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Bear Ribs

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Kantai Collection bunny:

Benjamin Franklin owned a number of privateering vessels he chartered for the purpose of commerce raiding on the British, and especially taking as many hostages as possible so that he could force the British Empire to release the many imprisoned Americans in a prisoner exchange.

Shipgirls generate fairies from their crews. For the purpose of this story, suppose the reason there are so many more Abyssals than there ever were WW2 ships is because they're able to summon the spirits of ancient sailing vessels and upgrade them, unlike Shipgirls, allowing them to access staggering numbers of sailgirls that are then transformed into modernized Abyssals.

The Abyss summons that small commerce raider fleet, and these ships generate Ben Franklin fairies. Havoc ensues as the genius statesman/scientist/inventor fairies promptly get together and, not being fond of the monarchy set up the Abyss uses, begin introducing democracy, innovation, and diplomacy to the Abyss and trying to end the war and get things working on a statecraft level.
 

King Krávoka

An infection of Your universe.
>medieval/low tech
A v-tuber is a modernized puppet show of a sort. For something more specific, the "tuber" may be trying to achieve a Mechanical Turk scam, for status, for fame, or to woo a specific courtier. They may be frustrated that their invention is recieving more affection than themselves.
>Near-future
The entire concept of vtubing is already /aggressively/ cyberpunk. On the opposite end of the scale, it's possible that AI is sufficiently advanced to play the puppet on its own, without need of a human rig. Does it mark the beginning of ludditic resentment among actors and writers?
>space
To save on interplanetary bandwidth, the producers have turned to separately rendering the stream for each planet, both their games and characters. Each streamer is effectively a different character for neighboring planets, and it breeds misinterpretation, paranoia, and cheating allegations within the fanbase.
 

The Whispering Monk

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Osaul
Just watching an episode of Night Court in season 3 where Harry ends up dating a witch. Then I thought...what if this is the Dresden Files universe, and the Night Court gang is pulled into some sort of Dresen'ish episode. I mean, it's right before Halloween!
 

The Whispering Monk

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I mean...what if Harry T Stone is actually Harry Dresden's dad? I think the timing could work. Harry T. Stone is a magician and capable of that sort of thing. OK, now I'm really chasing the rabbit.
 

bintananth

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Being effectively confined to a patient room for two weeks and counting leaves one very very bored. Cue downloading all the Exalted 2e .pdfs from drivethrurpg to my phone and statting some oddball characters ...

Exalted Bunny:

A DB circle in the Scavanger Lands consisting of:
- An Outcaste Doctor who changed her name when she ran away from the Realm as a teen.
- An Earth Immaculate Master with the character concept of "big dumb guido".
- A Lookshy Sorcerer-Engineer with a side job of "spec ops spy" when she's abroad.
- A Realm rogue who has never met a lock or pocket he didn't want to pick.
- An Outcaste socialite saddled with keeping the other four pointed at the group's actual objective.

Idle thoughts about "what might happen if they get dropped into such-and-such situation" invariably results in shenanigans.
 

Bear Ribs

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Outside of Durkon, and the dumb guido being a hobbit instead of big, that looks a lot like Order of the Stick actually.
 

bintananth

behind a desk
Outside of Durkon, and the dumb guido being a hobbit instead of big, that looks a lot like Order of the Stick actually.
Re-read a bit of OOtS. I can see the parallels of disfunction.

The Socialite is a liability* in a fight and the face of the group. The Immaculate is a liability anywhere but a fight. The other three don't trust each other or the Immaculate.

* Arrows backed by "only" 10 dice of accuracy and an excellency.
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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A Roland Emmerich style disaster story in the vein of The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Moonfall and Independence Day (but only Resurgence because that movie was more shitty).

