Video game scenario
Scenario: "This thing has beaten you badly and you are close to bleeding to death. It vomits on you and suddenly you pass out. When you wake up you begin hearing voices and you have cannibalistic desires." the problem is, you have to regain sanity in order to continue. You can kill people and eat them for food but there has to be a way to regain sanity. Any ideas?
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Well first off, no one knows what "This thing" is. It's bad practice to use "thing" when writing stories.
Maybe "You feel as if you're breathing your last few breaths. A large creature, about 10 feet high, with a greenish complexion, and large, claw-like teeth is standing over you..."
Maybe you could collect items from before the beast vomits on you.
Maybe "You feel as if you're breathing your last few breaths. A large creature, about 10 feet high, with a greenish complexion, and large, claw-like teeth is standing over you..."
Maybe you could collect items from before the beast vomits on you.
Your cannibalistic desires get stronger when you consume human flesh. At some point, there is no turning back, game over, you're a full on zombie forever. There is a medicine, that temporarily suppresses the condition and helps your sanity, but it's sparse, and has side effects, which can eventually kill you.
Why you are a Zombie, is that a secret biological warfare agent was accidentally released. The world is now in chaos. In order to make an antidote, you must make your way back to the lab where the agent was created. There you will find the information, and samples that you need to synthesize the cure. You must also however team up with a microbiologist who can help you.
Why you are a Zombie, is that a secret biological warfare agent was accidentally released. The world is now in chaos. In order to make an antidote, you must make your way back to the lab where the agent was created. There you will find the information, and samples that you need to synthesize the cure. You must also however team up with a microbiologist who can help you.
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Okay, there are items with text on them (paper) that say what the beast is. I don't want to give away the story line. The story is different depending on about 65 different variables. This part is interactive, you actually don't get vomited on if you have a high blood count and you don't go insane right away, you bleed out until it either dies, you take medication (not yet added), your insanity rate drops before to mutch time passes. There are so many variants of things that could happen that the details could be anything. but lets say you went insane, how could you regain your sanity (P.S. you also get to battle with voices in your head. Im excited because I think the game is going to be great! Not even in its beta stages but still...)
Your cannibalistic desires actually get weaker when you consume human flesh. There is a way to turn back but I don't know what that is yet (that's what I'm asking you). There is a drug you can take, it's expensive and it's used to slow the insanity rate. You can only apply it while you are in the earliest stages. If applied to much of the drug you can overdose. You are a zombie because 5 years ago a parasite variant has evolved to infect mammals. Two years after the evolution a poison was created to kill the parasite but the variant had evolved again to avoid the poison. One of the infected (read above) and that's why you are infected. You can buy chemicals you can use to make a cure.
I already have this stuff planned, I just need to make a way for the insane to become sane again.
I already have this stuff planned, I just need to make a way for the insane to become sane again.
A fictional parasitic infection that (used to be single cellular and used to multiply by spores) is multi cellular that transfers to its host through bodily fluids. Once inside the body a toxin is released that causes weakness in the immune system. Signs that you are in the early stages are paleness and nausea. The parasite makes its way to the brain causing hallucinations. The parasite can take control causing cannibalization, aggression and sleeplessness. They multiply in the stomach. When the brain sees large amounts of blood on their victims, they tend to vomit up the parasites and the cycle repeats. (is also STD)
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But it doesn't "Kill" the victim?
How could I mentally overthrow the parasites? Once you are in control you can take anti-parasitic drugs to physically kill them off but if they are in your head and are king up in there the drugs do nothing. (they take approximately 20 game refreshes for the drugs to become ineffective for a once perfectly healthy person being infected at the slowest rate possible, one refresh is the amount it takes to walk about 1km on foot)
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Hm. Well maybe you could meditate. (Bad idea, I know)
Or you could smoke a narcotic that makes you calmer. (Worse idea)
Or you could smoke a narcotic that makes you calmer. (Worse idea)
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If you read up on parasites, its not in it's best interest to actually kill it's victims. Any attempt the parasite uses to kill the host would be greatly suicidal for the parasites because the host provides a suitable living habitat, food and other parasites (reproduction). The victims aggression is not a good thing for the parasites though but is needed because the parasites need food. They don't eat their hosts but eat it's hosts victims. You as a zombie attack people to eat them, and the parasites eat where they reproduce but these hostile attacks can get the host killed because there are people with large weaponry hunting for zombies. I feel like a biology teacher! It's what happens when you are born a nerd!
Oh, I forget to mention, you cannot take anything by the time they take over you mentally, it's not in your mental patterns at this point.
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Yes, I know. That's why I was asking if the parasite killed the victim. (Andromeda Strain?)
As I said before, mentally you could possibly find objects that remind you of your past life to bring you back. Of course once you pass a certain state this won't work.
As I said before, mentally you could possibly find objects that remind you of your past life to bring you back. Of course once you pass a certain state this won't work.
That's actually a neat idea, maybe such items work but the effectiveness depends upon how insane you actually are (goes up to 100). Did i mention hallucinations? You experience hearing voices in your head when fully infected, you can have fights with the voices and this may actually help! The only problem is, the only things that can remind you of such a time are old papers like old magazines and stuff. Bringing back memories of how his friends and family went insane and noticing the symptoms within himself. He then can become just powerful enough to regain enough strength to get the medication. Once the medication is taken, the guarantee of falling victim again becomes ineffective but if he is exposed he may fall victim easier. After some recovery time, he can operate like nothing even happened but the problem is where can we find objects to start the mental warfare?
Oh, and there are two travel types. In insanity mode you are actually outside the game map and everything is randomized. In sanity mode everything is set in stone and you are within the game map. You need to be able to find the items in a randomized environment. On dead bodies is an idea but maybe it can be found elsewhere. The only thing that is currently implemented for insanity mode is just killing people. It would add variability, challenge, variety and fun if I can add something else so if you have any open ideas?
It will be up to version 0.01. At this point graphics will be added. At version 0.05 Audio will be added. At this point it will go through polishing up stages very thoroughly. At 0.9 and a lot of inspection and quality testing and nonsense it will be a solid 3D first person game, at least that is what is planned. The final copy may not even be written in C++ at all! I also have to go through all the licenses and stuff. People will need to be hired at some point (at least 0.1). The current version is ~0.00075. Yeah I have a long way to go!
Oh wait! thats not right! its actually ~0.000075. Forgot a zero. If i hurry I will be at 0.001 by September but that's far fetched! I have to finish the basic mechanics. Then work on story and add advanced mechanics as I do the story. By the way the story is not linear so there are a lot of advanced mechanics and a lot of variables which effect game play and the story mode like if you are at the early stages of infection and if you are far into the game (like near completion but not to close) there is a non professional underground doctor who can actually help treat you as long as you have a LOT!!! of money that you can obtain from running (mature content) a store, a casino, working for a gang, operating a whore house, working a chemistry farm, fecal farm, animal farm, working at a mine, basically this is one huge game!