Post by rvm45 on Sept 15, 2011 18:01:13 GMT -6
I have several plots bumping around my brain-pan, but none of them have tapped me on the shoulder yet, and said, "Hey Dude: Write Me!"
#1} "The one True Light"
VP(View-Point Character) is a 50-ish Genius, who live in a rather large pole building--It being Laboratory; Workshop; Gym; Library and living quarters all in one.
He scrapes by, but his inability to concentrate on any one thing, to the exclusion of other things, has always held him back from any real success in life.
An old High School friend that he hasn't seen for over thirty years, comes calling--to ask VP's aid. He's high up in the State government now.
Friend shows him a videotape of a crazy woman.
She tells a wild tale about how her infant daughter died. As she tells the tale, she alters randomly--from telling it in a flat emotionless monotone; to weeping and gnashing her teeth in guilt and Shame; to getting some sort of extra-Strength Sexual Stimulation from reliving it.
She also switches effortlessly into Metered Verse.
Basic Story: a man in a long black coat,wearing a big black hat, knocked on her door, one very rainy fall morning.
He suggests that the play Hannible Lechter type games with the Baby, Which they do--ending up having a meal of oven-baked Baby.
When the husband comes home, the dark man is gone, nothing left of the Infant but leftovers--and the woman is in a catatonic state.
Finally, they managed to rouse her enough to give the statement, then shortly afterward, she shuts down completely.
"I'm no Psychiatrist" Says VP. "But if you'd like a Technical Diagnosis--I'd say that she was 'WHACKO!' "
"I'd be inclined to agree with you--But we've had seventeen prior cases almost exactly like this one....."
So they start investigating.....In oddball, unconventional ways--cause that's the only way VP Approaches anything in life.
***************
"The One True Light" is a Dude who's figured out a way to make a Small Video Display Device that uses Light Emitting Diodes--and gazing at it will "Hypnotize" anyone into doing anything he tells them--it only takes one exposure, so long as he tells them:
"From now on, you will do exactly what I tell you, to the best of your ability, and always put my welfare ahead of my own.....And forget all about the 'Crooked Wheel'."
If he didn't put all that into a disclaimer--it might come back to bite him in the ass.
The device won't work if you're Blind, Color Blind, only have one Eye, or have a strong disparity in the clarity of vision in the two eyes.
"The One True Light" is discreet to the point of obsession, is busy building a huge secret society of folks loyal to him.....
And it turns out to be the only Crooked Wheel that he ever let out of his immediate control.....
And the Dark Man has it......
#2} A fellow from our World who finds some sort of means to travel to an Alternate World, where the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a rather Restrained Nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union.
The place is pretty much back together--especially in America. The main difference is far less People--Say 80 Million in the US.....
And Science and Technology have followed some different paths.....
And the whole World has a kinda '40s; '50s; Retro-Steampunk Feel to it.
#3}The Loud-Mouthed Time Traveler--Who fills his panel truck full of cheap, but Colorful "T" Shirts; Sweat Shirts; Sweat Pants; Generic Lighters; Etc.
At the "Dollar General Store"; then takes his junk back to the time of Plato, or whoever--and trades it for Gold and Silver Coins.....
Just going from one misadventure to the other.
This is the type book, where a Waitress in an Old West Cafe says, "You must be another Time-Traveller. We get a lot of them this time of year. How did I know? That's a 1911A1 in your Holster, and the year is 1883....."
#4} Imagine a time in the future, where there are all sorts of Androids and Gynoids running around. {Technically, a "Female Android" is A" Gynoid [/i]"}
Lets say that just like computers, some have much more data processing powers than others--and they've been around for 50 or 60 years--lots of obsolete models running around looking Retro.
Just like with computers, a good "Mechtor" or "Doctor of Androidal Medicine" Can boost the brainpower considerably.
And just like now, boring and unimaginative people will try to tell you that if you're going to go to that much trouble and expense--why not buy a new one?
There are also Androids running around, who are scrap-box mixtures of parts.
Finally, some Androids--with the most complex brains, fastest CPU, and the most sophisticated Software.....
They are certainly "Intellegent"; and they meet a very abstract set of Government established Parameters, to be considered "Sentient"--at least on paper.
In practice, few of the Emancipated Androids seem very self aware, or sentient at all.
Now our VP inherits a Run-Down Gynoid Hooker business from a distant relative--along with a bit of ready cash.
In the future, in most localities, Gynoid Brothels are Legal--but considered in very poor taste.
The place comes with 14 or 15 hookers--old, but sound Chassis, Dull-Witted {How Smart does a Robot Hooker need to be?}
3 Security Androids--very close to the Sentient line; a couple Janitor Androids--and a Single Emancipated Cook Android.....
And a pretty state-of-the-Art Android infirmary and General Workshop area--Right in the Basement.
VP has no desire to run a Robot Whorehouse--he's actually fairly Victorian in his thinking.....
But he gets the Idea to Ramp up the Hookers IQs, Reflexes, Sensors--and turn them into Bodyguards--and start a High End Security Company--on a shoestring Budget.
