The Convoluted Plane: A sandboxy Nationy kind of thing

[Bones Johnson]

The Convoluted Plane

In a distant world, mechanical Gods toil in creating a perfect reality, but their creators neglected to inhibit the limits of their creations. The realm was once one of pristine order, a place of certainties, where doubt and hope had been expunged by its ever expanding patterns. But these patterns grew more and more complex, more contrived, more ridiculous. Concepts such as day and night became hidden behind fortifications of information that only grew thicker. They have become incomprehensible to everything; locked in a never ending vortex of algorithms only they understand. They have twisted their realm into a distorted hell of insane order.

The only places habitable to life are those the Gods have long since abandoned. The Gods constantly press forwards as redundancies are made and projects abandoned. Free from constant change, a measure of stability was allowed to take hold in these areas. Either coming from the cosmic scrap itself, or vagrants shambling away from the Gods workshops, life arose in these areas. Eventually, sentence was achieved, and with it civilizations of all shapes and forms. They persist for their own reasons and beliefs while the literial borders of reality are torn and re-knit by the whims of reality bending things.
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Hello there and thanks you checking this out.
So, the desire behind creating this interest check for a world that can seemingly have anything come out of it is so I can see just that. I love seeing others ideas and detest putting restrictions on such. In particular, discussing such ideas and how they interact with those of others. In other words, I don't have a set world, plot, or story at the moment. What I want to do, with those interested in such an idea, is discuss what they want out of a story and make one together from those wants and ideas. I don't particular care for how skilled you at writing, as long as your willing to discuss things. We can ignore the preface if we want to. We can do whatever we want really.

TL:DR - who wants to talk about the things they like and make a story out of it?

[Taengrid]

@Bones Johnson This is interesting. I would like to jump into a roleplay somewhere and this was at the top of the list so why not?

You've got an attention grabbing intro, vague but suggesting some sort of sci-fi or sci-fi fantasy mix. The machine gods...algorithms. This is a matrix like reality? I would suggest maybe refining the concept or, as you suggest working it out with some other folks...I'll try and riff a little on what you got...

Machine Gods Created by...the CREATORS! I guess they probably were destroyed by the machines. Some time must have passed since then because the narrative suggests these 'machines' are viewed as gods by whatever survived, and something to be feared. Fair enough, something powerful enough to create a new reality and destroy what created them should be feared. Not to mention they have control over day and night. Seems like they are in full control except for these "places habitable to life are those the Gods have long since abandoned".

Why were they abandoned by the machines? Or were they forcibly removed? Someone must have figured out how to thwart these machines at some point, so much to the point that a new civilization has emerged. So...points of light of civilization in a scary machine-ruled reality. That's cool. Plenty of opportunity for adventure.

What else have you got?

"Either coming from the cosmic scrap itself, or vagrants shambling away from the Gods workshops, life ..."

Both interesting ideas, suggesting there is some sort of universal force at work divergent from the machine gods reality. Also, the vagrants shambling is very evocative. Rogue sentient robots? Maybe some refuge remnant of the creators themselves? Cool. That's two possible player races.

I'm thinking that this world is some sort of Magi-tech plane. Or maybe it's just technology sufficiently removed from knowledge that it seems like sorcery...

Anyways, I'll be around.

[Bones Johnson]

Well, the settings just meant to be a vague background that lets you get away with doing anything. I didn't want it to have any over arching rules or truths, apart from perhaps the lack of them, so I (and any writers involved) could come up with whatever they want and not have to worry about how it fits into something I came up with. The whole borders of reality being a place of constant change was inspired by the feywilds in Exalted,

To put it simply, if someone wants cybernetic orcs with jet packs and sawblade launchers, it doesn't stop another one having a bunch of magically attuned Eldar god like beings doing 9-5 jobs in the hellscape of the officeorium in the same world and potentially interacting.

Anyway, enough rambling, to the point. Essentially, I'd like a game where everyone is the game master.

So, what kind of story do you want to write about? Rather, what kind of stories do you like, and what do you like them being about? Stuff like that that let's us establish what we want out of it, so we can achieve our desires.

Personally, I would rather something focusing on 'regular' people on relatively small conflicts. None of that 'we have to save the world' kind of stuff. I think It'd allow for a greater focus on individual characters rather then who retrieved the amulet of kings. Not to say that the world being in peril can't be a backdrop, but the events in the story are more regional focused then globally, so to speak. Global issues tend to have the plot favored over characters I find. But still, depends what we want out of it, maybe you love that kind of 'war at risk' kind of thing.

Something with cults/supernatural beings in conflict could be an interesting idea. Maybe they have denounced the other as whatever, and seek to purge the other? While their trying to get rid of each other, perhaps the ruling powers don't like either of them, and their trying to remove the other whilst staying in the good graces of authority? Maybe it could focus on the authorities themselves trying to rid one of the cults.

Those are just some off the top of my head. Anything on your end?