Story idea!
I recently had an idea for a story that's half sci-fi, half fantasy. It's also what you get when you start thinking about heros in terms of World of Warcraft.
The premise is that there's one world of people that's found out how to break through into other worlds in other universes. They start conquering some of these worlds, for riches and resources and because some of them like the idea of living in those worlds, and a whole variety of other reasons. They also discover that it's useful to spy on their victims before moving in, and get used to spying on important political leaders, discovering military strength, etc, and judge their enemies by the level of their technology. They have encountered magic, but know that that's not worth much if it's not used tactically. They spy on one world. It's technologically backward except for a few mavericks, has magic but no noticeable magical organisations, and there are a few sentient species with not much that they think of in the way of armies. There's also plenty of stuff they want, so they move in.
...and run into trouble as it emerges that the governments in this world are in the habit of training people to fight, be it magically or physically, and letting them wander off into the wilderness and countryside to fight monsters, protect citizens, and fight against anything that could threaten their world. Which means that there are a lot of people out there -not many out of the total population, but quite a few -who are good at fighting, know the terrain, can move around easily, are used to fighting alone and really good at it, can form up (and will) to manage bigger targets, notice weak spots, make connections, and also some of them can make their own gear.
Their world is being invaded. At which point they are more than happy to start cutting supply lines, distract patrols, kill scouts, poison water sources, sit in good vantage points and pepper enemies with arrows, train rebels, make weapons and armour, and, if they get the chance, they can and will disrupt the portal technology. Which is hard to set up, expensive, and rare. And they can do a lot of other things. A wyvern or gryphon might not be as fast or powerful as a fighter plane, but neither do they show up as brightly on infra-red.
So, for example, there are hunters sitting several hundred metres up in very big trees, calmly picking off incoming soldiers with arrows. There are mages leading enemies into large deserts, secure in the knowledge that they (the mages) can create their own water. There are druids using the sewers to sneak fish and edible seaweed into blockaded cities. And there are people who fly up on wyverns just before dawn, get out of bullet-range, and drop low-tech firebombs onto invading armies.
I want to write this. Unfortunately, I'm doing something else for NaNoWriMo.
...do I have to do the thing I was doing for NaNo?
And since I've been gone a while, how is everyone else?
The premise is that there's one world of people that's found out how to break through into other worlds in other universes. They start conquering some of these worlds, for riches and resources and because some of them like the idea of living in those worlds, and a whole variety of other reasons. They also discover that it's useful to spy on their victims before moving in, and get used to spying on important political leaders, discovering military strength, etc, and judge their enemies by the level of their technology. They have encountered magic, but know that that's not worth much if it's not used tactically. They spy on one world. It's technologically backward except for a few mavericks, has magic but no noticeable magical organisations, and there are a few sentient species with not much that they think of in the way of armies. There's also plenty of stuff they want, so they move in.
...and run into trouble as it emerges that the governments in this world are in the habit of training people to fight, be it magically or physically, and letting them wander off into the wilderness and countryside to fight monsters, protect citizens, and fight against anything that could threaten their world. Which means that there are a lot of people out there -not many out of the total population, but quite a few -who are good at fighting, know the terrain, can move around easily, are used to fighting alone and really good at it, can form up (and will) to manage bigger targets, notice weak spots, make connections, and also some of them can make their own gear.
Their world is being invaded. At which point they are more than happy to start cutting supply lines, distract patrols, kill scouts, poison water sources, sit in good vantage points and pepper enemies with arrows, train rebels, make weapons and armour, and, if they get the chance, they can and will disrupt the portal technology. Which is hard to set up, expensive, and rare. And they can do a lot of other things. A wyvern or gryphon might not be as fast or powerful as a fighter plane, but neither do they show up as brightly on infra-red.
So, for example, there are hunters sitting several hundred metres up in very big trees, calmly picking off incoming soldiers with arrows. There are mages leading enemies into large deserts, secure in the knowledge that they (the mages) can create their own water. There are druids using the sewers to sneak fish and edible seaweed into blockaded cities. And there are people who fly up on wyverns just before dawn, get out of bullet-range, and drop low-tech firebombs onto invading armies.
I want to write this. Unfortunately, I'm doing something else for NaNoWriMo.
...do I have to do the thing I was doing for NaNo?
And since I've been gone a while, how is everyone else?