Ok, so I have to admit, the working title for this might seem a little odd or just outright like I forgot to write a title at all, and that might be why you’re here now, but I swear it was genuinely the most appropriate title I could come up with.
Before I get into the concept I’ve got in my hands here I suppose I should give a bit of an introduction, for formality’s sake.
Hello, I go by Jury. I was a fairly active tabletop GM up until the recent societal collapse so I was big into my interactive story type beats. Figured if I couldn’t get my story-writing fix through my sessions this would be a pretty good alternative, so here I am.
Alright, with that out of the way, here’s the quick elevator pitch for Untitled:
Summary
Stories sometimes tell of real lives, occasionally real lives mirror stories. With the advent of the rifts, the distinction between the two is now virtually non-existent. If left unchecked, a rift manifests its contents in reality. While not necessarily alarming on paper, the last thing you want is for a rift to open and an eldritch god to come crawling out.
Individuals known as Titled have taken up the responsibility to seal these rifts to prevent further chaos. They do so by hosting the spirits of powerful figures. The more well known the spirit, the stronger the Titled.
And you? Well, there’s not much for you to do in this world of mythical creatures and literal gods. After all, you’re, well… Untitled.
I’m still a little unfamiliar with the whole Choicescript language so things are going to be pretty slow as I pick things up along the way. I’ve put up a quick and dirty prologue section to serve as a quick demo as well as an opportunity for me to take in some early feedback on my writing style/ general formatting, so feel free to be as critical as you’d like.
In terms of storyline, I’ve got a fairly rough general idea of the main story beats I have to hit, as well as a pretty ambitious system I don’t know will translate well into this medium, but given my roots in GM’ing may end up giving the readers on here a hand in choosing the exact general path, likely to be in poll form, though we’ll have to see how that goes.
I’ll update the sections below as I further flesh out this little project, and I hope this marks the start of a fun journey for us.
For now though, here’s your link, and let me know what you think.
Conceptual Inspirations/Other cool things to check out.
One of the bigger conceptual inspirations I had for this was definitely “Omniscient Reader’s Perspective”, a pretty famous Korean webnovel clocking in at something like 550 chapters, and took its married author pair several years of scripting and re-scripting. It plays with a similar concept of having Gods sponsoring humans, only in more of a giant cosmic game-show of death kind of sense. I don’t want to say too much since I would wholly recommend checking it out if you ever have the time.
Another big one would definitely be the Fate series, since the premise of that is having famous historical/mythical figures (a lot of whom are genderbent), fight each other. I’m a little more hesitant to recommend checking this one out. From a content perspective, it gets pretty dark depending on which medium you consume the series from. And from a more general ease-of-access perspective, just look up “Fate Timeline” if you’re thinking about commiting to the dive, and uh, good luck if you are.
The whole rift concept stems partly from Marvel comics’ 2015 Secret Wars arc by Jonathan Hickman, which plays a lot with alternate universes, and which I suspect may recieve the cinematic treatment given their recent focus on multiverse. The real heavy inspiration comes from another Korean webnovel Solo Levelling, which has a very similar premise of rifts, only it takes a more MMO/fantasy game style approach to its systems. Both of these are worth checking out if you find my project interesting, though hopefully I can distinguish my writing to be different enough to not come of as an inferior knock-off!
