Post by Yali on Mar 10, 2016 14:58:25 GMT
Reposted from the Moiety technology thread since this seemed more appropriate for here:
PLOT SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!
Nadia had become obsessed with all that was arcane, secret, and mysterious... craving all the ancient knowledge of D'ni. She became involved with the Golden Page at an early age and promised them that she would make Tay great like Releeshahn. This led her to search for ancient D'ni texts on the Art and led her down a dark path of obsession and desire for more knowledge.
Her tutor Atef, who had been illictly writing a paradise Age to escape to with his best-friend and father of Jade (or Jadeen in D'ni) was found along with Jade's father to be in contempt of D'ni law, and both were to stand trial on Releeshahn by the Guild of Maintainers. Atef who had been closely studying the Queen and royal court culture of Tay, escaped into the wilds to the town of Ash where he took on a pseudonym and began running an inn that served as a refuge for criminals and fugitives from across the Ages. Atef had been asked during his tenure as tutor to Nadia to acquire ancient D'ni texts, most notably texts from the dark ages of D'ni. He refused the young queen's demand shortly before the Maintainers put a price on his head.
Later as Nadia grew, she began to seek out Atef with the goal of offering him pardon and refuge on Tay if he could acquire said texts. This led her to confront him in the inn under disguise. While Atef still refused, he revealed crucial information about his crime to create a paradise Age that the D'ni saw as blasphemous, as he nor his friend did not belong to the Guild of Writers. She tracked down Atef's crime partner, only to find his hut abandoned in the Western Jungles.
Three years passed and Nadia grew to hate court life on Tay, preferring to mingle with the citizens in the inns and clubs of Ashtasa under disguise. This is where she met Jade, who she knew was full blooded D'ni, something she came to almost fetishize. The two quickly became passionately involved and it wasn't long before Nadia began to think of a means to utilize this nascent relationship to her benefit.
The more she learned of D'ni through the stories of Jade, which were often skewed due to his life in exile on Tay, she began to lust for the power of the Art. D'ni became a kind of unattainable perfection, and from this point onward she became more and more involved in the Golden Page's secret meetings.
She decided to test Jade. She asked that he retrieve her books from the Pento war, particularly those detailing the biological structures of the Plague that ravaged D'ni some 8000 years prior. Armed with a book to the Cavern that was kept in the Royal Palace, Jade was manipulated by his love and need for Nadia to go and retrieve these books. All he needed was an ancient key to the Tomb of the Great King that Atrus had stored in secret after the events of Terahnee. While on Releeshahn, he scoured the Age for Atrus' key only to come up empty handed. This is when he returned in despair to his father's old refuge in the Jungles, only to find a journal of his father's hidden in an old box. It told of his father and Atef's plan to create a paradise Age to escape to and live out life with their two families. In it he mentioned that Atef had left to Ash for refuge, the date of writing being a few days before his father had been found by Jade decapitated in the jungles by some unseen force. Jade left for Ash upon hearing this and encountered Atef, who he inquired to about his father and their plans. Atef, not knowing that Jade was involved with the Queen, revealed that he had tutored the Queen and had decided to hide the key to the Tomb of the Great King in a place that Nadia nor any member of Atrus' family would ever visit, keeping the plague at a far distance from those in power. He did so behind Atrus' back one night, all on his own, to avoid inquiry and possible theft on the part of Nadia and her kin. He chose to hide the key in a sealed box on Myst island.
Jade now knowing this, linked to D'ni and used the Myst linking book left in the prison on K'veer and retrieved the key. From there he linked to Ae'Gura and reopened the Tomb of the Great King, finding the Book of Pento. He retrieved the book to Nadia, who brought the Book to her Golden Page brethren who began extracting the elements of the plague from the Age to be concocted into a "Doomsday Marble" which they would forge in the heart of Mount Gehn and use against an Age they had written if its population did not agree to work with them.
Ultimately, consumed by her lust for knowledge and control, Nadia ordered the main general of Clan Wahrk to begin sending militia to this populated Age to control its peoples and help build a military presence as part of a Moiety Empire. The General, like most Moiety, did not hold the same skewed beliefs of Nadia and the Golden Page and refused. In a fit of rage she threatened to have him and his family killed if he did not carry out her orders. He refused again and she had him executed and replaced with a Golden Page member who began sending out soldiery to said Ages.
