I’ll do it on monday!

Well i’ve been tossing around ideas and typing them up. I have an idea for a half-breed wizard, and my friend Seth Robinson says “named Harry Potter” - well I wasn’t even thinking of that at all. The idea stems from the fact that i think there will be humor in a wizard that can only do halfway spells, that is literally halfway. So I throw the idea of the half-breed out, and then just that half of his powers were stolen. Okay, now then I go back into the idea that our main character the long lost Prince, gets sent to the mines, and eventually leads slave revolt. The idea of being sent into a mind was, as my brother reminded me, similar to King’s Quest 6. In fact I keep finding alot of parallels, makes it hard to write a good story that’s non-derivative. In any case I decided to write down the main story as a set of points. Coresponding to various plot points (which will turn into cut scenes) — Here is is

Main Story:

A true magic kingdom makes it’s living out of tourism. With news of the king and queen dead and
the administrators trying to figure out who will rule, the kingdom falls into a slump. Things start closing up, like the wizards, fairy godmother, princess, and knight’s acadamies. Eventually people stop coming.

Inciting Incident:

The king and queen is mysteriously killed. The Prince disappears. And the administrators shut
down Enchanted Lands.

Plot point 1:

Two schools are activated again, the Knights Acadamy and Fairy Godmother training. However in the knights acadamy, they’re training with real weapons, not the kind used on a magical vacation and the fairy godmother school won’t let anyone leave who joined previously. There are rumors of a person who was banished for enslaving people to work in his quicksilver mines the magical mineral that runs the realm. An outworlder shows up and helps a wizard find the prince.

Midpoint :

The guy that was banished has indeed returned, and has proclaimed himself king. Secretly he
tries to imbue magical properties onto non-magical people with the quicksilver. The outworlder
finds out he’s the missing prince and his parents were killed by the badguy.

Plot point 2:

the badguy succeeds in building an army. But is stopped by an army of citizens who are opposed
as well as the true king and heir.

Climax :

A big battle ensues, killing the bad guy.

Resolution :

The kingdom is safe again, and the new king is ruling.

I was attempting to distill the esence of the story into that, and to decouple the character stories from that main one. Each is trying to complete the main goal which is overcoming the bad guy. But they each do their part.

Well that’s all for today I guess.

Previously: Enchanted Lands - Final Overview

Keith

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