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[CHAPTER 3: HOMECOMING (weight of the game: 25%)]

CHAPTER 3: HOMECOMING (weight of the game: 25%)

A year has gone by, all of Nylon's predictions have come to pass, tens of thousands of  people sleeping on that faithful day have fallen into a coma, countless died in their sleep and the death toll continues to increase with people who had sleep paralysis that night going insane and committing murders & suicides. On top of that, Nightmares have managed to escape inbetween the influx that White Tail/Despair created upon his arrival to Grandeur.

the world does what it can to survive in such times, the CDF fight to the best of their abilities but don't have the man power to survive much longer, Nylon & Zale have gone into hiding, preparing themselves. Zale knows "Despair" better than anyone, and knows that on the day he left to Grandeur that he would come back to where it all started: Capital. Although they haven't seen "Despair" in a year, the news makes it obvious where he's been, being that his existence itself causes natural disasters, wherever volcano's erupt unexpectedly, earthquakes become frequent, hurricanes mass & Nightmares gather is most likely the place Despair was last, and after a year of following the patterns, Nylon could assess that Despair, now disguised in a Huma form, would be arriving in a month's time.

[*THIS WOULD BE THE STAR OCEAN PORTION OF THE GAME: remember when Claude and the members where getting ready to fight the 12 gods and the game gave you a in-game level boost of about 10 levels and you have the option to stay in the coliseum and fight more monsters to level more? That's what would happen here, Zale would get a 10 level boost and Nylon would give the option to keep training until you feel ready.*] 

Nylon mentions how Zale has been using drugs to cause insomnia for the last year, sleeping for no more than 1 hour a day, and while his over abundance of sleep for the last 7 years has made it manageable, the amount of sleep depravation will get to him sooner or later. Unwearied, Zale desires nothing more than to make up for his failure to stop Despair and do something about it this time as a way to repent for the world that's now in turmoil, although Nylon is well aware that what Zale wants most is his friend back.

After calamities grow larger in Capital, Zale & Nylon know Despair isn't far away, and they decide to go to the most appropriate place to find him:  the area they fought and stopped Reynolds together. After fighting several nightmares on the way to the rendezvous point, Despair, appearing as a Huma in a cloaked robe greets Zale & Nylon, after a brief exchange Despair admits this is not what he wanted, and that the world he was once so eager to travel is in shambles due to his mistakes as the influx destroyed every place he visited this past year, but he's come too far to turn back with REM now gone and wishes to rebuild the world together with Zale again.

Zale painfully refuses knowing that Despair's mere existence is denying Grandeur itself and too much more of this will cause even more irreversible damage. Feeling denied once again, Despair prompts Zale and Nylon to meet him at a specific location for a final showdown, the fight deciding who Grandeur desires to be its savior:

Zale, the Huma who wishes to salvage whats left of the world, killing his best friend in the process and starting a long road to recovery
or

Despair, who wishes to rebuild the world fresh and return to being seen as a savior and guardian, although the casualties will continue to mount in the process until some sort of solution for the influx can be found.....


**THAT'S IT, I haven't decided who would win the fight, I wanted it to be a shocker but not too naruto-ish with like a double kill or something, I already got the idea of naming him "Despair" from the whole "Pain" thing

I just wanted a story that wasn't all "bad guy wants to take over the world-ish", and I didn't want the player to hate the villain at all, he takes the Sephiroth role in basically being a hero turned mightiest villain but for varying different reasons and like I said the idea just popped in my head, I fleshed it out this much just during the typing.  I also wanted the weight of the world to be on the protagonist's shoulders and he still fails because that never happens in games, usually when they fail its something salvageable, I wanted it to be world crushing failure.

Also the game would have 2 phases, you'd have missions where you would fight nightmares in the world of REM alongside a hologram Nylon & White tail, as well as against normal monsters in the world of grandeur with the assist of hologram Nylon.

Character inspiration:
Zale - Zack (FF7)
Nylon - (I watched half of the 1st episode of stein's gate last night, so after coming up with this story this morning I decided to have Nylon be loosely based off him as fragile scientist)
Reynolds - (EVERY CRAZY MOFO IN EVERY ANIME THAT WANNA RELEASE SOMETHING BAD, but lets say the 1-eyed scientist from Guilty Crown for good measure)
White Tail/Despair - Sephiroth (FF7), Naraku (inuyasha), Pain (Naruto)
!!!! **BUT PLEASE, all feedback is WELCOME, should this become a real project, what should be changed, what stands out, should I turn this into a real story, should I add more characters, what do you think would be a nice ending, feel free to ask questions etc!** !!!!!

(thank you for all your time!)

