Thread:Dark dwarves 2/@comment-26210095-20160607220921/@comment-26210095-20160608222328

Draugluin the werewolf wrote: Patrick.vtap wrote: Shit, I didn't even know what Mortal Engines was, but now I realize how similar my world is to it... ;-; I've been trying to make a Mortal Engines for ages, I assumed this was one of the reasons you took me on Well, we can make something similar but distinct. Here is the basic premise:

In a somewhat fantastical future, the whole world is covered by a desolation, most of it desert ("The Great Dune Sea"). The vast majority of people in the world live on the gargantuan city, Sycarus. The city is quite steampunk / Victorian London, with extreme social stratification. The poorest of the poor work on the machine itself, and keep it going, as well as being rapers, pickpockets, and street scum. The city is quite massive, and divided between several robber barons, crime syndicates, mafias, drug lords, revolutionaries, artisans, guilds, politicians, and wild animals. There is no active warfare in the city, but many shady deals, assasination, and violence. The city is governed by the Council (coming up with a better name soon) with represenatives from all areas of the city and representing the interests of the city as a whole. The council is very, very corrupt, and is notorious for always fighting. Pretty much all the meetings are rife with mudslinging, throwing papers at eachother, and fistfights occasionaly. The City is also govened by the Council of the Thirteen, who rarely intervene in the city affairs unless in a time of crisis, although in some areas govermental influence is limited, and the mafias and sydicates rule. There is also an avant-garde intellectual bougeoise movement, known as the Revolutionaries. The mainstream revolutionaries meet in pubs and bars, and are an intellectual movement promoting freedom of thought and atheism. The radical revolutionaries, however, are kinda like terrorists trying to bring down the government. The city moves because resources are rare, and they travel from place to place. Also, the ground is tainted with some form of sickness. There are rouge cities, but these are rare and are destroyed. There are also people living on the ground, who have to constantly wear a strange form of gas mask, except in a purified room. They are criminals, cuthroats, and worse. They live in tiny villiages on the ground, and are mostly ignored by the people of the cities. There are also the savages which have evolved to the poison, which are mostly a nuisance.

(this is all I could just post on a rant, there is lots more in my mind. Like so far?)