[K5pbem] K5PBEM Future Direction

[Mike Surbrook]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Logan Darklighter wrote:

> Mike Surbrook wrote:
>
>> A while back, I finally overcame the big hurdle dealing with writing the 
>> backstory. Instead of the dry, text-book approach some of you may have seen 
>> and proofed, I'm going to re-write it from a first-person perspective. 
>> And...
>> 
>> **sudden brainstorm**
>> 
>> What do people think of using Sarah J Ferrari as the vehicle to dispense 
>> information?
>
>
> <Boggles just a bit... >
>
> Y'know, that is just so twisted, it just might work. And you do her "voice" 
> so well!
>
> Why not write up an example bit and see how it flows?

**sudden brainstorm  2 -- electric boogaloo**

How about using vaarious NPCs to dispense info? For example, if I start 
various section of with a first-person overview of the history of that 
section, then I could have...

Sarah J Ferrari -- history of the world
Shion Nys -- history of espers
Matthew Shirow -- history of replicated humans
Marta Nys -- cyber
Kitten or Lora or Jagger -- cyborgs
Sandra -- the Zone

(and so on)

Some of these histories will be only a page or so, although the inital 
history will be far longer. Of course, most of the text will be in 
standard format, as doing the whole book in 1st person would get old 
quick.

-- 
Michael Surbrook
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