[CHAPTER 1: POLITICAL SHIFT (weight of the game; 50%)]

THE GAME WOULD TAKE 3 CHAPTERS, I will sum each up in 3 simple spoilerific sections

CHAPTER 1: POLITICAL SHIFT (weight of the game; 50%)
Mr. Reynolds Came across Nylon's research on the world of REM when initially moving into the Department, Reynolds has been searching for years of a way to attain access to REM since his son died. His son was a soldier in training that Reynolds, a general back then, was overseeing along with his platoon and during a day of rest, Reynold's son woke up from an elongated sleep, possessed by a disturbingly indiscrete and vengeful spirit that slaughtered the entire training platoon, war seasoned soldiers and even tamed monsters that were released on Reynold's hesitant command. It took an energy based bullet created by Nylon, who was just starting out in the CDF back then as well, to put the soldier down. Reynolds never forgot that day and distinctly remembers the spirit that was possessing his son joyfully shouting that he made it out of REM & into the Huma world and how much fun he would have killing everyone. While people took it for Trauma, Reynolds kept it to himself that his oddly-increased work ethic was based on how excited he was seeing such an impressively strong creature with his own eyes and felt pride that his son was chosen to receive such power and has ever since been looking for a way to bring more of that power into the world of Grandeur & tame it for military use. With Nylon's stolen notes he was able to produce a makeshift portal that would bring nightmares into Grandeur for Reynolds studying pleasures, catching wind of this Nylon alerted Zale who thwarted every attempt Reynolds made to get the materials needed, still the portal was made so Zale jumped into REM to warn White tail, White tail quickly formed a plan:

White Tail knew REM was one world and that Grandeur was another, but for Zale to travel back and forth there must be a tunnel he travels through subconsciously. So with Nylon's help White tail road on the coat tails of Zale's spirit to a border between REM & Granduer, thus making it possible for White Tail to physically face and fight Reynolds and help Zale stop him before the portal released hundreds of nightmares, together the defeated Reynolds who died from willingly being spirit possessed. With little time left, White Tail had to quickly slip back into REM as sitting on that boarder was putting a life-threatening strain on Zale's Soul.

CHAPTER 2: REM RELEASE (weight of the game: 25%)

With Reynolds stopped, Nylon received his old job for a second term, none knowing of white tail's assistance, Zale & nylon alone received credit for stopping Reynolds plans of what was considered to be "bio-warfare" as the CDF couldn't fully grasp the situation. Zale goes to White Tail who's acting strangely, he tells Zale the story of the first Huma who he came in contact with. The kind girl who grew up and old wirh him until she finally past away, and how he's been lonely all this time before Zale came along. White tail begins to believe that he no longer desires to stay in REM and wants to travel to Grandeur and continue to protect the Huma in their world. He realized this during they're fight against Reynolds as he's never been so close to the Huma world before. Zale chooses to help White Tail figure a safe way out but Nylon grows concerned. After intense research Nylon has reason to believe that if WhiteTail leaves REM, being as powerful as he is, it will cause a major influx in balance, REM itself will literally shatter in the process and casualties will mount to the millions mark from several side effects. While at first Zale believes that can't be possible he starts to see the truth in nylons words when White tail begins experiments with touching on the tunnel created by people experiencing sleep paralysis and those people being negatively affected with overnight sicknesses and heightened nerves.
When Zale decides to confront White Tail its almost too late as White tail reaches the final stage of his escape plan, tying together the tunnels of several hundred people experiencing sleep paralysis. Zale is prompted by Nylon to stop White Tail by any means, Nylon even uses his "Aggressive Hologram System" to create a 3-Dimensional warrior version of himself to help Zale fight white tail because if he doesn't stop him the following can and will occur:

- Anyone who's asleep while White tail rides the tunnel out of REM into Granduer, will be trapped In a coma

- those who are experiencing sleep paralysis will have their minds witness the real world and REM at once, causing mental breaks and insanity

- REM will shatter, Dreams will be impossible for anyone who sleeps, only darkness from the inside of their eyelids will remain.

- Much more unforeseen damage

Even with this on the table Zale faces White Tail....and loses due to lack of conviction to fight his friend. White Tail once again tells his story of infinite loneliness and is even more hurt by the fact that his closest friends would deny him the chance of reaching the real world after all they've been through. He denounces them & his name of "White Tail" and tells them that from now on he is to be known as "Despair" until he can find the companionship he's been longing for in the real world.

[BEGINNING OF GAME STORY - INTRODUCTION]

LIKE AN IDIOT I Lost the Basic beginnings, I had written out from too much copying and pasting and I don't remember it all -_______________- so I'll try to salvage that here.


BEGINNING OF GAME STORY - INTRODUCTION
- Zale is a High Ranked Soldier in the Eastern Region of Granduer who only gets sent on Special missions for the CDF (Capital Defense Force) for his skill level and only receives assistance from  Nylon as no other soldier can keep up. The CDF also find him Difficuly to deal with and thus issue missions to him Through Nylon.

- The Capital Defense Force is organized military unit designed to maintain peace and protect civilians from Monster attacks and times of war, all under the funding and jurisdiction of The Metropolis known as "Capital"

- Along with Zale, Nylon was hired into the CDF but his genius earned him the rank of Lead Technician in Weaponry as well as the Eastern Defense Director, receiving mission schematics and delegated them to soldiers under his decree.

- Monster attacks have been at an all-time low and the amount of peace leaves society open to focus on the political shift that's about to occur as the next World Leader has been elected in to power for a term of 10 years, and along with her (the new world leader is a woman, a black woman) a new cabinet of Defense Directors have been elected, one of them being Derek Reynolds, the new Eastern Defense Director to take over for Nylon.

- Nylon, who received a high position at a young age, has no problem with early retirement as his work, as well as Zale's (who's also retiring) achievements have left the two with funds to be financially stable for the rest of their lives. Included with immunity to continue practicing their crafts as they please within reason and have access to certain CDF areas, they're actually anxious for their upcoming retirement so they may focus more on helping White Tail in REM, .

- Zale originally joined the CDF to get stronger so he could better assist White Tail in REM, but as his rank grew it was hard for him to stay in REM and fight, While the two are a very formidable duo there's far too many demon attacks on people experiencing sleep paralysis at once for them to save everyone, but with Zale's retirement he'll be able to spend longer amounts of time there to be of more use.