Meanwhile Dr. Watson had been asked to aide in Nadia's search for books, particularly those relating to the surface explorers, whom she intends to use in her plot to conquer more Ages. In 2013, Watson was asked by the Queen to do a survey of Tay which would be presented to the D'ni and explorers. This was a ruse intended to lure the explorers to Tay through Watson as well as gather information on surface technology as well as crucial D'ni documents relating to important Ages.
Watson's old friend Adann had helped him during their expedition to 233 some 20 years ago, retrieving crucial information on Gehn and Atrus' family, which provided the basis for the game Riven. Adann ended up being sent to Releeshahn by her family shortly therafter to train as a writer under Guild Master Anduris. During her long training she would travel between Tay and Releeshahn, writing information about her people. During one of her excursions in the wild, she stumbled upon an underground chamber belonging to the Golden Page. This chamber revealed cryptic information relating to the state of Moiety civilization in its present state. She left for Ashtasa to bring news to the Queen of this hidden chamber. She was ultimately dismissed by the Queen, but not before meeting Jade in the city's main library. Jade knew of the symbols used in the hidden chamber and began exchanging information with Adann during evening meetings in the pubs of Ashtasa, all while concealing his deeper knowledge of the Queen and their difficult relationship.
Eventually Adann and Jade developed a close friendship, but Nadia feared that Jade was involved with Adann behind her back. She sent armed hitmen to "rough up" both of them as she secretly wished to see him suffer for what she perceived as infidelity. In a close encounter with the hitmen, Adann killed both of them in self-defense. Horrified by this attack, she managed to extract the information from Jade relating to Jade and Nadia's relationship and their involvement with the Golden Page and the Pento Books. Adann was alarmed by these actions and left Jade in a fit of rage, refusing to talk to him.
Jade, realizing his guilt began down a path of self-destruction, binging on narcotics and drinks. The player will find Jade seeking refuge in his old jungle hut and he will reveal crucial plot information as well as gameplay clues leading the player closer to Nadia and the Golden Page's hideouts.
Adann relayed the terrible information she extracted from Jade that one night to Watson during his visit to her family's house in the Armana District. Watson, realizing that foul things were brewing on Tay, began to prepare for the worst. It would all come to a climax when Adann contacted him with news that she had found the bodies of several Maintainers dispatched from Releeshahn to confront the Queen. Watson knew that he would be next. He returned to Earth quickly to hide. He resumed his teaching position in (Insert name) University where he taught D'ni history to private classes. Here he would select a student from his graduate program, one who he knew was the brightest and best to trust, one who he would send to Tay.
In the end, the fate of three Ages lies in the crater of Mount Gehn. Two Age books are placed above the crater within the slit of the Golden Power dome - one leading to an unknown Age that the Moiety have written, the other leading to Releeshahn. In the endgame scenario, I imagine the player will confront Nadia here while donning a Maintainer suit to protect oneself from the lava below. Nadia, who will have arrived unprotected, will threaten the player with "choosing" one book to use. By choosing one book, the power dome immediately unleashes the doomsday marble (which is held in the palm of a large bronze cast arm at the edge of the platform) along with you into the Age, killing you and the population in the process. The goal should be to use a trap book on Nadia.
One idea I have in mind is to effectively trap her in the heart of the volcano by the golden power dome with no way of living without using the prison book. The idea would be to use the prison book on yourself over by the edge of the platform at the center of the volcano, then she gives it to her guard who uses it releasing you on the other side of the platform behind a gate. From there, you close the gate using a lever and lowering an unused vat of molten gold onto the platform, severing the bridge. Nadia, now stuck in the heart of the volcano with no way to escape would be forced to use the book to save her life, even if it would mean living within a prison until her death. The player would also have to turn off the power to the dome, meaning she couldn't poison an Age out of revenge. One possibility is that if the player forgets to remove the doomsday marble from the large bronze cast hand before severing the walkway, Nadia will throw the marble into the pit of the volcano, causing it to erupt and poisoning all of Tay in the process. Since you would have a Maintainer suit on, you would be able to escape the Volcano only to see the Age quickly die as the skies turn a sickly yellow and every plant crumbles to grey ash. The game would end with you knowing that you lived to see yourself destroy an entire world and people with you left alive to face the grief and knowledge of what you allowed to transpire.
If Nadia chooses her own imprisonment, the guard will be released who will then call out to you. You will press a button calling a squam that will bring him to safety. Due to having saved the guard's life, you will be escorted away from the Golden Page members to safety where you will bring the prison book to the Maintainers and they will take care of the rest.
