roleplaying:if:simonvjack
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Simon versus Jack the Ripper
It'll do until I can think of a better title. I like steampunk, and I like the concept of almost magical technological devices as a toolkit to solve problems. And let's face it - virtually all Interactive Fiction is puzzle solving. If all goes well, I'll do a series of semi-comedic adventures with Simon the Technomage. Because he's basically the first original character I thought of (although he's based on someone else's IP setting) — Peter Cobcroft 13/03/2006 14:36
Plot
- Introduction of character
- Introduction of setting
- Example puzzle (fixing the engine)
- Cut To: Jack's first crime (Shadow offer)
- Simon's arrival (crash in gardens)
- Side quest #1 that leads to public social event
- Cut To: Jack's second crime
- Discovery of body by Simon and subsequent incarceration/mistaken identity
- Plot A: Simon escapes before the next body turns up
Plot B: Simon stays in jail until the next body turns up. - A: Fugitive Simon must track clues by himself
B: Innocent Simon must gather evidence for the constabulary - A: Confrontation with Jack
B: Entrapment and escape (Vorlon) - B: Confrontation with Jack (similar to A: above) (Vorlon)
- Finish
Set pieces
Simon
Technomagic Toolkit
- Microphone and small loudhailer for Voice of Authority ™
- Smokebomb for mysterious disappearances (shortly followed by mysterious coughing and hacking, and mysterious hiding around corners or running really fast)
- Wizard's staff for hitting things with (sometimes this is intentional) and zapping things (requires recharginge each time)
- Illusion powers
- A robe of keeping sharp hurty things from being sharp and hurty
- A black spaceship. Called Kewl. Capable of time travel, occasionally does so while Simon is in it.
- Crystal ball. For looking at locations where a probe is hidden.
- Probe. Microscopic camera/microphone.
Other Characters
- Jack the Ripper - antagonist (circa 1888 - non fictional) Sebastion (fictional)
- Police Constable Larry McSweeney
- Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Charles Warren GCMG KCB FRS (7 February 1840–21 January 1927) (non fictional)
- Lord Talbot Farnsworth and his wife, Lady Penelope
- Vincent and Pansy a lovestruck, but unlucky, couple.
Locations
- Whitechapel (majority of adventure)
- Buck's Row a back street in Whitechapel two hundred yards from the London Hospital. First victim (Mary Ann Nichols discovered at about 3:40 in the early morning of Friday, August 31, 1888)
- Back yard of 29 Hanbury Street, Whitechapel. Second victim (Annie Chapman discovered 6:00 on the morning of Saturday, September 8, 1888)
- Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (since renamed Henriques Street) in Whitechapel (Elizabeth Stride discovered close to 1:00 in the early morning of Sunday, September 30,)
- Dark corner of Mitre Square (Catherine Eddowes discovered at 1:44 in the early morning of Sunday, September 30, 1888)
- Sewers
- Kewl (start and finish)
- Pilot's cabin
- Quarters
- Access corridor
- Storage room
- Airlock
- Engine room
- Ball (Entrance quest and Side quest #1)
- Entrance foyer
- Dance hall
- Buffet
- Terrace
- Bushes
- NW Grounds
- NE Grounds
- SW Grounds
- SE Grounds
- Fountain
- Jail (after the Ball)
- Office
- Corridor
- Cell
- Graveyard (for the shootout/confrontation with Jack)
- Behind gravestone
- Behind crypt
- Pathway
Puzzles
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- Object/logic puzzle
- (5) Landing Kewl
- Maths puzzle
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- Conversation puzzle
- (8) non-puzzle, gathering clues from body
- Investigation
- (9) Escape from jail
- Timing/object puzzle
- (10a) Getting in to the scene of the crime without being arrested
(10b) Getting past obnoxious Londoners to gather clues- Timing/object puzzle
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- Placement/movement puzzle
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- Placement/movement puzzle
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- Maths/logic puzzle
Objects
Should be an object-light game as Technomages come with their own toolkits :)
The tricky part is to creatively come up with negatives to most of the toolkit in situations it isn't meant to be used.
Code
simonvjack.t - the code so far (only just started)
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