Our protagonist is a mild mannered but highly intelligent everyman whose been recently separated from his Wife, whom he still loves deeply as well as his children including a doting and faithful young daughter and rebellious teenage son on the cusp of manhood. His wife now married or is dating a Firefighter and lives in a condo downtown while he wastes away his talents working as a Mobile Phone Technician in a Mall with his eclectic and poorly groomed friend whose always listening to alternative podcasts and tries to coax the protagonist into a conversation on how the media and corporations and media are using isolated incidents to manufacture civil unrest and eventually some incident will occur that is so traumatizing it will RESET the social order, much like how a series of small incidents can cause a colony of bees to fall apart. THIS IS FORESHADOWING.

The protagonist tries to leave the Mall early but there's a shooting and he's stuck in traffic and hopes he can reach his Daughters Ballet recital in time. But as he gets on the highway protestors are blocking the freeway so he's late. Later that evening when talking to his wife and kids on a video call after missing her first ballet performance. But his Wifes new husband/boyfriend whose a manly and capable and kind, considerate firefighter type did attend, and his relationship can't get any lower with his estranged wife and kids, the signal sudden cuts out due to the cell phone tower being overloaded.

The protagonist suddenly realizes why as on all the channels and social media he notices is dominated with news of a police shooting at the Mall he was working at of an unarmed Black man, then moments later an ambulance crashed through a line of protesters blocking the freeway in the middle of the night that was responding to said shooting. Already arsons and fires are breaking out as with horror, he contacts his friend through the interwebs since phone lines are down and his friend says that every major city on both Coasts is suffering incidents like this and are about to explode. The cities are powderkegs just ready to explode and everyone in the city is in danger.

Since his family lives DEEP in Downtown he realizes he has to rescue them. Since phone lines are down he races into his car to go rescue them. But the closer to the depths of the city he gets, the more peaceful the protests and riots and screams of the unheard and unhoused becomes. He has to use his wits and skills to make it to the condo avoiding unhoused, mostly peaceful protestors, people with Texas license plates, antifascist warriors, and hyperviolent law enforcement. Just as the Condo is set ablaze by an idea, he rescues his family over the protests of the new firefighter husband and as they work together to escape the city, he meets up with his friend who says that not even the suburbs will be safe as the Government states they are enacting lockdowns and special security measures to contain the non-peaceful aspects of the mostly peaceful protests.

TLDR it's a disaster movie set in a Democrat Run City where some guy has to rescue his family. I'll call it HIVE CITY.
 

Spartan303

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A Roland Emmerich style disaster story in the vein of The Day After Tomorrow, 2012, Moonfall and Independence Day (but only Resurgence because that movie was more shitty).

Our protagonist is a mild mannered but highly intelligent everyman whose been recently separated from his Wife, whom he still loves deeply as well as his children including a doting and faithful young daughter and rebellious teenage son on the cusp of manhood. His wife now married or is dating a Firefighter and lives in a condo downtown while he wastes away his talents working as a Mobile Phone Technician in a Mall with his eclectic and poorly groomed friend whose always listening to alternative podcasts and tries to coax the protagonist into a conversation on how the media and corporations and media are using isolated incidents to manufacture civil unrest and eventually some incident will occur that is so traumatizing it will RESET the social order, much like how a series of small incidents can cause a colony of bees to fall apart. THIS IS FORESHADOWING.

The protagonist tries to leave the Mall early but there's a shooting and he's stuck in traffic and hopes he can reach his Daughters Ballet recital in time. But as he gets on the highway protestors are blocking the freeway so he's late. Later that evening when talking to his wife and kids on a video call after missing her first ballet performance. But his Wifes new husband/boyfriend whose a manly and capable and kind, considerate firefighter type did attend, and his relationship can't get any lower with his estranged wife and kids, the signal sudden cuts out due to the cell phone tower being overloaded.

The protagonist suddenly realizes why as on all the channels and social media he notices is dominated with news of a police shooting at the Mall he was working at of an unarmed Black man, then moments later an ambulance crashed through a line of protesters blocking the freeway in the middle of the night that was responding to said shooting. Already arsons and fires are breaking out as with horror, he contacts his friend through the interwebs since phone lines are down and his friend says that every major city on both Coasts is suffering incidents like this and are about to explode. The cities are powderkegs just ready to explode and everyone in the city is in danger.