This is in essence what I have so far in relation to the main plot.
PLOT SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!
Nadia had become obsessed with all that was arcane, secret, and mysterious... craving all the ancient knowledge of D'ni. She became involved with the Golden Page at an early age and promised them that she would make Tay great like Releeshahn. This led her to search for ancient D'ni texts on the Art and led her down a dark path of obsession and desire for more knowledge.
Her tutor Atef, who had been illictly writing a paradise Age to escape to with his best-friend and father of Jade (or Jadeen in D'ni) was found along with Jade's father to be in contempt of D'ni law, and both were to stand trial on Releeshahn by the Guild of Maintainers. Atef who had been closely studying the Queen and royal court culture of Tay, escaped into the wilds to the town of Ash where he took on a pseudonym and began running an inn that served as a refuge for criminals and fugitives from across the Ages. Atef had been asked during his tenure as tutor to Nadia to acquire ancient D'ni texts, most notably texts from the dark ages of D'ni. He refused the young queen's demand shortly before the Maintainers put a price on his head.
Later as Nadia grew, she began to seek out Atef with the goal of offering him pardon and refuge on Tay if he could acquire said texts. This led her to confront him in the inn under disguise. While Atef still refused, he revealed crucial information about his crime to create a paradise Age that the D'ni saw as blasphemous, as he nor his friend did not belong to the Guild of Writers. She tracked down Atef's crime partner, only to find his hut abandoned in the Western Jungles.
Three years passed and Nadia grew to hate court life on Tay, preferring to mingle with the citizens in the inns and clubs of Ashtasa under disguise. This is where she met Jade, who she knew was full blooded D'ni, something she came to almost fetishize. The two quickly became passionately involved and it wasn't long before Nadia began to think of a means to utilize this nascent relationship to her benefit.
The more she learned of D'ni through the stories of Jade, which were often skewed due to his life in exile on Tay, she began to lust for the power of the Art. D'ni became a kind of unattainable perfection, and from this point onward she became more and more involved in the Golden Page's secret meetings.
She decided to test Jade. She asked that he retrieve her books from the Pento war, particularly those detailing the biological structures of the Plague that ravaged D'ni some 8000 years prior. Armed with a book to the Cavern that was kept in the Royal Palace, Jade was manipulated by his love and need for Nadia to go and retrieve these books. All he needed was an ancient key to the Tomb of the Great King that Atrus had stored in secret after the events of Terahnee. While on Releeshahn, he scoured the Age for Atrus' key only to come up empty handed. This is when he returned in despair to his father's old refuge in the Jungles, only to find a journal of his father's hidden in an old box. It told of his father and Atef's plan to create a paradise Age to escape to and live out life with their two families. In it he mentioned that Atef had left to Ash for refuge, the date of writing being a few days before his father had been found by Jade decapitated in the jungles by some unseen force. Jade left for Ash upon hearing this and encountered Atef, who he inquired to about his father and their plans. Atef, not knowing that Jade was involved with the Queen, revealed that he had tutored the Queen and had decided to hide the key to the Tomb of the Great King in a place that Nadia nor any member of Atrus' family would ever visit, keeping the plague at a far distance from those in power. He did so behind Atrus' back one night, all on his own, to avoid inquiry and possible theft on the part of Nadia and her kin. He chose to hide the key in a sealed box on Myst island.
Jade now knowing this, linked to D'ni and used the Myst linking book left in the prison on K'veer and retrieved the key. From there he linked to Ae'Gura and reopened the Tomb of the Great King, finding the Book of Pento. He retrieved the book to Nadia, who brought the Book to her Golden Page brethren who began extracting the elements of the plague from the Age to be concocted into a "Doomsday Marble" which they would forge in the heart of Mount Gehn and use against an Age they had written if its population did not agree to work with them.
Ultimately, consumed by her lust for knowledge and control, Nadia ordered the main general of Clan Wahrk to begin sending militia to this populated Age to control its peoples and help build a military presence as part of a Moiety Empire. The General, like most Moiety, did not hold the same skewed beliefs of Nadia and the Golden Page and refused. In a fit of rage she threatened to have him and his family killed if he did not carry out her orders. He refused again and she had him executed and replaced with a Golden Page member who began sending out soldiery to said Ages.
