Idea Info Name: A New Dawn Index: Primary Category: RPG Submitted: 6/13/2003 3:02:00 PM Written By: TorturedAria

first off, whats up everyone, believe it or not, this is Phoenix_Blade, the guy who wrote Enemy within, Hunter, Veritas&Aequitas and about two or three other shoddy titles. just letting everyone know, its been a long time since i wrote here, so dont blame me if im a little rusty.

STORY

            Dawn; a beautiful, but unpopular Senior in high school, she had her friends Diana, Kira and her boyfriend Arian. She never got bullied or beat up, not once had she or her friends ever been in a fight with one another or another person, she was nice to the nerds and indifferent toward the obnoxious dips and jocks. She wasnt hard to get along with but no one seemed to want to consider her a "popular girl" or anything, this however, did not bother Dawn at all.
            One day everything changed however, as usual she went to school on the bus, it was nearly the end of the schoolyear, the end was one month away to be precise. Her entire senior class was going on a camping field trip, at lunch they all piled onto the bus, as usual Dawn was able to nab a seat in the back of the bus with her friends, as the bus took off, a strange little hovering girl in a white nightgown spoke to her.
           "You will die today, it is inevitable, the Dragonians shall have their way" is what the little child said, shaking it off as some strange hallucination, Dawn could not get the feeling of uneasiness off of her shoulders. after about ten minutes she regained her composure and assured her friends that everything was all right. suddenly, something happened that would change the course of Dawns life forever, By instinct, before it happened, Dawn through herself intpo the bus walkway, a millisecond later a defening sound rattled the bus. then Dawn nopticed the front begin to crush inward, suddenly her vision slowed everything down to a crawl, a sonic shockwave ran the length of the bus followed by an explosion in the front, soon every 2-3 feet of the bus was being blown out like dominoes, the explosions killing students as it went. Dawn was thrown out of the Emergency door in the back by the force of the crash, as she flew out everything sped up as her friends screamed for her. Dawn then smashed into a car and flew over the top of it landing in the road violently, yet she was still alive, though barely. suddenly a huge flash of light lit up the freeway and Dawn was gone from that very spot, no signature that she had been there except for some blood.
                   When Dawn awoke, she was laying on a bed of straw, she freaked out at the sight of a floating navy blue ball the size of a softball and an old man with a medium sized beard and large metal claws attached to his wrists. immediately she asked where she was, throughout the night the following was explained.
                  Dawn had been Transported to a strange land called Angara, at this place a strange floating continent has appeared in the last few years quickly the people of Angara learned of the cruelty the people of the continent could inflict. the continent is called Dragonia, the occupants are called Dragoons, they have large leathery wings which they can tuck away  and pull out as they please, they have strength, endurance and agility ten times that of a human, their continent  has been sucking the very life essence of Angara since its arrival and their world is dying so Dragonia may prosper, in recent months a resistance has formed that opposes these powerful creatures, however, they are all but immune to our attempts to kill them, the people of Angara are afraid of the horrible destruction their world may face if the Dragoons are not stopped. The man says his name is Raldo and he is a resistance fighter, second in command, he says that the resistance has found ancient scriptures which tell of a reincarnated warrior being warped to their land by ancient means, the resistance believes that Dawn is that reincarnated warrior, the scriptures also say that the warrior of legend is the only one  who can wield the destructive power of Anhok, the magical ball that floats next to her. the Anhok is a powerful weapon which could destroy the planet if it fell into the wrong hands, but when wielded by the legendary warrior it is an engine of destruction which can prevent the world from being lost to destruction. Raldo continues to saying that if Dawn will Wield Anhok and help the resistance destroy Dragonias evil reign, there may just be some hope left for the world, and if She can help them destroy Dragonia they may find a way thyere for her to get home.

GAMEPLAY

                   Battles in this game would take place in fast paced real time action laden hackfests, that however does not mean they would be completely devoid of difficulty or strategy, deciding what attack to use at what time would be part of the challenge. you could have up to two other members from an eventual 7 party members join you in your quest. each party member would have his/her own special attacks and magical moves to dish out the pain. these moves along with stats like HP, strength, Agility and SP would be upgradeable along with weapons and magic. in battle or more precisely, when a battle was won, TP and UP would be dished out evenly between ALL characters, or just the three in your party (an option could be turned on and off like full party rewards on or off), UP (upgrade points) would be used to upgrade things like HP, SP and the other physical stats while TP (Tech points) would be used to upgrade weapons, magic and special moves (much like in Xenosaga), magic would be accessed along with special moves on a unique grid, like a combo between the ether grid in Xenosaga and the sphere grid in FFX, that way, players could create their characters in a fashion they see fit, every character except Dawn would ahve a regular weapon that could be upgraded in things like Defense ability, Sharpness, Reliability and weight, while Dawns could be upgraded in many different ways. a simple menu like the one in kingdom hearts would allow easy acess to all moves and magic at all times and party members could all be controlled individually by the player with the press of a button (kinda like in summoner 2). and all the AI controlled characters could be set to a certain type of attack method (very similiar to kingdom hearts). Magic would be handld in 5 elemental categories (fire,lightning,ice,dark magic,white magic) some characters would have obvious elemental strengths and weaknesses too.
              Now i felt Dawn's Ankhol weapon needed a seperate paragrph dont you? heh oh well, the Ankhol is a magical and ancient weapon which seal was broken when Dawn was warped to Angara, the Ankhol is a magical engine of destruction henceforth it has many diverse abilites. by expending about 5 SP Dawn could make the floating lifeless ball into a crackling sword of energy that would be her basic weapon and quite pwerful. also, by expending 1 SP she could discharge a powerful elemental blast, with a single choice the blast could be one of the five elements and the longer it charged the more SP would be used and the more powerful it would be, the attacks could be upgraded to be more powerful and effect more than one enemy, the SP cost would also increase with this. as a side note, the Ankhol is female (yes it has a gender, or at least it sounds like a woman) and could talk to Dawn at will.
            The sound would need to be brilliant for a game of thois scope, a great composer, some classical mixed with techno rock and the like sounds good, some known songs could be used and new stuff would obviously be a must. voice acting would definately play a part in this game, i would want every character, no matter how insignificant to have a voice actor, i know that would be very difficult to pull of but i think it could be done, the main cast of course would need wonderful actors as their voices.
           The meat of the game would be standard fare, though i bet developers could come up with some spice. towns would dot the world of Angara (which would be quite huge by the way) and lush forests would be a rare sight. in some places (namely right beneath Dragonia) the earth would be cracked and charred with spurts of lava shooting into the sky. Dragonia has turned the land, slowly but surely, into an unhinhabitable wasteland, or at least it almost has. at the farthest reaches there are still some forests and plains of grand stature. but nothing like that is seen near Dragonia. eventually after basic training in the ways of combat certain warrior qualities would surface in Dawn, she would begin to lose the wholehearted compation she once relished in, but would retain some caring, she would learn better fighting skills and become seasoed in the way of killing forever changing her lifestyle.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, finally this cursed idea is over (JK), i hope you liked it, i cant wait to hear comments good or bad as they may be. i think this game sounds great, it feels good to be back.