New Story Ideas! (Poll)

Hello everyone! So recently I've mentioned mixing up the posting schedule to add a new story to the line up. It would most likely take my Thursday slot, and would be an opportunity to test the waters with new content. If a new idea takes off, it might take over the Tuesday and Thursday slot entirely, or I may just keep it on just Thursday. If it does poorly I will likely scrap it and trying something new.

So what does that mean for this weeks Poll? Well, I have been working on some basic ideas, and I wanted peoples opinions on them. So please, comment with your thoughts, additional ideas or suggestions for things in similar veins! I would especially love to hear suggestions for places these ideas would fit.

Again, I want to reiterate, these are early ideas, so expect there to be some finagling.

The Celestial ________

If you don't know what the Celestial Forge or Grimoire are, I suggest you go look them up, as there are a lot of great stories that use them.

If you are familiar, my version would be a little different. The MC would have six "slots" in their soul, three for items and three for concepts. Points would most likely not be used, but they would only roll every 25-50k words, depending on my final decision. Rolling something that somehow refines their being, like becoming a Percy Jackson demigod, would increase their number of item or concept slots, or both, depending on the scale and description of the change. So being given royal blood might give them an item slot, becoming a demigod might give them a concept, but getting a 600 point increase to your "essence" might unlock one of each.

What sort of universe these stories takes place in depends on which gets chosen. the Grimoire would likely take place in a setting were personal power is important, like a super hero world for example, like Invincible or The Boys, or a more magical setting, like Harry Potter. The Forge would take place somewhere that tech is important, and as the MC's scale grows, they can grow into a greater conflict like Halo, Mass Effect, or RWBY.

The Arcane Smith

This concept is a lot more simple. The MC receives perks and abilities in a gamified fashion for doing things like Achievements, quests and challenges. The perks and abilities would be focused on Smithing and how to use the weapons they make, and would vary from unlocking abilities to use more difficult materials, to gathering abilities. There would be no stats or real Gamer System, though some things that they interact with, especially weapons and armor, will have item screens and similar things. Enemies will also drop material loot.

This idea could take place in a variety of places, but would work well in somewhere like Skyrim, RWBY, or if you wanted to get weird, a place like Fallout.

Guildhall

The MC gains access to a stereotypical, if very simple, guild hall, which exists outside of reality, but is connected to one or two settings. By completing quests in that/those world(s) they earn money and points that can be spent upgrading the guild hall, which would, intern give them advantages. Buying a potion room provides basic potions, while buying a training hall allows sped up training, or the ability to push past normal human limitations.

This story could take place in a variety of places, but if it connected two universes, they would have to be comparable in power scale.

Universal Store

MC has access to a shop screen, which is filled with stuff from a specific universe. He can pay cash, or earn store points by completing quests that range from simple and time consuming to difficult, and even silly and embarrassing. He eventually gets access to another universe (potentially losing access to other world)

I don't quite know what universe would make a good setting for this, I suspect what universe he has access to would decide that. I'm open to suggestions

Generals Questbook

MC gains access to a quest book that seems determined to turn him into a large scale faction. The quests would vary for the setting, but rewards might be something like a squad of soldiers, buffs for the soldiers, maybe an elite squad of commandos, or five hundred grunts. The scale would start small but grow over time until he is leading an entire faction.

Any world this takes place on would have to be able to start small but have a much larger conflict in the wings, and not be about personal power.

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Please, let me know what you think, what idea appealed to you, and what sort of settings you think would work!