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iadagraca
12-25-2007, 12:51 AM
I've been working on this story practically since i was 8(i'm 16 now). its gone through a whole lot of changes and its finally matured in to what i think is an awesome idea but i want to know other peoples opinions before i start working fully on the story. i plan on using this as a base for my next several paintings and renders, since when i was a kid the thought of a story was my insiration to draw all the time everyday. so all i ask is that your read it and tell me if its works, or if there are any drastic problems. its still not 100% complete but i'd say its like 95% done :P.

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The story takes place in deep future in the usa. at this time energy isn't a problem and the outer environments are almost uninhabitable due to the whole global warming thing. but thats not the only reason, over 200years before, an explorer found a new natural resource. After risking his life to get it and almost killed he found out that this one piece of this material(which will remain unnamed for a while) thats the size of a basket ball can power the entire country for thousands of years.

but what they didn't know was that life was supported through the material too. so through the time the world used this material for power the outer world dwindled resulting in most sections being put under oxygen domes.

meanwhile the animals that where left out side those domes where slowly mutated getting smarter and stronger over generations. the animals knew what was causing this to happen from the start but never thought to do anything about it until now. they believed that returning the material to the environment would restore it. so they planned to take it back.

using their new found intelligence they broke through to the dome where the material was held. killing anyone that got in their way and any obstacle, they made it to the core where the material was held to generate energy from.

the animals and creatures had a low understanding of human technology. they had no idea what could happen if the material was removed. from the moment that the material was taken a meltdown of almost every thing it was connected to began.

anything that received energy from the material not only shutdown but some even exploded. military missiles where launched and landed on nearby countries or even on our own land. the total damage of that alone was more than anything ever experienced on the earth.

so not only were the oxygen domes protecting the people from the toxic air destroyed but the missiles and other things added on to it. this resulted in death from the radiation or mutation, some people even became mixed up with nearby animals.

the area least effected was the south west of USA, because they were so far from the material hold(it was in new york). the numerous meltdowns wore off as the energy shock weakened. this area had minimal mutations so the majority of the people remained human.

hoping to remain human they migrated south casting away any one that was not mostly human in looks. the people left behind were mutated, most of them where mixed with animals in some way. the unmutated humans called them sins.

the people who where mutated were devastated. not only because of how they looked, but because of what they believed in, what they lost, and the pain in their bodies. people with out anymore will committed suicide, while others where angry at the humans for leaving them and the names they call them. those people wanted revenge, but surviving was first. the radiation seemed to no longer have any more effect, and the only thing for food were the dead bodies and radiated fruits...


i'll leave it at that for now, i'll put up the story later...

mr Bob
12-25-2007, 09:28 AM
I dont want to sound like a killjoy. You have written a lot in your post too much detail infact where its not needed. you need central characters , something for your audience to connect with where's the human element. Break down your idea into its raw form , a few paragraphs should do . Look at blade runner , alien or any other scifi you care to mention and break it down into a simple plot.

interested to see what happens

B

matsman
12-27-2007, 12:14 PM
Hi, I think you have written this only as an intro to give some background to the story you will post later, yes?

Because I have to agree with Bob that if this is your story you really need to cut it down so you can oversee its size. What you have written here is more like a quick history overview with some points missing (but you are still young, not taken bad here, but that means you don't think about "everything" yet)

Most absent in this little story is political points and beliefs/ church mentioning. What happend to the church? Belief has always been a part of civilisation so what do those animals believe in? what do the people think? Was this an apocalyptic catastrophe?

And of course what are the political stands on the danger of animals becoming more and more intelligent? Hunting them down, does it inspire fear? Or are the researches in power and capture the beasts to see what happened so suddenly?

And then everything goes kaboom, but some parts stay the same... what would happen if the people in the south west of the USA would get the power? Was there even an USA anymore? or had some states decleared independency? And what happens to all the people that live in smaller villages? What happens to the rich, who quite possibly would have made some kind of safe region for them to live in?

As a history goes it is a good start but I think it would be a lot better to at least hint at some of the plans and emergency escapes, different clans forming throughout the country, more or less deformed. What does the rest of the world? Are there any aid organisations? and some of the belief shattering/ strengthening points a major accident like that would have.

Hit us with your story! I am very interested!

iadagraca
12-29-2007, 02:37 AM
yeah it is just and idea of the setting the characters and main story stuff i'm still working out i just wanted to know if the concept was ok.


but thx for all those questions know i know what i'm missing :D!

but yeah there is alot of stuff i haven't added, but the whole religion and political part is something i really want to be keen on (but not a whole lot). the main thing i wanted to focus is on how the people are acting and what they are doing in reaction to all this thats happened, and how the mutations are effecting them. And still i want a bit on what the religions and the goverments were doing before and after this happens, cause they'er effecting the world and the people too.

but i'm printing out those questions though and looking over them ;P

i'll make sure i remember to up date.

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