- When Nightmares successfully eat the mind & soul of someone experiencing sleep paralysis, they take over the victims body and thanks to nylon's research he's learned that the profile of those people who aren't saved turn into overnight classic cases of "Innocent Boy/Girl turned Mass Murderer, Killer, Rapist, Psychopath, Pedophile Etc." in the real world that the CDF have to vanquish in the same manner as Monsters. This especially upsets Zale because, almost being a victim himself at 16, he knows he could have ended up the same way.

- Once retired, the CDF has the ability to re-enlist them for any work if needed.

- The new Eastern Defense Director, Derek Reynolds, (or Mr. Reynolds) is a war vet and has a warped view on life with focus on military strength in the battlefield. He also has a particular obsession with the world of REM.

[Notes before story:]

Notes before story:

Sleep Paralysis - For those who don't know, it's a crazy experience where your body is basically in sleep mode while your mind is awake, so while you have control of your eyes and can think rationally you can't move your body, you can't speak & if you try you'll just make muffled noises, your breathing is controlled as it would be if you were asleep so don't panic about that & the scariest part is most people who experience this see some demonic figure standing nearby if not walking towards them. These go by all types of names but the most popular is "the witch on your back" as some experience a sensation that a creature is literally standing on their back causing your natural instinct to panic to go into high alert, but these creatures aren't real their just a mix of your sleep mind and awake mind projecting distortions in front of you. Some even hear terrible sounds which is usually just your ears hearing a normal sound like a car outside but its amplified and changed in pitched to sound much creepier, Sleep paralysis can happen once in your life time, a few times, or for some, night after night.

people who experience sleep paralysis can take necessary steps to have lucid dreams, and beyond that is astral projection, which can be very dangerous because, if successful, there's a chance you can't return to your body because another spirit possessed your body or other complications.

Nightmares - The demons in my story, I altered how lucid dreams/astral projection/body possession rules work for their purpose, in this story Nightmares are the spirits that can possess your body talked about in the rules of Astral projection. However, "nightmares" don't need you to be astral projecting, instead they need you to be experiencing sleep paralysis and to "eat" your dream completely, thus eating your soul, to be able to control your body.

White Tail - a name given to him by the inhabitants of "REM" for seeing his white tail dance around when he destroys nightmares. He's basically a mix of Sephiroth from Final Fantasy & Naraku from  inuyasha. While the Sephiroth inspiration will come later, The Naraku inspiration would be that White Tail himself is a culmination of several Nightmares who weren't strong enough to possess Huma's on their own because stronger nightmares would come along and steal their prey, thus they came together and decided on fusing into one for the sake of becoming stronger. Upon birth, White Tail focused on fighting other Nightmares to test and prove that he was the strongest by ambushing them before they could eat Huma people's dreams. In the process of doing so, White Tail started to grow sympathy for the defenseless people. That sympathy then turned into an appreciation for Huma's and the Huma world after he met a young girl who, like Zale, astral projected herself into "REM" and befriended him decades before Zale was born, she was his first friend and visited him for years until she finally passed of old age, since then White Tail has been lonelier than ever and took it upon himself to be the official protector of the Huma who fall into sleep paralysis to assist more people like that girl that warmed his heart.

REM - in my story, "REM Sleep" isn't a territory where you dream and you wake up with memory of the dream, it's the literal act of sleeping and once you begin to dream you reach the world of "REM" thus REM-Sleep.  It's the only way people know how to reach REM and thus REM was always seen as more of a folklore place to society. Only special people like Zale can reach the world of "REM" in full consciousness.

[*PLEASE READ: You probably read the above and thought "well, so far, this sucks" well i hope you read below because the above was all free-styled based on my plot to better explain my idea and the below will explain the story I was talking about originally*]

HI ALL long time no see, before i get started i'll say i've been using this place for years, i've come to admit the truth that i can never work on an RPG maker project for more than 3 consecutive months before getting frustrated, so my previous project "Fallen Feather" is still in construction but i admitted to myself then i'd only being working on it every summer, hopefully i can pick up where i left off and finish the demo.

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But today i was at home watching an anime called "Ghost Hound" that played on Lucid Dreams and while watching it i came up with this idea for a game, i feel that the plot (while expected of an anime or a movie) would be pretty original for a game. The story was built in my head in all of 20 minutes so its pretty bare-bones, in fact i'm going to be making up names and $#@% as i go along. i mainly just wanted everyone's feedback on how this storyline would be received if the game were to be created.
The story borrows elements from Bleach, Ghost Hound, Final Fantasy's love of Latin words, inception, Star Ocean 2: second story & Naruto Shipuuden.

Title: Lucidus Somniator // Lucid Dreamer

Year: no specific date will be disclosed the entire game

Planet: Grandeur

Characters:

Name - Zale Bleek
Age - 23
Role - Co-Main Character
Race - Huma
Bio: A Soldier-Hunter In the real world, Zale makes his living fighting for the Capital's Defense Force against the various Monsters that escape from the forests and  threaten day-to-day living, albeit peaceful times such as these has made monster vanquishing no more routine than a speeding ticket. In his free time Zale spends his days at Lab-based home of his friend since childhood, Nylon, sleeping while being monitored so he may journey into Another Realm known as "REM", The very world that all people journey to when there asleep to experience their dreams. The difference being that Zale has full control of his conscious and Astral projected Body in this alternate reality thanks to an encounter with his now long-time best friend - White Tail, The Guardian of REM, when he was young.

