CB: Chapter 1
Conditions
Entry: Start in this chapter
Exit: Ava has become a magical girl again
Synopsis
Ava comes to a new world after running away from home. She had been a magical girl for 9 years ever since she turned 10 years old, and her magical familiar found here. It was a secret tradition in the family, and she didn't find out about it till she was 13, left to learn the ways of the magical girl on her own in 'secret'. Feeling betrayed, she resolved to leave as soon as she could. After she graduated high school (secondary school) she broke her wand and ran, taking her animal companion with her. She went to a new colony planet to start a new life away from the demons, and the fight. She wants to be a normal girl, fall in love and all that.
Goals
- Introduce Ava
- Introduce the world
- Introduce the school system and why she's an adult and still in school
- Introduce the city
- Introduce movement and how to move around
- Introduce how to buy stuff
- Introduce melee combat
- Introduce her room mate and her class mates
- Introduce jobs
- Introduce her to class
- Introduce the escape game.
More details on the Goals
We want to make sure that her classmates are fully fleshed out, at the minimum is Celeste (her roommate) and the short class mate. Ava is Magical Girl Blue, Celeste is Magical Girl Green, and the Short girl is the first villainess in disguise, and will also become Magical girl Pink in Chapter 6? We want to make the player care about both Celeste and the succubus so that when it comes time to save them (Celest in chapter 2, and The succubus in Chapter 6), that they go and do so without problems. So we'll have to make sure to write some dialog for them. Magical Girl Red will start showing up in Chapter 2, as a rival. Celeste becomes magical girl green at the beginning of chapter 4. Red joins the team at the end of chapter 4. Yellow shows up in chapter 5.
Milo will also keep trying to get Ava to pick up her wand again. And become a Magical Girl. Ava will keep turning them down. She doesn't want to become a magical girl again, besides these are just thugs.
Parts of the Hero's Journey
- The Ordinary world: Introduce Ava, and the world she's on. Give it a bit of a back story and why she's here. Get into a bit of a daily routine.
- The Call to Adventure: During the introduction, walking through the city to the metro station she hears a cry for help. Being a retired magical girl she runs off to investigate. The mark of a hero, when someone screams they run to the scream not away from it. She'll discover two thugs that are trying to sexually assault a woman her age (19). This will be the introduction to the combat system. Or at least the first part of the combat system. Ava will have some physical attacks from her martial arts training. Kick, punch, and other similar attacks.
- Meeting the Mentor: The mentor is with Ava from the start. It's her animal companion, who will try to convince Ava to take up her wand again.
- Refusal of the Call: Ava doesn't want to get involved. She spent the last seven years fighting wrath demons. She doesn't want to be fighting anymore. Besides the world already has a Magical Girl, and being a vigilante and cleaning up crime is not her thing. Let someone else do it.
- Crossing the Threshold: The lust zombies show up and people are turning into zombies, and the Magical Girl on the planet doesn't seem to be doing anything about it. People she's met at college have disappeared. She reluctantly picks up her wand again
Chapter long Missions:
- Keep Grades High Enough - Help from Celeste
- Make enough money to pay for rent and food. - Celeste can help with the job
- Improve Relations with Celeste
- Improve Relations with Classmates
Recurring Missions
- Disrupt the gang activity in the area around the bar/tavern
- Foil the Slavers
- Raid gang bases
- Raid Slaver bases
- Make money at the Tavern/Bar
Individual Missions
- Investigate the scream for help in the beginning - Save her roommate Celeste from Slavers/Gang
End Mission
Hopefully there have been a bunch of fights with the slavers, and thugs. And maybe Ava getting home in bondage for celeste to help out. One night after a joint shift at the bar/tavern Ava is closing up and Celeste goes out back to toss away some trash. There's a crash, and a scream out back. And when Ava rushes back there she find something of Celeste's and something common from the slaver's gear. Like a ball gag. Making it fairly obvious that Celeste has been captured.
Ava/The player has the option to try to find Celeste by looking at some of the old bases. Or to talk to Milo and get his help. Milo has been pushing Ava do become a magical girl again in her fights, so the relationship has soured a bit. Milo does agree to help and see if he can find Celeste, and go off. But Milo won't be able to find Celeste till the next day.
The next day rolls around and Milo tells Ava where Celeste is, and how hard it will be to get to her. Ava will not be able to get to Celeste. Even if Ava became a magical girl again. Without any Purified Mana Gems planted in the area Ava can only support her transformation for about twenty minutes. And that's not enough time to get in, search the place, and get out, especially not with the number of slavers in the base.
Well what about just getting out? Will there be enough time for her to get out as a magical girl?
Yes, but how is she going to do that?
Get captured, and then dragged into the cell or cells where Celeste is and free her, then break out.
So Ava needs to get captured, and dragged into the cells with Celeste. Bound, and naked, and then she'll transform and use her magic to get herself untied. Rescue Celeste and anyone else that's been captured, and make it out of the base. Milo will be with her of course and they'll know the way out by following Ava in.
On the way out almost to the end, the boss slaver shows up, and calls out Ava for a one-on-one. The battle can end with:
- Best: Ava defeats the boss
- Better: All the slaves escape and Ava retreats
- Bad: Ava retreats and the slaves are captured
- Worse: All the slaves escape and Ava is defeated
- Worst: Everyone is captured again
Game over screen for Bad through Worst.
Slaves escape 1:30 after the boss battle starts.
After they escape, Ava will need to disappear so that her identity doesn't become known to the others. Leaving the slaves to be discovered by the police.