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JayMark

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JayMark

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ElijahRyne

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I am currently winning.

Just because I am bored, here is the current cheat sheet to the story I am planning.
Power info
The sympathetic principle is widely known and accepted. Like is attracted to and can affect like. There are various historical traditions that try to manipulate it. One constant is that humans by themselves cannot make permanent sympathetic connections. Often to artificially form one a practitioner needs to wait for an important date/time, use a metal like copper-silver-gold, use some sort of gemstone, and/or perform a complex ceremony. It is largely seen as either something for a researcher/government or as a marketing gimmick in modern day times, much as an ionic &/or magnetic talisman.

The psychic realm is a space where the mind sits, it is through interaction with the physical and psychic realms that consciousness develops. Each mind records information and makes connections between the info. The mind has a natural barrier that loosens when asleep. There are purely psychic entities in the psychic realm, they are not considered minds because they don’t have a body in the physical realm. The goal of these entities is often to gain a body. Psychics can use their mind to alter both the physical and psychic realms.

Characters
Marius - MC. 20 yo. He is the president of the Occult Technology Club, a college club. He likes to read occult books and tries to combine that info with simple technology through ceremonies and rituals. He is best friends with Gustav and has known him for six years. He claims to be seeking immortality, but is actually just trying to be with friends. He is the prodigy type and is usually direct and to the point in conversation.

Gustav - 20 yo. He is the tech guy of the Occult Technology Club. He is studying to be an electronic engineer. He builds the devices, Marius does the ceremonies. Best friends with Marius, and has known him for 6 years. His family is quite rich. He likes to tinker, and being in a club that allows that while being with a friend is why he joined the club. He is somewhat lazy, and likes to talk in circles.

Lui - 21 yo. She is the software girl of the Occult Technology Club. She is studying to be a software engineer. Gustav builds the device, and she programs it. An old member of the club, she tends to focus on her studies. She likes to run in the evening, and then go to the club. She bounces back in conversation.

John - 22 yo. A peripheral member of the Occult Technology Club. He knows a lot about the history of different occult cultures and histories. He is in his senior year, and has been focusing on his classes. When he is free he usually spends his time with Terence, his girlfriend, and occasionally is in the club room with her. He usually just sticks to a corner unless he hears something that catches his interest.

Terence - 23 yo. She is a biologist and works with an algae farm. She is curious about the occult but has little training in it. She has already graduated and spends most of her time at work or with John. She is curious about the world and often asks questions.

Groups
Occult Technology Club - Made up of four friends with various levels of interest in both the occult and technology. Marius is the leader of the club, Gustav is the electronics and device guy, and Lui is the software girl. John occasionally pitches in with his knowledge of different occult cultures, but is focusing on his studies. They create a device that allows them to ask questions and receive complex answers from the psychic realm, and send information through it. They use that knowledge to create various devices ultimately leading to ‘Wooden Immortality’. Once the immortality project became feasible they started to catch unwanted attention.

Runokiab - A government organization that monitors and regulates changes, unnatural interactions, and incidents within the psychic realm. They are tasked with capturing &/or eliminating psychics, preventing wide knowledge of the psychic realm, and developing technology, rituals, and weapons that interact or use a connection with the psychic realm.

Idea 1
An occult/psychic club comes across a book that introduces them to the psychic realm that overlaps their world. They create a devise using some of the info in the book that allows them to ask for & transmit information from the psychic realm.
Structure 1

  1. Group comes across hidden info
  2. Main character sees the corner of the hidden power
  3. Main character group discovers a revolutionary technology
  4. They develop it in secret while slowly growing the team
  5. They help the lives of team members and friends with discovery
  6. They are discovered by hidden power but don’t know yet
  7. Things start going wrong
  8. They start making a final improvement to invention
  9. The hidden power starts threatening them
  10. They freak out and at the same time finish improvement
  11. They use the improvement to escape
  12. Cat and mouse as the hidden power tries to capture/kill team members
  13. They start fighting back but must sacrifice the improvements made by invention
  14. They eek out a pyrrhic victory against hidden power
  15. They gradually improve invention to reclaim what was lost
  16. Final unsteady victory/defeat
 

JayMark

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No, I must fight with all my cringe!
 
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