Its sometimes serious, and sometimes not. The idea is to be as awesome as possible. The storyline will be sci-fi in nature, and as serious as it can be. But the game mechanics, objects, and all that stuff will be as wacky as possible. I fully intend to have a character with a "middle finger" as a final weapon.
I'm thinking there will be a few different time spaces within the story. As I've said, the friend, Mr. D, comes from the future with a space ship. So if he could travel to the past, he could easily travel further to the past, or the future. Such things could make for interesting storyline bits. Like, a gem that was destroyed 500 years in the past, you must now find to fuel the faster-than-light drive... perhaps even going to different planets and such. That would be cool. That comes later though.
The first part of the game, I want to take place on a space station. A space station that has been invaded either by enemy nations, communists, aliens, dwarves, elves, ya know, some kind of thing like that. As for what exactly, I haven't decided, and it probably doesn't matter all that much. Maybe orcs... that could be interesting. Space Orcs invade a space station, and ransack the crew. That'd be cool. Ok, we'll figure something out, but whats gonna happen here. Mr. D knows the layout already, so he'll likely be the guide. I was thinking it might be interesting, if Mr. D's brother shows up in the transport vessel that Mr. D show up in. Kinda like a stowaway. After all, previously Mr. A and Mr. D were friends. But then the higher power chose Mr. D to go fight some evil, and here he is. So his brother, Mr. E, could decide to follow him.
As for time travel mechanics, thats another debate waiting to be happened. So, we'll work that out when it becomes necessary.
Ok, I'm going to go into mIRC and set up an IRC channel in the global server Undernet called #AwesomeRPG where we will discuss things like the name of this game. I'll keep this open as long as my computer is on. Anyone wishing to join, simply log into Undernet, and under the channel list, type #AwesomeRPG
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