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A spin-off to my Mercenary interactive series with reader created protagonists. |
| Welcome to a new saga in the Mercenary world. Since the creation of Mercenary: Guns And Gold I've noticed that readers have expressed interest not just in the story of the characters I've created but the world itself and the potential for new stories to be told. Enter Mercenary: New Roads, an interactive set in the Mercenary universe starring new heroes and villains...created entirely by you, the reader! Design your own characters with their own strengths and weaknesses and send them out to do battle for fame and glory, profit and loot, bloodlust and mayhem. The choice is yours as new soldiers of fortune rise to make a name for themselves on the world stage... time to get paid. Rules 1. Adult content is fine, but don't get too extreme. This is an action adventure style of story, not an erotica or stand up comedy routine. Don't go absolutely crazy with the sex scenes and jokes. Heavy amounts of cursing and some moderately descriptive sexual content is okay. Don't add anything you wouldn't see in an R rated movie. Comedic characters are allowed but most people should be fairly serious. 2. You are free to come up with your own story and customize the characters to your heart's content. All of the mercenaries you create need to be flexible though, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Give you characters some good starting skills and equipment but balance things out with a weakness or too. You can can make a character who is good at everything, just as long as they don't excel at everything. 3. Keep things fairly realistic. Mild sci-fi elements like satellite orbital guns and VTOLs are fine but nothing like aliens or superpowers. I'll also allow minor cybernetics like artificial limbs and eyes, but not giant mechs or super advanced power armor. (If you wouldn't see it in Deus Ex or Payday 2 don't add it here.) 4. Violence, gore and torture is fine, but try to keep it realistic. People shouldn't explode into chunks from anything less than bombs or rockets. Exploding heads and severed limbs are fine if the caliber of bullet or weapon is high enough though. 5. As a soldier of fortune you are expected to gain vast amounts of wealth and equipment, but keep things within reason and try to pace yourself with the story. Remember that most of your cash should go into storage to advance the plot forward. With that said, you are allowed to spend some of the money you get on things like new properties, hideouts, vehicles and new gadgets and weapons. Just don't go giving yourself a private island and aircraft carrier during the first few chapters. This interactive is about rising to the top, not starting there. 6. After completing a contract the mercenary returns to their base to store however much cash they got and plan a new contract. As such, make sure you keep the amount of stored cash updated upon each return. The goal is to eventually reach 1 billion ($1,000,000,000) dollars, which enables the character to conclude their story. Always make sure the amount of cash earned is proportional to the difficulty of the contract and how well the character completed their objectives. Don't rush to the end either, try to keeps things going for at least 50-75 chapters before concluding things. Individual contracts can last as long as you like. 7. Have fun, killer. |
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