After the end or prevent it?

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Justin1221 wrote on 2011-07-22 17:21

If I was to make a story in which the world is at the risk of getting blown up by nuclear missiles, do you think I should make it where the hero(es) do something like catch the missiles and throw/knock them to some place safe or sit them down easy to disarm them, or let the missiles drop and let the sequel focus on them helping human kind recover from the disaster?
Sumpfkraut wrote on 2011-07-22 17:27

Try to replace the rockets with some other form of disaster, and make the heroes not able to prevent it.
Also at least half the heroes should die and the rest have as much a hard time as the general populace.

That's how I'd do it.
EndlessDreams wrote on 2011-07-22 17:35

How about they mutate into having special powers after nuclear missiles disaster?
Sleeperdial wrote on 2011-07-22 17:36

I'd have it where humanity slowly dies off except a special strain of people that have a gene which allows them to have greater immunity to radiation. Meaning that people are fewer and far between. I would also introduce a vague supernatural presence. Not interfering with the protagonist but subtly and slowly affecting the world, only showing a sign of itself every one in a while. Not even a living thing, just a phenomena, an anomaly, if you will. The same thing that created the black bird of Chernobyl.

http://www.unknownexplorers.com/blackbirdofchernobyl.php
Justin1221 wrote on 2011-07-22 23:53

Sounds interesting, and I may include mutants.

Sorry EndlessDreams, but that idea sounds a bit......unoriginal. Not saying that it wouldn't work, but it's not quite what I'm aiming for.

The Heroes are suppose to be something that for now call "Conduits", which are people who are capable of magical abilities.

The term "Conduit" means "to channel" or something like that. There's even a Wikipedia entry on the idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit_(channeling)

I plan to make one a Paladin of some sorts. A Mercenary of God, if you will, but not like the real life Paladins and Templars. This guy is actually heroic and is the only conduit that is actual a conduit for the Celestials while the other two are dependent on their own magical capabilities.

One will have a special soul who is not affected by "Satan's Curse" for some reason (part of the plot), and there for is not stripped of his/her magical capabilities (again, part of the plot). He/she will be something of a Witch or Wizard or Warlock. I don't know yet what magic they may be able to use. I may include dark magic, but I don't want them to solely use dark magic, but I may make it that way anyways.

And one, I don't know the story for him/her yet. I may not even make them a conduit, or at least not in the same sense as the other two.

I do plan on including some "mystical beings" in the story. Some original, some from mythologies. It isn't just gonna be Angels and Demons and **** of the sorts..
Excalibuurr wrote on 2011-07-23 16:55

Quote from EndlessDreams;522585:
How about they mutate into having special powers after nuclear missiles disaster?

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Justin1221 wrote on 2011-07-23 23:44

I'll definitely have those types of mutants in the game, but I don't want to make it too much like Fallout.