Name - Nylon Hade
Age - 22
Role - Support Character
Race - Huma
Bio: Zale's best Friend in the real world & a prodigy since birth. Being a child genius and quite fragile, Nylon was always picked on as a kid, but always defended by Zale who would come to his aid and beat up the bullies. So it's only Natural  Nylon was more than happy to help Zale when he confided in him about a traumatic experience with sleep paralysis and  his encounter with White Tail. Since then Nylon & Zale both joined the Capital's Defense Force, Zale as a high ranked soldier and Nylon as an ace technician building new weaponry as well as gaining the title of the Eastern Defense Director. When off the clock Nylon uses self designed technology to monitor the world of "REM" through the eyes of Zale's Astral Form, assisting him & white tail all he can on whatever dangerous mission they get themselves into until Zale safely reaches back into his body. Nylon never physically enters "REM" but will use an invention he created called the "Aggressive Hologram System" to create a Virtual version of himself capable of fighting in both "REM" and the real world alongside Zale.

Name - White Tail
Age - ???
Role - Co-Main Character

Race - Vagabond
Bio: an unparalleled warrior in "REM", for as long as any inhabitants of that realm  remember, White Tail has been fighting Spirit Monsters known as "Nightmares" to keep them from completely entering the minds of innocent people experiencing  sleep paralysis to devour their mind and soul, for if their successful they can possess the victim's body and enter the Huma world. 7 years ago, White Tail came across a witch consuming a 16 year old Zale's mind and attempted to execute her, upon success White Tail realized that, unlike any Huma he's come across in several decades, Zale was able to clearly see him and shared unmistakable eye contact moments before snapping out of sleep paralysis. Ever since Zale's been capable of Astral projection and enlisted Nylon's help to safely go back into that world to search and formally thank White Tail. Upon their reunion they became fast friends, especially since White Tail has been on his own for the longest time with noone to talk to. As the years pass the two become a fighting duo to protect the real world from the attack of "Nightmares" as their attempts to possess bodies become increasingly rapid and more persistent for reasons currently unknown.


*PLEASE READ: You probably read the above and thought "well, so far, this sucks" well i hope you read below because the above was all free-styled based on my plot to better explain my idea and the below will explain the story I was talking about originally*

i'm not the best map designer but i learned a good tip when reading map tutorials, when designing an area, ESPECIALLY outside, inconsistency = a more realistic and eye catching environment. I feel there are too many of 1 type of tree in each area and they're too well spread out, while you can get away with it with the planted trees the free growth ones should have some bunched up on top of each other, or atleast a tree stump nearby to show that there was a tree nearby but the kingdom cut it down because from the look of things they CLEARLY pride themselves on a clean courtyard. Also throw some random dirt and broken off branches around, the moat is o.k since they're usually dug by people but i'd still vary off a little bit around the edges, maybe add an underwater animal shadow charset for a nice touch, just a few suggestions.

Story wise the idea of limbo and everything being reversed, blurred and unnaturally sharp sounds really cool though, wish you all the best with your project!

i can totally get with the pre-planning and mapping thing, i remember in my rm2k3 days i thought i was big willie, i had one of the most faithful FF7 limit break tuts on gamingw.net but ask me to make a 20x20 forest map and you would get alot of green crap, a tree in the corner surrounded by the exact same bush and then a rain weather effect cuz lord knows i loved my rain weather effects.

but now, i'm not saying i'm great but i'd say my mapping is a 3/5 on overall, which is cool for me even though these days it feels like every maker is 4/5 on average, but what i like is the WAY i go about mapping now --> it taught me to look at my surroundings when i'm outside, i'll really just look around and get ideas.

for example i was on campus and i was thinking of how to make my town more lively without spamming npcs, so i just stood outside and looked: trees were rustling through the wind, a bird flew by me while another one chirped every 4 seconds and that little bit made me say BOOM! wildlife, where there's trees there will be squirrels, where there's a bird flying around in my town there should be a bird chirp BGS/FX that goes off every few seconds ALONG with the BGM, a butterfly here & there by bushes, animated tree charsets instead of stagnant ones, a @#$ing Bunny Rabbit every once in a blue moon, signs of existence!

it really makes me appreciate life and those little interactions, when you can stop & take in everything every once in awhile, even in the name of "game research" its a beautiful thing to enjoy life

Sidenote: One thing i haven't learned from however: items, i hate them, i hate sitting there and thinking of a million synonyms to the word "potion" & "ether" so my game doesn't seem like such a FF clone or coming up with a plethora of slick weapon names and getting writers block on sword 9 with a stack of gun names i haven't started on yet, i feel bad for the people who have that job in game industries.

Its safe to say at this point everyone here's more or less gotten into a hobby (game design) thats either led to their career choice or has opened their eyes to how much goes into making a game, but WHAT exactly stands out for you, there must be something you've learned while working on project games that assisted you to do or avoid something in real life.

Personally for me, messing around with Rm2k3 and Rmxp chipsets/tilesets, i have learned that i will never.....EVER go into interior design, people talk about how much money is in that business i just role my eyes, it takes me 20 mins to an hour just to make a generic inn because i dont wanna over use furniture/plants and the colors are clashing left and right, the hell would i do with some newly weds home??

