Well, so far, a productive week
Work's been moderately busy; neither crazy-busy, nor slow to the point of breaking out my notepads and cranking out more fic so that I'm not staring into the darkness of an empty office. I'll have to head in early today to cover a fellow's time off. Yay! More paycheck
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The Star Wars one was based on Brotherhood of Shadow, an AMAZING mod for the first game. Channa Mae becomes Revan's "Shadow," a spy/assassin/secret apprentice. You find all this out when you recruit her. Unfortunately, her former Jedi Master has gone quite insane in the interim and you have to team up with her to stop him from raising the ghosts of an ancient Sith cult.
The Tron one was done for a challenge on a fanfic board. Tron 2.0 was a game Monolith released in 2003. It's a mediocre shooter (close in style to some of the Metroid games), but Monolith went utterly bonkers with the world building. 27 levels of pure scenery porn and enough computer puns to fill a Xanth novel.
The player character, Jet, seems to be an easy-going guy, content to be a game designed and not inclined to take on some of the boardroom politics his dad (Alan - and yes, Boxleitner reprises the role) would like him to take on. While they're "discussing" the matter on the phone, there's the sound of a struggle. Jet races downstairs to the laser lab. As he's questioning Ma3a (think a friendly version of the MCP) as to what happened, she zaps him into the system.
Turns out there is another company staging and extremely hostile takeover of Encom to get the rebuilt digitizing tech. Alan hid the laser's algorithms in Ma3a, so the other company has kidnapped Alan to get the access while infecting Encom's servers with the virus from hell.
Jet has a luck stat of "GM's chew toy." The comic books based on the game show that he's got quite the imagination, and that he really didn't handle his trip through the system all that well; ending up with some PTSD trouble and becoming almost terrified of computers as a result.
Mercury is a Program Alan designed to protect Ma3a. Unlike the "I fight for the Users" Lawful Good Paladin firewall we know and love from the first film, Mercury is more devious and calculating; instead of a disk (clean, efficient, one-hit kill), she uses a Rod (an electroshock weapon that requires you to get up close to your opponent, is the ugliest death you can deal, and works best when backstabbing). She's a Lawful Neutral Rogue with directives to protect Ma3a at all costs. She's voiced by the same actress who played Mystique in the singer X-Men films (Rebecca Romjin), so she also has a touch of that femme fatale in the character.
BTW, the "cybersex" is an established fanon for that universe. It comes from a deleted scene in the first film. Before hitting the I/O Tower, Yori took Tron back to her place for a proper "welcome home."
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