Omega98
CHYOA Guru
Switching from MtG for a moment... (heresy I know)
I've been playing around with a related idea to this one for a while now, it was inspired by the miniseries "The Lost Room" (if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it!). In the series a detective comes into possession of a motel room key. The key, when inserted into any lock, opens a door into a mysterious 1950s-1960s motel room. When the key-holder leaves, the exit opens to anywhere in the world.
Anyway, in the world there are multiple objects that originated from the motel room and all of them have some weird powers. The pen electrocutes people. The glass-eye reduces organic matter to dust. The comb stops time. The watch... boils an egg. That's it. Literally. It boils an egg. That's all it does. It's explained that there are like 160 different recorded items. All items are indestructible outside of the room. And it got me to thinking about something similar where in the world there are these everyday mundane objects that have a mysterious origin and each object has a special superpower.
In my idea the pen has the ability to alter reality. Anything that the user writes down, once they've finished, becomes reality. The problem is it's limited to the ink in the pen. Each change soaks up ink. Small changes take up very little, big changes could soak up every last drop. The pen keeps a memory of everyone that uses it and each new user gets a full amount of ink.
But there are other objects in the world, and each object is immune to each other. Object bearers gain resistance to the abilities of other objects, and EVERYONE who knows about the objects is looking for the pen. As it's naturally regarded as the most powerful object. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is the most powerful object.
Anyway, I've occasionally thought about about writing it but the problem is I can't think of other objects. Or powers. So... I guess I'm asking for suggestions?
I've been playing around with a related idea to this one for a while now, it was inspired by the miniseries "The Lost Room" (if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it!). In the series a detective comes into possession of a motel room key. The key, when inserted into any lock, opens a door into a mysterious 1950s-1960s motel room. When the key-holder leaves, the exit opens to anywhere in the world.
Anyway, in the world there are multiple objects that originated from the motel room and all of them have some weird powers. The pen electrocutes people. The glass-eye reduces organic matter to dust. The comb stops time. The watch... boils an egg. That's it. Literally. It boils an egg. That's all it does. It's explained that there are like 160 different recorded items. All items are indestructible outside of the room. And it got me to thinking about something similar where in the world there are these everyday mundane objects that have a mysterious origin and each object has a special superpower.
In my idea the pen has the ability to alter reality. Anything that the user writes down, once they've finished, becomes reality. The problem is it's limited to the ink in the pen. Each change soaks up ink. Small changes take up very little, big changes could soak up every last drop. The pen keeps a memory of everyone that uses it and each new user gets a full amount of ink.
But there are other objects in the world, and each object is immune to each other. Object bearers gain resistance to the abilities of other objects, and EVERYONE who knows about the objects is looking for the pen. As it's naturally regarded as the most powerful object. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is the most powerful object.
Anyway, I've occasionally thought about about writing it but the problem is I can't think of other objects. Or powers. So... I guess I'm asking for suggestions?