That and variables, i never got the concept before in highschool, had an inkling but never saw the big picture, and now that i take college algebra and go home and look at script i realize its all the same stuff and really simple to comprehend (when X does Y then Y does Z, if Z's not capable for whatever reason then Y does F as the alternative, i think i worded that right)

So what about everyone else?

I'm not gonna weigh in too much as i've only read the OP first post & don't wanna step on any other posters toes, but as far as the weed thing goes, i'm not against it, i personally choose not to smoke, i just think its not sexy and boring, but all my friends do it, but weed itself isn't a bad drug in my eyes, this might be my Jamaican (yes i'm 100% Jamaican) side being ignorant but weed itself is actually pretty healthy more or less, its a herb, and test have shown that weed smokers on average live up to almost 2 years longer than non-smokers & hell if you choose to smoke occasionally, better it be weed than cigarretes.

i'm not saying you should smoke anything, or get high to have fun, i had a very similar childhood with being in a room playing video games as my only form of interaction, so i understand your side of saying: "i'm enjoying life in a new way that just so happens to include a BIT of marijuana here & there" as opposed to people hearing "i hated my old life, i smoke weed as a result and screw my grades now" - thats not the case here, so i get that and i'm just saying if your gonna hang out and have fun i'd prefer you smoke weed over cigarettes or black & milds, if not just skip it altogether.

Just as long as you keep a mindset of self-worth and don't try OTHER things cuz you THINK you can handle them sometime down the road, then you SHOULD be fine, but smoking weekly is a bit much in my mind, no matter what the substance is your gonna get an addiction, humans are fragile --> hell if i had Nutella chocolate weekly for a year i'd prolly end up eating someone's face off in miami if they banned the stuff, but smoking monthly or even better: "once in a blue moon" is different. I've tried weed and black & milds each on seperate occasions of years apart, and it'd be no more than a single digit number of hits,maybe i'm not attracted to it as i really don't see the allure but its def possible to enjoy something in moderation.

and keep your grades up, i just graduated, schools always gonna suck but its nice to apply yourselves once in awhile, never know when a teacher takes interest in a student and tries to get them a job that pays better than a fast food joint.

Ooooh i see, Just downloaed the sir-lag-alot demo with the latest build to see what its all about  

UPDATE: For your Playing Pleasure Fallen Feather Is Now Game Controller Compatible! The Demo will come with JoyTokey and my Configuration for PS3 Controllers included (As long as you have DirectX6 it should be Plug & Play), but ofcourse all game controllers are usable, instructions will be included for seperate controller configurations help (w/ youtube video) if needed.
Note: JoyToKey Must Be Open (Able to Minimize) During Gameplay for Controller to work.

Return Of The Mack - Mark Morrison: EVERY TIME I FEEL SEXY, GET OFF WORK, GET A PHONE #, TALK TO A PRETTY GIRL, OR FEEL LIKE ACTING "GANGSTA" WHEN MESSIN AROUND, I PLAY THIS SONG. it's one of the top 10 played songs in ALL of my playlists, lmao.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w

Climax - Usher: Might Be a Little to recent and might be a little highschool-ish but this one song, although the topic doesn't reflect the situation, makes me feel this empty feeling in my gut and i can't help but think about this girl, who happens to be my best friend, who i happen to be secretly in love with -___-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIW4kZfvhY0

Come with Me - Sammie: I'm a guys guy, i like explosions and stuff and to be shallow, every year i think about marriage its always 10+ more years away, i hate mushy, but this record right here makes me feel something, so i decided if i ever was to get married, it'd be my top "wedding song" choice god thats cheesy -___-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCJ8Y6rP1Go

I've been itchin to try out ARC, but knowing me once i get into it i'm going to try out a million different things i couldn't do wit rmxp and never get anything done in the end so i figured i'd give it a whirl when the demo's complete for the fun of it  .

Greetings Game Forgers, Today I'm here to shed a little light on a Project i first revealed here a while back that was on the brink of cancellation: "Fallen Feather: Mother F.E.L.I.C.I.A". Life got busy for me with school and everything but now that i'm finally a graduate and i have some time on my hands + a little incentive from reading a random topic here brought the project back 120%! However i'm more humble, i only wish to complete a Tech Demo by the End of the Month and based on reviews i'll decide if i want to finish the project or not .

Now that introductions are out the way, lets get down to business:

---The Plot---
Within' This Spoiler is the prologue To the story, Mind You this section is taken from my Unfinished Novel so there may be some inconsistencies with the Novel & The Game When you play it (as i had to make some changes for the game version to make a bit more sense). However I believe as far as the prologue goes it's pretty identical:

