Quote: Acyl wrote:You magnificent BASTARD! ^_^
Quote: Logan Darklighter wrote:
What if the plot of an arc dealing with them is finding a cure for their addiction/transformation? (You could even use the Hollows contact Julius the Troll
for stuff like this.) I mean, they let you "cure" the Lost. Why not the Trolls?
Oh man, Logan, that spawned another idea. I totally want to do this. It has to be done...
A tale from a girl named Yin.
A story of the Once and Future King.
A quest to save a sovereign. To mend the mind of a broken being.
A king, a man...not a machine.
Now - is the end result of this story the redemption of the Clockwork King and making him sane? Does he get a new body?
Or does it FAIL and we're left in the end with the status quo so as not to upset continuity?
If we go the redemption angle, make references in the story to stuff like what happened in the Lady Grey Task Force and the Faultline story arcs? Just so that
it's clear that all of this happens AFTER those events?
Incidentally, does anyone else think that the Clockwork King having a crush on Penelope Yin is just a bit creepy as it stands? I mean - amusingly creepy in a
Tim Burton sort of way...
Hey. But... whoa... WAIT. A. MINUTE.
The Psychochronometron... what if Penelope wanted to "un-destroy" it and use it to REWRITE the Clockwork King's mind and history so that he never
had that body destroying fight and got stuck in that mechanical monstrosity?
She may have destroyed it. But maybe it imprinted on her mind so that she knows how to create a new one? And part of the plot involves the Hero(s) gathering
components that she can't acquire? Like, say, time travel components from the 5TH COLUMN? (After all, how DID they get back to Cimerora, eh?)
Maybe a slightly more grey version of events has her needing for the heroes - or villains - to make the ULTIMATE heist, and grab the secret of the Pillar's
of Ice and Fire from OUROBOROS itself?
Then she has to be escorted to a properly equipped lab (or mystic chamber?) so she can put them together?
Meanwhile, we have to protect her from the forces of whoever owns the labs. Crey? Malta? NEMESIS? (Or the mystical angle - the Circle of Thorns, or maybe the
Banished Pantheon? And wouldn't it be scary if the Banished Pantheon got THEIR hands on the PCM?)
In addition to those forces, the CLOCKWORK KING makes a play for the device too! Out of a misunderstanding of what Penelope is trying to do?
In the end - does it succeed or fail?
We could literally have the end be a FAILABLE mission. With Penelope disconsolate because the defeat erased the PCM permanently from her mind so that she
can't help the King that way. (sob)
And if you succeed? Have the Clockwork King fade away and be replaced by a young man about Penny's age with a clockwork motif to his superhero togs, and a
few little clockwork bots tending to him (Agatha Heterodyne style ^_^).
How's THAT for a story arc?