Meanwhile Dr. Watson had been asked to aide in Nadia's search for books, particularly those relating to the surface explorers, whom she intends to use in her plot to conquer more Ages. In 2013, Watson was asked by the Queen to do a survey of Tay which would be presented to the D'ni and explorers. This was a ruse intended to lure the explorers to Tay through Watson as well as gather information on surface technology as well as crucial D'ni documents relating to important Ages.
Watson's old friend Adann had helped him during their expedition to 233 some 20 years ago, retrieving crucial information on Gehn and Atrus' family, which provided the basis for the game Riven. Adann ended up being sent to Releeshahn by her family shortly therafter to train as a writer under Guild Master Anduris. During her long training she would travel between Tay and Releeshahn, writing information about her people. During one of her excursions in the wild, she stumbled upon an underground chamber belonging to the Golden Page. This chamber revealed cryptic information relating to the state of Moiety civilization in its present state. She left for Ashtasa to bring news to the Queen of this hidden chamber. She was ultimately dismissed by the Queen, but not before meeting Jade in the city's main library. Jade knew of the symbols used in the hidden chamber and began exchanging information with Adann during evening meetings in the pubs of Ashtasa, all while concealing his deeper knowledge of the Queen and their difficult relationship.
Eventually Adann and Jade developed a close friendship, but Nadia feared that Jade was involved with Adann behind her back. She sent armed hitmen to "rough up" both of them as she secretly wished to see him suffer for what she perceived as infidelity. In a close encounter with the hitmen, Adann killed both of them in self-defense. Horrified by this attack, she managed to extract the information from Jade relating to Jade and Nadia's relationship and their involvement with the Golden Page and the Pento Books. Adann was alarmed by these actions and left Jade in a fit of rage, refusing to talk to him.
Jade, realizing his guilt began down a path of self-destruction, binging on narcotics and drinks. The player will find Jade seeking refuge in his old jungle hut and he will reveal crucial plot information as well as gameplay clues leading the player closer to Nadia and the Golden Page's hideouts.
Adann relayed the terrible information she extracted from Jade that one night to Watson during his visit to her family's house in the Armana District. Watson, realizing that foul things were brewing on Tay, began to prepare for the worst. It would all come to a climax when Adann contacted him with news that she had found the bodies of several Maintainers dispatched from Releeshahn to confront the Queen. Watson knew that he would be next. He returned to Earth quickly to hide. He resumed his teaching position in (Insert name) University where he taught D'ni history to private classes. Here he would select a student from his graduate program, one who he knew was the brightest and best to trust, one who he would send to Tay.
In the end, the fate of three Ages lies in the crater of Mount Gehn. Two Age books are placed above the crater within the slit of the Golden Power dome - one leading to an unknown Age that the Moiety have written, the other leading to Releeshahn. In the endgame scenario, I imagine the player will confront Nadia here while donning a Maintainer suit to protect oneself from the lava below. Nadia, who will have arrived unprotected, will threaten the player with "choosing" one book to use. By choosing one book, the power dome immediately unleashes the doomsday marble (which is held in the palm of a large bronze cast arm at the edge of the platform) along with you into the Age, killing you and the population in the process. The goal should be to use a trap book on Nadia.
One idea I have in mind is to effectively trap her in the heart of the volcano by the golden power dome with no way of living without using the prison book. The idea would be to use the prison book on yourself over by the edge of the platform at the center of the volcano, then she gives it to her guard who uses it releasing you on the other side of the platform behind a gate. From there, you close the gate using a lever and lowering an unused vat of molten gold onto the platform, severing the bridge. Nadia, now stuck in the heart of the volcano with no way to escape would be forced to use the book to save her life, even if it would mean living within a prison until her death. The player would also have to turn off the power to the dome, meaning she couldn't poison an Age out of revenge. One possibility is that if the player forgets to remove the doomsday marble from the large bronze cast hand before severing the walkway, Nadia will throw the marble into the pit of the volcano, causing it to erupt and poisoning all of Tay in the process. Since you would have a Maintainer suit on, you would be able to escape the Volcano only to see the Age quickly die as the skies turn a sickly yellow and every plant crumbles to grey ash. The game would end with you knowing that you lived to see yourself destroy an entire world and people with you left alive to face the grief and knowledge of what you allowed to transpire.
If Nadia chooses her own imprisonment, the guard will be released who will then call out to you. You will press a button calling a squam that will bring him to safety. Due to having saved the guard's life, you will be escorted away from the Golden Page members to safety where you will bring the prison book to the Maintainers and they will take care of the rest.
This is in essence what I have so far in relation to the main plot.
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