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« on: July 04, 2007, 05:21:50 pm » |
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How about a story about a secret society of steampunks in a cyberpunk world?
Yes, these odd things are what come out of my mind.
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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2007, 05:32:00 pm » |
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...who go largely unnoticed until the EM pulse from a nuclear explosion destroys all the delicate cyberware...
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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2007, 05:34:05 pm » |
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...who go largely unnoticed until the EM pulse from a nuclear explosion destroys all the delicate cyberware...
... an event largely staged by the steampunk organization in the first place... |
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2007, 07:15:59 pm » |
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And subjugate the cyberpuks with tesla cannons!
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2007, 10:37:13 pm » |
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and bombings from airships.
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Rosencrantz. None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.
Hamlet. Then is doomsday near.
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« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2007, 10:47:13 pm » |
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What sort of hoodlum group of steampunks are these running amok in a cyberpunk city? Have they perhaps been wronged by the cyberpunks? Enslaved perhaps?
I would find it most interesting if the cyberpunks had subjugated the steampunks and left them to build their primitive machines when a cyberpunk organization sympathetic to the steampunk culture causes the EMP and allowing mass chaos to ensue.
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2007, 11:05:59 pm » |
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Not enslaved, but persecuted.
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« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2007, 11:14:40 pm » |
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Either way, I daresay you see the advantage to that decision in storytelling.
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« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2007, 11:16:16 pm » |
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The steampunks being those, in part, who are somehow unable to pursue cybernetic enhancements and as such are forced to make do with only half-forgotten technologies forged of the discarded scrap of the corporations, a moniker which is likewise applied to them.
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« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2007, 11:40:27 pm » |
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And which would be those technologies allowed for them? As it is basically a cyberpunk scenario, i think that they would need something more... maybes tubes and sort?
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« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2007, 12:53:58 am » |
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Much less "allowed" than "available"
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« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2007, 01:37:40 am » |
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You could make it so most of the world have gone cyberpunk, but the Amish has only reached the level of steam technology and suddenly find themselves having to fight back after large quantities of some material for circuits has been found in the ground under their towns.
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« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2007, 04:02:42 am » |
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Steampunk Amish rebels! They could launch midnight raids on the remains of old clocktowers for the clockwork.
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« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2007, 06:41:42 am » |
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The Steampunkers could be a fringe faction among the legions of drones that work to supply the "upper class" Cyberians that are only mildly aware of their existance of a workforce at all. Then, a Cyberian prince could fall in love with a SP automaton named Maria. We could call it, say, "Metropolis"  |
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Where you start doesn't determine how far you will go - the people who believe they can, and the people who believe they cannot, are both right.
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« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2007, 12:54:16 pm » |
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How about a story about a secret society of steampunks in a cyberpunk world?
Yes, these odd things are what come out of my mind.
Dammit! You've been reading my notebooks! Seriously though, I'm working on a very very similar idea for a comic book at the moment, out soon if artistic quirks allow. |
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« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2007, 05:12:24 pm » |
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Nice! I'll try to find it when it does.
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