HOW'S THIS FOR A PLOT LINE! (Warning: May and DOES contain elements of HIGH FANTASY.)?

Now, I want you to switch your mind off for a moment. Is it off yet? Try really really hard- I want you to forget that everything that you know as 'normal' and 'obvious' and reboot your mind to the following:



1)PLOT

The time is 2009 .e. this time. The place is here. Nothing about the world has changed at the onset of this story.

Everything is as it should be.



Now here comes the clincher (non-fantasy fanatics, leave now...still here? Well, if you've watched fantasy masterpieces e.g. ff VI: Advent's children and The Matrix and liked/loved them, then it's o.k.. You can stay. Just don't say I didn't warn you!) there exists a back-up reality to the one we are currently in.

Think of it in terms of the new improved version, kinda like Vista to windows 98-if you catch my drift-



Its purpose is to replace this reality once it deems the current reality 'outdated'.



A couple of centuries ago, this period in time came and it attempted to take over. However, the current reality resisted the action and managed to triumph over its replacement. reality version 1.2 was then left in a weakened state where its influence on matters is only mild at best.



Its effect is evidenced in the numerous fantastical stories rampant, yet unproved during that age and time; vampires, mermaids, Atlantis, dragons, Excalibur, mythical lands occupied by fantastical peoples, legendary heroes who would win entire wars and vanquish epic enemies all on their lonesome. You know the type.



However the stories remained largely unproved because of its weak and suppressed nature. This is not to say;however, that these do not exist, but that there influence and existence is limited and highly suppressed.

It then decides on a different more unorthodox route...



It decides to concentrate whatever influence it has left into 7 randomly selected humans whom it deems most compatible-that is via its own twisted criteria-to its ideals and its power to act as its unwitting agents and hasten its ascension to power.



By doing so, it effectively converts this individuals into wild cards, governed by none of the rules applicable to either side of reality as they have elements of both in them.



It does this partly to limit the current reality's hold on them and theirs, and partly out of amused curiosity to see what becomes of a being once released from all the rules (seeing as it too has rules by which it must abide-although they remain largely unknown through out the series-)



The story revolves around the individual tales of these unique people who are suddenly thrust into a world unlike any other-imagined or otherwise...made deeper by the morality of what it is they are supposed to bring about and the consequences involved.



Will they destroy everything they care about by bring about such a radically new era? Is it right? Why should they even care? What happens if they take no sides? Will the universe collapse inwards or the world still keep on turning?

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so dudes and dudettes, what do you think?



N/B: I kinda wrote this in a frenzy so just glide over the grammatical errors kay?

Thanx!!!!



I'll update you on the CHARACTERS later...HOW'S THIS FOR A PLOT LINE! (Warning: May and DOES contain elements of HIGH FANTASY.)?
listen to the guy with the ? mark seriously it is unique and he just answered straight upHOW'S THIS FOR A PLOT LINE! (Warning: May and DOES contain elements of HIGH FANTASY.)?
I think that you shouldn't come on here and ask people like us to judge if this is great or not. Also, it's bound to be stolen, as it sounds like a very unique premise. You seem to be very passionate about your story, and seem to know where it's going, so - as the famous Adidas ad says - JUST DO IT. :D Best of luck with you.HOW'S THIS FOR A PLOT LINE! (Warning: May and DOES contain elements of HIGH FANTASY.)?
Dude... it's okay... but it's a lot like the Matrix. You really shouldn't post ideas on here though. Show it to friends AND enemies (well, people who aren't your friends who won't steal your idea) and see what they think. The internet is NOT a safe place.
It sounds like the stock alternate worlds story with some pseudo-matrix BS grafted onto to it. To me it sounds like babble form the start of a video game, where you'd ignore it and move on. Trying to graft on the matrix computer jargon or the concept that the world as it exists is merely a simulation seems rather at odds with the planned "magic" beings.



I've seen the general alternate magical realm bit before, yours seems weaker for a number of reasons. If it was only a "few centuries ago", why do all the tales of those beings date to much earlier times than that, with the number of such stories becoming smaller dramatically the last five centuries, rather than stronger as your theory would suggest? I've seen it worked the other way a number of times. Where from a shared past, two worlds come into being, one which is ours, the other which contains the old magic made real. Often there is a "quantum physics" explanation for this alternate world. Take roger Zelazny's Changeling stories. One world becomes scientific, the other magical. Sometimes it is given a magical explanation, the Sidhe withdrawing into their hills type of explanation. Faerie folk, awaiting a change of events in Avalon, Tir Na Nog, Olympus, etc...



I think your idea would be stronger for not attempting to use computer terms, grafting the matrix to it. If you are going with the idea of all existence as merely a simulation, better to not hold on too tight to this time scale, as the time could also be simulated, etc.. You could really expand the walls, if you went with the idea of the world-as-code. Take something like Jack Chalker's Soul Rider series, which plays with that idea, while combining it with Philip Farmer's pocket universe ideas from his World of Tiers series. If you are going to hold onto the one magical one non-magical worlds part, then skip the computerese.



Beyond that problem the rest sounds fairly workable, the general plot sounds Ok, even if the general idea of the dual worlds isn't the most novel. Plenty of good fantasy books have already trod the ground, so keep in mind you have stiff competition. The idea of a "spirit world" connected to the real world is a wide spread one in various myths, so it isn't as if you're stealing it from a single author.





Oh and to all the chuckleheads that are so paranoid about someone ripping off your ideas. I've yet to see one new idea on here, you're paranoids who are just ignorant of the breadth of the literature which you're claimming to be writing. Quite frankly, I've seen more original fantasy worlds churnned out by a single 14 year old dungeonmaster in six months, than i've seen here in a year.