June 25, 2010

Dead Zone ('travel to other world' plot)

C1 is an ordinary man (or woman), who's on his way to visit family when he notices an odd looking man skulking along, apparently marking people. Thinking he's a thief, C1 calls out, and gives chase when the man runs. Catching up, he grabs him. The man screams in surprise, there's a flash of light, and the next thing C1 knows he's no longer at the train/bus station. He's in a crowded room that looks like something out of a fantasy novel, with a bunch of people staring at him expectantly.

It is explained that he's been brought to another world because they need assistance. Not from him particularly, but from someone from his world. This is a magic dependent society. People are innately magical, as is much of the landscape. Many things they rely on for day to day life are operated by magic. There are, however, groups of people that choose to live a different lifestyle. People who have magic based afflictions, people who've been exiled, and people who just don't like magic, that live in dead zones.

There are several of these zones, sizable cities with a fair amount of land, on the outskirts of the kingdom. They were created hundreds of years ago, and have boundaries that mark the area of magical cancellation. Recently, however, one of the zones has started to expand, nulling out magic in an ever increasing radius. Somehow C1 is supposed to help them figure out what's going on and stop the spread before it affects the whole country. All they know is that somehow, someone from C1's world helped create the anti-magic zones, and that his lack of magic is supposed to help somehow.

AAP by mme.aloria

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