Spoiler: ShowHide

Prologue:
~The Almighty, The Universe~
"The Almighty", Undisputed ruler of everything that exists. Going by no other name, The Almighty and his chosen bride, "Threa", Reside in a mystical realm all their own known as "Higher Plane".  It is here that they and their subjects remain for time eternal. Threa, queen of the cosmos gave birth to seven children.  Pyzra, God of Flame and Fire; Tsuzra, God of Wave and Water;  Groundra, God of Quake and Boulder; Wispra God of Wind and Twister. Boltra, God of Thunder and Lightning;  Bronza, God of Steel and Metal as well as...Azulra, The two-headed God of Light and Dark.
Centuries passed, the children grew older and more powerful. As their talents extended and became more formidable, The Almighty believed it was time to choose his heir.  He felt that the most unbiased procedure to conduct this decision would be by playing a game.
This "game" would test their ability to rule others. Without warning he flung his galaxy crushing hands above his head and spoke to his children: "This will be your playing field". With a blinding flash of light nothing but an endless path of black, lit by countless stars stood in front of the seven. Thus the Universe was created.  
~The PlaneT, The Separation~
The Children were sent into this Universe with the order to shape and form their own "Plane-Terrain", or "PlaneT", and govern it. Rules were set, once a PlaneT was created and 7 "Days" old, each god must enter a separate realm known as "Spiritual Plane".  From within' the Spiritual Plane no god may have physical contact nor interact with any life-form on their PlaneT. However they were allowed to send as many messengers on their behalf for whatever desire imaginable. Every "Period", approximately 1,020 "Years", each God would be allowed to return to their individual PlaneT. On that day any and all followers are to chant and give praise to their god, all who deny their god must give no recognition. The accumulation of praise will feed each god and ultimately make them stronger, which was the key to the game. Whoever receives the most praise and increases the most in power by that time The Almighty calls his children back will be the victor. Once the throne is passed, the heir must decide on his bride and begin their rules. The guidelines seemed simple enough, create a world and have your subjects love you of their own free will. However, for some that was irrelevant. Azulra, the youngest of the children, never could agree with one another since birth. When creating their PlaneT, the only thing they agreed on was naming it after their mother: Threa. Unable to decide if the life-forms, their destined followers, were to be primarily light or dark manifestations, the two heads battled one another until their body, ultimately, split apart into two separate creatures.
~The Arche, The Geno~
As of that moment, Azra, Phoenix of holy and light, along with Zala, Spirit of Sin and Darkness began their divided existence. Some found this as a blessing but the mighty beings saw it as a crutch. With both their bodies only retaining half the power their combined form once did, becoming the strongest to win their father's throne became twice the difficulty. This caused a sense of desperation within' both of them, too stubborn to rejoin as one, they  decided to wage war against each other during the seven days remaining before being pulled into their individual spiritual planes.  If successful in defeating the other, Azra or Zala could absorb their counterpart as pure energy allowing one dominant form to stand with all lost power regained. Too powerful to fight directly while among Threa, the two created warriors to fight on their behalf. Children of Azra, or "Angels" soared into battle against the children of Zala, known as "Ghouls". Three days passed by at a painstakingly slow rate, as quickly as lives were created, they were lost amidst the battle field that Threa had now become. Zala prompted to create a more powerful form of Ghouls, monsters infinitely stronger, they were titled the "Geno".  With improved, almost limitless power a single Geno took down hundreds of Angels before falling in battle themselves. Azra responded to these abominations by giving life to "Arch-Angels" often called "Arches" for short. Elite winged soldiers who matched the Geno in every conceivable way. Among the fleets that went to war with each other, the commanding gods were reported to be seen fighting in quick, short bursts of head-on battle themselves.  By the seventh day Threa was crippled to a chaotic state, yet Azra and Zala's men still kept complete faith in their creators.  The war left undecided, the two were reluctantly swept up into their spiritual plane only to stay in wait for exactly 1 period.  Although majority of the Angels and ghouls followed their leader to the spiritual plane, a good portion remained on Threa as its first residents of life. Arches and Genoes disappeared off the face of the PlaneT not to long after, and so did all memory of their existence. The rebuilding of Threa began.
~The Evolution, The Beginning of End~
A century or so went by quickly, The Angels changed and evolved into beings know as "humans", while others evolved into a species called "sprites". Ghouls, at first, remained as they we're:  savage beasts without a conscious, but a startling decrease in power and, in-turn, threat was quite noticeable. As another century went by another life-form emerged, a humanoid ghoul....one with a heart and conscious no different from a human. Although similar looking to a human, most had odd colored skin, and also showed signs of enhanced strength and fighting instincts. Around this time any and all recollection of the seven day war was lost to all, only printed documents and scriptures were around to tell the tale. In spite of this, most humans spoke in ignorance against this new life and put them in the same category as the Ghouls. Through taunts and name calling this species was finally given their name:  the "Inhumane". The Inhumane we're hated on and had no way to prove their worth. It wasn't until a band of ghouls attacked a human village and we're beaten back by inhumanes who were roaming the streets that they found their calling. In a decades time the Inhumane began a flourishing business of "Demon Hunting" where they were hired and paid to assassinate any ghoul that wreaked havoc. The business was very successful, the Inhumane we're able to afford a living for them selves while displaying their worth to humans around. Time passed and as thought, the Inhumane we're accepted more and more but always kept at arms length, science made amazing strides around this time as a professor came across feathers left on the planet from Azra himself and using it as a source of energy or even to perform feats of magic. Times we're good and the economy was never better but as each quarter (255 years, ¼ of the period) passed Threa grew closer and closer to the end of its first period. The Year is now 999, Quarter 4...merely 31 years before the end of the period and the re-arrival of Azra and Zala.....

---The Characters---

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--Protagonists--


Name: Brail Valiant
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Personality: Level headed, Cautious, Motivating.
Bio:The Champion, A Young Ghoul Hunter with an impressive record of Ghouls defeated for his Age. Leader of his group, Brail travels the Continent of Feare' Defeating Threats of evil like any other Hunter, only his motivation is not for money and/or social acceptance by humans like the others. Its simply because he feels its the right thing to do: if there's danger, he'll stop it.


