planning The Reason Why

[Naturematthe 51]

Hello bronies,

 

a while ago I had a bunch of ideas for a Role Play that once became more concrete when I started it on an other forum. (Just in case you have seen my name around this forum before: it is the Role Play I wrote the intro and outro for in my music thread.)

Even though the RPG went well for quite a while, I got the feeling that the details of my idea aren't concrete or clear enough and that I just haven't had enough ideas for the plot yet. This is "The Reason Why" I open this topic here.

 

The basic plot

 

In Equestria every pony - unicorn, pegasus, earth pony, even alicorn - stores one kind of bacterium that helps the body obtain and distribute all the necessary energy they need to live. Due to a strange radiation this bacterium starts to mutate and doesn't perform its task any more. First of all the unicorns started to lose their magic, later the pegasi became to weak to fly. When the earth ponies also started to become unable to grow food, scientists finally found out the reason and did research on a way to work against it.

Their first success was a device that was able to stop the mutation on one pony. The biggest problem however was that this device had to be active all the time, and building one of these devices for every single pony would need years - the scientists think that about one year is left for the ponies before they grow too weak to live.

But the scientists found out a second thing: A slightly manipulated version of the bacterium easily becomes immune to the radiation. However, the bacterium can't be added to living ponies, only unborn ones can obtain it. As there hardly is enough time to raise a new generation of ponies, Celestia re-activates a project she had stopped a while ago: cloned ponies that grow adult within a few weeks and live like normal ones later. They can be equipped with the manipulated bacterium, and they are Equestria's last hope...

 

The problems

 

First of all the story background is really complicated and hard to explain in short words. It also lacks logic in some parts (where did the "cloned ponies" project come from, why do the cloned ponies have to look for a way to stop the radiation...).

Second I lack good ideas for the story. I do have a few ideas for plot elements and even an ending, but just a few... I'm grateful for any ideas. (I won't publicly post these ideas here because I still hope to be able to start the RP here anytime soon.)

 

 

So, if you have ideas and want to support me, let me know! I really would like to start the RP here soon.

 

Sincerly, Naturematthe