Hi. I have two WiP going on atm.
One I already have a link to, and am looking perhaps for an Alpha Reader to go through it.
Name: Invicto
Summary: Your childhood friend disappeared five years ago. Since then, she’s been declared likely dead; but on Halloween night, you are reunited with her and thrust into a precarious situation. You become trapped in an underwater civilization that survives on the beneficence of a serpentine god known as the Leviasun; your former best friend is the heiress to their monarchy. You have the chance to attempt to assimilate into the Leivy, or resist its pull, but either way you’ll encounter strife from those who oppose you.
There is an ongoing struggle between the Leivy itself and land dwellers who know about them. The MC has the opportunity to throw their support behind the Leivyans or their enemies, and to explore the connections between the Leivy and their own hometown.
The current ROs include the best friend, the best friend’s younger Leivyan half-sister, a bodyguard to the Leivyan royal family, a young Leivyan scholar, and an advisor to the Leivyan monarch who knows more than they’re letting on. There are some trigger warnings, because some characters have trauma in their backgrounds that inform the way the plot develops. There is no explicit sexual content, though sexual themes may be referenced.
WiP: Invicto (Updated on 08/29/2021) - Hosted Games / Works In Progress - Choice of Games Forum
The second WiP is much newer. I have a Google Doc for it, and have written a tiny amount of the opening scene.
Name: Beat the Odds (tentative)
The second game is about an MC from a rather dystopian version of the United States. Genetic engineering and biotechnology has progressed rapidly from an unexpected breakthrough in the 1960s, which has helped mankind eliminate almost all genetically based diseases and begin to alter the genes of embryos to select for better traits in one fell swoop. During the Cold War, the CIA also began experimenting with bioengineering to develop people with superhuman abilities. About twenty years later, the first public “superheroes”, officially referred to as “supramundane organisms” or, colloquially, “Alphas” became a public staple.
In spite of genetic and biotechnological innovations having progressed at an insanely rapid pace, modern staples of our time such as cellphones and the internet are nonexistent (some VIP government officials have access to a rudimentary version of the World Wide Web… that’s about it).
The story is set in 2043. At this point, there is a huge class divide between those who are able to afford genetic alterations and those who cannot. Not only have the wealthier gotten wealthier and the poor, poorer, but the wealthy have been able to afford genetic modifications to make them apparently longer lived, more attractive, healthier, and more intelligent.
“Alphas” almost always come out of upper class families. At this point, they are often capable of a wide range of abilities that no one would have thought possible just eighty years ago. Through a mixture of genetic manipulations and other biotechnological modifications, Alphas have been able to manifest extraordinary abilities that go beyond increased speed and endurance-- newer abilities include everything from elemental manipulation to emotion/thought sensing, to mind control. Alphas are involved in military endeavors (the details of which are not known to most American citizens), aiding people struck by natural disaster (climate change is ongoing), and saving cities and towns that have been attacked by feral “Aberrations”, domestic animals whose ancestors were subject to genetic manipulation experiments gone… not great.
You, the MC, are from a working-class background in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. You left school at the age of fourteen to work and live in a newspaper printing facility following the death of your mother, in order to provide for yourself and your younger sister. One day, your sister begs you to enter a lottery to win a chance to become an Alpha-- one of the few opportunities you would ever have for social mobility. Against all odds, you win.
This story is a bit easier for me to plot, but I’d ofc appreciate feedback even with the earliest concepts.