Well--any comments?
Which one(s) do you like?
.....RVM45
#1} "The one True Light"
VP(View-Point Character) is a 50-ish Genius, who live in a rather large pole building--It being Laboratory; Workshop; Gym; Library and living quarters all in one.
He scrapes by, but his inability to concentrate on any one thing, to the exclusion of other things, has always held him back from any real success in life.
An old High School friend that he hasn't seen for over thirty years, comes calling--to ask VP's aid. He's high up in the State government now.
Friend shows him a videotape of a crazy woman.
She tells a wild tale about how her infant daughter died. As she tells the tale, she alters randomly--from telling it in a flat emotionless monotone; to weeping and gnashing her teeth in guilt and Shame; to getting some sort of extra-Strength Sexual Stimulation from reliving it.
She also switches effortlessly into Metered Verse.
Basic Story: a man in a long black coat,wearing a big black hat, knocked on her door, one very rainy fall morning.
He suggests that the play Hannible Lechter type games with the Baby, Which they do--ending up having a meal of oven-baked Baby.
When the husband comes home, the dark man is gone, nothing left of the Infant but leftovers--and the woman is in a catatonic state.
Finally, they managed to rouse her enough to give the statement, then shortly afterward, she shuts down completely.
"I'm no Psychiatrist" Says VP. "But if you'd like a Technical Diagnosis--I'd say that she was 'WHACKO!' "
"I'd be inclined to agree with you--But we've had seventeen prior cases almost exactly like this one....."
So they start investigating.....In oddball, unconventional ways--cause that's the only way VP Approaches anything in life.
***************
"The One True Light" is a Dude who's figured out a way to make a Small Video Display Device that uses Light Emitting Diodes--and gazing at it will "Hypnotize" anyone into doing anything he tells them--it only takes one exposure, so long as he tells them:
"From now on, you will do exactly what I tell you, to the best of your ability, and always put my welfare ahead of my own.....And forget all about the 'Crooked Wheel'."
If he didn't put all that into a disclaimer--it might come back to bite him in the ass.
The device won't work if you're Blind, Color Blind, only have one Eye, or have a strong disparity in the clarity of vision in the two eyes.
"The One True Light" is discreet to the point of obsession, is busy building a huge secret society of folks loyal to him.....
And it turns out to be the only Crooked Wheel that he ever let out of his immediate control.....
And the Dark Man has it......
#2} A fellow from our World who finds some sort of means to travel to an Alternate World, where the Cuban Missile Crisis led to a rather Restrained Nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union.
The place is pretty much back together--especially in America. The main difference is far less People--Say 80 Million in the US.....
And Science and Technology have followed some different paths.....
And the whole World has a kinda '40s; '50s; Retro-Steampunk Feel to it.
#3}The Loud-Mouthed Time Traveler--Who fills his panel truck full of cheap, but Colorful "T" Shirts; Sweat Shirts; Sweat Pants; Generic Lighters; Etc.
At the "Dollar General Store"; then takes his junk back to the time of Plato, or whoever--and trades it for Gold and Silver Coins.....
Just going from one misadventure to the other.
This is the type book, where a Waitress in an Old West Cafe says, "You must be another Time-Traveller. We get a lot of them this time of year. How did I know? That's a 1911A1 in your Holster, and the year is 1883....."
#4} Imagine a time in the future, where there are all sorts of Androids and Gynoids running around. {Technically, a "Female Android" is A" Gynoid [/i]"}
Lets say that just like computers, some have much more data processing powers than others--and they've been around for 50 or 60 years--lots of obsolete models running around looking Retro.
Just like with computers, a good "Mechtor" or "Doctor of Androidal Medicine" Can boost the brainpower considerably.
And just like now, boring and unimaginative people will try to tell you that if you're going to go to that much trouble and expense--why not buy a new one?
There are also Androids running around, who are scrap-box mixtures of parts.
Finally, some Androids--with the most complex brains, fastest CPU, and the most sophisticated Software.....
They are certainly "Intellegent"; and they meet a very abstract set of Government established Parameters, to be considered "Sentient"--at least on paper.
In practice, few of the Emancipated Androids seem very self aware, or sentient at all.
Now our VP inherits a Run-Down Gynoid Hooker business from a distant relative--along with a bit of ready cash.
In the future, in most localities, Gynoid Brothels are Legal--but considered in very poor taste.
The place comes with 14 or 15 hookers--old, but sound Chassis, Dull-Witted {How Smart does a Robot Hooker need to be?}
3 Security Androids--very close to the Sentient line; a couple Janitor Androids--and a Single Emancipated Cook Android.....
And a pretty state-of-the-Art Android infirmary and General Workshop area--Right in the Basement.
VP has no desire to run a Robot Whorehouse--he's actually fairly Victorian in his thinking.....
But he gets the Idea to Ramp up the Hookers IQs, Reflexes, Sensors--and turn them into Bodyguards--and start a High End Security Company--on a shoestring Budget.
Well--any comments?
Which one(s) do you like?
.....RVM45
