well through their reports.
Eventually, events at the facility end up in putting the group's, including the god's, lives at risk. With co-operation from the tcp, the god manages to live, but not all of the group makes it through.
I'm... not sure what would happen after this but that would be most of the story. Maybe some police simply responding to reports of conflict would arrive, and question the god on what the hell happened, and in the process the god would come to personal conclusions on how they felt about the group and the organization, and whether they wanted to return to an ordinary life afterwards.