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« on: August 13, 2014, 03:52:25 PM »
Man, I kinda love the idea of running this using Monsters and Other Childish Things.
Other plot ideas:
A. Dead Teachers' Society. Firewall or someone else manages to infiltrate the project by replacing one of the teachers or staff members. The infiltrator tries to recruit the PCs as possible future agents -- perhaps giving them some troubling "un-orthodox" ideas about what the world outside the simulation is like. Then Cognite catches wind of the mole, and decides it would be interesting to see if the students can smoke them out. So they secretly fork and backup the staff, and declare a week-long "game": all the staff members are fair game for the students to treat however they wish. Find the imposter to win!
B. Educational Theory Deathmatch! The PCs discover that they have been forked onto multiple second-level simulspaces, each representing a different educational theory or type of school. The plan is to use identical students in each setting, to do a controlled test of which theories work best in practice. Homeschoolers vs. English Boarding School vs. Military Academy vs. Korean Public School, etc. Then high-stakes standardized testing: winners live, losers get deleted. But some of the forks have worked out the game, and decided not to play.
For maximum craziness, each player plays a different fork of the same student.
C. Narnia.exe. Toward the end of the project, after the students figured out they were in a simulspace, some of the weaker and more clever students figured out how to create their own sub-simulspace where they could hide from the bullies. Drawing on some illegal fantasy novels that one of them managed to download off the external Mesh, they have created a peaceful haven of arcadian adventure, accessible from the main simulspace only through secret portals hidden throughout the school. When the Titan infection hits, the PCs have to figure out how to convince their timid friends to abandon their sanctuary for the real world, or at least find a way to permanently seal them away from the Titan threat.
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