Since his family lives DEEP in Downtown he realizes he has to rescue them. Since phone lines are down he races into his car to go rescue them. But the closer to the depths of the city he gets, the more peaceful the protests and riots and screams of the unheard and unhoused becomes. He has to use his wits and skills to make it to the condo avoiding unhoused, mostly peaceful protestors, people with Texas license plates, antifascist warriors, and hyperviolent law enforcement. Just as the Condo is set ablaze by an idea, he rescues his family over the protests of the new firefighter husband and as they work together to escape the city, he meets up with his friend who says that not even the suburbs will be safe as the Government states they are enacting lockdowns and special security measures to contain the non-peaceful aspects of the mostly peaceful protests.

TLDR it's a disaster movie set in a Democrat Run City where some guy has to rescue his family. I'll call it HIVE CITY.


Sadly I think the name Resident Evil would have worked better here...but since you cant use it call it...Resident Democrat?:p
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
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President Evil.

:p

(Okay, for that work, you'd have to stress that it's the administration that's deliberately causing the whole shitshow, but I think that can be done.)

Much like how they had Bush and Cheney expies in The Day After Tomorrow and a beauitful Black President portrayed by Danny Glover in 2012 we'll have to do a tasteful portrayal of Presidential leadership in this film. But we can't mock our President because its wrong and we must respect the Office of the President as well and not demean it or its authority so...

The President in this case will be a former Senator from Pennsylvania, a tall, strong and gallant man named Ron Fuddermann. While it is a cabal of elites from corporations, media and government that are behind this, they are taking advantage of President Fuddermann's so they could enact and cause this whole shitshow and the only way to stop it is by BREAKING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.

Fortunately the eccentric co-worker/best friend once dated a Girl who later became the Deputy Press Secretary (what a coincidence amirite?) for the White House and working with the President and the White House Press Corps, she's seen the lengths that the media and government has gone to hiding President Fuddermann's much diminished mental capacity which was known even before he took office. She says she'll help them get to the President as long as they don't harm him.

So the group sneaks into the White House after fighting their way through the anarchic Beltway and find within the National Mall a nice fenced off Utopia where the government is still in operation, basically an island of order in a sea of lawless crime ridden disorder... so basically normal Washington DC. They enter under the guise of cell phone technicians and the hero manages to finagle his way into the White House after helping a senior Cabinet Member figure out how to turn on big text on his phone.

They enter the White House and the plan is to get Fuddermann to come with them, take him to the National uhhhh Emergency Communications Bunker at Raven Rock, and address the Nation revealing the plan but find out quickly that HE DOESN'T TRUST STRANGERS. So in a hilarious far too long scene of dressing up as his National Security Advisor, or using bronzer on his estranged wife to make her impersonate the Vice President (this scares Fuddermann because the Vice President's cackling reminds him of a witch) before finally coaxing him out by finding a friendly Doggo to coax him out of hiding and manage to (surprisingly easy) smuggle him out of the White House.

The gang will then be stopped by a mob of angry White Males who upon finding out the President is with them, naturally want to kill him. But the Main Character points out that President Fuddermann is no threat to anyone and will offer the mob an impassioned speech "No. No... look at his face. He's got the mind of a child! It's not his fault."

The mob will cry bullshit when President Fuddermann will look at one of the kids wearing a Transformers shirt recording all of this on his iPhone and be like "Good night Apple. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings!" while patting the kid on the head (painfully due to his extreme strength) and smiling for all of the phone cameras being held up.

Powerful moment.

Oh also maybe the Estranged Wife can be the Beeologist or Expert on Bees. It'd give her something to do by pointing out how the Cabal of Worldwide Elites is using Humanity like a bunch of Bees so she can spend the movie doing something besides splitting time between smh'ing all the time at the antics of the Males around her and encouraging them all to keep going and how great they are as well as attending to her natural maternal duties.
 

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