Name: Zoomba Tupple
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Personality: Optimistic, Fun Loving.
Bio: All Inhumanes have Keen sensing skills, but very few are blessed with the speciality ability that Zoomba posses: "Seek Out", With this ability he can get a full reading on all types of life forms at various ranges of distance. With this skill he acts as The Teams intelligence network for located Ghouls, he sniffs them out then helps take them down. Also Brail's Bestfriend as the two often team up for 2-man missions, they''ve gotten close over the years.


Name: Sariss Tupple
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Personality: Obnoxious, Courageous, Egotistical at times and Protective.
Bio: Zoomba's older sister, when they we're children their Clan was attacked and their family kidnapped to be used in a "circus", during this terrible time Brail showed up while journeying the continent and catching wind of this crime, upon his arrival he met Sariss and young Zoomba where they immediately worked together on their first mission: Finding the kidnappers and freeing their family. Ever since this faithful encounter the 3 have been together. Sariss is greedy financially but has a good heart, a heart that has a soft spot for Baracks Red, but she refuses to admit.


Name: Trent Uprah
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Personality: Calm and Soft-Spoken.
Bio: An Inhumane trained in the arts of Musical Wizardry, where he casts spells through the sounds of instruments. Previously Journeying with Baracks as they enjoy each others company and sense of humors, they met Brail and the others some time ago when his name began to spread, After a few on and off co-op missions together between the both groups when targeting the same opponent, the two decided to officially be abducted into Brail's Camp. Trent Hunts as a way to progress his skills as a magician.


Name: Baracks Red
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Personality: Sarcastic, Lazy when possible, Strong Sense of Duty, Womanizer.
Bio: One of elvin descent, half-human and half-elf Baracks is both blessed and cursed with a life of about a 100 years or more. Fully aware of his life-span, he chooses to spend his time taking part in enjoying the world's greatest fruit: Women. He also finds sarcasm to be his personal cup of tea when dealing with people. Underneath his shallow exterior, Baracks hunts because he can't stand those who beat down on what they consider weak enough to be prey, as that "prey" is usually female. Is unaware of Sariss's hidden feelings towards him.


Name: Cecil Enaye
Age: N/A
Gender: Female
Personality: Upbeat and easy going.
Bio: A Sharp Shooter who meets Brail and the others during one of their missions on an island against a woman who tries to use her own body to evolve into the Ghoul of Lore: The Geno. Cecil is a bubbly and energetic lady who rarely panics and believes in Brail's abilities as a warrior to become a hero of legend, thus she teams up with him to support his efforts to save mankind from threats of evil.

--Antagonists--


Name: Dr. Zaidin
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Personality: Superiority Complex, Curious, Deceiving, Cooperative & kind only when beneficial to him.
Bio: World Renowned Scientist for first discovering the magical capabilites of "Fallen Feathers" (Proof of Azra's Existence) and "Catastrophies" (Proof of Zala's existence) that have been found scattered all over the world of Threa. Professor Zaidin,or Dr. Zaidin as he prefers to be called, wrote several books on extracting magical abilities from Fallen Feathers using his own invention: "Kiosk" which are now located throughout the world and using his by-product invention: S.R.P (Spirit Refillment Potions) to restore the spiritual energy it uses to cast the magic you extract from the feathers. These discoveries changed Threa completely, bringing in new businesses such as blacksmithing to bind feather magic to weapons. However after being named "The Worlds Greatest Scientist", Dr. Zaidin & his entire research facility Dissapeared from the public eye never to be heard from again. In Truth Dr. Zaidin came across a sponsor he couldn't refuse to work for and began production on his greatest work yet: The Secret "F.E.L.I.C.I.A Project".


Name: Hurtz Astridia-Valiant
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Personality: Loud & Overbearing, speaks in all caps most of the time.
Bio:Apart Of a subset group of Brail's Fallen Clan that were more extreme in their lust for battle, Hurtz is merely a product of how he was raised: Intoxicated with fighting. Only becoming a hunter for it's intangible license to kill, Hurtz is crazed for battle and enjoys nothing more than strong opponents, which is rare for him as he usually dominants all of his opponents with ease. Hailing from the Continent of Strengthe', he is known as "The Hunter Bully". Takes great interest in Brail and picks a fight with him every chance he gets.
His Battle Cry: "May my Victims shout my name as i crush them.....why??......BECAUSE IT HURTZ!!"


Name: Razale Astridia-Valiant
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Personality:
Bio: Hurtz younger Sister, knows as "The Cold Witch" Hunter. Despite the Astridia-Valiant Clan's reputation, Razale isn't fond of fighting, she simply battles to assist Hurtz as she worries for his well-being, who gets so caught up in fighting he constantly leaves himself open to surprise attacks. Fully aware that Her brother gets more and more twisted as they continue hunting, she still remains loyal as he's the only family she has and fighting is her only way she knows how to show her heart to him. After forming a crush on Brail -> Hurtz target of interest, Razale starts to see her brother's actions as a hindrance to other.

