Forum Saga - Curse Tournament
Forum Saga 2 - Age of RB1
One
1 would be a spin off of Randomness’ Curse Tournament series. Would act as both a worldbuilding and introduction to new characters since the tournament would include users from all Trust Levels, as well as Outsiders.
The tournament would be a branch plot that connects varying important characters together(giving them reasons to interact in the future). The prize for the tournament should be valuable enough for people of all backgrounds to want to participate. Not all attendees would show up for the sake of fighting in battle (some outsiders could try to steal the prize).
The main character should be a newgen/outsider wishing to enter the Forums world, or a TL1 user that used to be a powerful outsider but due to (insert non-physically crippling circumstances) has been chained down to the Forums.
Two
2 would take the RB1 lore and make it a reality. RB1 starts off as one of Vetex’s most trusted advisors(or, “Leaders”), but grows more and more unsatisfied with his management of the Forums. He then creates three avatars and proceeds to pull multiple users out of the Banlands and into the Forums world, feeling like he’d rather destroy the forums than let things go on as they are.
Each avatar would take an aspect of RB1s personality, and each avatar would split up into their own thirds. Those thirds would split up into their own thirds, and so on. The only unifying trait between these thirds is their origin avatar (so there’d be three different RB1 sub factions that our main characters would have to track down.) RB1 would meet his end by the hands of Vetex.
This would be the unifying arc that solidifies the ties made in the Curse Tournament.
- there would be a timeline for this, too. All of these events would occur pre-AO, meaning they all happened in the WoM era. The climax of the WoM era and the beginning of the age of AO would have their own special movies.
example: WoM era finally would include Vetex vs Criminal Scum, beginning of the age of AO would probably have a cold war documentary feel with a lot of political tension coming from the massive increase of Outsider envoys (Youtubers and their followers, how the forums interacted with them, etc)
Each arc could follow an exaggerated version of real life events. These events would have to have originated on the forums. For example…
Neikosaikou would have an arc, but not Ana the Sailor. Although the Forums had a reaction to both figures, Neikosaikou directly interacted with the forums, unlike Ana who just caused an uproar in general.
Noble Symphony would have an arc, but not Arisell/Q_Ari. Both are generally disliked by the forums, but Noble actually interacted with and affected the forums in some way. The main factor is whether or not they made their main appearance on the forums or not.
Arcs wouldn’t necessarily need to be huge events. They can be small things that the community considers to be significant.
Events like Key’s descent into madness and mass Topic derailings could be personified in an arc/ short episode/chapter(not sure how someone might personify the concept of Topics for it to be included in a story. it could be something like an open discussion to all TL’s, but that’s not really anything different from what it actually is. maybe a form of transporation or something like a politcal bill?)
Origin stories for banned users and Leaders might also be considered for arcs or plotpoints. SavageWinds departure from the forums and CrimsonPants good suggestions might be good places to start.
I don’t know if I cooked or not. Did my best.
