Eternity RPC Board
11-13-2018, 09:55 PM
In all seriousness, I heard a thing on the radio and it gave me an idea that'll kill two birds with one stone. Before I lay into studying for the evening, let me get the idea out there:
It's not a new idea; I swear it's been bandied about before, but now I know we have widespread directorate support for it, and we'll make it a Directorate-enforced worldwide crisis.
In a phrase, worldwide pandemic. There are enough events going on for the past...well, many years in the Svarna/New Zealmark area to cause a breakdown of social and civil orders in the area, coupled with a steady exodus of people that, under normal circumstances, in all likelihood never would have left their areas. Or, even more likely, certain non-native people being in these areas that are already worse off than normal catching the thing and carrying it back to more dense areas after their mission is done. Or, very unlikely but fun because I can make up some fun stuff, is that it's deliberately brought from these areas to the world at large for reasons.
IN Any Case, it's a thing that gestates long enough to spread (and/or something that causes low-level symptoms early on that mimic something benign and unreported/untreated, like a common cold,) and then explodes into something deadly. The nature of an interconnected world brings it places before it's known what it is or that it's even being spread, one thing leads to another, world populations and economies are at risk.
Oh yeah, and impacts are non-negotiable. Don't want to be hurt as bad by this scenario? Then get some good RP going. Solve the dilemma...or don't, and maybe the Directorate will take pity in trade for a good story.
That's it. Just me getting a quick idea down before I lose it. Details can be ironed out later (though preferably not the details of the disease, which I'd prefer to be released as nations respond to the crisis).
It's not a new idea; I swear it's been bandied about before, but now I know we have widespread directorate support for it, and we'll make it a Directorate-enforced worldwide crisis.
In a phrase, worldwide pandemic. There are enough events going on for the past...well, many years in the Svarna/New Zealmark area to cause a breakdown of social and civil orders in the area, coupled with a steady exodus of people that, under normal circumstances, in all likelihood never would have left their areas. Or, even more likely, certain non-native people being in these areas that are already worse off than normal catching the thing and carrying it back to more dense areas after their mission is done. Or, very unlikely but fun because I can make up some fun stuff, is that it's deliberately brought from these areas to the world at large for reasons.
IN Any Case, it's a thing that gestates long enough to spread (and/or something that causes low-level symptoms early on that mimic something benign and unreported/untreated, like a common cold,) and then explodes into something deadly. The nature of an interconnected world brings it places before it's known what it is or that it's even being spread, one thing leads to another, world populations and economies are at risk.
Oh yeah, and impacts are non-negotiable. Don't want to be hurt as bad by this scenario? Then get some good RP going. Solve the dilemma...or don't, and maybe the Directorate will take pity in trade for a good story.
That's it. Just me getting a quick idea down before I lose it. Details can be ironed out later (though preferably not the details of the disease, which I'd prefer to be released as nations respond to the crisis).