Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-3965075-20150216181347

Spartacus400 wrote: JayHart wrote: I have no clue what that story is about yet. ^.^  It reads quite well, though. That's really the only thing I can find when going through it. There doesn't seem to be much more than suspense building. It doesn't feel like the story has a direction yet. Not sure if intentional or not though. It kinda was intentional, and it kinda wasn't. We don't know really anything about The War, so I'm kinda acting out on what little knowledge we possess. And truth be told, I'm not sure if anyone in the present (apart from Ozpin) knows any of the details behind the conflict. As the narrator in World of Remnant said, civilizations have fallen and risen, and the majority of them seem to be lost to time.

The soldier's squad... kinda rediscovered part of the past. Unearthed something that should've stayed buried. The poor soul went insane as a result, and how he's suffering for it. His Kingdom's ruler(s) seem to think that he's hiding treasure or something, considering that greed was a factor in The War. So they're using an asylum as sort of cover-up while they interrogate him. In short, he's a political prisoner forced to relive his darkest hours.

The object on the table is actually the head of the automaton in the back. It's one of the "secrets" that were reawakened when the soldier's crew washed up on the island. How it ended up in the military's hands though... I won't be revealing that just yet.

I don't have diffident path for the story, but I do have some major plot-points planned out for it. And I already do have the main antagonist(s) pinned down. Machinery is diffidently gonna be the major theme of this, and there are some nods to the Steampunk genre on the way. Might throw in Cyberpunk and biomechanics at some point as well.