So, I'm thinking of creating an RP (my first!) based upon a book you've probably seen mentioned by me several times now called One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy, and I wanted to know who would be interested. This book is pretty obscure--I doubt many people have read it. That being said,
reading the book isn't mandatory. The book's plot line isn't even that central to the story; you could probably get away with the very basic ideas behind the universe and the most obvious points of conflict.
I'll come up with a big introductory post that modifies certain things for the benefit of those interested in the
idea, not the specifics of the book, but for now reading
this review will give a pretty basic synopsis of the idea behind the book.
I'd like to emphasize that
it will not be a copy of the book. I quite enjoyed the plot but it wouldn't make for an interesting RP if I followed the book exactly. The basics are the parts I want to include: the eyes, the prejudice, the goggles, the idea of police and a population at large viewing them as abominations and criminals waiting to happen, the conspiracy to arrest people with LOS to enslave them for government use/testing. The setting and the year are somewhat unimportant, really--it's easy to draw parallels between the society in the book, which is 2000 years in the future and on the Moon, and today's. The technology is fairly underplayed, too; if anyone would be more comfortable with an Earth-based setting not that far in the future, it would be an easy tweak. Knowing a basic geography of the Moon would be preferable, especially the Sea of Tranquility, and having some ideas of interesting technological innovations--nothing too exciting, because literally the only differences are the cars being somewhat more futuristic--they look like the circle bike things from MIB3--and some jobs are completely made up and nonsensical; the rest, I think, were so unimportant you could make up stuff as you go. This is if I went through with the setting in the book, but again it's
not too important.It's a fun science fiction idea.
I'm even willing to do one x one if that's preferable. Don't care. I need this. ;_;
desperate guy signing out