Collaborative World Building Effort?

[Zaleramancer]

Since we're all fairly decent world-builders, I was wondering if anyone would want to pitch in and create a setting as a group?

[Philote]

Sure, whats the plan or are we supposed to start pitching and layering ideas?

[Zaleramancer]

I think it would be smart to select a genre, before we do anything else.

I vote science fiction.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Can we mix genres? If so, I vote sci-fi/fantasy.

[Mik_Hael]

scifi/fantasy/whateverthehelleldritchabominationsare. :D

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Yeah, I think that's a second vote for my idea.

[Zaleramancer]

Transhumanist Post-Singularity Post-Cyberpunk?!

[Mik_Hael]

yeah, let's go with that.

[Zaleramancer]

This may interest you.

[Zaleramancer]

I guess we'll leave the genre open for now.

Anyone want to pitch a basic idea or theme?

[Myself]

Well, it could be a slightly better-organised New Beginning; one that makes sense at first glance.

I vote for sci-fi/fantasy/superpower.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Seconded.

[Myself]

Yay!

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[Zaleramancer]

Alright, Sci-Fi/Superpower it is!

Now, setting.

Time Period, Location..

Suggestions?

[Zaleramancer]

I wouldn't mind a medieval-ish setting.

A post-apocalyptic one.  World was destroyed, people blasted back to the stone age, gradually developed back.

Superpowers, but no magic, science as magic, relics of the past: Super-computers, sky-scrapers, robots, etc..

[Myself]

That sounds interesting.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Also seconded.

[Philote]

We should create an interesting mechanic for how the superpowers work instead of just going with generic ones.

Something like a similar way the powers are acquired/activated/improved that the whole world relies on but that each person handles differently related to their power.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Marbles.

Post Utopia, humanity makes the most importation discovery in their entire history: The Last Number. With this discovery came another one: with the complete set of numbers, we now had access to the base code of the universe.

Small supercomputers in the shape of small decorated spheres were developed. Called PRM's (Personal Reality Manipulators) when they first came out, Marbles were meant to bring humanity to the next level of personal comfort. Reprogrammable at kiosks in the home, Marbles used powerful math to bend the universe to the users will. With them, they could create a perfect world for themselves, fee of any hardship and personalized to them.

If you wanted food, you could have it. If you wanted companionship, it was yours. Any type of entertainment you wanted was at your beck and call. Each person became a world unto themselves, with no need for others. Each person had the Marble, and each tailored the Marble into their ideal world. With no need for any other appliance, society broke down and fell to ruin. Fields were reclaimed by nature, cities rusted and fell apart. With no one to maintain them, the power plants stopped and the satellites fell from the sky. That is how the end came. Not with a bang, or with a whimper. With a content sigh.

Some were strong enough to reject the Marble. These people were the New Pilgrams, and they migrated from the foodless cities out into the world. Many died as they learned and struggled to deal with things they had never had to before: growing their own food, dealing with diseases, childbirth. These people were the ancestors of modern man.

Eventually, the dreamers all died. Their bones turned to dust, their homes rotted away to nothing. But the Marbles are still there, sleeping where the old cities used to be. The Dreamers perfect worlds, preserved for all eternity. Their only legacy.