Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131116025229/@comment-5564808-20131122035551

NoOneWillSee wrote: Prince Weaver wrote: Pramirez351 wrote: I was thinking the story was going to take a somewhat more fall outsy/ game of thrones approach. i was thinking it would be a bit on the side where people would make orders of sorts. There would be those whom would try to take power (ceiling nick and his disciples anyone?) and then those who would try to state a new world order (protagonists, followers of cleric, whom are underpowered) and you would just introduce new people that would either be in orders (irish and the order of the ninjas??) and skelly could be like, an ancient out cast that is super wise. Little stuff like that :P. again, i am just saying what i thought it would turn to. The other people would join mostly the protagonists, but who says there arent any traitors and stuff? its just kinda fun to think about that. Again the whole nexus idea would tie in as well as that would be the protagonist's base of operations and stuff. so yeah, ideas I find the idea of this being like, an old style fallout based thing, to sound pretty cool.

Basically, many factions fighting it out for a goal, but what we need to decide also, Is what exactly the goal they are fighting for actually is. I think citing the main source of our everyday-real-life goals would make sense.

What equates to drama, trolling, becoming the best wikia, and trying to make good horror literature? :) It seems that the primary goal from which these actions/sub-goals stem is the desire to just be acknowledged by all the others. A post-apocalyptic world that has been broken into many small denominations with their own modus operandi would most likely be harrowingly Kafkaesque, i.e. it's a realm in which chaos, disorder, and war reign supreme, and everyone feels powerless, desperate, hopeless, and overwhelmed. So, the basic yet universal need to feel recognized (either as the group that managed to usurp/intimidate the many, many others, or in more personal, visceral terms that some of us here may be more comfortable writing about) could very well come into play in such a scenario, and it might be a sensible choice for what each of the factions and its members truly want above all else.