---The Features---
Unfortunately I'm not too Fancy, i'm being real humble and old school, i don't have the know-how to go ABOVE and BEYOND with stuff like CBS's and real-time battle systems, i'm keeping it reaaaal FF6 - FF7 level with the features, but you can look for yourself:

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PS3 (Or Any Controller) Compatible! - Play The Way a Gamer Should with a easy to configure controller, PS3 set up included! (JoyToKey)
Ex/m - Traditional Turn Based RPG is Stylized with The CRLS (Blizzard), your Ex/m (Exert Meter) Allows you to take on Foes with either "Exertion!" Moves (Soul Limits) "Extension!" Skills (Soul Rage/Weapon Magic) or Transform into an Inhumanes' deepest well of power, the "Excelsior!" (Chaos Drive)
Weapon Synthesis - Gather Materials From Chests & Ghouls to Forge New Weapons with Magical Abilities Via this Blacksmith System! (foreverZer0)
Mode7 - All Important Cutscenes Will Be Carried Out in Psuedo 3D Via NeoMode7! (MGCaladtogel)
Feather Fusion - Collect Feathers And Unlock New Spells to Fuse & Use with Your Heroes at Kiosks spread throughout the world of Threa! (LegacyX)
Dynamic Story - Traverse The World with companions as Hunters For Hire, all discriminated by others for your races, developing a sense of whats really "right" or "wrong" in a life of shaded gray...before destiny catches up with the present. (ConflictedX3)

---The Pictures---
All Still Under-Development, Subject to change:

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Title Screen -


Brail Valiant, The Star (Name Changeable In-Game)


The 7-Day War, Zala's Front


First Boss Battle, Rank C Ghoul - Shackles


Last Day Of The 7-Day War, Azra Alongside his General Arche Angel, I won't reveal names yet, Refer to this Arche as "The Wingless Arche"

I Hope you enjoyed looking, i will update here throughout the month, The Tech Demo is Heavily Story Driven, not much battle but i'm doing everyting i can so your not READING a 2D book but actually enjoying yourselves, Demo will include Mode7 Scenes, The First Forest, First Town, First Boss, First 2 Playable characters, & the CRLS Battle system.

For any questions and criticism please feel free now:
---The Feedback---

  now that you mention it, your right, will do.

Edit: I DEEM THIS THREAD => DEAD.

New thread (Although i'm sure this topic will be closed before anyone even see's this):
http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,11968.0.html

I want to Give a personal thank you to Roseskye, i read this post about 9 days ago and i hadn't worked on my game in MONTHS, but somehow that stanza of opinion gave me a burst of inspiration and i've spent the last week+ cleaning up a project i thought wouldn't be able to contend with these super fancy, a million scripts games.

Now i picked my lane, trying to expand within' that lane, use what i need & have to the best of my abilities and have become weary of throwing in things that aren't going to improve my game and are in truth some ultimately useless, flashy, but randomly (& thus poorly) implemented feature.

In the words of one of those lil b fans: TYBG (Thank You, Based God)

To give a proper post:

Update
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- Animated Title Screen Added
- All Desired functions Scripts Added Except for 2 Placed In
- New extended Intro
- NeoMode7 Cutscenes Implemented
- Weapons - 100%,  Armors 100%, Accessories 50%, Items 80%
- Skill Shop Added For Magic System
- Completed World Map
- Re-learned the CRLS functions AGAIN and finished All characters except for Transformation's Soul Limits
- Storyline Edits

Things To Be Completed Before Tech Demo Release
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- Re-sweep of all scenes for spelling/grammar edits
- Improve maps with more animated livelihood
- Enemy Animations
- Complete extended Intro
- Complete Items
- Calibrate Player/Monster Stats & Exp Gain Curve
- Finish 2nd To Final & Final Scene of Act I

I'm Releasing Screenshots by the Sunday June 9th and Hoping to Release the Tech Demo By the end of this Month/start of July.

Thank you! I really appreciate that coming from you, i've been running through rpg maker sites/forums for who knows how long and it never ceases to amaze me how far your name has spread, your really quite the celebrity and role model, your CRLS script has taught me numerous things about not being afraid to try and understand how scripting actually functions, i can't write a line of code but i can more or less decipher it without instructions lol, but i digress.

Hi all!!, new account but i've been skulking around these forums for years  

I try to self teach myself alot and use google frequently, but i've actually hit a wall in for the first time in like 3 years with rpg maker, i cannot find any scripts for a 6-man CMS or 6-man team in battle that's compatible with SDK 2.4 or blizzard's some add-ons/part 2 of tons of add-ons (i only use part 2 of tons of add-ons)

i tried re-arranging them but i felt like i was getting nowhere, these are the last 2 scripts i need to complete what i'm trying to achieve with my project, i haven't tried a easy party switcher script mainly because i felt it was kinda pointless to have a game where there's 6 characters and your constantly switching members and leaving 2 out of the group, if it were 7+ characters it'd make more sense to me.

if there's slight editing to do i will attempt it if anyone's willing to guide me with a bit of instructions, like i mentioned i'm pretty self-taught so i'm not afraid of going past the "end of configuration" part of the script if i have an idea of what line to go to and what to switch.

If you need any more info i'll promptly reply, thank you in advance and hope to hear from someone soon!

P.S - I use XP, legal version

Sorry for Necro-Posting, But i'm back once again, had to graduate from college real quick 

Since last week i got an instant burst of inspiration and have been working on this project AROUND THE CLOCK (sleeping at 5 a.m, waking up at 12 p.m and back at it)

i realized i really had something cool on my hands and i owed it to myself to ATLEAST complete a tech demo, and based on people's views if i will ever attempt to finish the rest.

Just saying high to the world , i know its a new username, my old account got deleted writefully so and as i'm conflicted on finishing it completely or not, i added the "Ed" to my name lol

Glad to be apart of the community again and hope to make some friends this time around, will update this page soon!